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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

LRD KU Leuven
Leuven, 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

LRD KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Dr. Annoesjka Cabo

Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands

Darren Carthy

Engineers Ireland
Ballsbridge, Ireland

Prof. Shannon Chance

Technological University Dublin
Dublin 7, Ireland

Prof. 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

Dr. Sonia Gomez Puente

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Eindhoven, Netherlands

Helena Kovács

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Stephan Krusche

Technical University of Munich
Munchen, Germany

Antoine Lanthony

ISAE-Supméca
Saint-Ouen cedex, France

Prof. Euan Lindsay

University of Aalborg
Aalborg, Denmark

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning J. Meyer

Technische Universitat Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Johanna Naukkarinen

Lappeenranta University of Technology
Lappeenranta, Finland

Prof. Dr. Jose Carlos Quadrado

ENAEE
Brussels, Belgium

Wojciech Sitek

Silesian University of Technology
Gliwice, Poland

Prof. Dr. hab. inz. Janusz Szpytko

AGH University of Krakow
Krakow, Poland

Alex Tarchini

The MathWorks B.V
Torino, Italy

Roland Tormey

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Ramon Vilanova Arbos

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

Special Interest Group Chair

André Baier


Sustainability in Engineering Education


Technische Universitat Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Dr. Neil Cooke


Engineering Skills


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

Sofie Craps


Attractiveness of Engineering Education


LRD KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Prof. Dr. Ir. Tinne De Laet


Engineering Education Research


LRD KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Joelyn de Lima


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion


Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland

Hanne Deprez


Attractiveness of Engineering Education


LRD KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Prof. Deolinda Dias Rasteiro


Engineering Education Research


ISEC Coimbra
Antanhol, Coimbra, Portugal

Andrew Garrard


Digital Learning


The University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Dr. Jennifer Griffiths


Capacity Building


University College London
London, United Kingdom

Aida Guerra


Sustainability in Engineering Education


University of Aalborg
Aalborg, Denmark

Dr. habil. Aniko Kalman


Continuing Engineering Education/ Life-long Learning


Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest, Hungary

Dr. 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


Digital Learning


Tampere University Foundation sr.
Tampere, Finland

Dr. Chika Nweke


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion


University College London
London, United Kingdom

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



Mircea Toboșaru


Ethics in Engineering Education


National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania

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


LRD KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Prof. Esther Ventura-Medina


Engineering Education Research


Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Eindhoven, Netherlands

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