@inproceedings{SteuerDankertBergLeichtScholten2015,
  author    = {Steuer-Dankert, Linda and Berg, Tobias and Leicht-Scholten, Carmen},
  title     = {Breaking the habit - new approaches in engineering education},
  series = {Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education},
  isbn      = {978-2-87352-012-0},
  pages     = {11},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Within the framework of the project a genderand diversity-oriented teaching evaluation and modern, media-supported blended learning approaches were used in order to achieve the intended goals. First research results of the literature and status quo analysis were already implemented and tested in newly designed teaching approaches, for example in a multidisciplinary introductory lecture of civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{SteuerDankertLeichtScholten2016,
  author    = {Steuer-Dankert, Linda and Leicht-Scholten, Carmen},
  title     = {Social responsibility and innovation - Key competencies for engineers},
  series = {ICERI 2016: 9th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation: Conference Proceedings : Seville (Spain), 14-16 November},
  booktitle = {ICERI 2016: 9th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation: Conference Proceedings : Seville (Spain), 14-16 November},
  isbn      = {978-84-617-5895-1},
  issn      = {2340-1095},
  doi       = {10.21125/iceri.2016.0353},
  pages     = {5967 -- 5976},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Engineers are of particular importance for the societies of tomorrow. The big social challenges society has to cope with in future, can only be mastered, if engineers link the development and innovation process closely with the requirements of people. As a result, in the frame of the innovation process engineers have to design and develop products for diverse users. Therefore, the consideration of diversity in this process is a core competence engineers should have. Implementing the consideration of diverse requirements into product design is also linked to the development of sustainable products and thus leads to social responsible research and development, the core concept formulated by the EU. For this reason, future engineers should be educated to look at the technical perspectives of a problem embedded in the related questions within societies they are developing their artefacts for. As a result, the aim of teaching engineering should be to prepare engineers for these requirements and to draw attention to the diverse needs in a globalized world. To match the competence profiles of future engineers to the global challenges and the resulting social responsibility, RWTH Aachen University, one of the leading technical universities in Germany, has established the bridging professorship "Gender and Diversity in Engineering" (GDI) which educates engineers with an interdisciplinary approach to expand engineering limits. The interdisciplinary teaching concept of the research group pursues an approach which imparts an application oriented Gender and Diversity expertise to future engineers. In the frame of an established teaching concept, which is a result of experiences and expertise of the research group, students gain theoretical knowledge about Gender and Diversity and learn how to transfer their knowledge into their later field of action. In the frame of the conference the institutional approach will be presented as well as the teaching concept which will be introduced by concrete course examples.},
  language  = {en}
}