17 May, 8-10am EST / 2-4pm CET Few would argue with the idea that societies need engineers to design and build technologies which help to solve societal challenges on the one hand and are inclusive, ethical, and without unexpected negative…
AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, UNESCO AGH Chair, is a beneficiary of the program of the National Agency for Academic Exchange SPINAKER - Intensive International Education Programs in the implementation of the project entitled: AGH UNESCO DigiCamp…
Global Imperatives for Continuing Engineering Education State University of New York at Buffalo, June 6-10, 2022 The IACEE 18th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education is hosted by the State University of New York at Buffalo, June 6-10, 2022. The…
Dear SEFI members,We wish you steady health, happiness and lots of professional and personal success in the New Year 2022! We hope you will have calm and pleasant holidays among your beloved people!In 2022 we look forward to seeing you again…
SEFI Summer School provides an opportunity for PhD students engaged in engineering and science education research to learn from experts and their peers. Students will participate in workshops led by experts, centered around aspects of research in engineering and science…
The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu in the sixth century B.C. wrote: There is nothing softer and weaker than water,And yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.For this reason there is no substitute for it.All the world…
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, Canada We live in a time of water crisis. One in ten people survive without access to safe water. One child every two minutes dies from water and sanitation-related illnesses. From floods…
Ricki Levi, Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India Daniel Mishori, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel The “Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity” (Mitchel, 2002) describes how Egypt…
David Groenfeldt, Director Water-Culture Institute & University of New Mexico in the US At the risk of oversimplifying the complexities of water ethics, this essay lays out an approach that engineers (and also non-engineers) can use to identify ethical dilemmas…
Ilmas Futehally, Executive Director Strategic Foresight Group, Mumbai, India Any two countries engaged in active water cooperation do not go to war for any reason. This is the conclusion of the Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) after analysing 286 shared river…