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European engineering educatorsSEFI: The European society for engineering education Author: SEFI European society for engineering education
The European engineering educators podcast from SEFI brings you key insights into the minds of university researchers and practitioners who have built international reputations in the field of engineering education with knowledge and advice to share. Find out from Europe's largest network of engineering educators how engineering is evolving to address the challenges of the modern world, and develop your expertise.Your hosts are Professor Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Dr Natalie Wint (University College London). We want to bring the frontiers of engineering education to you, regardless of your speciality, in an easy to digest format- you don't have to be an education researcher to benefit. You might be an academic teaching engineering or a related subject, an engineer who wants to keep up with the latest insights, some other professional in education, or even a student!Based in Brussels, SEFI is the European society for engineering education, a non-profit organisation active since 1973, and Europe's largest network of engineering educators. Our mission is to improve engineering education and its image in society.Join our network www.sefi.be Leave us podcast feedback/comments/suggestions: https://forms.gle/tMDHxf1JA8P9RYMY8Subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts.Listen to the podcast with subtitles in your own language on youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?listPLgbdO3TmP943SOB9BDGRrffTG6tShZSXzWritten and produced by Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Education, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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#45 Karin Jensen and Faith Gacheru from U-M USA on engineering students mental health
Episode 7
Sunday, 15 March, 2026
Concerns for student mental health have grown over the last decade, particularly within engineering disciplines, which are often associated with heavy workloads and difficult assessment. There is subsequently an increasing need to understand the stressors that impact engineering students, and the ways in which we can support them to thrive.In this episode we speak to Karin Jensen, an Assistant Professor and Faith Gacheru a first-year graduate student, both from the University of Michigan. Karin was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on undergraduate mental health in engineering programs and recognized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, awarded by US President Biden in January 2025, whilst Faith recently presented a poster entitled A Mixed-Methods Study to Support Undergraduate Engineering Student Well-Being at ASEE 2025.Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Prof. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn about stressors within engineering education and ways by which to encourage help-seeking behaviour. Timestamps0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode0.23 Podcast Intro0.45 Experiences with student mental health from Natalie and Neil2.32 Introduction to Karin and Faith 7.06 University of Michigan9.38 Key definitions, terminology and use of language15.27 How concerns regarding mental health have changed 20.11 The role of engineering culture24.21 Making changes at different levels of the system26.32 Measuring stress and identifying stressors within engineering education34.53 How do educators perceive mental health concerns36.51 Thriving 38.09 Translating finding into teaching practices 47.21 How is the research being used to support other educators48.29 Staff mental health 51.09 Future work52.33 Takeaways from Karin and Faith55.54 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil ResourcesDetails about Karin’s lab and work can be found here https://kjens.engin.umich.edu/ including The Engineering Stress Culture (ESC) Scale, a 10-item measure of undergraduate student perceptions of engineering stress culture and The Undergraduate Engineering Stressors Questionnaire (U-ESQ) (https://kjens.engin.umich.edu/research-well-being/)Join us! Become a member of the European Society for EngineeringEducation, SEFI, Europe's largest network of engineeringeducators: www.sefi.be Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
