In 2025, another edition of the Summer School, organised by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and…
The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award, launched by SEFI to commemorate its late President Prof. Francesco Maffioli (Politecnico di Milano), is given by SEFI, the Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs, to individual teachers, or a team of teachers, of higher engineering education institutions members of SEFI, in recognition of open-minded development of curriculum, learning environments or tools, novel didactics, methods or systems in engineering studies.
This year, the SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence in Teaching of Engineering Education was presented to Dr. Ir. Volkert van Steijn and the Pre-University Team, Associate Professor and Programme Director Bachelor Molecular Science & Technology and the pre-university Team Lead in the Department of Chemical Engineering/Applied Science University, TU Delft, Netherlands.
We all know that successfully starting higher education studies in STEM is not easy. At TU Delft, there was a great need for a pre-university “onboarding” programme for prospective students. TU Delft’s pre-university team comprising of students and staff developed an open, online programme that is continuously available, accessible and flexible. It covers familiar high school material with special attention to the intertwining of STEM subjects and University Engineering Education. The growing demand for engineering graduates, combined with low intake and high dropout rates, make the pre-university programme highly relevant. So far, thousands of prospective students from the Netherlands have participated, including students from all TU Delft’s bachelor’s programmes as well as students from more than 170 countries. The impact of the programme on study choice and on-boarding follows overwhelmingly from reactions and feedback from students. The feedback from students say that they start their studies with more self-confidence and more realistic expectations.
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