by
F.A. Kulacki, Ph.D.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-3807
kulacki@me.umn.edu
Final Report
TO THE
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
NSF GRANT NO. EEC-9814162
PI: PROFESSOR FRANCIS A. KULACKI
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, TWIN CITIES
US TRAVEL GRANTS PROGRAM
FOR THE
1988 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING EDUCATION
AUGUST 17-20, 1999, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Partial financial support in the from of grants was awarded to 23 US nationals for the 1988 International Conference in Engineering Education. The ICEE ‘98 and related workshops were held in Rio de Janeiro on August 15-21, 1998. A major goal of the conference was the formation of follow-up collaborations that would promote international activities in curricular development and increase international awareness among engineering students. A post conference workshop was organized for the purpose of forming strategies and focal point initiatives toward achieving this goal. The primary recommendations of working groups that were self-organized during the workshop were:
Student and Faculty Exchanges - A combination of activities is needed to assure the long-term existence of student and faculty exchanges. Student preparation for study abroad should include language training, as well as Web-based introductions to foreign cultures, exchange of materials, and student-to-student contact. For implementation several models are suggested: the European Union model for student exchanges, institutional consortia, an endowed program, and a broker organization for placement.
Brazilian International Partnerships and Alliances in Education and Research - A broadly based consortium of partner institutions conceived with the goal being the enhancement of faculty capability and the improvement of graduate education in general in Brazil. The components of proposed focal programs include non-credit short courses, seminars on engineering education, credit courses at the graduate level focused on graduate education, and short-term research projects. A three-year development and implementation plan is recommend that includes analysis of infrastructure requirements, development and dissemination of pilot programs, and post-program analysis.
Industry Collaborations and Alliances - This working group sees industrial collaborations and alliances mainly focused on promoting an awareness of engineering and technology at all levels in the educational system (K-14) and on increasing the number of engineering student and their knowledge base. The specific recommendation is that, in the near term, an international summit meeting be convened to reach contractual agreements on infrastructure development, education, research and development, and services. It is suggested that participants in such a summit meeting include the US-NSF Engineering Education Coalitions, industry, universities, and international funding agencies.
Internet Course Development - The entire range of technical, educational, administrative and cultural issues appears to have been framed by this working group. Specific characteristics of the generic Web site for a course should include an introduction, tutorials, guides, and links to related software that is internationally available. The vision on implementation is that a "repository" of teaching/learning materials will developed that is indexed on the Internet, including meta-data that subject-related. A variety of near-term commitments for an exchange of software and learning materials appear to have been made among several members of the working group.
The National Science Foundation sponsored international travel from the United States to Rio de Janeiro for twenty three US nationals in connection with their participation in the 1998 International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE ‘98). Travel grants were awarded based on a competitive review of applications for support by a specially appointed Selection Committee.
The goals of this NSF project were,
The ICEE ‘98 was organized under the theme "Progress through Partnership: Strengthening Alliances." The host institution was the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Professor Luiz Carlos Scavarda do Carmo, Dean of engineering at PUC served as the Conference General Chair. The organization and administration of the conference was accomplished through a Steering Committee, Organizing Committee and Program Committee. Memberships of these committees are appended to this report. Professor Scavarda do Carmo met with the Program PI at the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference to discuss the plans for the conference and to participate in the selection process for the travel grant recipient. He maintained close contact with the PI through the final months of the conference planning and organizing process.
The conference comprised several plenary sessions with keynote presentations, panel sessions, pre- and post-conference workshops, poster sessions, and twenty-two oral presentation sessions. The primary topical sessions of the conference included:
Panel sessions addressed several topics of over arching importance to engineering education throughout the world. The topics were:
Approximately 500 individuals from across the world attended the conference. Some 300 contributed and invited papers were presented. The conference proceedings were produced in a compact disc (CD-ROM) format.
The NSF-sponsored delegation numbered 24, with two being panelists and one a K-12 education representative. The project PI also traveled to the conference supported by project funds. Twenty-one delegates and the project PI presented invited and/or contributed papers. Two individuals supported by NSF also presented pre-conference workshops.
The primary criteria for selection of travel grantees were,
Secondary criteria for the selection of travel grantees were,
The Selection Committee was appointed to screen papers and applications submitted to the project PI via the Conference General Chair. Several members of the committee were involved in ICEE ‘97, which was held in the United States. The Selection Committee is listed in Table 1, with detailed addresses listed in the Appendix.
Forty-eight papers submitted by US-based authors were reviewed for in the travel grant competition. The Selection Committee was asked to rank all papers prior to a meeting held at the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference. At this meeting, a final ranking was made for the purpose of allocating grant funds. The project PI was asked by the Committee award grants of $750, $1000 and $1500 based on acceptance of awards on a rank ordered basis. A full award was considered to be $1500. The final grantees and the amounts of their awards are listed in Table 2. Data on the diversity of the grantees is contained in the Appendix.
Table 1. Members of the Selection Committee for the 1998 US Travel Grants Program.
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Timothy Anderson John T. Demel James Evers Karen Frair |
Francis A. Kulacki (Chair) Lueny Morrell Thomas M. Regan Luiz Carlos Scavarda do Carmo |
Table 2. Award Recipients and Dollar Amount of Award
| Name and Institution | Paper or Activity | Grant |
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Cheryl Alderman North Carolina State University |
"Mbone virtual classroom for engineering distance education" | $1500 |
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G. W. Auner Wayne State University |
"A combined research/educational curriculum in smart sensors and integrated devices" | $1000 |
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Eleanor Baum Copper Union |
Panelist | $1500 |
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C. E. Brawner Research Triangle Consultant & North Carolina State University |
"Offering a Web-based course for the first time: Lessons from the faculty" | $1000 |
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D. E. Calkins University of Washington |
"Cooperative learning in design and the learning factory" | $1000 |
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M. Chang Illinois Institute of Technology |
"IPRO - Inter-professional project" | $1500 |
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J. N Craddock. (presenting for Lizette R. Chevalier) Southern Illinois University |
"Integrating Technology Enhanced Learning into a non-technical engineering course" | $1500 |
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K. Daneshvar University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
"Introducing optical concepts in electrical engineering:" | $1000 |
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D. C. Davis New Jersey Institute of Technology |
"Integrating professionalism throughout engineering curricula" | $1500 |
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B. J. Farbrother Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
"Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s technical and entrepreneurial development program" | $1500 |
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C. N. George University of Rochester |
"The center for electronic imaging systems: Imaging in the information age: | $1500 |
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M. Hawley Michigan State University |
"Educational impact of the NSF state/industry /university cooperative research center on low-cost, high-speed polymer composites processing at Michigan State University | $1000 |
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C. M. Klein University of Missouri-Columbia |
"An integrated freshman curriculum" | $1500 |
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H. Kroger State University of New at Binghamton |
"The IEEC: Combining research, education, and economic development" | $1500 |
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H. A. Latchman University of Florida |
"Requirements for real-time laboratory experimentation over the internet | $1500 |
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L. Morell University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez |
"A decade of partnership. A success story the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and Raytheon Corporation" | $1500 |
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D. J. Newman Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Interactive Web-based and hands-on engineering education: A freshman aerospace and design course at MIT" | $1500 |
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B. M. Olds Colorado School of Mines |
"A new core curriculum for engineering and science programs at the Colorado School of Mines" | $1500 |
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W. F. Philips University of Florida |
Panelist | $750 |
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J.-C. Rogiers University of Oklahoma |
"International integrated experience in engineering education at the University of Oklahoma" | $1500 |
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B. Tin Public Schools Prince Georges County Maryland |
K-12 Representative | $1000 |
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B. P. Woolf University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
"Multimedia tutors for engineering and chemistry" | $1500 |
Pre-conference workshops were directed at several curriculum and educational process topics and were well attended. Lecturers in these workshops comprised both US-based and Central/South American engineering educators. Workshop topics and lecturers were,
Post-conference workshops were held the day immediately following the close of the conference. Overall attendance was approximately 100 delegates. Attendance of NSF-supported delegates was a requirement of their receiving the award, and with but few exceptions this requirement was met. Those attending the post conference workshops are listed in the Appendix.
The purposes of the post-conference workshops were to strengthen ties between conference delegates, to catalyze action plans for long-term international collaborations and partnership activities, and to promote sharing of resources between the engineering schools in the education sphere. The topical themes of the several working groups were,
Participants in each of the working groups were asked to share experiences of this conference that might lead to post-conference, long-term collaborations. Each group was asked to tabulate what appear to be possible and likely future collaborations and interactions that will result from the ICEE ‘98. Participants in each working groups are listed in the Appendix.
The specific recommendations of each of the working groups are presented contained in the Appendix. The following is a condensed summary of the recommendations of each working group:
Exchange programs were found to involve significant issues for both faculty and students. The working group identified possible strategies that could facilitate international exchanges. Some of these involved use of bilateral university or governmental agreements, using successful models already developed and developing new frameworks for faculty exchanges.
The working group recommends the formation of the "Coalition to Improve Graduate Education and Faculty in Brazil." The proposed coalition will involve Brazilian and non-Brazilian institution and seek to develop focal programs that can be easily delivered across the nation. A three-year design-testing-evaluation period is envisioned to launch the program, and the full range of available educational technologies and learning processes is to be used.
The working recommended a broadly based, systemic program in which industries can impact engineering education. Collaborations between industry and academia are aimed at the goal of impacting the K-14 educational system so that a greater number and better educated engineers can be produced. Bilateral international agreements and cooperation are the innovative aspect of future activities seen by the working group. A major recommendation for the near term is that an International Hemispheric Summit Meeting of NSF Engineering Education Coalitions, Industry, University representatives, and international funding agencies be convened. The goal of such a summit meeting is to sign contracts and agreements on infrastructure development, education, research and development, and services.
The working group touched upon several of the key underlying issues facing an international program of internet-based course development and dissemination. Collaboration between authors and disseminators is envisioned to involve all steps of the software development and life cycle processes: storyboards, participants (contributors), prototypes, revision, tutorial materials, the computational framework (computational tools) required, and commercialization and dissemination (intellectual property). A number of cultural issues surrounding a development program of this type were discussed. Several early stage educational software exchanges were proposed based on the experiences of group members at ICEE ‘97 and ICEE ‘98
A. Members of the Selection Committee for the 1998 US Travel Grants Program.
B. Diversity of Travel Grant Recipient
C. Participants in the Post Conference Workshops
E. Working Groups of the Post-Conference Workshops
F. Post Conference Working Group Topical Reports & Recommendations for Action
G. ICEE ‘98 Steering, Organizing and Program Committees
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Timothy Anderson Professor and Chairman Department of Chemical Engineering University of Florida 150 NEB, Box 116134 Gainesville, FL 32611-6134 Tel: 352-846-2562 / 352-392-0882 Fax: 352-392-4126 Email: tim@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu |
Francis A. Kulacki (Chair) Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Minnesota 111 Church St. SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 5545-0111 Tel: 612-625-3807 (O) 612-929-8363 (H) Fax: 612-624-1398 Email: kulacki@me.umn.edu |
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John T. Demel Department of Civil Engineering The Ohio State University 2070 Neil Avenue, 244F Hitchcock Columbus, OH 43210 Tel: 614-292-2427 Email: demel1@osu.edu |
Lueny Morell Department of Chemical Engineering University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez PO Box 5000, College Station Mayaguez, PR 00681-5000 Tel: 787-265-3878 Fax: 787-834-3031 Email: lueny@dediego.upr.clu.edu |
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James Evers, P.E. Associate Dean College of Engineering and Technology Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL 92901-6603 Tel: 618-453-4321 Email: evers@engr.siu.edu |
Thomas M. Regan Department of Chemical Engineering University of Maryland Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Building College Park, MD 20742-2221 Tel: 301-405-1936 Fax: 301-405-1575 Email: tregan@echo.umd.edu |
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Karen Frair Director, Foundation Coalition College of Engineering University of Alabama 150 Mineral Industries Bldg., Box 870200 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0200 Tel: 205-348-4090 Fax: 205-348-4088 Email: kfrair@coe.eng.ua.edu |
Luiz Carlos Scavarda do Carmo Dean, PUC-Rio Center for Science and Technology Rua Marques de S. Vicente, 225 Gavea 22452-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Tel: ++55 21 529.9322/ 9343/ 274.8822 Fax: ++55 21 274.4546 Email: decano@dctc.puc-rio.br |
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White |
African American |
Asian/Asian American & Indian Sub-Continent |
Hispanic/ Hispano-American |
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Male |
9 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
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Female |
7 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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Total Grant Recipients (23) |
16 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
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Project PI |
1 |
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Total US Delegation (24) |
17 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
Participants in the post conference workshops joined on or more of the working sub-groups. Sub-group membership varied throughout their period of activity.
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Barry Farborther Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN, US barry.j.farbrother@rose-hulman.edu |
Maria A. Davidovich PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil mamdo@fis.puc-rio.br |
Eudardo C. Damasceno Brazil ecdamas@ccet.umc.br |
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Igor A. lima UFRJ-Rio, Brazil lgorlima@metalmat.ufri.br |
Juan A. Bujosa Raytheon Company juan_bujosa@res.raytheon.com |
Lueny Morell University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez lueny@exodo.upr.clu.edu |
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Wayne C. Johnson Raytheon Company wayne_c_johnson@res.ray.com |
Carlos Tomei PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil tomei@mat.puc-rio.br |
Max Souza PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil msouza@mat.put-rio.br |
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Beverly Woolf University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, US bev@cs.mmass.edu |
Carlos Eduardo Pereira Federal University of RGS Brazil CPEREIRA@IEE.UFRGS.BR |
Robert Coleman University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina, US coleman@uncc.edu |
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Philip Gash California State University - Chico Chico, California, US pgash@csuchico.edu |
Barbara M. Olds Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado, US bolds@mines.edu |
Ron Miller Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado, US rmiller@mines.edu |
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Jose R. Bergmann PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil bergmann@cetus.pus-rio.br |
Nival Nunes de Almeida VERJ, Brazil nival@uerj.br |
Jorge Mario Campagnolo UFSC, Frorianopolis, Brazil campagno@labspot.ufsc,br |
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Monica Salgado Civil Engineering UFRJ - Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil monicas@civil.ee.ufrj.br |
Maria Karla Vervloetsollero UFRJ - Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil karl@dee.ufrs.br |
Azauri Albani de Oliveria, Jr. VSP-Sao Carlos, Brazil azaurijr@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br |
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Hernani L. Brinati USD-Escola Polytecnica Brazil rlsrinat@usp.br |
Denise M. S. Gerscovich UERJ, Brazil gerscovi@uerj.br |
Vaclav Roubicek VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic vaclav.roubicke@vsb.cz |
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Polak Jaromir VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic jaromir.polak@vsb.cz |
Cerry Klein University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, US klein@ecn.missouri.edu |
Daniel C. Davis New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark New Jersey, US davis@admin.njit.edu |
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Cheryl Alderman North Carolina State University Rayleigh, North Carolina, US alderman@eos.ncsu.edu |
Dale Calkins University of Washington Seattle, Washington, US calkins@me.washington.edu |
Jose P. Teixeira PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil jpt@rdc.puc-rio.br |
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Maria Angela C. de Melo PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil macme@mailrdc.puc-rio.br |
Paulo Corrêa de Mello PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil paulo@qui.puc-rio.br |
Tomas Cermak VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic tomas.cermak@vsb.cz |
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Radim Farana VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic radim.farana@vsb.cz |
Vladimir Kebo VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic vladiir.kebo@vsb.cz |
Lubomir Smutny VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic lubomir.smuty@vsb.cz |
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Nigal P. Almeida PETROBRAS Brazil |
Roberto C. Paduca PETROBRAS Brazil paduca@petrobras.com.br |
Severino F. Neto UFRG, Brazil severino@peno.coppe.ufrj.br |
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Claudio Palma Universita Roma 3, Italy palm@amaldi.fis.uniroma3.it |
Miguel Arias University de Santiago de Chile m-arias@lauea-usach.ch |
Alberto Hernandez Neto Escola Politecnica - USP Brazil abneto@usp.br |
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F. A. Kulacki University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota, US kulcki@me.umn.edu |
John W. Prados University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee, US jprados@utk.edu |
Tim Anderson University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, US tim@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu |
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Clara Oliveira UF Santa Catanna Brazil clara@inf.ufrc.br |
Charles Gadea University of Rouen, France charles.gadea@wanadoo.fr |
Victor K. Schutz IEEE - Education Society v.schutz@ieee.org |
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Sandoval Carnireiro UFRJ, Brazil sandoval@dee.ufrj.br |
James Craddock Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois, US carddock@ce.siu.edu |
Manohar Kulkarni Southern Illinois University Carbondalle, Illinois, US kulkarni@siu.edu |
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Luiz A. Meirelles UFRS, Brazil meirelles@ind.ufrn.br Gregory W. Auner Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, US gauner@ece.eng.wayne.edu |
Trond Clausen Telemark University Norway trond.clausen@hit.no |
Jose Parisg PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil parise@mec.puc-rio.br |
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Betty T. Tin Ardmore Elementary School Maryland, US Fax: 301-925-1318 |
Alberto Sayao PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil sadao@civ.puc-rio.br |
Khosrow Ghavami PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ghavami@civ.puc-rio.br |
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Julio Caesar Heitz PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil julio@inf.puc-rio.br |
Pierre Ohayon PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil pohayon@rdc.puc-rio.br |
Axel Hunger University of Duisburg Germany hunger@uni-duisburg.de |
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Luiz C. Scavarda Catholic University in Rio PUC-Rio, Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil decano@dctc.puc-rio.br |
Volker Geller DAAD Brazil daadrj@easynet.com.br |
Joa Celio Brandào PUC-Rio, Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil jcelio@cetuc.puc-rio.br |
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John Fleming Strathclyde University, Scotland jfleming@mecheng.strath.ac.uk |
Colin Adamson-Macedo University of Westminster, UK cs1929@wlr.ac.uk |
Georges Lespinard Lust N. Polytechnique Grenoble, France georges.lespinard@hmg.inpg.fr |
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Gilbert Villoutreix Min. Ed. Nat. Rec. Tech. France villou@cnam.fr |
Ney A. Dumont PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil dumont@civ.puc-rio.br |
Washington Braga ME Department PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil wbraga@mec.puc-rio.br |
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Ernest T. Smerdon National Science Foundation, US esmerdon@nsf.gov |
Win Aung National Science Foundation, US waung@nsf.gov |
William S. Butcher National Science Foundation wbutcher@nsf.gov |
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Sheng-Jii Hsieh National Cheng-Kung University Taiwan, ROC sjhsieh@mail.ncku.edu.fw |
Morris Chang Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois, US chang@charlie.iit.edu |
Jay Rajgopal University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US rajgopal@engrg.pitt.edu |
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Otavio di Mattos Solvares Escola de Engenharia Maua Brazil otavioms@maua.br |
Kasra Daneshvar University of North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina, US daneshvar@uncc.edu |
Kirshnan Lal National Physical Laboratory New Delhi, India klcodata@nde.vsnl.net.in |
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Harry Kroger State University of New York at Binghamton Binghamton, New York, US hkroger@binghamton.edu |
Haniph Latchman University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, US latchman@list.ufl.edu |
Carol N. George ARC, Inc. Rochester, New York, US ngeorge@troi.cc.rocheter.edu |
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Nicholas George University of Rochester Rochester, New York ngeorge@troi.cc.rochester.edu |
Jean-Claude Roegiers University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, US jc@rmg.ou.edu |
Herbert René Miranda Barrios Universidad de Dan Carlos de Guatemala San Carlos, Guatemala jmiranda@usac.edu.gt |
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Ubirajara Ferreira UNESP-Guarantinguetá Sao Paulo, Brazil ferreiur@feg.unesp.br |
Ramiro Jordan University of New Mexico ISTEC rjordan@eecp.unm.edu |
Afonso Henrique S. De Oliveira UNSEP-Guaratinguetá Brazil afonso@feg.unesp.br |
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Luiz Carlos Dantas PETROBRAS xag2@petrobras.com.br |
Marcos da Solveira PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil marcos@ple.puc-rio.br |
Shirley V. Coutinho PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil shirley@ctc.puc-rio.br |
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Fatima Riveira PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil fbayma@fgv.br |
A. R. Rimenal O. PETROBRAS elp5@petrobras.com.br |
Melo Indio do Brasil PETROBRAS 5044@petrobras.com.br |
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Leonardo J. Lustusa PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ljl@ind.puc-rio.br |
Myriam E. R. P. Barbajat
UFF Brazil tgmmyri@vm.uf.br |
Rodney Marsh Leeds Metropolitan University r.marsh@lmu.ac.uk |
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Joel Weisz FINEP Brazil weisz@finep.gov.br |
Hortencio Borges PUC-Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hborges@fis.puc-rio.br |
The following question was asked of all of the participants in ICEE 98 just before the end of the conference.
"The purpose of the post conference workshop is to promote international collaboration between engineering educators on a world wide basis. Your participation is invited and needed!
"To help define areas of collaboration, please identify one or two areas for international collaborators in which your would like to participate. For example:
The following table summarizes the responses to questionnaires
| Topic | Number |
| Hands-0n Project | 15 |
| Internet Curriculum Development | 30 |
| Exchange Program | 14 |
| Distance Learning | 1 |
| Other | 22 |
| Total | 84 |
In the category of "other responses" the following ideas were presented:
Working Group on Brazilian
International Partnerships and Alliances
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Nival Nunes de Almeida VERJ-Universidad do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Email: nival@verj.br T: (021)587-7604 F: (012)254-2619 |
Ney Augusto Dumont PUC-Rio Email: dumont@civ.puc-rio.br |
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Jorge Valez-Arocho Universidad de Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00680 jvelez@exoco.upr.clu.edu |
Axel Hunger University of Duisburg (Germany) Email: hunger@uni-duisburg.de |
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Myriam Eugenia R. Prata Barbejat UFF-Universidad Federal Flumineuse Email: tgmmuri@vm.uff.br / barbejat@web4u.com T: (012)620-7070 R-213 F: (021)717-4446 |
Narka Azorio Lanzorin UFRGS - Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Email: marloa@eng.ufrgs.br T: (015)316-3952 F: (015)316-3277 |
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Herbert Rene Miranda Barrios Facultad de Ingenierio Uiversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Email: hmiranda@usac.edu.gt |
Alfonso Henrique S. de Oliveira UNESP - Faculdad de Engenhana de Campus de Guaratinquete Email: afonso@feg.unesp.br T: (012)525-2800 F: (012)525-2466 |
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Hernani Luiz Brinati Escola Politechnica Universidad de Sao Paulo Email: hlbrinat@usp.br |
Jayan Rajgopal Dept. Industrial Engineering Univeristy of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261, US Email: rajgopal@engrng.pitt.edu T: (412)624-9840 F: (412)624-9831 |
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Shirley Virginia Coutinho CTC/PUC-Rio Email: shirly@ctc.puc-rio.br |
Otavio de Mattos Silvares Escola de Engenhana Maua - IMT Email: Otavioms@maua.br |
Working Group on Technology
in Engineering Education
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Cheryl Alderman North Carolina State University at University of North Carolina - Asheville, One Univeristy Heights Asheville, NC 28730, US Email: alderman@eos.ncsu.edu |
Barry Farbrother Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 5500 Wabash Ave Terre Haute, IN 47803, US Email: bary.j.farbrother@rose-hulman.edu |
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Washington Braga R Marques do Sao Vicente, 225 22453-900-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Email: wbraga@mec.puc-rio.br |
Haniph Latchman 4362 EB University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32617, US Email: latchman@list.ufl.edu |
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James Craddock Civil Engineering MS 6603 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901, US Email: craddock@ce.siu.edu |
Amaro Lins Rua Ernani Braga 503/202-Madalena Recife-Pe-Brazil Email: alins@npd.ufpe.br |
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Alan Calunas Ford Motor Company Education, Training and Development 1900 Hubbard Drive Dearborn, MI 48121, US Email: acalunas@ford.com |
Alberto Hernandez Neto Escola Politechnica - USD Brazil Email: abneto@usp.br |
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John Fleming Mechanical Engineering Department Strathclyde University Glasgow, G11XJ, Scotland Email: davejohn34@aol.com |
Gilbert Villoutreix 61-65 rue Dutot MENRT/DEX 75015 Paris, France Email: villou@cnam.fr |
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Claudio Palma Dipartmento di Fisica Universitat de Roma 3 Via Della Vasca Navale, 84 00145-Roma-Italy Email: palma@amaldi.fis.umroma3 |
Beverly Woolf Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003, US Email: bev@cs.umass.edu |
Working Group on
Industry Collaborations and Alliances
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Gregory Auner Email: gauner@ece.eng.wayne.edu |
Harry Kroger Email: hkroger@binghampton.edu |
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Joáo Celio Brandáo Email: jcelio@cetuc.puc-rio.br |
Paulo Corrês de Mello Email: paulo@qui.puc-rio.br |
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Juan A. Bujosa Email: jual_bujos@res.raytheon.com |
A. Pimentel |
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Robert Coleman Email: Coleman@uncc.edu |
Carlos E. Pereira Email: cpereira@iee.ufgrs.br |
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Charles Gadea Email: charles.gadea@wandadoo.fr |
Kirshnan Lal Email: Klcocata@nde-vsnl.net.in |
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Carol N. George Email: ngeorge@troi.cc.rochester.edu |
Severino Fonseca da Silva Neto Email: severino@pend.coppe.ufrj.br |
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Nicholas George Email: ngeorge@troi.cc.rochester.edu |
Maria Angela Campego de Mello Email: macm@mail.rde.puc-rio.br |
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Khosrow Ghavami Email: ghavami@civ.puc-rio.br |
Lueny Morell Email: lueny@exodo.upr.clu.edu |
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Wayne Johnson Email: Wayne_C_Johnson@res.ray.com |
Ratna Naik Email: naik@hal.physics.wayne.edu |
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Rauiro Jordan Email: rjordan@eece.unm.edu |
Clara Oliveira Email: clara@inf.ufsc.br |
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Cerry Klien Email: klein@ecn.missouri.edu |
Betty Tin T: (301)384-0691 / (301)925-1311 |
Working Group on Exchange Programs
Issues for Students
Issues for Faculty
Solutions for Students
Solutions for Faculty
Working Group on BRAZILIAN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
"Coalition to improve Graduate Education and Faculty in Brazil: Learning by Doing"
Brazilian: PUC-Rio, UFF, UERJ, UFRJ, USP, UFRGS, UNESP, UFMG
Non-credit short courses and/or seminars in engineering education.
Credit courses a the graduate level focused on graduate education,
Short-term research projects.
Distance learning and distance educational methods
The Internet
Workshops
Eng-2001 institutions
Faculty at the Eng-2001 institutions.
Extend in the future to other engineering faculty.
Graduate students.
Year 1-
Create the coalition.
Develop a strategic plan.
Identify infrastructure requirements by delivering a seminar
or short course pilot to analyze group dynamics and design
evaluation processes.
Year 2 -
Design, test and outreach to other places.
Develop and deliver longer, focused courses.
Refine and deliver short courses once again.
Year 3 -
Faculty in Brazil to design and implement new graduate courses to improve faculty quality.
WORKING GROUP ON INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONS AND ALLIANCES
Promote awareness of engineering and technology at all levels in the educational system (K-14) and increase the number of engineering student and their knowledge base.
Business development
Developing and maintaining industry advisory boards
Marketing
Curriculum development
Establishment of clear, aggressive, focused science and technology policies
Quality assurance in accreditation
Reward mechanisms for faculty and industry
Infrastructure development and maintenance
Alliances: university-government, K-12 education, industry.
Educational pipeline issues
Distance learning
Outcomes and impact of education
International Hemispheric Summit Meeting of NSF Engineering Education Coalitions, Industry, University representatives, and international funding agencies. The goal is to sign contracts and agreements on infrastructure development, education, research and development, and services.
WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET COURSE DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
Tutorial -- guides, starter guide
Links to software internationally available
Indexed on the Web
NEEDS and Synthesis Coalition software
Metadata -- age, course, time, and dialogue
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Teaching |
Technology |
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1. Information |
1. Slides on the Web; courses on the Web. |
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2. Tools |
2. MATLAB, Mathematica, and other software. |
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3. Discussion |
3. Simulation, Internet tours, discovery-based learning. |
Storyboards
Participants
Prototypes
Revision
Commercialization and dissemination (intellectual property)
Classroom culture and cultural change
Studios versus classes/classrooms
Reduction/shift of/from bricks and mortar
Cost assessment
Learning assessment
H. Latchman (US-U Florida) will share computer/network-based courses; other possible participants are B. Farbrother (US-Rose-Hulman), John Fleming (Scotland), and Washington Braga (Br-PUC-Rio)
Aulanet at PUC-Rio has on-line courses on management in Spanish and English. Possible US and Scotland exchange.
Asynchronous Learning Networks (Latchman papers).
Manufacturing tutors (Scotland, Brazil, and US)
Steering Committee
Win Aung, US, National Science Foundation
Juh Wah Chen, US, University of Southern Illinois
Robert J. Herrick, US, Purdue University
Peter Lee, US, California Polytechnic University - San Luis Obispo
Waldimir Pirro e Longo, Brazil, FINEP - Engineering Programs
Colin Adamson Macedo, UK, Univerity of Westminster
Hideo Ohashi, Japan, Kogakuin Univerty
Jose Alberto Parise, Barzil, PUC-Rio
John Prados, US, National Science Foundation
Thomas Regan, US, The University of Maryland
Vaclav Roubicek, CR, Technical Univerity - Ostrava
Victor K. Shutz, US, IEEE Education Society
Organizing Committee
Ney Augustro Dumont, Brazil, PUC-Rio
Luiz Pereira Calaba, Brazil, UFRJ
Pierro Ohoyan, Brazil, PUC-Rio
Luiz F. Autran M. Gomes, Brazil, National Academy of Enigneering
Ronal Carreteiro, Brazil, PUC-Rio
Program Committee
Danilo Amaral, Brazil, Brazilian Asocation for Engineering Education
Timoty Anderson, US, University of Florida
Luiz Bevilaque, Brazil, Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Ariovaldo Bolzan, Brazil, Universidage Federal de Santa Catarina
Sandoval Carneiro, Brazil, Universidade Fedeal do Rio de Janeiro
John T. Demel, US, The Ohio State University
Ubirajar R. Ferreira, Brazil, Universidade Estadual Paulista
Phi Gash, US, California State University - Chico
Giovani Latini, Italy, Universita degli Stui di Ancona
George Lespinard, FR, Ntaional Polytechnic Institute - Grenoble
John Mead, US, University of Southern Illinois
J. A. Pimenta-Bueno, Brazil, PUS-Rio
Maria Jose Gazzi Salum, Brazil, Universidade Federal de Mins Gerais
Andreas Schlahetzki, FRG, Institu fur Halbleitertechnick der Techniscen Universitat
Marco A. da Silveira, Brazil, PUC-rio
C. T. Wang, ROC, Natnal Taiwan University
Beverly Park Woolf, US, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
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