Subject: KIE Acquiring new skills: lessons from an educator for current-day engineers

Date: 28 October 2021, 19.00 pm - 20.30 pm (CET)

Location: Hybrid: Live at KIVI Headquarters, Den Haag and online at MS-Teams

Number of participants: 21 

1. Opening and welcome

Dr. Hilal van der Holst, chair of KIE, opens the meeting at 19.00 pm and welcomes everyone with a brief presentation about KIVI and KIVI International engineers section. Then she introduces the speaker Hildo Bijl to the audience. The event is held in English.

2. Speaker

Dr. Hildo Bijl studied Aerospace Engineering in Delft, including an internship at NASA Ames. Afterwards, he continued with a Ph.D. on applying machine learning techniques within control theory, both in Delft and Uppsala. During his studies he also played Ultimate Frisbee on a high level, and has coached various national teams. Yet his main passion lies in improving education. He gave multiple talks on the subject (including a TEDx talk) and founded the Aerostudents student community. Currently he teaches at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, where he tries to automate his own job through a teaching app called Step-Wise.

3. Presentation

TU Delft laureate, education enthusiast and TEDx speaker Hildo Bijl gives an interactive presentation about Acquiring New Skills: lessons from an educator for current day engineers. In this talk, Hildo Bijl shows recent trends in how education is adapting to these new ideas, and what steps are required to master new skills. These ideas are then used to come up with a few lessons for current-day engineers. What is the best way to acquire a new skill? He gives clear examples of Step-Wise approach and gives a brief introduction to his teaching app. The presentation is finalized by an interactive Q&A with the enthusiastic audience. Regina Hoffmann closes the presentation with a present and certificate for the speaker and invites the audience to the networking event.

 

4. Networking Drinks

International participants join the networking drinks to connect with each other and continue the fruitful discussion about the inspiring presentation by Hildo. The event is closed at 20:30 pm. 

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