Brice Shen
Brice Shen is a Graduate Researcher and a Teaching Fellow with the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Melbourne in 1999. After working in industry as a programmer for 8 years, Brice joined the University of Melbourne to begin a career in teaching in 2008. Since then, he has been involved in teaching first-year students, managing educational programs and most recently he has been coordinating an Engineering Internship subject. His research focus is professional skill development.
Brice’s PhD is on investigating the communication skills gap in graduate engineers as reported by industry with the goal of improving educational practice. In his research he has been interviewing both industry and academia from around Australia. He is jointly supervised by Prof. Andrew Ooi from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, and Prof. Sophie Arkoudis from the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education.