Sally Male is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Western Australia, having held the Chair in Engineering Education until March 2021, before joining The University of Melbourne. 

Sally's overarching ambition, that motivates her research and activities, is to give engineering students the best possible opportunity to develop their capabilities and strengthen their personal qualities for successful lives contributing professional leadership and general benefit to a well-functioning society. She leads research in engineering education, higher education, and women in engineering, and has completed projects to improve engineering curricula and gender inclusion in engineering and computing.

Sally uses quantitative and qualitative methods, and has worked with engineers at all levels, academics and students.

In addition to my research on enhancing industry engagement in engineering degrees, and gender inclusivity of engineering workplaces, for her PhD Sally studied industry perceptions of competencies required by engineers graduating in Australia.

Sally supervises PhD students in STEM education. Sally's research informs continuous improvement of engineering education nationally. She has developed and facilitated numerous workshops on curriculum development to educators in universities around Australia.

Sally has overseen the Professional Practicum in the Masters of Professional Engineering. Additionally, she was the Program Chair for the first two years of the Engineering Science major, coordinated the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Design Project Units ELEC 5551 and 5552, and had primary responsibility for the introductory engineering unit ENSC 2011. She has supervised engineering students at final year, masters, and PhD levels.

Sally has given numerous invited presentations on higher education, engineering education, and women in engineering.

Virtual Work Integrated Learning for Engineering Students. An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching Innovation and Development Project.

Student Experiences of Threshold Capability Development with Intensive Mode Teaching. An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching Strategic Priority Project

Enhancing industry engagement in engineering education. I undertook the research and was the project manager on the project 'Enhancing industry engagement in engineering degrees', for the Australian Council of Engineering Deans. Twelve universities participated in the project along with peak industry bodies. The project had two themes. In Theme 1 guidelines with recommendations for effective industry engagement in engineering degrees were developed and tested (https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/content-files/ACED/aced_industry_engagement_guidelines.pdf). Theme 1 involved surveys and interviews with industry members, academics, and students; forums in which the draft guidelines were reviewed, and testing and evaluation of the guidelines. In Theme 2, academics developed industry-inspired projects to be completed by students in engineering units.

Other projects:

Gender inclusivity in engineering education.

http://www.olt.gov.au/project-gender-inclusivity-engineering-studentsapos-experiences-workplace-learning-2013

Engineering thresholds: an approach to curriculum renewal

Competencies of engineering graduates