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Call for Nominations
IACEE Council
At the 11th WCCEE in Atlanta, Georgia,
USA in May 2008, the General Membership Meeting will elect a new
Council and a new President for the next biennium. 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 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 October 15, 2007, to Alfredo Soeiro
at avsoeiro@fe.up.pt.
IACEE Awards 2008
During the next World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education
(WCCEE) to be held in Atlanta USA in May 2008, the IACEE will as usual
give out its 2 prestigious awards: the Glen L. Martin Award for
Corporate Leadership in CEE and the Joseph M. Biedenbach Distinguished
Lectureship Award for an individual who has contributed significantly
to CEE. Details of the 2 awards are given at web sites:
http://www.iacee.org/
awards/martin.htm and http://www.iacee.org/
awards/biedenbach.htm, respectively.
Nominations for the 2 IACEE awards are now open and the nomination
forms are available at the above web sites. The deadline for nomination
is 30 September 2007.
Conferences
6th
ASEE Global Colloquium
"Shaping the Future through Global Partnerships"
1-4 October 2007
http://www.asee.org/
conferences/international/
2007/
index.cfm
11th World Conference on
Continuing Engineering Education, "Preparing Engineering Leaders
for Global Challenges"
19-23 May 2008
www.wccee2008.com
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Opening of
Bids for the 12th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education
The IACEE
Council is now accepting bids to host the 13th World Conference on
Continuing Engineering Education to be held in Spring 2012. Bids should
be sponsored by a member of IACEE, either as the host of the bid or as
a member of the planning committee. For more information, or to request
a bid manual and model contract, please contact the IACEE headquarters
at info@iacee.org.
SEMINAR ON GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS IN
CONTINUING ENGINEERING EDUCATION
A high
profile seminar on Global Developments in Continuing Engineering
Education (CEE) was held in the Faculty of Engineering, National
University of Singapore (NUS) on 24 April 2007. This seminar was
organized by NUS in collaboration with International Association for
Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE). Seven other tertiary
institutions from Singapore were co-orgainzers of the event which
attracted over 70 delegates from Singapore and ASEAN countries. Prof.
Daniel Chan, Associate Provost of NUS, was Guest of Honor for the
seminar and during his speech; he highlighted the development of
continuing education at NUS. With the success of this seminar, Prof.
Chan also announced the prestigious World Conference on Continuing
Engineering Education will be held in Singapore 2010 together with the
American Society for Engineering Education Global Colloquium on
Engineering Education, an important annual convention on engineering
education.
The speakers and panelists of the event included experienced CEE
officials from famous universities worldwide including Stanford,
Georgia Tech, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, Imperial College, Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Nihon, University Polytechnic Valencia
and NUS. During his presentation, Dr. Mervyn Jones, President of IACEE
highlighted the trends of CEE and the development of a European-US
joint program on CEE accreditation. Mr. Patricio Montesinos described a
sample Total Quality Management tool and highlighted its useful
application on CEE. Dr. Andy DiPaolo elaborated how on-line education
can be used to support corporate competitiveness at Stanford
University. Useful CEE tools such as facilitated work based learning
were also presented at the seminar. Case studies involving life-long
learning examples from NUS, Michigan, Georgia Tech and Japan were
presented to demonstrate how CEE programs can be successfully conducted
with high quality.
The seminar ended with a dialogue session between panelists and
participants. Interesting and fruitful exchanges on various CEE topics
such as CEE centre operation, international exchanges and
collaborations were discussed. The dialogue session was followed by an
informal gathering and networking session between CEE leaders from
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand and IACEE council members.
Interested persons may view the seminar presentation files and
photographs of the event at
http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/PACentre/courses/IACEE.htm.
What's up in Europe?
As economy is now booming in Europe, one would expect the same for the
continuing engineering education business. Generally, this is true;
however, there are a few trends.
As always after an economy dip, shareholder value becomes of the utmost
importance. After all, the bonuses of the top floor depend on it.
Consequently, investments in continuing education of employees does not
follow the economy trend to the same extend. What we see in fact is a
decline in enrollment for open courses, especially multi-day events.
The reason might be the time constraint employees suffer from, pushed
to their limits to maximize the net profit.
Fortunately, there is a growing demand for in-company trainings. The
advantages for companies are obvious. In-house courses are cost
effective because participants do not spend time and money on travel.
The course programme is tailored to the needs of the company,
confidentiality is ensured, and problems or case studies are generated
by the day to day operation of the company. Last but not least the
company is able to choose time and venue of their in-house course.
Finally, like in the world of big business, scaling up becomes
necessary. Cooperation between CEE-providers, combining the efforts of
institutions to form larger units, even merging of providers with
complementary fields of business facilitates the one stop shopping
concept for companies and enables the providers to become preferred
supplier. In The Netherlands, two national CEE-providers will merge
during the next months to benefit from these advantages.
Louk Fennis
Director PAON, The Netherlands
IACEE Council Member
fennis@paol.nl
IACEE 11th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education
May 20-23, 2008 * Atlanta
Add to the discussions
at the 11th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education on May
20-23, 2008, in Atlanta. Explore solving today’s problems and
tomorrow’s issues by improving global education and awareness. Examine
solutions to these challenges:
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Better prepare a new
marketing approach to reach the global engineer.
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Discover the latest
research on the continuing education marketplace.
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Learn how marketing
research can better focus your limited resources to make better program
decisions.
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Find out how to
increase enrollments using sound marketing principles.
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For more information
about the marketing track, contact Pam Atkinson, Director Cal
VIEW, College of Engineering, University of California-Berkeley.
Learn more of the
other five tracks at www.wccee2008.com.
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Technology:
Effective Technology for Enabling a Successful Educational Program
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Fundamentals:
Fulfilling the ‘Mission Critical’ for an Effective Program
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Faculty
Engagement: Program Development and Faculty Engagement
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Partnerships:
Building Partnerships with Government and Industry
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The
Marketplace: Understanding the Needs of the Global Marketplace
for Continuing Engineering Education
Share your expertise
with other industry, government, and academia professionals—submit an
abstract by Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. Learn more at www.wccee2008.com.
THE
ROLE OF RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION FOR CONTINUING ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN
MARKET ECONOMY
by Yury Bocharov, IACEE Council Member
The
System of Government supported continuing engineering and professional
development in Russia has been well established about 25 years ago.
Twelve Regional Inter-Branch Institutes for Engineering PD have been
introduced attached to the Universities in addition to specialized
Industrial Corporate PD Institutes being in operation at every branch
of the Economy. According to
regulations every engineer has to attend PD courses for four-six weeks
released from duties every four-five years, the number of trained
engineers by Institutions has been very large every year.
For the full paper, please click here.
JSEE 55th Annual
Conference & Exposition
2-5 August 2007
The
Japanese Society for Engineering Education will be holding its 55th
Annual Conference in Tokyo, Japan, at Nihon University. The JSEE
Conference theme is "The Era of College Open Admission"; the
theme reflects the freshmen's capacity of all Japanese colleges being
balanced with the number of candidates. For the international session,
the theme will be "International Cooperation in Engineering Education."
For more
information, please contact JSEE's Director for International Affairs,
Prof. Hajime Fujita at: fujita@mech.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp.
11th World Conference on Continuing
Engineering Education
19-23 May 2008
As demand
increases, continuing education must keep pace with the demands of a
changing workforce and develop engineers who can solve challenges and
problems in a world shaped daily by technological, scientific,
economic, and social changes. Share your expertise with other industry
professionals submit an abstract! Add to the discussions at the 11th
World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education in Atlanta and
help shape the future.
To review
the full Call for Papers, please see:
http://www.iacee.org/WCCEE/default.htm. For complete information on
the conference, see http://www.wccee2008.com.
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