This international conference is dedicated to enhancing the quality of higher education in all engineering disciplines. It will serve as a forum for the sharing of innovation and good practice and will provide delegates with the opportunity to critically and creatively engage with new ideas and research that might help them develop their own approach to learning, teaching and assessment.
The conference will be of interest to those:
- Involved with teaching engineering in higher and further education
- Supporting staff and students in engineering departments
- Conducting research and development in engineering education
- Developing policy and practice relevant to engineering education in professional institutions and government organisations
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Norman L. Fortenberry
Norman is the founding Director of the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). CASEE facilitates research on and deployment of, innovative policies, practices, and tools designed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of systems for the formal, informal, and lifelong education of engineers. Norman previously served in various staff and executive capacities at the US National Science Foundation, as executive director of a non-governmental organization concerned with graduate access and success in engineering and science education, and as a faculty member. He was awarded the S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees (all in mechanical engineering) by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ian Cameron
Ian is the former head of Chemical Engineering at The University of Queensland, Australia and an inaugural Senior Fellow of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. He completed a BE at UNSW and higher degrees at the University of Washington and Imperial College London. After spending 9 years in process design, operations and commissioning he spent 3 years as a UNIDO engineering consultant in Argentina and a further 6 years part-time in Turkey. Since being at UQ he has been involved in numerous teaching and learning innovations, receiving the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year in 2003. He was part of the team from UQ Chemical Engineering that won a prestigious AAUT national award in 2005 for educational enhancement via curriculum innovation. He has published over 200 international journal and conference papers in the area of process systems engineering and is the author of 2 books in process modelling and risk management.
Professor Matthew Harrison
Matthew is the Director of Education Programmes at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Matthew’s roles include director of the London Engineering Project, the BEST programme and Shape the Future.
