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Learn by doing. A blog dedicated to practical Engineering Education and related topics. Published by a team at Engineering at Sheffield with a spiritual home in Multidisciplinary Engineering Education, based in the Diamond at the University of Sheffield, UK. In the Faculty of Engineering we teach engineering and host the Centre for Engineering Education.

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Reliving the Buzz of Practical Engineering Education 24 Conference – and Looking Ahead

on September 10, 2025

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Designing for Impact: Professor Rachel Horn on Embedding Real-World Thinking into Engineering Education

on August 25, 2025

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Listening, Learning, Leading: Championing the Student Voice in Engineering

on August 11, 2025

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Behind the Blog: My Internship with the Centre for Engineering Education

on July 11, 2025

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Teaching with a Twist: Star Wars, Science, and Student Confidence

on July 10, 2025

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UK & Ireland Engineering Education Network

on July 07, 2025

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Critical Thinking, GenAI, and Engineering Education: Reflections from IEEE EDUCON 2025 Conference

on June 06, 2025

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Laboratory Size and Student Expectations - publishing educational research and the scholarship process

on May 27, 2025

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Taking the leap into Scholarly Activity

on May 13, 2025

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Ten Tips for Blended Practicals

Practical Engineering Education activities, that usually involve interaction with equipment, presented a significant challenge to adapt for remote delivery during the suspension of face to face teaching. The department of Multidisciplinary Engineering Education (MEE) have led the discussion about Remote Practicals in the Learning and Teaching community, publishing papers and being invited to present at numerous, high profile webinars. With restrictions on higher education being partially lifted, many institutions worldwide intend to offer blended learning , prioritising in-person activities that are troublesome to deliver online, such as practicals. Social distancing measures are reducing capacity and placing increased pressure on space, creating a need to optimise limited time students have in the lab and strategies to determine which activities can best utilise this limited resource. Time is constrained and solutions are needed to meet these demands. I’m delighted to present this p...

Designing for Impact: Professor Rachel Horn on Embedding Real-World Thinking into Engineering Education

Professor Rachel Horn's journey into engineering education began after a decade in industry, followed by a PhD and nearly 20 years of teaching at Sheffield. With a strong focus on design and civil engineering practice, she played a leading role in shaping how students learn through projects. From founding the Global Engineering Challenge to developing the Integrated Design Project, Rachel as helped embed real-world thinking across the curriculum. Her work continues to support students in "seeing the application of their technical knowledge" and understanding that engineers is, at it's core, "all about decision making ." The Case for Project Weeks When Rachel first proposed a project week back in 2009–10, the idea came from a series of national workshops on sustainability and the engineer’s role in society. What began as a presentation to the Faculty of Engineering Teaching Committee quickly gained momentum. “There was obviously an appetite,” she recalls...

Behind the Blog: My Internship with the Centre for Engineering Education

The CEE blog editors were very fortunate to benefit from the University of Sheffield 70 hour Internship scheme, through which we worked with the talented and prolific Marsya Ali . Marsya interviewed engineering educators from across the Faculty of Engineering to find out about their work and ideas, then wrote a series of blogs based upon these that will be published here during the coming months. Here, Marsya shares her reflections about being a blog writing intern. I never thought I’d be writing about engineering, let alone interviewing award-winning and senior lecturers on revision websites, immersive technology, the use of generative AI in education and more. Coming from an Arts and Humanities background, it felt like stepping into unfamiliar territory. But that’s what made my internship with the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) at the University of Sheffield so exciting. I’m Marsya Ali, a third-year English Language and Linguistics student from Malaysia. As...

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