SASEE 2023 PROGRAMME V3

Sue Fuller-Good - Energy Incubator

Keynote topic:

A 360 degree look at your critical skills that give you energy, sustainability and the edge in your work

Your brain can't work in this world by itself. It needs a body to support its success. You can't lead a project if you can’t lead yourself. Wellbeing is a skill like golf, and to master it requires insight, practice and coaching to correct your errors and shine the light where you can't see.

So there are 3 crucial, often forgotten elements to mastery in engineering...

• Self-leadership
• Body care and lifestyle management
• Wellbeing skill development.

This talk brings all 3 together specifically for engineers and empowers you to win inside and outside for the long term.

Background

Sue graduated from UCT in 1989 with a BSc Honours in Physiotherapy. She completed her MSc in Balance in 2002. Sue is the founder of Body Brilliance, The Energy Incubator and The Endless Energy Program, and the author of the recently published book: “The Sweet Spot.” She has worked in corporate coaching and training since 2007. As a physiotherapist, Sue has special interest in pain & Manual Therapy.
Sue started her coaching journey after completing her MSc, when she found herself needing more skills to help her physiotherapy patients suffering from chronic pain, anxiety, stress and fatigue. Soon, she was invited to work with leaders and executives who found her work life changing and wanted her to work with their colleagues and teams. Sue has continued to work in her clinic, since she feels that this is a source of great learning and understanding of her clients and their challenges, since most people download their life stories to her as part of their healing journey. Sue’s coaching training has been wide and extensive as she has continued to learn year on year. She has branched her studies into many fields: mindfulness and mindfulness based cognitive behavioural therapy (Harvard), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, neuroscience, the Enneagram, Conscious Embodiment, somatic experiencing, Systems Constellations, sleep science, among many other fields. All have given her a very unique tool kit from which to draw when working with clients. Her work includes keynote addresses and workshops for small and large groups, both online and in person. Sue’s approach is based in the belief that people need to be thriving in mind, body and spirit in order to perform at their best. They can’t thrive without knowing themselves and without a very high level of self-awareness, personal mastery and constant reflection. She works to bring awareness to unconscious patterns and defences which keep people stuck in old thinking models and limit their growth. version of themselves.

In her personal capacity, Sue is an ultra-endurance athlete, an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and a mother. Resilience and balance have sustained her through each aspect of her life, and she shares the tools she has tried and tested in the laboratory of her own body and life. She is resolute about her own self work, believing in: me before we.

Richard Perez - UCT Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika

Topic:

Design has become too important to be left only to the designers

Richard Perez is the founding director of the Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika at the University of Cape Town, which leverages the globally funded Hasso Plattner Foundation d.school network of both Potsdam, Germany and Stanford, United States. Richard’s expertise and experience combines human centered design with business thinking, management and strategy. His area of specialisation is adopting a design led mindset as a driver of innovation and strategic leadership; and he advises organisations (private and public) in both South Africa, the Africa region including the likes of the World Bank and United Nations Foundation.

Prior to founding the d-school, Richard spent three years as a Director at the City of Cape Town where, in a first for a public administration in South Africa, he pioneered design as a strategy and management tool to advance the creation of effective human-centred solutions. Leading a transversal City administration team who were responsible for embedding a culture of design-led innovation, Richard introduced design thinking to unlock collaboration, creative thinking and innovation in response to the needs of local citizens across the socio-economic spectrum. Before his City administration experience, Richard spent 10 years as a partner and director in the award-winning Cape Town based product design agency …XYZ Design, where he managed and developed an extensive and varied portfolio of consumer focused products, services and user-centered research in emerging markets for local and international organisations.

Richard’s education includes a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town, a Masters in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College of Science and Technology (London) and an Executive MBA (awarded with distinction) from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, where his research topic focused on the inter-relationships between constraints and creativity.

Richard is currently undertaking his PhD where his research focus is on how we best prepare those involved in leadership to be more effective in today's complex world and what might such a leadership learning experience be.

Matheus de Andrade - UCL Centre for Engineering Education

Integrated and connected engineering mathematics 

Matheus de Andrade is an Assistant Professor at the UCL Centre for Engineering Education, where he focuses on designing and delivering engineering mathematics teaching to large-scale, multidisciplinary cohorts. He specialises in problem-based learning of mathematics in engineering projects, active flipped learning for student-centred education, and mathematics teaching for sustainability.

Matheus received the 2020 UCL Engineering Education awards for leading educational reform at UCL Engineering, and his work has been recognised as a leading example of collaborative engineering education in the 2022 CEEDA report.

Writing for publication in Engineering Education Research

Prof Bruce Kloot (University of Cape Town) - Southern Journal of Engineering Education

Tuesday 11 July 2023 - 10h00

This workshop is aimed at colleagues who are interested in learning about publishing in the Engineering Education Research (EER) sapce. The workshop will start with a published paper and ‘reverse engineer’ its construction by unpacking its key elements against a tool called the Research Problem Map. [SJEE 1st Issue Link]

Facilitator Background

Bruce Kloot is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He teaches engineering science and complementary studies course as part of the undergraduate offering of the department and on the postgraduate programme in engineering education offered by the Centre for. Research in Engineering Education (CREE) at UCT.

Bruce completed his doctorate in Engineering Education in 2011. This work drew on the theoretical tools of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to provide a critical perspective on extended degree programmes in engineering education in South Africa. He since published a number of articles and book chapters in the fields of engineering education and higher education studies. In 2022, he was rated C2 (established researcher) by South Africa’s National Research Foundation.

Bruce served on the Board of REEN (Research in Engineering Education Network) as the African Representative for five years and was Chair the REES 2019 conference that was held in Cape Town. He is also on the Board of SASEE and is Editor-in-Chief of the Southern Journal of Engineering Education (SJEE) which is the official journal of SASEE.

Professional Engineering Registration Processes

Prof Trevor Haas (Stellenbosch University) - Engineering Registration Consultants

Tuesday 11 July 2023 - 11h45

This workshop is aimed at colleagues who are in the process of (or about to consider) registering as a candidate with ECSA, at technician, technologist and engineering levels. The practical, hands-on workshop will guide participants through the submission process and enable engagement with the preparation of their portfolios.

Facilitator Background

Trevor holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and is registered as Pr Eng and Pr Tech Eng with ECSA. His academic work entails lecturing, supervising and research in the areas of Structural Dynamics, Finite Element Analysis, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Education. He conducts structural engineering consultant work for consulting engineers on various interesting structural engineering projects. Through Engineering Registration Consultants, his team provides assistants to candidates who require help to register as Pr Techni Eng, Pr Tech Eng and Pr Eng with ECSA.

Advocating for change in Engineering Education: Reflections from EWB's Engineering for People Design Challenge.

Robyn Clark - Engineers without Borders South Africa

Tuesday 11 July 2023 - 14h30

Facilitator Background

Robyn Clark is a passionate education consultant and strives to be an innovator in the education space in South Africa. She completed her Masters degree in Mathematics Education in 2013 Wits. She has taught maths in under-served schools, and lectured the future generation of mathematics teachers in universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate fields. Subsequently she has also formulated online and video educational material, working both for NGO's and The Department of Education. Robyn has had wide experience in considering and effecting change in the South African education system. She currently works for Engineers without Borders, where she leads their education portfolio. She also consults to a handful of small education businesses on strategy and gives talks on the educational landscape in South Africa.

For more in formation, see: https://ewbsa.org/our-work/

Computational Thinking Instruction and Learning in Southern Africa

Jon Esteves - Opti-Num Solutions

Thursday 13 July 2023 - 11h40

Facilitator Background

Jon is a Senior Consultant at Opti-Num Solutions with a strong focus on bridging the gap between academia and practical commercial applications. He has an MSc in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of The Witwatersrand, as well as extensive experience in customer-centric roles, expertise in fostering a conducive learning environment, personalized mentoring and innovative curriculum design. Beyond his technical competence, Jon has a deep-seated passion for computational thinking instruction and learning. He believes in empowering individuals by imparting knowledge and fostering a culture of curiosity and innovation.

Travel

For those participants travelling from outside of Gauteng, Lanseria Airport is only 20 minutes from Glenburn Lodge.

Accommodation

Glenburn Lodge Website: https://guvonhotels.co.za/glenburn-lodge/ Contact email:  reservations@glenburn.co.za

The conference rate includes dinner, bed and breakfast and must be booked directly with Glenburn Lodge.

• SINGLE: R 1 580 pppn
• SHARING: R 1 100 pppn

Please indicate in your communication with the lodge that you will be attending the SASEE conference.

Gala Dinner 12 July 2023

• R 450 per person for delegates NOT staying over at Glenburn Lodge.
• R 100 per person for delegates staying over at Glenburn Lodge.

Themes

With this in mind, we are inviting the submission of a 1000-word extended abstract (see Resources below) around any of the following themes:

• Technology, humanity and the planet: Responsibility, sustainability and ethics
• Well-being in engineering education
• Sustainable, holistic learning experiences & environments
• Digital, AI and smart education & learning
• The Future of Engineering Education
• Engineers for the future
• Graduate attributes (including agency, agility, critical thinking, flexibility, purpose, resilience)

Key dates

• Extended abstract due date: 7 March 2023  extended to 13 March 2023
• Invited full paper/ reviewed extended abstract submission date: 2 May 2023
• Full paper reviewer feedback: 9 June 2023
• Camera-ready submission due date: 16 June 2023

Resources

• Extended abstract guidelines: SASEE 2023 Extended Abstract Guidelines WEB v2
• Extended abstract template: SASEE Template for Extended Abstracts and Full Papers
• Submission portal: https://abstracts.conftools.co.za/162/signup/
• SASEE Logo for PowerPoint presentations: https://www.sasee.org.za/wp-content/uploads/SASEELogo.png

Presentation Guidelines

• Full paper (FP) slots are allocated 20 minutes each: 12-14 min presentation + 5 min Q&A
• Extended Abstract (EA) slots are allocated 15 minutes each: 10 min presentation + 4 min Q&A