Engineering And Related Technologies

The Resource Centre contains practical material about good teaching and learning in the tertiary sector. The Resources can come from the Communities and Project Groups on the site. The Resources are high-quality, well-presented, evidence-based, and relevant to New Zealand.

This section includes items relevant to the teaching of Engineering and Related Technologies, including Authomotive Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, and Welding.


 

Most Recent Resources about Engineering And Related Technologies

Teaching and Assessing Meta-attributes in Engineering: identifying, developing and disseminating good practice

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Engineering faculties across Australia are experiencing substantial pressure from industry, professional bodies and institutions to contextualise and embed graduate attributes in undergraduate programs. This project investigated good practice in the teaching and assessment of meta-attributes in engineering (reflective practice and systems thinking).

Development, deployment and educational assessment of advanced immersive learning environments for process engineering

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This Australian project developed an advanced immersive learning environment for engineering students to deepen and enhance their knowledge and understanding of the design, operations and risk management of complex process systems. The environment provides virtual access on the desktop to major industrial operations that serve also for improved industrial operator training.

A new enabling technology for learning and teaching quantitative and mathematics skills

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This project developed tools and approaches to enhance the quantitative and mathematical skills of students. A flexible electronic framework was created, through which students and educators can interactively generate a very large number of illustrative examples, problems and questions that cover a wide range of fundamental mathematical, statistical & quantitative skills.