Online workshop invitation: Assessment of Socio-Technical and Co-Design Expertise in Humanitarian Engineering

Assessment of Socio-Technical and Co-Design Expertise in Humanitarian Engineering

2019 AAEE Award for Engineering Education Research Design
Dr Andrea Mazzurco and Dr Scott Daniel
Thursday 09 July, 12-1pm AEST
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Humanitarian Engineering (HE) is emerging in universities and professional workplaces worldwide. HE projects exist at the intersection of engineering and sustainable community development, and therefore socio-technical and co-design expertise are fundamental. However, such skills and mindsets are difficult to teach, learn, and assess. There is a need to develop effective teaching and assessment strategies, dependent upon clearly operationalised definitions of both socio-technical and co-design expertise.

In this workshop, the Energy Conversion Playground (ECP), a scenario-based assessment developed to assess socio-technical thinking and co-design expertise in the context of humanitarian engineering, will be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to work with the assessment and discuss how to develop their own scenario-based assessments for other constructs.