About this episode

The episode discusses the role of emotions in engineering education, particularly in relation to solving complex 'wicked' problems.

Engineering students are increasingly expected to work towards solving ‘wicked’ problems. Tacking such complexity can invoke a range of emotions and educators are increasingly required to support students in situations when they are confronted with uncertainty and value conflicts. In this episode we speak to Johanna Lönngren, Associate Professor in Science and Engineering Education at Umeå University. Johanna is part of the Umeå Science Education Research (UmSER) group and focuses on the role of emotions in education for sustainable development, exploring how engineering students talk about, and collaboratively deal with, emotions when they work with complex sustainability problems. Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Prof. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn more about the emotions that engineers experience when tacking complex and wicked problems Timestamps 0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode 0.17 Podcast Intro 0.42 Experiences with student emotion from Natalie and Neil 3.45 Introduction to Johanna 8.23 University of Umeå 10.28 Wicked problems in engineering 15.08 Brining wicked problems into engineering education 19.15 Emotions in education…

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