UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network Annual Symposium

The EERN are pleased to announce the Annual Symposium for 2025 hosted by The University of Manchester. Building on the success of previous events, colleagues are invited to submit abstracts for presentation on the Conference theme of: The Authenticity of Engineering Education: Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Developing Engineers for Industry Today and a Global Tomorrow. Submit papers here.

1. Submission of abstracts for review: Friday 14^th February 2025
2. Notification of acceptance week commencing: 7^th March 2025
3. Submission of extended abstracts: 7^th May 2025
4. Symposium: 3^rd – 4^th July 2025

1. Authentic Learning and Teaching: service learning, learning in a context that provides mutual benefit to communities and/or industry.
2. Authentic Assessment: industry-based assessment, student research projects/dissertations, local or community impact projects.
3. Technology for a Real-World Education: artificial intelligence, innovative educational technologies, virtual learning communities.
4. Evidencing Authentic Impact in Engineering Scholarship and Evaluation: research methods for pedagogical evaluation, ethics and integrity for education research
5. Preparing Students for Industry and a Global Society: attainment, transferrable skills, sustainability, engineering for social justice
6. Authentic Stories from Engineering Education: students, educators, and professionals involved in engineering education are invited to share a specific problem related to engineering education to propose meaningful action for real change.

Please submit an abstract in one of the below categories:

• Research Paper / Poster: A 500 word abstract describing your research, including work-in-progress. We actively welcome research beyond discipline boundaries
• Concept Paper / Poster (conceptually and theoretically grounded papers which

focus on one or more of the themes). A 500 word abstract should include a reflection of how engineering education research could be conducted in the area discussed.

• Practice Paper / Poster: Doing something innovative in the classroom? Found a new way of assessing? Send us a 500 word abstract to tell us about it.
• Workshop: Workshops of between 60-90 minutes are invited in any area you feel aligns with the EERN, including innovation in learning, teaching, management and design.

o Please submit a short (800 word) description of the proposed workshop to include timings, number of participants etc.

• Panel: Got an idea for a ‘Discussion Panel’?: Panel presentations of three or four papers are invited.

o Please submit a short (250 word) abstract for each paper plus an overall abstract

o Cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional panels are particularly welcome

o Each paper presented can be submitted individually for the conference proceedings.

We intend to publish extended abstracts as the symposium proceedings before the conference. As a result, we will have a two-stage submission process.

Abstracts will be submitted by 14th February 2025 with peer review decisions and feedback by 7th March 2025.

A second submission of extended abstracts (1500-2500 words, including tables and figures, but not references) for inclusion in the proceedings will follow for submission by 7th May 2025.

The Symposium Proceedings will be given an ISBN and Creative Commons licence and disseminated via our website hosted by the Engineering Professors Council. We are also actively exploring additional publication formats and options.

Initial Abstract submissions will be via a Qualtrics Form which can be found here:

https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_57rEWCHlGCj9RLo