Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute, Brazil Brazilian Popular Engineering (PE) is one among many different engineering initiatives aiming at socio-environmentally changing the world through the practice of, and training to, other possible engineerings (i.e., non-conventional or counter-hegemonic engineering practices).…
Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Those of us who are part of the academic community recognize that we have a key role to play in helping our students gain relevant knowledge and skills so that they can develop…
Gunter BombaertsMaffioli award winner 2021 Gunter Bombaerts, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (IE&IS) at the University of Technology TU/e, received the SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence for Developing Learning and Teaching in Engineering Education in 2021.…
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 15:00 - 17:00 CET (EU) Register here Ethics is an important yet frequently ignored aspect of water resource planning, policymaking or infrastructure development and management. Water conveys different types of values - emotional, spiritual, cultural or…
Thursday, 23 September, 11-13 CET Register here This interactive session will discuss the following two topics: 1. Situation of Engineering Education on Ethics in Portugal and Spain Survey of syllabus of engineering courses in higher education in Portugal that tackle…
Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin, TU Eindhoven Value-sensitive design (VSD) and other methods of design for value are key in engineering and in engineering ethics education (EEE). They are extremely supportive to increase the ethical contribution of engineers in technological…
Rafael A. CalvoDyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK In a recent article about the future of design education, Meyer and Norman defined design as “Design generates the tangible and intangible built environment as well as the social…
Dylan Cawthorne, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark For the past few years, my research at the University of Southern Denmark has focused on applying the value sensitive design (VSD) methodology to an exciting and sometimes contentious technology – drones (https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/sduuascenter). …
Katta Spiel TU Wien, Austria Being aware of normative and applied ethics and how these might be relevant in our everyday professional live comprises a necessary skill for modern engineers. However, educating upcoming engineers on ethics also requires us to…
Elisabet M. Nilsson Anne-Marie Hansen Malmö University, Sweden The development and implementation of new technologies impact society on many different levels, from the individual perspective to large-scale societal effects (Nathan et al., 2008). As acknowledged, all designs embed and manifest certain values…