Dekelver & vervoort community service engineering - sefi - 180913
- 1. Community Service Engineering Postgraduate course for engineers Bridging the worlds of technology, the social profit and the profit sector
- 2. 1. What is it about?
- 3. It started with the Cera Award a) Cera Award links social profit organisations to students in technical higher education b) Students work on a technical problem in a social profit organisation. c) Students develop social, communication and creative skills.
- 4. What the Cera Award reveiled… a) There is a lot of innovation potential in the social profit sector b) Engineers can contribute more to the sector if they understand more clearly the needs and challenges of the people and organisations their engineering projects serve.
- 5. The new curriculum A profile of engineers that have profound knowledge of engineering & groups and organisations in the broad welfare sector
- 6. Social profit – ‘vulnerable groups’ • Elderly • Intellectually disabled • Physically disabled • Sensory disabled • Youth at risk • People in poverty • People with a different migration background • People with addiction problems • Detainees • Long-term sick people • …
- 7. Social profit – subsectors
- 8. Engineering & ‘welfare’ topics Directly for the benefit of; to enhance the quality of living for end users
- 9. Engineering & ‘welfare’ topics To strenghten social profit organisations as entities
- 10. The history of engineering -(Wikipedia)
- 11. Examples V-pad V-Pad is a tool that supports people with intellectual disabilities to be safe on the road. It uses a cell phone that follows the user and informs a supervisor if the user deviates from the expected path.
- 12. Examples Toys for children with disabilities All children like to play and they learn a lot from it, but this boy had never played with a crane before.
- 13. Examples Bike lock With this lock, people with a physical disability can leave their bikes in a safe manner. Requirements: •Easy to operate •No keys or difficult codes to remember •An easy key for supervisors
- 14. Examples Hair sink A device that supports hair washing of people who have difficulties moving their head Requirements: •Prevents becoming wet •Easy to operate and move •Esthetical •….
- 15. Examples Body Guard A lot of critical professions in the social profit sector itself: nurses, caregivers, orthopedagogues,… -> Technology to alleviate the heavy work load
- 16. Examples Online counseling Online help is arising in various sectors: -Youth Care -Speech Therapy -…
- 17. 2. The curriculum in practice
- 18. STRUCTURE
- 19. Blended course • Virtual learning environment = central meeting point • Learning activities are organised across physical (± 1/3) and virtual spaces (± 2/3).
- 20. Connectivist or network learning Fig. Pedagogical Learning by Developing model © Laurea University of Applied Sciences
- 21. Lessons from Olin Project based education •Smart design of project work throughout the curriculum •From a structured set of constraint problems to open ended projects
- 22. Practical issues • Joint certificate Thomas More/KU Leuven (30 ECTS) • Open for all types of engineering profiles • In English, CEFR B2 is advised
- 23. 3. Added value for graduates
- 24. Added value for graduates Graduated Community Service Engineers can play a role in: •the social profit sector itself •companies in assistive technology •standard companies (product and market development for the social profit sector)
- 25. Added value for graduates Community Service Engineers are particularly widely employable in the labour market because they have been trained at the crossroads of additional disciplines and have interacted with a variety of audiences and organisations.
- 26. 4. Potential for the future
- 27. Changing the perception of the engineering profession Many Europeans consider technology as a social problem, responsible for growing social inequality (digital gap), environmental pollution and climate change, job losses via automation Technology as a facilitator for inclusion, accessiblity, efficiency of social profit organisations, alleviator of heavy work load,…
- 28. Partners
- 29. And the partnership enlarges A 3 year project to work towards an international consortium with support of the European commission With partners from: Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden,…
- 30. Questions? Inge Vervoort Community Service Engineering inge.vervoort@thomasmore.be Jan Dekelver Research Coordinator Inclusion jan.dekelver@thomasmore.be
- 31. Our questions to you • Do you know engineers who might be interested in taking this course? Please inform them. • Do you know examples of technology used in or useful for the social profit sector? We would like to get to know these for our curriculum.
- 32. Our questions to you • Do you know social profit organisations with a challenge for engineers? Please have them formulate their project proposal? • Do you know experts in course contents topics? We would be interested in exploring collaboration potential.
Editor's Notes
- #5: (care centres for the elderly, organisations that support people with disabilities and at-risk populations; youth organisations, community services, social welfare organisations, etc.) has clearly benefited from the innovative skills of engineers; These findings formed the impetus to shape the curriculum for Community Service Engineering (CSE) Op technologisch-wetenschappelijk vlak verandert onze maatschappij razendsnel. Om haar gebruikers kwaliteitsvolle dienstverlening te bieden, moet de social profit sector mee met deze verbeteringen. Binnen organisaties in deze sector ontbreekt het vaak aan mensen en middelen om mee te stappen in dit proces van technische vernieuwing. Cera Award helpt social profit organisaties door hen te linken aan studenten (technische profielen). Deze studenten gaan in het kader van een eindwerk, een ontwerpopdracht of een stage aan de slag in een social profit organisatie en scherpen zo hun sociale, communicatieve en creatieve vaardigheden aan. Cera Award brengt twee werelden, en verschillende competenties samen.
- #22: Learning by developing = theory of learning