The increasing importance of transdisciplinary approaches in engineering education is driven by the need to address complex societal challenges by moving beyond disciplinary silos to embrace new and forgotten knowledges … As the problems that society faces become more complex…
Siemens and Sony are challenging students worldwide to imagine sustainable design with immersive engineering What is Immersive Engineering? Immersive Engineering combines the real and digital worlds allowing you to experience 3D CAD in the Industrial Metaverse. The combination of Siemens’…
Diana Adela Martin (Ethics SIG co-chair) It is generally acknowledged that the challenges we face as a society are complex and multi-faceted, requiring the input, tools, and expertise of different disciplines. How can we then continue to teach our engineers…
Margaret Webb (Virginia Tech), Jessica Deters (University of Nebraska at Lincoln), Maya Menon (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Marie Paretti (Virginia Tech) Jessica Deters (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) Our seven-year journey with a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded graduate program…
Jette Egelund Holgaard Henrik Worm Routhe, Anette Kolmos, Jette Egelund Holgaard (Aalborg University, Denmark) Still more and more engineers are facing Ill structured and wicked problems. Problems that may be hard to define. Industry and society expect that engineers can…
Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol, the UK) and Avigail Ferdman (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol, the UK) A major challenge in embedding ethics is to make a difference for the agency of students and…
Susan Lord (University of San Diego, USA) Susan Lord I have been interested in interdisciplinarity since I was a kid but didn’t know it. I loved reading which transported me to new places and math where I could solve challenging…
Ali Jaberiansari, Claire Lucas, Francesco Ciriello (Kings College London, The UK) Education and skills are closely aligned with Engineering Education delivering the knowledge and the competencies required to apply that knowledge to successfully solve problems. There exists a large body…
Siara Isaac, Yousef Jalali, Valentina Rossi, Joelyn de Lima (Centre for Learning Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne -EPFL, Switzerland) Siara Isaac The importance of transdisciplinarity in engineering is increasing due to its centrality in addressing complex issues that…
Adina Imanbayeva, Robin de Graaf, Cindy Poortman (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Adina Imanbayeva Today's world faces increasingly complex and multifaceted challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity, the need for sustainability, and the overwhelmingly fast pace of technological development.…