Third John Burland Lecture: Changing attitudes, organization and scale in engineering education: The teacher as a go-between and TC306 as a knowledge broker
Presenter: Marina Pantazidou
Title: 3rd John Burland Lecture: Changing attitudes, organization and scale in engineering education: The teacher as a go-between and TC306 as a knowledge broker
Date of recording: 2 July 2025
Duration: 49:37
Presentation slides available here.
Changing attitudes, organization and scale in engineering education: The teacher as a go-between and TC306 as a knowledge broker
by Marina Pantazidou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Marina Pantazidou
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Marina Pantazidou is an associate professor at the Civil Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Apart from university appointments in the US and Greece, her professional experience also includes work in hazardous waste consulting. Her research topics are drawn from environmental geotechnics and engineering education. She is author of 100 publications, 25 of which on geotechnical engineering education topics. She has been a guest editor for two special issues on geotechnical engineering education, one on case studies developed for geotechnical engineering instruction. She has been actively involved with the Hellenic Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (secretary general 2012-2015 and board member 2015 - ) and the ISSMGE Technical Committee TC306 on Geo-engineering Education (core member 2010-2013, vice chair 2013-2017, chair 2017 - ). She chaired the ISSMGE Int. Conf. on Geotechnical Engineering Education GEE2020, (streamed from) Athens, Greece, June 23-25 and delivered the 3rd John Burland Lecture at GEE 2025, Nancy, France, July 2-4.