August 2005
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August 2005 |
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International Association for Continuing Engineering Education |
Special Points of Interest� IACEE Secretary General's Note � Nominations Sought for IACEE Awards � Articles of Interest to Continuing Engineering Education � Conferences �10th WCCEE IACEE World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education Call for Papers
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As you know, the IACEE Council�s focus this year is on the improvement of services to our members. We�ve increased the number of newsletters and have begun a pilot project in China on evaluating continuing engineering education centers. As part of our continuing efforts to work on services, I recently sent you an email regarding an IACEE membership directory and an IACEE Database of Experts. The membership directory will be available only to IACEE members upon request, and will contain a member's contact information (postal address, phone, fax, email) organized by type of membership, then by country. Please send an email to info@iacee.org if you would not like to be included. The directory will be available beginning in October 2005. Similarly, the Council realized that IACEE members contain a wealth of knowledge on continuing engineering education and decided to create a Database of Experts on CEE. If you did not receive the email with the database form, please see www.iacee.org/new. It is the Council�s hope that this Database will showcase the breadth of CEE knowledge held by IACEE members. Should you have any questions on either of these projects, please contact us. And don�t forget the best benefit of being an IACEE member: the World Conference on CEE. The next one will be held in Vienna on April 19-21, 2006. Abstracts are now being accepted; more information is available at www.wccee2006.org. As always, I enjoy hearing from you; if you have ideas on how we can better member services, please let me know your thoughts. Frank L.
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Conferences 4th ASEE/AaeE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, September 26-30, 2005. IPSI Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Conference, July 27, 2005 to August 1, 2005. SEFI Annual Conference 2005, �Engineering Education at the Cross-Roads of Civilizations,� Sept. 7-10, 2005. Eighth Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education, "Staying Competitive through Global Education," Nov. 10-13, 2005. IRFD World Forum on Information Society, �Digital Divide, Global Development and then Information Society,� Nov. 14-16, 2005. ICBME 2005, The 12th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Dec. 7-10, 2005. IIT Madras, Chennai, India�s International Conference, �Innovative Product Development: Engineering Meets Marketing,� Dec. 21-23, 2005. World Congress on Computer Sciences, Engineering and Technology Education 2006, March 19-22, 2006. |
Nominations are currently being sought for the IACEE Joseph M. Biedenbach Distinguished Lectureship Award and the Glen L. Martin Award for Corporate Leadership in Continuing Engineering Education. 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. The fund is used to support a keynote lecturer, the �Joseph M. Biedenbach Distinguished Lecturer� at the IACEE General Membership Meeting during the World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education. The recipient of the award will be selected by IACEE�s Council. The Glen L. Martin Award for Corporate Leadership in Continuing Engineering Education was established in 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. The award honors a company at each World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education 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. The deadline for nominations is late September, 2005. For more information on the awards or for nomination forms, visit: http://www.iacee.org/awards/default.htm.
Australian Enrollment in Physical Sciences on the Decline An article in The Age dated August 15th describes Australia's growing problem with less and less students enrolling in engineering and the physical sciences. With less students enrolling in engineering and the physical sciences, Australia's economic growth is now threatened. The solution, the author states, is addressing the early years of secondary school when students develop negative views about mathematics and making the engineering field in general less male dominated. More and More Indian Students Looking to Tutors A growing number of engineering students in India are developing the habit of skipping classes and taking lessons from private tutors. While this practice is fairly common among students enrolled in general courses, it has only begun to happen among engineering students in the last few years. Critics of the growing trend say that private tutors encourage students to only study certain parts of the syllabus, skipping other parts entirely. Students that pay for private tutors blame the curriculum for the trend, claiming that the syllabus is larger than at other institutions and that there are not enough teachers to help all of the students. France Decides to Integrate With Higher Education Plan France has decided to integrate itself with the popular Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees for school that are equivalent to the Plus 2 system in India. Under the system, a Bachelors degree would be of three years, the Masters degree of two years and the PhD a minimum of three years. France boasts of a huge network of mostly public universities to cater to the needs of its youth and those worldwide. Officials hope that these new guidelines will lead to an increase in the number of foreign students traveling to France for an education.
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. The conference will focus on many aspects of continuing engineering education, including didactics, E-learning and mobile learning, total quality management and knowledge management. We kindly invite you and other interested colleagues to submit abstracts (approximately one page) for paper or poster presentations until October 15, 2005, using the submission form on the conference homepage www.wccee2006.org. Abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee until December 15, 2005. If you have any questions concerning the 10th WCCEE 2006, please contacts us at wccee@ai.tuwien.ac.at. |
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