Diana Martin, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands (reporting on research conducted at TU Dublin, Ireland) Before cities went into lockdown over the past year, the streets have been claimed by children and teenagers following on Greta Thunberg’s steps as they skip…
Rosalyn W. Berne, PhD., Principal Investigator and Director, Online Ethics Center (OEC)Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Society, University of Virginia. *The OEC project, a brainchild of ethicist Caroline Whitbeck, has for over 25 years been a key online resource…
Cat Kutay, Charles Darwin University, Australia cat.kutay@cdu.edu.au As engineering educators, we are providing guidance for students about how to learn, what to learn and how to understand their learning so as to continue to develop these skills over their lifetime. …
Sarah Jayne Hitt New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering Once upon a time, we sat down to read a story. Maybe we read quietly alone, or someone read aloud to a group of us, or we read a story…
Diana Bairaktarova and Tom Staley, Virginia Tech, US We found the recent Spring Ethics School highly productive and indicative of a strong interest group community. In our contribution, “Engineering Ethics in Context”, we tried to accomplish two rather different goals: …
Dear Reader, The medium is the message, also in Engineering Ethics Education. This newsletter focuses on formats that touch students at a personal level needed to have good ethics education. It reports on the “Film and fiction in engineering ethics…
Thomas Lennerfors Uppsala University, Sweden In engineering ethics education, we encourage the student to see different perspectives of an issue for example structured debates or through role play. By doing so, we stimulate moral reasoning but also imagination and empathy.…
The 20th SEFI Special Interest Group in Mathematics -SIG in Mathematics Seminar on Mathematics in Engineering Education 17 - 18 June 2021 in Kristiansand, Norway conference website The SEFI Special Interest Group in Mathematics - SIG in Mathematics was established in…
Wednesday June 23, 3-5pm CET Register here Introduction: Over the last three decades we have seen a massive shift in both engineering and philosophy towards the very real impacts that technologies have not only on individual users, but also on…
Two dissemination events under the A-STEP 2030 project took place in the last month, organized by the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) in collaboration with the respective BEST groups and their local universitites. The first event took place…