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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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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:
- CEE Governance
- CEE and Co-Operation
- Didactics and Andragogy
- E-Learning and Mobile Learning
- Total Quality Management
- Competences and Knowledge Management
- Case Studies
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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