Abstracts
Dr. Ruth Graham, Consultancy in Higher Education
Strategies for excellence in engineering education: developments in global best practice
The past decade has seen root-and-branch changes in the design and focus of undergraduate engineering programmes across the world. Drawing on examples of global best practice, the keynote will explore the new educational priorities emerging in leading-edge institutions. It will highlight the facilitators and inhibitors to systemic educational change, and the strategies developed at key universities to address them. One particular priority is to ensure that contributions to teaching and learning play a more significant role in academic career advancement. The keynote will close with an outline of an ongoing study to map best practice worldwide in how university teaching is rewarded in academic careers, a global movement in which engineering schools and universities are playing a prominent role.
Dr. Sirin Tekinay, SEFI Fellow
Office of International Science and Engineering
The United States National Science Foundation
Collaborating on Research and Education Across the Atlantic
The world needs more collaboration across boundaries of all kinds, arguably more than ever. This keynote will highlight the mechanisms for international collaboration between European and US-based universities in STEM fields. Different modalities of interaction will be outlined. Critical and emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Information and Engineering, Bioengineering, Climate and Environment, will be underlined. Facilitators such as open data and research security, science policy and science diplomacy, will be overviewed. The ever-changing roles of government, academe, and industry and their dynamic interplay in engineering education will be discussed.