UK & IE Engineering Education Research Network - 5th Annual Symposium 23rd - 24th November 2017 Royal Academy of Engineering London

Programme Thursday 23 November 2017 Time Activity Location Activity Location 10.00am to Pre-symposium workshop - World café Rolls Royce 11.00am Time for change: challenging the status quo. 10.00am Registration, refreshments and networking Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation

11.15am Opening and introductions Al Qasimi Philip Greenish CBE, Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Engineering Professor Robin Clark, UK&IE EERN

11.30am Professor Janusz Kozinski Al Qasimi Founding President and CEO NMiTE, New Model in Technology & Engineering

12.15pm Lunch and networking Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation

1.00pm Session A Stream 1 Sir Kirby Laing Session A Stream 2 Rolls Royce - Putting projects in a societal context. - Practice vs professionalism: challenging the status quo. - Deliberate practice makes perfect. Developing logbook keeping as a - Understanding the student experience professional skill through CDIO (conceive, in one-year graduate master’s design, implement, operate) programmes. - Challenging industries – an enterprising - A new curriculum to train chemical module led by industry. engineers to solve 21st century grand challenges. - Changing futures - supporting failing students in higher education. - How do we measure ethical perception and decision-making competences

among higher education students? 2.30pm The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE Al Qasimi FREng FRS Educating engineers: where do we start and what do we want? 3.10pm Refreshments and networking Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation 3.30pm Round-up of network member activities / Al Qasimi networking posters

4.30pm Session B Stream 1 Sir Kirby Laing Session B Stream 2 Rolls Royce - Meta-analysis and review of the use of - A teaching sandwich approach to artificial intelligence and learning analytics integrating classroom and practical within engineering education at university teaching. level. - Case study of leading educational - Comparison of transversal competence change in a research-intensive levels of engineering students with labour engineering faculty. market requirements. - Describing graduate engineering skills. - Should GCE ‘A’ Level Maths be abolished as a pre-requisite to studying engineering at university?

5.30pm Refreshments and networking Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation 6.00pm Drop-in session Al Qasimi The REF and the TEF where does engineering education research fit? 6.30pm Professor Keith Willey, Associate Professor Al Qasimi in Engineering Leadership Education, University of Sydney Where do our students go and what do they need to learn to help them get there? 7.10pm Reception Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation

Dinner will not be provided at the Academy but there are lots of nearby restaurants/ bars to suit your individual tastes so please do some networking during the day and organise your evening accordingly.

Friday 24 November 2017 Time Activity Location Activity Location 9.00am Registration and introduction Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation 9.20am Professor Bill Lucas, Director, Centre for Al Qasimi Real-World Learning Learning to be an engineer 10.00am Session C Stream 1 Sir Kirby Laing Session C Stream 2 Rolls-Royce - How important is maths and other entry - Agile engineering education for present qualifications for success in engineering and future. undergraduate degree study in the UK? - Student-led online revision tools as an - A longitudinal study of Middle Eastern innovative assignment. women’s experiences studying engineering - Case study: laboratory planning on abroad. ARENA. - The year in computing initiative. 11.00am Refreshments and networking Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation 11.20am Professor Kel Fidler FREng, Consultant Al Qasimi Here’s the thing 12.00pm The EDGE coalition Al Qasimi Are engineering educators fit for purpose? An expert panel 1.00pm Lunch and networking Michael Bishop and ERA Foundation 2.00pm Professor Chris Wise FREng, Senior Al Qasimi Director, Expedition What humans do best

2.40pm Session D Stream 1 Sir Kirby Laing Session D Stream 2 Rolls Royce - A new narrative for engineering in UK - The knowledge misalignment between schools. engineering and secondary school technology education. - Engineering and society: embedding active service learning in undergraduate - Study of female pupils’ perception curricula. towards engineering degrees. - Introducing human factors within CDIO - Electronic and electrical engineering in first year module – has it made a the UK. Bridging the skills gap: the case difference to appreciating the vehicle for curriculum change. design process? 3.40pm Closing comments and round-up Al Qasimi

Parallel sessions

Thursday 23 November

Session A Stream 1 – 1.00pm to 2.30pm Thursday 23 November – Sir Kirby Laing room – Chair: Dr Anne Nortcliffe  Putting projects in a societal context. Professor Peter Goodhew CBE FREng, University of Liverpool; NMiTE  Deliberate practice makes perfect. Developing logbook keeping as a professional skill through CDIO. Dr Sarah Junaid and Dr Laura Leslie, Aston University  Challenging industries – an enterprising module led by industry. Karen Wood and Dr Gary Wood, University of Sheffield  Changing futures – supporting failing students in higher education. Rebecca Broadbent and Dr Jane Andrews, Aston University

Session A Stream 2 – 1.00pm to 2.30pm Thursday 23 November – Rolls Royce room – Chair: Dr Rhys Morgan  Practice vs professionalism: challenging the status quo. Dr Jane Andrews, Aston University and Professor Robin Clark, University of Warwick  Understanding the student experience in one-year graduate master’s programmes. Dr Jenny Griffiths, UCL  A new curriculum to train chemical engineers to solve 21st century grand challenges. Dr Mo Zandi, Siddharth Patwardhan, Linda Kotta and James Litster, University of Sheffield  How do we measure ethical perception and decision-making competences among higher education students? Manal Atesh, Bidyut Baruah and Tony Ward, University of York

Session B Stream 1 – 4.30pm to 5.30pm Thursday 23 November – Sir Kirby Laing room – Chair: Dr Gillian Saunders-Smits  Meta-analysis and review of the use of artificial intelligence and learning analytics within engineering education at university level. Manish Malik, University of Portsmouth  Comparison of transversal competence levels of engineering students with labour market requirements. Mariana Leandro Cruz and Dr Gillian Saunders-Smits, Delft University of Technology  Should GCE ‘A’ Level Maths be abolished as a pre-requisite to studying engineering at university? Jane Andrews, Aston University, Roger Penlington, Northumbria University and Robin Clark, Warwick University

Session B Stream 2 – 4.30pm to 5.30pm Thursday 23 November – Rolls Royce room – Chair: Charlotte Freeman  A teaching sandwich approach to integrating classroom and practical teaching. Dr Andrew Garrard and Dr Andy Nichols, University of Sheffield  Case study of leading educational change in a research-intensive engineering faculty. Professor John Mitchell and Kate Tilley, UCL, and Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering  Describing graduate engineering skills. Judith Shawcross and Tom Ridgman, University of Cambridge

Parallel sessions

Friday 24 November

Session C Stream 1 – 10.00am to 11.00am Friday 24 November – Sir Kirby Laing room – Chair: Dr Roger Penlington  How important is maths and other entry qualifications for success in engineering undergraduate degree study in the UK? Dr Tim Bullough and Diane Taktak, University of Liverpool  A longitudinal study of Middle Eastern women’s experiences studying engineering abroad. Shannon Chance, Dublin Institute of Technology, Allison Wagner, University of Michigan, and Dr Bill Williams, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal  The year in computing initiative. Sebastian Dziallas, Sally Fincher and Colin Johnson, University of Kent

Session C Stream 2 – 10.00am to 11.00am Friday 24 November – Rolls-Royce room – Chair: Dr Jane Andrews  Agile engineering education for present and future. Dr Sophie Lo, Manchester Metropolitan University  Student-led online revision tools as an innovative assignment. Dr Andy Nichols and Solomon Brown, University of Sheffield  Case study: laboratory planning on ARENA Getrude Nkomo and Dr Hongsheng Qi, University of Bradford

Session D Stream 1 – 2.40pm to 3.40pm Friday 24 November – Sir Kirby Laing room – Chair: Stylli Charalampous  A new narrative for engineering in UK schools. Peter Finegold and Colin Brown, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Ian Jones, Jinja Publishing Ltd, Ken Mannion, The Vector Partnership, and Martin Boon, ICM Unlimited  Engineering and society: embedding active service learning in undergraduate curricula. Laura Fogg-Rogers and W Fowles-Sweet, University of the West of England  Introducing human factors within CDIO first-year module – has it made a difference to appreciating the vehicle design process? Elaine Mackie, Aston University

Session D Stream 2 – 2.40pm to 3.40pm Friday 24 November – Rolls-Royce room – Chair: Manish Malik  The knowledge misalignment between engineering and secondary school technology education. Lewis Jones, Loughborough University  Study of female pupils’ perception towards engineering degrees. Katherine Kirk, Patricia Muñoz-Escalona and Meg Dunn, University of the West of Scotland  Electronic and electrical engineering in the UK. Bridging the skills gap: the case for curriculum change. Steve Watts, Cardiff University, and Stewart Edmondson, UK Electronics Skills Foundation

Expert panel discussion – 12.00pm to 1.00pm Friday 24 November – Al Qasimi room  Are engineering educators fit for purpose? An expert panel discussion from the engineering EDGE project Comprising expert engineering education researchers from different UK universities, the panel will focus upon this research question. Grounded in a critical literature review undertaken as part of the EDGE Project, each panel member will discuss one of the aims of the project, giving their own insights and reflecting upon the key questions raised. Jane Andrews, Aston University; Professor Robin Clark, University of Warwick; Professor Gill Cooke, University of Warwick; Dr Roger Penlington, Northumbria University; Dr Peter Wilmott, Loughborough University; and Esat Alpay, University of Surrey