UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network Annual Symposium: 17th – 18th June 2024
Building on the success of our previous events, colleagues are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at:
Beyond Boundaries: Inclusive, Sustainable and Outward Looking Engineering Education
Conference Themes
| Beyond discipline boundaries
· Working with others beyond EER · Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary approaches · Methodologies from beyond engineering Removing boundaries to inclusion · Inclusive Engineering · Belonging and Transition · Mentoring and Tutoring · Narrowing attainment gaps Future challenges · Does AI pose unique challenges to engineering? · UN SDGs / Global Responsibility / Social Justice? · Re-skilling and training mid career · Industry perspectives on the future of engineering
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Current and Best Practice in Engineering Education
· Assessment · Laboratories · Activity-led / Enquiry based learning · Curriculum Design · Leadership and training of engineering educators Engineering Education Research in Action · Building EER capacity, funding and publication · Leadership of EER · Challenges and opportunities for Education or Education and Research pathways Beyond student / staff boundaries · Co-creation · Students as Leaders |
Submission of abstracts for Review: Monday 22nd January 2024
Notification of acceptance week commencing: 26th February 2024
Submission of extended abstracts / short papers for inclusion in Proceedings: 22nd April 2024
Outline Programme:
Printable 2024 EERN Conference Programme
Monday 17th June 2024:
0900 – 1015: Registration
1015: Conference welcome
10:30 – 11:45 Conference Parallel Session 1
12:00 – 13:00 Workshops Session 1
13:00 Lunch
1415 – 1515: Keynote 1: Building Inclusion through wellbeing with Colin Turner
15:30 – 16:45 Conference Parallel Session 2
1700: Day 1 close
Tuesday 18th June 2024
0900: Registration
10:00 – 11:00 Keynote 2: Industry panel with Katrina Thompson (Artemis Technologies) and John Rainey (Denroy Group)
11:15 – 12:15 Workshops Session 2
12:15 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote 3. The potential of engineering educators to adapt degrees for 2030 and beyond with Emma Crichton and Sarah Hitt
14:45 – 15:45: Conference Parallel Session 3
1600 EERN meeting
1630 Close
You can fly direct to Belfast City Airport from 18 different UK airports. Belfast City Airport is a short taxi journey from the Belfast campus. There is a bus service every 30 minutes at peak times to the Europa bus centre, which is a 20 minute walk to the campus.
Belfast International Airport serves a wide range of UK airports. The 300 service Airport Express every 15 minutes at peak times and costs £8.50 single and £12.50 return for the 35 minute journey to Europa bus centre, which is a 20 minute walk or short taxi journey to the campus.
Stenaline operate ferries from Birkenhead and Cairnryan to Belfast Port
Links to:
https://visitbelfast.com/plan/getting-to-belfast-travel-options/
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/global/pre-arrival/travel/making-your-own-way-to-ulster/belfast-jordanstown
Alan Brown (Chair)
Margaret Morgan
Robert McMurray
Louise Brown
Charlene Clinton
Rosalind Henry
Aine McGreeghan
Roger Penlington
Gavin Duffy
Louise Pick
Matthew Cairns
Lauren Schrock