Important documents & timeline for authors of the SEFI Handbook on Engineering Skills 

Important documents & timeline for authors of the SEFI Handbook on Engineering Skills 

– Volume A: Teaching Core Transferable Competencies & Skills in Engineering

This is the resource page for authors and contains download links to all important files for the handbook. Please note all authors have been selected and we are not looking for new submissions!.

Final Version Dates

Depending on the volume of changes required you will have been given an individual deadline for your final version per chapter, which for most of you is May 15. Please stick to this deadline as we cannot afford delays at this stage. You will hear on 23 May if your revised chapter with mandatory changes has been accepted and whether any minor copy-editing changes are still required to meet our 31 May deadline. Please add a short description of changes (a list format in a table is fine) as a separate file to ease the process of final acceptance.

Note: if you have figures in your chapter, please also submit these as separate .png or .jpg files with your submission.

Template for Final version

In addition, please find below the  new template which includes both formatting instructions as well as instructions on publisher mandated content. I apologize for the extra work, but this was needed to implement the new requirements by the Publishers and to resolve errors in the previous template that would have prevented a smooth merger of chapters. This time the template is a. doc file,  as we noticed the template was not coming across well as a.dot format. Please read the entire template first before starting to edit to familiarize yourself and please(!) do not change anything to any of the document settings and do not introduce new styles to the Styles Pane (which sadly happens if you copy text across in any other format than unformatted text) to preserve our sanity when formatting the final handbook. 

We are aware this is a lot to ask. Both you as authors, and we as editors, do this effectively unpaid (we as editors receive no income or royalties from the publication of the handbook from the publisher, nor do we have to pay the publisher for publishing). This means we are all in this together and we hope everyone will help by doing their bit. Thank you in advance for understanding.

Updated Glossary 

In addition, we have updated the Glossary, please check if all definitions are in line with the definitions you are using. If in doubt, or you feel there is an error/oversight please contact Gillian directly on this as soon as possible. We want to ensure consistency across the handbook, so close attention to this at this stage of the process is vital and very much appreciated. 

Checklist 

Please read all new documents first before starting to create your final version in the new template. To aid you in the submission of your final version, we have created a final submission checklist for your convenience.

Templates

We have created templates for each part and, in the case of Part 5, multiple templates. You can download the relevant .dotx file (Word template file) below. To use, simply double-click the template in the folder where you saved the template file, and it automatically creates a Word document based on the template. As the template contains a lot of information, we have also created a PDF of each template for ease of reading. We recommend you use Microsoft Teams to collaborate and not Google docs to not run into compatibility issues when using the template.

Please, also read the additional template instructions file dated 15 January 2026:

Timeline

Please find the timeline for the handbook below:

DeadlineActivity Who
1 September 2025Deadline submission of chapters for peer reviewAuthors
1 December 2025Deadline completion peer reviewPeer reviewers
15 December 2025Peer review comments to authorsEditors
2 March 2026Revised chapters dueAuthors
4 April 2026Deadline completion second peer reviewPeer reviewers
15 April 2026Peer review comments to authorsEditors
31 May 2026Final chapter manuscripts dueAuthors
September 2026Launch Handbook at SEFI Annual ConferenceAll

In case of any questions or queries please get in touch with your part editor team.

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