Tiia Rüütmann

Tiia Rüütmann is Associate Professor and Head of Estonian Centre for Engineering Pedagogy at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia. She is also a visiting professor at Peter the Great Polytechnic University of St Petersburg (Russia) in the field of Engineering Pedagogy. She graduated TalTech as Diploma Engineer in the field of Chemical Engineering and Cybernetics in 1982, and received her second MSc in chemical engineering at TalTech in 1992. She defended her PhD in education (with specialization in Engineering Pedagogy) at University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic in 2007. She received the qualification of International Engineering Educator ING.PAED.IGIP in 2004. Tiia is a member of IGIP Executive Committee and the president of IGIP International Monitoring Committee since 2010. Tiia is a member of SEFI, IEEE Education Society, Nordic-Baltic Network in Higher Education Development, Delta Kappa Gamma International Society for Key Women Educators, and IEEE EDUCON advisory board. She is the author and co-author of more than 90 peer-reviewed articles. She has written several book chapters and published a Handbook on Engineering Pedagogy Science and STEM didactics in 2019. She has delivered workshops on engineering pedagogy in Europe, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, China and Argentina. She has participated in 18 research projects and coordinated five of them. Her field of expertise and research are Engineering Pedagogy Science, effective teaching of engineering, STEM pedagogy, university didactics, laboratory didactics, e-learning didactics, innovative methodologies, course and curriculum design in engineering education. In 2021 she received IEOM Global Engineering Education Award and she was invited to share her journey to professional success by writing her chapter in a book published by IEEE/GEDC “Rising to the Top”.