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European engineering educators
by SEFI European society for engineering education
The European engineering educators podcast from SEFI brings you key insights into the minds of university researchers and practitioners who have built international reputations in the field of engineering education with knowledge and advice to share. Find out from Europe's largest network of engineering educators how engineering is evolving to address the challenges of the modern world, and develop your expertise. Your hosts are Professor Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Dr Natalie Wint (University College London). We want to bring the frontiers of engineering education to you, regardless of your speciality, in an easy to digest format- you don't have to be an education researcher to benefit. You might be an academic teaching engineering or a related subject, an engineer who wants to keep up with the latest insights, some other professional in education, or even a student! Based in Brussels, SEFI is the European society for engineering educati
Episodes
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#52 Research Spotlight Andrew Valentine Enhancing the Measurement of Employability in Engineering, Insights from a Systematic Literature Review.
What is meant by employability? How do we know if students’ employability increases over the course of an engineering degree? This episode features Andrew Valentine (University of Melbourne). We talk about his paper published within the European Journal of Engineering Education, entitled…
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#51 The SEFI Handbook on Transferable Competencies and Skills
In every episode of the SEFI podcast, several transferable skills are mentioned, this highlighting their importance in engineering education and to the engineering profession more widely. In this episode, we speak with Gillian Saunders-Smits from TU Delft about her work as Editor-in-Chief of the...
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#50 Season 7 Highlights
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#49 Harry Day, Sarah Plumb, Matteo De Benedetti, Lucy Farquhar from Sheffield on The Graduate Teaching Assistant Experience
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are an essential part of engineering education, particularly as student numbers continue to grow. However, it’s not often that we stop to consider what teaching is like from their perspective and think about how we can support them as developing educators whose...
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#48 Publication Spotlight Sandra Cruz Moreno SEFI 2025 Best Research Paper: Evolving Gender Dynamics in Teamwork Experiences among Female Engineering Students in PBL Settings
Female students have long been underrepresented in engineering. However, the increasing use of project- and problem-based learning (PBL) approaches raises new questions regarding how power dynamics shape their lived experiences during collaborative teamwork. This episode features Sandra Ireri…
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#47 Johanna Lonngren from Umeå Sweden on emotions to solve wicked problems
Engineering students are increasingly expected to work towards solving ‘wicked’ problems. Tacking such complexity can invoke a range of emotions and educators are increasingly required to support students in situations when they are confronted with uncertainty and value conflicts. In this episode...
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#46 Publication Spotlight: Ruth Fisher and Divya Jayakumar from USNW Australia on Peer Reviews
Feedback and peer review is a key part of university life for both educators and students. Despite this, there are still gaps in our understanding how to best provide and make use of feedback. This episode features Ruth Fisher and Divya Naya, both from the University of New South Wales. We talk...
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#45 Karin Jensen and Faith Gacheru from U-M USA on engineering students mental health
Concerns for student mental health have grown over the last decade, particularly within engineering disciplines, which are often associated with heavy workloads and difficult assessment. There is subsequently an increasing need to understand the stressors that impact engineering students, and the...
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#44 Publication Spotlight Anup Shrestha SEFI 2025 Best Student Paper: Engineering Student Preparedness in Disaster-Prone Nepal
Despite the increasing magnitude and frequency of disasters, it remains unclear whether civil engineers possess the ability to understand disaster risk and design resilient infrastructures. This episode features Anup Shrestha from Water and Development Research Group, School of Engineering, Aalto...
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#43 Anette Kolmos and Henrik Worm Routhe from Aalborg on Interdisciplinary PBL
The rising complexity of modern societal challenges has intensified interest in interdisciplinary engineering education. In this episode we speak to Professor Anette Kolmos (Professor in Engineering Education and PBL) and Dr Henrik Worm Routhe (Postdoctoral Researcher) from Aalborg University…
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#42 Publication Spotlight: Maya Menon and Marie Paretti on Instructor motivation for sustainable development
Although recognised as a priority for engineering education, implementation of Sustainable Development (SD) in curricula has been mixed and limited. This episode features Marie Paretti from Virginia Tech and Maya Menon from the EdTech startup NextWork. We talk about a paper published in the...
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#41 Roger V Gonzalez from UTEP USA on Adapting Engineering Education
Engineering is a global profession, with various efforts focusing on the globalisation of engineering practice. However, there are many differences between engineering education systems in different contexts. In this episode we discuss what we can learn by comparing engineering education across...
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#40 Publication Spotlight: Madeline Polmear on Hispanic Women's Engagement
This is our first episode which takes the new format which we will be released at intervals along with our normal longer length shows. In these episodes we will be bringing you up to date with some of the latest work within engineering education by speaking with authors of recent publications.…
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#39 BEST: Katrijn Vandenborne and Nadica Koloska from The Board of European Students of Technology
We can't really talk about engineering education without talking about engineering students. But in this episode we talk to them! We attempt to bridge the gap between engineering educators and students by directly asking them what they think. In so doing, we welcome Katrijn Vandenborne (current...
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#38 Season 6 highlights and podcast update
Welcome to the highlights episode for season 6! We have reached the end of season 6 and 3+ years of podcasting. Neil and Natalie would like to thank all listeners and guests for their continued support in making the podcast a valuable source of information regarding contemporary topics in...
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#37 Mariana Velho from CERN Switzerland on Public Engagement
Attracting students to study engineering, and helping society understand what engineers do, are ongoing challenges within engineering education. In this episode we spoke to Mariana Velho, Communication, Education and Outreach Manager for CERN openlab. Mariana draws upon her background in...
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#36 Kurt Coppens from KUL Belgium on Feedback Literacy
Feedback is a somewhat perennial topic within higher education (HE), with increasing emphasis on students as independent learners who should engage as active participants to fulfil the role of a self-regulated learner. In this episode we speak to Dr. Kurt Coppens who works within the ETHER...
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#35 Siara Isaac and Joelyn de Lima from EPFL Switzerland on 3T Play Transversal Skills
There continues to be a growing focus on the need for engineering students to develop transversal skills. There are a number of barriers which can stifle efforts in teaching such skills and approaches increasingly focus on developing engineering educators’ ability to integrate a diverse set of...
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#34 Robyn Mae Paul and Kari Zacharias from Canada on The Iron Ring Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
Welcome to the first episode of season 6 of the podcast! The Archimedean Oath, first developed in 1990 and inspired by the Hippocratic Oath, was promoted as a reflection tool during SEFI 2024. Historically, the oath was read and signed at the end of master’s level study and allowed engineers to...
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#33 Season 5 Highlights and podcast update
We have reached the end of the fifth season! Neil and Natalie would like to thank all listeners and guests for their continued support in making the podcast a valuable source of information regarding contemporary topics in engineering education. Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London)…
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#32 Jorge Membrillo-Hernández from ITESM Mexico on Challenge Based Learning
Welcome back to the podcast! Engineering education is home to many different learning approaches including problem, project, and challenge-based learning, as well as studio learning. At the same time, technological advances mean that there is an increasing focus on virtual learning, and...
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#31 Esther Matemba & Lelanie Smith on African Engineering Education
Welcome back to the podcast! The isolation felt by engineering educators who are passionate about teaching and learning, but who reside in technically focused engineering departments, is widely reported. The case is no different in Africa, where few institutions recognise educational research as…
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#30 Thies Johannsen from TUB Germany on Transdisciplinary
Welcome back to the podcast! As the problems that society faces become more complex there is increasing emphasis on the need for engineers to work across disciplines, with a focus on taking interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to engineering education. However, there can be a lack…
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#29 Ann-Kristin Winkens from RWTH Germany on Resilience
Welcome back to the podcast! Discussion around the need for engineers to navigate increasingly complex and uncertain challenges (e.g., climate change, digitalisation) features heavily within engineering education research and leads to questions pertaining to the abilities of engineering…
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#28 Scott Daniel, Sasha Nikolic & Rezwanul Haque from AAEE Australia on Generative AI
Welcome back to the podcast! Since the start of 2023, Chat GPT, and the use of generative AI (Gen-AI) more generally, has been the topic of much discussion, advice and debate within engineering education worldwide. Despite a proliferation of guidance, awareness raising and information, there has...
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#27 Inês Direito and Jan Van Maele on Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Welcome back to the podcast! Terms such as inclusion, diversity, equity, and equality, have long featured in discussions relating to engineering education, and are often used interchangeably. Their meaning both evolve over time and vary significantly across context. Such changes and variation…
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#26 Season 4 Highlights and podcast update
Hope you are having a great Summer ... We originally conceived the podcast as a project which would run for two years with monthly episodes. As we approach its second anniversary, Neil and Natalie would like to thank everyone listeners and guests for their support in making it into a valuable...
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#25 Tim Drysdale from UoE Scotland on Non-traditional practical work
Welcome back to the fourth episode of this fourth season of the SEFI podcast! In this first episode we talk to Professor Tim Drysdale, Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Tim is responsible for developing an entirely new...
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#24 Diana Martin from UCL (UK) on Intercultural ethics
Welcome back to the third episode of this fourth season of the SEFI podcast! In this first episode we talk to Dr. Diana Martin, a Senior Research Fellow within the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) at University College London (UCL). Diana applies knowledge obtained during her study of both...
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#23 Roger Hadgraft from UTS Australia on Disruption
Welcome back to the fourth season of the SEFI podcast! In the second episode we talk to Professor Roger Hadgraft, Director of Educational Innovation and Research in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Roger draws upon more than 30...
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#22 Sarah Jayne Hitt from EPC UK on Ethics Toolkit
Welcome back to the fourth season of the SEFI podcast! In this first episode we talk to Professor Sarah Jayne Hitt, who, amongst her many roles, project manages the Engineering Professors Council or EPC’s Ethics Toolkit, a resource designed to help engineering educators embed ethics in teaching....
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#21 Season 3 Highlights
We recognize that you might not have time to listen to all the episodes, and/or would appreciate a preview or recap and so this is a special episode to bring the 3rd season of the SEFI podcast to a close. This season focused on changes in European engineering education and engineering education...
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#20 Xavier Fouger from Dassault Systèmes France on Trends
Welcome to the final episode of this special season of the SEFI podcast which marks the 50th anniversary of SEFI and in which we discuss changes to engineering education and engineering education research (EER) occurring in Europe over the last few decades. In this episode we talk to SEFI Fellow,...
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#19 Kristina Edström from KTH Sweden on Publishing
Welcome to the penultimate episode of this special season of the SEFI podcast which marks the 50th anniversary of SEFI and in which we discuss changes to engineering education and engineering education research (EER) occurring in Europe over the last few decades. In this episode we talk to…
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#18 Jacqueline El-Sayed from ASEE USA on Growth
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades In this episode we are seeking inspiration from across the pond. We speak to Jacqueline El-Sayed the...
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#17 Bill Williams from IST Portugal on Research
Welcome to the third episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades In this episode we speak to Bill Williams who serves as an associate editor of the European Journal of...
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#16 José Carlos Quadrado from ISEL Portugal on recognition
Welcome to the second episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades In this episode we speak to Professor José Carlos Quadrado from The Lisbon Higher Institute of...
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#15 Mike Murphy from TU-Dublin Ireland on transformation
Welcome to the first episode of Season 3 of the SEFI podcast! During this season we will discuss changes in European engineering education and engineering education research over the last few decades and its release coincides with SEFI 2023 being hosted by TU Dublin in Ireland. In this episode we...
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#14 Season 2 highlights
A special 22.22 minute episode for you to bring the 2nd season of the SEFI podcast to a close going into our 2nd year! We recognise that you might not have time to listen to all the episodes, and/or would appreciate a preview or recap. Join Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Natalie Wint...
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#13 Lynn Van den Broeck from KUL Belgium on lifelong learning
Welcome to the final episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! We focus on lifelong learning (LLL), something which we hope this podcast supports! We speak to Dr Lynn Van den Broeck, a postdoctoral researcher from the Engineering Technology Education Research Group (ETHER) in KU Leuven, who has…
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#12 Gillian Saunders-Smits from TUD Netherlands on communication skills
Welcome to the penultimate episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! In this episode we focus on the development of communication skills, primarily one that you, as the audience of this podcast, will be familiar with - active listening. We talk to Dr. Gillian Saunders-Smits, an Associate Professor...
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#11 Chris Smith from GCU Scotland on work-based learning
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! This episode follows on from our last episode with Sofie Craps which focused on professional identity, to discuss other ways in which we can prepare students for the workplace. In this episode we talk to Dr. Christopher Smith from...
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#10 Sofie Craps from KUL Belgium on identity
Welcome to the third episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! In this episode we will discuss the PREFER project, which involved the development of a professional roles model with Dr Sofie Craps, a member of the Study Guidance Research Group of the Leuven Engineering & Science Education Centre...
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#9 Calvin Rans from TUD Netherlands on blended learning
Welcome to the second episode of Season 2 of the SEFI podcast! In this episode we talk to an innovator of blended learning, Dr Calvin Rans, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, where he manages two professional recording studios and supports educators in...
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#8 Madeline Ruth Polmear from VUB Belgium on leadership
Welcome to Season 2 of the Sefi podcast! In this episode we discuss how leadership is conceptualised within engineering education with Dr Madeline Polmear, a Marie-Curie, EUTOPIA Science & Innovation COFUND Fellow within the Law Science Technology and Society Research Group at Vrije Universiteit...
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#7 Natalie and Neil discuss season 1 highlights
A special episode for you to bring Season 1 of the sefi podcast to a close! We recognise that you might not have time to listen to all the episodes, and/or would appreciate a preview or recap. Join Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Natalie Wint (University College London) as they share…
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#6 Gary Wood from NMITE discusses students as partners
In this episode, our guest is Professor Gary Wood, Academic Director of NMITE where he leads delivery and development of new approaches to engineering education through challenge-led, industry-linked programmes. He is a National Teaching Fellow, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and...
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#5 Nicola Sochacka from UGA discusses empathy
Happy 2023! We start the year with an incredible discussion on the very frontiers of engineering education - teaching empathy - with Dr Nicola Sochacka from the University of Georgia. Nicola spent the last decade researching this topic and has created some brilliant resources we can all use to...
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#4 Jan van der Veen from TUE discusses interdisciplinary
What is interdisciplinary engineering education, how difficult is it to teach, and why is it considered an integral part of modern engineering studies? We discussed this with Professor Jan van der Veen, who chairs the Eindhoven School of Education at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where he...
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#3 Emanuela Tilley from UCL discusses teamwork
In this episode, our guest is Professor Emanuela Tilley, who is currently a Board Director at SEFI and Director of the Integrated Engineering Programme, a teaching framework embedded in the learning experiences of undergraduate students across Engineering at University College London. Emanuela’s...
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The European engineering educators podcast from SEFI brings you key insights into the minds of university researchers and practitioners who have built international reputations in the field of engineering education with knowledge and advice to share. Find out from Europe's largest network of engineering educators how engineering is evolving to address the challenges of the modern world, and develop your expertise.
Your hosts are Professor Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Dr Natalie Wint (University College London).
We want to bring the frontiers of engineering education to you, regardless of your speciality, in an easy to digest format- you don't have to be an education researcher to benefit. You might be an academic teaching engineering or a related subject, an engineer who wants to keep up with the latest insights, some other professional in education, or even a student!
Based in Brussels, SEFI is the European society for engineering educati
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