 16 January 2009
ACOFI 2009
National Meeting and Engineering Expo, Santa Marta, Colombia
September 16-18, 2009
IFEES' member, ACOFI, will host its national meeting to generate an academic environment for analyzing and reflecting upon the relationship between the university, the productive sector and the State, from the perspective of Engineering Schools, with regard to processes of entrepreneurship and innovation and their impact upon society.
Specific Objectives:
- Disseminate the capacity of engineering schools for generating science, technology and innovation, in order to promote alliances and optimize resource usage.
- Reflect on the development of science and technology and their pertinence in terms of the country's appropriation and sustainability.
- Debate current requirements and strategies for training engineers.
- Debate the productive sector needs with regard to the training of engineers in masters degrees and PhDs.
- Identify technological management models which show an articulation between the university and the external sector
More information is available here (PDF: 2.68MB)
12 January 2009
IFEES would like to give a warm welcome to our new member: Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE). Please welcome AAEE to the IFEES community.
 January 8 2009
ANFEI Workshop, Merida, Mexico
March 9-13, 2009
Title: Curriculum Innovation and Quality Assurance: a Roadmap for Excellence
Goal: to help faculty, deans and higher education leadership understand the importance of planning curriculum innovation to respond to stakeholder needs, developing industry-university partnerships and a quality assurance culture for effective decision making and improvement at all levels in higher education. The NAE 2006 award winning Learning Factory program, its characteristics and development process will be used as an example throughout the course.
Expected outcomes: At the end of the workshop, participants will be expected to:
- Understand the basics of curriculum innovation in response to stakeholders needs
- Become aware of how to transform a traditional course syllabus into a competency-based syllabus
- Learn about student learning outcomes, assessment tools and consider adopting them in their classrooms
- Develop a plan for curriculum innovation
- Understand the importance of establishing a quality assurance culture for continuous improvement of higher education
- Understand the basics of building and nurturing university-industry relationships
More information is available here(PDF: 93KB)
 January 8 2009
2009 IFEES Global Summit, St. Petersburg, Russia
May 18-23, 2009
The IFEES Secretariat would like to share the following update for the attendees and guests of the 2009 IFEES Global Summit, St. Petersburg, Russia. We want to emphasize that this is still under development but felt it necessary to provide you with at least some information at this time.
The 2009 IFEES Global Summit will take place on May 19-23, 2009, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Preliminary IFEES Summit program is available here(PDF: 134KB). The International Colloquium, hosted by the Russian Association for Engineering Education (RAEE), will take place on May 20-22. General information regarding this event, registration fees and preliminary program can be found on Colloquium's website: http://ac-raee.ru/colloquium.
Guest and participants should note that Russian visa processing may take longer depending on the type of visa and requirements of the local Russian consulates. IFEES Global Summit attendees are strongly encouraged to contact Russian consulate offices in their respective countries well in advance and find out visa requirements and application processing details. The following are the links to the Russian consulates in several countries:
There are currently two types of visa IFEES Global Summit attendees may consider applying for, business or tourist visa. Business visa invitation letters usually take longer to process, therefore attendees are encouraged to send their passport, institutional affiliation and contact information to the Russian organizers in RAEE at Colloquium@ac-raee.ru by January 15th, 2009.
The other option, tourist visa, can be arranged with the help of hotel Azimut, where majority of attendees will be staying and all IFEES Global Summit events will take place. General information regarding rooms rates, conference space and contact details for hotel's staff can be found at:
http://www.azimuthotels.ru/en/hotels/st_peterburg/about_hotel.
Please note that the tourist agencies at various Russian hotels charge different fees for their services of arranging invitation letters. IFEES Global Summit and Colloquium organizers will strive to make special arrangements for processing invitation letters for attendees staying at the Azimut Hotel. However, communication regarding invitation letters with the hotel staff and visa processing are sole responsibility of the guests and attendees.
Please note that the registration fees for the IFEES Summit and the RAEE Colloquium are still under discussion. We will finalize in late January.
 7 January 2009
5th Global Students Forum on Engineering Education
Extendend Deadline for application is the 15th January 2008
The Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED) in cooperation with the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and the Russian Association for Engineering Education (RAEE) will gather 100 student leaders in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 15th-23rd, 2009, for the Global Student Forum (GSF) on Engineering Education. The GSF event is part of the 3rd IFEES Global Summit, which will draw academics, representatives from government, industry and non-profit organisations, and students from all around the world to discuss issues pertinent to engineering education.
The GSF program will focus on developing thinking from a global perspective and providing a local applicability to students ideas. Students will share ideas and discuss the skills and competencies of a modern successful engineer and how to implement such current practices into curriculum in order to improve engineering education. Students will participate in a series of workshops, discussions, presentations and creation of action plans that will enable them to become a factor of change in the development of engineering education curriculum.
Program Highlights:
- Problem Based Learning (Workshop)
- Student Leadership (Workshop)
- Creativity as a factor of Quality (Workshop)
- Cooperative Learning (Workshop)
- Service Learning (Workshop)
- Virtual Learning (Workshop)
- Student Discussion Forum (Discussion)
- Participation in IFEES/RAEE Global Summit
- Cultural program and visits to architectural and cultural jewels of St.
Petersburg
SPEED, IFEES and RAEE kindly invite you and all your interested colleagues to attend the 5th GSF.
For further information: http://worldspeed.org/gsf2009russia
For enquiries regarding the programme, please contact:
For enquires regarding the venue, please contact:
For enquires regrding visa and invitations, please contact:
January 5 2009
 First IFEES Asia Pacific Regional Conference and 38th Annual Convention of the Indian Society for Technical Education hosted in Bhubaneswar, India
IFEES member - the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) hosted the first IFEES Asia Pacific Regional Conference in conjunction with its own 38th Annual Convention on the beautiful campus of KIIT University in Bhubaneswar, India on December 19 - 21, 2008. Given the leadership and support provided by Professor Shetty, President of ISTE, and his team as well as the active participation of several IFEES members and the General Secretary, IFEES was able to successfully conduct its first regional conference bringing engineering education leaders from throughout Asia and other continents. The structure of the IFEES Regional conference focused on the following themes and counted on approximately 200 participants:
- “Challenges in Engineering Education in the Asia Pacific Region” and featured several speakers from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Singapore;
- “Skill Development for the Global Workforce Requirement.” The Global Student Forum included approximately 40 students from India, other South Asian countries, Europe and the US;
- “Industry Expectations of Institutions and Industry Obligations to Institution” and featured nine corporate speakers including IFEES members Dassault Systemes, Infosys and Autodesk;
- “IFEES Mission and Strategies in Search for Excellence in Engineering Education Worldwide.” Speakers included the representatives of the Global Engineering Deans Council, IUCEE, ISTE and the IFEES Secretary General.
IFEES leader Mervyn Jones, representing the IACEE, was the keynote speaker to the ISTE Convention, as well as Jack Lohmann and Karl Smith offered a well attended workshop focusing on engineering education research and the Journal for Engineering Education. Mervyn also presented a workshop on his research related to life-long learning.
IFEES Executive Committee member Xavier Fouger of Dassault Systemes was responsible for planning, facilitating, and identifying nine corporate colleagues for the panel discussion on industry. |
