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SORTING SKILLS: CURRICULUM PROFILES AND THE FORTHCOMING SEFI HANDBOOK

Building on the coherency of activities within the Special Interest Group (SIG), Engineering Skills SIG proposes a workshop with three distinct goals: (1) explore the usefulness of a method for determining the relative importance of different skills for fu ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Teaching assistants' contributions to creating inclusive and equitable learning spaces in engineering

Siara Ruth Isaac, Helena Kovacs, Joelyn de Lima

Sustainable engineering education requires us to address discrimination and inequity of experience, thereby contributing to a renewal of the engineering profession that reflects a rich diversity of experiences and perspectives. Many students experience dis ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2024

Accreditation processes and implications for ethics education at the local level

Helena Kovacs

Routledge2024

SEFI SIG Workshop: Eager to further develop the field of engineering ethics education?

Roland John Tormey, Helena Kovacs

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

An overview of the professional skills encountered through capstone engineering projects

Helena Kovacs

We present an analysis of the professional competencies encountered by engineering students during their capstone projects. We collected weekly reflective journals from 32 students completing their capstone projects at ETH Zurich. Through a deductive quant ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

SECURING FELLOWSHIPS FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCH

Helena Kovacs

This workshop was geared toward educators seeking to enhance their research capabilities, explore new areas of inquiry, and expand their professional networks through collaborations with colleagues from institutions beyond their national borders.The facili ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Planned, taught, learnt: analysis of transversal skills through curriculum using portfolio

Helena Kovacs, Alexandra Corina Niculescu, Tamara Milosevic

There is an everlasting effort in education to successfully ensure that the intended learning objectives are clearly taught and effectively learnt at the end of the educational cycle. This has been especially difficult in teaching and learning complex sets ...

TU Dublin2023

Inclusive engineering classrooms: student teaching assistants' perspectives

Siara Ruth Isaac, Helena Kovacs, Joelyn de Lima

Inclusive teaching is the intentional practice of recognising biases, working to mitigate their impact, and ensuring that students have equitable learning opportunities. In addition to improving students' sense of belonging and self efficacy, inclusive tea ...

TU Dublin2023

A Research-Practice Partnership to Introduce Computer Science in Secondary School: Lessons from a Pilot Program

Francesco Mondada, Helena Kovacs, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Context: Introducing Computer Science (CS) into formal education can be challenging, notably when considering the numerous stakeholders involved which include the students, teachers, schools, and policy makers. We believe these perspectives should be con ...

2023

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