Incorporating global skills within UK higher education of engineers



Towards a five stage framework for
embedding the global dimension

Course and faculty leaders who are convinced of the case to
embed the global dimension within the curriculum are
advised to

Stage 1: Develop their own understanding of the global
dimension of engineering by mapping the issues and skills
which have a global dimension (see table below) and which
are relevant to their courses and to map how these issues
and skills are currently address within the curriculum.
Stage 2: Understand how, by addressing these issues and
skills, many of the Engineering Council’s UK SPEC learning
outcomes are also addressed

Stage 3: Identify and prioritise opportunities to embed these
issues and skills within the curriculum as well as extra-curric-
ular activities. Develop and pilot new course material,
methodologies and approaches

Stage 4: Seek opportunities to link course components
together so that learning builds upon prior learning and so
that cross cutting themes such as ethics, business responsi-
bility and sustainability become integrated throughout.

Stage 5: Pilot, monitor and evaluate the course innovations
introduced and measure their effectiveness against course
learning outcomes. Ensure staff have adequate time to
monitor and evaluate course innovations and to reflect on
and share this learning with colleagues as well as investing
in additional professional development of teaching staff and
in course assessment and development if appropriate.

Stage 1: Mapping the key issues and skills which define the global dimension of engineering

Social

Poverty reduction

Enterprise solutions to poverty

Emerging business opportunities in developing
countries

Challenges of working in developing countries
Working in fragile, conflict and crisis prone
regions

Engaging marginalized and disadvantaged
groups

Engineering and humanitarian relief

Stakeholder analysis and dialogue and public engage-
ment

International politics and political analysis

Science and engineering in society and social impacts
of engineering

Environmental

Sustainable development

Climate change

Soilandwatermanagement

Flooding

Bio-diversity

Energy security and‘peak oil’

Barriers to sustainable development

Operation and maintenance

Recycling, waste management and resource optimisa-
tion

Professional and management skills

Contextual analysis (STEEP: social, technical, eco-
nomic, environment and political)

Needs assessment and feasibility studies

Design and project management skills

Systems thinking and systems engineering

Full life-cycle analysis

Communication skills

Team working skills

Critical thinking skills

Creativity and conception skills

Cultural sensitivity and adaptability

Business and enterprise skills

Business ethics: governance, human rights, trans-
parency, accountability and corruption

Corporate responsibility: social and environmental
impacts of business, impacts and trends of globaliza-
tion, ‘socially responsible investment’, fair and ethical
trade

Aligning shareholder and social value

Conflict sensitive business practice

Innovation and enterprise: emerging technologies
and their application to global challenges

Emerging ethical issues arising from emerging tech-
nologies

Emerging markets in low-carbon economy and
growth in developing country investment

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