The rising complexity of modern societal challenges has intensified interest in interdisciplinary engineering education.

In this episode we speak to Professor Anette Kolmos (Professor in Engineering Education and PBL) and Dr Henrik Worm Routhe (Postdoctoral Researcher) from Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark, about InterPBL and the different approaches that can be taken to interdisciplinary learning and teaching.

Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Prof. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn about the many different ways in which we can integrate interdisciplinary projects into our engineering courses.

Timestamps

0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode

0.25 Podcast Intro

0.52 Experiences with interdisciplinary from Natalie and Neil

2.30 Introduction to Anette and Henrik

7.20 Aalborg University (AAU)

9.18 Introduction to InterPBL

13.00 Examples of the challenges associated with interdisciplinary project work

14.34 Aims of the InterPBL project

17.04 Interdisciplinary in engineering practice

21.00 Definitions

24.25 Cognitive trust and boundary objects

31.00 How does interdisciplinary work impact identity?

35.28 A typology of interdisciplinary projects

48.32 Students' motivation

50.57 Leadership

55.21 Assessment of interdisciplinary

58.41 Implications for staff and capacity building

1:00:50 Measuring the effectiveness of interdisciplinary learning and teaching

1:05:40 Introducting interdisciplinary in your own context

1:09:56 Mega-projects (M-Project) and broad interdisciplinary

1:15:25 Key Takeaways and implications from Anette and Henrik

1:25:38 What is next for research in this area?

1:28:48 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil

Resources

A small sample of papers which focus on the InterPBL project are linked below

This paper focuses on student learning outcomes of interdisciplinary work

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10171180

This provides insights from a narrow interdisciplinary curriculum project named “leadENG

https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/interdisciplinary-problem-based-projects-for-first-year-engineeri/

This paper focuses on development of leadership competencies

https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/752930995/17_ijee4479.pdf

These papers focus on the different project types

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15/2/138

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03043797.2023.2267476

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