The dynamic world of digital ethics “Things are changing so fast that there are so many ethics issues emerging in computer science: how data mining is used, AI, cybersecurity, algorithmic decisions, or privacy. That was the motivation” says Dympna O’Sullivan…
CES EduPack is getting a new name. With the 2020 release, due out in March, GRANTA EduPack will be the new name for the world-leading materials teaching resource. The Granta Design team joined Ansys, Inc. last year, becoming the Ansys…
Model for Creative European Engineering Education The last Transnational Meeting of our EU Erasmus+ strategic partnership project “EBCC” took place in University of Riga (coordinator) on 26-27 February 2020. The meeting brought together representatives from the partner institutions, I. Viksne…
Call for papers: EJEE Special Issue Theme: Online Laboratories in Higher Engineering Education Solutions, challenges, and future directions from a pedagogical perspective Planned Submission Process Deadline for extended abstracts (800-1000 words) ……. 31 October 2020 Notification of invitation for full…
CTI 2020 Annual Conference The annual CTI conference was held on Tuesday 11 February at Bordeaux INP on the theme "Competency-based approach and pedagogical alignment". This topic was considered the most relevant by the CTI members because it concerns more…
Polytechnic Summit 2020 - Designing and Building a New Technological University 3rd – 5th June, 2020 at TU Dublin https://www.dit.ie/polytechsummit2020/ Call for Abstracts Each year the Polytechnic Summit assembles leaders, influencers and contributors who shape the future of polytechnic education.…
SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award 2020 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 Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs, to individual teachers, or…
New special issue: European Journal of Engineering Education Issue 1, 2020 of European Journal of Engineering Education is a special issue, on the theme "Scholarly development of engineering education – the CDIO approach". Guest editors are Kristina Edström, Johan Malmqvist and…
New EU project applications So, far SEFI is still committed in three ongoing EU projects: PREFER Knowledge Alliance (KU Leuven), EBCC Model Strategic partnership (Riga Technical University) and A-STEP 2030 (ENSTA Bretagne). Recently, in its meeting of 28 January, our…
The Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC) represents the academic engineers in the UK, all branches of engineering are represented within the membership. Our primary purpose is to provide an influential voice and authoritative conduit through which engineering departments’ interests can be…