I’m honoured to be elected the president of SEFI. After my term of two years, I’d like to be proud of my work. At this stage, I want to thank my predecessor, professor Yolande Berbers and say that she can be proud of her work as the SEFI president. It has not been the easiest two years as the SEFI president.
I want to thank all our members for their activity. You are the ones that make SEFI flourish. Some of you have even taken responsibility as BoD members, SIG chairs, event organisers, journal editors, and officers of SEFI, not forgetting our staff in the headquarters in Brussels.
Years ago, I was a first-comer in the SEFI annual conference. I felt a little bit lost, as I didn’t know the people, and several working groups (current SIGs) and their roles were confusing. Now I feel SIGs represent something very important to me: a holistic view on engineering education. It’s not only curricula or ideas to teach – or better said, making learning happen. It is attractiveness, ethics, sustainability, diversity, and much more. SEFI is also a society, and now I feel I’m among my friends when I attend the SEFI meetings, conferences included. I hope all our members can share that feeling.
During the last two years, we have worked online because of COVID-19. The pandemic made us invent new ways to work. One of the new concepts is SEFI@work which will make it easier for us all to attend SEFI events between the annual conferences.
The General Assembly accepted a new strategy for SEFI. It gives me the guideline for the following two years. The strategy is something to be implemented, it’s not a collection of nice ideas to be mentioned in speeches. We all have our share, small or big, in that work.
I’m looking forward to working with you. I hope we will have the opportunity to meet face-to-face at SEFI events or conferences.
Board of Directors
Dr Balazs Nagy
SEFI Vice-president
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Luis Manuel Sanchez Ruiz
SEFI Vice-president
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia – School of Design Engineering ETSID
Valencia, Spain
Prof. Dr. Gorkem Kulah
Middle East Technical University (METU) – Faculty of Engineering
Cankaya/Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Raffaella Manzini
Università Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC – School of Industrial Engineering
Castellanza, Italy
Executive Committee
Dr Balazs Nagy
SEFI Vice-president
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Luis Manuel Sanchez Ruiz
SEFI Vice-president
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia – School of Design Engineering ETSID
Valencia, Spain
Working Group Chair
Dr. Neil Cooke
Engineering Skills
School of Civil Engineering – University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Prof. Deolinda Dias Rasteiro
Mathematics in Engineering Education
ISEC Coimbra
Antanhol, Coimbra, Portugal
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
Diana Martin
Ethics in Engineering Education
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Assist Prof. Calvin Rans
Open and Online Engineering Education
Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands
Prof. Esther Ventura-Medina
Engineering Education Research
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Eindhoven, Netherlands