Webinar with Peter Goodhew on February 3rd at 9am EST
Engineering Skills Where They Are Most Needed is a programme supported by The Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyds Register Foundation in the UK. It is an important component of Engineering X, an international collaboration addressing some of the great challenges of our age. Safety is a key aspect of all engineering endeavours and population growth in emerging economies is driving huge investment in critical infrastructure. However, a skills gap that is exacerbated by a reliance on multinational organisations and temporary, non-domestic workforces is limiting capability to operate and maintain such infrastructure safely. One of the key elements of the Engineering Skills programme is the establishment of a Safety Champions in Engineering Education. This Fellowship aims to bring together senior academics from around the world who are dedicated to improving the awareness and understanding of safety among their students. In this webinar Professor Peter Goodhew FREng, the Chair of the Engineering Skills programme, will describe the background and purpose of this programme and the opportunities to participate in it.
Presentor
Peter Goodhew
Professor Peter Goodhew CBE FREng is an electron microscopist who has published extensively on metallic and semiconducting materials and has authored or co-authored several widely used books on transmission (and scanning transmission) electron microscopy. He was the leader of the UK SuperSTEM project at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory for ten years and has been Dean of Engineering and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Liverpool. He is a Trustee and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Professor at NMITE, a new institution dedicated to the innovative teaching of engineering.
During his career at the Universities of Surrey and Liverpool he established the MATTER computer-based learning project and was the founding Director of the UK Centre for Materials Education (UKCME), one of the Subject Centres of the Higher Education Academy. Prof Goodhew was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to Engineering and Education.
The Safety Champions in Engineering Education (SCEE) fellowship programme has been launched. The applications can be accessed via raeng.org.uk/scee.