Elena Rodriguez-Falcon: Inspiring women for a career in engineering
NMITE President and CEO Professor Elena Rodríguez Falcón; Inspiring women for a career in engineering.
Rethinking Engineering Education | Advance HE
During her keynote speech at the recent Advance HE STEM Conference 2021, CEO of the New Model Institute of Technology and Engineering (NMITE), Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, reflected on her journey to develop a more ‘authentic learning’ approach to engineering education, as we celebrate the International...
International Women and Girls in Science Day - who did it first?
Women can do, and have done, incredible things when it comes to STEM. Today, we will be celebrating some of the great ‘firsts’ achieved by women over the years, as we continue to inspire the next, more inclusive, generation of engineers.
Data Privacy in an Engineers World
Tim Belden has recently joined NMITE as Assistant Professor for Digital Engineering and is passionate about the application of digital technology to enhance engineering projects. On Data Privacy Day, Tim gives some insight into the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and why new engineers may...
Learning and Teaching in a Pandemic – Disruption Around the World
On this 3rd International Day of Education, NMITE expresses its support for the 1.6 billion students in over 190 countries who have had their routine, friendships, lives, and learning interrupted.
What has lockdown taught us about teaching engineering?
Following on from CAO Beverley Gibbs' work with the Engineering Professors' Council on bringing the UK engineering education community together to address our key challenges as we pivot to online teaching, we are revisiting the question: What has the pandemic taught us about teaching engineering...
10 study tips for students with ADHD
October is ADHD Awareness month. NMITE’s Chief Academic Officer, Beverley Gibbs, has a diagnosis of ADHD (Primarily Inattentive) and has pulled together some top tips for students who wish to enter, or who have already entered, higher education. And they’re worth reading!
World Food Day 2020 | Grow, nourish, sustain. Together.
It’s World Food Day, and NMITE Professor, Pooh Ling, has given us the hard-hitting facts on food waste, world hunger, and intensive farming, and why we must work together to engineer a solution to one of the world’s biggest ongoing issues.
World Sight Day 2020: Gemma Morton
This #WorldSightDay, Gemma, NMITE’s Receptionist and Office Administrator has spoken candidly about her own Visual Impairment, and the impact clever engineering has had on adapting the everyday items many of us take for granted – but could our world be more accessible?
The Ozone Layer - Why Should We Care?
It’s International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer and NMITE educator, Helen Rogers (whose passion for atmospheric science is evident through 20 years’ experience as a leading scientist) has given us the facts on why we all need to care a little more about the ozone layer and what can be...
World Humanitarian Day 2020
It's World Humanitarian Day and NMITE educator, Neil Rogers, has given an insight into his own humanitarian endeavours, how volunteering can provide a sense of worth and well-being to all who partake, and how humanitarianism and engineering must work in sync with one another to address some of the...
Left Handers Day: Associate professor Peter Metcalfe | Always use the correct hand!
Happy #lefthandersday to all of NMITE's left handed friends and supporters! This year, the very brilliant Peter Metcalfe, Associate Professor at NMITE, has written about how using the 'correct' hand is a critical survival strategy in a world where the numbers are stacked against him.