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03/2022

SEFI NEWSLETTER

Monthly news feed about engineering education in Europe and overseas

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SEFI 2022 - Deadline for abstracts today*

Today is your last opportunity to submit your abstracts for the SEFI 2022 Annual Conference. This year's topic is Towards a new future in engineering education.



Furthermore, we are delighted to announce that in addition to ISBN, we will include a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for each accepted paper of this year’s conference. We hope that you appreciate this important step forward, we believe having a DOI is an excellent advantage for researchers.

*Please note that this is already the extended deadline and no further extensions will be made.

CALL FOR CANDIDATES

SEFI Elections 2022

The SEFI elections will take place on the occasion of the 2022 SEFI General Assembly in September. The General Assembly will take place during the SEFI Annual Conference in Barcelona. We invite our members to present their candidatures for : 1 Vice President (2-year mandate), 6 Board members (3-year mandate). Read the detailed call for candidates here

NOMINATIONS OPEN

Nominate a colleague for 

SEFI Fellowship 2022 

The SEFI Fellowship Award recognises meritorious service to engineering education in Europe. Award recipients may use the expression “Fellow of SEFI” (F.SEFI) as a postscript to their name.

Individual members of SEFI working in the field of engineering education for at least five years can be nominated. You may recommend a colleague by a nomination letter addressed to [email protected] until 1 May.

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Recognize teaching efforts through

SEFI Maffioli Award 2022

This year again, SEFI member institutions may nominate teachers or teams of teachers for the Francesco Maffioli Award which is given as recognition of open-minded development of curriculum, learning environments or tools, novel didactics, methods or systems in engineering studies. Francesco Maffioli Award criteria and nomination form 2022.

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SEFI SUMMER SCHOOL

2-6 May 2022 - Leuven, Belgium. The Summer School, organised by the KU Leuven University and SEFI will take place from 2nd until 6th May 2022 and provides an opportunity for 37 PhD students engaged in engineering and science education research to learn from experts and their pee will participate in workshops led by experts, centered around aspects of research in engineering and science education research. More information available here

The Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education will collect and outline existing research knowledge in Engineering Ethics Education. The content of the handbook will reflect the knowledge base that the editorial team considers early career and new researcher in the field of EEE should know about the field.

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You may express your interest to join the team of authors by 1st May 2022 following this link.

UPCOMING SEFI@WORK WEBINARS

19 April 2022, 17:00-19:00 CET register here

The following speakers will participate in this SEFI@Work event:

  • Susan Lord (University of San Diego, USA)
  • Johanna Höffken (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
  • Darshan Karwat (Arizona State University, USA)
  • Eddie Conlon (TU Dublin, Ireland)

20 April 2022, 12:30-13:30 CET register here

With this session we kick off the series Research methods in Engineering Education.

Patric Wallin will present highlights of the work published in the European Journal of Engineering Education “The reflective diary as a method for the formative assessment of self-regulated learning” by Wallin and Adawi. From reflective diaries and formative assessment practice to the use of thematic analysis to explore aspects of self-regulation, we expect the audience to engage in the discussions and find take-home messages related to the topic and the research methods discussed.

    SEFI YOUTUBE CHANNEL

    Our latest webinar recordings are available on YouTube

    SEFI@Work:Teaching societal responsibility through real life projects and challenge-based learning

    Recorded on 28 March 2022 - Watch here 

    FROM SEFI MEMBERS

    1 April 2022, 12:00 CET register here

    In this technical webinar, you will be given an overview of the Siemens academic program, grant application and learning resources, together with examples from actual teams of how they use various Siemens software.

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    May 30-31, 2022 register here

    On May 30-31, 2022, there will take place the International Conference BBC’22 with the theme STEAM Education in the 21st Century. This conference aims to provide an opportunity for all academic and non-academics to share their personal experience and projects, presenting contributions and getting feedback from other attendees. More information

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     EVENT INVITATION

    CDEFI 2022 Annual Conference

    2-3 June 2022 - Poitiers, France

    The CDEFI organizes the 2022 edition of its annual conference of engineering schools in collaboration with ENSI Poitiers and ISAE-ENSMA. A welcome cocktail will be held on Wednesday evening, June 1. The aim of these two days is to develop exchanges between the engineering schools, to allow a general reflection on common issues in order to elaborate together strategic development axes in various fields. This event is aimed at all members of the management teams of engineering schools. More information

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    June 15th to 17th, 2022 register here

    From June 15th to 17th, 2022, the 21st SEFI Special Interest Group in Mathematics - SIG in Mathematics, Seminar on Mathematics in Engineering Education – Romania, will take place, where elements of the SIG Mathematics Group will participate in the organization and will present their research.

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    September 27th to 30th, 2022 register here

    From September 27th to 30th, ICL is hosting its annual conference with the theme Learning in the Age of Digital & Green Transition. 

    With this conference they celebrate 50 years of ‘Engineering Pedagogy’. This interdisciplinary conference aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in Interactive Collaborative Learning and Engineering Pedagogy. The submission of papers is due the 4th of April. More information

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    SEFI CALENDAR 2022

    31 March - 1 April

    Leysin (CH)

    SEFI Engineering Ethics SIG Spring School 2022 

    Engineering ethics education and social justice: synthesis and growth 

    19 April

    11-13 EST / 17-19 CET

    SEFI@Work: Engineers for social change

    Register here

    20 April

    12.30-13.30 (CET)

    SEFI@work: Exploring Reflective diaries using Thematic Analysis

    Register here

    11 - 13 May 2022

    Tampere (FI)

    PTEE 2022: Towards better learning

    Methods and practices in physics teaching in engineering education

    17 May

    15:00-17:00 CET

    SEFI@Work: Workshop: Responsible Research and Innovation in Engineering Education

    Register here

    2-3 June

    Poitiers (FR)

    22 June

    15:00-17:00 CET

    SEFI@Work: Engineering Education Leaders' Vision on the Role and Prospects of Ethics
    Register here

    19 - 22 September

    Barcelona (ES)

    SEFI Annual Conference 2022 

    Towards a new future in engineering education

    27-30 September

    Vienna, Austria

    ICL2022

    Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition

    FROM PARTNERS

    CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

    17-19 November - Timisoara, Romania . The 2022 European Quality Assurannce Forum Programme Committee is inviting proposals for papers, workshops and practice presentations. The 2022 EQAF will be held in Timisoara, Romania from 17 to 19 November hosted by West University of Timisoara. The deadline to submit proposals is 22 July 2022. More information

    06-10 June 2022 - Uniersity at Buffalo, US. The 2022 IACEE World Conference takes place in the scenic Buffalo-Niagara region of Western New York State (USA). Hosted by the State University of New York at Buffalo, the conference features in-person sessions, Keynote, networking, and social events.

    For those unable to attend in person, a virtual option will be available for session viewing only.

    FROM EUROPEAN UNION

    EU-AFRICA RELATIONS

    The European Union (EU) - African Union (AU) Summit, held in Brussels on 17-18 February 2022, resulted in a joint vision of an expanded cooperation and renewed partnership, promoting solidarity, security, peace and sustainable economic development both in Europe and in Africa.

    The leaders attending the Summit announced a EUR 150 billion Africa-Europe Investment Package, composed of health and education investment programmes and several joint actions that will support a common ambition for 2030. Investing in inclusive and equitable quality education will be a main goal.

    Read more.

    PUBLICATIONS

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    Blended Learning in Engineering Education

    Recent Developments in Curriculum, Assessment and Practice

    

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