What is the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE)?

CEE is a new initiative that supports our teaching staff and GTA's, helping them deliver excellent teaching and enhancing the student experience whilst raising the reputation and profile of Engineering Education at 91Ö±²¥.

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What is the purpose of CEE?

CEE is relevant to teaching-active staff and those who lead, influence and support the delivery of education.

Our goals:

  • External impact: To raise the reputation and profile of Engineering Education at 91Ö±²¥ - this will involve creating open educational scholarship outputs such as peer reviewed papers and conference presentations

  • Staff development: To raise the profile of staff who teach and the GTA cohort, recognising their contribution to high quality engineering education 

  • Enhance the Student experience: To support activity by teaching-active staff and GTA’s - this will involve internal education projects linked to key university, faculty and departmental action plans

Benefits to teaching active staff:

  • Access to budget for travel and attendance at teaching conferences and events if you are presenting

  • Helping staff access their scholarship time for educational research and professional development 

  • Encouraged in increasing the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals

  • Support with HEA Fellowship applications

  • Good practice can be shared with other members of CEE

  • Teaching staff will have strong backing to maximise the impact of their teaching 

  • An internal mentoring scheme will be available building on the expertise of successful educators

  • Staff will be recognised for engaging with CEE