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
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 for sustainability
Thursday, 20 January ’22 3pm – 5pm SEFI acknowledges the importance of bringing to the attention of engineering students themes related to sustainable development. The seminar explores innovative approaches to implementing and teaching sustainability in the engineering curriculum. Speakers:Aida…
SEFI Engineering Ethics SIG Spring School 2022
Engineering ethics education and social justice: synthesis and growth 31st March and 1st April 2022 in Leysin, Switzerland Registration details: There is no registration fee for the Spring School. Participants will pay only their accommodation costs. Registrations will open soon. (Some sessions will also be…
SEFI@Work: Workshop: Responsible Research and Innovation in Engineering Education
17 May, 8-10am EST / 2-4pm CET Few would argue with the idea that societies need engineers to design and build technologies which help to solve societal challenges on the one hand and are inclusive, ethical, and without unexpected negative…
(Water) ethics should be like water: soft, flexible and impactful
The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu in the sixth century B.C. wrote: There is nothing softer and weaker than water,And yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.For this reason there is no substitute for it.All the world…
Why Engineers should care about Water Ethics
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Canada We live in a time of water crisis. One in ten people survive without access to safe water. One child every two minutes dies from water and sanitation-related illnesses. From floods…
Anupam Mishra, 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 The “Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity” (Mitchel, 2002) describes how Egypt…
A Water Ethics Framework for Engineers
David Groenfeldt, Director Water-Culture Institute & University of New Mexico in the US At the risk of oversimplifying the complexities of water ethics, this essay lays out an approach that engineers (and also non-engineers) can use to identify ethical dilemmas…
Water Cooperation Quotient- An Engineering Perspective
Ilmas Futehally, Executive Director Strategic Foresight Group, Mumbai, India Any two countries engaged in active water cooperation do not go to war for any reason. This is the conclusion of the Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) after analysing 286 shared river…
Creating space for ethical discussion in environmental engineering education
Sarah Cotterill, University College Dublin, Ireland There is no uniquely correct solution to most engineering problems, but some solutions are preferable to others. Engineering ethics can help us to recognize these. Ethics is one of the cornerstones of the engineering…
Urban water provision; Engineering considerations and Ethical [Framings]
Edmond Byrne, University College Cork, Ireland A decade ago, I published a paper on “Teaching engineering ethics with sustainability as context” (Byrne, 2012), reflecting on what Herkert (2000) had previously identified as “the traditional preoccupation of engineering ethics with specific…