New CY Cergy Paris University to be established As of January 1, 2020, the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, EISTI school of engineering and Université Paris Seine will no longer exist as such, but in the form of a new university: CY Cergy…
A-STEP 2030 Project: BEST Presidents Meeting Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) is a European, non-profit and non-political student organisation which provides communication, cooperation and exchange possibilities for European students. It consists of 94 Local and 3 Observer BEST Groups,…
European Quality Assurance Forum 21 to 23 November - TU Berlin, Germany. The EQAF (European Quality Assurance Forum) conference covered the theme: "Supporting societal engagement of Higher education". This annual conference is a bit like the "High mass" of European…
A-STEP 2030 – Attracting Diverse Talent to the Engineering Professions of 2030. Engineers Ireland Conference PRESS RELEASE 26th November 2019 TU Dublin, as project partners on the A-STEP 2030 project were pleased to present initial findings from the research study…
Why are we here? Comparing medical and engineering ethics By Iain Skinner & Adrienne Torda, University of New South Wales (Australia) Medicine’s Hippocratic oath is arguably the most famous code of professional ethics. Engineering does not have anything like it. …
The 20th SEFI Mathematics Working Group Seminar on Mathematics in Engineering Education 15 - 17 June 2020 in Kristiansand, Norway event website The SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) Mathematics Working Group (MWG) was established in 1982. The aims of…
13th International Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering Symposium 11-15 May 2020 - Dublin, Ireland Invitation by the organisers: Dear Colleague Due to a high volume of requests for more time, the committee has agreed on December 1st as the…
A-STEP 2030 - Third Transnational Meeting in Vantaa PRESS RELEASE 15th October 2019 Last week Metropolia University of Applied Sciences welcomed members of the A-STEP 2030 “Attracting Diverse Talent to the Engineering Professions of 2030” research team to the third…
Layered case studies in developing ethical reasoning How can we help students who are learning to be professionals to develop the ethical reasoning capacity that they will need in their professional practice? This is the question that was faced by…
Open Calls – Upcoming events of interest to engineering ethics educators SEFI Special Interest Group Workshop ‘Engineering Ethics Education’ 12-13 December, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Call for registration open: contact Gunter Bombaerts g.bombaerts@tue.nl Engineering Education for Sustainable Development biennial…