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…
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…