13 November 2009
IFEES Publication on Engineering Education on a Global Scale
Several IFEES member society representatives have collaborated to write an extensive piece on engineering education on a global scale which will be published in a future UNESCO book. This report can be found here.
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.
14 April 2009
A Report of the National Summit Meeting on the Globalization of Engineering Education is now complete
IFEES Secretariat wants to share the recently published report and the Newport Declaration that came out of a NSF sponsored workshop in late 2008, bringing together a small group of primarily US academicians, NSF representatives and Hans J Hoyer.
20 February 2009
IFEES Secretariat Launches IFEES Newsletter
The IFEES Secretariat, as a part of its efforts to improve communication and to better serve members' needs, is happy to present a semi-monthly IFEES Newsletter. Recognizing that many of the members are very busy professionals who have little time to browse IFEES website, the Secretariat wants to bring the most important IFEES news to the members in the most engaging, succinct and efficient way. Besides providing with a short update from the IFEES Secretariat, IFEES Newsletter is created to inform about upcoming events and meetings that may be of interest to the members, as well as to provide them with an opportunity to get to know each other through an “IFEES Member Spotlight” feature. The IFEES Newsletter
now available for download (PDF: 126KB).
22 January 2009
Indian Students Report from the 7th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education and 3rd Global Student Forum Now Online
The Report, prepared by the Indian students, from the 7th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education and 3rd Global Student Forum (GSF), which were co-located with the Second IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit on October 19-20, 2009, in Cape Town, South Africa, is
now available for download (PDF: 659KB). Ten students from India, who participated in these activities, were sponsored by Infosys.
 7 January 2009
Meeting of the IFEES Assembly of Members Minutes
The Minutes from the
Meeting of the IFEES Assembly of Members are now available for download (PDF: 24KB).
24 November 2008
November 2008 IFEES Secretariat Report Now Online
The November IFEES Secretariat Report is now available for download(PDF: 3,838KB). This document has been prepared for the ISTE/IFEES Asia Pacific Regional Conference (APRC).
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October 2008
Paris Declaration
Inaugural Statement of
the Global Engineering Deans Council
On May 8 and 9, 2008, leaders of engineering education from prestigious institutions converged from all continents to create the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC). This document contains the reproduction and translations of their inaugural statement, "the Paris declaration of the GEDC".
Available here(PDF: 3,838KB)
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