1420 peter engineering_learning
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The document discusses issues with engineering education in Hong Kong and potential solutions. Engineering programs are seeing a drop in local students, and what is taught in schools does not always match the needs of industry. University teaching can be too theoretical, while school experiences are often not experiential learning. The Sciences of Learning Research Team allows bringing together perspectives from engineering and education to address these issues through approaches like inquiry-based and experiential learning, assessing collaboration, and understanding career choice and development.
1420 peter engineering_learning
- 1. Engineering Education: Learning Engineering in Higher Education and Schools Professor Peter Kutnick (Education), Dr Rosanna Chan (Education), Dr Alfred Yu (Engineering)
- 2. Initial Problems Engineering: Need for increased number of engineers at technical and higher education levels Engineering: Hong Kong drop-off in number of local Engineering students in HE School and Engineering: What is being taught does not match with current needs of society School and Engineering: Teacher expectation clash with student expectation Engineering industry: Good will but ‘hit and miss’ initiatives in schools
- 3. Engineering approaches to resolving the problem Often led by University-based Engineering Professors Know what and who has succeeded in Engineering but not what stimulated that interest Tendency to focus on (school) students who have already decided to become Engineers (leakage control) At school level, these students are (at least) in 5 th or 6 th form At university level, overly didactic teaching methods, emphasising rote learning, etc.
- 4. School-based approaches to resolving the problem Realisation of need to increase students with STeM interests Student career aspiration and course choice takes place before formal engineering courses are offered Engineering experiences in schools likely to be non-pedagogically planned (non-experiential learning) and often taking place in competitive and exclusive student groups We do acknowledge, though, that is is much good will from educators, industry and HE in the provision of Engineering Education opportunities
- 5. The Role of the SRT: Sciences of Learning Has allowed the opportunity to bring together current thinking and research from Engineering and Educational perspectives Engineering: Knowledge of Engineering curriculum Applications of Engineering knowledge Teamwork, Efficacy, Entrepeneurship and Professionalism Education: Pedagogy, experiential learning, etc. Career development and identity Formal knowledge versus problem-based learning
- 6. Learning Engineering in Higher Education Assessment for engineering learning: Assessing Student Collaboration and Learning in Medical Engineering from the Perspectives of Structures, Behaviours, and Functions Design, development, and implementation of interdisciplinary learning in Engineering: HKU Common Core - Technologies Designed for the Developing World Learning Sciences and Engineering Education: Inquiry-based learning: Engineering Undergraduates Learning Computer System Modeling in a Constructivist Learning Environment Expertise in Engineering Learning: Examining Engineering Students' Collaborative Inquiry of Computer Systems
- 7. Learning Engineering in Higher Education Assessment for engineering learning Structure-behavior-function model for assessing engineering student collaborative learning (Hierarchal-Level model analysis) Results presented at AERA and International Conference on Learning Sciences
- 8. Learning Engineering in Higher Education Design, development, and implementation of interdisciplinary learning in HKU Common Core - Technologies Designed for the Developing World
- 9. Learning Engineering in Higher Education International Award-Winning Teaching Pedagogy 2010 IEEE Real-World Engineering Project Topic: Biomedical instrumentation Project aim: Develop an ECG amplifier circuit from scratch Inquiry-based learning + hands-on design
- 10. Learning Engineering in Schools Understanding the use and application of engineering education in secondary schools Large-scale questionnaire study of student involvement and perception of engineering including aspects of teamwork, entrepreneurship, courses undertaken and social supports Interviews with teachers Comparisons between engineering intensive v non-intensive schools Compare with UK, especially London Engineering Project Schools Potential comparison to China – introduction of global and cultural identities
- 11. Implications for Engineering Education (via the SRT) Pedagogies and Student Learning Inquiry Experiential Social Context of Engineering Learning Assessment Understanding career choice and development Engineering within cultural contexts