Margaret Webb (Virginia Tech), Jessica Deters (University of Nebraska at Lincoln), Maya Menon (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Marie Paretti (Virginia Tech) Jessica Deters (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) Our seven-year journey with a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded graduate program…
Jette Egelund Holgaard Henrik Worm Routhe, Anette Kolmos, Jette Egelund Holgaard (Aalborg University, Denmark) Still more and more engineers are facing Ill structured and wicked problems. Problems that may be hard to define. Industry and society expect that engineers can…
Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol, the UK) and Avigail Ferdman (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol, the UK) A major challenge in embedding ethics is to make a difference for the agency of students and…
Susan Lord (University of San Diego, USA) Susan Lord I have been interested in interdisciplinarity since I was a kid but didn’t know it. I loved reading which transported me to new places and math where I could solve challenging…
Ali Jaberiansari, Claire Lucas, Francesco Ciriello (Kings College London, The UK) Education and skills are closely aligned with Engineering Education delivering the knowledge and the competencies required to apply that knowledge to successfully solve problems. There exists a large body…
Siara Isaac, Yousef Jalali, Valentina Rossi, Joelyn de Lima (Centre for Learning Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne -EPFL, Switzerland) Siara Isaac The importance of transdisciplinarity in engineering is increasing due to its centrality in addressing complex issues that…
Adina Imanbayeva, Robin de Graaf, Cindy Poortman (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Adina Imanbayeva Today's world faces increasingly complex and multifaceted challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity, the need for sustainability, and the overwhelmingly fast pace of technological development.…
During the 2024 SEFI Annual Conference hosted by EPFL on our Lausanne campus in early September, a series of new initiatives were introduced by the organizing committee to reinforce diversity, equality and inclusion. Of these, the sponsored childcare service was…
Xiaoqi Feng, Julia Sundman, Hanna Aarnio (Aalto University, Finland) Hanna Aarnio As technological advancements, such as the proliferation of AI, intersect with escalating socio-environmental challenges, they present both opportunities and dilemmas for engineers. Self-driving cars, for instance, promise reduced emissions…
