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6 February 2012
Mission10X Reaches 20,000 Faculty Members
The Mission10X faculty community has just crossed the 20,000 mark, making it
one of the significant engineering education initiatives in the world. This
family of 20,104 teachers is spread across 1,134 institutions from 25
states/union territories across India.
11 January 2012
IFEES Members Collaborate and Publish a New Book
A newly published book, “International Accreditation Perspectives. International Conference on Accreditation. ICA 2011,” was written and edited by members of both IFEES and GEDC, including: Dr. R. Natarajan, N.R. Shetty, R. Natarajan, David K. Holger, Ashok Saxena, Hasan Mandal, Avichal Kapur, Giuliano Augusti, Iring Wasser, Claudio Borri and Elisa Guberti, Krishna Vedula, Ramiro Jordan, Dulce Garcia, Hans J. Hoyer and many other colleagues.
Brian Yoder of ASEE Contributes to a Book on East Asian Education
Brian Yoder, from ASEE's Data Collection and Analysis Department, contributed a chapter to the highly praised book entitled, “Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education.” This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate. The book' s focus is on how higher education systems learn from each other and on the ways in which they collaborate to address new challenges. The sub-theme that runs through this volume concerns the changing nature of cross-border sharing. In particular, the provision of technical assistance by more industrialized countries to lower and middle income countries has given way to collaborations that place the latter's participating institutions on a more equal footing. At the same time, there is a greater number of partnerships that link higher education systems in the East Asian region to one another. Even as boundaries become more porous and permeable, there is growing acceptance of the view that cross border collaboration, if done well, can offer mutually beneficial advantages on multiple levels. There is a new recognition that the intensified international sharing of ideas, strategies of learning, and students is not only of enormous value to systems and institutions but essential to their long term survival. To this end, the chapters in this volume examine various motivations, goals, mechanisms, outcomes and challenges associated with cross-border collaboration in higher education. Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education was awarded 1st place in the Annual Comparative and International Education Society's Higher Education SIG in the category Best in Book for 2009-2010 academic year.
7 October 2011
2011 IFEES Election Results
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 IFEES Election:
2011 President-Elect
Jose Carlos Quadrado, Instituto Superior Engenharia Lisboa (ISEL)/European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
2011-2013 Executive Committee Members
Jennifer DeBoer, Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED)
Erik de Graaff, European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
Ivan Esparragoza, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI)
Duncan Fraser, African Engineering Education Association (AEEA)
Euan Lindsay, Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE)
Open Invitation to International Meetings of KSEE
KSEE wants to contribute to the international engineering education community through many activities, examples of which are as follows:
- establishing an Asian hub for disbursement of engineering education information
- establishing an Asian hub for introducing engineering to K-12 students
- establishing forums and symposiums on current issues in engineering education
- establishing workshops on engineering education methodologies for faculties in engineering colleges
- publishing policy reports on:
- engineering education
- women in engineering education
- life-long engineering education
- liberal education in engineering education
As part of the above activities, you are cordially invited to KSEE's next international meeting in the beautiful southern island of Jeju where many delegates from Japan, China and the United States gather annually to discuss and collaborate on all issues pertaining to engineering education.
Date: 2011. 11. 24 (Thursday) - 25 (Friday)
Place: The Shilla Jeju
Hosted by: KSEE
Supported by: KSEE, DAECK, NAEK, ABEEK
For foreign speakers (up to 20) at these meetings, all registrations fees are to be waived and two days' accommodation is to be providede for compliments of KSEE. KSEE, in pursuit of its renewed priority globalization vision, extends its cordial invitations to the international community at large.
30 September 2011
2011 IFEES Secretariat Report
The 2011 IFEES Secretariat Report will be shared at the upcoming General Assembly at the IFEES Summit in Lisbon, Portugal on 2 October 2011. You may download the documents here:
2011 IFEES Secretariat Report
2011 IFEES Secretariat Report - Appendix A - IFEES Summary of Membership
2011 IFEES Secretariat Report - Appendix B - Strategic Plan
2011 IFEES Secretariat Report - Appendix C - Finance Report
15 June 2011
2011 IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education
Jack R. Lohmann, editor of ASEE's Journal of Engineering Education, has received the 2011 Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education from the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). He was one of four nominees put forward b y IFEES members.
The Award Committee agreed that Lohmann's work "has had a clear impact on the profession worldwide," raising JEE to tier one status among research journals in both Science and Social Science indices. Lohmann, vice provost for Faculty and Academic Development and professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was also cited for contributing to faculty development through workshops on engineering education research.
Lohmann is a Fellow of ASEE, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the European Society of Engineering Education.
Australasian Association for Engineering Education - Annual Conference
The Australasian Association for Engineering Education would like to invite you to join as at our annual conference from Monday, December 5th to Wednesday, December 7th. Our conference theme this year is "Developing Engineers for Social Justice: Community Involvement, Ethics & Sustainability", and the conference will be held in the historic Fremantle port precinct of Perth, Western Australia.
Please find attached to this email a copy of the Call for Papers. It contains the details necessary for you to submit your full paper for review. Submissions are due by Friday July 15th. ** It is not a requirement to have submitted an abstract in order to submit a full paper **
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