What is the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE)?
CEE is a new initiative that supports our teaching staff and GTA's, helping them deliver excellent teaching and enhancing the student experience whilst raising the reputation and profile of Engineering Education at Sheffield.
What is the purpose of CEE?
CEE is relevant to teaching-active staff and those who lead, influence and support the delivery of education.
Our goals:
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External impact: To raise the reputation and profile of Engineering Education at Sheffield - this will involve creating open educational scholarship outputs such as peer reviewed papers and conference presentations
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Staff development: To raise the profile of staff who teach and the GTA cohort, recognising their contribution to high quality engineering education
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Enhance the Student experience: To support activity by teaching-active staff and GTA’s - this will involve internal education projects linked to key university, faculty and departmental action plans
Benefits to teaching active staff:
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Access to budget for travel and attendance at teaching conferences and events
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Helping staff access their scholarship time for educational research and professional development
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Encouraged in increasing the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals
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Support with HEA Fellowship applications
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Good practice can be shared with other members of CEE
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Teaching staff will have strong backing to maximise the impact of their teaching
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An internal mentoring scheme will be available building on the expertise of successful educators
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Staff will be recognised and rewarded for engaging with CEE
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Media training to navigate press/radio interviews