The power of perspective dialogue: Unlocking transformative reflection in engineering education

Engineers need to be socially responsible, ethically aware and deliver positive contributions to the wicked problems² of today's global challenges. In navigating these challenges, being able to reflect is a necessary prerequisite. But if we simply ask students reflective questions, they tend to give us mostly socially desirable...

Testing the Validity and Reliability of an Instrument Measuring Engineering Students' Perceptions of Transversal Competency Levels

Contribution: This study reports on a reliable and valid instrument that measures engineering students' perceptions of their competency levels. A better understanding of students' needs in engineering curricula will support the development of engineering students' transversal competencies. Background: Prior research has investigated how...

The effects of curriculum overhaul: investigating the students’ experience

In this study, the final part of an overarching project on curriculum design and implementation executed at Delft University of Technology is presented. The last step in this research is to establish how the students perceive their new curricula. To that end a survey was developed using standardized questions on self-determination, motivation,...

A heuristic to understand curriculum change: Towards comparing 3 course programme overhauls within the Dutch 3TU coalition

The 3TU coalition consists of the three universities of technology in the Netherlands: Delft, Eindhoven and Twente, which are all all-round engineering universities. The universities decided to strengthen engineering research and education in the Netherlands by collaborating and learning from each other in the Centre for Engineering Education ...