'Education for Professional Engineering

Practice'

Professor Mike Bramhall

Keypoints

• Graduate employability at Sheffield Hallam• HE STEM project• Case Studies• Venture Matrix• Career Mentoring• Embedding professional skills in courses• Graduate Identity

STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY ENTITLEMENT

All students at Sheffield Hallam will be entitled to and will engage with, as part of their course of study, four inter connected elements which comprise the employability offer:

•Well structured, supported and accredited work-related or work-based learning•Development of high-level employability-related transferable ‘skills’ and attributes embedded within the curriculum•Integrated and timetabled career planning and preparation for employment •Personal and professional development planning and personal academic tutorial support to monitor their progress and support their transition to the world of work

HE STEM Project:HE STEM Project:"Education for Professional Engineering "Education for Professional Engineering

Practice"Practice"

An Interdisciplinary Learning Environment that simulates professional practice and develops professional engineering skills in students

Sheffield Hallam

London South Bank

Loughborough

Developing and implementing Interdisciplinary Academic Coursework

Developing & supporting creative practical lab based project work

Developing a virtual support system for interdisciplinary project work

HE STEM Mini projects at SHU

Electronic Interdisciplinary CPD Portfolios

Engineering Design

Incubator

Engineers Without Borders

Challenge

Engineering Disasters: Engineering Disasters: Student ConferenceStudent Conference

Digital Video Reporting

Team working is enhanced

Student Presenter – developing confidence

More Creative Reporting – shot on location

Working with Digital media

Students are actively involved in research

A video file is submitted for assessment

Eco HouseEco House• An ‘eco-house’ learning and teaching environment to

facilitate the development of sustainability literacy.”

Inspired by Jestico and WhilesHouse of the Future, in Cardiff, Wales, UK.Recreated on a 1/5th scale4 person family dwelling

Collaboration between engineers and architects to integrate mechanical and electrical services, and natural ventilation and passive solar heating.

How the eco-house wasembedded into the curriculum:

Student Working Party• Multi-disciplinary team• Appreciate the impact of their decisions on the

perspectives of others• Collaborating to develop holistic solutions• Working party responsibilities:

Communicate to developpractical solutions throughinnovation

5. Integration6. Commissioning7. Monitoring

1. Selection2. Development3. Sponsorship4. Building

"A Sustainable Marriage!"

Marriage between fashion and engineering creates unique dissolvablewedding gown'

newview : The Sheffield Hallam University newsletterSummer 2010

Innovation- working across Innovation- working across boundariesboundaries

Masters StudentsMasters Students'Video Conferencing''Video Conferencing'

Developing Employer Engagement in STEM through Career Mentoring

Aims To enhance the employability skills of

Engineering and Maths students To help students research career

opportunities related to their studies and make informed choices about their futures

See relevance and application of their studies in the workplace

Create a network of professional contacts

Enhance confidence /understanding of the recruitment process

Support the transition of students from University into graduate employment

Progress Mentors recruited from Finance, Foreign

Exchange Trading, Government Statistical Service, Tata Steel, Siemens…

Recruiting mentors and mentees is on going

Unexpected issues and resolutions Starting the project later in the year than expected meant

we could not recruit mentors and mentees at the 'peak' time of the year.

Resolution: This 'false start' gave us chance to 'trial/pilot' the scheme with 2 maths students

Restructures in the university have meant promotional leaflets and publicity have been held upResolution: Used alternative forms of publicity eg direct mail via email, social media eg LinkedIn and Facebook, powerpoints on plasma screens around campus and on VLE. Effective and cheaper though not as professional.

Annette Baxter: Careers Adviser Jeff Waldock: Principal Lecturer -Faculty Lead for Employability

a.r.baxter@shu.ac.uk j.a.waldock@shu.ac.uk Sheffield Hallam University

Graduate Identity/ Senior Year Experience

"The Senior year Experience plays a significant role in assisting students to recognise the value of their university experience, thus increasing their satisfaction and enabling a more successful transition to working and professional life"

Prof Alf Lizzio, Griffith University The Senior Year Experience

Graduate Identity

• Sense of mastery, strategic knowledge and integration of what they have learned

• Sense of employability, connecting to the world of work

• Sense of community, locating themselves in the broader professional community

• Sense of leadership, status, maturity, contribute to the university and the community (e.g. mentoring)