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Some decades ago many of us were awaiting the digital age, the times when most activities would be realized by computers and robots while engineers would only have the task of upgrading these machines once in a while and care about their maintenance (and society would be reaching the Asimovian foundations sometime in the future).

And now here we are, within an ever-accelerating world that constantly comes up with new and complex challenges for humanity while old challenges are far from being solved. Moreover, these challenges seem to be overwhelming sometimes.

That is why engineers cannot relax today but need to adapt to the constant flow of tasks and design practical, rapid and long-lasting solutions taking into account multidisciplinary aspects and humanity’s needs. And we: teachers, educators and researchers have the duty to equip the new generations of engineers with the necessary skills for endurance and resilience.

SEFI has a key role in this. Globalization and fragmentation arise in waves in this world of ours. That is why SEFI, the society embracing all who feel engineering education as their mission, must stand together and maintain stable but diverse grounds for knowledge sharing, co-creation and mutual understanding.

I believe in such a team approach. With a large number of SEFI volunteers we will focus on developing and nurturing our membership over Europe targeting all regions. We will realize the goals of our strategy that have been planned well in recent years. Now it is time to reach tangible results. Furthermore, the increasing diversity of SEFI activities needs to have a structural approach and adequate support from the SEFI team.

Together with SEFI’s Board, the Special Interest Groups, and current and future SEFI members, we are working together to assist all colleagues in achieving their goals to flourish as educators and innovate engineering education.

I feel honored to be part of this SEFI community and l shall do my best to develop it further together with you.

 

Balázs Vince Nagy
president

Board of Directors

Dr Balazs Nagy

SEFI President

Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest, Hungary

Prof. Greet Langie

SEFI Vice-president

KU Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Prof. Emanuela Tilley

SEFI Vice-president

University College London
London, United Kingdom

Prof. Hannu-Matti Järvinen

SEFI Immediate past President

Tampere University Foundation sr.
Tampere, Finland

Assoc. Prof. Klara Kovesi

Treasurer

ENSTA Bretagne
Brest Cedex 09, France

Dr. Inês Direito

Person of Trust

Universidade de Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal

Prof. Dr. Emrah Acar

Istanbul Technical University
Maslak – Istanbul, Turkey

Prof Yolande Berbers

KU Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Geir Egil Dahle Øien

NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway

Dr. Mihai Ghinea

National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania

Sonia Gomez Puente

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Eindhoven, Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Gorkem Kulah

Middle East Technical University (METU) – Faculty of Engineering
Cankaya/Ankara, Turkey

Mr Antoine Lanthony

Institut Supérieur de Mécanique de Paris – SUPMECA
Saint-Ouen cedex, France

Prof. Euan Lindsay

Univeristy of Aalborg
Aalborg, Denmark

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning J. Meyer

Technische Universitat Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Prof. Gerhard Mueller

Technical University of Munich
Munchen, Germany

Johanna Naukkarinen

Lappeenranta University of Technology
Lappeenranta, Finland

Mr. Damien Owens

Engineers Ireland
Ballsbridge, Ireland

Prof. Dr. Jose Carlos Quadrado

ENAEE
Brussels, Belgium

Wojciech Sitek

Silesian University of Technology
Gliwice, Poland

Prof. Zbynek Skvor

Czech Technical University in Prague
Praha 6, Czech Republic

Prof. Dr. hab. inz. Janusz Szpytko

AGH University of Krakow
Krakow, Poland

Mr. Alex Tarchini

The MathWorks B.V
Torino, Italy

Roland Tormey

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPLF
Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Ramon Vilanova Arbos

Escola Tecnica Superior d’Enginyeria (ETSE) – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Bellaterra, Spain

Special Interest Group Chair

Dr. Neil Cooke

Engineering Skills

School of Civil Engineering – University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Ir. Tinne De Laet

Engineering Education Research

KU Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Hanne Deprez

Attractiveness of Engineering Education

KU Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Prof. Deolinda Dias Rasteiro

Mathematics in Engineering Education

ISEC Coimbra
Antanhol, Coimbra, Portugal

Dr. Jennifer Griffiths

Capacity Building

University College London
London, United Kingdom

Aida Guerra

Sustainability in Engineering Education

Univeristy of Aalborg
Aalborg, Denmark

Dr. habil. Aniko Kalman

Continuing Engineering Education/ Life-long Learning

Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest, Hungary

Helena Kovács

Ethics in Engineering Education

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPLF
Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof Arjan Lock

Physics in Engineering Education

The Hague University
Delft, Netherlands

Diana Martin

Ethics in Engineering Education

University College London
London, United Kingdom

Prof John Mitchell

Curriculum Development

University College London
London, United Kingdom

Mikko Nurminen

Open and Online Engineering Education

Tampere University Foundation sr.
Tampere, Finland

Dr. Madeline Polmear

Capacity Building

King’s College London
London, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Jose Carlos Quadrado

Quality Assurance and Accreditation

ENAEE
Brussels, Belgium

Dr Christopher Smith

Continuing Engineering Education/ Life-long Learning

Dr. Raja Toqeer

Quality Assurance and Accreditation

The University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Dr. Fiona Truscott

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

University College London
London, United Kingdom

Lynn Van den Broeck

Engineering Skills

KU Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Prof. Esther Ventura-Medina

Engineering Education Research

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Eindhoven, Netherlands

Dr. Natalie Wint

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

University College London
London, United Kingdom

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