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Contemporary Landscape, Drivers And Developments In Engineering Education For Sustainability, Edmond Byrne
Contemporary Landscape, Drivers And Developments In Engineering Education For Sustainability, Edmond Byrne
Plenary Presentations and Doctoral Symposium
The ‘landscape’ around sustainability education in engineering has continued to evolve. Engineering education for sustainability largely emerged originally out of environmental engineering imperatives, though more recent developments have considerably broadened the scope of ‘sustainability’ teaching in professional engineering programmes. This has implications for associated curriculum developments as well as having pedagogical implications. Principal drivers for these developments emanate from the evolving requirements of professional engineering bodies internationally. These drivers have been supported and supplemented by an enhanced sense of urgency in the wake of the impacts of an unsustainable societal construct (e.g. the consequences of accelerated climate change, biodiversity loss, …
The Doctoral Symposium In Engineering Education Research At Sefi 2023, Jonte Bernhard, Shannon Chance, Tinne De Laet, Kristina Edström
The Doctoral Symposium In Engineering Education Research At Sefi 2023, Jonte Bernhard, Shannon Chance, Tinne De Laet, Kristina Edström
Plenary Presentations and Doctoral Symposium
The 7th SEFI Doctoral Symposium in Engineering Education Research, held at the campus of Technological University Dublin on Sunday, September 10th, preceded the SEFI 2023 Annual Conference. In all, 37 Ph.D. researchers attended, which is a record number for this event. They came to share and further probe their Ph.D. research topics and plans of study and to strengthen and extend their professional networks. During this full and intense day, 27 established scholars provided the Ph.D. researchers with personal feedback and ideas regarding their research. The highlight, according to the Ph.D. student participants, was the warm and enthusiastic reception they …
Interdisciplinary Projects – Moving From Transfer To Transformation In Learning, Anette Kolmos
Interdisciplinary Projects – Moving From Transfer To Transformation In Learning, Anette Kolmos
Plenary Presentations and Doctoral Symposium
In the PBL communities, we have always argued that the deep learning in the projects would compensate for the lack of knowledge from taught courses by the students’ ability to transfer knowledge to new areas. Within the disciplinary discourses, this has proved to be valid as the transfer of learning works within the same language and disciplinary thinking and the projects share similarities. However, we have learned that in an interdisciplinary context, where students are to transform their experiences from a disciplinary to an interdisciplinary context, the students do experience difficulties in leading and managing their projects. This keynote will …