October 2003
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Newsletter for October 2003 |
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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 To submit items for the newsletter, please contact Jennifer Johnson at: iacee@asee.org. View past newsletters at: http://www.iacee.org IACEE Web Site:
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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. 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) Global
Education - Lifelong Learning (presented at SEFI
2003) Transforming
Engineering Education from the Maintaining Mode of Operation to the
Development Mode of the Global Industry IEI's
Successful Approach to Stimulating Continuing Professional Development 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. |
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 Glen
L. Martin Award for Corporate Leadership Please contact Colin C.F. Leung for further information regarding the nomination process for these awards. CONFERENCES: 3-5 December 8-9 December 8-10
December 10-12
December 11-12
December 28-30
January 2004 For more information on future conferences, please see http://www.iacee.org. |