In every episode of the SEFI podcast, several transferable skills are mentioned, this highlighting their importance in engineering education and to the engineering profession more widely.
In this episode, we speak with Gillian Saunders-Smits from TU Delft about her work as Editor-in-Chief of the SEFI Handbook on Teaching Transferable Competencies and Skills in Engineering, a project born as an idea in 2024 from the SEFI Engineering Skills Special Interest Group and which brought together expertise of 155 contributors from 56 different higher education institutes and professional organisations from 23 countries spread over five continents. The open-source handbook provides a comprehensive, evidence-informed and practice-oriented resource for engineering educators, curriculum developers, programme leaders, educational researchers and students, both in Europe and worldwide.
Recorded immediately after the first copies were printed, and before its official publication, the conversation captures some of the raw energy and emotion at the end of a two-and-a-half years journey from idea to publication.
Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Prof. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn more about the SEFI Handbook on Teaching Transferable Competencies and Skills in Engineering
Timestamps
0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode
0.25 Podcast Intro
1.33 Experiences with transferable skills from Natalie and Neil
3.32 Introduction to Gillian and the handbook
4.38 Why was a handbook needed?
7.50 Use of language and terminology
11.07 Making initial decisions
13.40 The structure of the book and Part 1 which sets the context
20.37 Selecting the skills for Part 2 (embedding skills in the classroom)
23.17 The structure of chapters in Part 2
31.00 Different types of assessment
37.22 The longevity of the handbook
39.51 Different approaches to Integration of skills; institutional case studies
52.40 Evaluation
1:02:15 The editorial experience
1:06:42 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil
Resources
https://books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog/book/266
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