The Great-Pioneer project held an inspiring lunch-to-lunch seminar showcasing innovative pedagogy in Engineering Education at Stenungsund in Sweden, on June 25th and 26th 2024. It was followed by a partner meeting to disucuss the final steps of the project.
The GRE@T-PIONEeR is a Horizon 2020 project coordinated by Chalmers University of Technology, running over the period 2020-2024. 18 university teachers from 8 different universities located in 6 different countries gathered forces to offer advanced courses in computational and experimental nuclear reactor physics and safety. All courses are flipped hybrid courses, i.e., students work on online preparatory activities at their own pace before attending a set of interactive sessions organized on 5 to 10 consecutive working days. Those sessions are arranged in a hybrid set-up, with students following the sessions either onsite or remotely. In the 2022/2023 academic year alone, this innovative format was completed by 185 students in 8 courses, achieving an impressive 87.7% success rate.
This seminar went beyond mere statistics. We delved into the intricacies of course structure and organization, and critically analyzed the effectiveness of our teaching methods in fostering student engagement and participation. Some parts of the seminar were arranged interactively so that the participants could brainstorm and receive guidance on how to adapt and apply similar methods in their own engineering and educational fields.
