Themes

Engineering practice in Higher Education and Curriculum Transformation Programme

• Curriculum co-creation including students' voices
• Students as Practical Engineering Educators
• In-house design and build of practical education equipment in line with fundamental and applied research in the taught curriculum integration
• United Nations Sustainability Development Goals within the curriculum

Student-teacher practical engineering interactions

• Inclusivity and accessibility in the practical curriculum
• Investigating student-teacher practical interactions and emotions both in-person, online and in hybrid settings
• Diversity Equity, and Inclusion DEI in practical education
• Dedicated mentoring circles that ease inclusivity and accessibility
• Student-led societies contributing to practical engineering

Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence in practical engineering higher education

• Developing artificial intelligence AI tutors supporting practical settings 
• Beyond the traditional practical pedagogy with novel digital & hybrid approaches
• Bringing digitalisation into in-person laboratories
• Sharing remote practical labs between universities
• The in-person, the hybrid and the remote
• AI/ChatGPT/ChatBox Tutor Assistants
• Digital tools, remote labs, AI and other resources to combat universities potential financial climate

Problem-, Project- & Scenario-Based Learning

• Breadth and choice of students’ practical hands-on experience and design
• Industrial participation/integration in the practical hands-on experience design
• Aligning in-person and online pre-/post-preparation work
• Student led Problem-, Project- & Scenario-Based Learning

Transformative assessment & practical work feedback

• Authentic assessment and feedback literacy
• Innovation and technical opportunities for assessment and feedback in practical settings
• Peer feedback in practical engineering and peer contribution assessment
• Automating feedback from digitally-mediated interactions
• Measuring the effectiveness of the lab reports skills and assessment
• Large Language Models to improve feedback on lab reports