Programme

The full programme for the 35th Australasian Association for Engineering Education Annual Conference is available below. Click on a session title to access detailed information, including session details and full paper.

* Please note that the programme is subject to change. Last updated on Thursday 21 November. 


Sunday, December 8, 2024


Monday, December 9, 2024

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7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Monday 9 December
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Conference opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote presentation: Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability in Engineering Education
Prof Caroline Baillie
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1A | Theme: Technology and Tools 1B | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability 1C | Theme: Student feedback, perspectives and perceptions 1D | Theme: Student feedback, perspectives and perceptions 1E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence 1F | Workshop: Mapping your Engineering Education Research Journey 1G | Workshop: Design Signatures in the Wild: Making the Invisible Visible 1H | Workshop: TechnoLab™ - Experiential Learning in Statics, Mechanics & Dynamics 1I | Workshop: Reviewing Engineering Education Journal Papers 1J | Workshop: What values demonstrate Inclusion of Indigenous people, culture and knowledges in Engineering Education?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AJEE Editorial Board meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 1
Concurrent session 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
2A | Theme: Technology and Tools 2B | Theme: Engineering Identity 2C | Theme: Teamwork and professional skills 2D | Theme: Experiential learning 2E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence 2F | Workshop: AAEE Research School Reunion: Nostalgia and Networking 2G | Workshop: Sociotechnical contexts and cultures that influence the practice of early career engineers 2H | Workshop: Engineering Privileges for Sale – A Thought Experiment 2I | Workshop: Intentional Integration of Reflection in Engineering Courses 2J | Workshop: The circular economy: upskilling the engineering workforce
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 3
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
3A | Theme: Project based learning 3B | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability 3C | Theme: Assessment 3D | Theme: Student engagement 3E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence 3F | Workshop: National Competency Standard for Engineering 3G | Workshop: Enhancing Teaching Practice through Hybrid Delivery 3H | Workshop: Your place in this space 3I | Workshop: Tools and Strategies for Disseminating Knowledge via the Presenters: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) 3J | Workshop: How to Deliver Experiential Education Without Leaving the Classroom





A
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Monday 9 December
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Conference opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote presentation: Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability in Engineering Education
Prof Caroline Baillie
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1A | Theme: Technology and Tools
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AJEE Editorial Board meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 1
Concurrent session 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
2A | Theme: Technology and Tools
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 3
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
3A | Theme: Project based learning

B
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Monday 9 December
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Conference opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote presentation: Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability in Engineering Education
Prof Caroline Baillie
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1B | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AJEE Editorial Board meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 1
Concurrent session 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
2B | Theme: Engineering Identity
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 3
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
3B | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability

C
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Monday 9 December
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Conference opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote presentation: Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability in Engineering Education
Prof Caroline Baillie
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1C | Theme: Student feedback, perspectives and perceptions
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AJEE Editorial Board meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 1
Concurrent session 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
2C | Theme: Teamwork and professional skills
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 3
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
3C | Theme: Assessment

D
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Monday 9 December
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Conference opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote presentation: Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability in Engineering Education
Prof Caroline Baillie
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1D | Theme: Student feedback, perspectives and perceptions
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AJEE Editorial Board meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 1
Concurrent session 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
2D | Theme: Experiential learning
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 3
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
3D | Theme: Student engagement

E
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Monday 9 December
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Conference opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote presentation: Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability in Engineering Education
Prof Caroline Baillie
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Morning tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AJEE Editorial Board meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 1
Concurrent session 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
2E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 1
Concurrent session 3
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
3E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence







Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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D
E
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7:25 AM - 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 December
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation
Keynote speaker Dr Rod Carr
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4A | Theme: Competencies and accreditation 4B | Theme: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence 4C | Theme: Student experience 4D | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability 4E | Theme: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 4F | Workshop: Competency Based Unit Design: Building on Foundational Mastery 4G | Workshop: Integrating GenAI in Engineering Education: Designing Assessments for Tomorrow's Engineers 4H | Workshop: Types of interdisciplinary projects in engineering education 4I | Workshop: What do we learn by breaking the course experience survey? 4J | Accreditation review – from insights to action
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 2
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AAEE AGM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chemical and Process Engineering tour
Civil and Natural Recourses Engineering tour
Electrical and Computer Engineering tour
Lab tours
Mechanical Lab tour
Concurrent session 5
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5A | Theme: Sustainability 5B | Theme: Ethics 5C | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability 5D | Theme: Academic Workforce Development 5E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence 5F | Workshop: SPARKPLUS Tutor Benchmarking to improve learning and marking quality, feedback literacy, and student satisfaction 5G | Workshop: ‘Failure’ in engineering education: Moving forward by taking a step back 5H | Workshop: Industry Engagement in Curriculum Design 5I | Workshop: Feedback on Feedback: an adaptable assessment task for simultaneously teaching feedback literacy and providing scaleable feedback in group projects 5J | Transforming Group Work Assessment in Higher Education
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6A | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability 6B | Theme: First Nations Perspectives 6C | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability 6D | Theme: Technology and Tools 6E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence 6F | Workshop: Building collaborative teaching teams across units of study 6G | Workshop: Brainstorming a Program of Tiered Commitments through a Case Study Analysis 6H | Workshop: Moodle might be marvellous: Using the formula-type question to improve student learning in engineering and maths calculations 6I | Workshop: Benchmarking – a means to achieve continual improvements to an engineering program 6J | Workshop: Text-to-image generative AI tools for better learning and teaching
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Conference dinner





A
7:25 AM - 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 December
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation
Keynote speaker Dr Rod Carr
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4A | Theme: Competencies and accreditation
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 2
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AAEE AGM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chemical and Process Engineering tour
Civil and Natural Recourses Engineering tour
Electrical and Computer Engineering tour
Lab tours
Mechanical Lab tour
Concurrent session 5
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5A | Theme: Sustainability
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6A | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Conference dinner

B
7:25 AM - 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 December
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation
Keynote speaker Dr Rod Carr
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4B | Theme: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 2
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AAEE AGM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chemical and Process Engineering tour
Civil and Natural Recourses Engineering tour
Electrical and Computer Engineering tour
Lab tours
Mechanical Lab tour
Concurrent session 5
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5B | Theme: Ethics
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6B | Theme: First Nations Perspectives
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Conference dinner

C
7:25 AM - 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 December
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation
Keynote speaker Dr Rod Carr
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4C | Theme: Student experience
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 2
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AAEE AGM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chemical and Process Engineering tour
Civil and Natural Recourses Engineering tour
Electrical and Computer Engineering tour
Lab tours
Mechanical Lab tour
Concurrent session 5
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5C | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6C | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Conference dinner

D
7:25 AM - 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 December
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation
Keynote speaker Dr Rod Carr
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4D | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 2
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AAEE AGM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chemical and Process Engineering tour
Civil and Natural Recourses Engineering tour
Electrical and Computer Engineering tour
Lab tours
Mechanical Lab tour
Concurrent session 5
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5D | Theme: Academic Workforce Development
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6D | Theme: Technology and Tools
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Conference dinner

E
7:25 AM - 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 December
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation
Keynote speaker Dr Rod Carr
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4E | Theme: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 2
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AAEE AGM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chemical and Process Engineering tour
Civil and Natural Recourses Engineering tour
Electrical and Computer Engineering tour
Lab tours
Mechanical Lab tour
Concurrent session 5
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6E | Theme: Artificial Intelligence
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Conference dinner





J
7:25 AM - 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 December
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation
Keynote speaker Dr Rod Carr
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4J | Accreditation review – from insights to action
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch | Day 2
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM AAEE AGM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chemical and Process Engineering tour
Civil and Natural Recourses Engineering tour
Electrical and Computer Engineering tour
Lab tours
Mechanical Lab tour
Concurrent session 5
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
5J | Transforming Group Work Assessment in Higher Education
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon tea | Day 2
Concurrent session 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6J | Workshop: Text-to-image generative AI tools for better learning and teaching
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Conference dinner


Wednesday, December 11, 2024






A
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Wednesday 11 December
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Altium Sponsorship Presentation
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation: Our University’s Journey towards a Sustainable Future
Prof. Jan Evans-Freeman
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 3
Concurrent session 7
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
7A | Theme: Knowledge, Skills, Careers and Employability
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Conference closing

B
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Wednesday 11 December
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Altium Sponsorship Presentation
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation: Our University’s Journey towards a Sustainable Future
Prof. Jan Evans-Freeman
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 3
Concurrent session 7
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
7B | Theme: First Nations Perspectives
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Conference closing

C
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Wednesday 11 December
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Altium Sponsorship Presentation
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation: Our University’s Journey towards a Sustainable Future
Prof. Jan Evans-Freeman
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 3
Concurrent session 7
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
7C | Theme: Technology and Tools
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Conference closing

D
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Wednesday 11 December
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Altium Sponsorship Presentation
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation: Our University’s Journey towards a Sustainable Future
Prof. Jan Evans-Freeman
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 3
Concurrent session 7
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
7D | Theme: Assessment and Programme Design
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Conference closing

E
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Wednesday 11 December
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Altium Sponsorship Presentation
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation: Our University’s Journey towards a Sustainable Future
Prof. Jan Evans-Freeman
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 3
Concurrent session 7
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
7E | Theme: Academic Workforce Development
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Conference closing

F
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Wednesday 11 December
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Altium Sponsorship Presentation
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote presentation: Our University’s Journey towards a Sustainable Future
Prof. Jan Evans-Freeman
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea | Day 3
Concurrent session 7
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
7F | Theme: Sustainability
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Conference closing





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