Employability of Future Engineers: curriculum elements

The ART of Literature Studies and Reviews: An attempt to create order in chaos

PREFER: Professional Roles and Employability for Future EngineeRs

Pilot study boot camp: professional engineering roles experienced in a week

Engineering education has recognised that engineering graduates require transversal competencies like communication, teamwork and problem-solving alongside technical competencies. The importance of transversal competencies has grown and curriculum elements have been implemented to stimulate these competencies. However, a gap still exists between...

Comparison of first-year student conceptions on their future roles as engineers between Belgium and The Netherlands

(Blended Learning)2: Blending content- and learning-oriented objectives in a blended learning environment

Large classroom sizes are a reality university educators need to contend with, particularly in the first year of a given cohort within a degree programme. Activating and engaging students in these large classroom environments present numerous sets of challenges. These challenges are exacerbated by student learning development needs in the early...

Designing their own Future: Teaching Students how to Design Aerospace Operations Research

This paper tells of the development of a course designed to help students set up their own operations research projects. The course was taught in a lecture format with much room for interaction and the students were required to make submit formal research plans for their operations research projects as well as literature review. The initial...