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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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ISAM 2024: A Global Celebration of Makerspaces at the University of Sheffield

on October 25, 2024

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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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Feedback Strategy in MEE - Episode 2

Hello again! This is a somewhat overdue follow up of my blog posted back in 2022 ( Our strategy for student feedback in MEE ). A year after the full rollout of a departmental feedback system, I will be discussing how it was implemented and what the impacts have been for staff and students... ...was it worth doing? Perhaps this will be food for thought for student voice systems in your own department, or maybe you can give me some comments/pointers from your own experiences! A quick recap Back in 2022 we identified gaps in MEE's (Multidisciplinary Engineering Education) feedback net . At the time we didn't have a system in place that was able to capture the important day-to-day information about student experience. The end of semester module surveys (called 'TellUs' at Sheffield, and the NSS , don't provide a tight enough net - a student would h

Engaging moral imagination in Engineering Ethics Education

Sarah Plumb is an Academic Development Adviser and the faculty liaison for Engineering for Elevate. As part of her role she is a tutor on the PGCert, coordinates the STA workshops and advises on curriculum design and development. The Engineering Sheffield contingent- Education is nothing without people The overarching theme of the SEFI conference this year was around educational approaches to developing responsible engineers. Alongside this, a recurring theme both at this year's conference and the last was around how and when to bring social sciences into the engineering curriculum to embed engineering for social change. It was concluded that the presumption that technology is at least neutral when used right, needs to be interrogated more frequently and robustly as part of our curriculum. One of the sessions which stood out most for me on this topic was a keynote speech on “Engaging moral imagination in Engineering Ethics Education” from Donna Riley who is the Dean of Engineering

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

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