Call for chapters: Adaptive performance in engineering in times of uncertainty and change

Introduction to adaptive performance
As editorial team, we prepared a first chapter on adaptive performance in which we explore adaptive performance from different perspectives. The purpose of the chapter is to inspire you, as a potential contributor to the book, to decide from what angle you would be willing to contribute. Are you curious? Then please don’t hesitate to reach out to us, so that we can share our work with you.

How can you contribute?
We welcome contributions in different formats.
- Research chapters
o Conceptual work, e.g. exploring adaptive performance from a single or
different theoretical viewpoint(s)
o Empirical work, e.g. intervention studies in education of what works
in improving students’ adaptive performance
- Learning innovations, e.g. a theory-grounded description of innovative tools, case studies, methods or pedagogies that can help engineering students in developing adaptive expertise

Timeline
- Summary of book proposal: July 7th 2023
- Deadline draft version: 22nd of September 2023
- Peer-review on draft, including editor’s decision for resubmission or not, will be shared at the end of October 2023
- Deadline final version: 26th of January 2024

Practicalities
- The main target group of the book are engineering scholars and teachers in higher education. Next to teachers, the book may be of interest to HR staff from organizations, curriculum developers, education consultants, and policymakers in higher education.
- Would you like to contribute to the book? Please share a summary of your proposal of about 250 words before July 7th. By that time all summaries will be discussed by the editorial team and a selection will take place.
- The selected summaries are asked to submit a draft of the paper.
- In total, the book will be about 150 pages. We welcome short, to-the-point contributions of about 5000 words (including references and appendices).

Review process
Each book chapter will be double-blind peer-reviewed by two other authors. Please note that submitting a chapter does not guarantee publication in the book. Selected authors will be asked to review chapters of other contributors.

Are you interested in adaptive performance in engineering? And how to improve the adaptive performance of students and professionals? Then the book might be of interest to you! We welcome short, to-the-point research chapters (i.e., conceptual or empirical work) and learning innovations. The main target groups of the book are engineering scholars and teachers in higher education.

Ideas? Questions? Interested to receive the first chapter? Then please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via Yvette Baggen .

The editorial team:
Antoine van den Beemt (TU/e)
Jan van Tartwijk (UU)
Marieke van der Schaaf (UMCU)
Yvette Baggen (WUR)