Thursday, 22 April 2021 3pm – 5pm CEST - online on Zoom Register here Organisers and speakers: Thomas Lennerfors (Uppsala University, Sweden): thomas.Lennerfors@angstrom.uu.se Sarah Hitt (NMITE, The UK): sarah.hitt@nmite.ac.uk Star Wars IV: A New Hope ends with Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star…
Dear SEFI friends, our February newsletter has been published and is available here Find out more about our SEFI 2021 Annual Conference going online, the new SEFI webinars, Ethics Spring School, SEFI Calendar of events 2021, member and partner news,…
"Blended Learning in Engineering Education: challenging, enlightening – and lasting?" SEFI Annual conference (online event) | 13-16 September | TU Berlin Dear colleagues,dear lecturers, In 2020, universities around the world switched their face-to-face courses to online teaching formats at short…
Date: 18 March 2021 Time: 11:00 GMT | 12:00 CET Location: On-Line Registration: Free here Recruiting new hires already skilled in methods like design of experiments (DOE) is of the biggest challenges facing the chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries today. While…
Coming up in this month’s newsletter: Accreditation is ethics in action Read the full newsletter The first seminar in our SEFI SIG series of monthly online events opened for discussion the topic of accreditation, under the organisation of Sarah Junaid.…
Ethics Seminar: Using case studies in engineering ethics education 04 March 2021, 15-17:00 CET - online Register here Speakers: Cindy Rottmann (University of Toronto, Canada) Decoupling ethics from equity is neither ethical nor equitable Aditya Johri (George Mason University, USA) Implementing…
Christelle Didier, University of Lille, France A few years after I had given up engineering education to embrace social work and education, a question made me become a researcher « Why are there code of ethics written by engineers for engineers…
Fátima Monteiro, (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra) and Carlinda Leite (Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto ) Portugal The professional practice of engineering implies decisions that often lean on ethical and deontological issues,…
Donna Riley (Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, US) Across its many disciplines and settings, engineering maintains ethical standards that guide professional practice. Ethics is an essential component of preparation for an engineering career…