The 2001-2004 IACEE Council has appointed the Nominating Committee for the 21 Council seats for the 2004-2007 term. The Nominating Committee consists of Past Presidents John P. Klus and Javier Jimenez Espriu, former Secretary General Markku Markkula, with Past President Frank E. Burris serving as Chair. At the 10th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education in Tokyo in May 2004, the General Membership Meeting will elect a new Council and a new President for the next triennium. The new Council will then elect four Vice Presidents to serve with the President on the Executive Committee. Each of the four Vice Presidents will have special responsibilities in one of the following areas: Membership Development, Special Interest Groups, Projects, and World Conferences on CEE.

The 21 Council members must be IACEE members in good standing, who have a demonstrated interest in moving the association forward in the early years of the 21st century. Council members must also commit to attend the annual Council meeting and have sufficient financial resources to support their travel between home and the meeting site. The five Executive Committee members must have additional resources to participate in at least one face-to-face Executive Committee meeting at a location and time other than the annual Council meeting.

Please submit your nomination(s) by February 1, 2004, to Dr. Frank E. Burris, UCLA Extension, Suite 540, 10995 LeConte Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024-2883, USA. Communication via e-mail is preferred at fburris@uclaextension.edu.

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Papers on Continuing Engineering Education

Cooperative education, whether it be cooperative teaching or learning, is currently a hot topic in engineering education. From accreditation to how the programs work, the papers chosen as this month's selections explore all facets of co-op education.

Please click on each title to read the full paper - 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.

Accreditation of Cooperative Education Programs
This paper examines the evolution of the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education (ACCE) in the United States from a small group of engineering cooperative education (co-op) programs to a national accreditation movement. Focusing on the need for standards in co-op programs at the post-secondary level, ACCE serves as an organization that strives to strengthen the overall educational experience of undergraduate students in engineering and other disciplines through the formal and structured process of accreditation.

Enhancing Engineering Education with Writing-to-learn and Cooperative Learning
Current progressive teaching movements draw forth strong skepticism as they often seem antithetical to engineering classes. The authors question the validity of this skepticism by defining learning goals, such as depth of learning, engagement, and retntion, that should be considered during selection of teaching methods.

Cooperative Engineering Education Program
Cooperative education or co-op is a program the enriches the student's education by integrating professionally related work experience with academic study. Co-op exposes the student to the real world of work and to career options.

Cooperative Teaching Exploring a Multidisciplinary Engineering Problem
The simple case study presented constitutes an illustrative example of how surprisingly rich an open-ended experimental problem may prove to be. This has involved an instrumented soft drink can and a PC as the starting point for a fruitful multidisciplinary investigation that ended up bringing together manpower and know-how from various engineering areas in a very rewarding cooperative teaching and learning exercise.

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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. Please visit the conference website by clicking here.