Call for Conference Papers (ICL & IGIP)

Call for Papers

24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2021)

50th IGIP International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy

„Mobility for Smart Cities and Regional Development – Challenges for Higher Education”

TU Dresden und HTW, Dresden, Germany, 22-24 September 2021

Overview

Intelligent mobility is a key component of growth in modern cities and rural areas, when networking and automating traffic and transportation systems with high efficiency and great comfort.

This interdisciplinary conference aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in Interactive Collaborative Learning and Engineering Pedagogy.

www.icl-conference.org/

Partner Event

2021 GEDC Industry Forum, organized by Petrus Communications and the Global Engineering Deans Council from 20-23 September 2021.

www.gedc-industryforum.com/

Important Deadlines & Presentation Formats

Although we hope that our colleagues and friends again can come in person to our conference, we plan the event as a hybrid one. So, everybody who can’t travel to Dresden will be able to take part in the conference online too, as presenter or participant.

26 Mar 2021 Submission of: (i) structured abstracts (for full (2 pages) and short papers (1 page)) for the main conference (ii) special session proposals
22 April 2021 Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the main conference.

Special Sessions notification and announcement
01 Jun 2021      Submission of complete papers for special sessions and the main conference, Work in Progress Papers, Workshop proposals
25 Jun 2021 Notification of acceptance
23 Jul 2021 Author registration deadline and Camera-ready due
22 Sep 2021 Conference  opening

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published as ICL 2021 Proceedings in the Springer series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”. Books of this series are indexed with ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and SpringerLink.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Academia-Industry partnerships
  • Adaptive and intuitive environments
  • Collaborative learning
  • Computer aided language learning (CALL)
  • Educational virtual environments
  • Engineering education in individual transport sectors
  • Engineering education in public mobility transport
  • Engineering Pedagogy Education
  • Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education (EiEE)
  • Ethics and Engineering Education
  • Evaluation and outcomes assessment
  • Flipped classrooms
  • Games in Engineering Education (GinEE)
  • Impacts of globalization
  • Learning culture & diversity
  • Lifelong learning
  • Mobile learning applications
  • New learning models and applications
  • Pilot projects / products / applications
  • Platforms and authoring tools
  • Project based learning
  • Public policy in engineering education
  • Real world experiences
  • Remote and virtual laboratories
  • Research in Engineering Pedagogy
  • Semantic metadata for e-learning
  • Teaching best practices
  • Technical Teacher Training (TTT)
  • Virtual and Augmented learning (VAL)
  • Virtual mobility and platforms
  • Women in engineering careers

Organizers

Technical Co-sponsors

Contact

info@icl-conference.org

www.icl-conference.org/

Decolonization of the curriculum – what does it mean for you? Today 2 March at 12:30

Live Lounge is today 2 March at 12:30 (British time)

Decolonization of the curriculum – what does it mean for you?

Have you been following the decolonization of the curriculum discussion? And how have you been able to make adjustments to capture the context and history of engineering? One of the challenges is that the importance, in a Times Higher Ed survey, was ranked as more important by non-white respondents (53%) than white respondents (40%). Can we level the importance?
This is the kind of discussion we have on the Live Lounge Lunch session – a forum for learning and sharing insights. A free hour to connect and chat Sign up here for the Zoom link  

Feel free to pass along to colleagues – we set the agenda by who is present.

As usual, our monthly round-up brings some tips, insights, and practical steps.

Good wishes for some sunshine and happiness

Jan and Helen

Call for Chapters: Training Engineering Students for Modern Technological Advancement

https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5172

Editors

Anabela Alves, University of Minho, Portugal
Natascha van Hattum-Janssen, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: April 13, 2021
Full Chapters Due: June 26, 2021
Submission Date: June 26, 2021

Introduction

Engineers are indispensable in solving the world’s challenges, especially those related to sustainable development goals and unexpected events, as related to pandemic situations and/or climate changes among other potential catastrophes. Engineering education continues to be the crucial preparation for the next generation of engineers, while engineering practices rapidly evolve pressured by technological advancements. Engineering schools are integrated into large and rigid Higher Education Institutions (HEI) that are not known for their agility. Nevertheless, engineering teachers must have the agility to go beyond HEI structures and boundaries and close the gap between the needs of the professional practice and engineering education. Many engineering teachers are highly motivated to prepare engineering students for the quick change needed and technological, social, and environmental evolution.

Objective

This book looks at the role of engineering teachers in preparing the next generation of engineers. It presents perspectives on and active learning methods for engineering education for a future generation of engineers. It will provide engineering educators with examples of engineering education practices that could be followed, including the educational underpinnings. It contains practices focused on learning how to learn that enable students to be life-long learners. As such, it contributes to bypass the compartmentalized way of course organization so typical in many HEI and prepares students for more lean and agile engineering education. The book looks at the role of the teacher, especially the engineering teacher who does not necessarily have an educational background or is a researcher in the field of active learning, with best practices in engineering education. It intends to contribute with exploratory research, case studies, action-research projects, reviews, empirical cases that present and discuss active learning methodologies, hands-on activities, serious games, learning factories, and pedagogical labs among other approaches. Those are considered suitable approaches to train engineering students in onsite or online environments, in academia, or in an industrial environment. Such approaches are fundamental to train the students for modern technological advancement because they promote an environment where students can “learn by doing”.

 

Target Audience

Engineering schools, engineering teachers, educational support staff for engineering education, educational engineering researchers, engineering policy advisors, educators in general, engineering students, and engineering professionals.

Recommended Topics

  • Engineering Education; • Competencies; • Professional development for engineering teachers; • Active and Experiential learning; • Society needs and technological developments; • Industry-university partnerships; • e-learning/Online environment; • Global unexpected events; • Sustainable education; • Ethics; • Lean Education; • Complexity; • Serious games; • Learning factories.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 13, 2021, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by April 27, 2021 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 26, 2021, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Training Engineering Students for Modern Technological Advancement. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.

 

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Do you teach engineering at a polytechnic?

TU Dublin is hosting the Polytechnic Summit 2021 on 1st – 4th June (which was postponed from June 2020). Many of the themes will be of interest to engineering education researchers. 
This will be a virtual, online summit. For further details & abstract submission please visit:
Should any further information be required please email: 

Workshop on Inclusivity in EER

Inclusivity in Engineering Education & Engineering Education Research? A Misnomer or Mismatch of Expectations?

The UK and Ireland Engineering Education Research Network are pleased to invite you to our next Roundtable Discussion: Inclusion in Engineering Education – The Role of EER. 

The Event will take place on MS Teams on 11th March 2021, from 1100-1300.  

Grounded in research conducted by the presenters, a number of key variables will be considered in the context of Engineering Education and EER including social class, mental health, gender and ethnicity.  Each conversation will start with a 5 minute presentation and will raise a number of questions for discussion. 

SCHEDULE

1100: Welcome 

1105: Conversation 1- Jane Andrews & Robin Clark: Mental Health & Attrition in Engineering

1125: Conversation 2: Anne Nortcliffe: Expanding the recruitment pool – WP in action

1145: Conversation 3: Roger Penlington: Extending WP into the Research Community

1205: General Discussion 

1220: Future Network Research Project – An exchange of ideas

1230-1300: Post Event Informal Networking and virtual coffee

FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE …  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusivity-diversity-in-engineering-education-eer-tickets-139940133707

PostDoc position at TU Dublin

Technological University Dublin is currently seeking applications for position of Postdoc/Senior Postdoc to work on an EU funded research project called SellSTEM 
Worth €4M under Marie Curie actions, SellSTEM will recruit 15 PhD students across 10 universities in Europe to examine ways to make STEM education and careers more attractive to young people and girls in particular by increasing spatial ability levels.  For details please visit

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/602814

Closing date is March 1, 2021.
I would be most grateful if you could forward this to anyone you think may be interested in applying.
Regards,  Gavin Duffy

Job Vacancy at WMG, University of Warwick 

Just a brief reminder that we currently have a vacancy for a Senior Teaching Fellow (Study, Professional & Analytical Skills) here at WMG. Those colleagues with an interest in EER are particularly encouraged to apply as we have recently set up a new education research group. The deadline for the job is 7/2/21. Please click the link  for more details or if you’d like a quick chat let me know SPA STF WMG 

Best Wishes

Jane

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Dr Jane Andrews
Study, Professional & Analytical Skills Lead | WMG | University of Warwick

jane.andrews@warwick.ac.uk | 

Marie Curie fellowships in Smart Manufacturing

This intriguing fellowship call is from a research program manager within CONFIRM Centre, a world leading SFI Research Centre in the area of Smart Manufacturing (https://confirm.ie/). It’s not EER research, but since it involves social science aspects (specifically EDI inclusivity), I thought the RREN community might have interest. 

I am writing to share news of an exciting opportunity and the offering of a limited number of prestigious MSCA 24-month research training fellowships with CONFIRM Centre in the Republic of Ireland.

CONFIRM Centre and SMART 4.0 are dedicated to the creation of an empowered, diverse and inclusive workforce which strives for advancements in STEM innovation and equality of opportunity, agnostic of gender or circumstances.  We are seeking applications from suitably qualified postdoctoral (particularly female) researchers, with an interest in the following fields: Data Analytics – AI – Predictive Modelling – Decision Analytics – Product & Process Control – Enterprise Modelling & Simulation – Software systems – HCI – Security & Integration – Networked Systems & IoT – Sensors – Robotics & Control – Materials Processing

Call 3 is now accepting applications and the deadline is 30thApril 2021; successful applicants are expected to be announced in early July 2021.  I attach a flyer with more information on the offering. 

For further information, please visit our website https://smart.confirm.ie/ – our Expressions of Interest portal is now live!

I would appreciate if you could please assist me in sharing this prestigious opportunity with your community.

 

Kind regards,

Susan

Dr. Susan Daly BSc PhD CSM

Research Program Manager – SMART 4.0 

Call for Special Issue “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in STEM for a Sustainable Future”

Friends of REEN have asked us to let our network know about their Special Focus issue on sustainability, diversity, and STEM. 

Please see their call for submissions, which we have pasted below.

Dear colleague,

We are happy to announce the possibility to contribute to a Special Issue “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in STEM for a Sustainable Future”, edited by Sustainability, an open access journal by MDPI.
There is evidence that many key performance indicators of academic and non-academic organizations related to the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are strongly determined by the diversity of the workforce in these organisations.  This points to a need to ensure that increasing diversity becomes a key goal for both STEM educators and STEM industry. Evidence suggests that the number of women resigning from technological job positions remains unacceptably high. For example, in western countries, only 20% or less of graduating engineers are female, and often fewer than 10% are part of the engineering workforce.  To increase diversity, equality, and inclusion in STEM education, many different approaches can be implemented at different levels and to different target groups.
This Special Issue aims to address research mainly related to:

  • Theoretical insight into the reasons for this imbalance;
  • Empirical evidence, experimental approaches, and best practices of recruitment and retention in STEM education;
  • Ideas and policy to support gender balance careers in a STEM context.

You can find practical information at the link
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/equality_diversity_inclusion_STEM
Author BenefitsOpen Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions. Some benefits for articles rated best by the Editorial Board and the Editorial Office can be partially discounted.

Anita Tabacco, Politecnico di Torino (anita.tabacco@polito.it)
Gavin Duffy, Technological University Dublin (gavin.duffy@tudublin.ie)
Alicia García-Holgado, University of Salamanca (aliciagh@usal.es)
Rachel Riedner, The George Washington University (rach@gwu.edu)

Call for Australasia representative (1 position)

Download a PDF of the call below here.

Dear engineering education research colleagues, 

On behalf of the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) Governing Board, I would like to announce that we are seeking nominations to fill one board position that has recently opened, representing Australasia (1 position), (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, Indonesia, the Philippines). This post is intended to fill an existing appointment term that runs until the end of 2022, at which time the individual may seek re-election. We are hoping to fill this position by the start of March 2021.

The Governing Board is responsible for implementing the mission and goals of REEN by providing strategic direction, continuity, and overall leadership. The main commitment is a monthly 1-hour meeting held online (typically on the first Wednesday of each month at 12 noon British Standard Time), and members are asked also to provide a bit of time between monthly meetings for project work such as: supporting the symposium (e.g., reviewing abstracts and papers), development of special focus journal issues, or serving on project committees. Specifically, this new appointee will be asked to serve as the liaison between the REEN Board and the organizational committee for the upcoming Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES) to be held in (or virtually, from) Perth December 5-8, 2021.

Interested individuals should submit a candidate’s statement for an internal election to be held in February 2021. If you are interested in being a REEN governing board member from this region, please send the following information as a single .docx or .doc file to Shannon Chance (s.chance@ucl.ac.uk) – Chair of the REEN Governing Board, by Thursday, 18 February 2021:

  1. Motivation statement — 200 words about your involvement in Engineering Education Research (EER) and REEN, describing why you are interested in being on the REEN Governing board.
  2. CV — 200 words highlighting activity and accomplishments in EER, to illustrate what experience, expertise, and contributions you will bring.

Board members must be active in EER; it is preferred that applicants have previously participated in a REES conference and required that they intend to participate in upcoming symposia.

Applications will be evaluated based on the five criteria elaborated below. Note that applicants do not need to have experience in every area to apply!

Exposure and participation in EER 

  • Track record of conference papers and/or journal articles in EER outlets
  • Engagement in EER activities
  • Participation in past/future REES events
  • Peer recognition

Networking and collaboration

  • Networking/organizing to support engineering education research nationally (and ideally, internationally) – Promoting and growing the field
  • Experience organizing conferences, running journals, and/or building national engineering education societies
  • Building networks and supporting community at an institutional, national or regional level

Capacity building

  • Commitment to support others learning, fostering relationships, and mentoring others
  • Supervision of EER research work 

Experience / skills

  • Peer review, particular in engineering education journals and conferences
  • Conference organizing
  • Special issue organizing/editing
  • General organizational/board type of work –e.g. committees, governance

Motivation for wanting to join REEN

  • Does the motivation align with the REEN strategy / vision and the needs of the board?
  • Does the motivation bring out new ideas / initiatives that could be beneficial to add to current REEN activities?

Interviews will be held with shortlisted participants. Announcements of results will be made after the election process.

Please visit the REEN website to join our mailing list or LinkedIn Group and to obtain further information about REEN – https://www.reen.co/.

Best,

Shannon Chance, PhD

REEN Governing Board Chair

s.chance@ucl.ac.uk