Publishing with us

This page provides general information on the journal and sets out to support authors interested in sharing their latest work with us.

Please read the instructions below carefully. We very much look forward to receiving your contribution!

Journal Scope

The SEFI Journal of Engineering Education Advancement welcomes appropriate submissions of innovations in practices, approaches, or ideas within the field, which will appeal and be useful to practitioners as well as researchers. To contribute to the advancement of engineering education, the work submitted must always be novel and original. In addition, it should be deemed relevant and applicable, stimulating, tested and suitably scholarly.

Novel means that the journal is looking for manuscripts that makes a new contribution to the field. This may take the form of a traditional research paper, but highly innovative but transferable case studies, lesson or assessment approaches, student support methodologies are also welcome.
Original means that the work may not be published elsewhere by the authors or others. Manuscripts based on previously published work require significant further development.
Relevant and applicable means that papers should be interesting and useful to the readership. We are aiming in particular to attract as readers and authors those engineering academics involved in the day to day activities of teaching and learning within engineering. The Papers submitted should therefore typically support practitioners in enhancing their own practices in education in a directly practical way and by informing the underlying approaches. Authors are encouraged to supplement useful material such as teaching resources, schemes and instruments.
Stimulating refers to the contribution to the field. Contributions demonstrate solid reflection, critical engagement, and awareness of the work and ideas of others.
Tested and suitably scholarly means that papers must demonstrate awareness of the field and the work presented must be suitably tested and critically reviewed by the authors.

Selection Criteria

Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers and will be judged against the criteria outlined in the scope. The reviewers will be drawn from a community encompassing both engineering education researchers and practitioners to ensure that both practical innovation and relevance together with adequate fundamental research underpinnings are applied.

Publishing Schedule

Papers will be published on a continuous basis and will be released online typically no more than one month after acceptance, which allows time for typesetting the work together with the invoicing and receipt of the open access and document processing fee. Papers will be assigned a DOI identifier, issue, volume and page numbers. Each issue will contain around 8 papers and up to four issues will be published annually as a volume.

Open Access Terms, Copyright and Distribution Rights

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License, specifically a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Provided they are the owners of the copyright to their work, authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.

Archiving

Papers in this journal are lodged with the Open Journal System's "PKP (Public Knowledge Project) Preservation Network". The PKP PN deposits content using the LOCKSS Program, which offers decentralized and distributed preservation.

Preparing Your Paper & Paper Format

Please set your manuscript in this template to support appropriate formatting.

Integrity and Ethics

Authors must maintain a high degree of ethics and integrity in relation to the work presented for review. This includes :

Confirmation of the originality of the work presented and where building on previous studies by self or others shows clear advances beyond those previously published.
That all authors listed on the paper contributed in a meaningful way to the paper.
That all research was conducted ethically and that ethical approval was gained from the ethics committee of the institution of the lead researcher. In particular this should be sought where the work involves the use of students in trials, focus groups or surveys or where existing student data is used on a secondary basis.
That any financial or in-kind support for the work is declared and any conflicts of interest are disclosed.

A fuller explanation of the journal's policy on ethical research and publication can be found here.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Papers exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools by staff and students in formal and informal support of education are welcomed.
Any use of AI in relation to the production of the paper, processing of data or carrying out underpinning research must be declared. Acceptable declared use of AI might typically include support in processing raw data, generation of diagrams and proofreading. Unacceptable use of AI would include writing of the paper in whole or part, design of experimentation or surveys and interpretation of results.

Document Processing Fee

Following successful acceptance of the final manuscript a fee of €450 will be payable prior to publication. This helps fund the journal's operating costs including web hosting, technical support, typesetting etc.

Ready to Submit?

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