SEFI@work | Global Developments in Integrated Engineering Curricula

21 October 2025
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Event Details

Date: 1 December 2025, 17:00–18:00 CET

Event Description

This SEFI@work seminar uniquely synthesizes global developments in integrated engineering curricula, offering an opportunity to engage directly with pioneering architects and chairs of four leading models. By critically comparing these approaches, participants will:

Develop a nuanced understanding of integrated engineering paradigms—including curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, industry/community engagement, and DEI.
Gain actionable insights into successful curriculum (re)design and reform implementation.
Be equipped to advocate for, and shape, the next evolution of engineering education—responsive to both institutional goals and the evolving demands of society and industry.

Each model exemplifies integrated engineering education but contextualizes approaches to interdisciplinarity, the embedding of DEI, industry/service integration, and assessment according to institutional mission, regional demographics, and available resources. While UCL foregrounds major cross-faculty reform breaking down established disciplinary silos, whilst implementing different models of interdisciplinary learning, and rigorous Project and Skills-based learning, Minnesota State Mankato stresses co-op-based learning and scalability for transfer and diverse students. USD is distinguished for its holistic, socio-technical, and changemaking pedagogy, and Campbell combines hands-on teaching, service, and interdisciplinary innovation with an explicit equity agenda. Based on interest and engagement, we will discuss forward-looking insights and sector trends that are being incorporated in one or another of our programmes.

In June 2024, as part of the celebrations of 10 years of the UCL Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP), engineering educational leaders within institutions around the world who are already leading this in space with those who have made a clear commitment to engaging with integration across their school/faculty/department/programme(s) came together for the first Integrated Engineering International Symposium. It also included highly regarded experts with experience of breaking down the disciplinary barriers associated with interdisciplinarity/trans-disciplinarity, best-practice capture and world-wide dissemination, embedding reflective practice in our curricula, or recognising and removing the negative hidden curriculum within our engineering programmes. A white paper reflecting the major aspects of existing integrated engineering curricula is also available to read here.