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MARCH 2011

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.

NEWS

FEBRUARY 2011

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.

NEWS

JANUARY 2011

25 January 2011

Society for Engineering Education of South Africa to Hold First Biennial Conference

First SEESA Biennial Conference on Engineering Education
10 August - 12 August 2011, Cape Town (venue to be confirmed)

The newly founded Society for Engineering Education of South Africa will be launched at its first biennial conference in 2011. SEESA will aim to bring together people in South Africa and beyond who have an interest in engineering education, with the intention of fostering innovation and excellence in this field. The biennial conference will be the primary SEESA forum for sharing, networking and disseminating information.
Proposals are invited for papers that will address key challenges and current issues in the field of engineering education in South Africa, at the levels of teaching, curriculum or policy. SEESA invites both research and practice based work. Extended abstracts (1000 words) are due 28 February 2011, and full papers, which are to be peer reviewed, are due 13 June 2011. Abstracts and any queries to be directed to Ms Zulpha Geyer (zulpha dot geyer at uct.ac.za). Call for Papers may be downloaded here.

3rd International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education

"Aligning engineering education with engineering challenges," 1 - 2 October 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

IFEES members are invited to participate in the PAEE2011 Symposium, held during the First World Engineering Flash Week in Lisbon, Portugal. The Department of Production and Systems and the Research Centre for Education of the University of Minho are hosting the symposium in cooperation with the SEFI Curriculum Development Working Group 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.

The PAEE is especially honoured to have inspiring international keynote speakers: Caroline Baillie from the University of Western Australia and Wim Weenk from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

The deadline for the submission of extended abstracts is 5 March 2011. More information is available in the conference website http://paee.dps.uminho.pt/. The symposium especially welcomes the ASIBEI participants, who can submit contributions in Spanish and Portuguese.

PAEE is looking forward to welcome you in Portugal in October 2011! Call for Papers may be downloaded here.