In this Section:
Our Activities
The Engineering Subject Centre offers a range of activities to support the development of good practice and innovation to support the enhancement of the learning and teaching in engineering education, these include:
Professional Development
We organise and facilitate a number of events and workshops to support the development of teaching and learning practices in engineering education. Events offer an opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of effective practice, share and reflect upon ideas, showcase innovation and network. We hold events in locations all across the UK, so there is always an event near you.
Working with Departments
The Engineering Subject Centre is keen to work with individual departments (or schools/faculties) and their staff in the development of teaching and learning practices - from making a visit to a department, through participation at staff development events/Learning and Teaching Days, to the facilitation of bespoke working in its support to staff in effecting change. The Centre's activities in Working with Departments also includes offering a portfolio of workshop topics where the workshop can be customised to the department's aspirations for the development of its staff in making change.
Recognising and Rewarding Excellence
The Engineering Subject Centre Teaching Awards provide an opportunity for engineering academics to receive national recognition for the high quality of their learning and teaching practices. The Centre aims to identify engineering academics who are using teaching methodologies that have been proven to enhance the student learning experience.
Engaging Students
The Student Awards aim to motivate students to think about how they learn and to highlight good practice on the essay topic. The Engineering Subject Centre offers a £150 prize to the UK undergraduate engineering student who writes the best essay on a given topic, for example: “What makes the best learning experience for an engineering student?”
Development of good practice in engineering education
The Centre offers a wide range of funding opportunities to engineering academics across the UK including funding for Mini-Projects for development and research, and funding to establish Special Interest Groups to enable the development and sharing of good practice in engineering education. The Centre also offers colleagues the opportunity to share findings and disseminate good practice through publication of reports and case studies on our website and through Engineering Education, the journal of the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre.
Sharing Ideas and Networking
The Subject Centre engages and interacts with UK engineering academics in both higher and further education and the wider engineering community including professional bodies, other networks and funded engineering education projects. Our Associates Scheme also provides a mechanism for the Engineering Subject Centre to expand the stakeholder engagement with activitiesa dn the expertise that we can offer to the engineering education community.
Practical Advice
If you have a question about any aspect of engineering education please email us at enquiries@engsc.ac.uk. If we don't know the answer here at the Engineering Subject Centre, we will try to find someone who does.
Communication
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Our newsletter, translate, is published 3 times a year with featured articles to keep you up to date with news from engineering departments across the UK, progress reports from the Centre and dates for your diary.
Mailing Lists
You are invited to join our postal and electronic mailing lists to keep up in touch with the Engineering Subject Centre and the latest news, events and resources.
Departmental contacts
We aim to have key liaison contacts in all engineering departments delivering HE engineering programmes across the UK who will receive communications from the Centre, and promote the resources and support available to departmental colleagues.
Bringing our services to you
RSS (Rich Site Summary) Information Feeds enable news, events and resources relevant to engineering education to be featured on your own departmental website. Sections of our site are also available in a format more suitable for viewing over your mobile phone.