Engineers Without Borders UK invites you to spend the afternoon at the Engineering for People Design Challenge Grand Finals 2018.



This year 6,000 students have participated in the Engineering for People Design Challenge which has been run in partnership with their international partner Kounkuey Design Initiative. Student teams this year have focused on providing ideas for engineering solutions to address some of the challenges faced by the residents of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya.



The Grand Finals will bring together the top 36 teams from universities across the UK and Ireland to come and showcase their design solutions and be in with a chance of winning one of the top prizes.



For more information and to register for your free ticket, please visit their booking site.

A Connected Engineering Curriculum – Learning Through Enquiry and Practice

17th/18th July 2018 – UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, London, UK

Engineers increasingly find themselves tasked to envision, invent, and construct creative solutions to Grand Challenges. Over the years, insightful solutions have required ever more creativity and greater integration of interdisciplinary ideas. While established fundamentals still form the invariant foundation for engineering practice, the Engineer of Tomorrow will certainly require a different perspective than engineers in the past. How can universities support today’s aspiring engineers in preparation for the uncertain challenges they will be facing tomorrow?

A favoured approach is immersing the student experience with engineering fundamentals applied to interdisciplinary practice which directly address the world’s Grand Challenges. This approach enables students to learn through active discovery, via classic enquiry and coupled practice, and to discover how engineering concepts apply practically in complex, linked, interdisciplinary settings or scenarios. Engineering scenarios prepared in this framework expose students to the greater context and implications of engineering decisions in a social responsibility, and broader community, context. This connected approach fosters a cross disciplinary creative perspective, required to enable insightful engineering advances that deliver lasting social impact, as will be required in solving the uncertain challenges of tomorrow.

With a desire to create a Connected Engineering Curriculum, the major themes for ISEE 2018 are:

  1.  Connecting students with practitioners throughout their learning journey
  2.  Building a through-line of enquiry activities into, and through, the programme
  3.  Bridging student interaction across subjects, perspectives, and global regions
  4.  Linking student academic learning with in-practice workplace education
  5.  Assessing engineering specific deliverables directed at the pertinent corresponding audience
  6.  Unifying the student experience across cohorts, programme progression, and graduate alumni

Contributions addressing one, or more, of these themes are invited.

Following on from the success of the 5th Annual Symposium held in November 2017 at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London, the UK and Ireland EER Network are pleased to announce that their Inaugural Spring Colloquium will be held on Thursday 10th May 2018 from 1130-1800 hours at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Full details of the event can be found here.

Streams within this free event will be:

In addition to invited contributions they are accepting proposals for short presentations and they will have the opportunity to display posters. They are particularly interested in contributions on; the sharing of ideas, experience of particular methodologies and summaries of work in progress.
Please email a short presentation abstract or poster proposal by Monday 16 April.
If you would like to know more about the UK & Ireland Engineering Education Research Network please contact Dr Jane Andrews j.e.andrews@aston.ac.uk.
The proceedings of the 5th annual symposium are available online.
The Steering Group look forward to seeing you at the event.

The UCL Centre for Engineering Education is pleased to invite you to the following event on Tuesday, 10th April at 6pm, at UCL:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cee-conversations-series-learning-pathways-in-engineering-tickets-41954647480

19 June at The Crystal, 1 Siemens Brothers Way, E16 1GB 

Organised by Engineers Without Borders UK, the Grand Finals will bring together the top 36 teams from universities across the UK and Ireland to come and showcase their design solutions.

You will have the opportunity to view the exhibition showcasing each team selected for the finals as well as presentations from the top 6 teams selected by a panel of expert judges. There will also be a series of speakers from across the engineering community.

To attend the event, please register here.

The 7th World Engineering Forum – The Era of Synergistic Collaboration.

WEEF 2017 is hosted by the Society of Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and the International Federation on Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), in collaboration with the Malaysian Council of Engineering Deans.

CALL FOR PAPERS is now open

 

Technology and Innovation in Aerospace

London / 29 November 2016

Is the aerospace industry still world-leading in terms of exploiting new technologies? Is the risk associated with new technology “over-priced” and holding back the pace of change?

Why should you attend?

Learn what leading organisations see as drivers for technological advances.
Network with senior influencers and buyers from across industry.
Contribute to the discussion and showcase your organisation as a technological innovator.

Speakers include:
CEO, GKN Aerospace
EVP Engineering and Technology, Rolls-Royce
President, Embraer Europe
FAA
NASA Langley Research Center

For further information, please contact conference@aerosociety.com.

The WES Annual student conference is open to female engineering students, mainly UG but also some PG. It is ideal for networking with fellow students, potential employers and young professional female engineers. This is not technical conference, but aimed at career planning and personal development etc.

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For more information, follow WES Student Conference 2016

Engineers Without Borders UK invites you to spend the afternoon at the EWB Challenge Finals 2016.

The EWB Challenge is an inter-university design competition where student teams develop design solutions to overcome challenges set out by Engineers Without Borders UK in a design brief developed in conjunction with one of our community partners – this year Reignite Action for Development based in Bambui, Cameroon. The competition culminates at the EWB Challenge Finals where the top teams from UK and Irish universities are invited to come and showcase their design solutions. This year over 4,700 students from 27 institutions have participated in the EWB Challenge.

This is your opportunity to come and meet the best teams and see the hard work that has got them to this stage of the competition. You will have the opportunity to view the EWB Challenge exhibition showcasing the top 36 teams and to hear presentations from the top 6 teams as decided by our panel of expert judges. We will also be hearing from several speakers on the importance of initiatives like the EWB Challenge and responsible design and engineering.

Speakers include:
Naomi Climer – President, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Lord Dr Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE – Global Head of Citizenship for KPMG International

The event will end with a drinks reception and the opportunity to network with other attendees.
This is a great event – EPC will be part of the judging panel. Do try and get there if you can.

Engineering a Better World is a flagship global conference, bringing national academies of engineering from around the world together with international development stakeholders to discuss the global importance of engineering for international development.

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