Continuing Education in Engineering Pedagogy for Teachers Successfully Completed
Participants in the continuing education series held at HSZG were presented with their certificates at a ceremony.
For the third time, our university hosted a continuing education program on engineering pedagogy for faculty members. In total, more than forty participants furthered their professional development in this field.
The goal of the training was to further expand the engineering education competencies of our university staff in the STEM faculties and external instructors. The series of events covered all relevant topics in engineering education as well as the guidelines of the Engineering Education Knowledge Society (IPW) and the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP).
Due to the participants’ work and residential locations spread throughout Saxony and the pandemic situation, the certificate presentation ceremony was held virtually. Among the first to offer their congratulations were our university’s Rector, Professor Alexander Kratzsch; Professor Gudrun Kammasch, president of the Engineering Education Science Society; and Professor Steffen Kersten from the Technical University of Dresden.
“On behalf of the entire University Executive Board of Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to the participants. Participation in the continuing education program on engineering pedagogy for faculty members has a significant impact on the quality of teaching, and this is greatly appreciated, especially by the students.” Professor Alexander Kratzsch
”“I am delighted that the participants have successfully completed the continuing education course and that we, as the Society for Engineering Education, were able to contribute our ideas to it. I hope that we will all draw great strength from this course and this gathering to shape the future. All the best to you all from the bottom of my heart!” Professor Gudrun Kammasch
”"I would like to thank the university management, Karl-Heinz Reiche, Daniel Winkler, Ronny Freudenreich and everyone else involved for the very good cooperation. I would be delighted if we could continue this in the future." Professor Steffen Kersten
”The continuing education series was designed in cooperation with the Institute for Vocational Education at the Technical University of Dresden and builds on the continuing education project “Engineering Didactics at Saxon Universities ‘e-Didact’” from 2010 to 2013.
The following modules were completed:
- Module 1: Introduction to Engineering Education (4 AE)
- Module 2: Group Dynamics and Teamwork (28 AE)
- Module 3: From Knowledge to Skills—The Instructor-Centered Planning Framework as the Basis for a Successful Lecture/Seminar (16 AE)
- Module 4: Testing and Evaluation (24 AE)
- Module 5: From Knowledge to Skills—Developing Assignments with Increasing Levels of Difficulty as the Basis for Successful Exercise Design (16 AE)
- Module 6: From Skills to Insights—Conceptualizing Inquiry-Based Learning as the Foundation for the Successful Design of Internships, Projects, Course Papers, and Final Dissertations (Student-Centered Planning Framework) (16 AE)
- Module 7: Creativity Techniques and Problem-Solving Methods (24 AE)
- Module 8: Fundamentals for a Requirements-Based Module Description—Defining Program Objectives, Defining Program Content, Module Description (16 AE)
- Module 9: Laboratory Pedagogy (16 AE)
- Module 10: Communication (24 AE)
- Learning Portfolio (16 AE)
You can find more information here: https://www.hszg.de/ipwb
- Karl-Heinz Reiche and the entire team at the Career Services Office of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences for the successful design and implementation of the continuing education course, particularly under pandemic conditions, as well as
- Professor Steffen Kersten, Professor Gudrun Kammasch, Timon Umlauft, and Thomas Hönel for their contributions to the development and successful design of the continuing education course
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