Key aims

The novelty of ENHANCE lies in integrating highly diverse, yet complementary, expertise in engineering Higher Education (HE). The key aims are; (a) mapping professional attributes for mitigating humanitarian challenges over the next 15 years; (b) assessing and evaluating current graduate engineering programmes in Partner Institutions under the enablers needed to ensure humanitarian attributes to graduates; (c) setting up tools for evaluating graduate engineering programmes; (d) building capacity in the field of community-based engineering with interventions in curriculum content, assessment and feedback, methods of delivery; (e) tasting, adopting and implementing in current curricula innovative (i.e. inclusive, interdisciplinary, problem-based) teaching and learning methodologies; (f) developing and testing the ENHANCE Training Kit for staff development/training.

Principle Objectives

• Deliver a taxonomy of professional attributes for tackling humanitarian challenges
• Establish collaboration between the Partner Institutions and the wider socio-economic context
• Assess and evaluate Graduate Engineering Programmes (GEPs) in Partner Institutions
• Modernise the assessed GEPs in Partner Institutions from curriculum content to quality assurance, assessment and methods of delivery, teaching and learning materials
• Train the trainer on curriculum modernisation and redesign
• Trained teachers to train colleagues on curriculum modernisation and redesign in the framework of a wider institutional developmental initiative in the Partner Institutions
• Streamline methods, approaches and practical applications for community-based engineering education
• Disseminate and exploit project results