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Student-led Podcasting for Engineering Education E. Alpay1 and S. Gulati2 1Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering EnVision , Imperial College London, Rm. B303a Bessemer Building, South Kensington Campus, London. SW7 2AZ. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/envision 2Institute of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, Frankland Road, South Kensington Campus, London. SW7 2AZ. Abstract The use of podcasts is challenging traditional communication methods in higher education, with the potential for creating highly engaging and flexible resources for learning and development. In a similar way, podcasts are helping to facilitate a stronger student identity and community within learning environments, replacing traditional student newsletter and website approaches. In this work, an innovative podcasting approach is presented in which there is a strong student -centred and student-led premise to foster and advance engineering education related uses. Podcasts are intended to cover a range of relevant engineering topics such as sharing student views on global and scientific developments, raising issues for current matters important to students and disseminating information on unique educational opportunities. Details on the set-up of the initiative are presented, and include resource requirements, management and organisation structures for an effective interface between academic staff and the student podcasting team, and mechanisms for ensuring that the podcasts maintain balanced educational outcomes. Keywords: podcasting, student-led activities, experiential learning 1. INTRODUCTION Podcasts, or personal on demand broadcasts , are audio or digital video media files available to be downloaded via the internet to media players such as iPods or personal computers. They are typically viewed directly on a website or by syndicated download or web feeds [1]. There has been a growing interest in studying how podcasting can be used effectively as a learning tool. This is evi