AAEE 2023: 34TH AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, December 3rd Monday, December 4th Tuesday, December 5th Wednesday, December 6th

Sunday, December 3rd, 2023

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17:30-19:30 Welcome Reception at The Boatshed, Sea World Resort

Short welcome address, drinks and canapes.

Monday, December 4th, 2023

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09:30-10:30 Session P1: Plenary Session: Professor Rodrigo Lozano, University of Gävle, Sweden

                         Education for a more Sustainable Future

10:30-11:00Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 Session 1A: Curriculum Development
Chair:
11:00
2 - Applying Benford’s Law to Simplify Grading of Engineering Capstone Projects
11:15
4 - Facilitating Critical Thinking in Engineering Students: An Exploration of Effective Methods
PRESENTER: Saleh Gharaie
11:30
18 - Evaluating Program Learning Outcomes Using a Student Perspective and Systems Engineering Lens
PRESENTER: Sophie Chinn
11:45
22 - Experiences of Tertiary EEE programs in Bangladesh to Address the Washington Accord Graduate Attributes in the Affective Learning Domain
PRESENTER: Anisul Haque
12:00
3 - Application of Critical Reading Skills in Academic Writing among First-year Engineering Students: Initial Findings and Next Steps
12:15
151 - Comparing the Pros and Cons: An Analysis of Online and Offline Assessment in Engineering Education
PRESENTER: Yit Yan Koh
11:00-12:30 Session 1B: Industry Engagement and Employability
11:00
6 - Creating a Competency Model for the Next Generation Workforce in Cell Manufacturing
11:15
14 - Incorporating Work-Integrated Learning Practices into Existing Degree Level Engineering Delivery
PRESENTER: Hana Cadzow
11:30
23 - Developing and Strengthening Co-Design Partnerships with Industries - a Whole of School Approach
11:45
45 - Can a Full Semester of WIL Satisfy Students, Industry and the Accrediting Body Alike?
PRESENTER: David Hobbs
12:00
50 - Enhancing Job Readiness in an Engineering Technologist Program – a Case Study
12:15
54 - Student Teams: Project-Based Work Integrated Learning in Engineering
PRESENTER: Jack Church
11:00-12:30 Session 1C: Workshop - Curriculum Development
11:00
133 - Dipping Your Toe into Practice Theories: Journeys into Engineering Education Research
PRESENTER: Guien Miao
11:00-12:30 Session 1D: Workshop - Curriculum Development
11:00
138 - In-person, Online & Hybrid education: Successes & Challenges
12:30-14:30Lunch & Sea World Break
14:30-16:00 Session 2A: Curriculum Development
Chair:
14:30
26 - Academics´ Experiences of Participating in a Microcredentials Development
14:45
29 - Transforming a Digital Electronics and Microcontrollers Education Using Educational Escape Rooms
PRESENTER: Robert Ross
15:00
48 - Development of Teamwork Skills in a Project-based First-year Engineering Subject: A Comprehensive Framework
PRESENTER: Huey Yee Chan
15:15
52 - On-Campus, Pilot Scale Experience for Undergraduate Engineering Students
15:30
55 - Engineering Capstone Curriculum Design – Reflections of a Design Team
15:45
17 - Science and Mathematics through a Technological Design Context: The Potential
14:30-16:00 Session 2B: Workshop - Student Engagement and Retention
14:30
149 - The role of Personal Characteristics and Environmental Elements in Sustaining and Shaping Empathic Experiences
14:30-16:00 Session 2C: Workshop - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
14:30
155 - Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering Education: Growing the AAEE Special Interest Group
14:30-16:00 Session 2E: Workshop - Student Engagement and Retention
14:30
171 - How to Spark a Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Improve Engineering Students’ Communication Skills
16:00-16:30Afternoon Tea
16:30-18:00 Session 3A: Curriculum Development
16:30
58 - On the 3D Printing Models and Students’ Reaction
16:45
59 - Interdisciplinarity in a Biomedical Engineering Curriculum Development: A Students’ Co-Design Approach
17:00
65 - Formative Sprints to improve feedback, learning, and fidelity in practice-based activities
17:15
71 - A Blended Approach to Teaching Statistics in a Large Second-Year Engineering Mathematics Course
17:30
86 - Creating Authentic Learning Experiences: A Case Study on Implementing Hands-On Activities and Project-based Learning Approach in Mechanical Design Courses
17:45
87 - Assessing Prior Knowledge and Past Experience of Commencing Masters students
PRESENTER: Gavin Buskes
16:30-18:00 Session 3B: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
16:30
9 - Māori and Pasifika Engineering Students: Impact and Contribution to their Peers
PRESENTER: Febelyn Reguyal
16:45
15 - Wai Water? Growing Bicultural Literacy in Water-Related Steam at Primary School For a Country Co-Governed With Indigenous Peoples
17:00
35 - Engineering Activities Differentiated by Experience and Gender
PRESENTER: Enda Crossin
17:15
113 - The Local Design Summit: trialling a local learning program between settlers and First Nations people
PRESENTER: Charlotte Fell
17:30
146 - Exploring Personal Cultural Orientation as an Antecedent of Psychological Safety in Teams of First-Year Engineering Students
PRESENTER: Matthew Ohland
17:45
160 - How Students’ Gender and Age Group Affect the Confidence-Competence Measures related to Work Integrating Learning (WIL) of Engineering Placement Students in an Australian University
16:30-18:00 Session 3C: Workshop - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
16:30
161 - Seeing, Being and Tending to the Landscape – A Dialogue on Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives Woven in Australian Engineering Education
16:30-18:00 Session 3D: Workshop - Curriculum Development
16:30
139 - Rubrics – Know How to Use Them and How to Write Them
PRESENTER: Zach Quince
16:30-18:00 Session 3E: Workshop - Industry Engagement and Employability
16:30
145 - Shaping the Future of Engineering Education Through Socially Contextualised and Industry-Connected Learning
PRESENTER: Tom Goldfinch
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023

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10:00-10:30Morning Tea
10:30-12:00 Session 4A: Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Computer Interaction
10:30
19 - AI’ming for Success: How Can Students Leverage AI in Project-Based Learning?
PRESENTER: Guien Miao
10:45
37 - Accreditation – Succinct submissions provide win-win outcomes. Experiences, Observations and Suggestions
11:00
51 - Adapting to the Changing Expectations of Software Industry: Graduate Readiness Training Program (GRTP)
PRESENTER: Sabrina Alam
11:15
63 - Learning to Program – a Tale of Two Cohorts.
PRESENTER: Melanie Fleming
11:30
33 - Improving Data Collection: A Comparative Analysis of Criterion-based Interpretation Framework Items with Likert Items based on Procedural Justice and Team Formation
11:45
30 - Enhancing Engineering Pedagogy with Near Metaphors
10:30-12:00 Session 4C: Workshop - Aligning to the Engineering 2035 Vision
10:30
152 - Evidencing Teaching-Focussed Excellence and Impact: Aligning Job Applications and Promotion to the 2035 Vision
PRESENTER: Sarah Dart
10:30-12:00 Session 4E: Workshop - Curriculum Development
10:30
150 - From Novelty to Norm: Incorporating and Embedding Co-design Curriculum with Industry into “Business as Usual”
PRESENTER: Xinni Du
12:00-13:00Lunch Break
13:00-14:30 Session 5A: Industry Engagement and Employability
13:00
56 - Engineering Thinking: Preparing Students for the Workforce with Novel Tertiary Pedagogy Design.
PRESENTER: Adam Schonker
13:15
60 - Identifying Students’ Perceptions of Industry Placements
PRESENTER: Ivan Gratchev
13:30
82 - Why is Teamwork So Hard to Teach Well at University?
PRESENTER: Beverly Coulter
13:45
114 - A Sustainable Approach to Establish Industry-Academia Collaboration by Engaging the Rural Community for the Developing Countries
PRESENTER: Sabrina Alam
14:00
140 - Let’s Investigate the Sociotechnical Contexts and Cultures that Influence the Professional Practice of Early Career Engineers
PRESENTER: Robert McHenry
14:15
148 - Investigating Types of Managerial Skills in Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Courses in Australia
PRESENTER: Sojen Pradhan
13:00-14:30 Session 5B: Student Engagement and Retention
Chair:
13:00
5 - Fostering Enduring Peer Learning Groups for 1st Year Students
PRESENTER: Jason Brown
13:15
7 - What is Empathy – A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
PRESENTER: Jacob Elmasry
13:30
10 - “P’s Get Degrees”: Exploring First-Year Engineering Students’ Perceptions and Experiences of Failure
PRESENTER: Nicoleta Maynard
13:45
20 - Comparison of Effectiveness of Different Delivery Modes in a Third-Year Civil Engineering Subject
14:00
31 - Enhancing Engagement Using Educational Escape Rooms for Teaching Measurement and Instrumentation
PRESENTER: Robert Ross
14:15
166 - Exploring First-Year Student Perceptions of Online Work Experience Modules
PRESENTER: Simon Howell
13:00-14:30 Session 5C: Workshop - Artificial Intelligence
13:00
143 - ChatGPT vs Engineering Education: A Pathway to Becoming an Everyday Tool
PRESENTER: Sasha Nikolic
13:00-14:30 Session 5D: Workshop - Artificial Intelligence
13:00
170 - Possible World - Transformation through Gamification
PRESENTER: Aya Matsuyama
14:30-15:00Afternoon Tea
15:00-16:30 Session 6A: Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Computer Interaction
15:00
172 - Matlab in Engineering Education
15:15
64 - Generative AI as a Catalyst for Enhanced Learning Experience in Engineering Education
PRESENTER: Behzad Fatahi
15:30
72 - Exploring Application of AI Technologies for Engineering Education in Systematic Invention and Innovation
PRESENTER: Pavel Livotov
15:45
109 - Generative AI in Final Year Projects
16:00
117 - Bringing Mindset Shift with Gamification
PRESENTER: Aya Matsuyama
16:15
118 - Uncovering Students’ Learning Pathways: A Process Mining Perspective
15:00-16:30 Session 6B: Student Engagement and Retention
15:00
34 - "I'm Not a Programmer, Therefore I Can't Program.” Diverse Perspectives of Students’ Difficulties with Programming.
PRESENTER: Vy Le
15:15
61 - Critical Thinking Activities to Promote Engagement and Long-Term Retention of Learning
15:30
66 - Happy Little Trees
PRESENTER: Chris McAlister
15:45
78 - Supporting At-Risk Students in CS1 Courses at Scale
PRESENTER: Alexandra Vassar
16:00
83 - The Engineering Roadshow: Creating Engaging Engineering Education Video Resources
PRESENTER: Nick Brown
16:15
89 - Active Student Participation in Teaching and Learning Research; Scylla and Charybdis or Euphroyne and Eleos?
PRESENTER: Melanie Fleming
15:00-16:30 Session 6C: Sustainability in Engineering Education
15:00
16 - Connections between Chemical Engineering Principles and Sustainable Development – Engineer Focus Group
PRESENTER: Naomi Bury
15:15
39 - Circular makerspace as means to support sustainable engineering education – instructor, student and facility perspectives
15:30
42 - On-Campus Recycled Plastic Use in Student Projects
PRESENTER: Kevin Otto
15:45
106 - Students and Alumni Perceptions of Sustainability in Engineering Education
PRESENTER: Poovarasi Balan
16:00
110 - Prevalence of Sustainability Concepts in Civil and Environmental Engineering Programs in Australia
PRESENTER: Ruth Fisher
16:15
144 - Exploring Opportunities for Reducing Education Related Aviation Emissions: An Australian Case Study
PRESENTER: Cheryl Desha
15:00-16:30 Session 6E: Workshop - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
15:00
165 - Decolonising the Curriculum – What Does it Mean for Engineering Education?
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023

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09:00-10:00 Session P3: Plenary Session: Professor Sally Male, The University of Melbourne

                         Engineering Students’ Engagement with Practice: Past, Present, and Future

10:00-10:30Morning Tea
10:30-12:00 Session 7A: Curriculum Development
10:30
91 - Honours Project Marking of Seminar and Expo Assessments with a Robust Statistical approach
10:45
111 - Creating an Exemplar of Sustainability in an Engineering Curriculum
PRESENTER: Mark Latham
11:00
126 - What Style of Tutorial Solution Video Should We Make?
PRESENTER: Catherine Sutton
11:15
129 - Impacts of Integration of Learning Activities with Video Modules in Asynchronous Learning
11:30
136 - Using Low-to-High Structured Learning Sequence with Peer-Based Learning in Advanced Engineering
PRESENTER: Polly Lai
11:45
154 - Implementation of the Flipped Classroom Model in a Large-scale First-Year Engineering Subject
PRESENTER: Lionel Lam
10:30-12:00 Session 7B: Short - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion / Student Engagement and Retention
10:30
158 - Gender Relationships with Student Experience in the Engineering Teaching Laboratory: A Multi-Learning Domain Gender Correlation Between Student Evaluation Scores and Perceived Learning
PRESENTER: Sasha Nikolic
10:35
173 - Whose Voices are being Heard? A Review of Diversity and Inclusion Research in the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education
PRESENTER: Matheus Xavier
10:40
99 - Educational Diversity in Entrance Pathways
PRESENTER: Zach Quince
10:45
103 - Queer and International Experiences of Online Learning
PRESENTER: Tania Machet
10:50
44 - Why Students Study STEM: Disciplinary and Gender Motivations
PRESENTER: Les Dawes
10:55
13 - Major Decisions! Exploring Student Pathways to Engineering Majors as Markers of Identity
PRESENTER: Amy Young
11:00
62 - Towards a Complexity Literacy Model
PRESENTER: Tania Machet
11:05
41 - Creating a Dialogue About Evaluation; a Students-as-Partners Approach to Feedback About Learning and Teaching
PRESENTER: Remo Cossu
11:10
96 - Critical Thinking Activities –A Case Study for Enhanced Performance and Retention in Fluid Mechanics
PRESENTER: Remo Cossu
10:30-12:00 Session 7C: Engineering Education Topics
10:30
167 - Assessing Learning Outcomes in NZ Mechanical Engineering Programmes under Sydney Accord and the Southern Institute of Technology
PRESENTER: Carlo Gabriel
10:45
11 - A Reflection on the Effectiveness of E-Assessments in Mathematically Intensive Engineering Courses Post COVID
PRESENTER: Belinda Schwerin
11:00
88 - Enabling Engineering Curriculum Mapping for Course Design and Accreditation
PRESENTER: Michael Crocco
11:15
175 - A pilot study into developing animations for electrical and electronic engineering curriculum
PRESENTER: Stephen So
11:30
174 - Collaborative Pathways in Clean Energy Research: A Cohort Supervision Model for Research Higher Degree Students
PRESENTER: N. K. Mandal
12:00-12:30Lunch Break
12:30-14:00 Session 8A: Student Engagement and Retention
12:30
95 - A Case Study on the Use of a Multi-Faceted Team Project for Final-Year Mechanical Engineering Thesis Students
PRESENTER: Peter Woodfield
12:45
97 - A School-Wide Pilot Program for Incentivising Technology-Enhanced Teaching Practices to Improve Educator and Student Relationship building
PRESENTER: Hamish Fernando
13:00
101 - Informal Learning Spaces to Enhance Engagement, Belonging and Engineering Identity in First-Year Students
PRESENTER: Veronica Halupka
13:15
112 - Assessment Development to Enhance Student Engagement and Academic Integrity in Teaching Engineering Courses
13:30
38 - Making Collaboration Work: Critical Reflections on a Cross-Disciplinary Project
PRESENTER: Sheila Busteed
13:45
27 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Engineering Assessment Practice: Sustaining Innovative Assessment Post-Pandemic
PRESENTER: Pratap Pawar
12:30-14:00 Session 8B: Short - Curriculum Development / Industry Engagement and Employability
12:30
24 - Large-Industry Partnerships: The Interaction and Impact on Educational Programs Exemplified by the Blue Economy CRC
PRESENTER: Remo Cossu
12:35
85 - Engineering Projects: Industry Connections and Engineering Tools
12:40
25 - A Comparative Study of Different Direct Assessment Methods to Evaluate Attainment of Program Outcomes of Engineering Graduates in an OBE based Curriculum
PRESENTER: Anisul Haque
12:45
69 - Purls of Wisdom: Machine Knitting as a Fast Prototyping Tool
12:50
75 - Are Engineering Programs Meeting the 2035 Professional and Personal Requirements?
PRESENTER: Zach Quince
12:55
105 - Using Program Logic Models to Evaluate Curriculum Design Decisions
PRESENTER: Alexander Kist
13:00
12 - A Study of Flipped Classroom Approach in Chemical Engineering Core Courses
PRESENTER: Amar Auckaili
13:05
100 - Orientation for Credit, Transition for Success
PRESENTER: Catherine Hills
13:10
107 - Skill Developed Through Field Camps: A Case Study on Surveying Camp for Civil Engineering Undergraduates
PRESENTER: Gn Samarasekara
13:15
108 - Analysis of Knowledge Domain Credit Requirement in the Sri Lankan Four-Year Civil Engineering Undergraduate Degree Programs
PRESENTER: Gn Samarasekara
12:30-14:00 Session 8C: Workshop - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
12:30
134 - Tools and Strategies for Disseminating Knowledge via the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
12:30-14:00 Session 8D: Workshop - Curriculum Development
12:30
168 - Benchmarking – a Means to Facilitate Strategic Improvements to an Engineering Program
12:30-14:00 Session 8E: Workshop - Student Engagement and Retention
12:30
142 - What Do We Learn by Breaking the Course Experience Survey?