NICKEL VII Conference: Pulling Together

Join NICKEL VII at UBC on August 17-18th, 2022!

NICKEL – the National Initiative on Capacity building and Knowledge creation for Engineering Leadership – is running its annual, interactive conference in-person at UBC August 17-18, 2022.

NICKEL is a community of faculty, staff and instructors interested in furthering engineering students’ leadership capabilities. This community gathers to learn from each other, share insights and wisdom from teaching practice, and collaboratively build our capacity to support our students. Through enhancing our students’ leadership, we enable them to increase their positive impact on the world around them.

NICKEL VII will involve in-person workshops, classroom simulations, reflective activities, and great conversation! The conference theme this year is “Pulling Together” and is inspired by the BC Indigenization Guides for post-secondary institutions (link below). The Guides’ Indigenization Project “can be described as an evolving story of how diverse people can journey forward in a canoe”, pulling together to learn and share (Foundations Guide). Through the conference, we hope to draw on the diversity in NICKEL and beyond in our own shared journey of engineering leadership.

If you are interested in joining, and learning with this welcoming community of educators, you should attend NICKEL VII this year. No experience in teaching engineering leadership necessary -- just an interest to learn and share your perspectives with others.

Check out the Pulling Together BC Indigenization Guides for Post-Secondary Institutes

Stay safe,

The NICKEL VII Program Committee

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Objectives for NICKEL 2022:

• Build relationships between individuals engaged in engineering leadership education.

• Form a network of learning and action.

• Demonstrate and experience active leadership learning.

• Share best practices and greatest challenges.

• Integrate new ideas into university programs.

• Stimulate interest in research on engineering leadership and its pedagogy

Who Should Attend?

University faculty, staff and instructors from Canadian universities with a personal interest and passion for the topic and role alignment with engineering leadership initiatives.

How to Register: 

To participate in the 2022 NICKEL Conference, please register by August 6th, 2022. For each individual, please use the UBC Conferences Registration form.

Cost: 

The conference fee is $250 CAD + GST.

More Information: 

If you have any questions, please email Patricia Sheridan ([email protected]). 

Conference Agenda

Available on the UBC NICKEL VII Site.