Tag Archives: CEE

Entering into the “Transition Twenties”

Posted on 02/01/2020 by Aldert Kamp

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 →

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Joint Interdisciplinary Master Project at TU Delft: the idea whose time has come.

Posted on 03/06/2018 by Aldert Kamp

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 →

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Only a consolidated body of knowledge enables professionals to connect the dots

Posted on 30/03/2018 by Aldert Kamp

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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Hands-on learning the new mantra for engineering education at TU Eindhoven

Posted on 07/02/2018 by Aldert Kamp

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 →

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What are the successful professional roles of the future in engineering?

Posted on 12/11/2017 by Aldert Kamp

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 →

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Can Virtual Reality enhance our education?

Posted on 18/10/2017 by Aldert Kamp

“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 →

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If you can’t change your curriculum fast enough with innovation and entrepreneurial skills, try a complementary programme

Posted on 03/09/2017 by Aldert Kamp

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 →

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If you can invent a second wheel, you don’t want to reinvent the wheel, do you?

Posted on 13/05/2017 by Aldert Kamp

“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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Evidence-based innovation in engineering education? This is why and how.

Posted on 10/03/2017 by Aldert Kamp

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 →

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Teaching interdisciplinarity in field-specific disciplinary programmes involves more than just a shift of mind

Posted on 24/02/2017 by Aldert Kamp

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 →

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