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”;-
Recent Posts
- 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
Looking at the outside world: Never urgent but always important
December 2016 I felt a bit annoyed when I asked my Department of Communication to support me in giving exposure to advancements and innovations in our on-campus aerospace engineering education, but got their advice to start a personal weblog instead. … Continue reading
Posted in Continuous professionalisation
Tagged engineering education, miscellaneous, vision
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How an online ProfEd course can help young or senior engineering professionals and Master students Design their Next Career Move
If you are a frequent follower of my blog, you can’t have missed my lasting message that we are living in a rapidly changing world and that change is accelerating. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of engineering. … Continue reading
What if 200 engineering deans are thrilled by the futurist Industry 4.0, but nobody has the courage to adapt the curriculum?
Mid October 2017 over 200 engineering deans from all over the world convened the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) at Niagara Falls to discuss “issues of importance to engineering education”: the exponential change in engineering and technology, its impact on … Continue reading
How to benefit most from digital co-creation in a rapidly changing world
Embracing the future today Digitalisation, technology and innovation have advanced industries in ways that previously could not have been imagined. The world is in a perpetual state of change and flux and, as a result, the world of engineering faces … Continue reading
What are the successful professional roles of the future in engineering?
In my August 2017 post about professional profiles and engineering role models I discussed the difficulty of their incorporation, as well as the development of a good representative image of engineering practice in our curricula. The real world is even … Continue reading
Russia’s catching up on active forms of engineering education
As the Co-director of the CDIO Initiative I was invited for a Russian national conference 25-26 October at a place that was not directly on my mind: Surgut, city in northwest Siberia on the Ob River, about 400,000 inhabitants and … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum development
Tagged CDIO, engineering education, miscellaneous, teaching
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Can Virtual Reality enhance our education?
“VR/AR will prepare students for Industry 4.0”; “Engineering education cannot keep up with the pace of change in technology”; “We don’t know what the implications are of VR/AR technology on teaching and learning”; “VR/AR is the next frontier in education”; … Continue reading
Posted in Innovative teaching
Tagged CEE, educational change, engineering education, innovative teaching, lab, virtual reality, VR
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How to transform disposable fulltime lecturers into innovative power?
Research universities have put the primary focus on the quality of research already for decades. Scientific staff is encouraged to research and publish. Appraisal cycles and career advancement rest on research achievements, with teaching achievement playing only a marginal role, … Continue reading
If you can’t change your curriculum fast enough with innovation and entrepreneurial skills, try a complementary programme
After the CDIO Annual Conference in June, an icewalk on the Athabasca glacier, a visit to Lake Louise with its vivid turquoise waters, followed by a hike to Lake Agnes in the Banff National Park, and spectacular views of the … Continue reading
Do professional role models or profiles enable students to jump head-first into the world of work, get the job they really want, and achieve results?
Why do so many students begin an academic study in engineering? Often it is the promising good employability! Is n’t it surprising then that many students in academic engineering studies start thinking about their future career at a late stage … Continue reading
Toekomst van hoger technisch onderwijs in de maritieme sector
Stilstaan gevaarlijker dan meebewegen met onzekere verandering Vinden afgestudeerden met een academische opleiding in de maritieme techniek over tien tot vijftien jaar nog steeds gemakkelijk een baan? Of zijn de kennis en vaardigheden die worden aangeleerd in hedendaagse curricula tegen … Continue reading
My “A” in STEAM is all about street theatre
Reading my blogs and reports, you have maybe got the impression that the development in engineering education is the most important think in my universe. I cannot deny this subject has kept me quite busy since 2014 when I started … Continue reading
A workshop about worldwide innovations in engineering education. Be inspired or confused.
What if 86% of the employers in your country would say they have difficulty in recruiting people with the right skills? You think it is unrealistic? It is not. A recent study (2016-2017) about talent shortage by ManpowerGroup shows that … Continue reading
Different ways to include Global Engineering Preparedness and Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning in engineering programmes
In my role of the TU Delft academic liaison for the Global E3 university network I attended the Global E3 Annual Meeting in Bethlehem (US) 22-26 May. This city is home to Bethlehem Steel, famous for its historic huge steel … Continue reading
If you can invent a second wheel, you don’t want to reinvent the wheel, do you?
“The guy who invented the first wheel must have been an idiot. The guy who invented the other three was a genius”. Reinventing wheels This quote by Sid Caesar illustrates that (scientific) discoveries in technology need further development to raise … Continue reading
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Tagged CEE, innovative teaching, teaching
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What trends and developments do 70 engineering deans in Europe care about most?
Deans of engineering programmes face a wide range of rapid developments. Interdisciplinary engineering research and education are gaining momentum. Yet, teachers and researchers are struggling with the boundaries that are created by departments and faculties, and current metrics for performance … Continue reading
Why entrepreneurial behaviour is a must for all young engineers
At some point in their careers, most, if not all engineers, will move to positions of technical or engineering leadership. That ranges from becoming a leader of a project team to a leader of an entire technical enterprise. Or simply taking responsibility … Continue reading
What makes social scientists think engineering students should not learn how to design?
“Can engineers design? Social science easily proves they cannot”. This is the first line of Bauke Steenhuisen’s essay in the independent university magazine Delta of TU Delft March 2017. In his essay he questions design and design education. Bauke is … Continue reading
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Tagged design, engineering education, engineering practice, skills, STEAM
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Evidence-based innovation in engineering education? This is why and how.
What do we learn from trial and error? Innovating curricula is about designing effective learning and teaching environments in continual cycles of educational practice and research. That’s what I have always learned in theory. But I have been curious why … Continue reading
Teaching interdisciplinarity in field-specific disciplinary programmes involves more than just a shift of mind
This second post on interdisciplinary education is about my gain from the National Interdisciplinary Education Conference, organised by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) February 2nd, 2017. At this conference a wide range of Dutch and … Continue reading