I’m part of a truly amazing team of journal editors leading the European Journal of Engineering Education.

I’ve been serving for the past couple years as Deputy Editor of EJEE, alongside Professor/Dr Jonte Bernhard and our fabulous Editor-in-Chief, Dr Kristina Edström.

Under Kristina’s lead, the journal has truly excelled. The latest Scopus data show EJEE’s ranking increasing from 150/1469 (89th percentile) to 115/1543 (92nd percentile) in the past year. The journal’s Citescore increased in this period from 5.8 to 7.3 due to a couple of very insightful and popular articles. It will be a challenge to maintain these ranking—but, as we’re firmly about supporting authors and providing useful, scholarly publications for our community, high rankings are icing on the cake, but not our central focus.

In my time as Deputy, I have helped bring several valuable members to the editorial team, one being Dr Diana Adela Martin (who was just named one of seven star reviewers for the US-based Journal of Engineering Education for 2023) and, more recently, Dr Matheus Oliveira De Andrade. Both of these early-career scholars currently work at UCL, although Diana accepted the role of Associate Editor prior to joining UCL.

The work these two have been doing as Associate Editors for EJEE is exceptional!

Mat leads the maths education at UCL Engineering, teaching over 800 entering engineering students *at once* each year! At EJEE (and on special projects I’ve led for other journals) Mat provides extremely relevant, accurate, helpful, and high quality feedback as a peer reviewer. He’s knowledgeable about qualitative ressearch methods but he’s been absolutely crucial to moving EJEE’s quantitative (statistical) work forward. In this realm he knows many things the rest of the community needs to learn. He has insight, vision, and a passion for helping people and nurturing their success.

Yesterday, Kristina and I met with Mat to discuss training events and support materials geared toward aspiring authors, as well as editors and peer reviewers.

His ideas, experience, and knowledge wowed Kristian and me—again!

And as a result, Matheus Oliveira De Andrade has just been appointed Deputy Editor of EJEE!

I am elated that Mat accepted this role! I can’t wait to support the roll-out of his initiatives. (His enthusiasm is contagious, as is his smile!)

In November 2024, we will launch the online training for authors—stay tuned for details. This is an opportunity no one in engineering education research will want to miss!