4-day long workshop begins at BUET

Campus Report :

A Four day long (17-20 February 2020) workshop on “Curriculum Development workshop in Bangladesh, Erasmus + Project : ENHANCE-Enabling Humanitarian Attributes for Nurturing Community based Engineering” began on Sunday at council Building of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM) of BUET was organized the opening ceremony of the workshop on Sunday at 10 am which will be continued up to 20 February 2020.
Overview of the ENHANCE Project: Engineering has a pivotal role to play in solving humanitarian challenges, enabling communities to progress towards sustainable development. Because the issues of humanitarianism are not just engineering problems, there is need to introduce new designs of engineering education to embrace and exploit combinational expertise in community-based engineering. ENHANCE aims at nurturing humanitarian attributes through engineering education for serving unsupported communities effectively and responsibly, in identifying problems and defining sustainable solutions. The novelty of ENHANCE lies in integrating highly diverse, yet complementary, expertise in engineering Higher Education (HE).
The objectives of the project involve: (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 a ‘Teaching Training seminar kit’ for educators in HE. The outputs of the project will be disseminated to audiences from HE educators and students in the partner countries; modern media (podcasts, video’s, etc.) will be utilised to share insights with a wide audience. ENHANCE will allow us to ensure advancement of community-based engineering directly to a range of Official Development Assistance (ODA) recipients and to instigate longer-term developments with beneficiaries and end users.
Professor Dr. Saiful Islam Honourable Vice-Chancellor of BUET was present as Chief Guest and delivered his inaugural speech. Dr. Md Rezaur Rahman, Professor of IWFM, BUET was presented the keynote speech. Dr. Mohammad Shahjahan Mondal, Professor and Director of IWFM, BUET delivered his welcome address. Dr. Tarekul Islam, Professor of IWFM, BUET is Coordinator of the project. Among others: Prof. Mohammad Shoeb, University of Dhaka; Professor Georgia Kremmydia, University of Warwick; Professor Dr. Sujit Kumar Bala, IWFM of BUET. The session was chaired by Professor Toby Mottram, University of Warwick
The programme is sponsored by: Coordinator: University of Warwick, UK, Programme Partner: University of West Attica, Greece Partner: Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia; Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia; Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia; Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Ho Chi Minh University of Transport, Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam.