ESTIEM works to improve IEM education in Europe by bringing students, universities, and companies together. This way, ESTIEM helps students actively shape the future of IEM while learning, collaborating, and making an impact.
ESTIEM works to improve IEM education in Europe by bringing students, universities, and companies together. Everything we do is driven by students — from creating educational projects and organizing events to representing the student voice at conferences. This way, ESTIEM helps students actively shape the future of IEM while learning, collaborating, and making an impact.
How ESTIEM stays involved
Supports Educational Development
Through research projects, organization of academic conferences, and sharing the student perspective, we contribute to a more relevant curricula.
Advances Career
Development
With 170+ events every year, mentorship opportunities, start-up competitions, and company connections, students gain career skills that go beyond the classroom.
Connects IEM
Stakeholders
With everything we do, we build bridges between students, academics, organizations and companies — creating opportunities to learn and shape the future of IEM together.
Relevant Projects
2019–2023
European IEM Bachelor Curricula Analysis
This project analysed IEM Bachelor curricula across universities connected to ESTIEM to map similarities, differences, and focus areas within European IEM education.
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Using a framework developed together with professors, ESTIEM students led the data collection and analysis, structuring the results into a dashboard that enables transparent comparison of programmes and supports better understanding among students, universities, and academics.This project analysed IEM Bachelor curricula across universities connected to ESTIEM to map similarities, differences, and focus areas within European IEM education. Using a framework developed together with professors, ESTIEM students led the data collection and analysis, structuring the results into a dashboard that enables transparent comparison of programmes and supports better understanding among students, universities, and academics.
2021
Portuguese Universities Attractiveness Study
Choosing a university is influenced by many factors, and this study focused on understanding what matters most to IEM students in Portugal.
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ESTIEM designed and disseminated a student survey with over 300 responses, analysing academic reputation, location, and career prospects. The results were presented at the SEFI Conference 2021.Choosing a university is influenced by many factors, and this study focused on understanding what matters most to IEM students in Portugal. ESTIEM designed and disseminated a student survey with over 300 responses, analysing academic reputation, location, and career prospects. The results were presented at the SEFI Conference 2021.
2021
IE3 - Shaping the Future of IEM Master Programmes
IE3 was a three-year Erasmus+ project focused on modernising IEM Master programmes in Europe by aligning them with Industry 4.0 needs, labour market expectations, and student perspectives.
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ESTIEM contributed by designing and disseminating a Europe-wide student survey, ensuring student insights on skills, competences, and learning environments shaped the project’s Body of Knowledge and final guidelines. ESTIEM also supported dissemination and participated in the IE3 Final Conference in 2023.IE3 was a three-year Erasmus+ project focused on modernising IEM Master programmes in Europe by aligning them with Industry 4.0 needs, labour market expectations, and student perspectives. ESTIEM contributed by designing and disseminating a Europe-wide student survey, ensuring student insights on skills, competences, and learning environments shaped the project’s Body of Knowledge and final guidelines. ESTIEM also supported dissemination and participated in the IE3 Final Conference in 2023.
2023
Skills for Sustainability: The Student Voice
Students around the world were given a direct voice on how sustainability should be addressed in engineering education through this global initiative.
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ESTIEM supported survey development through focus groups, promoted participation across its network, and helped collect input from over 600 students. The results were discussed with education leaders at the Global Engineering Deans Council Conference in Cape Town in 2022.Students around the world were given a direct voice on how sustainability should be addressed in engineering education through this global initiative. ESTIEM supported survey development through focus groups, promoted participation across its network, and helped collect input from over 600 students. The results were discussed with education leaders at the Global Engineering Deans Council Conference in Cape Town in 2022
2023
Sustainability in European IEM Education
As sustainability becomes increasingly important in engineering education, this initiative explored how it is actually integrated into IEM curricula across Europe.
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ESTIEM coordinated curriculum reviews at selected universities and gathered local student perspectives to complement academic analysis. By combining both views, the project highlighted different approaches to sustainability education and resulted in an academic paper presented at the SEFI Conference 2023.As sustainability becomes increasingly important in engineering education, this initiative explored how it is actually integrated into IEM curricula across Europe. ESTIEM coordinated curriculum reviews at selected universities and gathered local student perspectives to complement academic analysis. By combining both views, the project highlighted different approaches to sustainability education and resulted in an academic paper presented at the SEFI Conference 2023.
2022–2023
IEM Career Pathways: Alumni Insights
Understanding where IEM studies can lead after graduation was the starting point of this initiative focused on real career outcomes.
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ESTIEM analysed career trajectories of ESTIEM Alumni across Europe and translated the findings into practical insights to help students navigate professional opportunities.Understanding where IEM studies can lead after graduation was the starting point of this initiative focused on real career outcomes. ESTIEM analysed career trajectories of ESTIEM Alumni across Europe and translated the findings into practical insights to help students navigate professional opportunities.
2022–2023
Future Leaders Dialogue: Students & Industry
Bringing students and companies to the same table, this initiative created space for dialogue on skills, expectations, and the future of work.
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ESTIEM played an active role by promoting student surveys, supporting interviews with industry leaders, contributing to conference organisation, and disseminating results within the network.Bringing students and companies to the same table, this initiative created space for dialogue on skills, expectations, and the future of work. ESTIEM played an active role by promoting student surveys, supporting interviews with industry leaders, contributing to conference organisation, and disseminating results within the network.
2021
Professional Roles and Employability for Future EngineeRs (PREFER)
How IEM students see their future professional roles was the central question behind this Europe-wide research effort.
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Working with KU Leuven, ESTIEM supported data collection across seven universities through the PREFER Explore test, contributing to an award-winning paper presented at the SEFI Conference 2021.How IEM students see their future professional roles was the central question behind this Europe-wide research effort. Working with KU Leuven, ESTIEM supported data collection across seven universities through the PREFER Explore test, contributing to an award-winning paper presented at the SEFI Conference 2021.
Our IEM Partners
Meet the partners we collaborate with to advance engineering education and leadership.
ACADEMIC PARTNER
A European network connecting IEM students and organizations to foster academic collaboration.
ACADEMIC PARTNER
Unites educators and institutions to strengthen engineering education globally.
ACADEMIC PARTNER
A vast European network advancing engineering education through research and innovation.
ACADEMIC PARTNER
Develops future leaders through experiential learning and management training.
ACADEMIC PARTNER
European initiative connecting IEM and professors and researchers at EU universities.
ACADEMIC PARTNER
