Mike Murphy from Tu-Dublin on Transformation with Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint The SEFI 2023 conference – celebrating 50 years of SEFI - is hosted by Technological University Dublin. To kick off Season 3 of the SEFI podcast, we spoke…
List of SEFI SIGs and their meetings at the Annual Conference 11-14 September 2023, TU Dublin The year-round SEFI activities take place mainly in our Special Interest Groups. Here is an overview as well as opportunities to meet our groups…
Zeyi Liu, UCL, The Uk It is an issue around the globe, including in China that the ‘pipeline’ leading to STEM occupations begins to ‘leak’ after graduation, and the leakage tends to be much more severer for women. Among STEM…
Thijs Loonstra, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Humanity goes through an age of unprecedented crises. One of the most pressing of these is the climate crisis, however, it is not easy to separate this crisis from others like the energy crisis,…
I was like “Oh, here we go, like there’s only two girls on this team, they’re just gonna like completely shut us out and just be like ’let the lads talk about it’”. Sandra Cruz, TU Dublin, Ireland The issue…
Brooks M. Leftwich - Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA Engineering educators across the world and at all education levels are facing new opportunities to shape curriculum to address the pressing challenges of climate change, AI usage, and digital privacy.…
Athena Lin, Purdue University, The USA The goal of engineering ethics education is to prepare students to become ethical engineers when they graduate 1. As educators of future engineers, we are concerned with questions such as: How do we prepare…
Ashish Hingle, George Mason University, The USA Student learning has been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Although the pandemic seems to be subsiding, the long-term effect on education and learning has persisted. Combined with advances in AI-based applications…
Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Tech, The USA Starting from the time I was in middle school, I was lucky enough to engage with multiple K-12 STEM outreach programs, like First Lego League, a robotics design and programming competition. Also, upon starting…
Insights from the 14th European Convention for Engineering Deans On the 24th - 26th of May 2023, the European Convention for Engineering Deans took place on the campus of the University of Twente. More than 70 participants from different European…