SEFI Ethics Spring School 2021: “Experiencing Engineering Ethics Education: Reflections, evidence and perspectives on engineering ethics education in practice” Dates: 25 -26 March 2021 Location: either (a) a blended event online and onsite in the Swiss Jura (near Geneva) or…
A Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture as a Resource for Connecting Researchers and Students from Technology and Engineering to Ethics By Christian Herzog (University of Lübeck) Enabling engineering students to articulate and discuss values and ethics in technology is a primary…
Tackling gender inclusion of Middle East students in engineering education with Project Based Learning Shannon Chance (TU Dublin and UCL), Bill Williams (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal and TU Dublin), and Inês Direito (UCL) Equity next to Inclusion and Diversity Research…
Engaging Engineering Education The proceedings of the 2020 SEFI Annual Conference, that was organised by University of Twente and the Dutch 4TU as well as the Saxion University, are now published on our website. They relate to the topic of Engaging Engineering…
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…
It is with great sadness that we were recently informed of the death of Prof. Dr. Gaston Wolf (79) former member of the SEFI Board and SEFI Vice-President, and organiser of the successful and memorable SEFI Annual Conference 1999 in Winterthur/Zürich. Gaston was…
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning (CEL) is launching its first MOOC on Multidisciplinary Research Methods for Engineers on edX on January 13, 2021. Course Instructors prof. Marcus Specht and dr. Gillian Saunders-Smits on their motivation to develop the…
Student well-being in the Nordic countries Nordic Council of Ministers: Webinar Online from Copenhagen: 3 December 2020, 14:00 to 17:00. Click here, programme and registration: www.ufm.dk/nordicstudentwellbeing Student well-being and the symbiotic relationship with learning. Psychology and sociologyset limits or expand…
Freely Available Learning Resources For Sustainable Design in Engineering Education By Jordi Segalas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC-Barcelona Tech) There is an increased interest in education that levels co-creative processes in innovation as developed in challenge-based or design learning. Here…
Fundamental disagreements about online tools By Mandi Astola (Eindhoven University of Technology) My colleagues and me had a fantastic, freshly re-designed challenge-based learning, flip-the-classroom ethics course for 240 studentsready, when the pandemic hit. It quickly became evident that the whole…