The 34th
Australasian Association
for Engineering Education
Annual Conference

One of Australia’s leading researchers in engineering education, Sally Male has led major projects on industry engagement in engineering education, gender inclusion in engineering workplace learning, and curriculum development.

Sally is Professor of Engineering and Technology Education, and Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory, in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne. The Lab is the first of its kind in Australia. In the Lab, Sally has established a team combining experience and research in engineering and technology education, guiding research-informed enhancements to teaching and learning.

Before joining the University of Melbourne, Sally held the Chair in Engineering Education at The University of Western Australia.  Sally taught electrical and electronic engineering design subjects in which students worked on projects offered and co-supervised by industry, finding herself frequently envious of their exciting opportunities. Sally also delighted in the extraordinary levels of critical thinking demonstrated by the final year students who completed research projects related to engineering practice, several of whom presented at AAEE conferences.

Sally is Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. Under her leadership, the Journal has climbed to Q1, providing a trusted platform for the exchange of Australasian as well as international research.

A Fellow of Engineers Australia, Sally is grateful to have twice received the Engineers Australia Medal from the WA Division, for promoting the profession through industry engagement in engineering education and through initiatives to improve gender inclusion.

Rodrigo is Full Professor of Organisational Sustainability University of Gävle, Sweden. He is Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Organisations for Sustainability. He is a visiting professor at Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Cleaner Production. He was previously Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and programme leader of the BA Environment and Business at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK. For over twenty years Rodrigo has been working towards Sustainability in NGO’s, universities, and corporations. His projects have ranged from sustainability competences and pedagogical approaches, chemical leasing, indoor-air quality and energy efficiency, to sustainability assessment and reporting, and to organisational change management. He has developed assessment tools such as the GRaphical Assessment of Sustainability Performance (GRASP), the Sustainability Tool for Assessing UNiversities Curricula Holistically (STAUNCH®) (shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Awards in 2008), and the Graphical Assessment for Sustainability in Universities (GASU™). Rodrigo holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering (graduated with honours) from Monterrey Tec, Mexico; a MSc in Environmental Management and Policy, from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economies (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden; and a PhD on organisational change management for Corporate Sustainability at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Rodrigo is also the managing director of Organisational Sustainability Ltd. (www.org-sustainability.com).