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
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
Engineering Educators, Emotional Guardians of the rationality-galaxy
Engineers often see themselves as the guardians of the rationality-galaxy. Without rationality, including scientific rigor and engineering efficiency, humanity is completely lost. Corona countermeasures would be up to emotional anti-vaxxers and the world would miss the sustainability opportunities because emotive…
Systematic Review: Emotion in Engineering Ethics Education
A Systematic Review on Emotion in Engineering Ethics Education Emotion is intrinsically tied to ethics, such as being situated in the ethic of care, moral intuition, and moral judgment. Emotion is connected to education through academic, teacher, and student emotions.…
Increasing awareness of ethical issues in learning environment
More emotional engagement in richer learning environments will elevate awareness and understanding of ethical issues All disciplines, including Psychology, have a responsibility to society to ensure ethical behavior of their members. Ethics education for the members (through learning formal guidelines,…
Towards more collective, caring, and empathetic engineering
Decolonizing engineering education: a possible path towards a more collective, caring, and empathetic field In the past few years, engineering education has done a lot of work in the realm of empathy and care. It makes sense; we want engineers…
Is ethics education part of a long-term socialization process?
Social intuitionism suggests engineering educators consider ethics education as a long-term socialization process Waking up in the morning, reading a newspaper or listening to a podcast, we encounter various social issues spanning from public health policy to hate crimes. In…
Online conflict management course to support PBL
Experiences of an online conflict management course to support Problem and Project-Based Learning Problem and project-based learning (PBL) is the primary learning philosophy at Aalborg University in the Northern part of Denmark, especially at the engineering programs. Half the curricula…
Emotions and STEM Education? But why?
The last 15 years has seen increased interest in the role of emotions in STEM education. But why should STEM educators care about the emotions? Aren’t the emotions irrational and thereby have no place in the natural sciences? Around 11…
Wikipedia is techno-ethical marvel, and a conundrum.
Wikipedia is techno-ethical marvel, and a conundrum. For those teaching engineering ethics, it is an endless source of material for exploring how technology, morality, and social forces interact. Wikipedia is a free and open encyclopaedia, providing anyone access to information…
The ethical dimension of online technologies and online education
Universities across the globe shifted to fully online delivery as campuses locked down. For most institutions this meant a swift move from their face-to-face teaching model to the ‘Zoom classroom’. This attempt was in most cases a replication of their…
What have we lost and gained with lecturing online for the engineering ethics classes?
During the course of last year, universities had to move online their teaching because of the restrictions posed by the Corona pandemic. In an effort to not lose any educational quality, we moved online all the educational forms that previously …