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Immersive professional activities as learning: Irish teachers learning from overseas volunteering in India

Roland John Tormey

When centred on the professional exchange of skills and knowledge, overseas volunteering can be a beneficial form of professional development. In contrast to voluntourism where volunteers buy an overseas experience, professional-based overseas volunteering ...

2023

Study Success And Failure Of STEM Students And The Connection To Their Learning Habits

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

With the educational expansion, ever more students start a tertiary degree. At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an engineering school, the number of bachelor students increased from 3'713 in 2010 to 6'330 in 2022. However, in Switzerland, a co ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2023

The development, validation and use of an interprofessional project management questionnaire in engineering education

Marc Laperrouza, Roland John Tormey

Professional skills of project planning, risk analysis, ethical design, communication, and working in interprofessional teams are now recognised as core engineering skills. Frequently, they are addressed in engineering education through team projects. Howe ...

2023

A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students

Touradj Ebrahimi, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Nihat Kotluk

Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...

2023

Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Natascia Petringa, Yousef Jalali

What conceptions do teachers hold about learning activities to develop students’ transversal skills? This qualitative exploration at a research-intensive engineering school draws on interviews and focus groups to explore teachers’ ideas about developing in ...

2023

Emotions in Engineering Education

Roland John Tormey

Contrary to common stereotypes, engineering education and practice are not purely rational activities. Emotions, just like cognition, play important roles in teaching, learning, and professional practice. Today, there is a nascent body of research explorin ...

Routledge2023

Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

What training should engineering students receive to enable them to contribute to reducing bias, discrimination and the persistent lack of diversity in engineering? Collaboration is central to professional engineering work and, consequently, teamwork and g ...

2023

Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Although engineering education is often characterized as a rational activity, research suggests that emotions are vital for learning at all levels of education. In ethics education, there is evidence that including mild emotional information in case studie ...

2022

Teaching under lockdown: the change in the social practice of teaching

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Helena Kovacs

Due to the unprecedented situation caused by a global pandemic, the traditional way of teaching that is reliant on face-to-face interaction between teachers and students has been dismantled. This article looks into university teachers’ experiences of teach ...

Springer2022

Which professional skills do students learn in engineering team-based projects?

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Cyril Picard, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Engineering accreditation bodies express a strong consensus that in addition to technical and scientific skills, engineering education also needs to promote the development of professional skills. In general, team-based projects are considered to be valuab ...

2022

Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years

Simone Deparis, Himanshu Verma, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Background Research shows that active pedagogies could play an important role in achieving more equitable outcomes for diverse groups of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Although flipped classes are a popular active met ...

American Society for Engineering Education2022

A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle, Ester Simkova, Maria Carla Di Vincenzo, Helena Kovacs

The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...

2022

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Pascal Felber, Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

Emotions in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review

Roland John Tormey

There is today a broad consensus that emotions influence all forms of teaching and learning, and scholarship on Emotions in Engineering Education (EEE) is an emerging and rapidly growing field. However, this nascent research is currently very dispersed and ...

2021

Rethinking student-teacher relationships in higher education: a multidimensional approach

Roland John Tormey

Student-teacher relationships play an important role in both teacher and student experiences in higher education and have been found to be linked to learning, classroom management, and to student absenteeism. Although historically conceptualised in terms o ...

2021

Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education Teaching and Supervising in Labs, Fieldwork, Studios, and Projects

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey

This book provides evidence-informed and practical advice on how to design, teach, and facilitate hands-on, experiential learning in practical higher education settings. With rich case studies and carefully considered analysis tasks, all underpinned by res ...

Routledge2021

Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools

Patrick Jermann, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Although it is frequently claimed that learning analytics can improve self-evaluation and self-regulated learning by students, most learning analytics tools appear to have been developed as a response to existing data rather than with a clear pedagogical m ...

2020

Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences

Marc Laperrouza, Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Eric Hoesli, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin

Short-term field study experiences are increasingly popular in engineering education. Where they include an international dimension, they can also develop skills and knowledge needed for working across cultures and in interdisciplinary teams. Such programs ...

INFONIA2020

Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature

Pascal Vuilliomenet, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Lucille Delisle, Mirjam Mekhaiel, Helena Kovacs

Engineers and architects today are dealing with great social, technical and environmental complexities, and the demand for having broadly educated holistic engineers will only continue to grow in the future. Being able to manage and lead diverse teams, und ...

University of Twente2020

Emotions in engineering education: Towards a research agenda

Roland John Tormey

This Work-in-Progress research paper describes preliminary work on a research agenda for emotions in engineering education. Emotions play an important role for teaching and learning in engineering education, but research on the topic is scarce. To spur res ...

IEEE2020

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