SEFI@work: The Good, the Bad, and the Unethical: AI in engineering education

The SEFI Ethics SIG is excited to invite you to the first Talk Show of the Series on The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education.

The Good, the Bad, and the Unethical: AI in engineering education

Monday, 10 February 2025 – 13.00-14.00 CET, 07:00-08.00 EST, 21:00-22:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time

AI becomes increasingly better at producing output that is meaningful for humans, such as codes, essays, planning, feedback, and so forth. This disrupts higher education in general and engineering ethics education in particular. Learning objectives, pedagogical activities, and assignments have to change if engineering ethics education wants to stay relevant and valid in the fast development of AI.

This raises many questions:

• How can educators integrate generative AI tools into courses to prepare students for the future AI-driven workforce while considering the ethical implications?
• What role should ethics teachers play in ethical discussions in software engineering developments?
• Can pedagogies (such as service-learning or humanitarian engineering) contribute to a more ethical application of AI?
• And many more … In a vibrant talk-show (even if it is a Monday “morning”), we will bring 3 key authors of The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education together to explore these issues.

This workshop is for you:

• If you get very excited about the above questions.
• If you are faced with the above questions in your day-to-day work and are looking for hands-on answers.
• If you feel responsible to look for societal answers to the above questions, together with peers.

Speakers:

• Stephanie Lunn (Florida International University, the United States),
• Scott Daniel (winner of the best paper award of The European Journal of Engineering Education, University of Technology Sydney, Australia), and
• Mihály Héder (The Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
• and Gunter Bombaerts (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) as “talk-show-host-of-the-day”

Target Audience:

Engineering Educators, Engineering Education and Education Sciences PhD Students, Early-career researchers, senior administrators

About the series:

The Talk show series will feature several authors from The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education, edited by Shannon Chance, Tom Børsen, Diana Adela Martin, Roland Tormey, Thomas Taro Lennerfors and Gunter Bombaerts, who were joined by a team of 108 authors from across the world who collaborated in the development of 36 chapters “mapping” the field of engineering ethics education. It is now time to celebrate together as a community and take stock of key advances in the field of engineering ethics and engineering education more broadly. The talk-show series which will run between 2025-2027 is coordinated by Diana Adela Martin (University College London, The UK).