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May 23-25, 2019
University of Bremen (Germany)
The Regional Engineering Pedagogy Conference was held for the 14th time between May 23 and 25, 2019. This year, the conference was held at the University of Bremen, hosted by the Institute of Technology and Education. The theme of the conference concerned technical education in the context of the digitization and automation of society and technology.
Approximately 100 participants exchanged views on the various issues and discussed the opportunities and challenges of social and technical developments. The focus has always been on the interaction between these developments and technical education, with both academic and vocational education as key issues. Additionally, the conference provided an opportunity to continue discussions on the fundamental issues of engineering education that had been sparked at recent regional meetings.
Basic Outcomes of Engineering Pedagogy
These basic questions form the core of the Scientific Society of Engineering Education (IPW)—which promotes on the one hand science and research and education, education and vocational training as goals on the other hand. As such, the IPW provides a forum to exchange about the design of technical education, ethical issues, sustainability in teaching, research and development and the promotion of young people, as well as serving as a forum for interdisciplinary exchange.
The IPW’s regional meetings represent another important exchange platform where the IPW’s core aspects are always discussed within different contexts. The interdisciplinarity between disciplines and the future viability of their mutual demarcation, the structural didactic, methodical, medial and target group-oriented design of educational programs. This also provides space for defining which requirements for teachers should be considered important in actualizing the ideas from the IPW’s fourteenth Regional Meeting.