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…
Engineers will face ethical questions in their professional careers. Engineering degree programmes should have prepared the graduates for moral decision making. Engineering ethics should thus have been part of the education of engineers at the universities. In some countries, it…
Dear reader, Engineering Ethics was “omnipresent” at the 2020 yearly SEFI conference, with no less than nine sessions treating engineering ethics. This clearly shows a momentum in the Engineering Education community for engineering ethics education. It is an open door…
There are nine ethics events on the SEFI conference, to be held online from 20th to 24th September. We want to draw your attention in particular to the Special Interest Group Ethics meeting on Monday 4:30pm. Here we will join…