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…
Teaching Engineering Ethics Online: Between Adaptation and Transformation The SEFI Ethics SIG Working Group organised an online workshop on “Teaching Engineering Ethics Online: Between Adaptation and Transformation” on 9 September 2020. 51 people from all five continents joined the session…
SEFI ONLINE SEMINAR 9 September 2020, 14:00-16:00 CET - Register here Description: The pandemic generated by COVID-19 changed the way education is delivered to students, with universities moving their teaching and assessment activities online. This SEFI seminar aims to explore…
Integrating ethics in technical disciplines through student-generated case studies When the Universitat Politècnica de València wanted to explore the introduction of ethics in a civil engineering programme, Esther Giménez-Carbó asked students to find their own cases of ethical misconduct in…
Teaching Engineering Ethics in the time of COVID-19 The Coronavirus pandemic of the recent weeks has had a huge effect on European society and on Engineering Education. For those interested in thinking about and teaching about technology and ethics in…
The dynamic world of digital ethics “Things are changing so fast that there are so many ethics issues emerging in computer science: how data mining is used, AI, cybersecurity, algorithmic decisions, or privacy. That was the motivation” says Dympna O’Sullivan…
Open Calls – Upcoming events of interest to engineering ethics educators Call for papers open (deadline 1 March 2020) SEFI Annual Conference 20-24 September 2020, 4TU Centre for Engineering Education, Enschede, The Netherlands Call for papers open (deadline 20…
Meeting the Challenge of Engineering Ethics Education: The SEFI Ethics SIG Workshop, 2019 On 12-13nd of December 2019, the SEFI SIG Engineering Ethics Education organized its first workshop, under the organization of Gunter Bombaerts (TU Eindhoven). The aim of the…