Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education

The management of quality and sustainability in higher education institutions ensures that proper standards are maintained. Such enforced standardization allows for the highest caliber of training opportunities for various fields and disciplines. The Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on quality management and assurance programs and standards in college-level environments. Highlighting global perspectives on academic and professional learning, this book is ideally designed for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and professionals actively involved in the field of higher education.

Walter Nuninger (Senior Lecturer) is a Chartered Engineer (1993) with a PhD in Automatic Control awarded in 1997. He further worked as a research engineer at ALSTOM where he developed his skill on friction and traction for trains. Since 1999, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Lille. He works in the Engineering School of Polytech'Lille where he directed the Production Department dedicated to Life Long Learning with Work Integrated Learning (from 2008 until 2011). Then, he was commissioned for the management and financial control at the CUEEP until 2014, in charge of Continuing Education. He teaches automatic control, computer science, data mining and mathematics... and is involved in learner-centred pedagogy with hybrid courses, using digital support and active pedagogy. He is a tutor/mentor of learners in Formative Work Situation in the industry, guiding their reflexive attitude. Through the years, he has had several experiences in management, leadership and financial control in a quality framework. He is interested in organization, inter-culturalism and excellence. Since 2014, he is a member of the Harassment Prevention Unit, offering advice and guidance to the university students and staff.

Jean-Marie Châtelet (Professor) worked in a Research Centre (Metallurgy) before being certified professor in the Mechanical field. Retired in 2014, he maintains his interest in Quality and Safety as an adviser. He is a trainer with more than 35 years experience in France, Romania, Spain and Germany. He wrote about quality management, delivering a curriculum on safety, CAD-CAM, robotics (in 1982, involved in Computer Aided Teaching he published a laser vision disc edited by the Industry Ministry, 1988). He was head of the Mechanical Engineering Department of IUT of Lille from 1996 to 2002. Since 1995, he has been involved in leadership of a Master (Health-Safety-Quality-Environment) at the University of Lille 1 and in the Production Department of Polytech'Lille (leading to Chartered Engineer). He further developed a serious game ©JIT-TQ with SNECMA (Safran) in 1998. For many years, he was involved in European projects (Road Map to EU Machinery Directive, 2002; European WBL Approaches, 2006).