Vivian Neal

Continuing Studies 

New Farmers Business Bootcamp, Young Agrarians, 2021

Ethnobotany of British Columbia First Nations, Simon Fraser University, 2019

First Nations Ecological Systems Management, Simon Fraser University, 2013 

Teaching interests

• Support students to understand the nature of learning in their lives and their careers, and to take responsibility for their own learning.
• Support students to lead and influence local, regional and global change in sustainability by observing, reflecting and reasoning to identify and act upon ethical actions and socially responsible behavior.

Recently taught courses

• SEE 101W - Process, Form and Convention in Professional Genres
• SEE 896 - MASc Research Seminar
• SEE 897 - PhD Research Seminar
• Rethinking Teaching: A Course Redesign Workshop
• MSE 801 - Writing for Engineers
• MSE 401W - Project Documentation and Group Dynamics
• MSE 402 - Engineering Ethics, Law, and Professional Practice

Selected recent publications

• Neal, V., Niet, T. and Baker, D. (2021) One Assignment, Two Courses, Multiple Skills: A Major Engineering Assignment with Social, Political and Ethical Dimensions. Proc. of the 10th Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, June 14-16, 2021, Cork, Ireland
• Neal, V., Oldknow, K., Edgar, J., Bajić, I., Trautman, M. and Moallem, M. (2018) A New Program in Sustainable Energy Engineering - Balancing subject matter with transformative pedagogies to produce Global Citizens, Proc. of the 9th Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, June 3-6, 2018, Glassboro, NJ, USA
• Campi, F., Neal, V., Airoldi, R., and Nurmi, J. (2014) Training communication skills in project-oriented microelectronics courses. Proc. of the 10th European Workshop on Microelectronics Engineering, May 14-15, 2014, Tallinn, Estonia
• Neal, V. (Ed.). (2014) Experiential learning casebook. Teaching and Learning Centre, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
• Neal, V. (2012) Embedding sustainability into the engineering curriculum. Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association Conference, Jun 18-20, 2012, Winnipeg, Canada
• Neal, V. and Langley, G. (2012) Education for sustainable development and accredited programmes. In Putting the 'S' into ED: Education for Sustainable Development in Educational Development. Staff and Educational Development Association, SEDA Special 31 (Eds: Cotton, D.R.E., Sterling, S., Neal, V. & Winter, J.)
• Cotton, D.R.E., Sterling, S., Neal, V. and Winter, J. (Eds.). (2012) Putting the 'S' into ED: Education for Sustainable Development in Educational Development. Staff and Educational Development Association, SEDA Special 31