Meet the Hosts: Our Journeys into Engineering Education (feat. Prof. Lelanie Smith and Dr. Reuben...

In this special episode, our hosts Prof. Lelanie Smith and Dr. Reuben Govender turn the conversation towards themselves, sharing the personal and professional journeys that brought them from mechanical engineering into engineering education. They reflect on teaching, mentorship, curriculum design, and the experiences that shifted their understanding of engineering from a primarily technical discipline towards one centred equally on people and their development. Along the way, they explore the complexities of educating engineers in the South African context, the value of community and collaboration, and the experiences that ultimately led to the IEC and this podcast. It is a conversation about their own ongoing journeys of becoming, as engineers, educators, researchers, and colleagues, and an invitation for others to join the conversation. Links: • Innovative Engineering Curriculum (IEC) (https://iecurricula.co.za/) • Meet the IEC team (https://iecurricula.co.za/iec-team/) • IEC Podcast Series (https://iecurricula.co.za/iec-podcast...) • South African Society for Engineering Education — SASEE (https://www.sasee.org.za/) • Master Classes for Engineering Educators (https://eeescep.uct.ac.za/) • UCL Integrated Engineering Programme (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/cen...) • Royal Academy of Engineering case study on the South African IEC project (https://engineeringx.raeng.org.uk/pro...) • Vertically Integrated Projects Consortium (https://www.vip-consortium.org/) • Baja SAE (https://www.bajasae.net/) • #FeesMustFall: Max Price's book Statues and Storms:  Leading through change (https://alumni.uct.ac.za/articles/202...) • #FeesMustFall: Review by Prof Robert Morrell from Prof Adam Habib's Book (https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/99/article/7...)