Engineering Education needs to address both current and future economic, social and environmental challenges. An understanding of ethics, ethical decision making and responsibilities becomes a necessary tool for the global engineer, which helps support his/her day-to-day activities, as well as international policy making.
Objectives
- Establish a network of educators and practicing engineers who want to develop ethics education
- Stimulate discussion, opinion formation and decision making about the needs and opportunities for ethics in the engineering curricula
- Share experiences, practices, developments and teaching resources in ethics and ethical leadership education
Activities
- Organisation of themed workshops at the SEFI Annual Conference
- Organisation of themed workshops or seminars during the whole year
- Joint research and publications in the field of Engineering Ethics Education
- Reporting on congresses, conferences or different meetings that take place all over the world, related to the ethics of engineering and engineering ethics education
- Preparation the SEFI Ethics Special Interest Group Newsletter
SEFI Ethics Editorials
Sustainability should become our new religion – Aleksandra Evtimova and Simona Eichkorn (TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
Advances towards Embedding Sustainable Development in Engineering Degrees, a case at the University of the Basque Country – Zaloa Aginako, Teresa Guraya (School of Engineering of Bilbao, Spain)
Students need non-technical competences and holistic learning for sustainability success – Una Beagon (TU Dublin, Ireland) and Klara Kövesi (ENSTA Bretagne, France)
Siemens Skills for Sustainability Network – How can industry play their part in developing engineering students with skills for sustainability? – Jennifer Bradford, Siemens
Sustainability as a university top priority starts with students making it their personal priority – Fionn Rogan (University College Cork, Ireland)
What can mindfulness offer to engineering education for sustainable development? – Ana M. Gómez Olmedo (ESIC University)
Understanding students’ engament and agentic behavior towards sustainability in a PBL environment –Aida Guerra, Aalborg University, Denmark
From apathy to empathy: A journey in understating students’ engagement in issues of sustainability– Natalie Wint (Swansea University, UK)
Navigating the complex landscape of sustainable engineering design: Skills and mindsets over methods and tools– Jordan Nickel, Rob Duimering, Ada Hurst (Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
Teachers’ pedagogical support for sustainability integration – Paula Schönach, Meeri Karvinen, Noora Jaakkola (Aalto University, Finland)
How Do You Create Passion And Potential To Contribute To A Safe And Just World? – Dr Jonathan Truslove, Education Lead, Engineers Without Borders UK
Redefining the “dominated” power position in global engineering and in globalization studies in engineering education– Esther Matemba (Curtin University, Australia)
More Intercultural Ethics of Technology– Alessio Gerola (Wageningen University, The Netherlands )
Broadening Western engineering ethics with religious and cultural values from different parts of the World – Balamuralithara Balakrishnan (Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia)
Engineering Ethics Education: An Indian Perspective– Satya Sundar Sethy (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India)
Ethics in Engineering Education. Case study of mining in South Africa– Malebogo Ngoepe, Corrinne Shaw, Kate le Roux and Brandon Collier-Reed (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Developing students’ understanding of context through a humanities-informed engineering course – Kirsten A. Davis, Siddhant S. Joshi, Lori Czerwionka, Gabriel Rios Rojas, Francisco J. Montalvo Purdue University, USA
Engineering Education and Practice: Assessing the State of the Art – Rana Tallal Javed (Ibtidah Solutions and University of Oslo, Norway), Junaid Qadir (Qatar University, Doha, Qatar)
Urban water provision; Engineering considerations and Ethical [Framings,] – Edmond Byrne, University College Cork, Ireland
Rethinking Success and Failure in Community-Oriented Engineering – Ben Pauli, Kettering University, USA
TEK and the Challenge of a “Broad” Water Ethics – Ricki Levi, Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India; Daniel Mishori, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Why Engineers should care about Water Ethics– Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Canada
A Water Ethics Framework for Engineers – David Groenfeldt, Director Water-Culture Institute & University of New Mexico in the US
Water Cooperation Quotient- An Engineering Perspective – Ilmas Futehally, Executive Director Strategic Foresight Group, Mumbai, India
Creating space for ethical discussion in environmental engineering education – Sarah Cotterill, University College Dublin, Ireland
Engineering Ethics in Romania: an anemia diagnosis – Mircea Toboșaru, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Department of Teacher Education and Social Sciences Engineering Ethics in Romania
Engineering ethics education: insights from Spain and Portugal – Luis Adriano Oliveira, Ester Gimenez Carbó and Alfredo Soeiro
Ethics for Comprehensive Engineers: A Retrospective and Prospective Sketch of TU Delft’s Engineering Ethics Education– Neelke Doorn, Lavinia Marin, Sabine Roeser, Taylor Stone, Janna van Grunsven
There is no such thing as neutral engineering ethics education Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin
Finding spaces for humility and different perspectives in engineering community engagement Patricia Xavier
Why social justice in engineering? Msawenkosi Mkhize
Teaching and practicing emancipatory engineering: lessons from Brazilian Popular EngineeringCristiano Cordeiro Cruz
Cultivating Student Concern for Public Well-Being: An Ongoing Challenge for EducatorsJason Borenstein
Value Sensitive Design as a participative and nudging instrument in and for Engineering Ethics Education Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin
Responsible Engineering, Design and Innovation Rafael Calvo
The beginning of our value sensitive design journey Dylan Cawthorne
Envision values, envision value sensitive design Steven Umbrello and Daisy Yoo
An open resource on teaching for values at design and engineering programs Elisabeth Nilsson and Anne-Marie Hansen
Finding values in the dark Taylor Stone
Critical Thinking at the Foundation for Engineering Ethics Education Katta Spiel
“Let us not be afraid to ask bold and potentially transformative questions!” Jennifer Amos and Gabriel Burke
A Systematic Review on Emotion in Engineering Ethics Education Madeline Polmear
More emotional engagement in richer learning environments will elevate awareness and understanding of ethical issues Yeşim Korkut
Decolonizing engineering education: a possible path towards a more collective, caring, and empathetic field Giselle Guanes
Experiences of an online conflict management course to support Problem and Project-Based Learning Pia Bøgelund
Emotions and STEM Education? But why? Alberto Bellocchi
The medium is the message, also in Engineering Ethics Education
Short Fiction elicits the important messages in Engineering Ethics Education
Engineering Ethics as Storylines: Emulating the moral imperative of Aboriginal stories.
Online Ethics Center: A key resource for ethics education in engineering and science
Holistic engineering education for sustainability natives
What have we lost and gained with lecturing online for the engineering ethics classes?
The ethical dimension of online technologies and online education
Plea for more nuanced use of engineering ethics case studies
What are your underlying assumptions in having students go through your cases?
Centring equity in engineering ethics case study instruction
Making cases more concrete and familiar: A Japanese example of a case on endemic disease for students studying beside the location
The role of top-down and bottom-up efforts for broadening engineering ethics education
Successfully Pivoting to an Online Process of Engineering Programme Accreditation
What we assess for accreditation and what we teach need not be completely aligned
Engineering ethics and the professionalization of engineering in France: a personal journey
SEFI Ethics Newsletters
SEFI@Work: Engineering Education Leaders’ Vision on the Role and Prospects of Ethics
Wednesday 22 June, 9-11 am EST/ 3-5pm CET How can ethics be integrated in a meaningful and systematic manner in the engineering curriculum? Can ethics be part of the identity of an engineering institution, and if yes, how? What form…
The sustainability transition enforces a transition of engineering education for students, teachers, universities and their eco-systems
Sustainability is a very, very fundamental value in our current society. For us, therefore it is no wonder that students themselves plea that we “must work together and be united by a great cause. This cause is sustainability. Sustainability should become…
How Do You Create Passion And Potential To Contribute To A Safe And Just World?
Dr Jonathan Truslove, Education Lead, Engineers Without Borders UKWebsite: https://www.ewb-uk.org/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-truslove/ At Engineers Without Borders UK, we believe that with a different approach, the engineering community has the power to rapidly transform our world for the better. By bringing together thousands of…
Teachers’ pedagogical support for sustainability integration
Paula Schönach, Meeri Karvinen, Noora Jaakkola – Aalto University, Finland Sustainability is a hot topic on universities’ agendas. This manifests in the emergence of institution-wide sustainability actions reaching from increasing sustainability awareness to research agendas, campus operations, outreach activities and…
Navigating the complex landscape of sustainable engineering design: Skills and mindsets over methods and tools
Jordan Nickel, Rob Duimering, Ada Hurst – Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Sustainability and sustainable design have been a part of design discourse for over three decades, yet many engineering designs today remain unsustainable. Sustainability concepts…
From apathy to empathy: A journey in understating students’ engagement in issues of sustainability
Natalie Wint, Swansea University, The UK For the last two years I have been teaching a module which involves sustainable, human centered design work. The reaction of students to the course has been variable but is generally consistent with the…
Understanding students’ engament and agentic behavior towards sustainability in a PBL environment.
Aida Guerra, Aalborg University, Denmark My research interest in Education for Sustainable Development and Problem Based Learning (PBL) started in my master degree and “got rooted” during my PhD studies on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and PBL. It is…
What can mindfulness offer to engineering education for sustainable development?
Ana M. Gómez Olmedo, ESIC University The education for sustainable development demands a rapid shift in the engineering education curriculum so that students are better equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to address sustainability challenges. However, engineering education for…
Sustainability as a university top priority starts with students making it their personal priority
Fionn Rogan, University College Cork, Ireland How does a university make sustainability a top priority? In the case of University College Cork (UCC) it started with students making it their personal priority and it grew from there. According to the…
Sustainability as the new religion
Aleksandra Evtimova, Simona Eichkorn, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Marlieke Blankendaal, Simona Eichkorn, Aleksandra Evtimova, Colette Keurentjes, Ida Kuresevic, Kathinka Umbach are students in the Decision-Under-Risk-and-Uncertainty (DURU) course. They write about their experience in this course. Sustainability has been a hot…