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10/2022

SEFI NEWSLETTER

Monthly news feed about engineering education in Europe and overseas

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SEFI 2022 Conference in Barcelona in pictures

SEFI celebrated its 50th Annual Conference last month, hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC).

Check our gallery here

The keynote presentations are now available:

New scenarios that European alliances of tech university open up - Lourdes Reig Puig
Gender mainstreaming in Engineering Education - Alicia García-Holgado
The future of Engineering Education in a post-pandemic world - Arnold Pears

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SEFI Fellowship Awards 2022

The SEFI Fellowship Award recognises meritorious service to engineering education in Europe and this year we have awarded it to:

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award 2022

The SEFI Francesco Maffioli Award is given to individual teachers, or a team of teachers, of higher engineering education institutions members of SEFI. And in recognition of an extraordinary societal impact of his project, we awarded:

Dr Joost Vennekens - KU Leuven

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Best Paper Awards 2022 - Annual Conference

During the SEFI 2022 Annual Conference, SEFI awarded four different awards in four different papers categories:

Best Research Paper Award – Doulouger, Karolina; D.Vermunt, Jan; Bombaerts, Gunter and Bots, Michael (TU Eindhoven) “Analysing student-teacher interactions in a challenge-based learning course”

Best Concept Paper Award – Knowles, Nicola; Andrews, Jane; Knowles, Graeme and Clark, Robin (University of Warwick, UK). ’’The Positive Start Project: A Proactive Approach to Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Newer Engineering Academic Community’’

Best Student Paper Award – Forbrig, Christian; Rullmann, Edward and Rappsilber, Juri (Technische Universität Berlin). “From student to expert in a week”

Susanne Ihsen Award on Diversity and Inclusiveness – Marinelli, Melissa Jane; Male, Sally Amanda (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Lord, Linley Anne (Curtin University, Singapore). “Early career patterns, experiences, and influences: reflections from women engineers in senior roles’’

The conference will be published soon and circulated to all conference attendees as well as posted on SEFI website.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Special Issue – Call for papers

Sustainability in Engineering Education – Integration and Transformation Approaches

We invite contributions to a new special issue of the European Journal of Engineering Education on sustainability in engineering education. The focus is on how sustainability and sustainable development can be meaningfully integrated in engineering education, and how even more profound sustainability transformations can be achieved in, as well as through, engineering education. More information here!

Deadline for extended abstracts → 8 January 2023

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

Join SEFI Special Interest Groups

Following the SEFI conference, we would like to invite you to join our year-round activities in SEFI Special Interest Groups. You will find the entire list and their activities on this page. Some of the groups already shared their post-conference plans.

SEFI PODCAST

European Engineering Educators :

Roland Tormey from EPFL discusses ethics with Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint

For our launch episode, our guest is Dr Roland Tormey, current co-chair of the SEFI Ethics Special Interest Group, and a senior scientist in the College of Humanities at Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lousanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Roland’s training as a sociologist has provided the basis for his work into both emotion and inter-cultural education, and his pioneering research in teacher training and engineering ethics is changing how we think about engineering education.

SEFI GENERAL ASSEMBLY

New SEFI Board members

Sonia Gomez Puente

Strategic Advisor Innovations in Teaching & Learning

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Johanna Naukkarinen

Post-doctoral researcher

LUT University, Finland

Wojciech Sitek

Vice-dean for Infrastructure and Organisation

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

The following officers were re-elected:

Vice president - Balazs Vince Nagy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Board member - Greet Langie, KU Leuven
Board member - Antoine Lanthony, ISAE Supmeca Paris

In the position of SEFI Treasurer, Klara Kovesi was elected to replace retiring treasurer Pieter de Vries.

The following members are leaving the SEFI Board of Directors:

Jan van der Veen, Eindhoven University of Technology
Seweryn Spalek, Silesian University of Technology
Neil Cooke, University of Birmingham
Fredrik Georgsson, Umea University
Klara Kovesi, ENSTA Bretagne

We would like to sincerely thank all the members leaving the positions in the SEFI Board for the years in service of our Society.

New SEFI Special Interest Group Chairs

Co-chair of SIG on Ethics

Helena Kovacs

EPFL, Switzerland

Co-chair of SIG on Ethics

Diana Martin
TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Chair of SIG on Physics

Arjan Lock

The Hague University of Applied Sciences

SEFI would like to thank the previous chairs:

Co-chairs of SIG on Ethics: Manferd Hampe (TU Darmstad) and Roland Tormey (EPFL)

Chair of SIG on Physics: Juho Tiili (Tampere University)

FROM SEFI MEMBERS

TU BERLIN

Critical Sustainability Course

17 October - 07 December - Register free here

This course provides a digital space to learn, reflect, discuss and take action together. The participants come together with others to share and question different knowledges, expertises and perspectives.

TU Berlin cordially invites you to explore societal problems across any borders between humans.

JMP

Make better data-bases decision with statistical modelling techniques

11-13 October - Register free here

This is a perfect workshop on statistical modelling techniques for scientists and engineers who are looking to make the most of their data and gain valuable insights as quickly as possible. You will learn how statistical modelling methods can help you ask the right questions, explore your data effectively and make better data-based decisions.

SEFI CALENDAR 2022

21 November

Online Webinar

SEFI@work: Experiencing stakeholder dynamics around emerging technologies: Theatrical role-plays in engineering education

28 November - 1 December

Cape Town (ZA)

WEEF and GEDC Conference 2022

4 - 7 December

Parramatta, NSW (AUS)

AAEE Annual Conference 2022

6 December

Online Webinar

SEFI@work: A canvas for the ethical design of learning experiences with digital tools

FROM PARTNERS

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

CDIO 2023: Engineering Education for a smart, safe and sustainable future

26-29 June 2023 - NTNU Trondheim, Norway. The CDIO Initiative welcomes your ideas and invites proposals for papers, working groups, workshops and roundtables at the 19th International CDIO Conference. Call for papers

Submit your abstracts by 15 November!

FROM EUROPEAN UNION

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

European Digital Education Hub

Covid-19 imposed distance education measures revealed several structural issues related to digital education and broader weak spots in education systems that extend beyond contextual and sector-related issues. To address such issues, the Commission published the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), which includes the development of a Digital Education Hub that will be created as part of the European Education Area portal.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

EC: DIGITAL Europe Programme 3rd call is out

The new call under the DIGITAL Europe Programme, titled “Specialised education programmes or modules in key capacity areas,” was launched to support the development of bachelor's and master's courses for ICT and digital professionals. The programmes should be jointly designed by universities, research centres and businesses involved in the digital sector.

An info session “Partner for DIGITAL Skills” will take place in October 2022 so as to present the call in detail and to offer the opportunity to future applicants to present their organisations. More information here.