ISEE 2018: The 7th International Symposium of Engineering Education

Engineers increasingly find themselves tasked to envision, invent, and construct creative solutions to Grand Challenges. Over the years, insightful solutions have required ever more creativity and greater integration of interdisciplinary ideas.

While established fundamentals still form the invariant foundation for engineering practice, the Engineer of Tomorrow will certainly require a different perspective than engineers in the past. How can universities support today’s aspiring engineers in preparation for the uncertain challenges they will be facing tomorrow?

A favoured approach is immersing the student experience with engineering fundamentals applied to interdisciplinary practice which directly address the world’s Grand Challenges. This approach enables students to learn through active discovery, via classic enquiry and coupled practice, and to discover how engineering concepts apply practically in complex, linked, interdisciplinary settings or scenarios.

Engineering scenarios prepared in this framework expose students to the greater context and implications of engineering decisions in a social responsibility, and broader community, context. This connected approach fosters a cross disciplinary creative perspective, required to enable insightful engineering advances that deliver lasting social impact, as will be required in solving the uncertain challenges of tomorrow.

With a desire to create a Connected Engineering Curriculum, the major themes for ISEE 2018 are:

•  Connecting students with practitioners throughout their learning journey
•  Building a through-line of enquiry activities into, and through, the programme
•  Bridging student interaction across subjects, perspectives, and global regions
•  Linking student academic learning with in-practice workplace education
•  Assessing engineering specific deliverables directed at the pertinent corresponding audience
•  Unifying the student experience across cohorts, programme progression, and graduate alumni

Contributions addressing one, or more, of these themes are invited.

When submitting your abstract, please state which main theme you feel your contribution falls under as sessions will be organised with this in mind.

Programme outline

DAY 1 – 17th July

09:30 – Registration Opens
10:00 – Conference Start – Opening Remarks: Prof. Nigel Titchener-Hooker, Dean of Faculty of Engineering Sciences, UCL
10:15 – Plenary 1 – Prof. Dilly Fung, Arena Centre for Research-Based Education, UCL
11:00 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Parallel Sessions 1
12:30 – Lunch
13:15 – Plenary 2 – To Be Announced
14:00 – Parallel Sessions 2
15:30 – Coffee Break
16:00 – Poster Session
17:00 – Close Day 1
19:00 – Conference Dinner – HMS Belfast

DAY 2 – 18th July

09:00 – Plenary 3 – Dr Rhys Morgan, Director of Education, Royal Academy of Engineering
09:45 – Parallel Sessions 3
11:00 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Parallel Sessions 4
12:30 – Lunch
13:15 – Plenary 4 – Emanuela Tilly, Director, Integrated Engineering Programme, UCL
14:00 – Parallel Sessions 5
15:00 – Coffee Break
15:30 – Parallel Sessions 6
16:30 – Closing Remarks and Best Poster Award
17:00 – Conference Close

Keynote speakers

Professor Dilly Fung
Pro-Director for Education Designate, London School of Economics and Political Science

Dr Rhys Morgan
Director of Education, Royal Academy of Engineering

Dr Emanuela Tilley
Director, Integrated Engineering Programme, University College London

Key dates

13 April – Abstract Submission Deadline

23 April – Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts

21 May – Full Paper Submission

21 May – Early Bird Registration Deadline

 4 June – Notification of Acceptance of Full Papers

22 June – Submission of Final Full Papers

13 July – Final Registration

17/18 July – Conference

Call for Abstracts

Contributions addressing one, or more, of the themes listed above are invited.

Abstracts may be submit via the online submission form here, and are limited to a maximum length of 250 words.

The deadline for abstract submission is the 13th of April, 2018.

Submitting authors will receive notification on the acceptance of their abstracts on or before the 23rd of April, 2018.

Submission of Full Paper

Papers must be prepared using the template provided here, and conform to the standards specified therein: 

isee_2018_full_paper_template.doc

isee_2018_full_paper_template.doc

Submission of papers may be completed via the the online submission form here.

Submitted papers must not exceed the maximum specified length of 8 pages.

The deadline for submission of the full paper is the 21st of May, 2018.

Sponsors

P.A. Hilton Ltd – Engineering Teaching Equipment

Organising committee

Prof Eva Sorensen, Chemical Engineering, University College London (chair)

Prof Dermot Brabazon, School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin City University

Dr Plato Kapranos, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield

Dr Folashade Akinmolayan, School of Engineering & Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London

Justin Siefker, Engineering Sciences, University College London

Conference Secretariat: Paula Broome, University College London (p.broome@ucl.ac.uk)

Accommodation

Suggested hotels are listed according to walking distance to UCL and shown on the map at the bottom of this page. As an alternative to this list we recommend using websites such as Booking.com or Hostelbookers. When using one of those booking websites, please define your search as “Bloomsbury Square, London” in order to find accommodation near UCL. Note that we don’t specifically make any recommendations.

Hotel	Price per night	Address	Phone	Walk to UCL
County Hotel, Imperial London Hotels (3 star)	£52-66	Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0JW	+44-20-7278-7871 or +44-20-7387-5544	10 min
Tavistock Hotel, Imperial London Hotels (3 star)	£81-107	Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9EU	+44-20-7278-7871 or +44-20-7636-8383	5 min
Travelodge London Central Euston	£92-122	1-11 Grafton Place, London NW1 1DJ	+44-871-984-6332	8 min
Euston Square Hotel (3 star)	£122-176	152-156 North Gower Street, London NW1 2LU	+44-20-7388-0099	6 min
Premier Inn London Euston	£127-145	1 Dukes Road, London WC1H 9PJ	+44-871-527-8656	8 min
ibis London Euston St Pancras (3 star)	£103-122	3 Cardington Street, London NW1 2LW	+44-20-7388-7777	7 min
Thistle Euston, Thistle Hotels (4 star)	£138-182	Cardington Street, Euston, London NW1 2LP	+44-871-376-9017 or +44-845-305-8317	9 m