News – Page 25

Implementing challenge-based learning for university students, technicians, elementary and middle school students in the Biorefineries and Renewable Energies Supported by ICT project (BERSTIC)

26 September 2022
Ethics, News

Ramón Fernando Colmenares-Quintero, Sergio Barbosa-Granados Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Colombia Authors: Ramón Fernando Colmenares-Quintero and Sergio Barbosa-Granados, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Colombia University education must have a critical approach, which allows new professionals to contribute to the current difficulties of…

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Real Challenges for Real Responsible Engineers – On Challenge-based Learning for Engineering Ethics Education

26 September 2022
Ethics, News

Christian Herzog, University of Luebeck, Germany The field of the ethics of technology is a vibrant one. In the advent of seemingly ubiquitous and pervasive digital technologies, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, ethical and societal issues have received widespread interdisciplinary…

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A framework for embedding responsible innovation in challenge-based learning at UCL: Anticipation, Reflection, Engagement and Action (AREA)

26 September 2022
Ethics, News

Kate Roach, Emanuela Tilley, UCL, The UK Undergraduate programmes at UCL Engineering underwent major reform in 2014 with the inauguration of what became known as the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) (Graham 2018). It consists of a series of modules and…

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Addressing tensions between student learning and community benefits in service-learning in Engineering Education

26 September 2022
Continuing Education, Ethics, News

Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University, USA Authors: Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University, USA; Linjue Wang, University of Michigan, USA Linjue Wang, University of Michigan, USA Service-learning (SL) is becoming an increasingly valuable pedagogy in engineering education as it provides students…

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Ethics and GreenComp

26 September 2022
Ethics, News, Sustainability

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…

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Challenge-Based Learning As A Tool For Socially Oriented Education, A Lifelong Learning Approach

26 September 2022
Ethics, News, skills

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…

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Student organizations as critical learning sites for ethical development of engineering students

26 September 2022
Continuing Education, Ethics, News

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…

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SEFI Podcast: European Engineering Educators

31 August 2022
News

Listen to a preview of the first season by Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint: 🔗https://shows.acast.com/european-engineering-educators/0-neil-and-natalie-introduce-the-podcast The European engineering educators podcast from SEFI will bring you key insights into the minds of university researchers and practitioners who have built international reputations…

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Invitation: SEFI General Assembly 2022

17 August 2022
News

Dear Members of SEFI, I am pleased to inform you that the 2022 General Assembly of SEFI will be held on Tuesday 20 September 2022, 16:00 - 18:15. This year, the GA will take place in person again at the UPC Barcelona during the…

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SEFI thanks the retiring Secretary General

7 July 2022
News

After more than thirty years of service to SEFI and the SEFI community, its Secretary General, Mrs. Françoise Côme, has retired from SEFI on 30th June 2022. Françoise has long been the ‘face of SEFI’ and has represented SEFI ably…

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