Kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ project In-4-STEM
3 April 2025, 12:15-13:45 CET
In this event you will learn more about the challenges facing minority STEM students and opportunities to support their social and academic integration.
SEFI@work | Roundtable on Attracting Girls to Engineering by Bridging Industry and Academia
28 March 2025, 10:30-12:00 CET
In this webinar, SIG Attractiveness gathers experts from different countries at a virtual roundtable to share best practices and learnings from both industry and academia on how to attract girls to pursue engineering careers.
SEFI@work: Compound Problems, Humility and Curiosity – a Plea for Slowing Down Learning Processes
17 March 2025, 16:00-17:00 CET
In this talk you will find out how research on compound problems and humility and curiosity might challenge underlying assumptions of the role of education and the design of learning experiences.
SEFI@work | Sustainable engineers: Guardians of the Green Galaxy
5 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:30 CET
Our second talk-show is Sustainable Engineers: Guardian of the Green Galaxy. The talk-show will explore current approaches, lenses, gaps and prospects for a broad integration of sustainability in engineering education.
SEFI Podcast Season 5: Episode #6 Jorge Membrillo-Hernández from ITESM Mexico on Challenge Based Learning
Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) is transforming engineering education by allowing students to tackle real-world interdisciplinary challenges in collaboration with external partners. Jorge Membrillo-Hernández from Tecnologico de Monterrey is a pioneer in integrating CBL.
SEFI@work: Educating uncertainty in times of sustainable transition
17 February 2025, 15:30-16:30 CET
In this workshop, we will explore uncertainty on a conceptual level and reflect on your personal experiences with uncertainty. Then, we will collaboratively develop scaffolding strategies to support students in learning to deal with uncertainty.
Progress on the SEFI Handbook on Teaching Transferable Competencies and Skills
The SEFI Handbook on Teaching Transferable Competencies and Skills is gaining momentum! Since its launch in Lausanne, interest in the project has been very positive, with more than 110 team and individual expressions of interest—representing over 200 contributors from five…
SEFI@work: The Good, the Bad, and the Unethical: AI in engineering education
10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00 CET
AI becomes increasingly better at producing output that is meaningful for humans, such as codes, essays, planning, feedback, and so forth. This disrupts higher education in general and engineering ethics education in particular.
SEFI@work: Institutionalizing Social Justice in Engineering Curricula
7 February 2025, 16:00-17:00 CET
Speakers and authors Gordon D. Hoople and Cindy Rottmann will present chapter 17 "Institutionalizing Social Justice in Engineering Curricula" from the handbook.
Call for candidates: 2025 SEFI elections
The SEFI elections will take place online, prior to our General Assembly in Tampere scheduled for 16 September 2025. The mandate for the newly elected officers starts on 1 October 2025.