FROM MEMBERS Dear colleagues, We are happy to invite you to join us for the next edition of the Teaching Science and Engineering free online course! This 8-week MOOC is organized by the Teaching Support Centre at EPFL, one of…
Dear SEFI friends, our February newsletter has been published and is available here Find out more about our SEFI 2021 Annual Conference going online, the new SEFI webinars, Ethics Spring School, SEFI Calendar of events 2021, member and partner news,…
"Blended Learning in Engineering Education: challenging, enlightening – and lasting?" SEFI Annual conference (online event) | 13-16 September | TU Berlin Dear colleagues,dear lecturers, In 2020, universities around the world switched their face-to-face courses to online teaching formats at short…
Date: 18 March 2021 Time: 11:00 GMT | 12:00 CET Location: On-Line Registration: Free here Recruiting new hires already skilled in methods like design of experiments (DOE) is of the biggest challenges facing the chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries today. While…
Coming up in this month’s newsletter: Accreditation is ethics in action Read the full newsletter The first seminar in our SEFI SIG series of monthly online events opened for discussion the topic of accreditation, under the organisation of Sarah Junaid.…
Christelle Didier, University of Lille, France A few years after I had given up engineering education to embrace social work and education, a question made me become a researcher « Why are there code of ethics written by engineers for engineers…
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…