Group Work & Assessment in Engineering
Dr Henny Mills, Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering discusses creating inclusive groups and supporting collaboration in Civil Engineering.
Category: Engineering
Using portfolios to capture competency and engagement beyond module assessment
Discover how Katie Wray, Senior Lecturer in Engineering, collaborated with colleagues from LTDS and FMS TEL to pioneer an innovative reflective portfolio approach that was used with first-year undergraduate engineering students.
Viewing a module’s exam questions to enhance student engagement
John Hedley, Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, explains how his module’s NUMBAS exam assesses students’ effort during the module, by giving them the opportunity to see, practise and ask for advice on all exam questions prior to taking the exam, and in the process developing a deep understanding of the module’s learning outcomes.
Creating consistent and automatic feedback for large student cohorts in Engineering
Dr John Hedley, Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, designed a marking criteria for a team of markers on a large population engineering module, enabling fast and consistent marking, alongside effective descriptive student feedback that is automatically generated.
Using OneNote Class Notebooks as a Digital Logbook
Professional engineers use physical logbooks to document and record their work, from thoughts, design ideas, calculations and sketches, through to literature readings and lab results. For ENG1002, Sustainable Design Creativity and Professionalism, we created an electronic version of this logbook using a Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook.
Use of student-generated videos to prime practical workshop learning
This interdisciplinary approach to a flipped classroom gets students creating, engaged and sharing knowledge using short videos.
Supporting summative sustainability analysis using formative tests
This case study describes how formative tests are used in the School of Engineering to scaffold students learning prior to summative assessment.
A hands-on project-based mechanical engineering design module focusing on sustainability
Professor Tom Joyce, Professor of Orthopaedic Engineering School of Engineering Science, Agriculture and Engineering What did you do? The School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering (MSE) changed the Stage 2 Design module to a Design and Manufacturing module, and completed the transition from a paper-based design exercise to a group exercise which required students to Read more about A hands-on project-based mechanical engineering design module focusing on sustainability[…]
Peer assessment of lab reports to increase student self-regulation and development
Dr Glynn Atksinson describes the benefits of peer feedback for Stage 1 engineering students.
Teaching anatomy to engineering students using state-of-the-art anatomical software
Professor Tom Joyce School of Engineering Science, Agriculture and Engineering Please note: What did you do? Newcastle University’s School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering used a combination of Primal Pictures anatomical software, bespoke teaching materials and peer to peer learning within the Bioengineering module. This allowed Bioengineering students to quickly construct an understanding of anatomical Read more about Teaching anatomy to engineering students using state-of-the-art anatomical software[…]