Ethics – SEFI

SEFI@work | Emotional scaffolding for dealing with epistemic emotions in engineering education

10 April 2025
Ethics, News, SEFI@work

20 May 2025, 15:30-16:30 CEST For many engineering students, dealing with complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity involves epistemic challenges (i.e., challenges related to the nature of knowledge or learning processes)...

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SEFI@work | Hard hats and power suits: equipping the next generation of engineering policy-makers

10 April 2025
Ethics, News, SEFI@work

13 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00 CEST Our third talk-show will explore the intersection between engineering and policy-making and how engineering education prepares its graduates for policy-making roles

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SEFI@work | Making Learning from Failure Accessible to All Students: Considerations for Power, Privilege, and Inequity

4 March 2025
Ethics, News, SEFI@work

15 April 2025, 15:30-16:30 CEST This webinar will explore the impact that power, and privilege, and inequity play in one’s ability to embrace and learn from failure in the context of higher education.

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SEFI@work: Compound Problems, Humility and Curiosity – a Plea for Slowing Down Learning Processes

20 February 2025
Ethics, News, SEFI@work

17 March 2025, 16:00-17:00 CET In this talk you will find out how research on compound problems and humility and curiosity might challenge underlying assumptions of the role of education and the design of learning experiences.

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SEFI@work | Sustainable engineers: Guardians of the Green Galaxy

19 February 2025
Ethics, News, SEFI@work

5 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:30 CET Our second talk-show is Sustainable Engineers: Guardian of the Green Galaxy. The talk-show will explore current approaches, lenses, gaps and prospects for a broad integration of sustainability in engineering education.

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SEFI@work: Educating uncertainty in times of sustainable transition

12 February 2025
Ethics, News, SEFI@work

17 February 2025, 15:30-16:30 CET In this workshop, we will explore uncertainty on a conceptual level and reflect on your personal experiences with uncertainty. Then, we will collaboratively develop scaffolding strategies to support students in learning to deal with uncertainty.

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SEFI@work: The Good, the Bad, and the Unethical: AI in engineering education

5 February 2025
Ethics, News, SEFI@work

10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00 CET AI becomes increasingly better at producing output that is meaningful for humans, such as codes, essays, planning, feedback, and so forth. This disrupts higher education in general and engineering ethics education in particular.

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SEFI@work: New talkshow series about Engineering Ethics Education

30 January 2025
Ethics, SEFI@work

First episode: 10 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 CET Between 2025-2027, the SEFI Ethics SIG is excited to invite you to take part in The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education talk show series, where 3-4 authors will discuss in a lively format on themes drawn from the Handbook.

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Interdisciplinarity: the quest for contemporary engineering education

9 December 2024
Ethics, News

Diana Adela Martin (Ethics SIG co-chair) It is generally acknowledged that the challenges we face as a society are complex and multi-faceted, requiring the input, tools, and expertise of different disciplines. How can we then continue to teach our engineers…

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Breaking Silos: Rethinking University Structures to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Engineering Graduate Education

9 December 2024
Ethics, News

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…

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