This document brings together the key perspectives and priorities for action emerging from the symposium Envisioning the Future of Lifelong Learning in Engineering, organised by the SEFI Special Interest Group on Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning during the 54th SEFI Annual Conference, held at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2026.
Political power of technology – should we start teaching political science for engineering students?
Karl-Erik Michelsen, Professor for Science, Technology and Modern Society, LUT, Finland
Towards socially responsible, post-normal and reflexive engineering ethics education
Tom Børsen, Associate Professor at Aalborg University, and Shannon Chance, Lecturer and Programme Chair at TU Dublin and Honorary Professor at University College London
Reflection re-engineered. Don’t ask students to reflect. Create the conditions for it to emerge.
Pleun Hermsen, Director of the Reflective Engineer programme, TU Delft, Netherlands
Engineering Sustainability: Skills, Responsibility, and Innovation
Panelists: Zeljko Djuretic (Bentley Systems), Xavier FOUGER (Dassault Systems), Martin Koczmann (Siemens DI Software), Tanya Morton (MathWorks), Tatiana Vakhitova (Ansys)
Moderators: Marta Correia (ESTIEM) Ana Beatriz Costa (BEST)
Academic Challenger: John Mitchell (UCL)