Catherine Deegan (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, TU Dublin, Ireland) https://twitter.com/cath_deegan In Ireland, engineering programmes are accredited every 5 years. Engineers Ireland developed a set of criteria, ranging from specific programme skills and knowledge to the more general, transversal…
Sarah Junaid (Aston University, UK) Accrediting bodies are increasingly expecting to see evidence in the delivery and assessment of ethics throughout engineering programmes. From the UK and Irish context, and the national picture elsewhere, ethics has begun to play a…
Patrice Chazerand (Digital Europe, Belgium) My work at DIGITALEUROPE and with the Global Digital Foundation, also as a member of the scientific committee of AI4People, keeps honing a strong interest in how engineers have been shaping our lives since software…
Laura Nolan (Ireland) Disclosures made by practitioners about wrongdoing are one of our last lines of defence against illegal or unethical behaviour by companies or institutions. Recent prominent examples in technology and engineering include Edward Snowden, Ed Pierson at Boeing, and…
4 FEBRUARY 2021, 3-5PM UTC/4-6PM CET/10-12AM EST Register for the webinar Engineering ethics has increasingly become a significant part of engineering education frameworks worldwide. While accreditation and policy play a major part in the construction and design of engineering programmes,…
Call for participation: one day online seminar - “Exploring Ethical Concerns in Electronic and IT Engineering Education” Scheduled to take place on the 18th of January 2021, 13.30-18.30 CET, the online seminar will bring together educators, industry representatives and policy…
SEFI Ethics Spring School 2021: “Experiencing Engineering Ethics Education: Reflections, evidence and perspectives on engineering ethics education in practice” Dates: 25 -26 March 2021 Location: either (a) a blended event online and onsite in the Swiss Jura (near Geneva) or…
A Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture as a Resource for Connecting Researchers and Students from Technology and Engineering to Ethics By Christian Herzog (University of Lübeck) Enabling engineering students to articulate and discuss values and ethics in technology is a primary…
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…