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Exploring Teaching for Active Learning in Engineering Education
Engaging, Belonging, Learning
This conference is for you who want to motivate student participation and engagement in class. It is for you who want to design safe and engaging learning environments where students experience meaningfulness in the learning activities and develop a sense of belonging. Come and join workshops, presentations of work-in-progress and conceptual discussions that will inspire your future practices as engineering educators, educational managers and researchers.
The ETALEE2026 is organized by the IUPN network
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22 - 23 April, 2026
DTU Ballerup Campus, Lautrupvang 15, 2750 Ballerup
Registration fee for full conference participation including lunches, coffee breaks and conference dinner DKK 2.800 (excluding VAT). Register HERE (Deadline 15/3)
We recommend that you use Hotel Lautrup park DKK 1.349 per room (Breakfast included)
Meet the Keynotes
Søren Hansen
Assistant Professor, Aalborg University
About Søren Hansen
For more than 30 years, Søren has conducted research in the intersection between learning, creativity, and innovation. As an action researcher and consultant, he has participated extensively in research and development projects within education as well as in the public and private sectors. He has developed several models aimed at fostering creativity and psychological safety and has been instrumental in establishing multiple educational programs in creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Learning in Safe and Creative Learning Communities
Psychological safety and creativity are fundamental to the learning communities that students engage in — with teachers, supervisors, and fellow students. Safety and creativity are also two sides of the same coin, supporting and developing each other like best friends while forming the foundation for learning. Søren will present various models from his research and share examples from his own teaching on how educators and academic leaders can create safe and creative learning communities.
Eva Ulstrup
Senior Consultant at TEACH, University of Copenhagen
About Eva Ulstrup
The keynote will be delivered by Eva Ulstrup, Senior Consultant at TEACH, University of Copenhagen.
Eva’s PhD dissertation examined the correlations and discrepancies between pedagogical intentions and student participation in university teaching. Her work identifies five factors that influence student engagement and active participation.
What Influences Student Engagement?
This keynote focuses on student engagement and what teachers can do to motivate their students to actively participate in class. Drawing on Danish and international research, it explores questions such as: Which factors determine whether students listen attentively to lectures or instead turn to social media? What influences whether many students join classroom discussions, or only a few speak up? And what is decisive for whether students engage in preparatory reading or show up to class unprepared?
Contribution
A. Workshop
Workshops are interactive sessions on a specific topic with activities that are intended to engage the participants. The aim is that the participants should gain further knowledge or skills, or a new perspective. The workshop must include a considerable active component.
A workshop is a 60 minutes session and should include the following the schedule items:
- Introduction (setting the scene) (approximately 10 minutes)
- Hands-on Activity (incl. summing-up) (approximately 30
- Discussion, evaluation & conclusions (approximately 20 minutes)
The author(s) submit a proposal for the workshop how this learning activity or educational structure/tool contributes to activate students and support their learning – incl. theoretical explanation and references
B. Work in progress
In the work in progress session, it is possible to present developed ideas (not merely preliminary thoughts), but not finalized projects.
A key objective of this session is to enable the presenter to draw inspiration from participants, supporting further development of the underlying concept.
The work in progress session is 60 minutes session following the schedule (based on 3 presentations per session):
- Introduction (the chair will set the scene for each topic)
- Presentation (10 minutes) – each presenter has 10 minutes
- At the end of each presentation, each presenter poses one critical question based on the presented topic as a starting point for the following reflection and discussion.
- Q & A
- Closing
Each session is chaired by a session chair.
How to submit
If you wish to contribute, you must submit an abstract, using the abstract template. Submit your abstract as a pdf via mail: halo@dtu.dk. Deadline February 15th. If you contribute remember to sign up for the conference as well. (Deadline March 15th)
Program ETALEE 2026
Wednesday April 22
Activity
Registration in front of D1.72
Welcome to the conference (Dean of Education, Lars D. Christoffersen, DTU & Hanne Løje, IUPN
Keynote 1: What influences Student Engagement, Senior Consultant Eva Ulstrup, University of Copenhagen. Chair: Helle Meibom Færgemann, IUPN
Break
Parallel sessions 1
Workshop:
- Characterising active learning frameworks for mathematics in engineering, Raimundo Elicer, AU
(Chair: Søren Baltzer RAsmussen, IUPN)
Work in Progress:
- Bridging the Innovation-Commercialization Gap: A Competency Framework for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education, Lynn Eriksen & Victor Lund, DTU
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Enabling field-based active learning for engineering students in healthcare, Giulia Nardelli, Villads Keiding & Giana Carli Lorenzini, DTU
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From Control Diagrams to Embedded Code: Model-Based Design in Digital control education, Sam Roozbehani, Ashraf Khalil & Hanne Løje, DTU
(Chair: Hanne Løje, IUPN)
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Time
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:00
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Lunch in room D1.82
Parallel sessions 2
Workshop:
- Student leadership in collaborative learning environments, Henrik Routhe & Jette Holgaard, AAU
(Chair: Jette Egelund Holgaard, IUPN)
Work in Progress:
- Curriculum development processes aiming for student engagement and participation, My Jakobsen & Helle Meibom, AAU
- Designing Positive Learning Environments in STEM Higher Education , Robert Alphinas, AU
- Enhancing Student Motivation and Learning Through Experiments and Demonstrations , Jens Michael Bertelsen, DTU
(Chair: Flemming Davidsen, IUPN)
Break
Parallel sessions 3
Workshop:
- PBL-Students as AI Designers: A PBL Workshop on Co-Creating Pedagogically Aligned Chatbots, Niels Lyngdorf & Nicolaj R. Clausen, AAU
(Chair: Helle Meibom Færgemann, IUPN)
Work in Progress:
- Students Enhanced learning and motivation in Project course on 1st semester, Ole Schultz, DTU
- Redesigning the introductory mathematics course to enhance engineering students’ motivation, Pernille Rattleff & Carsten Schmidt, DTU
- A call for the development of a Body of Knowledge about real-life problem-based teaching of engineering mathematics. Per Skafte Hansen, DTU
(Chair: Jesper Stensbo Knudsen, IUPN)
Break
Networks meeting
Transportation with bus to Skovlyst Brewery and Restaurant
Dinner at Skovlyst Brewery and Restaurant
Thursday April 23
Activity
Welcome back and reflections from yesterday
"Keyshop": Learning in Safe and Creative Learning Communities, Associate Professor Søren Hansen, Aalborg University (Char: Jette Holgaard, IUPN)
Break
Parallel sessions 4
Workshop 1:
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Reflection from 20+ years of developing Medialogy: an engineering education combining technology and creativity, Rolf Nordahl & Stefania Serafin, DTU
(Chair: Flemming Davidsen, IUPN)
Workshop 2:
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Engaging Students Through Formulation Challenges in Teaching, Nina Qvistgaard & Hanne Løje, DTU
(Chair: Hanne Løje, IUPN)
Work in Progress:
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Improvements to mechanical core course for Bachelor of Engineering students, Christian Cristiansen, DTU
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Rebalancing CDIO in Engineering Education, Lars Sommer, DTU
(Chair: Søren Baltzer Rasmussen, IUPN)
Sum up, reflection, presentation of next conference and thank you
Lunch bag
Time
09:00 - 09:05
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10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:15
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Visitor Guide
Where and When
Join us at DTU Ballerup Campus
Lautrupvang 15, 2750 Ballerup
22 -23 April, 2026
Transportation
Train + Bus:
Take the S-train (C or H) to Malmparken Station, located 1.3 km from the Campus.
From Malmparken, either walk (17 min), or take the bus 350S which stops directly at Campus.
Direct bus from Central Copenhagen. Bus 350S runs between Ballerup Station and Dragør, passing trough Copenhagen areas: serve stops near DTU Campus.
Car:
Driving from downtown Copenhagen: ~12 min, ~13 km via main roads.
Free on-campus parking available; ample spaces including EV charging points.
