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Learn by doing. A blog dedicated to practical Engineering Education and related topics. Published by a team at Engineering at Sheffield with a spiritual home in Multidisciplinary Engineering Education, based in the Diamond at the University of Sheffield, UK. In the Faculty of Engineering we teach engineering and host the Centre for Engineering Education.

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Transforming Engineering Education: Agile Development, Accreditation and Innovative Project-Based Learning.

on October 14, 2024

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Engaging moral imagination in Engineering Ethics Education

on October 08, 2024

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A Co-curricular Approach for Teaching Practical Skills to Students with Diverse Backgrounds - SEFI2024

on September 23, 2024

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What's Hot in Engineering Education? SEFI24 Highlights

on September 17, 2024

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Do we actually teach practical skills?

I think there may be a common problem in Engineering Education. This is just a suspicion borne out from things I’ve seen over the years and I don’t claim to be an authority on the subject. I’d be interested to know if anyone else feels likewise. Sometimes there is a tendency to conflate students participating in applying a skill with teaching how to apply that skill. Take for example, time management. Learning this skill is, as we have all discovered recently, critically important for students to learn for their future career. But do we actually teach students to manage their time? I don’t think I was ever formally taught time management during my masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, but that feels a significantly long time ago now so maybe things have changed. Since finishing my degree and starting teaching, I’ve witnessed demanding workload and concurrent assessment deadlines for current Engineering students being partially justified as an opportunity to exercise their time ma

What's Hot in Engineering Education? SEFI24 Highlights

The problem with big conferences is often that it impossible to go to all the sessions you want to, and it can be hard not to feel like you are missing important sessions with big implications for engineering education. No fear, to save us from this problem here, Harry Day, the Director of Education for MEE , shares some his highlights from the European Society for Engineering Education annual conference, SEFI24. I was asked to pick my favourite session from the SEFI2024 conference to write about, but instead of focusing on just one I’d like to consider several sessions together into a bit of a story - and overview of my experience at the conference. Many ideas overlapped across the program, and some coherent (or semi-coherent) threads started to form. One of the recurring challenges across the conference sessions is a familiar one: How do we transform graduates into critical and reflective engineers, rather than just “exam-passers”? ….How do we make our students career-ready? i) Care

A Co-curricular Approach for Teaching Practical Skills to Students with Diverse Backgrounds - SEFI2024

One of the reasons that the teaching in Engineering at Sheffield is effective and high quality is that it is a team effort, delivered by experts and supported by many. Jon Fullwood is a Technical Team leader in Computing, Control and Electrical Engineering in Diamond Engineering and presented his work, A co-curricular approach to addressing the variation of practical skills in students from diverse backgrounds , at the recent European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI24) conference. Jon's work is an accessible means for students to grow confidence and skills in practical electronics. Here, Jon shares his experience of SEFI24. Having never been to a SEFI conference before, jetting off to present my work was little daunting to say the least! I needn’t have feared, the whole experience from start to finish was amazing and something I will never forget. I have to admit that I approached SEFI with excitement but also with fear and trepidation as I didn’t believe that

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