Tag: Engineering
Last month we sent in revision 4 of the book. The final manuscript. With no further reviews. It was with a huge sigh of relief and a great sense of ...
November 7, 2023 -
This unit provides practical hands-on experience of a multidisciplinary task to design, build and test an unmanned aerospace vehicle. The learning experience covers technical disciplines but also crucially offers experience ...
October 16, 2023 -
Over the last two days I welcomed into my classroom 500 new students. They are new to University, and teaching first years is also new to me. I have a ...
October 2, 2023 -
School of CAME, Engineering. Working with 120 students at one time can be challenging but also offers many opportunities. Listen to find out: ...
June 5, 2023 -
We are delighted to announce Dr Francesco Fornetti was recently nominated by the University to apply for the Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship. My passion for electronics and technology started ...
December 13, 2022 -
Read the full series Programme: Civil Engineering How is sustainability included in it? Most of the design work in the programme is iterative rather than transformative, with sustainability teaching emerging ...
December 12, 2022 -
A few years back I decided to run 1000 miles in a year. I created a spreadsheet. Logged every run. And it was going amazingly until July/August. I am not ...
September 21, 2022 -
It’s August. The month of time off, promised writing time, and when I imagined we would finish the book. First of all, an apology – today is my first day ...
August 22, 2022 -
This week has been a first for me. I went on a future walk. Participants joined me as we walked around in 2050! We didn’t use a time machine, just ...
July 19, 2022 -
Hi all. For this month’s post I thought I would try and capture my progress over 4 weeks. You will see from the below that this is only 10 days ...
June 20, 2022 -
If April was about not giving up, May is about throwing in the towel. I’m done. Now let’s be clear, I’m not done with writing a book in a year, ...
May 18, 2022 -
"The technical team have done an outstanding job this year to provide lab and workshop induction sessions for nearly 700 first year engineering students. ...
May 10, 2022 -
Graduate Teacher Level 1 in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science "[Ethan] helped me a lot in Imperative and Functional Programming unit, more specifically in the functional part ...
May 10, 2022 -
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering "The AVDASI 2 - Design, Build and Test group project is a cornerstone of the Aerospace Engineering undergraduate programme. Working in large teams, ...
May 10, 2022 -
Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Engineering Mathematics "The way that [Chanelle] teaches creates an amazing environment to learn in as she will make sure everyone is comfortable ...
May 10, 2022 -
Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering "In addition to [Dr Fornetti's] outstanding competence and communication skills, what really struck me was his creativity ...
May 10, 2022 -
Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering "[Judes] lectures are always dynamic, linking ideas to real life examples and concrete application of them, with regular questions prompting ...
May 10, 2022 -
So, now the job of writing a book proposal is done. The next job is to actually write it. One might imagine that this involves sitting down and writing a ...
March 16, 2022 -
Looking at successes and rejections This post is about James' previous book proposals – because when we write our new proposal we come with a history (hopefully mostly good) and ...
January 11, 2022 -
Dr Joel Ross, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, talking about his experiences during the 'Reflections on Hybrid Teaching' workshop. ...
November 30, 2021 -
The 2019 Bristol Teaching Awards was a fantastic night of celebration of the excellent teaching and learning that takes place at the University. The person deemed ‘best of the best’, ...
November 17, 2021 -
Video case study - Sean Lancastle presents how Engineering will be approaching hybrid teaching. ...
October 5, 2021 -