The Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre

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The Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject
Centre

• Carol Arlett, Centre Manager

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The Higher Education Academy

• Formed in May 2004, from a merger of the
  Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher
  Education (ILTHE), the Learning and Teaching
  Support Network (LTSN), and the TQEF National
  Co-ordination Team
• Funded by grants from the four UK funding bodies,
  subscriptions from higher education institutions,
  and grant income for specific initiatives
• Based in York

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What is the Engineering Subject Centre?

• One of 24 subject centres forming the subject
  network of the Higher Education Academy
• Based at Loughborough University
• 10 staff (8 FTE)
• Complemented by 9 Associates
• Funded until July 2009

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How do we work?
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Utilising the Network

• The Centre is well established in the UK
  engineering community
• Strong brokerage role between national bodies and
  engineering academics in higher education

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Networking with

• Engineering HE academic community
• 250 departments at over 100 HE Institutions
  across the UK
• Departmental Contacts gt85 departments at 98 HE
  Institutions
• FE college contacts gt50 now established
• other stakeholders
• professional bodies, international networks,
  other subject centres, students, support staff .

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Communications

• e-bulletin (750 on Jiscmail list)
• news and events via the website
• translate newsletter (1200 on mailing list)

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Website
www.engsc.ac.uk

• Key communications medium
• News and Events
• Activities and Networks
• Educational Resources
• Journal
• About the Centre
• HE in FE
• The Common Room
• Web pages on working with Sector Skills Councils

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Learning and Teaching Resources

• The Centre commissions and publishes new
  resources.
• Accessible through our website
• educational resources held in our own database
• resources to use in teaching with students
• promoting pedagogic research in engineering
  education
• new journal in Engineering Education

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Professional development of teaching staff

• Providing discipline-based opportunities for the
  professional development of staff in HE
• a programme of events across the UK, including
  workshops for new lecturers, and thematic and
  departmental workshops/visits,
• subject-based support for staff and educational
  developers,
• enquiries service
• recognition of excellence in learning and
  teaching activity through teaching award scheme.

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Key Themes

• Assessment and feedback
• e-Learning
• Employability
• Engineering Maths
• Enterprise
• Ethics
• Foundation Degrees
• Internationalisation

• Learning and Teaching Theory
• Personal Development Planning
• Supporting New Academic Staff
• Student Retention and Motivation
• Sustainable Development
• Widening Participation
• Linking Research and Teaching
• Work-Based Learning

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Cognate Subject Centres

• UK Centre for Materials Education (UKCME)
• The Centre for Education in the Built Environment
  (CEBE)
• Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)
• Physical Sciences
• Maths, Stats and OR (MSOR)
• Biosciences
• For details on all subject centres, see
  www.heacademy.ac.uk/