Prof Elena M Rodriguez-Falcon of Enterprise & Engineering Education, University of Sheffield. This talk was given on Wednesday 26th March 2014. Elena’s general research interest lies in teaching and learning as the main umbrella for her scholarship. From this she has developed more specific interests in enterprise education, project based learning, internationalisation and various others. This has resulted in numerous conference papers and guest speaker presentations in both the UK and internationally. Elena joined the Department in 2001 having previously worked in industry for seven years in project management, product development, quality control and business planning. Elena, in addition to being a mechanical engineer, has MBAs in Industrial Relations and Industrial Management, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education. In the last eleven years Elena has developed three degrees which aim at embedding enterprise and management in engineering. She is also the founder of the Ibberson Centre for Enterprise, better known as the E-lab, which has become the first enterprise satellite for the White Rose Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Enterprise (WRCETLE), now known as University of Sheffield Enterprise (USE). Until 2008, Elena was also Director of Learning and Teaching Development for one of the four Institutional Learning Priorities of the University: Inclusive Learning and Teaching. In 2011, Elena became the University of Sheffield’s Director of Enterprise Education and also the Faculty of Engineering’s Director of Women in Engineering. Inspiration & Co interview: https://soundcloud.com/inspirationandco/poetry-gender-and-tv-repair
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