Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre

These workshops for engineering lecturers aim to introduce and explore , curricula content, ways of thinking, and pedagogical and assessment approaches which will facilitate engineering students’ abilities in the following areas:

• question assumptions surrounding terms such as such as ‘developing’ and ’third world’ and appreciate the contemporary discourse on the ‘Global South’.
• question the role of international organisations such as IMF, World Bank and WTO, as well as governments and NGOs and their impact on engineering practices in developing countries
• appreciate the discourse on local versus global and the need to develop local solutions, local technology and local markets where possible
• critique the role of engineering in relation to the Industrial Revolution and other historical contexts which affect contemporary process and practices in the North and South.
• identify the role of labour in engineering practice and question global labour market practices
• characterise the relationship between state policy and technology development

The Global Dimension project will pay 70% of travel and subsistence costs or £100, whichever is lower, for the first 15 people who sign up.  We would encourage you to book your travel as soon as possible to ensure that you get the cheapest tickets available.  Please contact Kate Everest if you have any queries.

UPDATE: due to unforeseen circumstances, the venue has changed

The event is still due to take place at the University of Plymouth (directions to the University of Plymouth can be found at: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/travel ) however the building and room no. have changed as follows:

The event will now take place in room Rolle 003, the Rolle Building (building 34 on the campus map) http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/MAR/3D%20campus%20Jun10.pdf

Registration, coffee and introductions will be between 10:00 – 10:30.

Please find below the reading list for this workshop. It would be helpful if delegates could read the suggested material before attending.

Reading list

1. www.osdemethodology.org.uk/units/highereducation/ctcbooklet.pdf
2. www.throughothereyes.org.uk/method.php
3. www.un.org/millenniumgoals
4. Caroline Baillie, Globalisation, Development and Technology, in ‘ Engineering and Society: working towards social justice, pp67-97 2009, Baillie and Catalano, Morgan and Claypool (copies to be supplied at the workshop)
5. Juan Lucena, Jen Schneider, and Jon A. Leydens, Engineers and Development: From Empires to Sustainable Development, pp 13-55 in Engineering and Sustainable community development pp67-97 2009, Lucena et al, Morgan and Claypool (copies to be supplied at the workshop)
6. Caroline Baillie and Eric Feinblatt, Needs and Feasibility: AGuide for Engineers in Community Projects: The Case of Waste for Life pp103-108, 2010, Morgan and Claypool (copies to be supplied at the workshop)