{"id":1553,"date":"2019-11-07T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:22:57","slug":"lottie-looks-in-on-changing-perceptions-and-teaching-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/lottie-looks-in-on-changing-perceptions-and-teaching-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottie looks in on changing perceptions and teaching of engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The face of engineering is changing, and the #Lottietour – where a Lottie doll tours the varied world of engineering – helps to showcase that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science Stereotype Challenging Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This years tour has begun, with Lottie sitting in on a story about a young inventor, told by Marine Engineer, Tamsin Dobson. Tamsin read ‘Rosie Revere Engineer’ to children at Aerospace Bristol<\/a> last week in one of many storytelling events held across the city during Bristol’s half term Storytale Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tamsin Dobson reading Rosie Revere Engineer at Aerospace Bristol on Tuesday 29th November 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

STEM Ambassadors read books that challenged science-stereotypes at 10 different locations. These ‘Curious Stories for Curious Children<\/a>‘ were run by the Curiosity Connections<\/a> team (the Bristol primary science network), including UWE Bristol’s Laura Fogg-Rogers<\/a> and Louisa Cockbill<\/a>, alongside Liz Lister from the STEM Ambassador hub for the West of England<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While perceptions of science and engineering were challenged for over 150 children across the city, Lottie moved up to UWE Bristol’s Frenchay campus to witness how Engineering Education is changing….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenging Engineering Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The quiet before level 1 student engineers get back to helping solve multiple issues that Makers Valley in Johannesburg, South Africa is experiencing right now. A jam packed week of research and learning how to develop a concept design for a problem<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nearly all of UWE’s 700 first and second year engineering students,turned up for the first Scenario Project week of the year. Challenging the students with regional and global problems is a foundational part of the new engineering curriculum, all designed to improve inclusivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think historically the education system precludes certain types of people from being successful, because it\u2019s heavily examined and a lot of young people don\u2019t find that an easy process to go through. We are trying to create a curriculum with a range of different methods to assess students, so that regardless of background and qualification, there\u2019s the opportunity to succeed.<\/p>Lisa Brodie, Head of Engineering, Design and Mathematics<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Read more about ‘Curious Stories for Curious Children<\/a>‘ and hear Lisa Brodie wax lyrical about engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The face of engineering is changing, and the #Lottietour – where a Lottie doll tours the varied world of engineering – helps to showcase that. Science Stereotype Challenging Stories This years tour has begun, with Lottie sitting in on a story about a young inventor, told by Marine Engineer, Tamsin Dobson. Tamsin read ‘Rosie Revere … Continue reading “Lottie looks in on changing perceptions and teaching of engineering”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}