Do you want to know more about using digital technologies in learning and teaching? If you want to explore innovative uses of digital technologies to enhance your teaching practice, don’t miss out on this hands-on opportunity with CLL (Changing the Learning Landscape).

This is the first of three CLL workshops in June aimed at academic staff, and others who teach and support learning in higher education.

The events will showcase discipline-specific uses of digital technologies and explore how different approaches might transfer across disciplines. They will also engage with current advances in technology-enhanced learning and consider ways in which practitioners can take advantage of the opportunities they offer. By providing examples of teaching practice from across the sector, participants will discover how the implementation of technological approaches has enhanced learning and teaching, and will gain inspiration for their own practice.

For more information on the series of workshops or to book a place, visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk or call the HEA on 01904 717574

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).

Come and join a team that is putting in two entries for the rally.
Starting mid to end of May come and help prepare the aircraft in Tisbury.
Participate as ground crew at the rally, even perhaps get to fly the aircraft.
Follow link for more details.
Information and Applications:
John Edgley aero@aeroelvira.co.uk
See the website for other projects: www.aeroelvira.co.uk

The UNIVERSITIES UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) CHALLENGE will take place in summer 2015, at WROUGHTON AIRFIELD
KEY DATES:
April 2014 – Team sign-up
June 2014 – EXPO Event
September 2014 – Competition starts
June/July 2015 – Fly off (date to be confirmed)
Entries for the challenge are now open! It is £850 +VAT to register a team of 10 plus a team leader/faculty advisor. Additional members will be charged at £85+ VAT per person up to a maximum of a further 10 participants.
Registrations close on Friday 26 September.
Follow link for more details for graduates, sponsors, competition rules and booking form.
For other details or if you have an enquiry, please get in touch with Rachel Pearson on +44 (0)20 7304 6867 or email r_pearson@imeche.org.

The Engineering Professors’ Council Annual Congress took place at the University of Glasgow on 8th – 9th April 2014 with the theme: Engaging in Engineering.

The agenda and papers for the meeting may now be downloaded here.

Agenda and papers

A copy of the following notice was circulated to members on 7th March, 2014.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Engineering Professors’ Council (a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England & Wales 06791295) will be held in room 408, Rankine Building, University of Glasgow,  on Tuesday 8 April, 2014 at 16:00 during the first day of our annual Congress. This Notice is served in accordance with Articles 38-40 of the Engineering Professors’ Council’s Articles of Association.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is required by our rules and the law to transact the following business (in no particular order):

The minutes of the last AGM

  • The annual report and accounts
  • The subscription levels for the following financial year
  • Adoption of any special resolutions and ordinary resolutions as submitted (see deadlines below)
  • The election of honorary officers, directors and committee members
  • Approval of the venue for the 2015 Congress
  • Other business as tabled by the Members

The AGM is the sovereign members’ forum of the Engineering Professors’ Council and is the body to which ordinarily the Committee and Directors are held to account and required to report.  All Full Members and Associate Members are entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting.  One senior manager from each Corporate Member (if any) is entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting (definition of membership status may be found attached to this Notice).  No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present.  Twelve persons entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted shall be a quorum.  A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, and every Full Member present in person shall have one vote.  Corporate Members and Associate Members shall not have voting rights at an Annual General Meeting.  Proposals requiring amendment to the provisions of the Memorandum and Articles of Association (copies of which are available at https://epc.ac.uk/our-committee/) will necessitate a resolution of an Annual General Meeting, carried by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the Full Members present and voting at such a meeting, for which the quorum shall be 20 drawn from the Full Members.

Members may submit resolutions and amendments to resolutions in line with the Companies Acts and the Articles of Association.  If a Member wishes to place a special resolution to the Annual General Meeting, the draft resolution must be received by email to s.kay@epc.ac.uk no later than 09:00 on Friday 14 March 2014.

VACANCIES FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND HONORARY OFFICERS

In line with the provisions of Articles 18-21 and 31-37, a number of positions of honorary officers and Committee members will fall vacant.  Nominations are invited for these positions by the process outlined in Appendix 2 to this Notice.  Notification of nomination should be made to s.kay@epc.ac.uk no later than 09:00 on Friday 14 March 2014.  Details of the current committee may be found at https://epc.ac.uk/our-committee.

Professor D. K. Harrison

Secretary

The Aerospace Sectoral Group Event by the Engineering Professors’ Council and the Flight Simulation and Universities Seminar by RAeS’s Flight Simulation Group will be held, along with the next AAU Committee Meeting, on Tuesday 15th April  in the Harrison Hughes Building at Liverpool University.

There will be welcome refreshments at 10:00 am before the start of the Committee meeting at 10:30 am. The seminar will commence after lunch.

The event is free of charge, but please email Dr Mark White (mdw@liverpool.ac.uk) asap if you would like to give a presentation during the afternoon seminar and of your intention to attend for catering purposes.

The Engineering Education Research Special Interest Group’s second annual symposium will be taking place at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne on May 20th 2014.
Attendance is free, but numbers are limited.
For the programme and registration details, follow the link Symposium Programme
 

A didactic 50 minute lecture that seeks only to transmit information to a generally passive audience is rarely the most effective way to facilitate learning. Contact time with students is an increasingly precious resource and there are now many examples of the more effective use of this time within higher education. This workshop will highlight strategies to give better lectures, offer examples of best practice, and provide a forum in which university teachers who are considering more innovative approaches can explore their ideas.

This one day workshop is designed for postgraduate students and other non-permanent academic staff / associates who are involved in teaching and supporting student learning specifically in the Engineering and Materials disciplines. For example delegates may be teaching, demonstrating, doing laboratory/workshop supervision, guest lecturing, marking, etc.

Defining and achieving excellence in postgraduate education has received little attention as research surrounding best practice has typically targeted undergraduate education. This event will bring together experts from across the field of manufacturing, materials and design postgraduate education to ask the questions what should the ‘best’ postgraduate education look like and how can excellence in postgraduate teaching, learning and overall student experience be achieved?
This event will provide opportunity for focused debate and discussion with presentations from the Higher Education Academy, Leading Postgraduate Universities, Accreditation Bodies and Industrial Employers of Postgraduate Students. Findings from this event will be widely publicized in a postgraduate education enhancement paper that will be presented to Government at the National Manufacturing Debate.
For further information please email Dr Fiona Charnley

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