SEFI Podcast Season 5: Episode #5 Engineering Education Research in Africa
ESTIEM Council Meeting
During the first week of November 4-10th November, took place the 69th ESTIEM Council Meeting in Sevilla, Spain. The ESTIEM Council Meetings are the statutory meeting that takes place twice a year. During the event, General Assembly and Working Sessions…
SEFI Podcast Season 5: Episode #4 Transdisciplinary
Call for Papers: SEFI 2025
SEFI 2025 Annual Conference | Engineering and Society | 15-18 September 2025 | Tampere Call for papers The United Nations has set 17 goals for sustainable development. Most of these goals require engineering solutions, either directly or indirectly. However, social…
Immersive Design Challenge
Siemens and Sony are challenging students worldwide to imagine sustainable design with immersive engineering What is Immersive Engineering? Immersive Engineering combines the real and digital worlds allowing you to experience 3D CAD in the Industrial Metaverse. The combination of Siemens’…
Interdisciplinarity: the quest for contemporary engineering education
Diana Adela Martin (Ethics SIG co-chair) It is generally acknowledged that the challenges we face as a society are complex and multi-faceted, requiring the input, tools, and expertise of different disciplines. How can we then continue to teach our engineers…
Breaking Silos: Rethinking University Structures to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Engineering Graduate Education
Margaret Webb (Virginia Tech), Jessica Deters (University of Nebraska at Lincoln), Maya Menon (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Marie Paretti (Virginia Tech) Jessica Deters (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) Our seven-year journey with a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded graduate program…
Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Education
Jette Egelund Holgaard Henrik Worm Routhe, Anette Kolmos, Jette Egelund Holgaard (Aalborg University, Denmark) Still more and more engineers are facing Ill structured and wicked problems. Problems that may be hard to define. Industry and society expect that engineers can…
Civic sensibilities as a learning goal in embedded ethics
Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol, the UK) and Avigail Ferdman (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol, the UK) A major challenge in embedding ethics is to make a difference for the agency of students and…