June 2005
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June 2005 |
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International Association for Continuing Engineering Education |
Special Points of Interest� IACEE President's Corner � Nominations Sought for IACEE Awards � Articles of Interest to Continuing Engineering Education � Conferences �10th WCCEE IACEE World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education Call for Papers
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In late May, the IACEE Council gathered for its annual meeting, which this year was held in Beijing. It was well attended and I was pleased to note the efforts made by Council members from all parts of the world to get to the meeting. We were especially grateful to Changgen Feng, on behalf of the China Association for Science and Technology, and to Jiansheng Zhang, of the China Council for the Promotion of Applied Technology for being our hosts in Beijing. They gave us a very warm welcome and ensured that all the arrangements worked well, which enabled us to discuss matters effectively. The usual items of business were covered, but several additional issues were addressed, which it is hoped will be of interest to all members. For many years, colleagues at the Polytechnic University of Valencia have been developing benchmarking approaches for Continuing Engineering Education Centres. It is planned that this work should be extended to cover IACEE members so that all of us can have a better appreciation of our activities. There will be more information available on this later. We are also working towards a Quality Management Evaluation Project in collaboration with CEE Centres in China. As with the benchmarking project, we will have further information on this at a later date. (A dinner, hosted by Mr Xiaochu Wang, a Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, gave us the opportunity to hear at first hand the importance that China attaches to CEE in developing its professional workforce.) As I commented in a previous column, plans are coming together for the 10th World conference, to be held in Vienna from 19-21 April 2006. Vienna itself is an attractive city, and I hope you will be able to mix work and pleasure very successfully there. I hope also that you have received e-mail notification of the call for abstracts � with a deadline of October 15. Further details are posted at www.wccee2006.org.
Mervyn Jones |
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Conferences 6th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, July 7-9, 2005. IPSI Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Conference, July 27, 2005 to August 1, 2005. SEFI Annual Conference 2005, �Engineering Education at the Cross-Roads of Civilizations,� Sept. 7-10, 2005. Eighth Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education, "Staying Competitive through Global Education," Nov. 10-13, 2005. IRFD World Forum on Information Society, �Digital Divide, Global Development and then Information Society,� Nov. 14-16, 2005. ICBME 2005, The 12th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Dec. 7-10, 2005. IIT Madras, Chennai, India�s International Conference, �Innovative Product Development: Engineering Meets Marketing,� Dec. 21-23, 2005. World Congress on Computer Sciences, Engineering and Technology Education 2006, March 19-22, 2006. UPADI 2006 Conference, "Building a Sustainable Infrastructure: Education, Technology Innovation, and Economic Development," Sept. 18-22, 2006.
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Nominations are currently being sought for the IACEE Joseph M. Biedenbach Distinguished Lectureship Award and the Glen L. Martin Award for Corporate Leadership in Continuing Engineering Education. The Joseph M. Biedenbach Distinguished Lectureship Award was established in 1991 to honor the memory of Joseph M. Biedenbach. Professor Biedenbach was one of the initiators of IACEE and the World Conferences on Continuing Engineering Education. The fund is used to support a keynote lecturer, the �Joseph M. Biedenbach Distinguished Lecturer� at the IACEE General Membership Meeting during the World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education. The recipient of the award will be selected by IACEE�s Council. The Glen L. Martin Award for Corporate Leadership in Continuing Engineering Education was established in memory of Glen L. Martin, a founding corporate member of the IACEE Council, whose tireless efforts to promote corporate involvement in engineering education spanned his career. The award honors a company at each World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education whose support for continuing engineering education demonstrates world class leadership and whose continuing engineering education practices and programs serve as models for companies throughout the world. The deadline for nominations is late September, 2005. For more information on the awards or for nomination forms, visit: http://www.iacee.org/awards/default.htm.
Science Academies for G8 Nations Say Science Will Help Africa Science academies from the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Russia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and a network of African academies called on world leaders to specifically integrate the development of science, technology and innovation capacity into international assistance programs. The joint statement from the academies comes ahead of the July G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. The statement warns, "Isolated investment is science and technology is not enough- capacity development initiatives should be integrated into programmes in specific sectors. A health programme, for example, should also seek to develop local expertise and resources to enable locals to continue to address the issues long after the specific programme has ended." United States May Open Up for Engineers The National Board of Accreditation has initiated a process to make India a member of the Washington Accord. The Washington Accord, signed by eight countries in 1989, ensures engineers from member countries be treated at par in terms of screening procedures for visiting countries. The United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Hong Kong and Ireland are the founding members of the Washington Accord and Japan, Germany, Singapore and Malaysia are provisional members. First Women Graduate from Effat College Thirty young women have become the first females to graduate from Effat College in Saudi Arabia. The college's dean, Dr. Haifa Jamal Alail, said the recent graduates help the college take another step toward achieving international standards in education. The college is working with a group from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in the United States to open the first engineering programs for women in Saudi Arabia. The grouped worked on curriculums in computer science, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and architecture with international accreditation standards.
IACEE is pleased to announce that the 10th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education will be held in Vienna, Austria, on April 19-21, 2006. The conference will take place at the Vienna University of Technology. The conference will focus on many aspects of continuing engineering education, including didactics, E-learning and mobile learning, total quality management and knowledge management. We kindly invite you and other interested colleagues to submit abstracts (approximately one page) for paper or poster presentations until October 15, 2005, using the submission form on the conference homepage www.wccee2006.org. Abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee until December 15, 2005. If you have any questions concerning the 10th WCCEE 2006, please contacts us at wccee@ai.tuwien.ac.at.
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