November 2004
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Newsletter for November 2004 |
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IACEE Secretary General's Corner As the New Year approaches, I am taken with the thought that this upcoming year is critical for IACEE. I firmly believe that the IACEE members are commited towards the improvement and amplification of continuing engineering education, and that we all are working towards strengthening CEE's. Yet in order for our work to be effective, we need to become more active. Please consider becoming more active in IACEE. Visit our website, www.iacee.org, participate in the IACEE forum on the site, contribute an article to the newsletter, complete the survey regarding CEE best practices located at www.iacee-upv.com, or even simply discuss CEE teaching methods with other members of IACEE. If we want to increase our influence, we need to increase our activity level and our visibility. Some of you might have questions as to how you can become more involved. To that end, in each issue of the newsletter, we will be publishing the contact information for the officers of IACEE's Executive Committee. Please feel free to contact them, or myself, with any comments, suggestions, or input in improving IACEE's role in the CEE field. You are the future of continuing engineering education. Your opinions and suggestions towards improving CEE visibility are critical to IACEE's future. Please prepare and send to me your thoughts for publication in the IACEE newsletter. Frank L.
Huband IACEE Executive Committee President First
Vice President; Vice President, Special Interest Groups Vice
President, Membership Development Vice
President, Projects Vice
President, World Conferences on CEE Secretary
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Papers
of Interest to We continue our focus on papers presented at the 9th WCCEE in Tokyo. This month's papers discuss continuing engineering education in Japan. 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.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company is one of the world's largest privately operated power utilities , with over 43.2 million customers. Their engineer development programs focus on fostering human talent capable of responding flexibly to a changing management environment by performaing work based on leadership skills, engineering prowess, and a high degree of technical knowledge. Initiatives
in Continuing Education for Engineers at Nippon Koei Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., has been implementing new measures in continuing education since April 2002 to enhance the technical capability of its professional staff. This paper introduces the background, structure, progress, and future outlook for this initiative. Continuing
Professional Development System of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers The Japan Society of Civil Engineers amended its constitution in 1999 to include the improvement of the quality of civil engineers. To that end, JSCE has continuing efforts on professional development within the Civil Engineers' Qualification system. Certification
of Individual CPD Programs and their Criteria In 2001, JSCE established the Continuing Professional Development System as a measure to improve individual qualities of civil engineers, with program certification being performed based on certain criteria. Articles on Distance Education/Technology ASME has recently signed several agreements and memorandums of understanding with several Chinese societies and institutions. One of these agreements involves the promotion of ASME's certification programs. Tsinghua University, located in Beijing, will be offering continuing engineering education courses to engineers in China that would be needed in order to maintain certification. To read the full article, please see: www.asmenews.org/features/1104china.html. EE-Oz Training Standards and the Australian National Training Authority have released a draft skills report that forecasts skill needs and possible solutions in the electrical, telecommunications and energy utilities industries. It proposes a range of strategies to attract new employees, how to transfer skills, improve the industries' image, develop a wide number and variety of entry level qualifications, how to provide apprentice and trainee incentives for employers, improve worker retention, and review training packages. Copies of the report are available from www.ee-oz.com.au/resources/misc/2616.pdf. |
CONFERENCES: 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. We encourage
you to put this conference on your calendars. For more information, please
see: www.iacee.org/ To view conference websites, please click on their titles. 6-7 December 25 December
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February 16-18
February 4-6 April For more information on future conferences, please see http://www.iacee.org.
View past newsletters at: 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. IACEE Web Site:
www.iacee.org President Vice
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