September 2003
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Newsletter for September 2003 |
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IACEE President's Corner Dear IACEE Members: This is written in September after the May Council meeting in Valencia. Due to the SARS outbreak, the Council could not accept the generous offer from the Vice-President Prof. Feng and from the China Association for Science and Technology to meet in China in mid-May. Therefore, the Council met in Valencia, at the end of May, thanks to the prompt and kind response from Dr. Patricio Montesinos and the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. To the first and second hosts, my sincere thanks in the name of IACEE. The meeting in Valencia had a high attendance and a lot of work was done, besides the friendly social hospitality of our host. The transfer of Headquarters was completed, the call for bids for the 10th WCCEE was opened, IACEE Bylaws were updated, tasks were assigned for council members, a Nominating Committee was established, the program for the 9th WCCEE was detailed and strategic decisions were discussed and agreed. I would
like to call your attention to the decision to have a database of experts
within IACEE that could provide consultancy within the CEE area. The next
steps consist of collecting data about IACEE members' expertise, disseminate
through engineering Let us work together to improve the performance of the association. Alfredo
Soeiro Award Nominations Every three years at the 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 Joseph M. 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 and the World Conferences on Continuing Engineering Education. Glen L. Martin Award for Corporate Leadership in Continuing Engineering Education The Martin
Award was established to honor the 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. 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, chair of the IACEE Awards Committee, should you have any questons regarding the nomination process for these awards. |
Call
for 2004-2007 Council/Officer Nominations
At its May meeting in Valencia, Spain the 2001-2004 IACEE Council appointed the Nominating Committee for the 21 Council seats for 2004-2007. The Nominating Committee consists of Past President John P. Klus, Past President Javier Jimenez Espriu, former Secretary General Markku Markkula, with Past President Frank E. Burris serving as Chair. At the 10th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education in Tokyo in May 2004 the General Membership Meeting will elect a new Council and a new President for the next triennium. The new Council will then elect four Vice Presidents to serve with the President on the Executive Committee. Each of the four Vice Presidents will have special responsibilities in one of the following areas: Membership Development, Special Interest Groups, Projects, and World Conferences on CEE. The 21 Council members must be IACEE members in good standing, who have a demonstrated interest in moving the association forward in the early years of the 21st century. Council members must also commit to attend the annual Council meeting and have sufficient financial resources to support their travel between home and the meeting site. The five Executive Committee members must have additional resources to participate in at least one face-to-face Executive Committee meeting at a location and time other than the annual Council meeting. Please submit your nomination(s) by February 1, 2004 to Dr. Frank E. Burris, UCLA Extension, Suite 540, 10995 LeConte Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024-2883, USA. Communication via e-mail is preferred at fburris@uclaextension.edu. Papers on Continuing Engineering Education Web-based learning is the wave of the future for all forms of engineering education. Each institution, however, has a different approach to e-learning and e-teaching. The papers chosen for this month's newsletter all examine the various digital forms of teaching and learning. 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. Smart
Recommendation for an Evolving E-Learning System (presented
at AIED 2003) This paper describes a three-year effort of delivering an undergraduate course in engineering economy to on-campus students using streaming video and the Internet. Technical difficulties with the internet-based delivery of the lectures together with pedagogical observations of student performance and feedback have led to significant changes. Student evaluations and performance are presented, as well as some lessons learned. A
Successful Model for Web-Based Engineering Technology Education e-Learning
and e-Teaching: Meeting the Challenges of ICT Project-Oriented,
Internet-Based Learning in the Field of Control Engineering
Lifelong Learning Is Necessary for Career Success, According to Survey - In April 2003, IEEE-USA carried an online survey on continuing engineering education. Ninety engineers responded. While their feedback does not represent all engineers, it does speak for a group who are concerned enough about career-long learning to express their opinions voluntarily, making their responses significant. Both engineers and continuing education providers can learn from what they had to say. 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. |
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 1 October 2003. Please visit the conference website by clicking here. CONFERENCES: 29 September
- 1 October 6-10
October 4-6 November 11-13
November 27-28
November 3-5 December 4-6 December 8-9 December 8-10
December 10-12
December 10-12
December 10-13
December 11-12
December 28-30
January 2004 For more information on future conferences, please see http://www.iacee.org. IACEE Web Site:
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