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Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Erik de Graaf., SEFI Vice-president (2005-2008), Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Engineering Education.
Keynote 2: "Innovation in Engineering Education".
Prof. Dr. Erik de Graaf, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands. Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Engineering Education. SEFI Vice-president (2005-2008).
Erik de Graaff (1951) graduated at the University of Amsterdam in 1978, majoring in the psychology of work and organization. From 1979 till 1990 he has been involved in the development of the Problem based curricula of medicine and health sciences at the University of Limburg in Maastricht. In 1990 Dr. de Graaff was asked to join TU Delft in order to support the process of educational innovation at the Faculty of Architecture. In 1994 he was appointed associate professor in the field of educational innovation at the department of didactics in the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy, a position which has shifted to the faculty of Technology Policy and Management.
Dr de Graaff has been a visiting research professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1995 and a guest professor at Aalborg University in Denmark since 1999. The collaboration with Aalborg University in Denmark resulted in an appointment as extraordinary professor (adjungeret professor) in September 2007. Dr de Graaff has contributed to the promotion of knowledge and understanding of higher engineering education through publications and through participation in Professional Organizations like SEFI and IGIP. In 2006 Dr de Graaff was appointed as associate editor of the European Journal of Engineering Education. Since January 2008 he is Editor-in-Chief of the EJEE. Dr de Graaff participated in Professional Organisations: ALE [Active Learning in Engineering Education] - member of the Executive Committee, ASEE [American Society of Engineering Education], CRWO [Dutch National Society of Centres for Research in Higher Education] - member of the board 2001-2009 (chair in 2005), EARLI [European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction] – member, IGIP [European Society for Engineering Pedagogy] – member of the Executive Committee; member of the Dutch National Monitoring Committee, SEFI [European Society of Engineering Education] – Vice-president 2005-2008.
