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IACEE
Secretary General's Corner
Dear IACEE
Members:
Recently,
the IACEE Executive Committee met to discuss methods in which IACEE could
better serve its members. We will be working on developing a survey to
see what is important to you, what you would like IACEE to accomplish,
and what goals you would like IACEE to address.
One method
that has recently been instituted is a new forum on the IACEE website,
(click here
to access the forum page), to facilitate discussion on topics of concern
to engineering educators. I encourage you to use this forum as a means
to learn about different teaching styles, share upcoming events, and discuss
your thoughts on possible research. This can be also be a valuable tool
to use as a way of connecting with educators from countries that have
emerging continuing engineering education programs.
A second
method that IACEE is developing, (which President Alfredo Soeiro spoke
to you about briefly in last month's newsletter), is a program to determine
standards of certification on continuing engineering education programs.
IACEE is investigating the type of standards that would be used, and methods
of certifying various university programs. Please let me know your thoughts
and suggestions on this matter.
As always,
I welcome your input on how IACEE could better serve you.
Frank L.
Huband
IACEE Secretary General
iacee@asee.org
To submit
items for the newsletter, please contact Jennifer Johnson at: iacee@asee.org.
View past
newsletters at: http://www.iacee.org
IACEE
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President
Alfredo
A.V. Soeiro
Vice
President
Feng
Changgen
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9th
World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education
Call for Papers/Workshops
Deadline Extended to November 30
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 30 November
2003. Please visit the conference website by clicking
here.
Papers
on Continuing Engineering Education
The
European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) recently held their
annual conference in September with a focus on the Global Engineer.
Several excellent papers on engineering education were presented, of
which a few are listed below. To view more papers from this conference,
or to view PowerPoint presentations, please see http://www.sefi2003.com:
the papers are under "Conference Information - Publications."
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 iacee@asee.org.
ALE:
The International Active Learning in Engineering Education Network
(presented at SEFI 2003)
ALE
is an informal international collaboration between engineering educational
institutions dedicated to improving engineering education. The network
was initiated in 2000 and has until now participation from important
universities in Europe and South and North America. The ALE mission
is to bring active learning back into engineering education, and the
cooperation is based on workshops and joint projects in between.
Global
Education - Lifelong Learning (presented at SEFI
2003)
This paper explores the facilities of global learning and global education
in Helsinki University of Technology. It will settle out the fundamenta
that the students have when they attend global academic education as
well as multinational scientific and commercial projects.
Transforming
Engineering Education from the Maintaining Mode of Operation to the
Development Mode of the Global Industry
(presented
at SEFI 2003)
The paper describes the results of the ongoing R&D work in Finland,
which has been carried out as a combination of theoretical and experimental
work since 1993. The work is aimed at developing and implementing a
new structure for engineering education (EE) and for engineering education
institutions.
IEI's
Successful Approach to Stimulating Continuing Professional Development
(presented
at SEFI 2003)
The Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI) is the professional body
for engineering professionals in Ireland. In a review of its CPD Policies
in 1999, the Institution decided to develop a CPD Accreditation Scheme
for Engineering Employeers, as a means of stimulating lifelong learning
for engineers.
Spotlight
on Members
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.
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Award
Nominations Due November 7!
At
each World
Conference on Continuing Engineering Education, IACEE presents two
Awards recognizing international achievement in continuing engineering
education. For more information, or to download a nomination form,
please click on the title of each award.
IACEE
Biedenbach Distinguished Lectureship Award
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.
Glen
L. Martin Award for Corporate Leadership
This
award was established to honor the memory of Glen L. Martin, a founding
corporate member of the IACEE Council. It honors a company 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.
Please
contact Colin C.F. Leung
for further information regarding the nomination process for these awards.
CONFERENCES:
3-5 December
AFCON 2003, South
Africa
1st
African Control Conference
8-9 December
7th Triennial AEESEAP
Enhancing
Engineering Education and Training a University - Industry - Government
Partnership
8-10
December
IRFD
World Forum on Information Society, Switzerland
Digital Divide, Global Development & Information Society
10-12
December
ANZIIS
2003, Australia
8th Australian & New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information
Systems
11-12
December
SEFI - CEE, Sweden
Continuing
Engineering Education as a Business
28-30
January 2004
SICPRO
'04, Russia
Third International Conference on System Identification and Control Problems
For
more information on future conferences, please see http://www.iacee.org.
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