Multi-campus Education and Engineering Macroethics
Speaker: Dr. Christoph Sielmann
Assistant Professor of Teaching at UBC Mechanical Engineering, Marshall Bauder Professor in Experiential Learning and Leadership, Sustainability Teaching Fellow
When: October 8, 2024 | 12-1 pm
Location: CEME 1203 (6250 Applied Science Lane), or on Zoom (https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67435893245?pwd=8d5tncSvZYYmbL8QAziOTK5VVeEIi6.1 | Meeting ID: 674 3589 3245 | Passcode: 168812)
The Department Research Seminar series shares our faculty expertise on a variety of topics with the UBC community.
Abstract:
This talk addresses two areas of inquiry: Multi-campus education and engineering macroethics. Multi-campus education involves synchronous delivery of course materials across multiple campuses through communications technologies and presents challenges in technology, equity of learning experience, and cultivation of community. Measurement methods for evaluating learning experience across cohorts as well as impacts of multi-campus education on both students and instructors will be discussed. Engineering macroethics considers real-world implications of engineering technology and the collective social responsibility of the engineering profession. Student perceptions on key sociotechnical questions as well as efficacious pedagogical interventions for promoting engagement and affective learning will be presented. Initial findings on an ongoing study on the effects of climate change on student inclination toward ethical behaviour will also be shared.
Biography:
Dr. Christoph Sielmann has 12 years of industry experience and is a co-founder of Samnian Software. He currently holds the Marshall Bauder Professorship in Experiential Learning and Leadership at UBC-V and a Sustainability Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Sielmann’s industry background encompasses instrumentation, automation, electronics, software engineering, analytical databases, IoT, and renewable energy, particularly solar. Academically, he has expertise in instrumentation, air quality monitoring, mesoscopic modeling, thermoelectrics, and semiconductors. He is a significant contributor to the Manufacturing Engineering program at UBC and his current research interests include multi-campus education, hidden curricula in engineering, engineering ethics, affective pedagogy, and experiential learning.
He directed NSERC CANRIMT Machining Research Network across Canada (2010-2022), and holds the NSERC – P&WC- Sandvik Coromant Industrial Research Chair Professorship to develop next-generation Digital Machining Twin Technology (since 2002). He is also founding president of MAL Manufacturing Automation Lab. Inc. (www.malinc.com) which develops virtual machining technology.