Conference Overview
7th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education
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Cape Town, South Africa
October 19-23, 2008
The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) presents an annual global colloquium that unites the diverse elements of the international engineering education world while focusing on issues of interest to the international engineering education community. The colloquium, held annually in locations such as Berlin, Beijing, Sydney and Istanbul with the assistance of engineering education organizations from the host country, links engineering educators across international borders and brings together teachers and researchers who would otherwise never have an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and viewpoints.
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Conference Highlights
Corporate Sponsor Exhibits & Displays - Monday, October 20th – Thursday, October 23rd
Take advantage of this opportunity to visit with Global Colloquium sponsors. Highlighting the globally focused programs and initiatives of ASEE corporate partners like Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, IBM, H-P, The MathWorks, SUN Microsystems and National Instruments, the sponsor tabletop displays will showcase how these innovative companies are helping to shape global engineering education trends and practices, and to attract and retain the next generation of engineering students through innovative engineering education products, services and programs aimed at teachers and students around the globe.
Global Colloquium Student Forum - Sunday, October 19th - Monday, October 20th
The Global Student Forum will bring together students from all over the globe to share ideas about engineering education, with a particular focus on issues of sustainability. This unique international collaboration will ultimately empower students to make concrete changes in their home institutions and to continue to be global leaders in engineering education’s development (Pre-registration required).
Sponsored by Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, IBM, and Infosys.
Effective Teaching Institute Workshop - Sunday, October 19th - Monday, October 20th
This workshop provides tools and strategies for engineering and science instructors to make their classes more effective.
Topics addressed during the course include the following:
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Learning and teaching styles. Defining and assessing learning styles of students. How a single teacher can address the needs of students with the full spectrum of learning styles.
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Outcomes-based education. Planning, teaching, and assessing courses to address the ABET Engineering Criteria and the Washington Accord.
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Lecturing and active learning. Common lecturing mistakes and how to avoid them. Getting students actively involved in learning, even if there are 200 of them in the class.
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Assessment of learning and skill development. Assessing different learning objectives. Designing tests that are both rigorous and fair.
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Cooperative learning. Defining conditions of cooperative learning. Criteria for forming project teams, helping them to function effectively, and assessing individual effort.
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Crisis clinic. Problems commonly encountered by instructors (difficult students, cheating, time management) and how to deal with them.
For more information, please review the Effective Teaching Workshop flyer.
Opening Reception Sponsored by Dassault Systemes - Monday, October 20th
All conference attendees are invited to the opening reception to kick off the Global Colloquium and enjoy an elegant and relaxing atmosphere at the beautiful University of Cape Town. This is the perfect opportunity to network with an eclectic panel of peers and partners from around the globe. Complimentary transportation to and from the reception will be provided from the Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays.
Welcoming Remarks will be provided by Professor Cyril O'Connor, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town and Xavier Fouger, Director of Dassault Systèmes’ Global Learning & PLM Academy.
Opening Reception Entertainment - A Musical Journey Through Time - Monday, October 20th
This awesome act travels through the musical history of Southern Africa. Introduced by a traditional praise singer telling of what the guests are about to experience before each scene.
The show begins with the Zulu traditional dance showcasing ceremonial dances from tribal life with pulsating djembe drums – the Heartbeat of Africa.
This is followed by the Gumboot Dance – the praise singer tells how the dance originated in the mines. The dancers showcase the hard life of the miners – witness them digging, lifting and stomping their heavy mining boots – their well oiled muscular bodies stripped to the waist in overalls.
Next follows the tale of the era of the Sophiatown Jazz Halls of the 50’s where the unique jazzing dance style originated. The group wear bright shirts and black trousers and smart shoes and hats.
The dance is accompanied by traditional marimba band with thundering djembe drums and jazzy sax.
The show ends with the tale of the youth of today – free and independent to say it like it is – through the lyrics and driving club beats of South Africa’s own dance music – Kwaaito.
Global Colloquium Workshops - Monday, October 20th
A variety of pressing topics in engineering education will be addressed by two sessions of 3-hour workshops. Presenters from leading universities and companies in the U.S. and around the world will offer the following subjects to choose from: Monday morning, attendees can attend workshops on eco-design, rigorous research, future learning environments, or problem-based learning. During the afternoon, workshops will be offered on online assessment, service-learning and or problem-solving. Each of these workshops strongly emphasizes an interactive mode of delivery.
Engineers for a Sustainable World Workshop (Pre-registration Fee Required) - Monday, October 20th
ASEE is delighted to announce that the Global Colloquium has partnered with Engineers for a Sustainable World. ESW will hold a workshop convening education leaders, particularly from Africa, who are shaping curricula to integrate sustainability and sustainable development into engineering more effectively.
Curriculum Innovation for Sustainable Development
Monday, October 20, 2008, 09:00 - 12:00
This interactive workshop will provide an overview of engineering education programs which successfully This interactive workshop will provide an overview of engineering education programs which successfully integrate sustainable development concepts into undergraduate and graduate education. For over five years, faculty and students affiliated with Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) have designed project-based courses that address critical issues in developing countries such as access to clean water, sanitation and energy, as well as critical sustainability challenges within their own communities. This workshop will feature presentations on curriculum-based initiatives, as well as small group discussions designed to enable participants to explore potential models that might be successful in their own programs or institutions.
Sustainable Development Project Collaborations
Monday, October 20, 2008, 14:00 - 17:00
Designed to follow the Curriculum Innovation for Sustainable Development workshop, this workshop will focus specifically on building successful institution-to-institution project collaborations. It will feature presentations on project collaborations between universities in the U.S. and in India, Africa, and Latin America, as well as an interactive session with attendees of the ASEE Global Colloquium designed to enable participants to identify potential sustainable development project collaborations.
Main Plenary Sponsored by Dassault Systemes: South African Socio-Political/Economic Panel Presentation - Tuesday, October 21st
Panel speakers will address current socio-political and economic issues in South Africa, with particular reference to both the colonial and apartheid histories that have shaped where we find ourselves today. They will also highlight where the issues we face in South Africa are similar to issues faced in the rest of Africa.
South African Deans and Other African Experts Panel Presentation - Tuesday, October 21st
In keeping with the theme of the colloquium, this panel of deans and other Engineering Educators from Africa, will set the scene by discussing critical issues they face in providing quality engineering education in their particular resource-constrained environments.
Presenters:
Nelson Ijumba, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Theo Andrew, Durban University of Technology
Township Experience - Wednesday, October 22nd
Ticketed Event - $25 per person
The Township Experience will be split into groups of no more than 10 people. Each group will be taken in a minibus to one of the townships of greater Cape Town. The sites to be visited include both formal and informal settlements. Visitors will have an opportunity to meet some of the residents and speak with them about how they live and the issues they face. These discussions will be facilitated by a guide.
A range of different community-based projects will be visited, including ones dealing with AIDS and other health matters, empowerment, employment and housing. To allow enough time for meaningful discussions, each group will only be able to visit one project.
Corporate Perspective Workshops - Wednesday, October 22nd
In keeping with the ASEE commitment to professional education, development, and dialogue, the 2008 Global Colloquium is accompanied by a series of cutting-edge workshops on a variety of topics. Corporate colleagues will hold workshops and technical sessions to examine engineering education issues from the viewpoint of the industrial stakeholder.
Closing Reception Sponsored by Autodesk - Thursday, October 23rd
All conference attendees are invited to the Global Colloquium Closing Reception preceding the Closing Banquet. This is the perfect opportunity to network with your colleagues at the Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays before boarding the bus to Moyo Africa Restaurant.
Welcoming remarks will be provided by Alistair Brook, manager of Autodesk Education for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Brook leads a multi-disciplinary team that works with faculty, students and administrators to support the adoption of Autodesk’s powerful design software in secondary and post-secondary education. During more than 20 years in the dynamic and changing world of Autodesk, Brook has also held senior management positions within Autodesk Distribution in the UK. Earlier in his career, he gained extensive structural and offshore engineering experience with leading UK engineering organizations Atkins and Partnerand Earl and Wright Limited. He has a B.Sc. in Engineering Science from the University of Warwick in the UK.
Banquet Sponsored by Autodesk - Thursday, October 23rd
NOW COMPLIMENTARY FOR ALL ATTENDEES
Due to the generous contributions of our presenting sponsor, Autodesk, all conference attendees are now invited, complimentary, to the Global Colloquium Closing Banquet. Under the starlit African sky, set in a garden in the Western Cape Wine lands, the Moyo Africa Restaurant at Stellenbosch is an unparralled dining experience. Guests will experience African tastes and flavors as they enjoy freshly cooked potjies, tagines and grilled meats. Around embolas (fire barrels) at night, burning throughout summer and winter, participants will enjoy the talents of 3rd World Bunfight, a performance company known for pushing the boundaries of African art to the limits.
Complimentary transportation to and from the restaurant will be provided from the Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays.
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Monday - October 20, 2008 |
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Colloquium Workshops: Session I |
09:00 – 12:00 |
Workshop 1: Ecodesign and Understanding a Lifecycle Approach to Product Design
Presenter: Chuck Pezeshki, Professor, MME, Washington State University
One of the most rapidly rising areas of engineering is the area of Ecodesign, or Design for Sustainability. Ecodesign and understanding a lifecycle approach to product design will be integral in successfully dealing with the technological component of attenuating climate change and the environmental impact of our industrial society. Additionally, Ecodesign also will be required to satisfy a host of international mandates such as the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) directives of the EU, that will restrict markets to producers who can successfully satisfy the engineering and lifecycle requirements in the year 2011. This workshop will discuss curriculum change to make engineering graduates of the future “Ecodesign Ready” so that they can fill the needs of our future students’ employers, as well as reverse the trends of environmental degradation that are occurring planet-wide.
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Workshop 2: Revolutionizing the Problem-Solving Feedback Process in Learning through Online Resources
Presenters: Andrea Pascarella, PhD, MasteringX & Tacy Quinn, General & Mechanical Engineering Editor, Pearson Prentice Hall
This interactive workshop will explore the impact of online resources and assessment on today’s introductory engineering student in a highly participatory format. This 3-part session will focus first on an introduction to how online resources can create a more effective learning and assessment environment and what diagnostic capabilities are possible for instructors followed by an exploration of MasteringEngineering as a vehicle to debate and explore online tutorials and assessment. Participants will discuss and provide feedback on both the concept of online resources and their experience of MasteringEngineering.
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Workshop 3: Engineering Service-Learning: Improving Learning & Our Communities
Presenter: Professor William (Bill) Oakes, EPICS Center at Purdue University
This interactive workshop will demonstrate how service-learning can be used to enhance engineering education, design education in particular, while meeting the needs of the underserved. This workshop will engage participants in linking service-learning projects with existing engineering courses as well as exploring alternative curricular models around service-learning. The workshop will use a combination of presentation, small group discussions and individual reflections to explore each participant’s opportunities and challenges within his or her own institution and community.
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Workshop 4: Problem based learning in Engineering Education
Presenter: Mona Dahms, Aalborg University, Denmark
This interactive workshop will explore some of the aspects of different implementations of Problem Based Learning (PBL) and some of the challenges facing teachers wanting to apply PBL. PBL is a philosophical idea and a generic set of prinicples which, when applied in teaching and learning can improve the quality and efficiency of engineering education. It is, however, not a specific approach nor a given metod; thus, a number of different approaches to teaching and learning, all based on the PBL principles, are encountered. In this workshop we may look at some of the aspects of the different implementations but the precise workshop content will depend upon participants' choices between five topics. The choice of topic will be by simple majority vote - the topic with the most votes will be carried out first. When finished a new vote will be taken and the topic with the most votes will be carried out.
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Colloquium Workshops: Session II |
14:00 – 17:00 |
Workshop 5: Rigorous Research in Engineering Education
Presenters: Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University & Karl A. Smith, Purdue University & University of Minnesota
There has been a lot of talk about doing rigorous research in engineering education. At times, the term “rigorous” might seem like a barrier that keeps some researchers from fully participating in this community. It also may seem like the criteria for rigorous research in engineering were created in the U.S. and now are being imposed on the rest of the international engineering education research community. The aim of this workshop is to begin to create a globally-authored set of criteria for rigorous research in engineering education.
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Workshop 6: Modeling, Distributed Learning and Collaboration in Engineering Education
Presenter: Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University; John Christ, US Air Force Academy; Elizabeth Reilly, Pepperdine University
This workshop explores the nature of future learning communities, especially in undergraduate engineering education, and invites collaborators to participate in any of several projects. The session outlines an evolving theory of future learning communities first shared at the 2006 Global Engineering Education Colloquium in Rio de Janeiro. This theory now includes eight broad principles. Each principle is at play in major US-National Science Foundation (NSF) engineering curriculum project involving numerous universities. This curriculum project explores the expansive use of model-eliciting activities (MEAs) to develop collaborative problem-solving, critical reasoning and creativity competencies in undergraduate engineering curriculum. The MEA approach has also been highlighted in a series of international learning technology symposia that NSF and Microsoft Research have sponsored on distributed learning environments. This GCEE interactive workshop should prove especially valuable to those desiring to share or contribute to future learning environment theory; those who are interested in developing international virtual teams of engineering students working on problem-solving and modeling activities, especially in the area of environmental sustainability; and those building university programs in low-income and developing countries. It will also be of interest to those seeking to deepen the relationship between mathematics and engineering education, and those representing interests in precollege engineering education.
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Workshop 7: Recent Advances in Engineering Problem Solving
Presenter: Michael Cutlip, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut
This three-hour guided workshop will focus on interactive problem solving of general engineering examples in the areas of general calculations, nonlinear equations, ordinary differential equations, and regressions with statistics (polynomial, multiple linear and nonlinear). Hands-on work will include the use of POLYMATH, Excel, and MATLAB within a computer laboratory at the University of Cape Town. The recently developed capabilities of Polymath to automatically generate Excel spreadsheets and MATLAB code will be extensively utilized. Also highlighted will be the ability to solve ordinary differential equations in Excel with a POLYMATH ODE_Solver Add-In. This workshop is free to fully paid conference registrants.
Each participant will be given a CD-ROM with the POLYMATH software as well as all workshop materials. Academic faculty and/or staff who attend the workshop will be given a free one-year site license for the POLYMATH software for their home department which will allow free copies of the software to be given to all students, faculty, and staff. Also the software can be installed in departmental computer labs. More workshop details as they become available will be available from the web site: www.polymath-software.com/ASEE Workshop
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Tuesday - October 21, 2008
Please note: All events will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre unless otherwise noted below. |
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Main Plenary Sponsored by Dassault Systèmes: South African Socio-Political/Economic Panel Presentation
Introduced by: Sarah Rajala, President, ASEE
Panel speakers will address current socio-political and economic issues in South Africa, with particular reference to both the colonial and apartheid histories that have shaped where we find ourselves today. They will also highlight where the issues we face in South Africa are similar to issues faced in the rest of Africa.
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08:30 - 10:00 |
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South African Deans and other African Experts Panel Presentation
Moderated by: Duncan Fraser, University of Cape Town (UCT)
In keeping with the theme of the colloquium, this panel of deans and other Engineering Educators from Africa, will set the scene by discussing critical issues they face in providing quality engineering education in their particular resource-constrained environments.
Presenters:
Nelson Ijumba, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Theo Andrew, Durban University of Technology
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10:30 - 12:00 |
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Luncheon & Keynote Presentation Sponsored by Autodesk (Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays)
Presenter: Qidi Wu, Vice Minister for Ministry of Education, PRC
Speech Topic: Engineering Education in China
Introduced by: George Abraham, Education Solutions Manager, Autodesk Worldwide Education Programs, Asia Pacific
Drawing on her impressive experience both as an expert in engineering education in China and as an influential leader in engineering education worldwide, Vice Minister Wu will provide a current picture of how world leader China is preparing its future engineering professionals for 21st Century best practice. The Vice Minister will offer her perspective on the state of global engineering education, and she will suggest ways in which we can unite in our efforts to support engineering educators, institutions of engineering and engineering technology, and engineering students around the world.
Qidi Wu is Vice Minister for Ministry of Education, P.R.C, Member of Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. She is also Chairman for China National Engineering Education Committee. From 1995-2003, Vice Minister Wu served as President for Tongji University.
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12:00 - 13:30 |
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Track Sessions I |
13:30 - 15:00 |
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Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context
Moderator: Jeff Froyd, Office of the Dean of Faculties, Texas A&M University
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Karl Smith, Engineering Education, Purdue University
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Implications of Research in Engineering Education for Practice in Engineering Education
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Jennifer Case: Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town
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Education Theory: A Toolkit for the Engineering Education Scholar
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Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education
Session I: Course and Curriculum Design
Moderator: John Lamancusa, Penn State University
Keynote Presenter: Richard Felder, North Carolina State University
Speech Topic: The Murky Crystal Ball: Current Controversies and Future Directions in Engineering Education
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Mona Dahms, Aalborg University
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Does Africa need Problem Based Learning? - Educational Change in Engineering Education
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Eduardo Ismodes, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru |
Change our Curriculum? It's Impossible!... E.QUIPU, an alternative way to deal with faculty resistance to change
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Krishna Vedula, University of Massachusetts-Lowell |
Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute ..a pilot project conducted by the Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) in India in summer 2008. |
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Track 3: Accreditation Track: Securing a Vibrant Global Economy - Building Capacity through Sustainable Accreditation Policy and Practice in Developed and Developing Nations
Session I: Early Efforts toward International Engineering Accreditation
Moderator: Sarah Rajala, American Society of Engineering Education
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Hu Hanrahan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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The Washington Accord
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Guy Haug, European Engineering Education Expert
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Bolognia Process |
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David Garza, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico |
Accreditation in Mexico and Latin America
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Track Sessions II |
15:30 - 17:00 |
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Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context
Moderator: Jennifer Case, Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town
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Kristin Wood, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas Austin
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Active Learning Research – a Basis for the Design of Classroom Activities
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P. K. Imbrie, Engineering Education, Purdue University
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Implications of Research on Student Teams in Engineering
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Khairiyah Mohd Yusof, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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Issues in Implementing Problem-based Learning in Engineering Education
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Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education
Session 2: Course and Curriculum Design
Moderator: Mona Dahms, Aalborg University
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Michael Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology & Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University |
Sustainable Pathways to International Collaboration
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Lisa Ncube, Purdue University |
Conceptions of Innovation: Product Lifecycle Management in Higher Education |
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P.R. Mashingo, University of Dar es Salaam |
Improving the State of Continuing Engineering Education in Africa
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Mervyn Jones, Imperial College |
Engineering Education Developments Through EnVision |
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Track 3: Accreditation Track: Securing a Vibrant Global Economy - Building Capacity through Sustainable Accreditation Policy and Practice in Developed and Developing Nations
Session 2: National Accreditation - Part I
Moderator: Guy Haug, European Engineering Education Expert
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Deborah Wolfe, Engineers Canada |
Establishing Engineering Accreditation Systems in Costa Rica and the Caribbean
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Pei-Fen Chang, Center for Teacher Education Program National Central University
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The Internationalization of Engineering Education in Taiwan: Accreditation Approach based on Washington Accord Signatories' Accreditation System
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Paulino Alonso, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso |
The Internationalization of Engineering Education in Chile |
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Wednesday - October 22, 2008
Please note: All events will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre unless otherwise noted below. |
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Registration Open |
07:00 – 17:00 |
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Breakfast & Keynote Presentation Sponsored by Dassault Systèmes (Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays)
Speaker: Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systèmes
Presentation Title: Engineering Education enabling the ability to transform.
Globalization and virtualization are two concurrent trends sustaining each other. Video game technology and computer-based product design are converging. Artists and Engineers are getting closer. These new couplings create new challenges and remarkable opportunities in engineering education. This overview addresses some of these trends from the privileged observation point of a technology provider serving the world’s most ambitious innovation projects and creating value and knowledge for the most various communities.
Early 2003, Xavier Fouger created Dassault Systemes’ Academy, the corporate organization supporting skills in Product Lifecycle Management and in 3D design by means of global and local education and certification programs. This organization promotes lifelong learning through a fast growing network of 150 partners providing education services and thousands of academic institutions.
Prior to joining Dassault Systemes, he was working for the French embassy in Vienna -Austria to promote scientific and technological co-operations between various Austrian and French education and research institutions.
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07:30– 08:30 |
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Track Sessions III |
09:00 - 10:30 |
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Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context
Moderator: P. K. Imbrie, Engineering Education, Purdue University
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Laurie Woollacott: School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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A research-based approach to teaching and curriculum development in the first year introduction to engineering course
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Jaime Salazar Contreras, La Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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The Systematization of the Teaching Experience in Engineering in Columbia
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Prof. Yu Shouwen, Tsinghua University
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Researching the Concept of Global Engineering Education: Case study on Tsinghua University and China
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Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education
Session 3: Industry – University Partnerships
Moderator: Regina Clewlow, MIT
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Lueny Morell, H-P |
How Can Industry Help in Educating Better Engineers?
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Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systèmes |
From new practices in industry to new curricula in academia: shortening the delay |
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Lugano Wilson, University of Dar es Salaam |
Prospects in University-Industrial Linkages
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Wonjong Joo, Seoul National University of Technology |
Development and Practice of In-depth University-Industry Collaboration Program: Umbrella-type NIT University Program |
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Amadou Maiga & Paul Ginies, International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering
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Public Private Partnership for Engineering Education in West and Central Africa: The case of the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering: 2iE |
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Track 3: Accreditation Track: Securing a Vibrant Global Economy - Building Capacity through Sustainable Accreditation Policy and Practice in Developed and Developing Nations
Session 3: National Accreditation - Part II
Moderator: Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines
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H.A. Gumel, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria
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Accreditation of Engineering Programs in Nigeria
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Robin King, University of South Australia, Australian Council of Engineering Deans, andUniversity of Technology, Sydney
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Assuring Quality and Supply of Future Engineering Graduates: outcomes of the 2007 – 8 national review of Australian engineering education
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Giuliano Augusti, European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE)
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European Systems of Accreditation
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Autodesk Panel Presentation
Moderator: Alan Jacobs, Autodesk, Inc.
Share Globally/Adapt Locally: How To Incorporate Best Practices in Global Engineering Education Into Your Programs
Join a panel of engineering deans from around the world as they share how their programs are preparing students to tackle current and future global design, infrastructure and environmental challenges by combining engineering knowledge, technology skills and a sense of social responsibility to improve our world. Learn how to connect with these deans and other of your peers to share best practices and adapt recognized exemplary programs to your own campus needs. This engaging conversation is hosted by Autodesk, Inc.
Alan Jacobs is the Senior Manager, University Programs for Autodesk, Inc. Alan has over twenty five years of experience creating and growing educational programs for computer software and publishing companies.
At Autodesk Alan is responsible for leading and managing Autodesk’s commitment to inspiring and preparing the next generation of engineers and designers to compete in tomorrow’s global workplace. Autodesk provides powerful 2D and 3D design software, innovative programs and resources to help schools and institutions of higher learning prepare their students for academic and career success.
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11:00 -12:00 |
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Luncheon & Keynote Speaker Sponsored by H-P (Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays)
Open Innovation – How the new HPLabs is expanding research and education worldwide collaborations
Presenter:Lueny Morell, H-P
Open Innovation is a term coined by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation of the University of California, Berkeley. The concept is related to user innovation, cumulative innovation and distributed innovation. The central idea behind open innovation is that in a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead partner with science/technology leaders to jointly create and transfer knowledge. In contrast, closed innovation refers to processes that limit the use of internal knowledge within a company and make little or no use of external knowledge. Some companies promoting open innovation include Procter & Gamble, Innovation Exchange and HP.
This presentation will share Hewlett Packard Laboratories strategy to refocus R&D and foster collaboration with the external world. It will explain WHAT is being done (five key areas of high-impact research); HOW we are conducting our research (using an open innovation model to engage the brightest minds in the world); and, finally, present the steps HPLabs is taking to get quicker at turning HP Labs’ scientific discoveries into real products and services. Higher education research and education programs will be highlighted.
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12:00 - 13:00 |
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ACGEER Meeting (By Invitation Only)
"Advancing the Global Capacity for Engineering Education Research: A Year of International Dialogue (AGCEER)"
Moderators: Jack R. Lohmann, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brandon Reed, University of Cape Town; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University
AGCEER is a joint initiative by the European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE), published by the European Society for Engineering Education, and the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), published by the American Society for Engineering Education. The goal is to significantly advance the global capacity for engineering education research through moderated interactive sessions offered in a series of international engineering education conferences between July 2007 and December 2008. Sessions to date have been held in Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, and the United States, and the final session is scheduled for India. The sessions address fundamental questions facing the development of a global community of scholars and practitioners in engineering education research. The initiative has four goals: (1) build a network among the community of scholars and practitioners who participate in the AGCEER sessions; (2) produce a paper which characterizes the nature of engineering education research, its areas of inquiry, and its role within scholarly inquiry and practice of engineering education based on the discussions in the sessions; (3) identify the critical infrastructure needed to encourage and sustain a global community of researchers and practitioners in engineering education research; and (4) initiate action to organize a major international summit in 2009 on the current state and future directions of engineering education research worldwide. The year of international dialogue will be summarized and published jointly in EJEE and JEE in early 2009. Dr. Maura Borrego from Virginia Tech is serving as the principal ethnographer for the initiative.
This will be a moderated interactive session in which participants will be asked to work in small groups to discuss and present their thoughts and ideas on engineering education research.
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Workshop 8 Sponsored by Mathworks: MATLAB and Simulink in Global Engineering Education
Presenters: Loren Dean, The MathWorks, Inc. & Pete Janzow, The MathWorks, Inc.
Loren Dean and Pete Janzow from The MathWorks will provide an introduction toThe MathWorks and its products and programs for education. Participants will learn about how MATLAB® and Simulink® software are used for research and design in universities and industry worldwide (including brief application demonstrations), and gain an understanding of MathWorks programs and resources for colleges and universities.
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Workshop 9: The Learning Factory: Bridging the Gap between the Way We Teach and the Practice of Engineering
Presenters: Lueny Morell, Director Engineering Education Innovation HP Labs, H-P & John S. Lamancusa, Professor, Penn State University
There’s a big gap between how engineering is taught (emphasis on fundamentals, preparing students for graduate studies) and the practice of engineering (professionals who can immediately contribute in the competitive environment of a globalized world). This workshop will present the importance of curriculum innovation and share an innovative curriculum developed by the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership - a partnership between Penn State University, the University of Washington and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, in partnership with more than 100 industry members and a US National Laboratory. The program, better known as The Learning Factory, is a University - Industry partnership that aims to integrate design, manufacturing and business realities into the engineering curriculum. Aiming at bridging the gap between how engineering, the program focuses on hands-on learning, real industry projects and continuous assessment of learning outcomes. The program developers received the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon award in 2006 for innovation in engineering education. Workshop attendees will understand how the program was developed and institutionalized as well as the impact it has had at the institution and international levels.
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Workshop 10 Sponsored by National Instruments: Virtual Instrumentation technologies for hands-on learning in resource-constrained environments
Presenters: TBA (National Instruments)
Virtual Instrumentation and design environments such as NI LabVIEW take advantage of the personal computer to provide educators with a powerful and flexible environment to teach engineering in a hands-on experiential manner. For example, professors from the iLabs group at MIT have leveraged NI LabVIEW and NI ELVIS, a design and prototyping platform to teach measurements, instrumentation and circuit design in resource constrained environments such as Queensland in Australia, Nigeria and Uganda. NI LabVIEW and NI ELVIS also provide extensions to teach control design, telecommunications and embedded design in a low-cost, laboratory-friendly form factor making it affordable to bring in real-world signals and bring theory to life. In this workshop, educators will hear about the MIT iLabs project on bringing hands-on learning as well as go through exercises with the same NI ELVIS and NI LabVIEW platform that iLabs used to understand the benefits such a system has to educators.
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Workshop 11 Sponsored by Sun Microsystems: SUN Microsystems Technologies and Initiatives - Contribution to Global Talent Development
Presenter: Dr. Petr Zemanek, SUN Learning Services - Emerging Markets Region
The aim of the workshop is to present SUN technologies and SUN driven initiatives
that contribute to development of global talents in engineering. Key technologies developed by
SUN Microsystems are presented together with initiatives that SUN offers to technical universities
in order to enable adoption of industry standards by students of engineering and by members of
global engineering community. Methods of SUN e-learning options are discussed.
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Thursday - October 23, 2008
Please note: All events will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre unless otherwise noted below. |
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Breakfast & Keynote Speaker Sponsored by IBM (Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays)
Global Innovation Outlook: Africa
Although IBM has been doing business in Africa for more than half a century, the reality of global integration is changing the way we think about the opportunities available to our company in Africa, about the continent’s potential for growth and progress, and about the role that Africa can play in the global economy and society of the 21st century. In the past, IBM’s global activities were shaped by a very different model. IBM was a classic “multinational,” with mini-IBMs set up all around the world. Today, we have begun to embrace what we call the “globally integrated enterprise” — locating work and operations wherever they can be done best, based on access to skills and expertise, to open business environments and to favorable economics. In the new global economy, one simple rule prevails: when everything is connected, work moves. It flows like water to the places it will be done best, be that Bangalore, Austin, or Cape Town.
Mark Harris has held various management and leadership positions in the IBM Corporation, both in South Africa and internationally, since joining the company in 1981.
Mark was IBM South Africa’s youngest consultant engineer, working as lead engineer on a number of major accounts. He also undertook country support roles in disciplines such as CICS, SWIFT and networking.
He is intimate with all the major platforms, including CICS, IMS, MVS and networking (WAN and LAN), as well as all IBM products and services, business units and divisions.
He was appointed country general manager in December 2000. |
07:30 – 08:30 |
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Track Sessions IV |
08:45 - 10:15 |
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Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context
Moderator: Jennifer DeBoer, Vanderbilt University
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Duncan Fraser: Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town
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Developing Simulation Exercises to Enhance Learning
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Jonas Redwood-Sawyerr, Sierra Leone
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Improving Learning in an Electrical Engineering Programme Through a Team-Based Approach
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Dan Frey, Engineering Systems Division, MIT
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Use of Media in Engineering Education and its Potential for Enabling Wider Dissemination of Engineering Content
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Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education
Session 4: Sustainable Development Curriculum
Moderator: Lueny Morell, H-P
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Regina Clewlow, MIT |
Impacts of Sustainable Development Curriculum |
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Marcel Crul, Technical University Delft |
Design for Sustainability Manual and Tools for Developing Countries
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Abidou Ciss, Institut International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau & de l’Environnement, Burkina Faso |
2iE, an example of good practice for training internationally recognized engineers in Africa |
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Track 3: Accreditation Track: Securing a Vibrant Global Economy - Building Capacity through Sustainable Accreditation Policy and Practice in Developed and Developing Nations
Session 4: Building Toward Partnerships and Cooperation in Engineering Accreditation
Moderator: Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines
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Sarah A. Rajala, American Societyfor Engineering Education
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How ASEE and ABET Can Help in Forging Global Partnerships in Engineering Accreditation |
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Hu Hanrahan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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How the Washington Accord Can Help in Forging Global Partnerships in Engineering Accreditation |
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Lueny Morell, HP |
Quality Assurance of Engineering Education from an Industry Perspective
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IBM Technical Session
Presenter: Sean McLean, IBM
The IBM University mission is to build relationships of mutual benefit for fuelling the talent pipeline, innovation and growth.
Based on its Global presence, through a common worldwide execution process, IBM Worldwide University Relations supports basic research, curriculum innovation, and educational assistance in focus areas, which are fundamental to innovation in the 21st Century…
Proof Points:
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500,000+ students learning Open and IBM Technologies
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1,000 collaborations for research and curriculum development
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70+ PhD Fellowship students currently funded by IBM
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Two thirds of SUR (Shared University Research Awards) focused on Innovation in “game changing” technologies
The five game-changing technologies of particular interest:
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Services Science, Engineering, and Management
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Information-based medicine
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Event-driven computing
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Cell architecture
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Frontiers in supercomputing
Sean McLean is the IBM University Relations Manager for South and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sean is encouraging research and development in South Africa by providing global research linkage to a number of tertiary institutions. Identified for Tier 1 Universities, IBM Executives are driving the agenda within universities around areas such as SSME, SOA, Open Source and System Z.
Sean participates in knowledge sharing activities like communities of practice, forums, conferences and/or other knowledge exchanges. |
10:45 - 11:45 |
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Luncheon & Keynote Speaker Sponsored by MathWorks
Grand Ballroom, Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays
Speaker: Loren Dean, Director, MATLAB Products, The MathWorks, Inc.
With roots in education, The MathWorks is the leading global provider of software for technical computing and Model-Based Design. Loren Dean will discuss how universities around the world are using MATLAB® and Simulink® to accelerate engineering and science. He will comment on challengesand emerging opportunities for high performance computing with MATLAB, and discuss some applications of MATLAB distributed computing for education.Finally, he will review a range of MathWorks academic license models and support programs designed to provide wide access to MathWorks tools for engineeringfaculty and students worldwide.
Loren Dean has responsibility for MathWorks distributed computing products as well as the test and measurement application area, the license management and installation group and the web interface team. Loren has been with The MathWorks since 1995. Prior to joining The MathWorks, Loren worked for AlliedSignal Aerospace performing systems analysis and integration for aircraft engines, with extensive use of MATLAB and Simulink. Loren has a B.S. and an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University.
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12:00 - 13:00 |
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Track Sessions V |
13:00 - 14:30 |
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Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context
Moderator: Brandon Reed, Centre for Research in Engineering Education, University of Cape Town
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Jennifer DeBoer, PhD Student, Vanderbilt University
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Drawing on Other Stakeholders in Engineering Education Research – Students and Education Scholars
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Ruth Streveler, Engineering Education, Purdue University
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Implications of the Academic Pathways Study (APS)
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Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education
Session 5: Skills for Global Competitiveness
Moderator: Matthew Luhanga, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Rick Schuhmann, Pennsylvania State University |
Shaping the World: Teaching Global Leadership Skills to Engineers
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Ashraf Kassim, National University of Singapore |
Enhancement programmes thatcomplement engineering education with the aim of preparing students to meet the challenges of the 21st century
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Arnold Schoonwinkel & Annamari Grundlingh, University of Stellenbosch |
Engineering Community Intervention: Challenges and Changes
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Martina Jordaan, University of Pretoria |
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Track 3: Accreditation Track: Securing a Vibrant Global Economy - Building Capacity through Sustainable Accreditation Policy and Practice in Developed and Developing Nations
Session 5: Accreditation and Assessment in Engineering Accreditation
Moderator: Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Deborah Wolfe, Engineers Canada |
The Canadian Process for Incorporating Outcomes Assessment in the Accreditation Criteria
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Kay C. Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Measuring Quality Through the Use of Electronic Portfolios |
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Iring Wasser, German Accreditation Agency Specialized in Accrediting Degree Programs in Engineering, Informatics, the Natural Sciences and Mathematics (ASIIN)
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Accreditation and Accreditation for Professional Mobility |
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Dassault Systèmes Technical Session
Speaker: Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systèmes
Presentation Title: Engineering Education sustaining local employment with global value
“Among efficient strategies for economical performance, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) creates major success opportunities. It also helps understand and define executable curricular evolutions to produce the required new professional skills. This inspirational session reports about various educational innovations to teach about and with the PLM technologies that are used in the world’s most advanced engineering projects such as aircrafts, cars, ships or the amazing Beijing Olympics stadium. The presentation also includes successful case studies in which these virtualization technologies benefited developing economies in globally constrained conditions. Students from Asia and Africa will bring their testimony about several global learning experiences in partnerships with industry.”
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14:45– 15:45 |
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Development of Track Summaries and Action Plans |
16:15 - 17:15 |
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Development of Track Summaries and Action Plans – Research Track
Moderator: Karl Smith, Engineering Education, Purdue University
This session will synthesise implications that have been generated throughout the research track. All of the research track speakers will be invited to address questions about the implications of their research for designing learning experiences for future engineering students.
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Development of Track Summaries and Action Plans – Practice Track
Moderators: John Lamancusa and Matthew Luhanga
Track Summary and Path Forward
This session will summarize the keynote presentations and synthesize the resulting discussions from the Successful Practices sessions. The desired outcome of this session is for the participants to identify the critical barriers to education innovation at their own institutions and to develop strategies to overcome these barriers.
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Development of Track Summaries and Action Plans – Accreditation Track
Moderator: Duncan Fraser, University of Cape Town
This session will summarize the keynote presentations and synthesize the resulting discussions from the Accreditation Track sessions.
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Overall Theme
"Excellence and Growth in Engineering Education in Resource Constrained Environments" – Learning from each other and working together to produce quality engineers for every part of the world in the 21st Century.
The colloquium will address three major themes of contemporary interest:
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The colloquium will focus on successful strategies and practices for advancing these themes. Contributors are encouraged to provide examples that detail actions of what works and why, and with supporting evidence.
Track 1: Research Track
Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context: To what extent should engineering educators collaborate globally to re-engineer their programs?
The significant body of research in engineering education and related fields should inform and influence beliefs and theories for engineering both small-scale (e.g., daily to monthly time scales) learning experiences for students and large-scale (e.g., semester to multiple-year time scales) course and curriculum design improvements. The rationale for engineering these small- and large-scale innovations include improving student learning, increasing student retention in engineering, and increasing the diversity of engineering graduates.
This track will explore the impact of research in engineering education to deepen our understanding of the implications for engineering education practice.
Track 2: Practice Track
Successful Practices in Engineering Education
To compete in an increasingly global environment, engineering graduates must have a firm grounding in technical as well as professional skills. In addition to the traditional math/science/physics base, students must be adept in the appropriate use of these fundamentals to design socially responsible and financially viable solutions which will improve the quality of life on this planet.
This track will explore the design, implementation and sustainability of engineering curricula to prepare graduates to compete in a global environment. The goal is to foster discussion, exchange information, and nucleate future collaborations among attendees. Examples of successful practices that will be discussed include: academic staff development, industry-university partnerships, skills for global competitiveness, facilities and resources, and course and curriculum design.
Track 3: Accreditation Track
Securing a Vibrant Global Economy - Building Capacity through Sustainable Accreditation Policy and Practice in Developed and Developing Nations
The quality of engineering education is a key determinant of economic success. Building engineering curricula internationally that are comparable contributes to the transformation of engineering education globally. Such transformation must spawn engineering professionals of high quality who will advance the cause of sustainable growth and development internationally.
This track explores systems of quality assurance in engineering education and their role and impact on producing engineering professionals ready to enter the workplace and embark on continuous professional development and learning.
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