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To understand the challenges and gains, and to identify the variables/processes that facilitate/hinder students’ multicultural group work at TU/e, postdoc Cui Ping is researching multicultural student group work in an international classroom.

Are you looking for handy tools or valuable research to improve your teaching? Then visit the renewed 4TU.CEE Innovation map.

The world is changing rapidly. Technology plays a crucial role in this, from IT to surgical robots and from precision medicine to ‘smart’ agriculture. Nobody knows which innovations will be needed to keep solving the world’s increasingly complex challenges. How do you train engineers for this? How do you promote specialisation and expansion, without overburdening both students and faculty? Student Lieke Pullen and an education professor and chair of 4TU.CEE Perry den Brok provide their views on these questions. This interview is part of the 4TU.techtalks series.

Innovators at TU/e gained valuable insights and new project ideas at a workshop that discussed research perspectives on CBL, the ICT-driven engineer and ownership in engineering education.

A paper about experiences during the pandemic in teaching and learning urban design and planning for (post) COVID-19 times.

Co-organisor 4TU.CEE looks back on a successful online SEFI2020 conference. This year's theme was 'Engaging Engineering Education' and all about engaging young people to embark on an engineering career in this rapidly changing society.

The use of peer feedback can increase student ownership and learning. However, peer feedback is not always as successful as we want it to be.

The Joint Interdisciplinary Project in which 151 students work in student teams on company cases has successfully started in the 1st week of September. In this 10 week course TU Delft Master students will work on 31 company cases in the Clusters Aero

As in other universities, the corona transition at TU Eindhoven led to an abrupt and very fundamental change in the form of teaching and student learning. All interaction has shifted to online.

Apart from evaluation studies at our own Technical Universities, 4TU.CEE engages in an international study on engineering education in corona times with university partners from different continents.

“We like to actively engage the TU Delft community and are ready to support teachers who would like to innovate and/or research their education. We welcome interaction on project ideas and invite you to participate in inspiring events to exchange ideas and upgrade your skills and knowledge on topics such as interdisciplinarity, entrepreneurial learning, innovative learning spaces. And last, but not least we will work closely with our 4TU.CEE colleagues in Wageningen, Eindhoven and Enschede to jointly innovate engineering education for tomorrow’s engineer. Our (e-mail) doors are wide open.”

In the 4TU.CEE board, some personnel changes have occurred.

A comment of Renate Klaassen of 4TU.CEE Delft on ‘Disentangling the different layers of interdisciplinarity’ was included in a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication.

The University of Twente has done a successful pilot with new and more extended didactical training for Learning Assistants (LAs): students who are formally involved in other students’ learning processes. Student-assistants have sufficient content expertise but many can improve on didactical skills according to UT students. They requested to spend part of the ‘Kwaliteitsgelden’ on more extended training, which was assigned to them. The new LA trajectory (28 hours, 1 EC) is spread over two quartiles. It focuses on didactical principles and didactical reasoning and prepares LAs for their current tasks as well as for other LA tasks they might get in the future. ’During the pilot we noticed that students really learn to look at education differently, from the perspective of the teacher. That is exactly the effect we wanted to achieve’, says Ineke ten Dam of 4TU.CEE who, together with Marieke van Geel, is responsible for the pilot. The first three LA’s received their certificate from the rector last week.

SEFI2020 was planned to take place at the location of University of Twente campus (20-24 September), but will now be an exciting online event. In the new format there will be lots of inspiring keynotes, orals, posters, workshops and options to meet online. Sufficient technology support will be arranged to make this a good and interactive experience for all. Click here for the draft programme. Conference fees are reduced. You are welcome to register now!