Friday, 10 December 2021, 12:00-13:00 CET Register here Introduction to SEFI Engineering Skills Special Interest Group. What is the contemporary engineering skill set and are we ready to teach it? Results from the 2021 SEFI Engineering skills survey completed by…
Engineering Skills for a Future to Build Universidad Carlos III – Madrid – 17-19 November 2021 - The first in-person event of SEFI was the European Convention of Engineering Deans. Although online participation was also possible, most attendees travelled to…
Towards Better Learning – Methods and Practices of Teaching Physics in Engineering Education Register here! The PTEE2022, the 11th International Conference on Physics Teaching in Engineering Education, will be held on 11-13 May 2022, in the city of Tampere (Finland).…
Thursday, 20 January '22 3pm - 5pm CET SEFI acknowledges the importance of bringing to the attention of engineering students themes related to sustainable development. The seminar explores innovative approaches to implementing and teaching sustainability in the engineering curriculum.…
Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin The SEFI annual conference brought us to Berlin, a virtual location which allowed the members of the SIG Ethics group to reflect on expanding the boundaries of engineering ethics education and research towards the study…
Author: Mircea Toboșaru, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Department of Teacher Education and Social Sciences Engineering Ethics in Romania Mircea Toboșaru Engineering ethics in Romania has no remarkable past and is anemic in the present day. Hopefully, it will have a…
Luis Adriano Oliveira, Ester Gimenez Carbó and Alfredo Soeiro It was an interactive session with about 30 participants. Two topics were addressed by Luis Adriano Oliveira, Universidade de Coimbra, Ester Gimenez Carbó, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, and by Alfredo Soeiro (Universidade…
Yann Serreau, Campus d’enseignement supérieur et de formation professionnelle, CESI, France In view of the increase in ethical questions, it seems progressively accepted that engineers must be able to consider this dimension in their decision-making. The extent to which the…
Dympna O’Sullivan, Damian Gordon, Ioannis Stavrakakis (TU Dublin)Project Website: http://ethics4eu.eu/, Twitter: @Ethics4EU Authors: Dympna O’Sullivan (top), Damian Gordon (centre), Ioannis Stavrakakis (bottom) If you applied for a loan, would you be happy to learn that the decision had been taken by…
Authors: Neelke Doorn, Lavinia Marin, Sabine Roeser, Taylor Stone, Janna van Grunsven That engineering comes with a high burden of moral responsibility may for many people appear as a truism explicitly acknowledged by most professional engineering organizations and engineering curriculum…