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When Scale Changes Everything: Lessons from SEFI 2025

on May 08, 2026

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Becoming Comfortable with Black Box Engineering

on March 20, 2026

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Driving Sustainable Change: Reflections from SEFI and the Future of Mechanical Engineering Education

on March 20, 2026

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Group-led didactic teaching - is this novel?

on February 03, 2026

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Let's Talk Labs: Making Practical Learning Work for Everyone

Ever felt like a lab session dragged on forever, or that you were just another face in a crowded room? A new study by Stephen Beck , Panos Lazari, and Matteo Di Benedetti from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering has been exploring exactly that. Their research, published in the International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education , sheds light on what truly enhances lab experiences for both students and staff. Their findings offer valuable insights worth considering. What Do Students Really Want from Labs? The team set out to understand how to make lab sessions more effective. They collected extensive feedback through questionnaires, focusing on two key aspects: the ideal duration of lab sessions and the optimal group size for collaboration. Their findings highlight a few crucial ways to improve lab organisation. One of the most striking results was that students prefer shorter lab sessions. Just like attention drifts in Labs don't always require a lab coa...

From Red Line Week to Engineering Education Scholarship Week: Why Taking Time Out Matters

The Centre for Engineering Education is an initiative to support the educational aims of Engineering at The University of Sheffield , and open to all, and especially the many and varied people who support these aims. In this post Emma Kenny-Levick , a Senior Administration Officer at The University of Sheffield and super power behind the CEE blog, shares how scholarship led her to challenge her assumptions, and to make time for reflection that changed on her own practice. When I first joined Multidisciplinary Engineering Education (MEE) , a recurring block of events appeared in my calendar titled “Red Line Week.” I didn’t really know what it meant. I knew it was something to do with scholarship and personal development, two terms that, at the time, felt distant from my day‑to‑day role. I was new, busy and focused on learning the practical realities of my job. Taking time out to think about scholarship didn’t feel relevant. I was a professional services member of staff so why...

Software Tools for Electronic Engineering Remote Practicals

Electronics concepts are some of the hardest to visualise, even in the laboratory; it is hard to see the electrons as they whizz through the wires and even more difficult to "see" the electromotive force! Tools like oscilloscopes and network analysers allow powerful visualisation of electronic effects, but using them proficiently has a steep learning curve. Electronic engineers have long embraced simulation as a design tool. However, it is generally taught as a complementary skill to laboratory training, rather than to actually teach practical experimentation. While access to teaching laboratory spaces is limited, simulation tools can be not only a professional skill, but a valuable method of teaching students to be good experimentalists and designers. Simulations can let us visualise normally unseen effects, and probe circuits in unnatural places, all in complete safety. In the planned practicals programme for EEE modules at the University of Sheffield , we pla...

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