post graduate course community service engineering

Post graduate courseCommunity Service EngineeringTechnology for empowerment, quality of living and independence

Technology as support for social profit organisations

Prof.Jan Engelen

Results of the question: how important are the following issues for your potential futureoccupation or job?

3

Source: Agoria

DO WE WANT TO REMEDY THIS? NO !!

Engineering students in Flanders

Zijn we alleen?…

4

We are not alone...

a) There is a lot of innovation potential in the social profit sector

b) Engineers can contribute more to the sector if they understand more clearly the needs and challenges of the people and organisations their engineering projects serve.

IN PRACTICE THIS MEANS…

What did we learn from the Cera Award

Yearly prizes for research and development projects in the social profit sector: awards for students, organisations and one “senior” researcher in the field.

What is the Cera Award?

Engineers should focus on end users

• Accessibility (buildings, websites, services, vehicles,…)

• Activities of daily living (eating, drinking, physical hygiene, …)

• Communication (oral, by telephone, internet…)

• Entertainment/leisure time

• Learning (reading, studying, maths,…)

• Living• Mobility (moving from

place A to B)• Seeing and/or hearing• Working

Directly for their benefit or quality of living, e.g.

Engineers should focus also on social profit organisations

• Adaptations of the workplace

• Human resources and training (physical and mental well-being of staff)

• Client administration

• General management• Architecture and design

of buildings• Communication &

cooperation• Team building & leisure

To strenghten and optimise their functioning, e.g. through

“Community Service Engineering”Is a postgraduate level educational course• For Engineers (all disciplines)• Focussing on engineering tasks in the social profit sector.It is organised: • On an international scale• Using blended (and remote) learning techniques• With a balanced programme of theoretical and hands-on courses.It is organised by:• KU Leuven (2 Engineering faculties) and Thomas More• from Sept. 2014 onwards• And can be combined with your actual job

A glimpse on the curriculum

A strong focus on interdisciplinarity

A strong focus on practical solutions:just one example

Local video

Anderslezen app: listening to books, magazines and daily newspapersDemonstration by Steven Bladt (Techtouch) & interview Bert Paepen (Pyxima)

www.iiw.kuleuven.be/cse