Centre for Engineering Education

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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Old Aircraft and New Students

on August 17, 2020

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Teaching development using final year projects

on July 21, 2020

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Experimental Design for Practical Engineering Education

on June 04, 2020

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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...

Introducing the New Centre for Engineering Education Outputs Page

The Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) is supports, promotes and celebrates the excellent teaching in the Faculty of Engineering. Here, Professor Stephen Beck and Emma Kenny-Levick share information about a new initiative. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the new Outputs Page from the CEE, designed to showcase the incredible Engineering Education that is happening across our Faculty. The page brings together a wealth of education outputs that highlight the Centre’s commitment to advancing engineering education. From published papers and journal articles to conference presentations and workshops, the Outputs Page provides a comprehensive look at how CEE is sharing its expertise with the wider academic and professional community. The heart of engineering at Sheffield By celebrating and sharing these outputs, we aim to foster collaboration, spark new ideas and make our ideas available for others. We also want to use this new section to showcase our ideas and sta...

Decolonising the thermodynamics curriculum

Part of my role as Head of Department is to raise my head above the parapet and receive whatever is flying about. I have got two such emails launched by the Black Lives Matter movement. The first was an account of the experiences of one of my staff members as a young black person in the UK. The second was an email exchange between some students (notably Aatika Adam from our Chemical and Biological Engineering Department) and their department about their experiences studying in a department predominantly populated by non-BAME staff; as one of their points, they addressed the issue of the decolonisation of the curriculum. I teach first year Thermodynamics, which is mostly equations, systems and control volumes. So my first thought was that Thermodynamics has not been a function of the people that created it. My beloved equations are independent of context. So, prompted by the emails, I started thinking about this. It suddenly struck me that while thermodynamics is independent of ...

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