The day will include sessions on: Assessment and Feedback, OER (Open Educational Resources), Teaching for Diversity, Facilitating Small Group Teaching, & Professional Development and the HEA.
Successful engineering graduates require confidence in order to solve new problems, work with colleagues and excel in their careers. It has also been identified that confident engineering graduates are more likely to pursue careers in engineering. This workshop has been developed to consider how academics can enable engineering students to develop confidence through teaching, learning and assessment. In addition, the sessions have been designed to align with the appropriate NSS questions.
It is the first time that an NTT workshop has been sponsored by a professional engineering institution, the IET. Invited guest speakers (to be confirmed) will provide valuable context concerning employer expectations regarding desirable graduate abilities.
During this event delegates will develop Top 10 Tips for building confident engineers. It is envisaged that delegates will be able to create case studies of their new practices which can be disseminated amongst the community.
The Engineering Professors’ Council Annual Congress 2013 took place at the University of Portsmouth on 16/17 April 2013 with the theme: Engineering in Higher Education: Investing for Impact.
This free one-day workshop will provide a practical introduction to the use of social media to enhance learning and teaching practice in the STEM disciplines.Ā Through a series of presentations,Ā activities and discussions, led by academics from the Engineering & Mathematics discipline areas, participants will be introduced to social media approaches and see discipline-focused examples of social media applied in teaching practice.
Topics covered include:
ā¢ Assisting Engineering & Maths staff use social media in their teaching
ā¢ Using Facebook for Peer Assisted Learning in Mathematics and Computing Science
ā¢ Team based learning within Engineering Education: Bringing the social into the classroom
ā¢ The benefits of using Augmented Reality to enhance the student experience in Engineering & Maths.
Up to Ā£5,000 of funding will be available to event attendees in total, ranging from Ā£500 to Ā£2,500 for small-scale projects to embed learning technologies into practice.
Please share widely with colleagues who may be interested.
Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) is a HEFCE-funded programme supporting and encouraging higher and further education institutions to make a step change in how they adopt effective and strategic uses of online technology in teaching and learning.
The programme is a unique partnership between the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, JISC, the National Union of Students, the Association for Learning Technology and the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
For general enquiries about this workshop please email Alex Fenlon alex.fenlon@heacademy.ac.uk.
The 19th Annual General Meeting of the Engineering Professorsā Council will be held in the Portland Building, University of Portsmouth, PO1 3AH on Tuesday 16 April, 2013 at 16:00 during the first day of our annual Congress.
All Full Members and Associate Members are entitled to attend.
This year, we have two vacancies for Ordinary Members of our Committee.Ā The agenda and papers (containing the nominations received for the vacancies) are now available for members to view.
Matthew Hancock MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Business and Education will present the Governmentās view of the new curricula and there will be opportunities to take part in discussions on the Programmes of Study and the wider issues around the future of practical technical education in schools which will feed into our response to the National Curriculum Review.
A full agenda for the event is below.
HOW TO REGISTER
This free event is open to all organisations and individuals with an interest in STEM education. There are a limited number of places for this event and we anticipate that the event will be oversubscribed, so please register as quickly as possible.
Click on the link below to take you through to the Royal Academy of Engineering event registration portal.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr Rhys Morgan by email rhys.morgan@raeng.org.uk
Agenda
09.30 Registration, Tea, Coffee
10.00 Welcome
Dick Olver FREng Chairman BAE Systems, Chair E4E
10.15 Government’s view
Matthew Hancock MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Education
10.45 View from the National Curriculum Review Expert Panel
Tim Oates Chair Expert Panel, Cambridge Assessment (TBC)
11.15 ICT Programme of Study
Prof Simon Peyton Jones Chair ICT draft curriculum group, Chair CAS
11.35 D&T Programme of study
Andy Mitchell Assistant CEO, DATA
12.00 Panel discussion
Chair: Prof Matthew Harrison Director Education and Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Programmes of Study discussion break out groups
a) DT curriculum review
b) ICT curriculum review
15.00 Conference Ends
Women in significant leadership roles share how they – and you – are poised to change the world. Who inspired them, how and what are the best lessons they’ve learned to succeed?
GM13 is a free, live ‘virtual conversation’ For, By and About Women in Engineering and Technology. Please join us and let your friends and colleagues know about a unique event in March to celebrate the women who are in engineering education or employment.
Women of all disciplines of engineering; all career stages and all nationalities will join in webcast conversations about the issues that affect them; the work they do and the stories that they want to share. The event is timed to support Engineering Week and International Womenās Day.
Women from 71 countries took part last year and we hope that this, 9th Year of running, will be the most successful ever. We want to encourage satellite events and Champions around the world. Women in engineering and technology play a critical role in defining how we live and thrive on our shared planet. The Global Marathon forum is designed for, by and about women like you – to share ideas, gain knowledge and new contacts and feel inspired about your personal and professional contributions in the world.
The Marathon fills the need for a collaborative place for individuals and organizations to come together. Our network facilitates live online presentations and discussions as well as in-person chats, globally and locally.
Can you encourage female students; early career professionals and E&T qualified industry leaders to join women engineers from around the world in live chat? Ask a network you know to have a āvirtual meetingā or get a group of women at work together for coffee and cake. We want women to connect around the world; to share experiences and encourage each other to progress. The event is recorded to be listened to afterwards so it can be a useful resource to all.
After 8 years we need your help to ensure that this unique platform for women engineers reaches an even wider audience so that all women in engineering and technology groups across different industry sectors join in. Please contact the GM13 team for more information (details below). This is the current schedule but you can add your own event to these or join in any others you wish.
This year’s theme is: “Inspire. Inform. Change the World.”
More women around the world are choosing to study engineering and computing to join exciting careers – this event enables you to speak about the experiences you have and to help others. There is no other live event that connects all technically educated women to each other across the globe.
RegisterĀ now,Ā createĀ your profile and join the conversation!
Watch Gayle Gibson, Director of Corporate Operations at DuPont launch the 2013 Global Marathon.
For all other information please contact Teresa Schofield CEng MIET MIEEE Tel 01234 353281
The Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering and Technology is a program of the National Engineers Week Foundation supported by NAE and NSPE.
The workshop is designed for postgraduate students who are new to teaching in Engineering. It will be delivered by experienced academics who are subject specialists in education and Engineering and the content and delivery will be discipline specific. There will also be a Moodle site with activities and resources to support your learning.
DRAFT PROGRAMME
11.00 – 12.00 Professional Development and the HEA, Nigel Purcell, Academic Lead, UKPSF and Recognition
12.00 – 1.00 LUNCH
1.00 – 2.00 Assessment and Feedback, Karen Fraser, Academic Development, Higher Education Academy
2.00 – 2.20 Coffee break
2.20 – 3.20Ā Teaching for Diversity
3.20 – 4.20 Small Group Teaching
4.20 CLOSE
Pre-session preparation:
Prepare a short (2 pages) outline of teaching activity you are involved in, including, topic, style of delivery, intended student learning outcomes, and any challenges faced. Donāt feel you have to get this right: the more messy issues, the better. And if you are wondering about something, you can guarantee that others are too ā if you mention it, youāll be saving them the effort!