30 October 2009
A New Book on Engineering Education
Innovation and Assessment of Engineering Curricula. Valladolid 2009. - This book a collection of the presentations and other activities carried out at an International Symposium jointly organized by the University of Valladolid and SEFI Curriculum Development Working Group (CDWG) in May 2009. The Symposium was a discussion oriented meeting on topics such as Curriculum Innovation, Accreditation and Assessment, Active Learning, Project and Problem Based Learning, and Examples of Good Practice in Engineering Education.
The information is arranged in several blocks, beginning with one containing the invited lectures. It is followed by papers from the different working sessions and poster presentations, arranged within each block alphabetically by the name of their first authors. The last section contains reports of the working sessions followed by one of the panel round on curriculum innovation, and workshop on innovation and assessment of curricula, in the English and the Spanish sessions.
The contents of the book can be downloaded from http://www.eup.uva.es/simposio09/english.htm.
Global Ranking of Universities Published
Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley again finished first, second, and third in the Annual Ranking of World Universities, published today by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As in previous years, American universities dominated the ranking, filling out 55 of the top 100 positions. The only non-American institutions in the top 20 were the Universities of Cambridge (4), Oxford (10), and Tokyo (20). The Chinese university's ratings, which are based on a formula that includes the number of alumni who win Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of papers published in Nature and Science, and scholarly--citation indexes, is part of a growing global obsession with university rankings.
Rankings can be found here: http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp
21 October 2009
IFEES Secretariat Report
The most recent IFEES Secretariat Report can be downloaded here. The Report includes updates from IFEES members on various activities. The Report was presented at the last IFEES meeting at the GCEE in Budapest.
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