Sharing Experience of Interdisciplinary Curriculum Reform in Engineering Education

Both UCL and KTH have received international recognition for developing their engineering curriculum, and both have highly active and well regarded research activities in engineering education. This Cities partnership Programme-funded project aims to grow the collaboration between these two centres and develop a platform for funding educational research and development applications.

This collaboration is intended to develop and enhance education in all branches of science and engineering by pooling research competence from two world-leading institutions. This initiative connects the Digital Futures Educational Transformation project strand at KTH with other activities on Educational Futures at UCL and KTH. The exchange aims to foster an understanding of how engineering education can evolve to equip graduates to work more effectively in multi and transdisciplinary contexts.

This collaboration establishes the groundwork for understanding how tertiary engineering education should, and can, adapt to meet that challenge. UCL CEE is already involved in a number of collaborative projects, working with partners to develop their engineering curriculum, for example the Innovative Engineering Curriculum project with partners across South Africa.

Area

Education

UCL leads

• Professor John Mitchell, Vice-Dean (Education), Institute of Communications and Connected Systems