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🎓 The first author is a student, at least 2/3 of the authors are students -Undergraduate, Master, Doctoral-; may include supervisor as one of the authors.

Session Overview

Session

Attracting Students to STEM Education

Time:

Wednesday, 04/Sept/2024:

3:45pm - 4:45pm

Session Chair: Anja Kranjc Horvat

Location: SG0213

80 seats

Presentations

ID: 434
Practice Paper
Oral presentation
Topics: Educating the whole engineer: teaching through and for knowing, thinking, feeling and doing, The attractiveness of engineering education
Keywords: primary education, secondary education, engineering practices, engineering core ideas

ENGINEERING PRACTICES AND CORE CONCEPTS IN SCHOOLS: TEACHING THE FUTURE ENGINEERS

Cristina Simarro¹, Digna Couso²

¹Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; ²Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Simarro-ENGINEERING PRACTICES AND CORE CONCEPTS IN SCHOOLS-434_b.pdf

ID: 210
Research Paper
Oral presentation
Topics: The attractiveness of engineering education, Outreach and openness: industry and civil-society in engineering education
Keywords: STEM outreach, Impact evaluation, STEM teachers, Outreach evaluators, Secondary education

Developing a better understanding of impact evaluation of STEM outreach programmes – a comparative study exploring teachers’ and outreach evaluators’ perspective

Youn Affejee, Freeha Azmat, Michael Mortenson, Robin Clark

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Affejee-Developing a better understanding of impact evaluation-210_b.pdf

ID: 323
Practice Paper
Oral presentation
Topics: Open and online education for engineers, The attractiveness of engineering education
Keywords: Robotics, STEM education, open educational resource, engineering education

MIRTE: an affordable, open, mobile robot education platform

Martin Klomp, Khaldon Araffa, Gillian Saunders-Smits

Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Klomp-MIRTE an affordable, open, mobile robot education platform-323_b.pdf

ID: 452
Research Paper
Oral presentation
Topics: Diversity, equity and inclusion in our universities and in our teaching, The attractiveness of engineering education
Keywords: Educational Experience, Confidence, Personal Factors, Skills and Competencies, Spatial Thinking.

CAREER PATH INFLUENCES: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS AMONG PRACTICING ENGINEERS AND FORMER ASPIRANTS

Meryn McNea¹, Reena Cole¹, David Tanner¹, Diarmaid Lane²

¹School of Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland; ²School of Education, University of Limerick, Ireland

McNea-CAREER PATH INFLUENCES-452_b.pdf

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