Meet the Hosts: Our Journeys into Engineering Education (feat. Prof. Lelanie Smith and Dr. Reuben Govender)

In this special episode, our hosts Prof. Lelanie Smith and Dr. Reuben Govender turn the conversation towards themselves, sharing the personal and professional journeys that brought them from mechanical engineering into engineering education. They reflect on teaching, mentorship, curriculum design, and the experiences that shifted their understanding of engineering from a primarily technical discipline towards one centred equally on people and their development. Along the way, they explore the complexities of educating engineers in the South African context, the value of community and collaboration, and the experiences that ultimately led to the IEC and this podcast. It is a conversation about their own ongoing journeys of becoming, as engineers, educators, researchers, and colleagues, and an invitation for others to join the conversation.Links:Innovative Engineering Curriculum (IEC)Meet the IEC teamIEC Podcast SeriesSouth African Society for Engineering Education — SASEEMaster Classes for Engineering EducatorsUCL Integrated Engineering ProgrammeRoyal Academy of Engineering case study on the South African IEC projectVertically Integrated Projects ConsortiumBaja SAE#FeesMustFall: Max Price's book Statues and Storms:  Leading through change#FeesMustFall: Review by Prof Robert Morrell from Prof Adam Habib's Book