2017 ACED Conference – November 2nd to 3rd, Edinburgh

Each year one of the ACED member departments hosts a 2-day conference open to all, whether academic or industrial, involved in developing and delivering JBM accredited degree programmes.  This year, the conference will be hosted by Heriot-Watt University, with the Conference dinner being held under the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

Topics this year include sketching, student retention, student engagement, ethics and overseas exchange programmes. There will also be as typically happens, an update from the JBM. The full schedule is attached here: Final Programme ACED Edinburgh 2017

The presentations from the speakers are attached here: ACED Conference Nov 2017 Heriot-Watt University presentations

Tickets are available online for only ÂŁ174.95 at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aced-annual-conference-tickets-38585400973?aff=es2

Accommodation
The official Conference Hotel is the Courtyard Edinburgh West.  This is a brand-new hotel opening shortly, and it is not yet possible to book rooms for before 13th November although they are expected to become available in the near future. Furthermore, there are a wealth of hotels in Edinburgh, with the nearest to Heriot-Watt (1.4 miles) being the Novotel Edinburgh Park Hotel and Premier Inn Edinburgh Park.  Both of these are accessible directly from Edinburgh Airport and the city centre using the Edinburgh Tram – the stop is at the hotels is “Edinburgh Park Station” (next to the railway station).

The ICE/IStructE/ACED joint annual meeting will take place on Tuesday 9 May at the Institution of Structural Engineers in London (47-58 Bastwick Street, EC1V 3PS).  Registration and coffee is between 09:30 and 10:00, for a 10:00 start, and the meeting is scheduled to finish at 16:00
The general themes for the day will be:

The IStructE President, Ian Firth, and the ICE President, Prof Tim Boyd, will each be making a presentation and chairing a session, and there will be a presentation by Nick Russell, Chair of the JBM.
The meeting is sponsored by IStructE, ICE and ACED.  There is no charge to attend, and lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please click here for further details of the programme and to reserve your space at the event via Eventbrite (https://aced_hod2017.eventbrite.co.uk).

Any queries about the event can be directed to Rebecca Carey, Head of Membership at the Institution of Structural Engineers, Rebecca.Carey@istructe.org.

The 2016 meeting was held on 16 May 2016 at the ICE offices at 1 Great George Street, London

Programme

Links to files from the meeting are below:

Welcome to ACED

Welcome to the ICE and overview of ICE related activities

Session 1 – Creativity and Innovation
Chair Adrian Coy, Vice-President ICE

Update from the JBM – Prof Stephen Garrity, University of Leeds, Chair JBM

Session 2 – Creativity in Engineering Education
Chair Prof Stephen Garrity, Chair JBM

Overview of IStructE related activities – Alan Crossman, President IStructE

Session 3a – Work Based Learning and Placements
Chair Alan Crossman, President IStructE

Session 3b – Apprenticeships and partnerships with industry
Chair Dr Rachel Horn, Chair ACED

 

 

The annual ACED Conference took place this year on the 3rd and 4th of November 2016 at the University of the Sheffield.


ACED ConferenceSheffield – Nov 2016 – Final Programme

The 2015 meeting was held on 22 May 2015 at the IStructE offices at 47-58 Bastwick Street, London EC1V 3P

Programme

Links to files from the meeting are below:

Welcome to ACED

Welcome to the IStructE

Session 1 – Student Retention

Session 2 – Research

Overview of ICE Activities

Session 3 – Student Recruitment

 

Download programme

Accommodation
We have reserved accommodation for delegates at a special rate in the Orchard Hotel, which is on campus adjacent to the conference centre.  Please see the “more info” tab on the booking page.

The ACED Annual Conference was held on 18-19 October 2012  at the Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Programme

Session 1a – Attitudes to Assessment (Panel Session)
Educationalist view – Yaz El-Hakim, Winchester
Directorate view – Rebecca Bunting, Deputy VC, Portsmouth
Recent Graduate view – Cathy Nickell, HOP, Hove

Session 1b – Assessment Implementation
Encouraging a reduction in assessment – Mark Davison, Nottingham Trent
Formative assessment and engagement – Bob Lark, Cardiff
JBM Guidance on assessment – Dominic Fox, Portsmouth

Engineering Gateways – Deborah Seddon, Engineering Council
Further and work-based learning – Peter Theobald, Cardiff
Part-time undergraduate provision – Peter Mills, Wolverhampton

Session 3 – Realism in Project Work
Group work, industrial realism, technical realism – John Davies, Coventry
The student and graduate view – Peter Courtenay (Portsmouth Student),
Matthew Curtis (Portsmouth Graduate), Eleanor Fosberry (Southampton
Graduate), Deepu Prabhakaran (Portsmouth Graduate)

Session 4 – Interest Group Breakouts

Friday 19 October
Session 5 – Engineering Professors’ Council Update – Professor Simon Hodgson, Vice President EPC, Teesside

Session 6 – Transition From School
Why students fail – a social science perspective – Paul McVeigh, Portsmouth
Careers advice – Alan Bullock, Careers Consultant

Alan Bullock’s supporting documents:

The Monday Interview

Adviser Consensus

Statutory Careers Guidance for Schools
HE STEM Transition project findings – Christine Keenan, Bournemouth

Session 7 – Higher Apprenticeships
Construction Operations Management – Adrian Anderson, University Vocational Awards Council & Barbara Workman, Middlesex

Session 8 – International Study and Work Experience
International campuses and inward credit – John Owen, Nottingham
International work experience – Scott McCabe, Astrium

 

A joint ACED / ICE / IStructE Heads of Department meeting took place on Wednesday 2nd May 2007 at IStructE, London. The following presentations were made available by the speakers:

The 2010 meeting was held on 27 April 2010, ICE, Great George Street, London

Links to files from the meeting are below.

Programme:

Session 1 – What should be taught in undergraduate degree courses?

Session 2 – How should this be taught?

Session 3 – Questions for students?

The 2012 meeting was held on 23 April 2012, ICE, Great George Street, London

Programme

Links to files from the meeting are below:

Session 1 – Harnessing the energy of young people

Session 2 – What is BIM & how can it be integrated within accredited degrees?

Session 3 – JBM Update

Summary of output from breakout session – employment issues

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