SEFI@work: The Social Dimension of Engineering: Outcomes, Skills and Resistance

SEFI@work: The Social Dimension of Engineering: Outcomes, Skills and Resistance

Recorded: 14 June 2023

Speakers:

- Una Beagon, TU Dublin: Lead Author of EJEE Paper titled “Preparing engineering students for the challenges of the SDGs: what competences are required?”
- Cyril Picard, MIT/EPFL: Lead Author of EJEE Paper titled “Which professional skills do students learning engineering team-based projects?”

Engineering is not only about technical skills and knowledge. It also involves social, ethical and cultural aspects that affect how engineering solutions are realised. This social dimension of engineering is not a new concept, but has increased in relevance in recent years with raising expectations of the profession to ensure that technology has a positive impact in the world.

This 1-hour SEFI@work webinar run by the Engineering Skills SIG invites you to hear from two leading researchers in the field on their recent work published in the European Journal of Engineering Education. As well as discussing the main findings of the papers focused on student development of contemporary skills and competences as a result of innovative curricula and pedagogies in engineering education within Europe, we invite a debate on how to overcome faculty and student resistance to developing the social dimension.

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General information on the Engineering Education Research Methods, SEFI@work sessions 2023.

In 2023 the SEFI SIG on Engineering Education Research will organise three SEFI@Work sessions focusing on research methods in Engineering Education Research. These sessions will give the floor to a researcher that will share a high-impact publication with solid methodological foundations, and we will challenge them to share their experiences with the applied methods in order to support the research within our SEFI community.