Equipping engineering educators to surface, map, and align the stakeholder expectations that shape learning, collaboration, and the societal meaning of engineering work.
Upcoming · September 2026The Workshop
Engineering education increasingly tackles complex societal challenges with diverse, often conflicting stakeholder expectations - especially in AI-enabled, socio-technical contexts. Yet those expectations usually stay implicit, fragmented, and are rarely examined as a design challenge in their own right.
This hands-on workshop introduces Expectationeering, a structured facilitation and design approach that helps engineering educators frame societal challenges, elicit pluralistic stakeholder expectations, and translate them into pedagogically and societally meaningful outcomes.
Rather than working from predefined examples, participants bring authentic cases from their own teaching and curriculum design. In guided exercises they reframe problem definitions into societal challenge contexts, systematically map stakeholder expectations, and identify the expectation gaps that influence learning, collaboration, and perceived success - then apply Expectationeering to build alignment strategies for their own context.
The session contributes to the wider conversation on emphasising humanity in engineering, and is grounded in ongoing research. It is led by Eric Nikkelen (ReqVision), creator of Expectationeering, with co-authors M. Metz, J. Lacroix and R. Bezemer (Eindhoven University of Technology / Philips).
How the Session Runs
A deliberately interactive format - short conceptual inputs only to frame the exercises, with most time spent applying Expectationeering to participants' own cases.
What You Will Take Away
Participants leave with a structured expectation-alignment framework embodied in the Expectationeering Workbook, adapted for engineering education contexts.
Expectationeering Workbook
A reusable instrument that moves you from challenge framing to stakeholder identification, expectation elicitation, and gap analysis.
A Structured Mapping Method
Identify stakeholder groups and elicit, organise, and document their expectations across Learner, Industry, Institutional, and Regulatory perspectives.
Expectation-Aware Interventions
Initial teaching, curriculum, or project-design changes grounded in the workbook structure and your own cases.
Bring the workshop to your faculty or programme, or talk with Eric about weaving expectation alignment into your curriculum.