Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin (TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands) Engineering education does not exist in a power-vacuum. As Paulo Freire (1996) put it: “There is no such thing as neutral education”. Ethicist or engineers who teach a technical course or ethics always…
Patricia Xavier, Swansea University, UK It concerns me that the norms of undergraduate engineering education do not develop the people and justice skills needed for development work. Our transdisciplinary Sustainable Engineering Management for International Development MSc was intended to be an…
Msawenkosi Mkhize, undergraduate student, University of Cape Town, South Africa Being born in South Africa three years after Apartheid officially ended, I grew up. Like millions of people in the country and across the rest of the world, I really…
Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute, Brazil Brazilian Popular Engineering (PE) is one among many different engineering initiatives aiming at socio-environmentally changing the world through the practice of, and training to, other possible engineerings (i.e., non-conventional or counter-hegemonic engineering practices).…
Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Those of us who are part of the academic community recognize that we have a key role to play in helping our students gain relevant knowledge and skills so that they can develop…
Gunter BombaertsMaffioli award winner 2021 Gunter Bombaerts, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (IE&IS) at the University of Technology TU/e, received the SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence for Developing Learning and Teaching in Engineering Education in 2021.…
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 15:00 - 17:00 CET (EU) Register here Ethics is an important yet frequently ignored aspect of water resource planning, policymaking or infrastructure development and management. Water conveys different types of values - emotional, spiritual, cultural or…
Thursday, 23 September, 11-13 CET Register here This interactive session will discuss the following two topics: 1. Situation of Engineering Education on Ethics in Portugal and Spain Survey of syllabus of engineering courses in higher education in Portugal that tackle…
Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin, TU Eindhoven Value-sensitive design (VSD) and other methods of design for value are key in engineering and in engineering ethics education (EEE). They are extremely supportive to increase the ethical contribution of engineers in technological…
Rafael A. CalvoDyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK In a recent article about the future of design education, Meyer and Norman defined design as “Design generates the tangible and intangible built environment as well as the social…