Fátima Monteiro, (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra) and Carlinda Leite (Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto ) Portugal The professional practice of engineering implies decisions that often lean on ethical and deontological issues,…
FROM MEMBERS Students from the engineering schools around the world often find Control Theory very challenging compared to other engineering courses. Therefore, teachers and researchers from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), University of Pisa…
Patrice Chazerand (Digital Europe, Belgium) My work at DIGITALEUROPE and with the Global Digital Foundation, also as a member of the scientific committee of AI4People, keeps honing a strong interest in how engineers have been shaping our lives since software…
Laura Nolan (Ireland) Disclosures made by practitioners about wrongdoing are one of our last lines of defence against illegal or unethical behaviour by companies or institutions. Recent prominent examples in technology and engineering include Edward Snowden, Ed Pierson at Boeing, and…
4 FEBRUARY 2021, 3-5PM UTC/4-6PM CET/10-12AM EST Register for the webinar Engineering ethics has increasingly become a significant part of engineering education frameworks worldwide. While accreditation and policy play a major part in the construction and design of engineering programmes,…
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 - online event organised by TU Berlin, Germany Submit your abstract CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to attend the…
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…