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…
The 5th Transnational Project Meeting of the A-STEP 2030 Erasmus+ project took place online on the 9th October 2020. This meeting was initially planned as a face-to-face meeting at Aalborg University in Denmark but was amended due to COVID travel restrictions. The…
Yolande Berbers, president of SEFI, took part in the High-Level Roundtable on Skills for the Microelectronics Sector, on the 5th of October 2020. The round table was chaired by two Commissioners: Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit, and…
The Dutch Recognition & Rewards network, the Comenius network, and Ruth Graham invite you to a series of webinars on the reward of university teaching, open to the full higher education community in November 2020. The first webinar will take place on Monday…
NOTICE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2020 2020 SEFI Extraordinary General Assembly about changes of Statutes and by-laws will be held on 20 November 2020, 10:00-10:30, online via GoToMeeting. The invitations were sent via email by Secretary General.We kindly invite you to register…
Engineers will face ethical questions in their professional careers. Engineering degree programmes should have prepared the graduates for moral decision making. Engineering ethics should thus have been part of the education of engineers at the universities. In some countries, it…
Dear reader, Engineering Ethics was “omnipresent” at the 2020 yearly SEFI conference, with no less than nine sessions treating engineering ethics. This clearly shows a momentum in the Engineering Education community for engineering ethics education. It is an open door…
The GEDC industry forum organised by Mc Master University (Canada) and Petrus communication took place from 28 September to 1 October, similarly to the SEFI conference, online. Given the different time zones around the world, the organisation was a bit…
PRESS RELEASE Representatives from the A-STEP 2030 project joined the GEDC-Industry Forum community to present results from the project and to hear experiences, perspectives and expectations from the next generation of students and recent graduates. More than 120 global experts in…
The European Journal of Engineering Education is the official journal of SEFI, the European Society for Engineering Education (www.sefi.be). We are seeking one or more Associate Editors to expand the editorial team. The editorial team is headed by the Editor-in-Chief…