The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning (CEL) is launching its first MOOC on Multidisciplinary Research Methods for Engineers on edX on January 13, 2021. Course Instructors prof. Marcus Specht and dr. Gillian Saunders-Smits on their motivation to develop the…
Student well-being in the Nordic countries Nordic Council of Ministers: Webinar Online from Copenhagen: 3 December 2020, 14:00 to 17:00. Click here, programme and registration: www.ufm.dk/nordicstudentwellbeing Student well-being and the symbiotic relationship with learning. Psychology and sociologyset limits or expand…
Freely Available Learning Resources For Sustainable Design in Engineering Education By Jordi Segalas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC-Barcelona Tech) There is an increased interest in education that levels co-creative processes in innovation as developed in challenge-based or design learning. Here…
Fundamental disagreements about online tools By Mandi Astola (Eindhoven University of Technology) My colleagues and me had a fantastic, freshly re-designed challenge-based learning, flip-the-classroom ethics course for 240 studentsready, when the pandemic hit. It quickly became evident that the whole…
The 5th Transnational Project Meeting of the A-STEP 2030 Erasmus+ project took place online on the 9th October 2020. This meeting was initially planned as a face-to-face meeting at Aalborg University in Denmark but was amended due to COVID travel restrictions. The…
Yolande Berbers, president of SEFI, took part in the High-Level Roundtable on Skills for the Microelectronics Sector, on the 5th of October 2020. The round table was chaired by two Commissioners: Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit, and…
The Dutch Recognition & Rewards network, the Comenius network, and Ruth Graham invite you to a series of webinars on the reward of university teaching, open to the full higher education community in November 2020. The first webinar will take place on Monday…
NOTICE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2020 2020 SEFI Extraordinary General Assembly about changes of Statutes and by-laws will be held on 20 November 2020, 10:00-10:30, online via GoToMeeting. The invitations were sent via email by Secretary General.We kindly invite you to register…
Engineers will face ethical questions in their professional careers. Engineering degree programmes should have prepared the graduates for moral decision making. Engineering ethics should thus have been part of the education of engineers at the universities. In some countries, it…
Dear reader, Engineering Ethics was “omnipresent” at the 2020 yearly SEFI conference, with no less than nine sessions treating engineering ethics. This clearly shows a momentum in the Engineering Education community for engineering ethics education. It is an open door…