Ricki Levi, Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India Daniel Mishori, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel The “Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity” (Mitchel, 2002) describes how Egypt…
David Groenfeldt, Director Water-Culture Institute & University of New Mexico in the US At the risk of oversimplifying the complexities of water ethics, this essay lays out an approach that engineers (and also non-engineers) can use to identify ethical dilemmas…
Ilmas Futehally, Executive Director Strategic Foresight Group, Mumbai, India Any two countries engaged in active water cooperation do not go to war for any reason. This is the conclusion of the Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) after analysing 286 shared river…
Sarah Cotterill, University College Dublin, Ireland There is no uniquely correct solution to most engineering problems, but some solutions are preferable to others. Engineering ethics can help us to recognize these. Ethics is one of the cornerstones of the engineering…
Edmond Byrne, University College Cork, Ireland A decade ago, I published a paper on “Teaching engineering ethics with sustainability as context” (Byrne, 2012), reflecting on what Herkert (2000) had previously identified as “the traditional preoccupation of engineering ethics with specific…
Ben Pauli, Kettering University, USA For those of us who are not engineers, it is easy to forget just how much of life depends upon competent and principled engineering. We go about our daily affairs within an engineered environment, but…
25 January 2022 The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning (CEL) is launching the second run of its MOOC on Multidisciplinary Research Methods for Engineers on edX on January 25, 2022. Course Instructors prof. Marcus Specht and dr. Gillian Saunders-Smits…
Blended Learning in Engineering Education: challenging, enlightening – and lasting? We are delighted to announce that SEFI 2021 Annual Conference proceedings have been published. Almost 1600 pages of latest research in engineering education! The ISBN reference is 978-2-87352-023-6. It was held…
Friday, 10 December 2021, 12:00-13:00 CET Register here Introduction to SEFI Engineering Skills Special Interest Group. What is the contemporary engineering skill set and are we ready to teach it? Results from the 2021 SEFI Engineering skills survey completed by…
Engineering Skills for a Future to Build Universidad Carlos III – Madrid – 17-19 November 2021 - The first in-person event of SEFI was the European Convention of Engineering Deans. Although online participation was also possible, most attendees travelled to…