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Visiting Professor of Innovation, University of Strathclyde

In the academic year 2010 - 2011, Think Up Director Ed McCann was appointed Visiting Professor of Innovation at the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

This Visiting Professorship, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering, is part of an industry-into-academia technology transfer initiative. It is based on the experience-led education concept, whereby senior industrial engineers are appointed as Visiting Professors at specific universities to enrich the engineering undergraduate curriculum with the latest industrial technology and practices to enhance the quality and capabilities of UK engineering graduates.

The purpose of Ed’s appointment was primarily to work with the Strathclyde staff to develop innovations in the teaching of structural engineering. He worked closely with staff at the university, and in particular with EmeritusProfessor Iain MacLeod to establish a new set of fundamental principles on which to build a 21st century structural engineering teaching curriculum.

Their work provides the theoretical underpinning that informs the development of the Expedition Workshed. The findings of this work will be published in a paper in 2012, and will form the basis of Ed's work at UCL to where his Visiting Professorship was transferred for the academic year 2011 - 2012.

Ed will stay on at Strathclyde as a Visiting Professor and will be back up in Glasgow twice a year.