About the authors
Anders Ahlberg is an academic developer at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University (LTH). He is an associate professor in earth science and has worked as an academic developer since 2001. At LTH, he is responsible for the faculty PhD programme and the programmes for doctoral supervisors and associate professors. He is a member of both the Teachers’ Academy (Faculty of Natural Sciences) and the Educational Advisory Board (Faculty of Medicine) at Lund University. His recent research interests include strategic educational development in research-dominated academic environments.
Roy Andersson is both an academic developer (50 per cent) and a senior lecturer in computer science (50 per cent) at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University (LTH). He has been an academic developer (part-time) since 1998 and his main interest is in supporting academics to investigate their practice through research, in other words supporting scholarship of teaching and learning. He is responsible for the programme of teacher training and development at LTH and teaches on the programme himself. He is also a member of the Teachers’ Academy at LTH.
Rosario Carrasco graduated in sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1999, and obtained an MA in higher education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Higher Education of the University of Toronto, Canada in 2007. She has published articles and book chapters related to accreditation and quality assurance in Chilean engineering programmes. She is currently finalising an externally funded project, which is part of the Ministry of Education’s Academic Innovation Fund (MECESUP2). Its objectives included the assessment of the impact of other MECESUP projects implemented at the same university, the design of an online system intended to enhance the supervision of these projects, and the identification of relevant impact indicators.
Ake Chaisawadi has been associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok,Thailand since 1977. His main interest is in measurement, control, instrumentation and digital signal processing. He holds a PhD in system science from Kanazawa University, Japan.
Neelam Chaplot has been in the field of teaching and training since 1996. Currently she is working at Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre, Jaipur, India. Her main interest is in the fields of artificial intelligence and data mining. She holds an MTech in computer science from Banasthali University, India.
Mousumi Debnath is a professor and head in the Department of Biotechnology at Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center (JECRC), Jaipur, India. Currently she also heads the biotechnology training and research group. She has taught on virtually every course in biotechnology, but has mainly taught genetic engineering. She has published 11 books and 40 articles in peer reviewed journals. She also holds a Master’s degree in business administration with specialisation in human resource management. She is an active member of the training and placement group at JECRC. She has also conducted soft skills classes and mock interviews during campus recruitment at JECRC.
Kristina Edstrom is an educational developer with an engineering background (MSc in engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) whose main interest is in driving strategic change processes to improve engineering education, on all levels: course, curriculum, institutional, national and international. She lectures in engineering education development at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. She leads and participates in educational development activities at KTH, in Sweden and internationally, and serves on the council of the international CDIO Initiative as well as of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). At KTH, over 460 faculty members have taken her 7.5 ECTS credit course Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Kristina received the KTH Education Prize in 2004. As a Chalmers student, she was deeply engaged as a student representative and in 2009, was appointed a lifetime honorary member of the KTH Student Union THS.
Manohar Gottimukkula has been working as a statistician since 2006. Currently, he is a research officer at the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India. He holds a Master’s degree in statistics from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. His main interests are in academic research, nutrition and community division studies.
Suresh Narain Gupta is an advisor at the Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center (JECRC), Jaipur, India. Currently he also heads the research facilitation unit at JECRC. Prior to joining JECRC, he spent more than three decades at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His area of specialisation is communication engineering. He has published a large number of papers in various of the IEEE Transactions (USA), generally in areas related to signal processing and propagation studies. He leads the training and placement group at JECRC.
Kalayanee Jitgarun has been an associate professor in the Electrical Technology Department, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand since 1991. Most of her research work focuses on curriculum development and instruction in vocational education. She supervises students at PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s levels. She holds a Doctor of Education in curriculum and instruction from Texas Southern University, USA. She has published widely and has collaborated with colleagues across Asia, Australia and Europe, which has provided her with broad experience in both in education and culture.
David Kane is a senior researcher at the Social Research and Evaluation Unit within the Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK. David has a keen interest in all areas of higher education policy and practice, particularly the student experience of higher education. He has presented a number of papers at international conferences on this subject and has worked on institutional student satisfaction surveys for a number of higher education institutions since 2005. David is also interested in the application and use of technology, including social media, in learning and teaching and is currently developing this interest with colleagues at Birmingham City University.
Pinit Kumhom has been an assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand since 2001. His main interest is in implementations of DSP algorithms, ASIC/FPGA designs and applications, and embedded system designs. He holds a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Mario Letelier is director of the Centre for Research in Creativity and Higher Education at the University of Santiago of Chile. He is also a member of the National Commission for Accreditation and president of the Chilean Society for Engineering Education. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. Since 1983, he has been involved in fostering engineering education in Chile, and participating in the design and implementation of national quality assurance policies. His main area of interest within mechanical engineering is non-Newtonian fluids mechanics.
Daniela Matamala graduated recently in civil industrial engineering at the University of Santiago of Chile and works at the Centre for Research in Creativity and Higher Education at the University of Santiago of Chile. Since 2008, she has been involved in accreditation of undergraduate programmes at that university. Additionally, she has participated in teaching improvement projects developed in conjunction with other Chilean universities, sponsored by the Centre for Inter-University Development.
Patricie Mertova is currently a research fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford, England. She was previously a research officer at the University of Queensland, and, prior to that, a research fellow in the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching and the Centre for Higher Education Quality, Monash University, Australia. She has recently completed her PhD focusing on the academic voice in higher education quality. She has research expertise in the areas of higher education, higher education quality and internationalisation. Her background is also in the areas of linguistics, translation, cross-cultural communication and foreign languages.
Chenicheri Sid Nair is currently at the Centre for Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth. Prior to his appointment to UWA, he was a quality adviser (research and evaluation) in the Centre for Higher Education Quality at Monash University, Australia. He has an extensive expertise in the area of quality development and evaluation, and he also has considerable editorial experience. Currently, he is an editor of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education. Prior to this, he was also a managing editor of the Electronic Journal of Science Education. He is also an international consultant in a number of countries establishing in quality and evaluations.
Claudia Oliva recently graduated in psychology from the University of Santiago of Chile and since then has been worked at the Centre for Research in Creativity and Higher Education at hat university. She is developing expertise in curricula design, pedagogical innovation and academics training. She has been involved in several projects related to learning assessment, equity analysis and development and coordinates the assessment of new programme proposals for the vice-rector.
Mukeshwar Pandey is presently working in the Department of Biotechnology, Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre (JECRC), Jaipur. He holds a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India and is currently undertaking his PhD there. He has published a number of research and review articles in peer reviewed journals and co-authored a number of book chapters. He has also participated in various national and international conferences. He also participates in campus recruitment at JECRC on a regular basis.
Arun Patil is senior lecturer in engineering at the Central Queensland University, Australia. He has over 18 years of teaching and administrative experience in India and Australia in higher and further education. Arun has published widely, and he is a founder editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education. With Peter Gray he has edited Engineering Education Quality Assurance: a Global Perspective (Springer, 2009). He has organised over a dozen of international conferences in engineering education in various parts of the globe.
Suthee Ploisawaschai is a research fellow at the Learning Institute, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand. His interests are in literacy, motivation and learning approaches. He has frequently presented at international conferences and published academic journal papers. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Khon Kaen University, Thailand and a Master’s in educational research from University of Exeter, UK.
Doris Rodés graduated in psychology from the University of La Habana, Cuba. She is affiliated with the Centre for Research in Creativity and Higher Education, University of Santiago of Chile and is currently the coordinator of their accreditation process for undergraduate programmes. She has held various positions, including Deputy Director of the Institutional Support Office, Head of Studies Unit, advisor to the Strategic Development Direction and organisational analyst at the University of Santiago of Chile. Her professional experience has focused on institutional and undergraduate study programme accreditation, strategic planning and organisational diagnosis. She has written a number of articles on tertiary education.
Torgny Roxå has been an academic developer since 1989. Currently, he is an academic developer at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. His main interest is in strategic educational development in higher education, a cultural approach where the essentialist and the socio-cultural perspectives are used in combination. he has developed several major measures for change, both at Lund University and nationally in Sweden. He holds a Master’s in higher education from Griffith University, Australia.
María José Sandoval graduated recently in civil industrial engineering from the University of Santiago of Chile and since then has been worked at the Centre for Research in Creativity and Higher Education at that university, She has worked on several projects on institutional development. These include: institutional accreditation, curricular development, institutional capacities and academics training. Her main interest lies in the area of academic innovation and management. She is also currently working on a research project which aims to diagnose the academic profiles of new students.
Kin Wai Michael Siu is a professor in the School of Design and leads the Public Design Lab at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interests are in design culture and theory, and design and engineering education. He has worked on consultancies in design and engineering programmes. He is the subject specialist for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications. He has published more than 150 refereed papers. He has won numerous international design and invention awards, and owned more than 50 US and Asian design patents.
Pramod Kumar Tiwari is a senior advisor at the Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center Foundation. He is a former Indian Police Service officer. He has had an extensive exposure to policing in Rajasthan, having worked in the field as District Superintendent of Police as well as Deputy Inspector General of Police in Ranges. He was awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Services in 1989 and the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Services in 2001. He has lectured on various aspects of management at various fora. His area of special interest is in soft skills.
James Williams is a senior researcher at the Centre for Research into Quality, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK. James researches aspects of the broad experience of students in higher education, at national and international levels, and has published widely in the field. Much of this is drawn from his experience in collecting and using institutional student feedback. He regularly presents papers and holds workshops at international conferences on this subject and has coordinated several institutional student satisfaction surveys since 2004. He is associate editor of the international journal, Quality in Higher Education. A historian by training, he continues to publish within his original field of Tudor cultural history, and is currently researching the history of higher education in the non-university sector.