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NEWS MAY 2017

 

 

 

4TU.CEE RESEARCH STUDY IN REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

This April an article of 4TU.CEE PhD candidate Inken Gast appeared in the Review of Educational Research. She conducted a research study on Team-Based Professional Development Interventions in Higher Education. The review has shown that these interventions can be successful in fostering teacher learning in higher education. Read more…

 

 

 

 

WORKSHOP STRATEGIES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING AND LEARNING

There is a need for engineers who are not afraid to ask critical questions, who can work together well and look beyond the boundaries of their own field. This means students need interdisciplinary skills.

Would you like to know how to successfully develop, implement and sustain an interdisciplinary approach to your teaching? Join this interactive workshop in Delft. Read more…

 

 

 

 

SWISS INSPIRATION FROM EPFL AND ETH ZüRICH

In March 4TU.CEE visited EPFL and ETH Zürich to exchange ideas on innovations in engineering education. Topics that were discussed are the discovery learning programme for students that promote interdisciplinary education. Also MOOCs, special apps for students to improve interaction in class and digital testing were on the agenda. Two 4TU.CEE project leaders have written a blog about this visit. Read more…

 

 

 

 

THE FUTURE OF ENGINEERING IN JAPAN

Coming July a group of 20 honours programme students from Delft University of Technology will visit Tokyo to find out how Japan’s engineering education is keeping up with the rapidly changing engineering world. They will visit and interview technical companies and Tokyo Institute of Technology and will deliver a report to 4TU.CEE with their findings. Read more…

 

 

 

 

4TU.CEE HOSTS NIE CONFERENCE 2018

4TU.CEE is pleased to organise the second edition of the National Interdisciplinary Education Conference in 2018. The first edition of the NIE Conference took place in February 2017. At the event, Dutch and Belgian Institutes of higher education shared inspiring examples and experiences on interdisciplinary learning and teaching. A welcome initiative since interdisciplinary education has yet to become part of the mainstream in higher education. Read more…

 

 

 

 

CREATING A SPACE OF CREATIVITY AT TU/E

At TU/e three researchers are involved in setting up an Internet of Things (IoT) innovation space lab, since the start of this year. IoT, the concept of basically connecting any device to the Internet and/or to each other, is quickly gaining an industrial foothold worldwide. The need for IoT experts is growing, but they are hard to find. The IoT lab is TU/e’s answer to this growing demand. Read more…

 

 

 

 

 

LAB VIDEOS TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY IN LABS

Laboratory teaching is costly, because it takes up much time and facilities are expensive. At Wageningen University, an online ‘Lab video’ project was initiated to cope with these challenges. Read more…

 

 

 

 

AGENDA 4TU.CEE

- 15 June ‘17: Workshop ‘Strategies for interdisciplinary teaching and learning’ at TU Delft

 

 

 

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