September was an active month for the SEFI SIG Ethics Community. At the annual conference organised by TU Berlin between 13-16 September, there were several dedicated paper sessions: Una Beagon, Klara Kövesi, Brad Tabas, Bente Nørgaard, Riitta Lehtinen, Brian Bowe,…
Gunter Bombaerts and Diana Martin (TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands) Engineering education does not exist in a power-vacuum. As Paulo Freire (1996) put it: “There is no such thing as neutral education”. Ethicist or engineers who teach a technical course or ethics always…
Patricia Xavier, Swansea University, UK It concerns me that the norms of undergraduate engineering education do not develop the people and justice skills needed for development work. Our transdisciplinary Sustainable Engineering Management for International Development MSc was intended to be an…
Msawenkosi Mkhize, undergraduate student, University of Cape Town, South Africa Being born in South Africa three years after Apartheid officially ended, I grew up. Like millions of people in the country and across the rest of the world, I really…
Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute, Brazil Brazilian Popular Engineering (PE) is one among many different engineering initiatives aiming at socio-environmentally changing the world through the practice of, and training to, other possible engineerings (i.e., non-conventional or counter-hegemonic engineering practices).…
Jason Borenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Those of us who are part of the academic community recognize that we have a key role to play in helping our students gain relevant knowledge and skills so that they can develop…
Gunter BombaertsMaffioli award winner 2021 Gunter Bombaerts, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (IE&IS) at the University of Technology TU/e, received the SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award of Excellence for Developing Learning and Teaching in Engineering Education in 2021.…
Sheryl Sorby, SEFI Fellow Prof Sheryl Sorby has actively participated in the development of engineering education and shown true leadership: as a pioneering engineering education researcher, as a consistent, visible and effective advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion, as a leader in engineering…
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 15:00 - 17:00 CET (EU) Register here Ethics is an important yet frequently ignored aspect of water resource planning, policymaking or infrastructure development and management. Water conveys different types of values - emotional, spiritual, cultural or…
Xavier Fouger, SEFI Fellow This year's SEFI fellowship was awarded to two exceptional members of our community. One of them is Xavier Fouger from Dassault Systemes. Xavier is a true global leader for engineering education and he has contributed to…