News SEFI – Page 7

Implementing challenge-based learning for university students, technicians, elementary and middle school students in the Biorefineries and Renewable Energies Supported by ICT project (BERSTIC)

26 September 2022
Ethics, News, News SEFI

Ramón Fernando Colmenares-Quintero, Sergio Barbosa-Granados Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Colombia Authors: Ramón Fernando Colmenares-Quintero and Sergio Barbosa-Granados, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Colombia University education must have a critical approach, which allows new professionals to contribute to the current difficulties of…

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Real Challenges for Real Responsible Engineers – On Challenge-based Learning for Engineering Ethics Education

26 September 2022
Ethics, News, News SEFI

Christian Herzog, University of Luebeck, Germany The field of the ethics of technology is a vibrant one. In the advent of seemingly ubiquitous and pervasive digital technologies, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, ethical and societal issues have received widespread interdisciplinary…

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A framework for embedding responsible innovation in challenge-based learning at UCL: Anticipation, Reflection, Engagement and Action (AREA)

26 September 2022
Ethics, News, News SEFI

Kate Roach, Emanuela Tilley, UCL, The UK Undergraduate programmes at UCL Engineering underwent major reform in 2014 with the inauguration of what became known as the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP) (Graham 2018). It consists of a series of modules and…

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Addressing tensions between student learning and community benefits in service-learning in Engineering Education

26 September 2022
Continuing Education, Ethics, News, News SEFI

Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University, USA Authors: Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University, USA; Linjue Wang, University of Michigan, USA Linjue Wang, University of Michigan, USA Service-learning (SL) is becoming an increasingly valuable pedagogy in engineering education as it provides students…

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Ethics and GreenComp

26 September 2022
Ethics, News, News SEFI, Sustainability

Alfredo Soeiro – AECEF The Green Competence Sustainability Competence Framework stimulates engineering ethics Alfredo Soeiro – AECEF (www.aecef.net) The Green Competence Sustainability Competence Framework (GreenComp) has been published January 2022 by the Joint Research Centre of the European Union. It…

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Challenge-Based Learning As A Tool For Socially Oriented Education, A Lifelong Learning Approach

26 September 2022
Ethics, News, News SEFI, skills

Jorge Membrillo-Hernández, Genaro Zavala and Jin Michael Fung, Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Authors: Jorge Membrillo-Hernández, Genaro Zavala and Jin Michael Fung, Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Every element of…

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Student organizations as critical learning sites for ethical development of engineering students

26 September 2022
Continuing Education, Ethics, News, News SEFI

Luan M. Nguyen, Iowa State University, The US Author: Luan M. Nguyen, Iowa State University, The US Engineering education tends to focus on technical aspects and issues internal to engineering practice (Nguyen et al., 2020). Although ethics is intrinsically part…

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SEFI@Work: Engineering Education Leaders’ Vision on the Role and Prospects of Ethics

12 June 2022
Ethics, News, News SEFI

Wednesday 22 June, 9-11 am EST/ 3-5pm CET How can ethics be integrated in a meaningful and systematic manner in the engineering curriculum? Can ethics be part of the identity of an engineering institution, and if yes, how? What form…

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TU Dublin CREATE Research Group in Engineering Education – Celebrating four new PhD graduands!

3 May 2022
News, News SEFI

Congratulations to Dr Darren Carthy who was conferred with his PhD in Engineering Education at a recent ceremony in TU Dublin. As the first in-person graduation ceremony since 2019, the CREATE team celebrated four PhD graduations in Engineering Education from 2021/22,…

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The sustainability transition enforces a transition of engineering education for students, teachers, universities and their eco-systems

2 May 2022
Ethics, News, News SEFI

Sustainability is a very, very fundamental value in our current society. For us, therefore it is no wonder that students themselves plea that we “must work together and be united by a great cause. This cause is sustainability. Sustainability should become…

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