Our priorities

During the 2015 Symposium, the participants considered the priority areas for research from the Network’s collective perspective.

The key themes identified were:

1. Understanding the population of ‘engineers’ in terms

of why people come into Engineering or Engineering roles at any stage in their life
of why people leave Engineering or Engineering roles at any stage in their life

2. Enabling HEI’s to better prepare students for practice in terms of

Teaching students how to learn from experience
Teaching students how to find, learn and assimilate new knowledge
Developing students meta-cognition i.e. knowing what they know and what they don’t know
Developing students capabilities, confidence and credibility
Making learning more authentic

3. Enabling a better understanding and definition of the