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 are pleased to announce the joint Ethics and Sustainability SIG Spring School that will be hosted on 10-12 April 2024 at TU Berlin. The local organising host is André Baier, former recipient of the SEFI Maffioli award. The theme of the Spring School is Democracy in Engineering Education: Do we need ethics or sustainability in engineering? How to decide on this question? The idea behind this is to understand what lies at the intersection of the two very closely connected domains - ethics and sustainability and to raise pertinent questions about how these are (re)presented or not in engineering education, particularly examining the democratic aspects behind it. Please have a look at the call by following this website. Use this link to register your interest. We are looking forward to welcoming you! - Deadline of expression of interest: 12 January 2024 (Tentative reply from us by 19 January)
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| We are pleased to invite you to the next European Convention for Engineering Deans Conference, which will be hosted at The University of Sheffield, on 12-14 June 2024.
The European Conventions for Engineering Deans (ECED)is an annual networking event organised by the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) and a local SEFI institinal member. It brings together Deans, Heads of Department and Directors of Education from all over Europe to meet and to discuss, in depth, common issues in higher
engineering education,
You can purchase your early bird ticket here for £250 (285 euros). After 30 April 2024, tickets will be available at standard rate. |
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| In this special issue we are looking for the state-of-the-art research on interdisciplinary learning in engineering education. We welcome evidence-informed research (both qualitative and quantitative) on several topics. Deadline of extended abstracts: 15 January 2024
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| We are pleased to announce the next open online meeting of the SEFI Curriculum Development Special Interest Group. The meeting is open to all colleagues with an interest in curriculum development who may be interested in joining the SIG. The meeting will be online in Zoom at 10am CET / 9am GMT on Friday 8th December 2023.
For further details on joining the meeting and the SIG please contact John Mitchell [email protected].
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| We are thrilled to extend an invitation to the formation of a new Special Interest Group (SIG) focusing on Quality Assurance and Accreditation in engineering education. This SIG is envisioned as a collaborative platform where diverse voices, experiences, and insights converge to address the challenges and opportunities in quality assurance and accreditation.
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| Registration of Participation and Contributions is now open for the PTEE2024 (Physics Teaching in Engineering Education Conference). We invite you to this biannual conference which is the flagship event of the Physics special interest group. The upcoming conference will take place at the Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences, Germany, on 15-17 May 2024. For detailed information, registration and submissions, please visit the conference website. |
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| This SEFI@Work webinar is intended to facilitate further conversation about what we can do individually and collectively to contribute to making the SEFI conference more inclusive. It will consist of a short talk by Dr. Joelyn de Lima (EPFL) who will present a review of the literature and current practices biology-themed conferences have implemented to reduce barriers. There will then be an opportunity to share further ideas and explore how we can apply them within the SEFI community. We also encourage you to become involved in starting the conversation by completing a survey about your experiences at previous SEFI conferences. This survey is not just an academic endeavour, as the data will leverage to make changes for the upcoming SEFI 2024.
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| Join us as we talk about Research with Bill Williams from IST Portugal who has helped to develop engineering education research (EER) to a world-wide discipline over many years. In this episode, Bill describes the first International Conference on Research in Engineering Education (ICREE) that aimed to bring together a global group of invited EER scholars and many more! |
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| Invitation to a LESEC Workshop |
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The workshop, led by Becky Bergman, will assist participants to formulate their own activities for the diverse classroom, using activities partly taken from a faculty course in Diversity and inclusion in learning in higher education at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a toolkit of ideas to facilitate the diverse classroom, with a particular focus on group work, cultural diversity and the international environments that our institutes have become.
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- Topic: Supporting teachers in culturally diverse classrooms: Student interaction and integration through group work
- When: 14th of December, 12:15h - 13:45h
- Where: Workshop - Room 01.03 in 200i, Heverlee
- Register here
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| 15 – 17 May Rosenheim,Germany |
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| 12 – 14 June Sheffield, England |
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| Council recommendations for digital education: focus on skills and enabling factors
On 23 November, the Council of the European Union adopted the two proposals for Council Recommendations aimed at supporting member states in providing high-quality, inclusive, and accessible digital education and training to develop European citizens' digital skills (for more details, see ACA Newsletter – Education Europe, April 2023). |
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| European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly expected to contribute to regional development and transformative innovation and heralded as actors of change in the context of the twin transitions and European recovery and resilience. Knowledge Alliances and European University alliances are two funding initiatives for HEIs that enable the translation of this broad strategic agenda into an individual and local context and the negotiation of the global (excellence) – local (relevance) dichotomy and potential alignment of their missions. The potential for HEIs to contribute to and participate in regional innovation ecosystems and European and global education, research and innovation agendas is under-exploited. This report explores the role of these two initiatives in strengthening this interaction. |
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