Following the success of last year’s Leading Engineering Curriculum Transformation: An Integrated Engineering Approach short course, the UCL Centre for Engineering Education is pleased to launch this series of five in-person short courses at UCL this summer. The courses are 1-3 days each.
The series invites engineering and STEM educators to draw on insights from the UCL Integrated Engineering Programme, one of the UK’s most established faculty-wide examples of project-based, research-informed engineering education.
Across the five courses, participants will engage with key challenges in contemporary STEM education: leading curriculum change, designing high-impact project-based learning, transforming engineering mathematics, developing education research, and strengthening teaching practice for PGTAs and early-career educators.
Each course combines UCL’s experience of large-scale curriculum innovation with practical workshops, peer exchange, and hands-on design activity. Participants leave with practical outputs tailored to their own context, including implementation plans, curriculum blueprints, research questions, teaching strategies, or clear next steps for action.
Whether redesigning a module, supporting teaching teams, leading programme change, or building an education research profile, participants will find in the CEE Summer Course Series a practical, collegial, and intellectually serious space in which to develop their work in engineering and STEM education.
Browse each course page to learn more and book
Strategic Leadership in Engineering Education
Explore practical approaches to curriculum leadership and programme development, informed by experience from UCL’s Integrated Engineering Programme.
Designing and Delivering High-Impact Project-based Learning in STEM Programmes
Consider how project-based learning can be designed, supported and assessed effectively within different STEM teaching contexts.
Mathematical Modelling
Explore approaches to teaching engineering mathematics through modelling, real-world applications and more integrated curriculum design.
Introduction to Engineering and STEM Education Research
Develop an initial STEM education research idea, with guidance
Foundations of Teaching, Learning and Scholarship for STEM PGTAs
Build practical confidence in STEM teaching through approaches to facilitation, feedback, inclusion and reflective educational practice.
Other things to know
About the UCL Centre for Engineering Education
The UCL Centre for Engineering Education sits between UCL Engineering and the UCL Institute of Education, the latter of which has been ranked first for education for over a decade (QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2026).
We’ve done work with Google Deepmind, the University of Pretoria, Newgiza University, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the EU STEM Coalition. We’ve collaborated with both international and UK educators to carry out curriculum reviews, and we have worked together with them to advise on teaching initiatives and support the development of new programmes. Our Integrated Engineering Programme, which shapes undergraduate taught study across UCL Engineering, has been recognised as offering a “world-class model” for engineering education to other institutions.
Our consultants are practising engineers, academics and educators with a vast array of knowledge and experience which allows them to initiate and manage complex projects quickly and efficiently.
Relevance to UK and international audiences
We welcome participants from across the world as well as the UK. The mixed disciplinary and cultural environment proved popular in last year’s short course, Leading Engineering Curriculum Transformation. An attendee from Egypt said:
“We have some colleagues from civil engineering or chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, and it’s very interesting to listen to what everyone has to say. It’s also very nice to listen to peers describing their experiences with students and teaching, and comparing and contrasting the kind of experiences they’re having here in the UK with what I’m having back in Egypt. There are very common experiences, but then there are definitely cultural differences, some teaching differences and so on.”
Visa requirements
Depending on your country of origin, you’ll need either a Standard Visitor visa or an Electronic Travel Agreement (ETA) before you travel to the UK. We can provide you with an acceptance letter, which you may need for the application process.
The earliest you can apply for a Standard Visitor visa is three months in advance of your travel date. As part of your application you will need to make an appointment at a visa application centre; the processing time for your visa from the point you have your appointment is usually about one month. Read UCL’s visa and ETA advice for further guidance.
Where are these courses taking place?
East campus
The following courses take place at UCL East:
- Strategic Leadership in Engineering Education
- Mathematical Modelling
- Introduction to Engineering and STEM Education Research
- Designing and Delivering High-Impact Project-based Learning in STEM Programmes
Our UCL East campus is on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park at East Bank in Stratford in east London: an iconic UCL location in one of the most exciting cities in the world.
East Bank is the UK’s newest culture and innovation quarter, backed by the Mayor of London and a legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. UCL is a founding partner in East Bank, along with other global institutions like the BBC, V&A, Sadler’s Wells and London College of Fashion, and UAL.
The campus is well connected by public transport and just minutes away on foot from the cafes and bars of Hackney Wick or world class sport, entertainment and shopping venues.
Bloomsbury campus
The following course takes place at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus:
- Foundations of Teaching, Learning and Scholarship for STEM PGTAs
UCL’s Bloomsbury campus is its original campus, is situated in the heart of London, close to King’s Cross St Pancras, Euston, Camden, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, museums, several parks, and many restaurants and cafes. Despite its central location, we feel Bloomsbury is a tranquil place.
It’s in the ‘Knowledge Quarter’ of London, which includes over 75 academic, research, cultural, media and technology institutions large and small – from Google to the British Library.
