Prompts
- Are there IEng and/or CEng qualified staff who can help?
- Are there any Professional Engineering Institution (PEI) nominated liaison officers on staff or in the region who could help?
“Knowing our market helped us design an appropriate programme”
Northumbria University
“Northumbria University found it useful to use its employer liaison boards to sound employers out, and made use of local branches of professional bodies and research from the university’s marketing people”
Northumbria University
“Kingston University’s staff felt that industry links are a real positive, with the participants typically being more mature engineers, and their managers or mentors typically at a senior level.”
Kingston University
“A key benefit to employers is that they can be involved on their terms.”
University of Greenwich
“Advice and input from the relevant professional body was useful, particularly at the learning contract stage.”
Staffordshire University
“We also have this programme as a standing item on the industrial liaison boards that happen usually twice a year”
Northumbria University
“Advice and input from the relevant professional body was useful, particularly at the learning contract stage.”
Staffordshire University
“We could recruit many more but we don’t as we want to ensure quality of participant.”
Staffordshire University
“Many participants found critical reflection and evaluation a challenging skill to develop.”
Kingston University
“We have used experienced staff to support this programme and the modules.”
Northumbria University
“Students’ current role and employment must enable access to live projects that they could use for this programme.”
Northumbria University
The alignment of the learning outcomes to the UK-SPEC requirements was recognised as fundamental to these programmes. Report on providers' critical success factors includes steps taken.
“Flexibility includes e-learning, distance learning, workplace projects but although there can be some face-to-face meetings between students and staff, this is not insisted on”
Northumbria University
“The rate of progress in completing MSc module submissions is often slow initially, speeding up considerably towards completion.”
Kingston University
“Build on current employer links for repeat business.”
Northumbria University
“For university staff, there is a clear and welcome benefit from interaction with engineers on current engineering projects. The opportunities for development of the relationships are considerable.”
Kingston University