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DECEMBER 2010

21 December 2010

Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education

The final report from the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, Enabling Engineering Student Success, is now available for downloading. The full report includes results from our research on engineering student learning experiences and aspects of faculty teaching, as well as descriptions of the programs we developed to build the community of engineering education scholars and to help engineering graduate students develop as teachers. With funding from NSF, CAEE actively conducted research during 2003-2009 and is continuing to disseminate the results of that research. The PDF of the final report, along with the technical report describing results from the APPLES survey are posted on the CAEE web site at http://www.engr.washington.edu/caee/. You can also read more on the NSF news page at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117872&org=NSF&from=news.

SPEED Organizes Workshops in India on "Mentoring"

In the month of December, the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED), to organize a workshops in India on "Mentoring for Innovative Engineering." The three workshops were held at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College in Tiruchengode Taluk, Jayam College of Engineering Technology in Dharmapuri, and the Mahendra Engineering College in Sivakasi (http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/16/stories/2010121653510300.htm). The events were successful enough that ISTE President N.R. Shetty is considering increasing the frequency of the workshops.

Third Research Symposium on Project Based Learning in UK

The third Research Symposium on PBL will be held at Coventry University, United Kingdom from 28-29 November 2011. For more information, you may follow this webpage: http://www.ucpbl.net/News/One+News//the-third-research-symposium-will-be-held-at-coventry-university--uk--november-28-29--2011..cid20638 . You may also download a brochure by clicking here.

Recent Meeting of IFEES Executive Committee

The Executive Committee recently had a conference call addressing several items in the upcoming year. The agenda included an update on the 2011 IFEES Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, approval of CONFEDI's bid for the 2012 IFEES Summit, a report from SPEED representative, Jennifer DeBoer about the recent workshops in India, preparations for the 2011 IFEES Award, and plans for strategic planning process. IFEES members may request minutes of the meeting from the Secretariat.

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NOVEMBER 2010

12 November 2010

IGIP International Symposium on Engineering Education

XL IGIP International Symposium on Engineering Education
March 27-30, 2011, Santos, São Paulo - BRAZIL
Forming International Engineers for the Information Society
http://www.copec.org.br/igip2011/
Organized by: Science and Education Research Council (COPEC)
Promoted by: Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpädagogik (IGIP)

2010 IFEES Award Banquet Speech Available Here

During the recent World Engineering Education Forum, IFEES presented the inaugural IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education to Dr. Richard Felder. The evening started with a local performance, followed by speeches from the President of IFEES member, Institute of Engineers Singapore, Er. Ho Siong Hin, and Dr. Felder. Dr Felder's speech, "We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident" can be downloaded here.

Update from IFEES Secretariat

The new fiscal year has begun, and several things are in motion at the IFEES Secretariate Office:
1) Krishna Vedula is now the sitting President of IFEES. We thank Lueny Morell for her leadership for the past two years, and look forward to working with Dr. Vedula.

2) Five new members have been elected to the Executive Committee - please visit the "About IFEES" page to see your newly elected Executive Committee members.

3) Invoices for Fiscal Year 2011 (October 2010 - September 2011) will be sent out before the end of the calendar year. Please email the Secretariat Office if you have any questions about your membership.

4) You may download the 2010 IFEES Secretariat Report here.

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SEPTEMBER 2010

17 September 2010

ASIBEI's Declaración de Belo Horizonte

Please visit ASIBEI's (Asociación Iberoamerican de Instituciones de Enseñanza de la Ingeniería) website for news on its recent Declaración de Belo Horizonte (in Spanish only): http://www.asibei.org/boletin/julio/

Founding Meeting of Society of Engineering Education in South Africa

In August 2010, Sarah Rajala participated in the founding meeting of the Society of Engineering Education in South Africa (SEESA) and present an overview on the future of engineering education globally. The meeting was a great success and attended by about 65 individuals from throughout South Africa. The founding members approved a set of by-laws and elected the initial set of officers and executive committee. The founding president is Dr. Jenni Case, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town. SEESA membership in IFEES will be sponsored by ECSA for at least the next five years.

During the trip, Rajala visited the University of Johannesburg and met with a group of engineering faculty. Dr. Kim Battle, Special Assistant to the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, coordinated the visit. She also met with a group of engineering education faculty at the University of Cape Town. Her visit to UCT was coordinated by Dr. Jenni Case.

CNI Hosts Workshop on Technology & Innovation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

The National Confederation of Industry (CNI) of in Brazil partnered with a selected group of engineering education leaders (rectors, engineering deans, faculty and professional associations) and high level government officials from Ministries of Education and S&T to hold a workshop titled "Technology and Innovation: Engineering for the XXI Century", in São Paulo on August 22nd - 26th, 2010.

Held at the CNI Headquarters in Sao Paulo, the workshop focused on discussing the challenges and actions required to educate the global professional engineer for a new engineering for sustainability paradigm in the American Continent, especially in Brazil.

The opening ceremony was led by the Director of the Euvaldo Lodi Institute(IEL),the Presidents of FIESP, CIESP and the Presidents of the entities which established the iNOVA Engenharia program in Brazil. Joining distinguished Brazilian colleagues, IFEES President Lueny Morell (HP Labs), John Lamancusa (Penn State University - USA), Wonjong JOO (Seoul Tech - South Korea), Jochen Litterst (University of Braunschweig - Germany) and Erik de Graaff (University of Aalborg - Denmark) shared ideas on how the engineering education process can be an innovative short cut to social and economic development, creating benchmarks for problem based learning, bridging the gap between industry and university, developing learning environments with industry collaboration, and brainstorming characteristics of a "modern university." A session on "Mobilizing Entrepreneurship by Innovation" was led by Dr. Carlos Brito Cruz, Director of FAPESP with several industry representatives.

Participants worked in teams to discuss ideas and started drafting plans to realize those ideas.

L: Executive CAN Director addresses workshop attendees.

R: International speakers (Erik De Graaf, Wonjong Joo, John Lamancusa and Jochen Litterst

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AUGUST 2010

7 August 2010

Forging Engineering Education Partnerships in Kazakhstan

In mid-July, Professor Galim Mutanov, president of IFEES member, the Kazakhstan Society for Engineering Education (KazSEE) and Rector of the East Kazakhstan State Technical University (EKSTU) in Ust-Kamenogorsk, and Professor Valery Antonov, Secretary General of the KazSEE hosted the visit of Hans J. Hoyer, IFEES Secretary General & GEDC Executive Secretary, and Professor Stephanie Farrell, ASEE Board Member and professor of engineering at Rowan University. At the end of a Seminar given by Professor Farrell and Dr. Hoyer, the latter was honored by the EKSTU as Honorary Professor and presented with a beautiful cap and gown.

The purpose of the visit was to discuss strategies to strengthen the accreditation system at EKSTU as well as the Kazakh engineering community as a whole and link them to international organizations such as ABET, the Washington Accord and the Bologna Process. Furthermore, the group discussed strategies to link the KazSEE with universities in neighboring Central Asia countries to explore the formation of a regional engineering education society, as well as link those countries to some of the activities in Kazakhstan as well as IFEES, GEDC and other international efforts related to engineering education. Several Kazakh engineering rectors, deans and other leaders are expected to participate in the forthcoming week of the 2010 WEEF in Singapore under the leadership of Professor Mutanov.

Professor Farrell and Dr. Hoyer had the opportunity to meet several rectors representing the key Kazakh engineering schools, including a visit to Professor and Vice Rector Izim Dussembayev at the Kazakh National Technical University in Almaty. Several rectors and deans have expressed interest to join the GEDC; Dean Turganbayev Yerken of EKSTU has recently joined the GEDC. Dean Yerken was a participant in the IUCEE Summer Faculty Leadership Institute at the Infosys Mysore Campus in 2008. There was also great interest to involve Kazakh engineering students in international networks - a SPEED chapter has been formed on the campus of EKSTU, led by student leader Malykhina Yelena, who will participate in the 2010 WEEF in Singapore.

EKSTU will open the Scientific-Technological Park "Altai," which will be inaugurated in September 2010 by the presidents of Kazakhstan and Russia. Altai has the potential to form successful partnerships with some industrial parks emerging in Rowan University as well as Graphisoft Park in Budapest, Hungary. The partnership between EKSTU and Rowan University is also expected include student and faculty exchanges and project based learning workshops led by Professor Farrell focusing (possibly also under the umbrella of IFEES' new initiative related to faculty capacity building).

New IFEES Initiative - IIDEA

IFEES is pleased to announce the creation of the International Institute for Developing Engineering Academics (IIDEA), a new initiative which will be implemented under the umbrella of IFEES and in partnership with the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). The idea was originally conceptualized by its two co-directors Lueny Morell and Anette Kolmos. They are excited about its potentials and are already in discussions with IFEES members in different parts of the world to offer its first faculty/deans capacity building workshops. To read more on this initiative, please click here.

Galim Mutanov - "Economic-Mathematical Methods and Models"

Galim Mutanov, representative of IFEES member society, the Kazakhstan Society for Engineering Education, recently published a book called, "Economic-Mathematical Methods and Models." The monograph presents the issues of working out and applying economic-mathematical methods and models in task analysis and adoption of effective managerial and investment decisions. This book offers budget mathematical models, applying thermodynamic approach to management of economic systems, models of investment decisions adoption in multifarious conditions of distinctness, risk and indeterminacy and their application. This monograph is oriented for students, post-graduates, faculty staff of higher educational institutions, executive directors of enterprises, managers, state and financial office employees.

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JULY 2010

16 July 2010

IUCEE Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The IUCEE, the “brainchild” of IFEES President-Elect, Krishna Vedula, was set up with the help of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). Since 2007 more than 7,200 Indian faculty members have been trained in effective methods for teaching engineering courses, with many reporting high satisfaction with the workshops, and notable changes in student performance due to newly adopted teaching methods. You may read the article here: http://chronicle.com/article/In-India-an-Engineered/66087/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en.

NEA ICETE Hosted by Hungkuang University

The 4th North-East Asia International Conference on Engineering and Technology Education (4th NEA ICETE), under the theme The Innovation Strategy for Engineering and Technology Education in Knowledge Economy Era will be held in Taichung, Taiwan, between 25th and 29th of October 2010. IFEES member, Chinese Taipei; ATEEM, is joining with several other institutions to organize this event, which takes place shortly after the week of the WEEF in Singapore. For more information, please visit: http://120.107.96.101/~nea/index.htm

SEFI Releases 2008-2009 Biennial Report

The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) recently released its 2008-2009 Biennial Report. You may find a PDF version here.

Materials Education Symposia - Call for Speakers

Granta Design is supporting two Materials Education Symposia in March and April of 2011, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA and the University of Cambridge, UK, respectively. Please see the PDF flyer here.

1 July 2010

Nominations for 2010-2012 IFEES Executive Committee Now Closed

The Nominations for the 2010-2012 IFEES Executive Committee closed on 30 June. The Nomination Committee looks forward to reviewing the list of nominees and their credentials. All nominees will be asked to develop a brief justification and statement of purpose for their nomination. The IFEES Community will select the new Committee in October 2010 at the General Assembly in Singapore.

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JUNE 2010

29 June 2010

Winner of the 2010 IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education

The IFEES Executive Committee and Award Committee are pleased to announce Dr. Richard Mark Felder as the winner of the 2010 Inaugural IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. IFEES recognizes him for his outstanding and original contributions to engineering education worldwide. All representatives of IFEES member societies are invited to the IFEES Award & Reception Banquet on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 in Singapore, part of the 2010 IFEES Summit & week of the World Engineering Education Forum, where Dr. Felder will be honored with the Award and give a presentation on his work. Many thanks to our sponsors of this year’s Award, Hewlett-Packard, Infosys, and Dassault Systèmes.

10 June 2010

LACCEI Annual Conference Held in Arequipa, Peru

Several IFEES member societies gathered in Arequipa, Peru at the beginning of June. IFEES President Lueny Morell, IFEES Executive Committee Members Maria Petrie (LACCEI) and Ramiro Jordan (ISTEC), and Luiz Scavarda (EftA, ABENGE) were represented. Member societies Ibero-American Association of Institutes of Engineering Education (Asibei) and the Council of Deans of Engineering Faculties of Chile (CONDEFI) were represented as well.

Lueny Morell was the recipient of the 2009-2010 LACCEI Academic Merit Medal is given for leadership and global impact on engineering curriculum innovation and fostering industry-university partnerships in support of economic development. Paulino Alonso of CONDEFI and Luiz Scavarda of EftA (pictured above) are past recipients of this Award.

One noteworthy outcome of this meeting was the formation of a Latin American Engineering Deans Council - a platform for Latin American engineering deans to gather and share ideas and innovations in engineering education and research in the Latin American region.

IFEES Welcomes New Member - Chinese Taipei; ATEEM

We are pleased to announce that the IFEES Executive Committee has approved the membership application of Chinese Taipei; Association of Taiwan Engineering Education & Management, an organization based out of HungKuang University in Taichung, Taiwan.

IFEES President Makes Visit to Venue of Upcoming IFEES Summit

IFEES President Lueny Morell and Dr. John Lamancusa of Pennsylvania State University recently offered a curriculum innovation workshop at the National University of Singapore. They were hosted by IFEES member, Insitute of Engineers Singapore, at IES headquarters to discuss the upcoming IFEES Summit during the week of the World Engineering Education Forum in Singapore in October 2010.

While in Singapore, Ms. Morell had the opportunity to visit the venue of this year's Summit, the newly constructed Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center. Ms. Morell and IES Representative, Dr. Soon Hoe Chew, are working together on making the October event a highly successful one.

Pictured here: Eicher Low, CHEW Soon Hoe, ONG Ser Huan, Lueny Morell, John Lumancusa, NG Say Cheong, and LIM Chu Sing. Picture taken at IES Headquarters.

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MAY 2010

15 May 2010

Now Accepting Nominations for 2010-2012 Executive Committee

A Committee has been assembled to organize the nominations for the 2010-2012 IFEES Executive Committee. In accordance with the IFEES Bylaws, five Executive Committee members will be elected in October 2010, at the General Assembly during the IFEES Summit in Singapore. Each nominee will be asked to submit a biography, a statement articulating their motivation to serve, and the contribution they hope to make while on the Executive Committee, and to make a short (2-3 minute) presentation during the General Assembly Meeting in Singapore. The call for nominations will close on 30 June 2010.

Peking University College of Engineering Celebrates Fifth Anniversary; IFEES Secretary General Meets with Chinese Society for Engineering Education

On the 2nd day of May 2010, Peking University celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Engineering College in Beijing, China. IFEES Secretary General, Dr. Hans J. Hoyer, was invited to attend and speak with the audience. Shiyi Chen, dean of the Engineering College, is a member of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC); Peking University will be the host of the 2011 GEDC Conference in Beijing. Dean Chen will be partnering with colleagues from Tsinghua University to make the 2011 Conference a successful one.

While in Beijing, Dr. Hoyer also took the opportunity to meet with Yu Shouwen and Lei Qing, IFEES representatives of the Chinese Society for Engineering Education at Tsinghua University, located just across the street from Peking University. The CSEE has recently worked with Funso Falade, the IFEES Representative of the African Engineering Education Association, bringing over 25 African Colleagues to China for training. These two groups plan to continue growing their partnership in addressing engineering education issues.

BEST General Assembly at Warsaw University

On April 30th, the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) held a General Assembly at Warsaw University. Jose Carlos Quadrado, of the High Institute of Engineering of Lisbon, had the honor to be the keynote speaker at this celebration, the largest European gathering of students in Europe.

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APRIL 2010

23 April 2010

Ibero-American Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education

The Department of Production and Systems (DPS) and the Research Centre for Education (CIEd) of the University of Minho, Portugal are organising the symposium in cooperation with the Curriculum Development Working Group of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) to join teachers, researchers on Engineering Education, deans of Engineering Schools and professionals concerned with Engineering Education, to enhance Project Approaches in Engineering Education through workshops and discussion of current practice and research. This even will take place 1 - 2 July 2010, Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia. For more information, please see their official Call for Papers, or the Calendar of Events page.

5th African Regional Conference on Engineering Education

The African Engineering Education Association is hosting the 5th ARCEE from 2-5 October 2010 at The Higher Institute of Engineering in Hoon, Libya. The theme of this year's conference is "Advancing Engineering Education in a Resource-Constrained Environment." Please visit the conference website for more information: www.5tharcee.org.ly or email info@5tharcee.org.ly. Click here to download the Call for Papers.

7 April 2010

IFEES Award Nominations Closed

Thank you to all IFEES Member Representatives who submitted nominations for the 2010 IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. The Award Committee looks forward to reviewing the nominees. The Committee will submit their recommendations to the IFEES Executive Committee by the end of June.

IFEES Summit Registration and Housing Information Available

Please visit the IFEES Summit page for more information on the 2010 Summit's program, registration and housing details. IFEES Leadership is actively planning a great program, and hope that you will join us there! This year's Summit is a part of the WEEF, and will have several common sessions with ASEE, GEDC, IACEE, and SPEED. To get a better idea of the WEEF, please visit http://www.weef2010.org.

IFEES-Americas "Encuentros"

IFEES Member Representatives from EftA, LACCEI, ISTEC, Asibei, and ASEE have been working on a strategic vision and plan for engineering education in the Latin American region. They have identified a series of conferences and meetings in 2010 where these leaders will gather to further develop a strategy for the region.

June 1-4: LACCEI Conference, Arequipa, Peru
[http://www.laccei.org]

June 21-23: ASEE Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

September: OAS Meeting, Washington, DC, USA

October 17-20: WFEO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
[http://www.ingenieria2010.com/en/mnu-press/press-kit/114.html]

October 17-21: WEEF, Singapore [http://www.weef2010.org]

November: ISTEC, General Assembly [http://www.istec.org/events/ga/activities/]

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MARCH 2010

13 March 2010

Update on IFEES Award

It is a pleasure to announce that the process to form the new IFEES Leadership Award Committee has just been completed. The members of the IFEES Award Committee are Doug Gorham of IEEE, USA; Oswald Franks of ECSA, South Africa; Tan Moorthy of Infosys, India; Gudrun Kammasch of IGIP, Europe and Euan Lindsay of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. Stephanie Eng and Hans J. Hoyer will be non-voting members of the committee.

The Committee expects to complete its work in a few months and present its recommendation of three finalists to the IFEES Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will then make the final decision of who will receive IFEES' first award to be presented in Singapore on October 19, 2010 during the IFEES Awards Banquet. Be sure to let the Secretary General know if you have any questions. More information on the Award can be found on the IFEES Award page.

IFEES Welcomes New Member - Wipro Mission10X

We are pleased to announce that the IFEES Executive Committee has approved the membership application of Mission10X, a non profit trust created by Wipro Limited.

Mission10X is an initiative to enhance the employability skills of the engineering graduates across India. To learn more about this new member of IFEES, please visit the Wipro Mission10X website at: Mission10X.com.

Meetings Amongst European IFEES Member Societies

During the first week of March, several IFEES officials attended various meetings and conferences in Istanbul and Lisbon, organized by our European colleagues in SEFI, EUGENE and EUR-ACE. One was the EUR-ACE SPREAD Mid Term Conference hosted by MUDEK (Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs), where more than 60 colleagues from European countries presented their plans and outcomes for ensuring quality and transparency in engineering education. Organized by EUR-ACE coordinator Giuliano Augusti on March 1st 2010, the Conference invited speakers and moderators including IFEES 1st Vice President Hasan Mandal, IFEES Founding President Claudio Borri, former BEST President Omer Hantal, and IFEES President Lueny Morell. [See President Lueny Morell's presentation here].

Lueny Morell also participated in the EUGENE project's administrative meeting held on Tuesday, March 2nd, where leaders from EUGENE thrust lines discussed their plans and transversal activities of this innovative European project to advance European and Global Engineering Education. One of the lines, led by President of ISEL, Jose Carlos Quadrado, proposes to establish the European Engineering Deans Council, which is planned to be launched later this year in Paris.

Finally, in response to Vice Rector Hasan Mandal, the IFEES President had the opportunity to visit Anadolu University in Eskisehir, where she met with university officials and faculty, made a presentation on the Challenges of Engineering Education and offered a 3 hour workshop on basics of curriculum innovation to engineering faculty and department heads as well as invited guests.

NSF Sponsored Workshop: Exploring How People Learn Engineering

Are you interested in expanding your knowledge and skills in conducting high-quality engineering education research? If so, EXPLORING HOW PEOPLE LEARN ENGINEERING, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is a workshop that may be for you.

The workshop, intended for those with prior experience in conducting engineering education research, will be held in Golden, Colorado USA on August 2-4, 2010. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

(1) describe relevant psychological models of student learning

(2) apply these models to learning engineering

(3) develop a substantive engineering education research question

(4) develop a theory-based research plan to answer the research question

All costs during the workshop (hotel, food, workshop materials) will be paid by the project. Participants must pay for their own travel expenses to and from Golden, Colorado.

More information and an online application form may be found at: http://rree.csmspace.com/. EHPLE is part of a larger NSF-funded project entitled Expanding and Sustaining Research Capacity in Engineering and Technology Education: Building on Successful Programs for Faculty and Graduate Students, Ruth Streveler PI. Information about the larger program can be found at http://CLEERhub.org.

If you have questions, please contact Dr. Barbara Olds (bolds at mines.edu) or Dr. Ronald Miller (rlmiller at mines.edu), project coordinators at the Colorado School of Mines.

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FEBRUARY 2010

26 February 2010

Several IFEES Member Society Events Coming Up

IFEES member societies host meetings, seminars and conferences that take place throughout the year, and all over the world. You may check the calendar at any time for details on these events.

The Fourth Assembly of the Cartagena Network of Engineering will be held from Tuesday 21 to Friday, 24 September 2010, in Metz, France.

The Russian Association for Engineering Education (www.aeer.ru) jointly with Tomsk Polytechnic National Research University of Resource-Effective Technologies (www.tpu.ru) Irkutsk State Technical University (www.istu.edu) are organising the International Seminar "Eco-efficient and resource saving technologies in educational programmes aimed at training advanced professionals", held from June 27, 2010- July 4, 2010 in Tomsk and Irkutsk.

Planning for 2010 IFEES Summit Underway

This year's IFEES Summit will take place as part of the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) in Singapore. Conferences for five engineering education societies will be co-located at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Marina Bay Sands. Check back later for more details, or bookmark the WEEF website: www.weef2010.org.

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JANUARY 2010

29 January 2010

2010 International Research and Education in Engineering Program

The 2010 International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) Program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and organized by Purdue University, is now accepting applications for the 2010 grant cycle. IREE 2010 awardees will receive a stipend (US$4,000 for graduate students and US$3,000 for undergraduate students) to conduct engineering-related research in China from May - August 2010. The application deadline for IREE 2010 is FEBRUARY 15th, 2010. For eligibility and application, visit: http://www.globalhub.org/iree

Joint International IGIP-SEFI Annual Conference 2010

The IGIP-SEFI 2010 Conference Call for papers has been extended to 26 February. Details can be found here: http://www.igip-sefi2010.com/index.php/en/authors. Information on different IFEES member society events can always be found on the "Calendar" tab.

GEDC Launches New Website!

The GEDC Secretariat Office is pleased to announce that the official GEDC website (www.gedcouncil.org), home for the global community of deans, has been launched! Executive Secretary of the GEDC, Hans J. Hoyer, gives his deep thanks to colleagues at Michigan State University and especially to Dean Satish Udpa and the Engineering College's IT team. They have been exceptional partners in working with us. Thanks also go out to Dennis Cummings, Peggy Dolet, Stephanie Eng, Nick Carter and Chris Sliter-Ruiz of ASEE for all of their patient and hard work in making this website a reality. We look forward to your comments.

15 January 2010

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.

Study Abroad Program offered by IFEES member, COPEC

The CIB - Cultural Immersion in Brazil, organized by COPEC - Council of Researches in Education and Sciences, has dedicated the last ten years offering education experiences to many colleges groups from many different countries. No matter the field of expertise, many graduate schools and potential employers seek candidates with international experience because they believe such students have the skills to succeed in a global world.

For more information on dates, costs, certificates, please contact Prof. Dr. Melany Ciampi at cib[at]cope[dot]org[dot]br.

Reminder: Applications for 2010 Apprentice Faculty Grant Due 19 January

The Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE announced the opening of applications for the 2010 Apprentice Faculty Grant to attend the ASEE Conference in Louisville, KY from June 20-23, 2010. Please note that this year is we are introducing a pilot program with new eligibility and evaluation criteria—please read the new requirements carefully and forward this message to potential applicants.

8 January 2010

China - AEEA Training Program

On November 26, 2009, several members of the African Engineering Education Association (AEEA) traveled to Beijing, China for a 15 course program on transforming from a developing to developed nation. This three week program included a Seminar on Engineering Education and Project Management for African Countries. At the end of the program, Tsinghua University and AEEA signed a joint memorandum of understanding for cooperation between the two groups.

IFEES President to Present at Boeing University Relations Meeting

Boeing University Relations will hold an international meeting on January 7 & 8 in Huntington Beach, California on the value of educational societies and associations. Representatives from the UK, Spain, Australia, China, and India will be present. IFEES President, Lueny Morell, will be giving a presentation on the mission and goals of IFEES.

April 2010 IEEE Conference in Dublin

IBM and IEEE invite you to participate in a conference on Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments on 6-9 April, 2010, in Dublin, Ireland. Interactive program sessions are designed specifically for: workforce development and training executives at technology-driven organizations; deans, department heads and chairs of curriculum committees at university-based engineering programs; government officials with regulatory and/or funding responsibility for higher education; and officials of professional societies and accrediting organizations that serve engineering and related academic disciplines.

A key element of the program will be work groups assigned to develop action recommendations for employers, educators, funding organizations, accrediting agencies and other stakeholders. A series of plenary sessions will also feature prominent executives from key employers including IBM, Dassault Systems, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and SAP, and well as academic thought leaders for the University of Colorado, Drexel University, the University of Illinois and the Indian Institute of Science. Full conference program and registration information is available at: http://www.ieee.org/go/tee_2010.