Centre for Engineering Education

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

on July 10, 2025

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Lights Lab Live – conducting a remote/interactive LED lab

on July 26, 2022

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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...

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

The 2025 edition of the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), hosted at Queen Mary University of London, was a flagship international event that brought together a diverse community of educators, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to advance innovation in engineering and technology education . Here, Kennedy Offor shares his insights into the evolving role of critical thinking in engineering education in the age of generative AI, from stakeholder simulation to ethical decision-making and the future of professional skills. I recently had the opportunity to participate and present in EDUCON 2025 at the Queen Mary University of London, a timely and thought-provoking event exploring the intersections of critical thinking, generative AI, and engineering education. My contribution focused on how generative AI can be leveraged to simulate stakeholder perspectives in engineering design, with a view to enhancing critical thinking and learner agency. But...

UK & Ireland Engineering Education Network

The recent 2025 UK and Ireland Engineering Education Network conference at the University of Manchester was a brilliant opportunity to meet engineering educators, to hear about work that is taking place across HE, and to play with Lego in the name of education and outreach. Here, Michael Trikic shares his take aways. A big idea from the conference was that the HE sector is facing systemic challenges and change, think reduced budgets, increased competition, generative AI, but that there are opportunities too. The recently published Industrial Strategy 2025 has engineering at its core, and will require a pipeline of engineers to fulfil it. What this means for HE isn't clear, and perhaps this kind of announcement isn't anything new (see keynote, below), but more on that later. All the papers discussed in this post and more, can be found in the conference proceedings . Lego, ducks, hoppers and positive memories The theme of the meet...