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The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...
2024“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Being able to work effectively in a team is a vital professional skill but how do students in different disciplines, engineering and hospitality, display their emotions when working together? We investigated their self-reported use of emotional labour stra ...
EAPRIL - European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning2024Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, 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 ...
2023Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Team projects are an integral part of the student learning experience. However, emotions can significantly affect student performance during team projects. Students use different emotion regulation strategies, such as surface-acting (emotive dissonance) an ...
2023Emotional 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 ...
2022Performing arts as a tool for university education during a pandemic: Moving from an in vivo to an in vitro modality
Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Ramiro Tau
This paper analyses how a course on improvisation and collective creation in engineering addressed to master's students in Switzerland moved online. The course offers an experience in the field of performing arts, through embodied and situated activities, ...
PROGEDIT2021What is the role of ethics in accreditation guidelines for engineering programmes in Europe?
The Washington Accord emphasises the role of ethical and societal considerations in the practice of engineering. Increasingly, national accrediting bodies are also expecting to see evidence in the delivery and assessment of ethics throughout engineering pr ...
Technische Universität Berlin2021The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Cécile Hardebolle
Through their role in labs, exercise/recitation sessions and tutorials, graduate or doctoral teaching assistants play a significant role in the education of engineering students. Yet doctoral assistants frequently get little pedagogical training, what trai ...
2019Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc
Teaching advisors work to sensitize teachers to use inclusive teaching pedagogy because it facilitates learning to all students and makes teachers aware of how the gender composition of a class and its management can promote or hamper student learning and ...
European Society for Engineering Education2018Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools
Higher education is experienced by many academics as a highly individualized environment where they work in relative isolation and often do not see how their teaching fits together with other courses and into the wider curriculum. But, when the ultimate go ...
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