Marie Magnell

KTH Royal Institute of Technology | KTH · Learning in Engineering Sciences

In engineering education, various stakeholders have been raising requests for change related to both content and form. At times, slow reactions and absent responses to these requests have been criticized, though some engineering programs have been quicker to adopt the desired changes. The aim of this chapter is to understand differences in response...

Connections to research and professional practice are both essential components of engineering education, although handled differently across engineering programmes. The aim of this paper is to identify discourses on these components across three engineering programmes to in depth understand these variations. A discourse analysis was conducted on i...

In an era characterized by a move towards a “knowledge society”, universities are central in fostering “knowledgeability”, that is the reflexive understanding of knowledge in knowledge societies. The objective of “knowledgeability” can be met through creating a stronger link between education and research. Furthermore, overall student performance,...

The purpose of this article is to challenge the idea of incompatibility between links to research and links to professional practice in engineering education. The concept of ‘academic drift’ is introduced, both related to drift towards theory and towards research links in the curriculum. Empirical data were collected through a case study conducted...

The focus of this paper is on how academic staff perceive their roles and responsibilities regarding work-related learning, and how they approach and implement work-related learning activities in curricula across academic environments in higher education. The study is based on case studies, including semi-structured interviews and analyses of cours...

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to identify faculty perspectives on the integration of work-related issues in engineering education. A mixed methods approach was used to explore faculty attitudes towards work-related learning, to describe activities related to working life that have been introduced into the curriculum and to identify factors t...

Today our societies face a range of complex challenges, from sustainable development to ageing populations and the well-being of their citizens. University graduates can contribute solutions to societal problems that are trans-disciplinary, challenge driven and require skills beyond the knowledge of a single discipline. The role that universities p...

The present report discusses the teaching-research nexus in policy and practice at KTH. The study consists of a literature review, a survey and case studies at two schools at KTH as well as insights from the experiences of TU Delft, Netherlands. Themes discussed in the study are leadership and management, funding, career paths and higher education...

The purpose of this paper is to identify faculty approaches to working life issues in engineering education. The paper focuses on faculty attitudes towards working life issues and their integration into the curriculum and on activities related to working life introduced to the curriculum. We used a mixed methods approach and performed a survey and...