Making Sense of Engineering Workplace Mathematics to Inform Engineering Mathematics Education Download the publication Publisher: European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)Brussels 2021ISBN: 978-2-87352-021-2 In its fundamental curriculum document: “A Framework for Mathematics Curricula in Engineering Education”, SEFI’s Mathematics Interest Group…
The Collaborative Engineering Education in the Digital Age (CEEDA) website showcases examples of global best practice in collaborative and/or project-based engineering learning that are partially or wholly delivered online. It forms one element of a wider study looking at the lessons learnt from the current…
CALL FOR PAPERS The World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) and Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) announces the launch of the conference website and the call for extended abstracts (deadline April 30, 2021) for complete papers, workshops, round tables, panels, and…
Dear reader, Case studies are often presented as promising, or even as indispensable parts of a good Engineering Ethics Education. Currently, however, a lively debate exists on this topic. Earlier in March we hosted our second SEFI seminar, which explored the…
SEFI Board of Directors, new Vice President and new President The SEFI elections will take place on the occasion of the 2021 SEFI on-line General Assembly next September.We are therefore inviting candidatures for one two-year Presidency, one two-year Vice Presidency and…
Atsushi Fujiki Kobe City College of Nursing, Japan The case study is one of the most familiar pedagogical methods in engineering ethics. However, most of the cases introduced in textbooks are a little far from our everyday life, both temporally…
Andrew Valentine University of Queensland Sally Male University of Western Australia Cases in Engineering Ethics Education are often very complex and distant in nature, and it can be hard for students to take away clear skills or knowledge they can…
Dympna O'SullivanAndrea Curley and Damien Gordon TU Dublin, Ireland Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. They are an increasingly common occurrence…
Aditya Johri George Mason University, USA I recently designed and implemented online role-play case studies in an undergraduate ethics course. I make students accountable to a person or a committee who has to act on the advice they receive. I…
Cindy Rottmann University of Toronto, Canada How can engineering educators facilitate student learning about ethical dilemmas using case studies? More importantly, how can we honour the micro-ethical nature of individual decision-making without ignoring the macro-political impact of these decisions? One…