In 2025, another edition of the Summer School, organised by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and SEFI will take place from 20th May until 23rd May 2025 and provides an opportunity for PhD students engaged in engineering and science education research to learn from experts…
The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award, launched by SEFI to commemorate its late President Prof. Francesco Maffioli (Politecnico di Milano), is given by SEFI, the Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs, to individual teachers, or a team of teachers, of…
List of SEFI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and their meetings at the Annual Conference 2-5 September 2024, EPFL SEFI activities take place year-round, primarily within our Special Interest Groups. Below is an overview of the sessions and workshops scheduled for…
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.…
Vlasta Sikimić, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands The potential use of advanced digital tools in education extends over algorithmic grading, individualized feedback, attention measuring using eye-tracking and other tools, the use of virtual reality or augmented reality in classrooms, etc. Moreover,…
Dr. Scott Daniel, University of Technology Sydney, Australia ChatGPT and other generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools are having a massive impact on many different aspects of society, causing alarm and excitement in equal measure. Its powerful creative abilities are challenging…
Constantin Vică, University of Bucharest, Romania Another text on Artificial Intelligence, another opinion about the quicksand of today's technological world. The saturation we have reached in this vast subject, although we have by no means exhausted the analysis of the…
Maximilian Rossmann, Maastricht University, The Netherlands In the ever-evolving landscape of education and technology, the spotlight has recently been seized by innovations in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). One particular manifestation of AI, transformer-based models like GPT-3, has been…