Fionn Rogan, University College Cork, Ireland How does a university make sustainability a top priority? In the case of University College Cork (UCC) it started with students making it their personal priority and it grew from there. According to the…
Aleksandra Evtimova, Simona Eichkorn, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Marlieke Blankendaal, Simona Eichkorn, Aleksandra Evtimova, Colette Keurentjes, Ida Kuresevic, Kathinka Umbach are students in the Decision-Under-Risk-and-Uncertainty (DURU) course. They write about their experience in this course. Sustainability has been a hot…
Jennifer Bradford (Siemens) and Kirsten Williamson (Petrus) Siemens is launching the Siemens Skills for Sustainability Network based on feedback gathered from faculty and deans worldwide, and invite the SEFI network to get involved! This new initiative, designed for engaged faculty…
Una Beagon (TU Dublin, Ireland) and Klara Kövesi (ENSTA Bretagne, France) Over the last few decades, there has been an increasing demand to embed sustainability and sustainable development issues in engineering education and it is viewed as fundamental to addressing…
Zaloa Aginako, Teresa Guraya - School of Engineering of Bilbao, Spain The University as an agent of social transformation must contribute, if not lead, the training of a critical society committed to the values of sustainability that drive the Sustainable…
Call for expressions of interest: Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education: Join the team of authors! Background Engineering Ethics Education (EEE) is a maturing research field, and therefore an editorial team of six EEE scholars hereby call for expressions of interest…
Monday 28 March, 3-5pm CET / 8-10 am Mexico / 9-11 am EST Exposing students to real-life challenges is becoming increasingly popular in engineering education. This approach has differing implementations, influenced by the topic of application, the type of external…
Although engineering has always been an international endeavor and the worldwide focus has been core in engineering, integrating global perspectives in engineering ethics education is far from obvious. Esther Matemba states in Redefining the “dominated” power position in global engineering and…
Rana Tallal Javed (Ibtidah Solutions and University of Oslo, Norway), Junaid Qadir (Qatar University, Doha, Qatar) Modern technology, apart from enabling various technical wonders, is often accompanied by harmful concomitants. In particular, the rise of artificial intelligence has raised concerns…
Malebogo Ngoepe, Corrinne Shaw, Kate le Roux and Brandon Collier-Reed (University of Cape Town, South Africa) This editorial discusses an ethics case study used in a first-year level introduction to mechanical engineering course in South Africa, a context in which…