In July 2017 the International University of Logistics and Transport in Wroclaw became a new member of SEFI. The university has been operating for 16 years and its priority has always been continuous improvement of the quality of teaching, as…
Our Annual Conference took place in Angra do Heroismo on Terceira island, Azores, Portugal. It was organised by Istituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto with professors Joao Rocha and José Carlos Quadrado leading the organizing committee. The conference has had…
The SEFI Leonardo Da Vinci medal has been awarded to Portuguese Professor José Carlos Diogo Marques dos Santos, former Rector of the University of Porto, for his outstanding contribution to engineering education, which has had an international significance. The awardee has been…
I am honoured to have been elected President of SEFI for the two-year term 2017-2019. SEFI is a wonderful and strong community of scholars and supporters of excellence in engineering education within Europe, and indeed across the world, and I…
BEST events on education (EoE) have been organized around Europe since 1998. They enable a group of engineering students to meet and discuss the "on the agenda" topics with experts, local academics, and professionals. The great diversity among the origins…
At the Annual Conference in Terceira, three of our Working Groups selected new chairs. We would like to thank Dr. Susanne Ihsen for chairing the Gender and Diversity WG, Prof. Pieter de Vries for chairing the Open and Online Engineering…
At the General Assembly held on 20/09/2017 in Terceira, five new members of SEFI Board of Directors were elected. Four of the Board members were reelected: Mr. Xavier Fouger, Prof. Robin Clark, Prof. Carlos Rioja de Rio and Dr. habil.…
We have had the pleasure to see presentation by the following erudite keynote speakers. We would like to thank them for kindly sharing their experience and opinions at the SEFI conference and share their presentations with you: Giovanni Azzone, Politecnico…
SEFI is launching a new award to encourage the excellence in developing teaching and learning in engineering education at the universities. Francesco Maffioli Award will be first awarded at the 2017 Annual Conference in Terceira.At SEFI Annual Conference 2017, the new…