Sarah Junaid (Aston University, UK) Accrediting bodies are increasingly expecting to see evidence in the delivery and assessment of ethics throughout engineering programmes. From the UK and Irish context, and the national picture elsewhere, ethics has begun to play a…
FROM MEMBERS Students from the engineering schools around the world often find Control Theory very challenging compared to other engineering courses. Therefore, teachers and researchers from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), University of Pisa…
Patrice Chazerand (Digital Europe, Belgium) My work at DIGITALEUROPE and with the Global Digital Foundation, also as a member of the scientific committee of AI4People, keeps honing a strong interest in how engineers have been shaping our lives since software…
Laura Nolan (Ireland) Disclosures made by practitioners about wrongdoing are one of our last lines of defence against illegal or unethical behaviour by companies or institutions. Recent prominent examples in technology and engineering include Edward Snowden, Ed Pierson at Boeing, and…
4 FEBRUARY 2021, 3-5PM UTC/4-6PM CET/10-12AM EST Register for the webinar Engineering ethics has increasingly become a significant part of engineering education frameworks worldwide. While accreditation and policy play a major part in the construction and design of engineering programmes,…
Call for participation: one day online seminar - “Exploring Ethical Concerns in Electronic and IT Engineering Education” Scheduled to take place on the 18th of January 2021, 13.30-18.30 CET, the online seminar will bring together educators, industry representatives and policy…
SEFI Ethics Spring School 2021: “Experiencing Engineering Ethics Education: Reflections, evidence and perspectives on engineering ethics education in practice” Dates: 25 -26 March 2021 Location: either (a) a blended event online and onsite in the Swiss Jura (near Geneva) or…
A Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture as a Resource for Connecting Researchers and Students from Technology and Engineering to Ethics By Christian Herzog (University of Lübeck) Enabling engineering students to articulate and discuss values and ethics in technology is a primary…
Tackling gender inclusion of Middle East students in engineering education with Project Based Learning Shannon Chance (TU Dublin and UCL), Bill Williams (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal and TU Dublin), and Inês Direito (UCL) Equity next to Inclusion and Diversity Research…
Engaging Engineering Education The proceedings of the 2020 SEFI Annual Conference, that was organised by University of Twente and the Dutch 4TU as well as the Saxion University, are now published on our website. They relate to the topic of Engaging Engineering…