March 2007

April-May 2007
Newsletter

International Association for Continuing Engineering Education

Special Points of Interest

- VP, Membership Development Message

- Items of Interest

- Papers

- Conferences

At the recent IACEE Council Meeting in Singapore, the Council reviewed the membership statistics as of April 16, 2007. IACEE has 136 paid active members, distributed as follows by type:

Regional Leader Organizations 6
Professional Technical Organizations & Societies 11
Industrial Organizations and Companies 4
Academic Institutions & Other Providers of CEE 52
Individual Members 63
TOTAL 136

This total is up from 83 in the spring of 2005, prior to the last World Conference on CEE in Vienna. Another interesting fact is that nearly 50% of our membership comes from only three countries:

USA 23
China 22
Finland 21
TOTAL 66

The remaining 70 members come from 35 other countries, ranging from Japan with 8 members to eighteen countries with only one member.

While next year’s 11th World Conference on CEE will provide us with another major conference opportunity to grow our membership, I want to ask each of you, our current members, to focus on getting one new member for IACEE between now and the end of 2007. If each of us could manage this task, we could double our current membership by year’s end. An Application for Membership form may be obtained at the IACEE web site at www.iacee.org, then click on Membership and then on Membership Application.

Happy Hunting!
Frank Burris
VP, Membership Development

Conferences

ASEE Annual Conference
"Riding the Wave to Excellence in Engineering Education"
24-27 June 2007
http://www.asee.org/
conferences/annual/2007/

SEFI & IGIP Joint Annual Meeting
"Joining Forces in Engineering Education Towards Excellence"
1-4 July 2007
http://www.sefi-igip2007.com/

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, "Enhance, Transform and Connect the Global Engineer"
19-23 May 2008
http://www.wccee2008.com
 

IACEE 11th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education
May 20-23, 2008 * Atlanta

Mark your calendars for the 11th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education on May 20-23, 2008, in Atlanta. Join us for 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. Each month, as we approach the conference, we will examine each of the six tracks, including the fundamentals.

April
The technology track, Technology: Effective Technology for Enabling a Successful Educational Program, delves into developing a plan for the successful deployment, training, support, and change management aspects of a technology implementation. Improve your course delivery and student-learning capabilities by exploring successful case studies and examining the lessons learned from technology used today as well as what is coming tomorrow.

• Add to the discussions in Atlanta. Share your expertise with other industry, government, and academia professionals—submit an abstract.

• For more information about the technology track, contact Nelson Baker, associate vice provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education at Georgia Institute of Technology.

May
Fundamentals: Fulfilling the ‘Mission Critical’ for an Effective Program explores ways to determine the effectiveness of the individual learning experience and the long-term viability of your program. Learn the tools and best practices that show how to implement “the fundaments” for both small and large organization, whether they are long-standing or just beginning.

• Add to the discussions in Atlanta. Share your expertise with other industry, government, and academia professionals—submit an abstract by Monday, Sept. 17, 2007.

• For more information about the fundamentals track, contact Phil O’Leary, professor and department chair of the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For more information about WCCEE 2008, contact Jennifer Wooley, assistant director of client marketing at DLPE. For more information on WCCEE 2008, submission process, and all of the tracks, visit www.wccee2008.com.
 

The School of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) copyrights EDIFICA, his own Learning Management System
by Professor Gerardo Ferrando, IACEE First Vice President

In 1996, the Continuing Education Division of the School of Engineering (DECFI, by initials in Spanish language), of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), begins to offer his first fully Internet-based Diploma. On 2002 year, the Research and Development Center for On-Line Education (CIDEL, initials in Spanish language) was established at DECFI.
Currently, our School offers three Master Degrees and one Specialization Degree oriented towards technical personnel of various Mexican governmental offices. We also offer seven Diplomas and several singles courses, to any kind of public.

In 2006, DECFI finishes the research, development and testing of his own Learning Management System (LMS) named EDIFICA (School of Engineering Distance Education Courses and Assessment in Spanish language). On 2007 EDIFICA was copyrighted in Mexico, and now is being in the process of getting copyrighted in several other countries. With EDIFICA, our School is now able to pack learning objects that fully integrates content and technological platform for public distribution.

Overview of EDIFICA key benefits and features:

• Simple and intuitive user interface. Short learning curve for final users.
• SCORM 2.0 compliant to deliver learning contents that can be easily modified and used on different SCORM-compliant tools and platforms.
• Internal chat room, online forums and one blog per course.
• Development of HTML content inside EDIFICA, reusing files from different sources and formats (ppt, pdf, flash, mpg, jpg).
• Internal HTML editor for fast development of single and unique courses, or to make last minute changes to any course.
• On-line generated exams with random selection of questions and answers (multi-choice). Instant and automatic evaluation and assessment. Full control on exam presentation dates and times to resolve each question. Also accepts open questions, which written answers can be reviewed on-line or off-line by a professor.
• Easy management and control of registrar tasks, schedule of courses and professors, user accounts and courses contents. Full statistics reports module.
• As a copyrighted system developed by our School, EDIFICA is generating big savings in licenses fees to our University.

EDIFICA was developed by a team of DECFI professors under the leadership of M.Eng. Alberto Moreno-Bonett, Head of DECFI, with active collaboration of M. Sc. Arturo Velázquez-Mayoral, M.Eng. Jorge Martínez-Peniche, Eng. Marycarmen Hernández and Eng. José-Luis Santiago-Rodríguez.

For IACEE members, EDIFICA can be accessed (for the moment, only in Spanish language) at the Web address: http://200.67.143.174/lms_cidel with username: arturo, password: arturo.
 

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.hihon-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.
 

International Association

for

Continuing Engineering

Education

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Phone: 202-331-3504
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IACEE Executive Committee

President
Mervyn Jones
m.jones@imperial.ac.uk

First Vice President; Vice President, Special Interest Groups
Gerardo Ferrando
ferrando@servidor.unam.mx

Vice President, Membership Development
Frank Burris
fburris@uclaextension.edu

Vice President, Projects
Feng Changgen
cgfeng@cast.org.cn

Vice President, World Conferences on CEE
Colin C.F. Leung
cvelcf@nus.edu.sg

Secretary General
Frank Huband
f.huband@iacee.org