SEFI@work: Triggering ethics competency development in engineering students by integrating irritation as a didactical principle | The (un)certainty (dis)comfort series from the SEFI Ethics SIG Date : 17 January 2025, 15h30-16h30 (CET) Ina Peters (TU Berlin) Description:Engineering students need to…
SEFI@work: Ambiguity in Engineering Problem Solving | The (un)certainty (dis)comfort series from the SEFI Ethics SIG Date : Dec 16, 15h30-16h30 (CET) Description:What is ambiguity ? That is the central question that has driven our research on engineering problem solving.…
Growing the field of engineering ethics education and research as a community Date: 24-26 March 2025 (9:00-17:30 each day) Location: Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland Organiser: Shannon Chance (shannon.chance@tudublin.ie) Capacity: 50 participants maximum With a focus on celebrating The…
Democracy in Engineering Education The underlying question "Crocodile or Octopus?" was not properly answered during the SEFI Spring School 2024 on "Democracy in Engineering Education", from 10 to 12 April 2024 at TU Berlin. The two SEFI special interest groups on…
Insights from the annual SEFI Spring School, organised by the Ethics and Sustainability SIGs. by Shannon Chance, Deputy Editor of the European Journal for Engineering Education, Spring school participant (TU Dublin) TU Berlin and SEFI’s special interest groups for Ethics…
Democracy in Engineering Education Do we need ethics or sustainability in engineering? How to decide on this question? SEFI Spring School 2024 is jointly organized by the two SEFI Special Interest Groups on Ethics and Sustainability. Date: 10 - 12 April…
Dear reader, Fall 2023. What an exciting time to be in engineering education! Gunter Bombaerts and Diana A. Martin We all have been preaching our entire careers, be it months or decades, that engineering students should be scaffolded to develop…
Cécile Hardebolle, EPFL, Switzerland A paradigm shift has occurred in the discourse around the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our livelihood over the past year 2022 due to the release of multiple Generative AI-tools i.e., tools that generate audio/visual/text-based…
Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech, USA Almost one year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT for public use. In the following months, other large organizations started releasing competitor large language models for text generation. To some observers, these technologies opened a Pandora’s box.…