On Monday, March 8th, at 10:15 am, Dr. Andrew Gillen, a discipline-based engineering education faculty candidate, will be sharing research entitled "Sustainable Collaborative Partnerships in Engineering Education".
Abstract:
Collaboration is a term that has become common language across sectors as a panacea for a host of complex social and technical problems. While there’s evidence that ill-defined problems like these do require investment from multiple different stakeholders, taking the leap from idealistic rhetoric into realistic sustainable partnership takes careful consideration of the collaborative processes. In this seminar, research will be presented about systematically exploring how collaborative processes emerge in multi-stakeholder projects involving industry and educational institutions. Leveraging a better understanding of collaboration theory enables new research questions to be asked and answered within engineering education. Outputs from this work also include practical implications for those seeking to collaborate with intention across organizations.
Bio:
Andrew Gillen is currently a Lecturer in Civil Engineering Design in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at University College London (UCL) with an appointment as the Departmental Inclusion Lead. His research interests include multi-stakeholder partnerships, iterative curricular improvement efforts (research-practice cycles), broadening participation and community engagement, as well as other pre-college engineering education topic areas. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech and B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University. Recently, he was awarded Fellowship of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA), recognizing teaching excellence.
Time: 10:15-11:15 am on Monday, March 8th
Zoom link: https://unl.zoom.us/j/91306990055