Engineering Education Recearch Programme

The UNESCO chair has held the first unit of a Nordic PhD course on Engineering Education Research, February - October, 2010

The course aims at promoting participants´ understanding of the EER field as a whole, covering issues such as relevant literature in EER, current EE research subfields, samples of research questions, EER and other fields of science, how to carry out research in EER and designing research projects.

The course is directed to two groups:

  • Doctoral students who wish to specialize in Engineering Education Research and pursue doctoral studies and research in EER.
  • Teachers and scholars in Engineering who wish to pursue research in Engineering Education and deepen their understanding of relevant aspects of high quality Engineering Education.

In this context, Engineering Education was defined in a broad sense covering technology but also mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science.

After the course, the student should be capable of designing a research plan for his or her own research project in EER. The first part was held in Aalborg in 15-18 February.

Organizers

 

The course is organized and taught jointly by

  • Computer Science Education Research Group (COMPSER), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
  • Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG), Uppsala University, Sweden
  • UNESCO Chair in Problem Based Learning in Engineering Education, Aalborg University, Denmark.

For more information see the course web site.