Lecture-Digital and online technologies for engineering education

Campus A 7-338

2018 Nov.20, 2:30 pm

Digital and online technologies for engineering education

Title：Digital and online technologies for engineering education
Time：2:30 am, Nov.20, 2018
Place：Campus A 7-338
Speaker：Professor Drysdale
Host：Ming K. Lim, Professor, Dean

Biography
Professor Drysdale's educational research focuses on digital and online approaches to teaching engineering, and in particular, remote laboratories for practical work, while his discipline-specific research is in electromagnetics. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Associate Editor of IET Microwave Antennas and Propagation.

He completed his BE (1st Class Hons, University Prize, 1999) and Ph.D. degrees (2004) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was next at the University of Glasgow, as a Researcher from 2002 – 2005, Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow 2005-2006, and Lecturer from 2006 – 2015. He was Senior Lecturer at the Open University (the UK’s largest university) from 2015 – 2018. He was appointed to the Chair of Technology Enhanced Science Education, in the School of Engineering, at the University of Edinburgh in 2018, where he is also a member of the Institute for Digital Communications.

Abstract
Digital and online technologies offer a way for institutions to better meet student expectations while also improving educational outcomes. In engineering, practical work is particularly important but rising student numbers are putting ever more pressure on physical laboratory spaces. Fortunately, remote laboratory technologies are emerging as an attractive complement to traditional in-person laboratories. This talk will give an overview of the state of the art in remote laboratories for engineering education and outline the emerging support for their use. The talk will also indicate how remote laboratories are uniquely placed to tackle higher education sector challenges, such as developing innovation skills, giving feedback, and conducting the assessment.