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

 

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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

The 2004 ACED Annual Conference and AGM took place in October at the University of Plymouth.

The 2005 ACED Annual Conference and AGM took place in October at Coventry University.

Conference Programme:

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