Publications by Roland John Tormey

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Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...

Emotion is an increasingly important concept in ethics, education, and engineering. It is also important for the intersection of these three domains: engineering ethics education. Despite extensive research being conducted independently in each field, ther ...

The 'gender mathematics gap' which persists in many countries means that women students may, on average, have less high school preparation in mathematics than men students entering engineering education. This in turn could impact their performance in first ...

What conceptions do teachers hold about learning activities to develop students’ transversal skills? This qualitative exploration at a research-intensive engineering school draws on interviews and focus groups to explore teachers’ ideas about developing in ...

Professional skills of project planning, risk analysis, ethical design, communication, and working in interprofessional teams are now recognised as core engineering skills. Frequently, they are addressed in engineering education through team projects. Howe ...

Previous research has revealed that including emotional content in ethics cases may improve students’ learning. However, there remain concerns as to whether the emotional content will also impact students’ moral reasoning. There is evidence that incorporat ...

Background: The study of emotions in engineering education (EEE) has increased in recent years, but this emerging, multidisciplinary body of research is dispersed and not well consolidated. This paper reports on the first systematic review of EEE research ...

Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...

Background Research shows that active pedagogies could play an important role in achieving more equitable outcomes for diverse groups of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Although flipped classes are a popular active met ...

This Work-in-Progress research paper describes preliminary work on a research agenda for emotions in engineering education. Emotions play an important role for teaching and learning in engineering education, but research on the topic is scarce. To spur res ...

Teaching advisors work to sensitize teachers to use inclusive teaching pedagogy because it facilitates learning to all students and makes teachers aware of how the gender composition of a class and its management can promote or hamper student learning and ...

Through their role in labs, exercise/recitation sessions and tutorials, graduate or doctoral teaching assistants play a significant role in the education of engineering students. Yet doctoral assistants frequently get little pedagogical training, what trai ...

Higher education is experienced by many academics as a highly individualized environment where they work in relative isolation and often do not see how their teaching fits together with other courses and into the wider curriculum. But, when the ultimate go ...

Being able to work effectively in a team is a vital professional skill but how do students in different disciplines, engineering and hospitality, display their emotions when working together? We investigated their self-reported use of emotional labour stra ...

In recent years, a commitment to professional ethics and professional responsibility has been included among the learning outcomes required of engineering education programmes in many counties. So, how should engineering ethics be taught? There is evidence ...

Short-term field study involves groups of students working in an off-campus (sometimes international) setting, and often involves working on realistic, open-ended problems, in interaction with a host community. Such learning experiences are intended to dev ...

The “approaches to learning” framework is widely used in higher education. Unlike other learning styles models, a person’s approach to learning is seen as a function of the interaction between the learner, the discipline and the context (rather than as a f ...

Short-term field study experiences are increasingly popular in engineering education. Where they include an international dimension, they can also develop skills and knowledge needed for working across cultures and in interdisciplinary teams. Such programs ...

Working in groups and managing projects are important professional skills for engineers, and there is a growing demand to teach and assess such skills. But what should be taught and when? Tuckman’s famous “stages of development of performing groups” provid ...

This paper reports results of the deployment of a learning analytics dashboard in the context of introductory Maths, Physics and Chemistry courses in the first year of the Engineering bachelor of a Swiss technical university. Informed by research on self r ...

Roland John Tormey

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A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students

Emotions in Engineering Ethics Education: Systematic Review and Ways Forward

EQUITY AND EXAMINATION TIME PRESSURE IN FIRST YEAR MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERS

Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?

The development, validation and use of an interprofessional project management questionnaire in engineering education

The impact of varying levels of compassion in ethics education case studies on students' moral reasoning

Emotions in engineering education: A configurative meta-synthesis systematic review

The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases

Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years

Emotions in engineering education: Towards a research agenda

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula

The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants

Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools

“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students

The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education

Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education

Approaches to learning, metacognition and personality; an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences

Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences

Impact of a learning analytics dashboard on the practice of students and teachers