Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
The ERSCP-EMSU 2013 will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, 4-7 June 2013.
The title and theme of the conference is ‘Bridges for a more sustainable future: uniting continents and societies’.
Important dates for the conference are:
November 30, 2012, deadline for abstracts
March 15, 2013, deadline for full papers (based on accepted abstracts)
June 4-7, 2013, ERSCP-EMSU 2013 in Istanbul
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
The 5th University – Business Forum will take place in in Brussels, Belgium on the 4th and 5th of June 2013. The event will be organized by the Education and Culture-Department of the European Comission.
The Forum will bring together 300 high-level representatives from; relevant European organisations and associations; Higher Education Institutions; large companies; SME’s, and national, regional and local authorities from Europe and beyond. It will be a unique opportunity to share and discuss your experiences, compare examples of good practice, to network and to learn from each other.
The previous forums were highly successful and all stakeholders welcomed this initiative from the Commission. All participants were convinced that better dialogue and closer cooperation between universities and business can make a substantial and positive contribution to Europe’s efforts to make our education and training systems more effective and efficient, thereby supporting our economic and social development.
The Forum will start in the morning on the 4th of June and finish at 1pm on the 5th. The mornings of the 4th and 5th June will feature plenary sessions, whereas the afternoon of the 4th will be organised into 4 parallel breakout sessions.
This year’s Forum will address topics related to entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial university; change and impact; people and innovation as well as taking a closer look at some of the main current trends in University-Business Cooperation.
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.
Academic staff who teach or directly manage degree programmes in the Engineering & Mathematics disciplines are invited to book onto the Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) workshop ‘Social Media in Engineering & Mathematics’.
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. Through a series of presentations, 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:
• Assisting Engineering & Maths staff use social media in their teaching
• Using Facebook for Peer Assisted Learning in Mathematics and Computing Science
• Team based learning within Engineering Education: Bringing the social into the classroom
• The benefits of using Augmented Reality to enhance the student experience in Engineering & Maths.
Up to £5,000 of funding will be available to event attendees in total, ranging from £500 to £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 Professors’ 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. The agenda and papers (containing the nominations received for the vacancies) are now available for members to view.