Attracting students to study engineering, and helping society understand what engineers do, are ongoing challenges within engineering education. In this episode we spoke to Mariana Velho, Communication, Education and Outreach Manager for CERN openlab. Mariana draws upon her background in…
By Tom Børsen, Associate Professor, Aalborg University How can we prepare engineering students not only to design technical solutions, but also to understand and possibly influence the policies that underpin those solutions? That question was central to the recent SEFI@work…
THE 22ND SEFI SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP IN MATHEMATICS SEMINAR Organising this year’s Mathematics SIG meeting was both exciting and inspiring for us. After being participants for ten years, it was a great honour for us to host it in the…
📍 Eindhoven, The Netherlands📅 20–23 May 2025 The SEFI PhD Summer School 2025, held at the inspiring JADS Den Bosch, brought together 36 PhD students from 13 countries for four days of intensive learning, reflection, and connection. Hosted by TU Eindhoven in collaboration with the 4TU.Centre for Engineering…
Feedback is a somewhat perennial topic within higher education (HE), with increasing emphasis on students as independent learners who should engage as active participants to fulfil the role of a self-regulated learner. In this episode we spoke to Dr. Kurt…
Dear colleagues, dear SEFI institutional members, We are pleased to invite you to submit a candidature to host a future SEFI Annual Conference, including the 2028 edition and beyond. Our upcoming conferences will be held at Tampere University (2025), Czech…
UPDATE: We sincerely thank all participants for their interest in the 2025/26 intake. The survey is now closed. Respondents will be notified during the week of 15 July 2025 regarding the next steps. For those who missed this round, the next application…
There continues to be a growing focus on the need for engineering students to develop transversal skills. There are a number of barriers which can stifle efforts in teaching such skills and approaches increasingly focus on developing engineering educators’ ability…
The Spring Symposium of IACEE (3-4 April 2025) which took place at Purdue University, USA, had a strong in-person SEFI representation with many members of the CEE/LLL Special Interest Group in person, namely: Dr. Patricia Caratozzolo, Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnológico de…