Dear SEFI members, I am pleased to inform you that the 2023 General Assembly of SEFI will be held on Tuesday 12 September 2023, from 16:00 GMT. This year, the GA will take place in person at the TU Dublin on…
Gillian Saunders-Smits from TU-Delft Netherlands on Communication Skills with Natalie Wint and Neil Cooke Employers, researchers, and policy-makers repeatedly stress engineers should demonstrate not just technical skills but a growing range of transversal competencies. However, there is little consensus regarding…
For several years, the interest in Engineering Ethics Education Research (EEER) has been growing worldwide and certainly in Europe. SEFI plays an important role in this with a huge number of active teachers, researchers, and educational managers, the overwhelming presence…
Zeyi Liu, UCL, The Uk It is an issue around the globe, including in China that the ‘pipeline’ leading to STEM occupations begins to ‘leak’ after graduation, and the leakage tends to be much more severer for women. Among STEM…
Thijs Loonstra, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Humanity goes through an age of unprecedented crises. One of the most pressing of these is the climate crisis, however, it is not easy to separate this crisis from others like the energy crisis,…
I was like “Oh, here we go, like there’s only two girls on this team, they’re just gonna like completely shut us out and just be like ’let the lads talk about it’”. Sandra Cruz, TU Dublin, Ireland The issue…
Brooks M. Leftwich - Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA Engineering educators across the world and at all education levels are facing new opportunities to shape curriculum to address the pressing challenges of climate change, AI usage, and digital privacy.…
Athena Lin, Purdue University, The USA The goal of engineering ethics education is to prepare students to become ethical engineers when they graduate 1. As educators of future engineers, we are concerned with questions such as: How do we prepare…
Ashish Hingle, George Mason University, The USA Student learning has been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Although the pandemic seems to be subsiding, the long-term effect on education and learning has persisted. Combined with advances in AI-based applications…
Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Tech, The USA Starting from the time I was in middle school, I was lucky enough to engage with multiple K-12 STEM outreach programs, like First Lego League, a robotics design and programming competition. Also, upon starting…