A Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture as a Resource for Connecting Researchers and Students from Technology and Engineering to Ethics By Christian Herzog (University of Lübeck) Enabling engineering students to articulate and discuss values and ethics in technology is a primary…
Engaging Engineering Education The proceedings of the 2020 SEFI Annual Conference, that was organised by University of Twente and the Dutch 4TU as well as the Saxion University, are now published on our website. They relate to the topic of Engaging Engineering…
SEFI 2021 Annual Conference Blended Learning in Engineering Education:challenging, enlightening – and lasting ? 13-16 September 2021 - TU Berlin, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to attend the 49th Annual Conference of the European Society…
It is with great sadness that we were recently informed of the death of Prof. Dr. Gaston Wolf (79) former member of the SEFI Board and SEFI Vice-President, and organiser of the successful and memorable SEFI Annual Conference 1999 in Winterthur/Zürich. Gaston was…
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning (CEL) is launching its first MOOC on Multidisciplinary Research Methods for Engineers on edX on January 13, 2021. Course Instructors prof. Marcus Specht and dr. Gillian Saunders-Smits on their motivation to develop the…
Student well-being in the Nordic countries Nordic Council of Ministers: Webinar Online from Copenhagen: 3 December 2020, 14:00 to 17:00. Click here, programme and registration: www.ufm.dk/nordicstudentwellbeing Student well-being and the symbiotic relationship with learning. Psychology and sociologyset limits or expand…
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…