February 2006
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International Association for Continuing Engineering Education |
Special Points of Interest� IACEE President's Corner - Articles of Interest to Continuing Engineering Education - Conferences
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In late January we held a useful and successful meeting of the IACEE Executive Committee in San Antonio, just prior to the College Industry Education conference. In addition to the routine business of meeting, it gave us the opportunity to progress the plans and arrangements for the 10th WCCEE in Vienna on 19 � 21 April. The conference web site is updated as details of the conference are put into place so do please make reference to it at http://www.wccee2006.org/. If you have not started to put in place your plans to attend the conference may I encourage you to do just that! We also learnt at the meeting that Jennifer Johnson, who has served us well at IACEE HQ in Washington, is changing jobs within ASEE. I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of all IACEE members to thank her for her efforts and support, and to wish her success in her other activities within ASEE. One important aspect of an association or network is the ability to learn from each other. In this context you should not forget the IACEE Benchmarking project, which builds on the work at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. It is a very useful way to help reflect on your own activities and I hope during this year we will be able to give it wider exposure, including at the WCCEE in Vienna.
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Conferences
World Congress on Computer Sciences, Engineering and Technology Education 2006, March 19-22, 2006 10th World Conference for Continuing Engineering Education, April 19-21, 2006 2006 PLM World Conference, May 8-12, 2006 2006 International Symposium on Technology and Society, "Disaster Preparedness and Recovery," June 8-10, 2006 2006 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, "Excellence in Education," June 18-21, 2006 34th SEFI Annual Conference, "Engineering Education and Active Students," June 28- July 1, 2006 PICMET 2006 Conference, "Technology Management for the Global Future," July 9-13, 2006 XXX Pan American Convention of Engineers, "Building a Sustainable Infrastructure through Education, Technological Innovation and Economic Development," September 19-22, 2006
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For more information on the stories below, click on the title. Caledonian College in Sultanate of Oman Becomes Gulf Centre for Engineering Education Caledonian College in the Sultanate of Oman has become the Gulf Centre for Engineering Education (GCEE). It is now an official satellite centre of the Unesco International Centre for Engineering Education. Through its academic advisory committee and its relationship with key figures in the engineering industry, GCEE aims to support and develop the role of engineering education through workshops, conferences, seminars, research and training programmes, inviting contributions from engineering professionals, employers and those involved in technological innovation and human resource development. Papers Presented at IAMU Published WIT Press recently announced publication of Maritime Security and MET. The book contains papers presented at the Sixth Annual General Assembly and Conference of the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU), which was held in Malm�, Sweden, October 24-26, 2005. The papers in the book, contributed by maritime educators from around the the world, are divided into three sections. The first section consists of interim and final reports on several research projects funded by IAMU. The second section presents a broad range of academic papers on the theme of maritime security and its relation to maritime education and training (MET). Subjects covered range from the challenges faced by MET institutions worldwide as they incorporate the new topic of maritime security into their syllabi, to the economic costs to the shipping industry and to ports of the new maritime security regime. In addition, a variety of other subjects are also covered, such as the technical means to monitor the movements of ships, and the social implications for seafarers on board ships. Professor to Examine the Growth of the Engineering Profession Around the World A professor at Virginia Tech in the United State has received a grant to research the emergence of the engineering profession in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and the United States. The project will be based on ethnographic interviews, participant observation, and collections of primary and secondary documents in order to map engineering education in reverse chronology and ideas of progress in chronological order. By following how engineers have responded to different ideas of progress, the researcher hopes to show that engineers have been key figures in promoting the idea of the nation around the world. Commission Calls for EU to Increase R&D Budget The European commission warned European Leaders that Europe's chances of closing the technology gap with the U.S. and Japan, and staying ahead of countries such as China, are growing slim. The report follows budget cutbacks in research that were decided last December. The report, compiled by a group of experts led by former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho, calls for a "paradigm shift" in European attitudes to research. �The European approach is that we have to invest in R&D to allow us to preserve the traditional industrial and social structures we have created, but this is clearly not working, and we are not even approaching the goal we have set ourselves, that is the 3 percent share of GDP invested in R&D,� Aho said.
IACEE's World Conference on CEE The 10th IACEE World Conference on Continuing
Engineering Education (WCCEE) will take place in Vienna on April 19-21, 2006. The conference topics cover a wide range of aspects
relevant for CEE such as: For more information, visit the conference homepage at www.wccee2006.org. If you have any questions concerning the 10th WCCEE 2006, please don't hesitate to ask us at wccee@ai.tuwien.ac.at.5th ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education to be Held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil The 5th ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education will be held October 9-12, 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The program will focus on pre-university studies, the global engineer curriculum and the engineer for the Americas. For any questions on the abstract and paper submission process, contact Jennifer Atkinson at j.atkinson@asee.org. |
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