December 2002
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NEWSLETTER FOR DECEMBER 2002 |
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Welcome to the inaugural newsletter for IACEE! As this is a work in progress, we welcome your comments and input. This is your newsletter, so if you would like to see topics included that are not covered, please feel free to send in your suggestions to me at info@iacee.org. During the transition of the headquarters from the Helsinki University of Technology to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), there is a current, temporary IACEE web site operating at www.iacee.org. After the transition is complete, we will debut an updated site at the traditional URL, www.iacee.org - you will be notifitied as soon as this is complete. IACEE remains committed to promoting the exchange of information on continuing engineering education, and aims to be the leader in sharing knowledge on the latest strategies and practices in this field. We will be sending out nine electronic newsletters per year to you, with information from around the world on how others are working on continuing engineering education. Soon you will be receiving your membership dues invoice for the coming year - it will be sent by fax, e-mail, and snail mail. Please let us know which method you prefer, and future invoices will be sent in your preferred method. A new benefit to IACEE members is free Global Online Membership in ASEE - details on this membership are available at www.asee.org/gom. This will offer you information on engineering education in general, and I hope you will find that this enhances your IACEE membership. I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions. Frank
L. Huband 9th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education The 9th WCCEE, sponsored by IACEE and co-sponsored by the Science Council of Japan and the Japanese Society for Engineering Education, will be held in Tokyo on 15-20 May 2004. With the theme of "Strategy of Continuing Engineering Education for International Competence and Cooperation," the conference will address such topics as case studies for CPD, CEE in developing countries, and knowledge management. Abstracts and workshop proposals are due by 1 October 2003. Please visit the conference website by clicking here. To submit items for the newsletter, please contact Jennifer Johnson at: info@iacee.org. View past newsletters at: http://www.iacee.org. |
Papers on Continuing Engineering Education Each issue of this newsletter will present papers of interest to the continuing engineering education community. These papers have appeared in the pages of the Journal of Engineering Education or have been included in the proceedings of various conferences. Each grouping will address a focal point; click on each title to read the full paper - please note that you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read the files (to download a free copy, click here). If you have a paper that you would like to share with the IACEE community, please contact the newsletter at info@iacee.org. This month's papers focus on various programs of continuing engineering education for professionals. Whether it is by a for-profit company or a university program, the methods for maintaining such programs and their impact are discussed in the following papers. Continuing
Professional Development for Engineering, Engineering Technology, and
Industry Personnel Assessing
the Impact of Continuing Engineering Education Use
of Distance Learning for Continuing Education of Engineers: Results of
an Educational Needs Assessment Retraining
Laid-off Engineers and Scientists Using an Integrated Curriculum: The
Project INTENT Experience On
Distance Learning in Engineering Articles on Distance Education/Technology Professors at two colleges have developed a way for distance-education students to fulfill their science lab requirements, according to an article by Dan Carnevale in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The basic approach is to turn the kitchen into a chemistry lab using measuring cups and saucepans instead of test tubes and beakers. The experiments, which the professors say are safe, use items found in a typical household kitchen - milk, nuts, vinegar, baking soda, and matches. Students also need a good quality scale. Faculty members at the University of Colorado at Denver and at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington developed the course. See chronicle.com/free/2002/11/2002111201t.htm. In the future, "grids" may be the next big advance in high performance computing, according to Florence Olsen writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education. A grid is a network of computational research centers whose supercomputer clusters, databases, and specialized programs form a pool of resources that is more powerful than any single research center on the network. Universities that have acquired computing clusters in recent years are moving to this next stage. Grids are expected to make searching remote data bases or running programs on a distant computer over the Internet as easy as using a utility service. See chronicle.com/free/2002/11/2002112701t.htm. Spotlight on Members In each newsletter, we hope to showcase papers written by IACEE members. This month's paper is from institutional member Interstate Association of Posgraduate Education, in Moscow, Russia. Traditions and Standards of Training for Specialists in Russian Petroleum Industry In Russia, education represents a system with a high-level potential. There is a statement in the sixth Human Development Report 2000 for the Russian Federation, prepared with assistance and support from United Nations Development Program, that the Russian educational system and those of the developed countries have the same parameters. For the full paper, click here. |
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December 2002
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January 2003 28-31
January 4-7 February 16-19
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