Engineering Education Research Group

The Engineering Education Research Group (EERG) is a dynamic and expanding research interest group focused on the scholarship of learning and teaching, and educational research within the engineering and spatial science context. It is hosted and supported by the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at USQ (Toowoomba and Springfield campuses) under the Learning and Teaching portfolio.
The group aims to:

• Enhance and inform the Faculty’s learning and teaching practices through quality scholarship and research
• Develop and promote the scholarship and research profile of the faculty and its staff in the area of learning and teaching through conferences, grants and publications
• Support members developing award, fellowship and grant applications in learning and teaching
• Play a role in hosting and delivering the Learning and Teaching related Professional Development activities of the faculty
• Foster intra- and inter-faculty (and inter-unit) collaboration in Engineering Education Research.

Members identified a number of common research interests which include:

• cooperative and work-based learning (including practical work) 
• design in Engineering Education 
• graduate attributes 
• Problem Based Learning (PBL), teamwork and assessment 
• postgraduate course work 
• retention and progression 
• technology and engineering education e.g. virtual labs, simulation etc. 
• the first year experience

Key areas such as flexible and blended delivery and internationalisation of the curriculum are overarching interests of the Group.

Further information

For a full listing of EERG research arease and members, please download a copy of our latest booklet (PDF*1.04MB)

For further information about the Engineering Education Research Group (EERG) or requesting future work/consulting/research, please contact the EERG Chair.