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.

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.

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.

Materials for this workshop:

• Conducting Rigorous Research in Engineering Education
• A New Paradigm for a New Field: Communicating Representations of Engineering Education Research
  
  
• Continuing to Build Engineering Education Research Capabilities

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context

Moderator: Jennifer Case, Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town

Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education

Session 2: Course and Curriculum Design

Moderator: Mona Dahms, Aalborg University

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

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.

Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context

Moderator: P. K. Imbrie, Engineering Education, Purdue University

Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education

Session 3: Industry – University Partnerships

Moderator: Regina Clewlow, MIT

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Track 1: Research Track: Inferring and Designing Engineering Education Practice from Research and Societal Context

Moderator: Jennifer DeBoer, Vanderbilt University

Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education

Session 4: Sustainable Development Curriculum

Moderator: Lueny Morell, H-P

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

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:

• 500,000+ students learning Open and IBM Technologies
• 1,000 collaborations for research and curriculum development
• 70+ PhD Fellowship students currently funded by IBM
• Two thirds of SUR (Shared University Research Awards) focused on Innovation in “game changing” technologies

The five game-changing technologies of particular interest:

• Services Science, Engineering, and Management
• Information-based medicine
• Event-driven computing
• Cell architecture
• Frontiers in supercomputing

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.

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

Track 2: Practice Track: Successful Practices in Engineering Education

Session 5: Skills for Global Competitiveness

Moderator:  Matthew Luhanga, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.