Latest news from SEFI and from higher engineering education
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| Monthly news feed about engineering education in Europe and overseas |
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| We would like to invite you to be part of the SEFI Annual Conference 2023, Engineering Education for Sustainability. The event will be held at the TU Dublin in Ireland from 11-14 September 2023. Call for papers has been published and the submissions will be open very soon. → MORE DETAILS HERE |
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| We would like to invite you to attend the 13th SEFI Dean Convention for Engineering 2023. During this conference, you will meet deans, presidents, and directors from many leading European institutions to discuss the ‘Leadership for digitalization in Higher Engineering Education’ and identify solutions for this new challenge engineering education faces. New early bird registration deadline 23 February! |
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| We would like to invite you to send a candidature to organise the SEFI 2025 Annual Conference as well as later SEFI conferences. Our upcoming conferences will take place at TU Dublin in 2023 and EPFL Lausanne in 2024. → MORE DETAILS HERE |
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| In this online session, the speakers will address how social identities have an impact on their research: research topic, epistemology, ontology, methodology, relation to participants, and communication. This is particularly important in engineering education research that integrates critical theoretical frameworks. → REGISTER HERE |
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| This webinar is part of the 'Research Methods in Engineering Education' series. It will present highlights of the paper awarded the Best Research paper published in the SEFI 2022 conference Analyzing Student-Teacher interactions in Challenge-Based Learning by Doulougeri, Vermunt, Bombaerts and Bots.
→ REGISTER HERE |
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| EMPATHY - Our 5th podcast episode IS OUT NOW! |
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Dr Nicola Sochacka, our podcast guest for this episode, spent the last decade researching about empathy and has created some brilliant resources we can all use to bring the teaching of empathy into our contexts. She believes that engineers should not only understand the end users of engineering designs but should also develop an affinity with those they interact with. → LISTEN NOW |
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| OPEN AND ONLINE EDUCATION |
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Dr. Rans Interviews ChatGPT about the use of AI in Academia |
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there are some concerns about AI in academia that we should take seriously, and try to look constructively at it as a tool and try to discuss how it can be used ethically and responsibly. This line of thought brought me to the idea of an animate interviewing ChatGPT to see what it had to say on the topic. → LEARN MORE HERE |
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| The ENAEE General Assembly in October 2022 in Poland, elected Mr José Carlos Lourenço Quadrado as ENAEE President. Jose Carlos is a former SEFI vice president, one of the founding members of our Deans Council and a SEFI fellow. He started the position on 1 January 2023, succeeding Mr Damien Owens who finished his second term in function. A celebratory handover took place at an inauguration event on 6 January 2023 in Lisboa. |
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| PROFessional Skills for Engineering Students – Summer School to Achieve SDG 12 TU Dublin along with Ulster University have launched the PROFESS 12 project which is funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) through the North South Research Programme. PROFESS 12 (PROFessional Skills for Engineering Students – Summer School to Achieve SDG 12) aims to explore and develop the professional skills required of engineering students to meet SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) with specific focus on the island of Ireland.
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| Job opportunity: Doctoral student in technology/engineering education, focus gender studies Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with over 37 000 students and about 4 700 employees. The University offers a diversity of high-quality education and world-leading research in several fields. And they are looking for a candidate who want to complete a research education and study educational issues with relevance for technology and/or engineering education, as well as gender studies. → APPLY HERE
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| SEFI CALENDAR 2022 - 2023 |
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| SEFI Ethics Spring School Brussels
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| 24 - 26 May 2023 University of Twente, Enschede, NL
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| 29 May - 2 June 2023 Leuven, Belgium
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SEFI Summer School for PHD's Engineering Education Research Second Edition
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| 11 - 14 September 2023 TU Dublin
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| 1 February 2023 2:00 PM Online |
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Over the last decade, Dr. Singh has conducted sustainable development projects in LMICs in partnership with local universities in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Ecuador. In this webinar, Dr. Singh will describe how these partnerships arose and how sustainable development projects were conducted through these partnerships. |
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| 28 February 2023 Call for Papers |
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Contributions are invited for a special issue of the International Journal of Engineering Education(IJEE) on Current Developments in Interactive Pedagogies in Teaching and Learning of Energy-related Engineering Subjects.
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| 20 - 23 March 2023 Athens, Greece |
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International Conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Recapturing the World in Conflict through Culture, promoting mutual understanding and Peace |
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| Engineering Education for Sustainable Development is the 11th iteration of a biennial international conference.- Abstracts can be submitted untli 18 December 2022.
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| Academic Freedom in Europe
Academic freedom is a universal right and essential to the quality of education, teaching and research. It is a driver of innovation, enhances the capacity of scholars and students to acquire and generate knowledge, and thereby protects societies' capacity for self-reflection.
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The Commission has adopted the main Horizon Europe work programme 2023-24, with around €13.5 billion to support researchers and innovators in Europe to pursue breakthrough solutions for environmental, energy, digital and geopolitical challenges.
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| In this report you will find newly featured youth participation activities, which provide dedicated possibilities and space for our youth to develop a sense of European identity and active citizenship.
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| EFCA Sector Review 2022 The EFCA Sector Review aims to highlight the importance of engineering services for construction and the role they play in Europe. It does so by surveying the businesses that supply these services at every stage of the extended life- cycle of the assets that make up the built environment. |
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