Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 GMT (UK)/ 16:00 – 17:30 CEST (EU) Register here In spite of continuous efforts to promote engineering and technology degrees and careers to young women, it remains a male-dominated field in Europe.…
SIG Gender and Diversity: Wednesday, 6 October (note: World Mental Health day is 10 October) 17:00 – 18:30 GMT (UK) / 18:00 – 19:30 CEST (EU) / 12:00 – 13:30 EST (US) Register here Mental health and diversity and inclusion…
Engineering Skills for a Future to Build Universidad Carlos III - Madrid - 17-19 November 2021 You may now register to the 12th edition of the SEFI European Convention of Engineering Deans – Engineering Skills for a Future to Build. The main…
SEFI 2021 Annual Conference Blended Learning in Engineering Education:challenging, enlightening – and lasting ? 13-16 September 2021 - online event organised by TU Berlin, Germany Submit your abstract CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to attend the…
Thursday, 23 September, 11-13 CET Register here This interactive session will discuss the following two topics: 1. Situation of Engineering Education on Ethics in Portugal and Spain Survey of syllabus of engineering courses in higher education in Portugal that tackle…
Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin, TU Eindhoven Value-sensitive design (VSD) and other methods of design for value are key in engineering and in engineering ethics education (EEE). They are extremely supportive to increase the ethical contribution of engineers in technological…
Rafael A. CalvoDyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK In a recent article about the future of design education, Meyer and Norman defined design as “Design generates the tangible and intangible built environment as well as the social…
Dylan Cawthorne, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark For the past few years my research at the University of Southern Denmark has focused on applying the value sensitive design (VSD) methodology to an exciting and sometimes contentious technology – drones (https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/sduuascenter). …
Katta Spiel TU Wien, Austria Being aware of normative and applied ethics and how these might be relevant in our everyday professional live comprises a necessary skill for modern engineers. However, educating upcoming engineers on ethics also requires us to…
Elisabet M. Nilsson Anne-Marie Hansen Malmö University, Sweden The development and implementation of new technologies impact society on many different levels, from the individual perspective to large-scale societal effects (Nathan et al., 2008). As acknowledged, all designs embed and manifest certain values…
Taylor Stone TU Delft, The Netherlands At a general level, the basic tenets of value sensitive design (VSD) are easy enough to grasp; the challenge lies in applying the concepts and methods to specific domains or technologies, and working through…
Steven Umbrello,University of Turin, Italy steven.umbrello@unito.it Daisy Yoo,Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands : d.yoo@tue.nl How can engineering students learn to quickly and actively engage in designing technologies for human values rather than relegating them to afterthoughts? Or, more precisely, what…
Jennifer Amos, Gabriel Rashad Burks UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, USA In user-centered design, a designer spends significant time trying to understand the problem (Figure 1). The user-centered design process entails multiple rounds of divergent and convergent thinking. In particular, the designer must…