European engineering educators

Welcome back to the fourth season of the SEFI podcast!   In the second episode we talk to Professor Roger Hadgraft, Director of Educational Innovation and Research in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Roger draws upon more than 30 years of experience in improving engineering educating, having been instrumental in introducing a...

Welcome back to the fourth season of the SEFI podcast!   In this first episode we talk to Professor Sarah Jayne Hitt, who, amongst her many roles, project manages the Engineering Professors Council or EPC’s Ethics Toolkit, a resource designed to help engineering educators embed ethics in teaching.   Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Dr. Neil Cooke (University of Birmi...

We recognize that you might not have time to listen to all the episodes, and/or would appreciate a preview or recap and so this is a special episode to bring the 3rd season of the SEFI podcast to a close. This season focused on changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades. Join Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Natalie Wint (Univers...

Welcome to the final episode of this special season of the SEFI podcast which marks the 50th anniversary of SEFI and in which we discuss changes to engineering education and engineering education research (EER) occurring in Europe over the last few decades.   In this episode we talk to SEFI Fellow, Xavier Fouger from Dassault Systèmes, a global leader in engineering education who has worked a...

Welcome to the penultimate episode of this special season of the SEFI podcast which marks the 50th anniversary of SEFI and in which we discuss changes to engineering education and engineering education research (EER) occurring in Europe over the last few decades.   In this episode we talk to Kristina Edström who has been Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE)...

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades   In this episode we are seeking inspiration from across the pond. We speak to Jacqueline El-Sayed the first female Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the American Society for Engineer...

Welcome to the third episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades   In this episode we speak to Bill Williams who serves as an associate editor of the European Journal of Engineering Education, published by SEFI and the Journal of Engineering Education, and has publ...

Welcome to the second episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades   In this episode we speak to Professor José Carlos Quadrado from The Lisbon Higher Institute of Engineering and President of the ENTER (EngineeriNg educaTors pEdagogical tRaining) network, an intern...

Welcome to the first episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we will discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades and its release coincides with SEFI 2023 being hosted by TU Dublin in Ireland.   In this episode we speak to Professor Emeritus Mike Murphy, former president of SEFI (2017-2019). We talk about Mi...

A special 22.22 minute episode for you to bring the 2nd season of the SEFI podcast to a close going into our 2nd year! We recognise that you might not have time to listen to all the episodes, and/or would appreciate a preview or recap. Join Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Natalie Wint (University College London) as they share highlights from Season 2, featuring clips from the seasons gue...

Welcome to the final episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! We focus on lifelong learning (LLL), something which we hope this podcast supports!   We speak to Dr Lynn Van den Broeck, a postdoctoral researcher from the Engineering Technology Education Research Group (ETHER) in KU Leuven, who has been studying LLL as part of her role co-ordinating the European TRAINengPDP project. Lynn is able...

Welcome to the penultimate episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! In this episode we focus on the development of communication skills, primarily one that you, as the audience of this podcast, will be familiar with - active listening.   We talk to Dr. Gillian Saunders-Smits, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the Cognitive Robotics department at Delft Universi...

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! This episode follows on from our last episode with Sofie Craps which focused on professional identity, to discuss other ways in which we can prepare students for the workplace.   In this episode we talk to Dr. Christopher Smith from Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland (UK), co-chair of the SEFI Special Interest Group (SIG) o...

Welcome to the third episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! In this episode we will discuss the PREFER project, which involved the development of a professional roles model with Dr Sofie Craps, a member of the Study Guidance Research Group of the Leuven Engineering & Science Education Centre (LESEC) at KU Leuven. Her experience in student recruitment, study guidance, and careers counselling...

Welcome to the second episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! In this episode we talk to an innovator of blended learning, Dr Calvin Rans, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, where he manages two professional recording studios and supports educators in making novel blended learning experiences for students. He calls himself an 'edutainer', claiming that if...

Welcome to Season 2 of the Sefi podcast! In this episode we discuss how leadership is conceptualised within engineering education with Dr Madeline Polmear, a Marie-Curie, EUTOPIA Science & Innovation COFUND Fellow within the Law Science Technology and Society Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels. Her interdisciplinary background is in engineering education research with a f...

A special episode for you to bring Season 1 of the sefi podcast to a close! We recognise that you might not have time to listen to all the episodes, and/or would appreciate a preview or recap. Join Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Natalie Wint (University College London) as they share some of their highlights parts from Season 1, and identify four themes that reflect the current areas of...

In this episode, our guest is Professor Gary Wood, Academic Director of NMITE where he leads delivery and development of new approaches to engineering education through challenge-led, industry-linked programmes. He is a National Teaching Fellow, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also contributes to regional skills development, drawing on his expertise in employability, professional...

Happy 2023! We start the year with an incredible discussion on the very frontiers of engineering education - teaching empathy - with Dr Nicola Sochacka from the University of Georgia. Nicola spent the last decade researching this topic and has created some brilliant resources we can all use to bring the teaching of empathy into our contexts. She believes that engineers should not only understand t...

What is interdisciplinary engineering education, how difficult is it to teach, and why is it considered an integral part of modern engineering studies?  We discussed this with Professor Jan van der Veen, who chairs the Eindhoven School of Education at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where he focuses on teaching training and projects within engineering higher education. Jan was inspired...

In this episode, our guest is Professor Emanuela Tilley, who is currently a Board Director at SEFI and Director of the Integrated Engineering Programme, a teaching framework embedded in the learning experiences of undergraduate students across Engineering at University College London. Emanuela’s approach is informed by both her own experiences of problem based, authentic learning and her time as a...

For our second episode we welcome Mia Stephens, an Advisory Product Manager with JMP (pronounced jump), a corporate partner of SEFI, and part of SAS Institute, an American multinational developer of analytics software. Mia is responsible for providing technical support for JMP academic users. Prior to joining SAS, she was an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at University of New Hampshire, a fo...

For our launch episode, our guest is Dr Roland Tormey, current co-chair of the SEFI Ethics Special Interest Group, and a senior scientist in the College of Humanities at Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lousanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Roland’s training as a sociologist has provided the basis for his work into both emotion and inter-cultural education, and his pioneering research in teacher training an...

An introduction to the European engineering educators podcast by SEFI from your hosts Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint. In this preview we're going to talk about the podcast, who we are, what we do, what we're going to include on our show, why we're doing it, when, and how! Timestamps: 0.00 welcome 0.28 who are we 1.18 about SEFI 2.00 about the podcast 5.10 other similar podcasts. 6.03 who this podcast...

Launches September 19th! The European engineering educators podcast from SEFI with Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint offers key insights into the minds of researchers and practitioners who have built international reputations in the field of engineering education with knowledge and advice to share. Leave us feedback/comments/suggestions: https://forms.gle/tMDHxf1JA8P9RYMY8 Follow us wherever you get you...