Engineering Education Research: Spring Symposium

free 

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:

  • Report current activities within the UK & Ireland engineering education research community.
  • Facilitate networking and mentoring of Newer Researchers in EER [@EERN_ECR].
  • A debate of the proposition; Pre-university education does not adequately equip young people with sufficient engineering capital so as to make an informed decision about university study

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.

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