India – Raffles Greater Noida conducted a 1-day workshop titled “Culturally Relevant Engineering Design (CRED)” with speaker, Avneet Hira from the Purdue University School of Engineering Education, to share about the importance of culturally relevant teaching and how the approach to instruction can boost student’s engagement, enhance student’s feeling of belonging within their school, and positively impact student’s achievement. The workshop was executed with engaging discussion on the importance of engineering design and its impact on design thinking and broader engineering habits of mind.
Avneet also explained how the 21st century educator can use CRED as a pedagogical tool to facilitate student’s intellectual, social, and emotional development through the use of cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills and attitudes. Participants were asked to relate CRED to their own course objectives and did a brainstorming session to focus on ideas for CRED-inspired projects and courses.
In another seminar titled “Engineering Education Developments”, Raffles Greater Noida invited Prof. José Carlos Quadrado, Professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (IEL) and immediate past President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) in May 2015.
Raffles being a leader in the field of hands-on and project-based learning, this seminar certainly provided faculty members with an opportunity to learn engineering education from world-class speaker. The event set a quality benchmark for Raffles and provided an opportunity for engineering faculty to access the most current developments in world-class engineering education to support their teaching and research capabilities.
Dr. Krishna Rao, Dean of Raffles Greater Noida, thanked Prof. Krishna Vedula, Executive Director of Indo US Collaboration of Engineering Education (IUCEE) for promoting global faculty interactions between Indian and overseas professors. IUCEE activities in India plays a major role in transforming engineering education. Faculty members were filled with great enthusiasm when exchanging views with Prof. Quadrado as they were challenged to rethink about their approach in teaching and learning.
Prof. Quadrado also emphasised on community learning as an innovative way of learning from failure and focused on new generation designing engineers, accreditation and the importance of a strong, active industry-academia partnership.
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