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

on February 20, 2025

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Introducing Practice Exchange & Partnerships

on January 21, 2025

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Introducing the New Centre for Engineering Education Outputs Page

on December 13, 2024

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Augmented reality, and other realities in engineering education

on December 02, 2024

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ISAM 2024: A Global Celebration of Makerspaces at the University of Sheffield

on October 25, 2024

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Transforming Engineering Education: Agile Development, Accreditation and Innovative Project-Based Learning.

on October 14, 2024

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Ten Years of The Diamond - Twelve Architects

The conception of Diamond Building was a huge project here at Sheffield Engineering that aimed to make a world leading space for Engineering teaching. It is the home of high quality teaching labs for all the engineering disciplines, as well as innovative teaching and study space. It is a wonderful space to be in and remains as popular as ever with students. The building led to the creation of a specialist multidisciplinary team to deliver and coordinate the teaching that takes place in it, and they continue to lead innovation in teaching and learning and are core contributors to the Centre for Engineering Education . This wouldn’t have been possible without the team who built the Diamond, Twelve Architects . They made the space both iconic and great for teaching, something that is often overlooked, but that has a huge impact on learning and learners. In this post Twelve Architects share their perspective of the project. This is part of our 10 years of the Diamond s...

Celebrating a Decade of Impact at The Diamond

In this reflective piece, Sophie Barwick takes us through the special 10-year celebration of the Diamond building —now firmly established as the heart of engineering education at the University of Sheffield. From cutting-edge labs and inspiring staff, to the student-driven innovation of the iForge , Sophie shares how the Diamond has shaped her journey as both a student and GTA. Her insight captures the building’s enduring purpose: a space built for students, enriched by community, collaboration, and hands-on learning. This is part of our 10 years of the Diamond series: 10 Years of The Diamond - 12 Architects Back in October, the Diamond opened its doors to staff, students, alumni and visitors to celebrate 10 years of the Diamond building. Over this time the Diamond building has become a fundamental place for the education of thousands of engineering students at the University of Sheffield. The range of state of the facilities, enthusiastic staff and open study spaces make it a great p...

Experimental Design for Practical Engineering Education

Introduction - Is working backwards a way forward? One of the main attributes of practical engineering education is students interacting with real things. When this teaching specifically involves experimentation in a laboratory setting, the real things typically include items such as equipment, tools, specimens and various types of instrumentation. There is a varying degree of openness for laboratory activities, ranging from students following detailed step-by-step guides, to them independently conceiving, designing and executing their own experiments. But in order to ensure consistency of experience for everyone in the course, the equipment and instrumentation students use is typically selected and provided by the university for one specific purpose. Despite equipment being at the very centre of practical laboratory activity, the pedagogy (or method of teaching) associated with its selection and design is often overlooked in the learning and teaching development process....

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