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On September 25th, 2013, IFEES members and leadership held an Award Dinner Cruise, enjoying the shores of Cartage-na de Indias, Colombia. On this occasion IFEES recognized three outstanding leaders of the engineering education commu-nity: Anette Kolmos who re-
ceived the IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education; Lueny Morell who was presented with the IFEES President’s Award as a “Global Visionary” and a leader in engi-neering education and Eduardo Silva Sanchez, was awarded the IFEES President’s award as a “Regional Pioneering Leader”
in Engineering Education.
Biography of Anette
Kolmos
Dr. Anette Kolmos has been a Professor in Engineering Edu-cation and Problem Based Learning at Aalborg University since 2008. Since 2007 she has served as Chair of the UNESCO Committee on Prob-lem Based Learning in Engi-neering Education, Aalborg University, Denmark. She was a Visiting Professor and Chair de pédagogie universitaire, Uni-versité Catholique de Louvain
Volume 2, Issue 5
IFEES Honors three Distinguished Engineering Education Leaders
November, 2013
I N T E R N A T I O N A L F E D E R A T I O N O F E N G I N E E R I N G E D U C A T I O N S O C I E T I E S
The Global Bulletin
of Engineering Education
Anette Kolmos, recipi-ent of IFEES Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education
(2003). Dr. Kolmos has served as the President of the European Society of Engineering Education, SEFI (2009-2011), Chair of the SEFI Working group on Engi-neering Education Research (2008 – 2009). Dr. Kolmos has demon-strated great leadership in the globalization of Engineering Edu-cation while serving as a profes-sor of Engineering Education at
Aalborg University, Denmark.
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International Institute for Develop-ing Engineering Academics (IIDEA), which aims at providing selected top notch leadership work-shops offered by world renown edu-cators to engineering professors, deans and graduate students world-
wide.
From 2002 to 2013, she was a mem-ber of Hewlett Packard (HP) Labs strategy and open innovation teams where she focused on catalyzing co-innovation with partners (governments, customers and uni-versities) to bring ideas, resources and develop talent for innovation. A licensed professional engineer, she holds a BS degree in Chemical En-gineering from the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez and an MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. Lueny has a 24 year career at the University of Puerto Rico, holding various posi-tions at the Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) as well as at the system level. A full professor of Chemical Engineering, during her tenure at UPRM she was Director of UPRM’s Research & Development Center, elected member to the Academic
Senate and Administrative Board.
Lueny was a Co-Director of the In-ternational Institute for Developing
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Biography of Eduardo Silva
Eduardo Silva is a lawyer, and ex-secretary of the Presidency of Colombia and specialist in Ad-ministrative Law. He is currently a consultant and Licensed Tutor. He studied civil engineering (1959-1964). He earned his Master’s degree in Economics at the Universidad de los Andes (1971), Bogotá. Eduardo began his teaching career at the Faculty of Mathematics, National Univer-sity of Colombia, as an instructor of differential calculus in Engi-neering and geometry instructor in Architecture. At the Colombi-an School of Engineering, he was made professor and head of the physics department. He has taught physics class at the school since its beginning, through which more than 8,000 engineer-ing students have passed. Since 2007, Eduardo has been an active member of the research group, Educating - Engineering Educa-tion - recognized by the Depart-ment of Administrative Science, Technology and Innovation Co-lombia (Colciencias). In 2008, together with the Ministry of Ed-ucation and the Association of Universities of Colombia (ASCUN), he was assigned to encourage the training of engi-neers in Colombia. Since 2011, he has participated as an Adviso-ry Board Member in the Interna-tional Institute for Developing Engineering Academics (IIDEA). IFEES is pleased to recognize Mr. Silva’s numerous accom-plishments, particularly in South America, and to present him with the 2013 IFEES President’s
Award.
Biography of Lueny Morell
IFEES is proud to present this year’s President’s Award to Lu-eny Morell, one of IFEES’ found-ing members and Past President, founding member of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) and Co-Founder of the
Engineering Academics (IIDEA) and an expert of the OECD—AHELO project. Lueny has received various honors during her academic career, including the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering 2006 Ber-nard M. Gordon Prize for innovation in engineering and technology educa-tion. Lueny’s newest venture is the New Engineering University (NEU), as the provost and Chief Academic Officer of this newly formed institu-
tion.
From Left to right: Krishna Vedula, Jose Carlos Cuadrado, Duncan Fraser, Hans J.
Hoyer, Frank Huband, Claudio Borri. At the Chicago Art Museum, October 21, 2013
Eduardo Silva (above) and Lueny Morell
(below), two recipients of the IFEES Pres-
ident’s award in Cartagena de Indias,
Colombia.
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Myongsook Susan Oh, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Hongik University, South Korea; IFEES Vice President for Asia. Brian
Beneda, Representative of Hewlett Packard, corporate sponsor of IFEES; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systèmes Representative (from left
to right).
Stephanie Farrell, Associate Professor, Rowan University, United States;
IFEES Executive Committee Member.
Ivan Esparragoza, Associate Professor of Engineering, Pennsylva-
nia State University; IFEES First Vice President and Vice Presi-
dent for the Americas.
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November 3-6, 2013, the second conference of “IETEC'13” brought together international educa-tors, professionals, researchers, students, busi-ness leaders and policy makers. Two of its key-note speakers were Euan, Dean of Engineering at the Central Queensland University Australia and Mushtak Al-Atabi Dean of Engineering at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Lindsey and Al-Atabi are members of GEDC and the latter was also an hon-orary co-chair of the conference. One of the princi-pal goals of IETEC'13 conference was to promote active participation for all attendees and speakers through plenary sessions, key note addresses, interactive workshops and panel discussions. Ad-ditionally, conference organizers had planned small group sessions and round table meetings of engineering deans as well as one-on-one interac-tion of the participants to discuss issues of engi-neering education, innovation in technology and networking opportunity.
Some of the workshops previous to the second IETEC’13 conference were:
1. “Universities as Locomotives in Regional Devel-opment – Hands-on Approach; facilitated by Dr. Egon Moesby, Director of Studies, First year Ad-ministration, Aalborg University, Denmark and Dr. Cássio Rolim, Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil.
2. “Preparing engineers for a globalized economy: How to teach engineering students process skills;” facilitated by: Professor Nikos J. Mourtos, Associ-ate Chair for Aerospace Engineering, San Jose State University, USA.
3. “Developing Transcultural Innovation Communi-ties: Understanding the Elements Necessary for Success;” facilitated by Dr. Charles Pezeshki of Washington State University.
4. “How to get published, read, and cited in inter-national journals;” facilitated by Dr. Henk Eijkman, Dean, Academic Quality & Innovation, Annasaheb Dange College of Engineering & Technology, Ash-ta, India.
Source:
http://ietec-conference.com/ietec13/)
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International Engineering and Technology Education Conference 2013 (IETEC’13)” in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Michael Milligan, ABET Executive Director and IFEES Executive Committee Member; Jaime Bonilla Rios, Dean of Engineering, Tecnologico de Monter-
rey, Mexico and GEDC Executive Committee Member.
Javier Paez, Co-Chair of WEEF 2013 Cartagena; President of
ACOFI and Dean of Engineering, Universidad del Norte.
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“It is a miracle that curiosity
survives formal education”
- Albert Einstein
“I’ve never let my schooling
interfere with my education”
- Mark Twain
“The true sign of intelli-
gence is not knowledge but
imagination”
- Albert Einstein
Education conjures different
expectations from everyone’s
personal perspective. My
own thinking is as follows:
Education is the process
by which society deliber-
ately transmits its accumu-
lated
knowledge, skills and valu
es from one generation to
another. However, it
should not be at the cost of
creativity, motivation &
talent which is latent in
each individual and must
be nurtured.
If one observes an infant
before it enters the formal
education system, it is
“learning by doing” and is
gaining lifelong experiences.
The enthusiasm of a child to
learn and “explore” his sur-
roundings is innate. How or
why does formal education
kill this? Why do 80% of
those who enter the formal
education system, drop out
before completing their 10th
grade? What makes the child
who was so interested and
keen to learn at home before
schooling started, disinterest-
ed in the knowledge impart-
ed to him in the school class-
room? These are some of the
issues which we shall try and
explore here. Einstein once
said that formulation of the
problem is often more im-
portant than the solution.
There are different narratives
of how our present education
system has evolved to its
present form. Sugat Mitra
offers this explanation –
Imagine The British Empire
trying to run the show, trying
to run the entire plan-
et, without computers, with-
out telephones, with data
handwritten on pieces of
paper, and travelling by
ships. They created a global
computer made up of peo-
ple. It's called the bureau-
cratic administrative ma-
chine. In order to have that
machine running, you need
lots and lots of people. They
made another machine to
Education – A Perspective:
Based on Vigyan Ashram Tenets
By: Ashok Kalbag
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Vigyan Ashram (VA) is a
center of Indian Institute
of Education (IIE) in Pu-
ne. A scientist turned edu-
cationalist, the late Dr. S
S. Kalbag started Vigyan
Ashram in 1983 to find a
solution to problems in
education. (Vigyan means
search for truth and Ash-
ram symbolizes “Simple
living and high thinking,
an organization where all
are equal.” The VA’s
mission is to spread the
education developed by Dr.
Kalbag, whose vision was
that India would be one
day at the forefront of a
new civilization. He
stressed the importance of
educating rural people,
and believed that intelli-
gence is developed and not
inherited. For more infor-
mation on this VA’s edu-
cation program, and how
they are attempting to
change the face of educa-
tion in India, please visit:
http://
www.vigyanashram.com
Re-printed with permission by
the author.
produce those peo-
ple: the school. The schools
would produce the people who
would then become parts of
the bureaucratic administrative
machine. They must be identi-
cal to each other.
Under the changed circum-
stances today, most of the rou-
tine administrative work is au-
tomated and done by comput-
ers or other automatic ma-
chines. Even in industrial pro-
duction, much of the repetitive
work is eliminated by automa-
tion. We do not need schools to
produce another “cog in the
wheel” to replace an old or
worn out component. Tom
Friedman in his “The World is
Flat” describes a world where
increasingly any job that can be
routine is rapidly being out
sourced or automated.
Source:
http://www.vigyanashram.com/
in-
ner/InnerPages/About_Dr_Kal
bag.aspx
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Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of Engi-neering at the University of South-ern California, on February 6th, 2013, delivered the keynote speech at the annual meeting of the Na-tional Academy of Engineering (NAE) at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. The speech addressed the NAE's Grand Challenges, tech-nology, engineering as a vehicle that enables social sciences and
engineering empowered by society.
Dean Yortsos emphasized that “the Grand Challenges set a grander scope for a discipline - they help providing a map, they inspire, and they serve to justify and give ac-
countability.”
Dean Yortsos raised the issues of
technology:
"Technology is the exploitation of a phenomenon for useful purposes. I would characterize 'exploiting' as 'controlling, adapting, transforming, manipulating,' or other such ac-tions. Technology is also used to uncover the phenomenon itself (science and technology go hand-in-hand for this purpose); in fact, 'advancing the tools for scientific discovery' is one of the NAE 14 Grand Challenges. Sensing and recording, computation, communi-cation and control are essential in both the uncovering of the phenom-enon and the building of the tech-nology itself. I should note that in the above, 'useful' is in a general 'public good' sense, although 'useful' is in the eye of the posses-sor, the developer, or the consumer of the technology. And what is use-ful to some may not be to others. Now, in the past, and traditionally, the 'phenomenon' was physical or chemical, e.g. photoelectric effect, semiconductors, combustion, with the resulting technology being what is traditionally associated with en-gineering (sensors, actuators, com-
puters, airplanes, etc.).”
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“Problems (which he prefers to
call challenges) are inevitable.
But all problems are soluble. (As a chemical engineer I was fascinated that the word Deutsch used is not the more conventional “solvable”, but “soluble”, which essentially means dissolved, disappear, dissi-pate.) So, consistent with their en-during nature, our Grand Challeng-es (and others to come) are inevita-ble - they are the collisions of ideas and choices. But, and here comes Deutsch’s optimism, which I share wholeheartedly, they are all soluble- through science and engineering and technology (and through inter-
disciplinary engagement)."
For further information on Dean Yannis Yortsos’ speech, please
visit:
http://www.viterbi.usc.edu/
assets/152/84469.pdf
Source: http://viterbi.usc.edu/about/engineeringplus/nae-grand-
challenges.htm
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The Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) was established in 2008 when a group of more than 20 engineering education leaders recog-nized a need for a global forum of engineering deans and rectors. With-in a short five years, membership grew to include over 120 deans from nearly 40 countries. Through the support of Dr. Bob Bishop, OPUS dean of the College of Engineering, Marquette has grabbed the oppor-tunity to host this unique global net-work led by Dr. Hans J. Hoyer, exec-utive secretary, and his team. The vision of GEDC is to empower deans in advancing their institution’s mis-sion in preparing the next generation of engineers to successfully tackle the challenges of the 21st century and serve society more effectively. The council’s four main focuses in-clude: institutional leadership, cur-
riculum leadership, policy leadership and accreditation leadership. Annual conferences provide a space for mem-bers to leverage their collective strengths, discuss emerging issues and challenges, and share best practices per-taining to leading an engineering school. Dr. Hans J. Hoyer explains, “The GEDC exists to improve the education systems in which engineers will learn the neces-sary skills to address and begin to solve complex global problems.” Corporate representatives join deans as members invested in preparing the next genera-tion of engineers and include representa-tives from Hewlett Packard, The Math-works, and Airbus, among others. Ra-chel Schroeder, head of employment marketing for Airbus describes the ben-efits of their involvement, “I would say my top five objectives are…gaining a better understanding of how Airbus can work with higher education in a mutual-
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ly beneficial way, and getting to know key university contacts from around the world.” The Global Engineering Deans Council 2013 Annual Conference was held in Chicago, IL in October. This year’s conference focused on the use of technology in engineering education and evidence-based practices in making en-gineering education more effective and efficient. The GEDC office is located in the College of Engineering, Haggerty Hall 209. Visit the GEDC website to learn more about the organization and the critical role they play in developing
the next generation of engineers.
This is article is re-published with per-mission by the author. The original pub-lication appeared at: http://www.marquette.edu/oie/mu-global/2013
-November.html
Marquette University embraces ingenuity
as host of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) By: Erin LeMoine
Marquette University
Marquette University, College of Engineering New Engineering Hall. Photo source: http://www.opus-group.com/Media/ProjectImages/Marquette-University-College-of-
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Predatory publishing has increased with the advent of article processing charges for some Open access journals in the
scholarly publishing sector.
The 2013 list has grown from 23 pub-lishers in 2012 to 225 publishers in 2013, which shows the growth of this industry and the difficulty in monitor-
ing these publishers.
According to Jeffrey Beall predatory,
open-access publishers:
“are those that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model of open-access publishing (Gold OA) for their own
profit.
Typically, these publishers spam pro-fessional email lists, broadly soliciting article submissions for the clear pur-
pose of gaining additional income.
Operating essentially as vanity presses, these publishers typically have a low article acceptance threshold, with a false-front or non-existent peer review
process.
Unlike professional publishing opera-tions, whether subscription-based or ethically-sound open access, these predatory publishers add little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digi-tal preservation, and operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable business mod-
els.
Jeffrey Beall’s Criteria for determining predatory open access publishers are
listed here:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open
-access-publishers-2nd-edition/
A few of the easier to spot criteria he
mentions are:
· The absence of suitably qualified aca-demics listed on the journals’ editorial
boards.
· The absence of a formal editorial /
review board.
· The lack of clear information about author fees, offering to publish an au-
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Predatory publishing, under the focus of Jeffrey Beall
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thor’s paper and later sending a previ-
ously-undisclosed invoice.
· Dishonest naming of the journal (e.g. a journal with the word “Canadian” or “Swiss” in its name that has nothing to
do with Canada or Switzerland).
· Dishonest claiming to an impact factor. This can easily be checked in the Web
of Science database.
· Spam requests for peer reviews to scholars unqualified to review submitted
manuscripts.
QUICK TIPS
· Be wary of emails soliciting you for content for a journal, conference, ency-
clopedias or research gateway.
· Ask up front if author processing fees
will apply and how much they are.
· Check the review board and the quali-
fications of its members.
· Check the Library’s Subject guide on Scholarly publishing which has a tab on Open Access publishing and examples of the publishers and journals which we
support.
N.B. QUT Library supports Open Ac-cess publishing fees, except where there is grant which could be used to pay these fees. For example, some funding
agencies
(including the NHMRC and ARC) allow article processing fees to be included in the direct research costs of the project
budget.
This article was published with permis-sion from the author. To read more on Jeffrey Beall please visit: http://
scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-
predatory-publishers-2013/
Unlike professional publishing opera-tions, whether sub-scription-based or ethically-sound open access, these predatory publish-ers add little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digital preserva-tion, and operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable busi-
ness models.
Jeffrey Beall (in the photo), a librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver has published widely on the topic of Predatory Publishers and maintains his own website. His interest in scholarly open-access publishing began in 2009 when he reviewed the publisher Bentham Open in The Charleston Advisor, a journal that re-
views electronic resources.
The latest on Jeffrey Beall, can be found here:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/
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To MOOCers and shakers in the
world of higher education, the
question about MOOCs now is
not merely “to MOOC or not to
MOOC”, but “how to MOOC
strategically” when more and
more universities are jumping
onto the bandwagon of MOOCs.
This month, the two major
MOOC providers Coursera and
edX both announced that they
have successfully attracted many
more institutions to partner with
them. Coursera, in addition, has
partnered with several major
publishers, such as Macmillan
Higher Education, SAGE and
Oxford University Press, to pro-
vide teaching and learning mate-
rials to the students at no cost.
MOOC stands for Massive Open
Online Courses. The massive
coverage of discussions about
MOOCs in the media, both pros
and cons (see ACA Newsletter -
Education Europe, February
2013), have convinced both en-
thusiasts and sceptics in the
world of higher education that
MOOCs, like global university
rankings, are “here to stay”.
More and more universities, in-
cluding Yale University, which
have been hesitant to join the
MOOC race, are compelled to
MOOC along with their peers.
Believe it or not, MOOCs are all
over the place, in the newspapers,
in conferences, and even in uni-
versity board meetings. According
to a Gallup survey and some fol-
low-up enquiries conducted by
Inside Higher Ed, US university
presidents are under increasing
pressure to look into the impact of
MOOCs on their “business mod-
el”. However, most of the presi-
dents are sceptical about the po-
tential of MOOCs in improving
the learning of all students or
solving colleges’ financial chal-
lenges, as opposed to the trustees
from the business world who are
keen to rush into the MOOC race.
To read the full article please vis-
it: http://www.aca-
secretari-
at.be/index.php?id=29&tx_smfaca
newsletter_pi1[nl_uid]=100&tx_s
mfacanewsletter_pi1[uid]=3402&t
x_smfacanewsletter_pi1[backPid]
=272&cHash=8e2562392606e70d
0ad91ee02c8d2343
This article was re-published with
permission from SEFI Secretariat
in Brussels.
Source:
http://www.sefi.be/?p=3458
“What the MOOC” International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education, Hubli, India SPEED and IUCEE, two global engineering organizations have collaborated to enhance and em-power engineering education in India. Some of the keynote speak-ers will be R. Natarajan, F. C. Kohli, Sugata Mitra, Michael Milli-gan, Michael Auer, Lueny Morell and Bopaya Bidanda as well as Seeram Ramakrishna. IUCEE along with International Federa-tion of Engineering Education So-cieties and Global Engineering Deans Council are co—sponsors of this conference. The confer-ence is supported by TEQIP of government of India. Participants from the workshop have devel-oped action plans which are being implemented in the IUCEE con-sortium colleges. Student chap-ters have been formed in continu-ation to these workshops so that leaders from SPEED can keep in constant touch with the partici-pants and guide them through their action plans after the work-shop. This conference will contin-ue for two days, January 16th—18th, 2014, Hubli, India.
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IPW Regional Conference on Engineering Education 2013
Is the “concept of competence” in crisis?
Avenues to engineering education
November 7-9, 2013 at the Technoseum in Manheim, Germany
The success story of technical education is mov-
ingly illustrated and documented at the TECH-
NOSEUM Mannheim, where this year’s IPW
regional conference will be held. The success
story of technical education is movingly illustrat-
ed and documented at the TECHNOSEUM
Mannheim, where this year’s IPW regional con-
ference will be held.
Worldwide, there are efforts to learn from this
success story. However, we are constantly chal-
lenged by new terminology, new didactic con-
cepts and new educational policies.
Which of these foster learning? What will stand
the test and still be used in the future? What can
be linked to the Central European tradition of
technical education and its high quality standards?
More specifically: Is the fixation on promoting
competence a suitable pedagogical approach?
Might the concept of competence be in crisis it-
self? Does it stand up to critical scrutiny?
The 8th Regional Conference provides a forum
for discussion on relevant questions about the
education of engineers and vocational training.
Questions arising from the process of change,
studies and keynote speeches and „best-practice“-
examples will be presented and discussed, e.g.
♦ Fundamental questions concerning Engineering
Education ♦ Concepts of competence in technical
education ♦ Web 2.0 – new approaches in teach-
ing ♦ Humanity – Technology – Work – World ♦
Bionics – Learning from nature ♦ Innovative
concepts in teaching and learning: examples of
best practice ♦ Implementation and implica-
tions of the UNESCO Engineering Initiative
The theme of bionics draws our attention to an
exhibition prepared by TECHNOSEUM – a
wonderful opportunity to become aware of how
much we can learn from nature.
Prof. Dr. Ralph Dreher, University of Siegen, Vice President of IPW; Gudrun Kammasch, President of IPW and Chinese Doc-toral Student of Professor Dreher.
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Michael Auer, Professor of Engineering Systems, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria, President of IGIP, IFEES member or-ganization. Giving a presentation at WEEF 2012 Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina.
Claudio Borri, IFEES Founding President and Eli-sa Guberti, Engineering Professor, University of
Firenze.
Hulas King, Siemens Representative, Ivan Esparragoza, IFEES First Vice President for the Americas; Eduardo Silva Sanchez,
recipient of IFEES President’s Award.
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Who Applied to Georgia Tech's
New Master's Program? In October of this year, two of the
United States’ leading daily
newspapers, The Washing-
ton Post and the New York
Times, both published pieces on
“MOOCs,” demonstrating contin-
ued public interest in online
courses and e-Learning. The
Washington Post opinion piece,
“MOOCS Going Mainstream?
This may be the year,” reported
on the recent partnership of
Google, Harvard and MIT to ex-
pand the edX initiative, while the
NYT article reported on the recent
partnership between the US State
Department and Coursera. The
growing number of partnerships
in MOOCs suggest that they are
here to stay, and will be a regular
part of the discussion in reforming
education.
Please visit the two links below to read more about these exciting
initiatives.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/10/08/moocs-going-mainstream-this-
may-be-the-year/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/education/us-plans-global-network-of-free-online-
courses.html?src=recpb&_r=1&
The Georgia Institute of Technolo-
gy has initiated a new low-cost
online master's degree in computer
science in partnership with AT&T
and the massive open online
course provider Udacity.
According to Georgia Tech Offi-
cials “the degree costs only
$7,000, and university officials
have promised it will be as rigor-
ous as the residential program,
which can cost up to $40,000 a
year. The program has drawn al-
most as many applicants from
Georgia -- 336 -- as California, the
highest represented state, with 343
applicants. AT&T employees total
514 of the applicants.
To read more please visit:
http://www.insidehighered.com/qu
icktakes/2013/10/31/who-applied-
georgia-techs-new-masters-
program#ixzz2jhw7KMoT
Inside Higher Ed
MOOCs Still a Hot Topic
Building Sustainable Cities
John Macomber is senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School who recently published an arti-cle in the Harvard business review on broad strategies for addressing the challenges from rapid urbanization and scarce resources. The article provides a framework for identifying key invest-ment opportunities in resource efficien-cy. Macomber provides a financial perspective to the global challenge of urbanization. You may preview the
article or purchase a PDF copy at:
http://hbr.org/2013/07/building-
sustainable-cities/
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The 2013 Annual Conference of the
Global Engineering Deans Council was
held in Chicago, Illinois, USA on
October 20 (Sunday) through October
22 (Tuesday). This year’s Conference
focused on “Online Digital Education
and Transformed Faculty Roles,” the
use of technology in the enhancement
of engineering education and,
specifically, on evidence-based
practices in making engineering
education more effective and efficient.
Among the keynote speakers for the
Conference were C. D. Mote, Jr.,
Seeram Ramakrishna, Tae-Eog Lee,
and John J. Tracy. Mote is the
President of the National Academy of
Engineering. Ramakrishna is Director
of the Center for Nanofibers &
Nanotechnology, National University of
Singapore. He served as the Dean of
Engineering from 2003-2008. Lee is
the Dean of Education for the 3.0
Initiative at Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology (KAIST). He
serves as the chairman for the creative
education subcommittee for KAIST. At
KAIST he has also served as Director
of Library and Information Systems
and Founding Director of the National
Digital Science Library. Tracy is Chief
Technology Officer of The Boeing
Company and Senior Vice President of
Engineering, Operations & Technology.
He is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, as well as a
Fellow of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics.
On Monday October 21st, in the award
dinner was recognized Ana Lazarin of
Wichita State University, she was the
first recipient of the GEDC Airbus
Diversity Award in Engineering
Education which took place in the Art
Institute of Chicago.
Ana Lazarin was recognized for her
outreach, recruitment and retention
programs which have increased the
number of under represented minority
GEDC 2013 Chicago Conference
and the first GEDC Airbus Diversity
in Engineering Education Award Dinner
it supports, with diversity recog-
nized as a driver for innovation
which is essential for future
growth.
“At Airbus we have some 100
nationalities, and over 20 lan-
guages are spoken among our
59,000 employees. This diversity
helps to foster the innovation and
performance which are essential
for our industry” said Charles
GEDC and Airbus Leadership (From left to right) Alaa Ashmawy, GEDC Executive Committee Member; Tuncay Döğeroğlu, GEDC Secretary Treasurer;
Hans J. Hoyer, GEDC Executive Secretary; Cristina Amon, GEDC Past Chair; John Beynon, GEDC
Chair; Sarah Rajala, GEDC Immediate Past Chair, David Garza Salazar, GEDC Past Chair; Charles
Champion, Airbus Executive Vice President for Engineering.
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students in the College of Engi-
neering at WSU by 91% over the
last 5 years.
The award was created by Air-
bus and the GEDC to recognize
individuals who have been pro-
active in encouraging students
of all profiles and backgrounds
(regardless of gender, social
backgrounds, nationality, culture
or disability) to study and suc-
ceed in engineering. The long
term objective is to ensure that
the engineering industry reflects
the diversity of the communities
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Members of the GEDC Airbus Award Evaluation Committees at the Chicago Art Institute during the first Award Dinner.
Continues from page 13
Sarah Rajala, Dean of Engineer-
ing at Iowa State University and
GEDC Chair added “the strong
demand for engineers globally
means that industry must at-
tract and secure an increasingly
diverse talent pool. We hope
that more educators will be in-
spired to take up the challenge
as Ana has done, to ensure that
engineering graduates reflect
the society in which we live,
work and teach.”
Ana Lazarin received 10,000
USD to support her continued
work in this field, with 1,500
USD going to two other finalists
from University of Notre Dame,
USA and University of Seville,
Spain. An evaluation committee
led by Charles Champion and
comprising experts from aca-
demia and industry met with the
finalists in Chicago and selected
the award recipient. In addition
to the financial reward Ana will
be a VIP guest of Airbus during
the coming year, to visit one of
their major production sites and
meet with Airbus executives.
Sources: http://www.airbus.com/
presscentre/pressreleases/press-
release-detail/detail/airbus-and-
global-engineering-deans-council-
hand-out-the-first-award-for-diversity-
in-engineering-ed/#
http://
gedc2013.engineering.nd.edu/
index.html
Reprinted with permission from the
author
Sarah Rajala, Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University and GEDC Chair together with Charles Champion Airbus Executive Vice President for Engineering, present the first GEDC Airbus Diversity Award for Engineering
Education to Ana Lazarin of Wichita State University, United States.
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From Left to Right: Nicholas Xenos of Juniper Networks; Ramiro Jordan, IFEES Executive Committee Member; Hans J. Hoyer, IFEES Secretary General; Christina White of Texas A and M, Engineering Educator and Inventor.
Krishna Vedula, IFEES Former President, with SPEED Leaders, WEEF 2013 Cartagena, Septem-
ber 20th, 2013
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IFEES General Assembly Members and Friends. Photo taken in September 27th, 2013, WEEF 2013 Cartagena,
Colombia.
David Garza Salazar, GEDC Past Chair and Paul Feigin, Former GEDC Executive Committee Member
Claudio Freitas, SPEED President, Duncan Fraser, IFEES President Elect and David Delaine, IFEES Vice President for Students Affairs, engage in a discussion with Colombian Students at WEEF 2013 Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
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HP Institute: Closing the IT Skills Gap
Every generation has had an industry that changed the fab-ric of society. In the last 40 years, information technology (IT) has been that defining industry, driving unbelievable change in how we work and live. It is a connected world filled with great promise. However, for the 75 million unemployed young people in the world (23.4% youth unem-ployment Europe), the question is how can they tap into the
promise of this digital age?
The irony is there are plenty of good jobs out there, especially in IT. For businesses today, technology is a vital part in reaching new customers, im-proving productivity, reducing costs, and innovating effective-ly. Companies are looking to adopt trending technologies such as social, mobility, big data, and cloud to keep from being outmaneuvered by those who do. As a result, the de-mand for employees with IT
skills is increasing.
To read the full article please visit: http://www.sefi.be/wp-con-tent/uploads/N@S%20October
%2013_short.pdf
(Page 4)
Reprinted with permission from the European Society for
Engineering Education
IFEES Leadership (from left to right): Lueny Morell, Seeram Ramakrishna, Frank Huband, Claudio Borri, Jose Carlos Quadrado, Maria Larrondo Petrie, Krishna Vedula, Xavier Fouger and Duncan Fraser. Photo taken in Chicago,
October 2013.
Dhinesh Radhakrishnan and Hans J. Hoyer at the Universidad Tecno-logica de Bolivar, Car-tagena de Indias, Co-
lombia.
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David Delaine, Former SPEED President, IFEES Vice President for Student Affairs
Erik De Graaff and Jennifer DeBoer,
IIDEA Co-Directors
Claudio Borri, IFEES Founding President and
Seeram Ramakrishna, GEDC Co-Founder
Françoise Côme, Secretary General, European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), Brussels, Belgium and IFEES Vice president
for Europe.
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Monique Simon, Director of uni-versity relations and Fabien Re-nault, Vice President Human Resources and Communication
Americas, at TOTAL, S.A.
Indian and Nigerian
Engineering Deans Del-
egation Visit American
Universities
In October 23rd, four-teen deans from various engineering colleges in India and two deans from Nigeria embarked on a three day bus tour to visit three U.S. universities in the Midwest. The first visit was at Purdue University where the delegation was welcomed by Candiss B. Vibbert, Ph.D. Associate Provost and Prof. Suranjan Panigrahi in the Depart-ment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technology.
In the meeting were dis-
cussed potential collabora-
tions between Indian and
Nigerian Institutions and
the College of Technology,
Purdue University. The
delegation visited the Dis-
covery Park and became
familiar with the technolo-
gy applied and current re-
search conducted in this
institution.
The second visit was at the
University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, where the del-
egation was welcomed by
Brett A. Peters, Dean of
the College of Engineering
and Applied Sciences. In
this visit, Indian Deans
visited the campus and
learned in detail how the Uni-
versity academic credit system
is applied in the United States.
The third stop was at Michi-
gan State University, where
Satish Udpa, Executive Vice
President for Administrative
Affairs welcomed the delega-
tion and gave a presentation
Engineering Deans from India and Nigeria gathered for a group photo on the campus of Michigan
State University (below).
on the current research projects
undertaken by MSU College of
Engineering. His keynote ad-
dress was followed by other
presentations from other lead-
ers in the College of Engineer-
ing.
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Jose Carlos Quadrado
IFEES President (2012-2014)
Stephanie Farrell
IFEES Executive Committee Member
Hans J. Hoyer
IFEES Secretary General
Peter Tase
International Program Assistant
Deborah Donovan
Consultant
Stephanie Cheng
Consultant
International Federation of Engineering
Education Societies
Marquette University
College of Engineering
1515 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, USA, 53233
We are on the Web:
www.ifees.net
Links of Interest:
http://www.sefi.be/ifees/?p=2230
http://www.sefi.be/ifees/wp-content/uploads/S.-B.-Mukasa_-Capacity-Building-in-STEM-and-Manufacturing-
Entrepreneurship.pdf
http://www.sefi.be/ifees/wp-content/uploads/Robert-Bishop-Workshop-6_A-Circle-of-Discovery-Local-
Solutions-to-Global-Challenges.pdf
http://www.sefi.be/ifees/wp-content/uploads/Tony-Majoram-Mona-Dahms-Workshop10_Project-Based-
Learning.pdf
Michael B. Cutlip, “Advances in Engineering Computations” http://www.sefi.be/ifees/wp-content/uploads/Michael-B.-Cutlip-Presentation-in-Africa.pdf Introduction to Problem Solving with POLYMATH Excel and MATLAB
http://www.sefi.be/ifees/wp-content/uploads/Michael-Cutlip-Africa-Seminar-Session-2.pdf
http://www.gedcouncil.org/features/gedc-2013-chicago-conference-presentations
http://hbr.org/2013/07/building-sustainable-cities/
http://www.gedcouncil.org/news/yannis-c-yortsos-delivered-keynote-speech-national-academy-engineering