Although young engineers are often mobile and many find their first jobs outside their home countries, there still remain hindrances arising from the difficulty in getting their qualifications recognised by companies or local authorities. Within the European Union, Common Training…
Staff from UCL Engineering was honoured with a prestigious teaching award at a ceremony in London last week. The team behind UCL’s innovative teaching framework, The Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) have been awarded the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) awarded and funded…
In July 2017 the International University of Logistics and Transport in Wroclaw became a new member of SEFI. The university has been operating for 16 years and its priority has always been continuous improvement of the quality of teaching, as…
Our Annual Conference took place in Angra do Heroismo on Terceira island, Azores, Portugal. It was organised by Istituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto with professors Joao Rocha and José Carlos Quadrado leading the organizing committee. The conference has had…
The SEFI Leonardo Da Vinci medal has been awarded to Portuguese Professor José Carlos Diogo Marques dos Santos, former Rector of the University of Porto, for his outstanding contribution to engineering education, which has had an international significance. The awardee has been…
I am honoured to have been elected President of SEFI for the two-year term 2017-2019. SEFI is a wonderful and strong community of scholars and supporters of excellence in engineering education within Europe, and indeed across the world, and I…
BEST events on education (EoE) have been organized around Europe since 1998. They enable a group of engineering students to meet and discuss the "on the agenda" topics with experts, local academics, and professionals. The great diversity among the origins…
At the Annual Conference in Terceira, three of our Working Groups selected new chairs. We would like to thank Dr. Susanne Ihsen for chairing the Gender and Diversity WG, Prof. Pieter de Vries for chairing the Open and Online Engineering…