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
Call for participation: one day online seminar – “Exploring Ethical Concerns in Electronic and IT Engineering Education”
Call for participation: one day online seminar – “Exploring Ethical Concerns in Electronic and IT Engineering Education” Scheduled to take place on the 18th of January 2021, 13.30-18.30 CET, the online seminar will bring together educators, industry representatives and policy…
Call for Submissions for the SEFI Ethics Spring School 2021
SEFI Ethics Spring School 2021: “Experiencing Engineering Ethics Education: Reflections, evidence and perspectives on engineering ethics education in practice” Dates: 25 -26 March 2021 Location: either (a) a blended event online and onsite in the Swiss Jura (near Geneva) or…
A Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture as a Resource for Connecting Researchers and Students from Technology and Engineering to Ethics
A Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture as a Resource for Connecting Researchers and Students from Technology and Engineering to Ethics By Christian Herzog (University of Lübeck) Enabling engineering students to articulate and discuss values and ethics in technology is a primary…
Freely Available Learning Resources For Sustainable Design in Engineering Education
Freely Available Learning Resources For Sustainable Design in Engineering Education By Jordi Segalas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC-Barcelona Tech) There is an increased interest in education that levels co-creative processes in innovation as developed in challenge-based or design learning. Here…
Fundamental disagreements about online tools
Fundamental disagreements about online tools By Mandi Astola (Eindhoven University of Technology) My colleagues and me had a fantastic, freshly re-designed challenge-based learning, flip-the-classroom ethics course for 240 studentsready, when the pandemic hit. It quickly became evident that the whole…
Call for input: The SEFI Ethics Reader
Engineers will face ethical questions in their professional careers. Engineering degree programmes should have prepared the graduates for moral decision making. Engineering ethics should thus have been part of the education of engineers at the universities. In some countries, it…
A new SEFI Engineering Ethics Education Ahead
Dear reader, Engineering Ethics was “omnipresent” at the 2020 yearly SEFI conference, with no less than nine sessions treating engineering ethics. This clearly shows a momentum in the Engineering Education community for engineering ethics education. It is an open door…
Engineering Ethics at SEFI 2020
There are nine ethics events on the SEFI conference, to be held online from 20th to 24th September. We want to draw your attention in particular to the Special Interest Group Ethics meeting on Monday 4:30pm. Here we will join…
Teaching Engineering Ethics Online: Between Adaptation and Transformation
Teaching Engineering Ethics Online: Between Adaptation and Transformation The SEFI Ethics SIG Working Group organised an online workshop on “Teaching Engineering Ethics Online: Between Adaptation and Transformation” on 9 September 2020. 51 people from all five continents joined the session…
Teaching Engineering Ethics Online: Between Adaptation and Transformation
SEFI ONLINE SEMINAR 9 September 2020, 14:00-16:00 CET – Register here Description: The pandemic generated by COVID-19 changed the way education is delivered to students, with universities moving their teaching and assessment activities online. This SEFI seminar aims to explore…