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Visiting Professors' Scheme
This programme fosters
industry–academia links and aims to help
universities to teach engineering design to
undergraduates in a way that relates to real
professional practice.
There are four strands
to the programme:
Visiting Professors' Scheme Events
The Academy holds regular
workshop events for those participating in its VP
schemes. The purpose is to publicly engage both VPs
and their academic contacts for a variety of
purposes such as debating issues that might impinge
on the schemes or where they can add value to the
formulation of policy or the outcome of a specific
Academy project.
The Sustainable Development VP
scheme held separate
annual events from 2000 - 2005. These can be accessed here.
Visiting Professors' Publications
The Academy has published 4
booklets to support these schemes. The most recent
published in June 2007. This lays down 6 simple
principles covering the design of any integrated
system. It is intended as a guide for educators,
students and practising engineers, and sets out to
demystify the design of complex projects.
In September 2005 we issued twelve principles
for Sustainable Development
to guide practising engineers, illustrated by seven
wide ranging case studies.
In February 2005 a separate report summarised lessons learned from 12 years experience
of the VP scheme and contains case studies from ten
universities.
An earlier publication is an
exposition on "Principles of Engineering Design"
illustrated by four case studies.
Poster Competition
Between 2005 and 2008 the Academy
ran
a national student design competition to support the
work of its Visiting Professors and promote the
concept and benefits of such competitions in UK
universities. Click the links below
to view the winning posters.
Scheme manager: Ian
Bowbrick
[E-mail Ian]
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