Alfredo Soeiro – AECEF The Green Competence Sustainability Competence Framework stimulates engineering ethics Alfredo Soeiro – AECEF (www.aecef.net) The Green Competence Sustainability Competence Framework (GreenComp) has been published January 2022 by the Joint Research Centre of the European Union. It…
Jorge Membrillo-Hernández, Genaro Zavala and Jin Michael Fung, Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Authors: Jorge Membrillo-Hernández, Genaro Zavala and Jin Michael Fung, Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Every element of…
Luan M. Nguyen, Iowa State University, The US Author: Luan M. Nguyen, Iowa State University, The US Engineering education tends to focus on technical aspects and issues internal to engineering practice (Nguyen et al., 2020). Although ethics is intrinsically part…
European Engineering Educators podcast: season 1 episode 1: Roland Tormey from EPFL discusses ethics with Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint For our launch episode, our guest is Dr Roland Tormey, current co-chair of the SEFI Ethics Special Interest Group, and…
Wednesday 22 June, 9-11 am EST/ 3-5pm CET How can ethics be integrated in a meaningful and systematic manner in the engineering curriculum? Can ethics be part of the identity of an engineering institution, and if yes, how? What form…
Sustainability is a very, very fundamental value in our current society. For us, therefore it is no wonder that students themselves plea that we “must work together and be united by a great cause. This cause is sustainability. Sustainability should become…
Dr Jonathan Truslove, Education Lead, Engineers Without Borders UKWebsite: https://www.ewb-uk.org/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-truslove/ At Engineers Without Borders UK, we believe that with a different approach, the engineering community has the power to rapidly transform our world for the better. By bringing together thousands of…
Paula Schönach, Meeri Karvinen, Noora Jaakkola - Aalto University, Finland Sustainability is a hot topic on universities’ agendas. This manifests in the emergence of institution-wide sustainability actions reaching from increasing sustainability awareness to research agendas, campus operations, outreach activities and…
Jordan Nickel, Rob Duimering, Ada Hurst - Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Sustainability and sustainable design have been a part of design discourse for over three decades, yet many engineering designs today remain unsustainable. Sustainability concepts…
Natalie Wint, Swansea University, The UK For the last two years I have been teaching a module which involves sustainable, human centered design work. The reaction of students to the course has been variable but is generally consistent with the…