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 Graaf, 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.
IFEES Leadership Positions - Call for Nominations
The IFEES Nominating Committee has extended the deadline for nominations for the IFEES President 2012-2014, and IFEES Executive Committe 2011-2013. Please send your nominations to ifeeselections AT ifees.net.
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 **
ASEE's Eighth Annual Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education
The American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) eighth annual Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education will be held June 25, in Vancouver, Canada, one day before the opening of the ASEE annual conference. This daylong program for teachers and engineering educators from both Canada and the United States will provide a fast-paced, interactive, results-oriented overview of engineering education for the K-12 classroom. Attendees will discover valuable best practices, new contacts for collaboration, and the latest take-away tools for effective teaching about engineering education. More details are online.
Triangle Coalition member, the American Society for Engineering Education, is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology. It accomplishes this mission by promoting excellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice; exercising worldwide leadership; fostering the technological education of society; and providing quality products and services to members.
In pursuit of academic excellence, ASEE develops policies and programs that enhance professional opportunities for engineering faculty members, and promotes activities that support increased student enrollments in engineering and engineering technology colleges and universities. ASEE's 12,000+ members include deans, department heads, faculty members, students, and government and industry representatives who hail from all disciplines of engineering and engineering technology. Find out more at www.asee.org.
20 May 2011
Registration for 2011 IFEES Summit Now Open!
Registration for the 2011 IFEES Summit is now open. Register before July 1st for the discounted rate: http://www.wee2011.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=98
This year's Summit is a part of the World Engineering Education Flash Week, hosted by IFEES member, ISEL (Insituto Superior de Enghenaria Lisboa). For more information, please visit the official website at www.wee2010.com.
Launch of IIDEA Website
Annette Kolmos of SEFI and Lueny Morell of Hewlett-Packard are delighted to announce that The International Institute for Developing Engineering Academics (IIDEA) has formally launched its website (www.iideainstitute.org). Please browse the website and send them your comments and suggestions.
The first 'official' IIDEA workshop will be held in Beijing next May hosted by the Chinese Engineering Education Association and Tsinghua University, expecting more than 200 faculty and deans. IIDEA leadership is already in discussions with several engineering education associations and universities to organize workshops this year, including: Brazil - ABENGE, September 2011; Lisbon - SEFI, October 2011; Shanghai - ASEE/GCEE, October 2011; India - ISTE, December 2011.
22 April 2011
Message from the Secretary General: IFEES Nominating Committee
Dear members of the IFEES community: on behalf of our IFEES President Krishna Vedula, I am pleased to announce the establishment of the Nominating Committee for the forthcoming IFEES elections in October. We will obviously keep you informed about the progress of the work of this committee and ask that you give serious thought as to who you wish to be the future leaders of our global organization. All eligible members who have paid their annual membership fees will be able to vote in October.
The confirmed members of the Nominating Committee are: Krishna Vedula (Chair), Lueny Morell, Tan Moorthy, Giuliano Augusti, Mario Gomez, and Hans J Hoyer (ex-oficio non-voting). Be sure to let me know if you have any questions. Warm personal regards, Hans
IFEES Meeting in Vancouver, Canada
The next IFEES Meeting will take place during the ASEE Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada, from 26-29 June 2011. Meeting details can be found on the ASEE website. If you are interested in attending, please find registration information on the ASEE Annual Conference webpage.
CONFEDI Represented at ASEE EDI
IFEES member, CONFEDI, was represented by Uriel Cukierman at the recent Engineering Deans Institute, an annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education. CONFEDI and the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional of Argentina will be hosting the 2012 World Engineering Education Forum in Buenos Aires.
18 March 2011
REMINDER! IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education
The deadline for submitting nomination packages for the 2011 IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education is 31 March 2011. Please see the Award page for more information. The IFEES judging committee would like to remind nominators that Award nominees can only be judged based on the information submitted. A strong nomination package will not merely list the nominees’ accomplishments, but will tell the impact of those accomplishments. 2012 World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education Website Launch
The official web of the IACEE 2012 World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education is officially open! You can find all relevant information about the Conference on the website. Visit our web www.iacee2012wc.upv.es You can also follow all the conference updates by joining the 2012 WCCEE Linkedin group.
IFEES Members Create Opportunity for Students  
The Ibero-American Student Contest is an international event organized by ISTEC, with the support of SPEED (www.worldspeed.org). The Contest brings students from the Iberian Peninsula and North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean together in an annual International Contest to stimulate the creativity and the scientific talent of engineering students, motivate students of the Region to put in practice their knowledge toward the solution of practical problems, and foster the use of a next generation networking platform that delivers a real-time collaborative problem-solving venue and facilitates networking among the contest participants across geographical boundaries.
The contest will take place in a virtual setting (http://www.istec.org/lang/en-us/discuss/student/) where students can upload documents, pictures of posters, video clips, or PowerPoint presentations (max 30 minutes). This year the challenge is to produce solutions within a transdisciplinary framework. Students are encouraged to present comprehensive, systems oriented projects that offer solutions that take into consideration environmental, social, political and economic impacts.
For more information, you may download the Contest description here.
20 February 2011
IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education
The Call for Nominations for the IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education has been emailed to all active IFEES members. You can find more information on the Award under the "Activities" Tab. If your organization is an active member, and has not received this email, please contact the General Secretary, Dr. Hans J. Hoyer. Please send nomination packages to award (at) ifees (dot) net by 31 March 2011.
2011 SEFI Conference - Call for Papers
You may click here for the Call for papers related to the SEFI Annual Conference 2011, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal on 27-30 September, in the context of the First International Engineering Education Flash Week. Please also visit www.wee2011.com for further information. This year's IFEES Summit will be co-located with the SEFI Conference - be sure to mark your calendars for this event!
2011 LACCEI Conference - Call for Papers
This year's LACCEI Conference will be hosted by Universidad EAFIT in Medellin, Colombia. The title of this year's conference is, "Engineering for a Smart Planet, Innovation, Information Technology and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development." Please click here for important dates and more information on this conference.
Invitation to Submit Papers to ISTE Publication
Please find here an invitation to distinguished academics and professionals to submit papers to the 3rd in a series of books published by the Indian Society for Technical Education. You may find a list of papers from the previous two books in the series here.
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