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In February 2015, Kristina Edström, Associate professor in Engineering Education at KTH Stockholm and member of the CEE Advisory board, gave a presentation at the CDIO meeting on the effectiveness of teaching: ‘How can we maximize student learning with a reduced level of teaching resources’. In her presentation she gives eight ideas on how we can spend less time on things to improve learning. For example:

The report ‘Comparing Bachelor Curriculum Innovations at the Three Technical Universities’ (Gommer, Klaassen & Brans, 2015) was published and can now be accessed through the CEE website.

At mechanical engineering (UT) math education in the first year of the bachelor being taught in a new ‘flipped classroom setup’ to offer students more flexibility and stimulate active learning.

In November 2015, Eric Mazur, Physics professor from Harvard and Educationalist, will be visiting several universities in the Netherlands. On November 25th, professor Mazur will attend the University of Twente and share his ideas on Education & Assessment with us in a lunch lecture. Also, workshop will be organized by CEE where teaching staff from the 3TU can exchange ideas with Eric Mazur and work on further improvement of their education.

At each of the 3TU, engineering education innovation projects can be found that are very relevant to teaching staff and programme management. These innovations however, are often inaccessible for others outside the institution. A CEE project group with members from the 3TU cooperated to find examples of successful innovations in engineering education on seven educational themes. At this moment, 33 innovations are disclosed on the CEE website. More innovations will be added in the upcoming weeks and months.

Ruth Graham’s visit to  Eindhoven University of Technology, March 25th

It was standing room only at the official launch of the new 3TU.Centre for Engineering Education on Monday, 22 September. Director Jan van der Veen was delighted by all the positive reactions.