5th Doctoral Symposium at SEFI 2021 On September 12, the SEFI 2021 conference was opened with the fifth SEFI Doctoral Symposium in Engineering Education Research. 10 PhD students used this opportunity to share and discuss their PhD work with 11…
A-STEP 2030 WEBINAR Engineering Education for Building a Sustainable Future The partners in the A-STEP 2030 Erasmus+ project (Strategic partnership for educational innovation and shared good practices) organised a Webinar on Friday the 27th August 2021 between 10.00-12.00 am (CET)…
Dear colleagues, Warmest personal regards from Bay Area in California to each of you. I have recently relocated here, after a decade in Istanbul, where I served our board the longest, starting in 2015. In January 2020, as many of…
A personalised engineering education experience using Artificial Intelligence is foreseen as the way forward for engineering education from the perspective of current students The A-STEP 2030 Erasmus + project culminated in an online Summer School hosting 30 international students in…
Engineering Skills for a Future to Build Universidad Carlos III - Madrid - 17-19 November 2021 You may now register to the 12th edition of the SEFI European Convention of Engineering Deans – Engineering Skills for a Future to Build. The main…
Dear Members of SEFI, I am pleased to inform you that the 2021 General Assembly of SEFI will be held on Tuesday 14 September 2021, 16:30 - 18:30. This year again, the GA will take place online through a zoom session organised by the…
Thursday, 23 September, 11-13 CET Register here This interactive session will discuss the following two topics: 1. Situation of Engineering Education on Ethics in Portugal and Spain Survey of syllabus of engineering courses in higher education in Portugal that tackle…
Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin, TU Eindhoven Value-sensitive design (VSD) and other methods of design for value are key in engineering and in engineering ethics education (EEE). They are extremely supportive to increase the ethical contribution of engineers in technological…
Rafael A. CalvoDyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK In a recent article about the future of design education, Meyer and Norman defined design as “Design generates the tangible and intangible built environment as well as the social…
Dylan Cawthorne, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark For the past few years, my research at the University of Southern Denmark has focused on applying the value sensitive design (VSD) methodology to an exciting and sometimes contentious technology – drones (https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/sduuascenter). …