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Always Learning to Teach
I love teaching students to design! I’m also fascinated by theories about how students learn. At the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) , I’m going to be researching: How students’ ideas about...
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Headed to Thessaloniki
I’m learning the ropes of budget flights in Europe because I’m headed to Greece for an engineering education conference. Heather and Dave warned me about baggage limitations in Europe! (No wonder...
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A Flexible Learning Lab at DIT
This is a picture of a flexible lab for learning engineering. It is a space for group-driven problem-based learning, or a “PBL classroom.” A colleague of mine back in Virginia who is an expert in...
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PBL Credits in Águeda
Projects that students made in past years at the engineering school in Agueda. I misunderstood the credit allotment for projects at Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Águeda. As it turns out,...
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Leading SEFI at the University of Birmingham, UK
Prof. Kamel Hawwash Last week I travelled over to the UK to visit professor Kamel Hawwash, the incoming president of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). Prof. Hawwash has done a...
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Learning about Learning at Virginia Tech
Presenting at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy Virginia Tech just hosted its sixth annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy (i.e., college teaching). It was my second foray into this...
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Sheryl Sorby Spotlights Spatial Skills
Recruiting women for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths: Sheryl Sorby at TEDxFulbrightDublin. Dr. Sheryl Sorby‘s groundbreaking research on spatial visualization brought awareness of spatial...
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Expanding the Engineers’ Box
Fergus Whelan commented on this image that I need to think outside this box! Many thanks to Frank Daly for the fabulous photo. My students, having sent his look many times before, certainly empathize...
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Discussing Development… of College Students
I just made my annual appearance at the class on theories about college students’ development taught by Dr. Jim Barber. Last year I got to be there in person, but this year it was back to Skype....
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Using Architecture Design Studio Pedagogies to Enhance Engineering Education
I’m celebrating the publication of a new journal article today, with the help of Sally O’Neill. She’s one of the librarians here at DIT, and she secured permission and posted the article on DIT’s...
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Headed to Thessaloniki
I’m learning the ropes of budget flights in Europe because I’m headed to Greece for an engineering education conference. Heather and Dave warned me about baggage limitations in Europe! (No wonder...
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Learning London: University College London
During a recent workshop for development of research skills, the facilitator warned that people from other universities might approach us to work as a collaborator simply because they want to associate...
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Engineering Education in South Africa: Facilitating Teamwork and Celebrating...
My sister and I just crossed paths, like (air)ships in the night, at Johannesburg’s O. M. Tambo airport. At precisely the time my University College London colleague, Dr. Folashade Akinmolayan, and I...
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Work and play in South Africa: Teaching and sightseeing in Jo’burg
I was filling in for Dr. Kate Roach, and she provided many of the slides. Fortunately, I was able to draw from three decades of running group learning activities and from my own research on teamwork...
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Continental Conference-Hopping
It’s been a hectic few weeks, beginning with Inspirefest in Dublin, Ireland (21-22 June) to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference in Salt Lake City (June 24-27), a quick...
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SEFI—researching Engineering Education with the Europeans
I’ve just attended the world’s friendliest conference, the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). I’ve never felt more welcome and invigorated by the exchange of ideas at a conference. This...
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Copenhagen to Athens to Kos: A hop, skip, and a jump from SEFI to ICL
Copenhagen Following last week’s meeting of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) in Copenhagen, I enjoyed a post-conference dinner with colleagues, explored Copenhagen’s old town in...
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Perched atop UCL for an Away Day strategizing engineering education
Perched high above UCL, in the penthouse Marconi room, University College London’s engineering education experts assembled on November 29th at the uppermost point of the Bloomsbury campus to discuss...
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Get yourself a job in engineering education or Ph.D. fellowship in...
For those of you interested in learning more about educational research or finding an academic position in engineering education research, I’m posting some exciting opportunities. Architectural...
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Special Focus on Diversity
IEEE Transactions on Education table of contents for the special focus issue on enhancing socio-cultural diversity The new special focus issue I spearheaded for IEEE Transactions on Education just...
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