Publications by Patrick Jermann

BEYOND “JUST PLAY WITH IT!”: A RUBRIC TO HELP TEACHERS DESIGN JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL EFFICIENCY

Jupyter notebooks offer multiple pedagogical scenarios for teaching computational competences in sciences and engineering courses.In this workshop, we want to help teachers design educational Jupyter notebooks so that their students go beyond “just playing ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

USING FORUMS FOR PROMOTING STUDENT DIVERSITY

Patrick Jermann, Alexandra Corina Niculescu

Within the context of STEM education, students who enter university having studied mathematics in high school and men are considered the traditional population. From this perspective, students who do not correspond to such profile have more difficulties su ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Finding Relevant Lectures from Quizzes in a Multilingual STEM Educational Environment

Patrick Jermann

Understanding the semantic connections between the increasingly online-based offered educational content is becoming more relevant for educational institutions. The fast adoption of AI-based techniques and their application in semantic search offers new po ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

From University to Work: Alumni Viewpoints

Patrick Jermann, Helena Kovacs, Iris Capdevila Tristan

Alumni studies are often overlooked in engineering education research, despite holding great potential for improving engineering programmes and creating the links that are missed when it comes to university-workplace transitions. Besides better understandi ...

NTNU SEED2023

Study Success And Failure Of STEM Students And The Connection To Their Learning Habits

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

With the educational expansion, ever more students start a tertiary degree. At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an engineering school, the number of bachelor students increased from 3'713 in 2010 to 6'330 in 2022. However, in Switzerland, a co ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2023

A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students

Touradj Ebrahimi, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Nihat Kotluk, Vivek Ramachandran

Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...

2023

The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain

Patrick Jermann, Cécile Hardebolle, Vladimir Macko, Adrian Christian Holzer, Vivek Ramachandran

Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...

2023

A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Helena Kovacs, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Maria Carla Di Vincenzo, Ester Simkova

The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...

2022

Teaching under lockdown: the change in the social practice of teaching

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Helena Kovacs, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey

Due to the unprecedented situation caused by a global pandemic, the traditional way of teaching that is reliant on face-to-face interaction between teachers and students has been dismantled. This article looks into university teachers’ experiences of teach ...

Springer2022

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Pascal Felber

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022