Archives: SIGs
January 30, 2020
Design Education / Design Communication
Goals: Provide resources to educators to improve engineering design education Develop a repository of design focused teaching material Identify best practices for teaching and evaluation of design and related areas, such as critical thinking, decision making and communication Disseminate best practices via appropriate channels, such as CEEA Facilitate knowledge transfer from research to practice Identify
January 29, 2020
Developing Engineering Education Research Capacity
Goal: To enhance the capacity for engineering education research in Canada. Activities: Advocating for engineering education research funding, working with NCDEAS, NSERC, SSHRC, and the federal government. Developing skills and expertise for engineering education research in Canada Identifying what are the engineering education research priorities in Canada Connecting to other SIGs, like to Engineer 2050
January 07, 2020
Education Developers Community of Practice
January 05, 2020
Engineering Competition Teams
Goal: The goal of the Engineering Competition Teams SIG is to foster discussion related to the experiential learning opportunities provided by engineering design competitions and the best ways in which these competitions can be set up and used within and outside the engineering curriculum to maximize their educational potential. Organizing engineering competition symposium for leaders.
January 04, 2020
Engineering Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation
Mandate: The mandate of the Entrepreneurship SIG is to create a Community of Practice (CoP) around engineering entrepreneurship education in Canada. This will provide a community to share discussions, insights, methods, tools, strategies and future pathways in supporting engineering students in developing entrepreneurial and innovation mindset. We recognize that this mindset may be implemented through
January 06, 2020
Engineer of 2050
Mandate: To facilitate discussion on the identity and attributes of the Engineer of 2050, who will both shape and respond to future global trends. This understanding will be facilitated through input from engineering educators, administrators, students and professional organizations on the future of technological development and the engineering profession. Activities include leveraging literature and resources to
January 28, 2020
Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity
Goal: To fostering conversations about what is happening in institutions across Canada, to discuss diversity issues unique to Canada in relation to our students and staff, and make meaning of their experience in Engineering; to identify and mitigate barriers in Engineering Education. We want to develop an ethnographic understanding of experience of under-represented groups in
May 11, 2022
First Year Engineering
March 02, 2022
GAPNet
January 03, 2020
Humanities and Engineering
Goal: A space for conversations/ideas/pedagogies that incorporate and expand our understanding of these intersections; providing opportunities and strategies for exposing/connecting engineers to engineering students, ideas, practices; providing a dialogue and meeting space for artists and academics studying the impact of these opportunities. This year at CEEA: a special session with a panel of non-engineers sharing their
January 02, 2020
Librarians' Division
Mandate: Promoting the effective and ethical exchange, use, and management of information in engineering education through collaboration between librarians, information specialists, educators, students, publishers, and content creators. Further integrating libraries in engineering education as a support both for current academic work and future lifelong learning. Understanding the uniquely Canadian landscape in engineering education and adapting
October 05, 2023
Mathematics (New)
The Math SIG aims to be a community of practice for teachers of mathematics for engineers. We want to be able to examine the dichotomy of mathematics courses. On the one hand, there is a mathematical need for rigor that calls for teaching by a mathematician. On the other, there is a need to be
