Aldert Kamp
Owner Aldert Kamp Advies;
Director of Education Aerospace Engineering;
Leader 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education;
CDIO Co-director;
Member CESAER “Task Force S&T Education for the 21st Century”;
Chair of the Board of LDE Course “Leadership-in-Education”;-
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- Release of book “Navigating the Landscape of Higher Engineering Education” 19/06/2020
- The third stage of life of SCIAMACHY 2&8 Breadboard model 09/02/2020
- Entering into the “Transition Twenties” 02/01/2020
- Integrated-learning-in-context as a holy grail? 08/07/2019
- A colloquium to influence the global state of engineering education 31/05/2019
- 15 Books that help you become your own futurist in education and work 03/01/2019
- Lifelong learning is exploring and enjoying 23/12/2018
- How the pilot of the Joint Interdisciplinary Master Project fell into place 22/11/2018
- Success in study and career highly depends on grit 01/11/2018
- The magic of an Unconference on Impact-Focused Education 20/08/2018
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Author Archives: Aldert Kamp
Release of book “Navigating the Landscape of Higher Engineering Education”
June 18th 2020 was a date, engraved in my mind since more than half a year. It was supposed to be the day of my farewell party of TU Delft, and I had planned to use that party to launch … Continue reading
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The third stage of life of SCIAMACHY 2&8 Breadboard model
Hundreds of people who entered my office for the first time over the past 10 to 12 years, wondered what the big black and red 1 by 1 m massive looking “engine block” was, protected under a Plexiglas cover. Proudly … Continue reading
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Entering into the “Transition Twenties”
For my blog followers 2019 must have been disappointing, with only three blogs in the past 12 months. I put my available time instead in writing a paper for the CESAER university network “Engineering Education for 21st Century Europe“, and … Continue reading
Integrated-learning-in-context as a holy grail?
After the MIT/Olin Colloquium late April, I took the chance to learn more about the highly praised teaching and learning method at Olin College. Its keywords are integrated learning in context, design thinking and intrinsic motivation. At Olin the students … Continue reading
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A colloquium to influence the global state of engineering education
Late April 2019 an illustrious cohort of 76 creative, passionate, and engaged educators, thought leaders, educational entrepreneurs, directors, administrators, students and change makers from 16 institutions from around the world gathered at MIT and Olin College. Their purpose was to … Continue reading
15 Books that help you become your own futurist in education and work
The beginning of a new year is always a time when planning for the future comes to our minds. Every now and then people ask me which “visionary” books I read to anticipate trends in education and work in science, … Continue reading
Lifelong learning is exploring and enjoying
In my blog “Success in study and career highly depends on grit” I wrote “21st Century skills sound to me as a hollow phrase. Many of these skills have been important since ages!” Lifelong learning is such a skill that … Continue reading
How the pilot of the Joint Interdisciplinary Master Project fell into place
In my June 2018 blog about the Joint Interdisciplinary Project I presented the background and first steps in the development of a 10-week full-time interdisciplinary project for second-year Master students at TU Delft, under the auspices of the 4TU.Centre for … Continue reading
Success in study and career highly depends on grit
September 15, 2018 TU Delft was thrilled by the success of the Human Power Team. This student team won the world speed challenge for women for cycling in the Nevada desert with a speed of 120 km/h. Two weeks later, … Continue reading
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The magic of an Unconference on Impact-Focused Education
Mid July I received a personal invitation to join an “Impact-Focused Education Unconference” at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. I was skeptic about the unconference with its wordings of “unplanning” and “unorganisation”, but decided to discover new pathways toward innovative best … Continue reading
Can staff competencies sufficiently be enhanced through Kaizen?
Today’s higher engineering education faces an existential crisis. The changing world of work, the blurring of boundaries between disciplines and between industry and academic boundaries, the rise of continuous learning, the evolving globalisation and digital behaviour, and the increasing international … Continue reading
Joint Interdisciplinary Master Project at TU Delft: the idea whose time has come.
Thursday 24 May, Buccaneer Delft, the 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education, TU Delft staff, students, and industries organised the kick-off of the so-called Joint Interdisciplinary Project (JIP) pilot for about 30 Master engineering students. The location was special: the Buccaneer, a … Continue reading
Six driving forces that will fuel change in TU Delft education 2018-2024
What kind of university TU Delft strives to be? What changes does TU Delft foresee in its engineering education for the next six years? In January 2018 TU Delft published its updated TU Delft Vision on Education 2018-2024 and Strategic … Continue reading
Will these conspicuous statements in TU Delft’s Vision on Education 2018-2024 fuel any change?
Many factors call universities to make choices on how to adapt their education: the accelerating pace of technological change, the globalisation, the accelerating digitalisation of economy and social interaction, the growth in talent mobility, the student’s interest to go well … Continue reading
Only a consolidated body of knowledge enables professionals to connect the dots
Post written by Birgit Pepin, 4TU.CEE leader of TU Eindhoven “To navigate through such uncertainty, students will need to develop curiosity, imagination, resilience and self-regulation; they will need to respect and appreciate the ideas, perspectives and values of others; and … Continue reading
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Teaching technology innovation and Reframing academic careers with an educational accent
My one but previous post was about the confluence of talent development, discovery and innovation at Skoltech, using the CDIO framework. At that same gathering the 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education took the opportunity to run workshops about topics that really … Continue reading
No skating fun without an agile mindset and a bit of common sense
Global warming reduces the chance of long lasting cold periods, the Dutch national weather service KNMI says on its website. Weeks of wintertime in the Netherlands have cut down to days, if not hours. Over the past 100 years, the … Continue reading
Following the CDIO framework Skoltech develops into a powerhouse for innovation and talent development
Visiting a massive campus building under construction in an extensive technology park which is under development at the same time. Understanding the impact of CDIO thinking on the development of Skoltech. Discussing a career development framework that has an accent … Continue reading
Hands-on learning the new mantra for engineering education at TU Eindhoven
February 1st, the day after the second National Interdisciplinary Education Conference (NIEC 2018), the Eindhoven team of the 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education organised the Education Innovation Day at TU Eindhoven (TU/e). I got the invitation to run two workshops on … Continue reading
This is what we can do to break the gender stereotype in hardcore engineering
Women spend more time than men on social integration, score higher in teamwork and empathy, and are more adaptive to change. Does not this make women the preferred engineers of the future? And if so, what can we do to … Continue reading
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