Events

4TU.Centre for Engineering Education and Matthijs van Dijk of Reframing Studio will be giving a workshop titled ‘Composing the Engineer of the Future’, at the TU Delft Teaching Lab. Sign up now!

A University is involved in both fields: research and education, but how is the balance between these two? Is the one more important than the other or not? How do they reinforce each other? This year's Education Day is about the interplay between research and education. Keynotes and workshops focus either on research about education, education in research, research and education, research in education or other possible perspectives.

What do Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality have to offer to Education? Does it create new solutions to unsolved problems in learning environments? Find out in the 4TU.CEE onboarding day on ‘Using Virtual and Augmented Reality in education’ with key notes Pierre Dillenbourg and Max Louwerse and hands-on workshops.

Join the Teaching Trick workshop given by Kristina Edström!

Professional Identity begins to form when students start their academic study. Although addressing the Professional Identity Development (PID) of students can be very beneficial to students, it seldom is the explicit aim of educational programmes and courses. There is little empirical knowledge available to inform teachers, educational developers and programme directors on how to foster PID and on how to embed it in a course or an educational programme adequately. Against this background, Migchiel van Diggelen and Christina Morgan, studied how teacher coaching, aiming to foster students' professional identity development, was implemented in the departments of Industrial Design and Computer Science. The goal of the project was to gain insight into useful features for coaching models and to learn what good coaching entails.

There is a need for engineers who are not afraid to ask critical questions, who can work together well and look beyond the boundaries of their own field. This means students need to learn more about integrating and applying knowledge, methods and skills from different subject areas and multiple sources. 

On Monday 13 February, 4TU.CEE organises a workshop on Team Based Learning (TBL) in Twente. Teaching staff will learn how to motivate students to prepare for class and actively engage in acquiring and applying knowledge with fellow learners. The workshop will be given by Joy de Vries and Jacqueline Vos from the University of Amsterdam (UvA - AMC) who have been certified by Bradford University as TBL consultants and trainers. To register for this workshop, please send an email to Lisa Gommer: e.m.gommer@utwente.nl

Alexandru Iosup, Netherlands Teacher of the year 2015, will give a workshop on Gamification at TU/e on 3 February 2017. If you would like to know more about techniques to gamify your education and activate your students, this workshop is of interest to you!

Would you like to know how to use innovative adaptive questions for student assessment? Are you wondering how to apply educational innovations in your own courses? Find out in one of our workshops!

We have to rethink our education as our student numbers are continuously growing. Sometimes this asks for disruptive innovations. On the other hand a more efficient organisation, reframing your education and/or activating your students by taking a coaching role can be solutions too. 4TU.CEE invited Kristina Edström and Jakob Kuttenkeuler to inspire lecturers on this topic in interactive workshops and keynotes that will take place on 4-6 October.

Want to learn more about engineering education innovations at the University? Then visit the Innovation Day at TU/e on Wednesday 5 October.

Save the date: Workshop Entrepreneurial Thinking in Engineering Education & Active and Collaborative Learning

　

On 31 March a follow up workshop on several education topics will take place stemming from the successful Tour de Mazur workshop that took place in November last year at the University of Twente. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to get feedback on ideas you might have on implementing changes in your own course or module. Eric Mazur will (digitally) fly in to answer your questions.

HANNOVER MESSE has been the world’s most important industrial tradeshow and largest capital goods exhibition for years. At the fair over 5,000 exhibitors will showcase the latest technologies during 5 days. Many Heads of States, amongst them President Obama, will be present. This year 3TU.CEE and 3TU. High Tech Systems will organise a mini symposium on the topic “Transforming engineering education: challenges and opportunities” on Thursday 28 April from 14:00-16:00 hours. Participants are invited to discuss their ideas on how to update the skills of tomorrow’s engineer in three interactive sessions with representatives from industry, start-ups and knowledge institutes. Topics are: deadly dilemmas, virtual labs and artificial intelligence.