The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence for Developing Learning and Teaching in Engineering Education The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award, launched by SEFI to commemorate its late President Prof. Francesco Maffioli (Politecnico di Milano), is given by SEFI, the European…
Save the date: European Convention for Engineering Deans Leadership for digitalization in Higher Engineering Education May 24-26, 2023: University of Twente Campus – the Netherlands Digital education has been a fast-growing trend even before the pandemic, and has gained more…
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…
Congratulations to Dr Darren Carthy who was conferred with his PhD in Engineering Education at a recent ceremony in TU Dublin. As the first in-person graduation ceremony since 2019, the CREATE team celebrated four PhD graduations in Engineering Education from 2021/22,…
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…
Aida Guerra, Aalborg University, Denmark My research interest in Education for Sustainable Development and Problem Based Learning (PBL) started in my master degree and “got rooted” during my PhD studies on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and PBL. It is…