Dr Steve Bullock is an engineering researcher in air-to-air refuelling and cooperative control of UAVs, as well as the Programme Director of the Aerospace Engineering programme at the University of Bristol. As the programme director of a leading European aerospace engineering programme, Steve has a unique vantage point on how the higher education landscape is changing, and specifically, how technology trends such as aviation sustainability and digitisation are changing the requirements for an engineering university education in the 21st century.
As a TeachFirst ambassador and presenter of the Cosmic Shed podcast, Steve has a clear passion for education in general and is actively exploring different ways of disseminating technical information to a broad audience. In this episode of the podcast Steve and I talk about,
- his path into aerospace engineering and how he found his passion for teaching
- his PhD work on air-to-air refuelling and cooperative control
- what he considers to be some of the key challenges in engineering university education
- how the Aerospace Engineering department in Bristol is planning for the future
- and much, much more.
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