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Congratulations to Shaun Farquhar, a fourth year Chemical Engineering with Management student, who has won the Engineering Subject Centre Student Award 2009 run by the Higher Education Academy. He was awarded the prize of £250 by Dr Simon Steiner, Academic Advisor, Engineering Subject Centre, at a celebratory lunch held at the University of Edinburgh in June . The lunch was attended by both students and staff from the Universty.
Shaun's essay entitled "how can your classes be more engaging" suggests that demonstrating a 'mini experiment' at the beginning of a lecture will help the student with the theory taught afterwards.
The essay competition is run every year by the Engineering Subject Centre and provides the change for all students studying an engineering related discipline at undergraduate level in a UK higher education institution to submit their opinions and experiences in a 1000 word essay.
About the Engineering Subject Centre
'The Engineering Subject Centre is one of the 24 subject centres that form the subject network of the Higher Education Academy. As the national centre for all engineering academics in the UK, the Engineering Subject Centre delivers subject based support to promote quality learning and teaching. We do this by stimulating the sharing of good practice and innovation, thereby helping engineering academics to contribute to the best possible learning experience for their students.
The aims reflect and contribute to the attainment of the Higher Education Academy’s strategic plan 2008-13 and have a focus on the needs of engineering academics. The Centre is attentive and responsive to new and changing agendas and is proactive in providing innovative activities to meet the needs of the engineering community.
The Engineering Subject Centre is based in the Faculty of Engineering at Loughborough University. It draws upon the expertise of engineering academics and educationalists from across the higher education sector, and works closely with the engineering professional bodies.'
More details and the aims of the centre can be found at their website:
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/us/what_engsc/index.asp
Their newsletter can be found at:
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/pdfs/newsletters/translate26.pdf
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