Events

We have to rethink our education as our student numbers are continuously growing. Sometimes this asks for disruptive innovations. On the other hand a more efficient organisation, reframing your education and/or activating your students by taking a coaching role can be solutions too. 4TU.CEE invited Kristina Edström and Jakob Kuttenkeuler to inspire lecturers on this topic in interactive workshops and keynotes that will take place on 4-6 October.

Want to learn more about engineering education innovations at the University? Then visit the Innovation Day at TU/e on Wednesday 5 October.

Save the date: Workshop Entrepreneurial Thinking in Engineering Education & Active and Collaborative Learning

　

On 31 March a follow up workshop on several education topics will take place stemming from the successful Tour de Mazur workshop that took place in November last year at the University of Twente. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to get feedback on ideas you might have on implementing changes in your own course or module. Eric Mazur will (digitally) fly in to answer your questions.

HANNOVER MESSE has been the world’s most important industrial tradeshow and largest capital goods exhibition for years. At the fair over 5,000 exhibitors will showcase the latest technologies during 5 days. Many Heads of States, amongst them President Obama, will be present. This year 3TU.CEE and 3TU. High Tech Systems will organise a mini symposium on the topic “Transforming engineering education: challenges and opportunities” on Thursday 28 April from 14:00-16:00 hours. Participants are invited to discuss their ideas on how to update the skills of tomorrow’s engineer in three interactive sessions with representatives from industry, start-ups and knowledge institutes. Topics are: deadly dilemmas, virtual labs and artificial intelligence.

Maarten Vansteenkiste, professor at UGent Belgium, will give an interactive lecture on intrinsic motivation in engineering education at TU/e on 11 March 2016.

On Wednesday 27 January (instead of 3 February) the STEM seminar will take place at Metaforum TU/e. Professor dr. Ghislaine Gueudet, University of Brest, France will speak about 'Transition from secondary to higher education mathematics: selected research results from a French perspective'.

The CDIO regional meeting scheduled on 25-26 January 2016 edition is hosted by 3TU.CEE and takes place at Delft University of Technology.

On 10 and 11 December SURFacademy and TU/e organise a series of workshops about digital testing. Subjects are: digital testing policy, choosing a testing system, testing chain safe assessment and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). 

On 10 December Kristina Edstrom will give a workshop on improving student learning with ‘the Teaching Trick’. The workshop will take place during lunch time, 12.00-13.30 hours in the Multimediapaviljoen at TU Eindhoven. Lecturers from 3TU are welcome to participate. Registration is necessary, please contact: C.brans@tue.nl if you want to join the workshop. Please note that registration ends 7 December and that a maximum of 30 persons can participate. There is no participation fee and lunch will be provided. An abstract of the workshop can be found here.

In November 2015, Eric Mazur, Physics professor from Harvard and Educationalist, will be visiting several universities in the Netherlands. On November 25th, professor Mazur will attend the University of Twente and share his ideas on Education & Assessment with us in a lunch lecture. Also, workshops will be organized where teaching staff from the 3TU can exchange ideas with Eric Mazur and work on further improvement of their education.

At the University of Twente, the Education Day 2015 will take place on Tuesday November 3rd (in the afternoon). The complete programme will be in English. We want to offer a varied programme: inspirational and practical how-to workshops, a key-note and a think tank. Whether you like practical examples you can immediately work with, or you want to have food for thought: we’re aiming to offer it all. Central theme of the Education Day will be the question how to motivate and engage students in there learning process. Save the date (3 Nov) and follow the program on http://www.utwente.nl/onderwijsdag/

Do you want to learn more about the engineering education innovations at our University? Then you should visit the Innovation Day at the TU/e on Thursday 1 October. Get inspired by expert keynote speaker professor Marc de Vries (TU/e alumnus, TU Delft) innovative colleagues and workshops on different topics such as blended learning and peer feedback.

Teachers often have good ideas in their daily work but tend to have limited resources to actively pursue them. So to facilitate teachers to do this, TU/e has organized the Innovation Fund, for four successive years. This year’s theme is ‘Blended Learning & New ways to supervise education’. Teachers from TU/e who have an excellent idea can submit a proposal. A total amount of €250.000* will be available from the TU/e Education Innovation Fund to support the selected calls.