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Fika Chat on industry partner collaboration in education

Is the solution or the process most important in a project course involving external parties in order to give students authentic, wicked problems to work on? What are the challenges and side effects? How do you as a teacher get started and what should you consider? Marcus Lithander and Joakim Lilliesköld discuss with Lars Uppvall , Master's Programme Director (Indek, ITM), project manager in Future Education at KTH and KTH SoTL contributor.

Spotify #61 / YouTube #61 (Swedish)

KTH Play #61 (Swedish)  with subtitles and timeline (download textfile for translation)

SoTL-paper: Engaging with Engineering Education (pdf)

Fika Chat with THS Teacher of the Year Paris Carbone

How do you go from dislike and fear to joy? How do you scale up motivation and skill in larger student groups? But also, AI and what academia should learn from YouTubers came up in the conversation between Paris Carbone , Marcus Lithander and Anna Jerbrant. Paris is an Associate Professor at EECS and Director of the Data Systems Lab. The THS student union awarded him for his innovative and experimental teaching methods.

Spotify #60  / YouTube #60
Timelines and subtitles: KTH Play #60

Paris Carbone is Teacher of the Year

Fika Chat at Storträffen Meetup for Education and KTH SoTL

The big meeting for education – what's going on there? Why is it essential for KTH, and why should you go next time? Marcus Lithander asks teachers, students and employees how they experience the Grand Meeting, what they do there and think about current issues in the development of education at KTH.

  KTH Play #59 with content timelines.

YouTube #59  / Spotify#59

Farazee Asif

Farazee Asif , associate professor and docent in circular manufacturing systems at the School of Industrial Technology and Management (ITM), was awarded KTH's pedagogical prize in 2023. At the Storträffen on 14 May 2024 , he talked about his student-centred and flexible learning methods in the the course MG2043 Circular Manufacturing Systems (CMS) .

Listen to Asif's Fika Chat podcast Spotify #38  / KTH Play #38

Read article: “Students' ideas can become spin-off companies”

Tomas Ekholm

Tomas Ekholm , associate professor in mathematics at the School of Engineering Science (SCI), was awarded KTH's pedagogical prize in 2022. In his keynote at Storträffen Meetup December 2023 , Tomas shared his thoughts (in Swedish) on teaching; he talked about time, driving forces for knowledge formation, opportunities for success and the meeting with the students (lecture time).

Listen to Tomas' Fika Chat podcast (in Swedish) Spotify#3 / KTH Play#3

Read article: "I might prepare a lecture a year in advance"

Luigia Brandimarte

Luigia Brandimarte  is an associate professor and docent in Hydraulic Engineering at the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering (ABE), was awarded KTH's pedagogical prize in 2022. In her keynote at Storträffen Meetup May 2023  she shared her thoughts on cross-border education to prepare tomorrow's engineers to handle wicked problems.

Listen to Luigia's Fika Chat podcast Spotify#5 / KTH Play#5

Read article: "Taking learning out of the classroom"