May 2004
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IACEE President's Corner I am writing this within a few days of returning from Japan and attending the 9th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education, which was held in Tokyo from May 16 - 20. Thanks must go to the conference president, Professor Hajime Sasaki, and his team for assembling and organising and excellent and stimulating conference. A fuller report on this conference will appear in the next newsletter. This conference also saw the 'end of term' for the last Council and elections for the new Council and Executive Committee, a list of which appears elsewhere in this newsletter. A large vote of appreciation must be given to all those who served in various roles during the last term and none more so than the retiring President, Alfredo Soeiro for all his contributions. Looking ahead and taking stock, I think we must build from on the strengths of our new base to increase the effectiveness of our Association. With this in mind, I highlight the following points. 1) IACEE is a global network champions and encourages the development of CEE in a wide range of situations. As a network, we should strive to ensure that there is effective communication between us, and that the Association brings benefit to its members. 2) We have to ensure that the organisation functions on a sound financial basis, so that we can have a secure platform for growth and development. 3) We need to make every effort to increase our membership as this will both ensure that we truly are able to represent CEE on a global basis, and also give us an income on which to operate and maintain a healthy organisation. 4) We should continue to develop the various goals and strategies for IACEE that respect the diversity of background, location and mission of members, yet at the same time can be seen to bring benefit to them. As part of this, we should be looking constantly to see how activities can be encouraged in different situations. 5) We should ensure that we have appropriate and effective publicity about the organisation. As an additional vehicle to increase awareness, where appropriate, we should consider linking with regional organisations - maintaining our involvement in a diversity of ways. 6) We should continue to develop our international conferences, aiming to increase awareness of CPD, promoting the exchange of good practice and encouraging involvement in the Association. 7) We should encourage the development of specific projects within our network should be encouraged, as also should the dissemination of the results from these. This exchange is valuable and the Association can help by highlighting examples of practice that is good and/or new. I welcome your comments on these points. Mervyn
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New Council Takes Office At the recent 9th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education, elections were held for the 2004-2006 governing Council, with Mervyn Jones, Imperial College London (United Kingdom) elected as president of the Council. The full Council is as follows (The president and vice presidents, along with the Secretary General, make up the IACEE Executive Committee): Mervyn
JONES, President FENG
Changgen, First Vice President; Vice President, Special Interest Groups Frank
BURRIS, Vice President, Membership Development Gerardo
FERRANDO, Vice President, Projects Colin
C.F. Leung, Vice President, WCCEE Nasrudin
ABD RAHM Anwar
AL-YATAMA Yuri
BOCHAROV Edward
BORBELY
Andy DIPAOLO Louk
FENNIS Hajime
FUJITA Clement
IMBERT Leizer
LERNER John
LORRIMAN Joseph
MASSAQUOI Patricio
MONTESINOS Philip
O'LEARY Franz
REICHL Katriina
SCHREY-NIEMENMAA Alfredo
SOEIRO William
WEPFER Papers of Interest to Continuing Engineering Educators With the globalization of the workforce, there has been much discussion on qualifications and accreditation of engineering programs throughout the world. This month's papers on different approaches and views to engineering 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 Comparison
of the US - German Accreditation Process: A Case Study |
CONFERENCES: IACEE is proud to announce that the 10th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education will be held in April 2006 at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Please look for more information on this meeting in the July 2004 IACEE newsletter. 28-30
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- 1 October 3-6 November For more information on future conferences, please see http://www.iacee.org. Do you have an interesting project in the field of engineering education that you would like to share with fellow IACEE members? We want to showcase papers or information from IACEE members in this newsletter. To submit articles/items of information, please contact Jennifer Johnson. To submit items for the newsletter, please contact Jennifer Johnson at: j.johnson@iacee.org. View past newsletters at: www.iacee.org. IACEE Web Site:
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