Conference Agenda

Session

Paper Session 2-1-2: Curriculum Design

Time:

Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:

11:15am - 12:15pm

Session Chair: Simo Sakari Ali-Löytty

Location: A4 Auditorium

A4 Auditorium, capasity 69 persons

Presentations

Research Paper
Paper talk
Topics: Curriculum development and emerging curriculum models in engineering, Building the capacity and strengthening the educational competences of engineering educators
Keywords: Curriculum Transformation, Higher Education, Leadership, Change, Stakeholders.

INTERNAL FACTORS INFLUENCING CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION IN HIGHER ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Cecile Gerwel¹, Angela James¹, Macdonald Kanyangale¹, Haraldur Auðunsson², Valentina Dagienė³, Inggriani Liem⁴, Eglė Jasutė³, Roger Waldeck⁵, Siegfried Rouvrais⁵, Ásrún Matthíasdóttir²

¹University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; ²Reykjavik University, Iceland; ³Vilnius University, Lithuania; ⁴DEL Institute of Technology, Indonesia; ⁵IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC UMR CNRS 6285, Brest, France

Gerwel-INTERNAL FACTORS INFLUENCING CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION-289_b.pdf

Practice Paper
Paper talk
Topics: Diversity, equity and inclusion in our universities and in our teaching, Curriculum development and emerging curriculum models in engineering
Keywords: curriculum design, co-creation, pedagogical partnerships, inclusion and diversity, multiple perspectives

PEDAGOGICAL PARTNERSHIP AS AN UNCONVENTIONAL AND VALUABLE APPROACH IN CURRICULUM DESIGN

Martijn Hunter, Buning Ruth

The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The

Hunter-PEDAGOGICAL PARTNERSHIP AS AN UNCONVENTIONAL AND VALUABLE APPROACH-175_b.pdf

Practice Paper
Paper talk
Topics: Curriculum development and emerging curriculum models in engineering
Keywords: curriculum development, project-based learning, PBL, PrBL, integration

THE IMPACT OF A NOVEL INTEGRATED 1ST YEAR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM

Keith Tarnowski, Jevgenija Prisutova

The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Tarnowski-THE IMPACT OF A NOVEL INTEGRATED 1ST YEAR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM-1250_b.pdf

Research Paper
Paper talk
Topics: Sustainability and society in engineering, Engineering skills, professional skills, and transversal skills
Keywords: transdisciplinary engineering, engineering education, skills and competencies, curriculum analysis, higher education

Limited integration of transdisciplinary skills in German mechanical engineering education – Insights from thematic analysis of module handbooks

Katharina Hunger¹, Florian Ahrens²

¹Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany; ²Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Hunger-Limited integration of transdisciplinary skills in German mechanical engineering-331_b.pdf