International Conference on Engineering Education

 Partnership, Policy, Practice

 UMIST, Manchester, UK

18 - 22 August 2002

  

Abstracts Deadline:

18 January 2002

 http://www.meeting.co.uk/icee

 

The Universities of Greater Manchester have combined to organise ICEE 2002.  This international conference and associated exhibition has a global perspective and has been held previously in Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Prague, Taipei and Norway.

The topic areas include:

Facing the global challenge

            Perceptions of engineering

            Pan-global delivery

            World-wide accreditation

            Social inclusion, broadening access

Changing structures for delivery

            Breaking traditional barriers

            Multi-disciplinary approach

            Simulation versus reality

            e-university

New methods and techniques

            e-learning

            Interactive web-based learning material

            Continuous learning

            C&IT learning

Partnerships for progress

Electronic based methods of assessment

National programmes for promoting innovation in teaching and learning

Assessment, accreditation, standards

Academic and industrial collaboration

            Role of professional institutions

Funding opportunities

            Funding mechanisms

            Regional, national, international

E-university

            Models for the e-university

            Changing role of academic expertise

            Learner support

            Threats and opportunities

            Cherry picking or strategic change

Meeting the needs of industry

            Technical and human resources

            Lifelong learning

            Breadth versus depth

Sci-fi engineering

            Preparation for "sci-fi engineering"

            nanotechnology

            bio-engineering

            space and sub sea engineering

Best practice

            Role of traditional methods

            Looking forward/back

            Comparison and evaluation

            Cost implications

            Staff development

            Simulation

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts via the website, each 300 - 500 words, in English.  Further information and format can be found on the website under the presenters section. For the themes in the Special Call for Papers please click here.