CHALLENGES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES (TLA) AT ENGINEERING EDUCATION

In the knowledge-based society, the legacy education system does not provide the needed skills for creative engineers especially enhancing student innovation and entrepreneurship capacity. Triple-helix model is a concept that aims to bond universities, industry and government in a bid to create innovations. In Europe, integrating research, education, and innovation together in a comprehensive manner has been the major driving force for local and European university development, as example in the form of European Institute Innovation Technology (EIT). At KTH, there are activities that alien the Teaching and Learning Activities (TLA) with different task group with the aim of creating a mutual innovation capacity to contribute solutions for major social challenges. Some of these task groups are Cross-Cultural Faculty Development for Challenge Driven Education, Global learning and digital platform and open innovation platform for learning. The progress and the success are measured by the number of joint student teams and their skills, knowledge development with the follow-up workshop, and the ongoing research and results of the socio-oriented projects. To enhance TLA and the teaching and learning practices, we have developed new curriculums (MSc. and PhD) for our partners to spark innovation and entrepreneurship where the students interact with Open Lab activities. The assessments show that the enrolled students have gained creative skills in dealing with engineering problem and consolidate their knowledge to improve the future TLA and the Intended Learning Outcome (ILO).