Decolonizing engineering education: a possible path towards a more collective, caring, and empathetic field Giselle GuanesOhio State University, USA In the past few years, engineering education has done a lot of work in the realm of empathy and care. It…
Social intuitionism suggests engineering educators consider ethics education as a long-term socialization process Dayoung KimPurdue University, USA Waking up in the morning, reading a newspaper or listening to a podcast, we encounter various social issues spanning from public health policy…
Experiences of an online conflict management course to support Problem and Project-Based Learning Pia BøgelundAalborg University, Denmark Problem and project-based learning (PBL) is the primary learning philosophy at Aalborg University in the Northern part of Denmark, especially at the engineering…
Alberto Bellocchi, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 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…
Urgent Call for participation in an Online Survey How are future leaders empowered in current university education to create good work in the present and the future? This is the guiding question of an important European online survey that investigates…
Dear SEFI friends, our April newsletter has been published and is available here Find out more about our SEFI 2021 Doctoral Symposium, our upcoming online events, Interesting new activites of our member, invitations to partner conferences, and the latest publications. All…
The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence for Developing Learning and Teaching in Engineering Education The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award, launched by SEFI to commemorate its late President Prof. Francesco Maffioli (Politecnico du Milano), is given by SEFI, the Société…
Roland Tormey and Martin Boyer, EPFL , Switzeland 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…
Pieter de Vries, TU Delft, The Netherlands 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…
Lavinia Marin, TU Delft, The Netherlands 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…