American Society for Engineering Education

ASEE's International Department is constantly forging new relationships with organizations who share ASEE's mission of furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.

Corporate Partnerships - ASEE's international department is proud of our strong partnership with several corporations which include Autodesk, HP, Dassault Systemes, Infosys, National Instruments, Mathworks, IBM, Siemens, Bosch, Agilent/India, We are currently in discussions with several other companies that we anticipate will support our forthcoming Colloquium in Budapest. In addition to these companies’ important financial contributions, we are also fortunate that several of them also provide considerable intellectual input into our international work.

World Bank Institute - ASEE has signed a partnership Memorandum of Understanding with the World Bank Institute and both organizations collaborated in the implementation of the Global Colloquiums in Istanbul and Cape Town, as well as the Indo-U.S. Collaborative for Engineering Education. The World Bank Institute presented a workshop on the Knowledge Economy during the Istanbul Global Colloquium, and carried out a workshop during the First IUCEE Summer Leadership Institute. They also gave a workshop at the 2nd IFEES Summit in October 2008. They also participated in the IFEES session conducted during the SEFI Deans Conference in Berlin where US deans and other US faculty members participated. They have just accepted to give a keynote address during the Third IFEES Summit in St. Petersburg and will most likely host another workshop during the Second IUCEE Summer Leadership Institute this coming summer in India. Discussions will be held during the coming months to renew the MOU.

Partnerships with International Counterpart Societies – ASEE’s International Department facilitates interaction between ASEE and our counterparts around the world. For example:

• ASEE signed a partnership agreement with the Korean Society of Engineering Education (KSEE) to encourage collaboration and exchange between the two societies. Both parties have agreed to encourage reciprocal participation in seminars, workshops, conferences, forums, and research. The Korean Society brought over 30 academics to the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, where highly successful presentations of papers and discussions concerning issues of engineering education in both countries took place. A follow-up meeting in Austin, Texas, during the Annual ASEE Conference in 2009, is being planned.
• ASEE has partnered with the Indian Society for Technical Education to further advance global engineering excellence through the publication of the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) in India. The main anticipated benefits of this collaboration are 1) increased membership in ISTE by offering JEE as a member benefit, and cost effective access to engineering education research for ISTE members; 2) greater number of readers, authors, and reviewers for JEE from India, and increased research collaboration between the two nations; and 3) raised awareness between the two nations of the aspirations of each other’s engineering education societies. The ASEE International Department is also assisting the JEE in building partnership relations in several other countries including Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Argentina and others.

Contact

Hans Jürgen Hoyer, Ph.D.
Director for International Programs and Strategy, ASEE
Secretary General, IFEES
Executive Secretary, GEDC
(202) 331-3511

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