Special Sessions

Focused sessions on specialized topics, organized by leading researchers

Special Session 1

Human-Centred AI and Experiential Learning for Future Engineering Education

This title provides a strong balance:

  • “Human-Centred AI” connects directly with responsible, explainable, and teacher-supportive AI.

  • “Experiential Learning” covers robotics, remote and physical laboratories, project-based learning, and authentic engineering activities.

  • “Future Engineering Education” keeps the session sufficiently broad for submissions on curricula, pedagogy, assessment, faculty development, and emerging technologies.

 

Artificial intelligence and emerging digital technologies are creating new opportunities to transform engineering education. However, effective educational innovation requires more than simply introducing new tools. It calls for human-centred approaches that connect intelligent technologies with sound pedagogy, meaningful experiential learning, transparent decision-making, and the changing needs of learners and educators.

This Special Session aims to bring together researchers, engineering educators, educational technologists, and practitioners to explore how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies can support more personalized, engaging, explainable, and practice-oriented engineering learning. It welcomes contributions ranging from AI-enabled learner modelling, adaptive assessment, learning analytics, and intelligent tutoring to robotics education, physical and remote laboratories, immersive environments, digital twins, and project-based learning. The session will also examine responsible AI adoption, curriculum innovation, educator professional development, and rigorous approaches to evaluating educational impact.

By connecting technological advancement with human-centred design and experiential pedagogy, the Special Session seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary exchange and identify practical, scalable, and evidence-informed approaches to educating future engineers in the AI era.

Scope

Topics of Interest

The Special Session welcomes original research, systematic reviews, case studies, design-based research, and evidence-informed practices addressing, but not limited to:

Artificial intelligence and generative AI in engineering teaching and learning

Explainable AI, learning analytics, and educational data mining for learner support

Adaptive assessment, personalized learning, and intelligent tutoring systems

Experiential, project-based, and challenge-based learning in engineering education

Physical, remote, virtual, and AI-enhanced laboratories

Robotics, digital twins, immersive technologies, and embodied AI for education

Human-centred, ethical, and responsible adoption of AI in educational settings

Curriculum innovation and professional development for engineering educators in the AI era

Organizer

Session Chair

Dr. Dongkun Han

Dr. Dongkun Han

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Dr. Dongkun Han is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong, and has held research and visiting positions at the Technical University of Munich, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the German Institute of Science and Technology in Singapore. His educational research focuses on artificial intelligence in mathematics and general education, e-learning and experiential learning in robotics education, and professional development for engineering educators. He also co-founded the CUHK Smart Garden to promote sustainability education and Sustainable Development Goals through renewable energy and recycling initiatives. Dr. Han has served in various leadership roles for international conferences. His learner-centred teaching has been recognized by the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award, the University Education Award, and multiple faculty and general education teaching awards.

How to Participate

Submission Method

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