september 2012 bulletin

Volume 1, Issue 1

Third IFEES Global Excellence in E.E. and IFEES Presidents Awards

Newsletter Date

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 ( w w w . I F E E S . n e t ) a Q u a r t e r l y n e w s l e t t e r

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The Global Bulletin of

Engineering Education

Highlights of this Issue:

IFEES Award recipients, profiles 1

Engineering for Sustainable World 3

IGIP Annual Conference 3

European Society For EE (SEFI) 4

SIEMENS Products & Technology 5

The South African Society for E.E. 6

Hewlett Packard at WEEF, 2012 _________________________________________ Airbus New Assembly Line in US _________________________________________ SPEED briefing _________________________________________

IIDEA workshops _________________________________________ ISTEC Focus on its core initiatives

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On July 20, 2012, the IFEES Execu-tive Committee, under the recom-mendation of the Award Commit-tee, unanimously chose Professor Bopaya Bidanda, from the Universi-ty of Pittsburgh, to receive this years Award on Global Excellence in Engineering Education, spon-sored by three corporations, Das-sault Systmes, Hewlett Packard and Infosys. For the first time, the IFEES president, Krishna Vedula, will also honor two global engineer-ing educators, Professor Claudio Borri, ("Global Visionary" Award) from the University of Florence, Italy and Professor Yu Shouwen ("Pioneering National Leader" Award) from Tsinghua University, China. Both IFEES Awards are sponsored by Siemens and IUCEE.

We want to express our gratitude and acknowledge the work under-taken by this years IFEES Award.

Photo of Prof. Bopaya Bidanda

Committee, co-chaired by Tan Moorthy and Doug Gorham. This Committee, which represented most regions of the world, included also Euan Lindsay, Michael Auer, Ashley Ater Kranov, Rachel Schroeder and Gordon Griffith. We highly appreci-ate the work of several IFEES lead-ers who worked diligently in identi-fying and preparing the supportive credentials for all the nominees pre-sented to the Award Committee.

In the evening of October 15th, on the mark of WEEF, 2012 in Buenos Aires, there will be an IFEES/GEDC Awards Reception where three out-standing global engineering educa-tors will be honored.

(http://www.weef2012.edu.ar/home1.php)

Prof. Bopaya Bidanda

Has provided a great contribution in Internationalizing Engineering Edu-cation through his efforts especially the Semester at Sea program aimed at providing international ex-perience for every undergraduate engineering student. In addition, Bidanda has also participated in train the trainer workshops, help-ing to enhance faculty competencies. His focus on students skills has helped the latter have an advantage over others to increase their chances for employment. Prof. Bidanda has also shaped a program in his depart-ment for the systematic recruitment of Ph.D. students who would like to pursue a faculty position upon grad-uation, which has secured tenure track positions for the

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graduates from the University of Pittsburgh at Worldwide univer-sities including the Middle East Technical University, Kuwait University, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Uni-versity of Waterloo in Canada, and prominent universities in the United States. Prof. Bi-dandas personal involvement to inspire faculty and students, highly distinguishes him from his colleagues. His work has been done thanks to his high individual motivations and sur-prisingly with little organiza-tional infrastructure. (http://www.pitt.edu/~bidanda/)

Prof. Claudio Borri

is the professor of Computation-al Mechanics of Structures, Uni-versity of Florence (Italy), President of SEFI (2005-07), and the Founding President of IFEES (2006-08), Vice-Dean for International Relations and Vice-President of the Interuni-versity Research Centre on Building & Environmental Aer-odynamics. He is author or co-author of over 120 scientific publications and editor of three books. Prof. Borri has received the M. Plank Research Award, 1994, in Structural Mechanics by the M. Plank/A. von Humbold, founded in Ger-

many, and in 2001 has received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Engineering Sciences by the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering & Geodesy (UACEG) of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Prof. Borri has been President and Legal Representative of E4 Thematic Network and is pres-ently President and Legal Repre-sentative of TREE Thematic Network. Presently, Prof. Borri is also President of the EUR-ACE Implementation Project (2006-2008) within Socrates II.

Prof. Yu Shou Wen, is a Profes-sor of Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, and a member of the Education Committee of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Depu-ty Director of Chinese Experts Committee of Engineering Edu-cation Accreditation. He is Vice-President of International Con-gress on Fracture (ICF11,2001-2005), ICF Honor fellow, Vice President of Society of Higher Education of China.

He is also Vice-President and Dean of Graduate School of Tsinghua University (1992-1999). Prof. Yu coauthored six books and published 410 scien-tific and technical papers, about 50 papers in the field of Engi-neering Education. He was awarded two National Natural Science Awards of China.

Professor Shou Wen has been Vice President of International Federation of Engineering Edu-cation Societies since 2008 until presently.

Prof. Wen has worked in the field of fracture mechanics and

nano/micro/meso mechanics in last several decades. He worked

at the Institute of Mechanics, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany in 1985-1987 as a Visiting Research Fellow under an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Acta Mechanica Solida Sini-ca from 2000-2007.

Prof. Shou Wen is Editorial Member/Advisor of the Edi-torial Board at 3 International Journals.

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Third IFEES Global Award for Excellence in

Engineering Education; and IFEES presidents award; Profiles of Award Recipients

T h e G l o b a l B u l l e t i n o f E n g i n e e r i n g

...Prof. Yu Shou

Wen, is a Professor of

Tsinghua University,

Beijing , and a

member of Education

Committee of

Chinese Academy of

Engineering

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On August 1st, 2012 the En-gineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), the North-western University chapter hosted successfully the annu-al Northwestern University Summit On Sustainability (NUSOS), a conference that calls on students, community members, and sustainability leaders to think critically about their work while build-ing a community to advance social justice and sustainabil-ity strategies. The theme for this year's conference was: Public Health and the Envi-ronment. NUSOS brought together over 200 students,

speakers and Chicago area leaders to explore pressing sustainability and social jus-tice issues. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) chapter of ESW has partnered with To Love a Child in order to successfully design and construct a bedroom for an orphanage in Rantlamouaie, Haiti using a recycled ship-

ping container. The room provides secure living quarters, shelter, venti-

lation, and reliable electricity using solar panels for 11 or-phans and their caretakers. The finished orphanage is both sustainable and portable. RPI ESW students traveled to Haiti to install the bedroom themselves. On October 19-21, the UC San Diego chapter will host the annual ESW National Conference. This years topic is "What's Our Legacy? Realizing a Sustain-able Future". More details on ESW may be found on: http://www.eswusa.org and the National Conference web-site: (http:// www.eswnc2012.com/index.html.)

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Engineers for Sustainable World

hosted a Summit on sustainability

Among Guests of the IGIP 2012 Conference are: the Secretary General of IFEES, the President of IEEE Educa-tion Society, the Vice-President of ASEE, the Vice-President of LACCEI, the President of the International Association of Online Engi-neering (IAOE), the President of the International

E-Learning Association (IELA), and the Secretary General of the Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN).

IGIP will award the "Nikola Tesla Chain Award" and the "Adolf-Melezinek-Meritorious-Award," to the selected candidates.

The conference will provide an international environment and more than 300 partici-pants from 52 countries have already registered.

( http://www.igip-online.net/)

The International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) will be hosting an interdiscipli-nary conference with an em-phasis on the exchange of rele-vant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in Engi-neering Instruction and Educa-tion. This year the program committee received nearly 400 submissions and from those approximately 200 were ac-cepted to be part of the confer-ence program.

This year the

program committee

received nearly 400

submissions and from

those approximately

200 were accepted to

be part of the

conference program.

IGIP Annual Conference in September 2012

On September 23 26

The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) will hold its 40th An-nual Conference which will focus on the primary topic of Engineering Education 2020: Meet the future. This conference will be hosted by the Aristotle University and are expected to participate over three hundred delegates. The SEFI 40th Conference will commence in the Con-ference Centre of Thessaloni-ki.

Please visit www.sefi2012.com for any further details on the program and list of partici-pants.

In Summer 2012, SEFI Head-quarters in Brussels have developed the new IFEES web site which was launched in late August. In Addition to IFEES web maintenance, SEFI is deeply involved in leadership roles of the newly founded European Engineer-ing Deans Council (EEDC) which held its first general assembly in Florence, Italy, on September, 13 (www.eedcouncil.eu).

This actions are complemen-tary to the European Engi-neering Deans Convention that SEFI will organize at the University of Aalborg in spring 2013.

Not to be forgotten also, the SEFIs involvement into IIDEA (International Institute for the Development of Engi-neering Academics), an insti-tute created by SEFI and IFEES in 2011 (www.iideainstitute.org).

The 2012 Faculty Leader-ship Institutes (FLIs) have arranged many meetings, this past summer with 24 FLIs confirmed at various host colleges located all over In-dia. More details at IUCEE portal http://iucee.org/iucee/dex.php

(TU Munich) is a compelling example of how that universi-ty is using Model-Based De-sign to help accelerate the pace of learning and innova-tion by students, preparing them for careers in engineer-ing and science.

MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. Engi-neers and scientists world-wide rely on its products to accelerate the pace of discov-ery, innovation, and develop-ment.

At MathWorks, we have been working to connect our MATLAB and Simulink soft-ware to popular hardware that can be used for hands-on, problem/project-based learn-ing in academia. For instance, with our R2012a released earlier this year, we specifi-cally enhanced our Simulink product (which is included with our Student Version) to enable students to experiment with particularly affordable hardware devices such as Arduino, LEGO NXT MINDSTORMS, and Beagle-Board. Our recently pub-lished story about the Tech-nische Universitt Mnchen

Products

MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multi-domain dynamic and embedded systems. The com-pany produces nearly 100 additional products for spe-cialized tasks such as data analysis and image pro-cessing. For further infor-mation please visit: (http://

www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/ )

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European Society for Engineering Education

(SEFI), will host its 40th Annual Conference

Mathworks: Helping schools accelerate the pace

of student learning and innovation


Engineering

Education 2020: Meet

the future. This

conference will be

hosted by the Aristotle

University and are

expected to participate

over three hundred

delegates.

MathWorks is the

leading developer of

mathematical

computing software.

Engineers and

scientists worldwide

rely on its products to

accelerate the pace of

discovery, innovation,

and development.


Siemens AG Products: Siemens offers a wide range of electrical engineering - and electronics-related products and services. Its products can be broadly divided into the follow-ing categories: buildings-related products; drives, auto-mation and industrial plant-related products; energy-related products; lighting; medical products; and transportation and logistics-related products.

Healthcare:

Siemens' medical products in-clude clinical information tech-nology systems; hearing instru-ments; in-vitro diagnostics equipment; imaging equipment including angiography, com-puted tomography, fluorosco-py, magnetic resonance, mam-mography, molecular imaging ultrasound, and x-ray equip-ment; and radiation oncology and particle therapy equipment.

Infrastructure & Cities:

Siemens' buildings-related products include building auto-mation equipment and systems; building operations equipment and systems; building safety equipment and systems; build-ing security equipment and systems; and low-voltage switchgear including circuit protection and distribution products. Siemens' transportation and logistics-related products in-clude equipment and systems for rail transportation including rail vehicles for mass transit, regional and long-distance transportation, locomotives, equipment and systems for rail electrification, central control systems, interlockings, and automated train controls; equip-ment and systems for road traf-fic including traffic detection, information and guidance; equipment and systems for air-port logistics including cargo tracking and baggage handling;

and equipment and systems for postal automation including letter parcel sorting.

Industry: Siemens' drives, auto-mation and industrial plant-related products include motors and drives for conveyor belts; pumps and compressors; heavy duty motors and drives for roll-ing steel mills; compressors for oil and gas pipelines; mechani-cal components including gears for wind turbines and cement mills; automation equipment and systems and controls for production machinery and ma-chine tools; and industrial plant for water processing and raw material processing.

Energy: Siemens' energy-related products include gas and steam turbines; generators; compressors; on- and offshore wind turbines; high-voltage

transmission products; power transformers; high-voltage switching products and sys-tems; alternating and direct current transmission systems; medium-voltage components and systems; and power auto-mation ING products including incandescent, halogen, compact fluorescent, fluorescent, high-intensity discharge and Xenon lamps; opto-electronic semi-conductor light sources such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), organic LEDs, high power laser diodes, LED systems and LED luminaires; electronic equip-ment including electronic bal-lasts; lighting control and man-agement systems; and related precision components.

Siemens PLM Software:

a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of

product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 7 million licensed seats and more than 71,000 custom-ers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies, delivering open solutions to help them make smarter decisions that result in better products. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit

(www.siemens.com/plm)

Another priority of the energy division is to supply products and solutions for production, transport and processing of primary fossil fuels. Thereby, through the increased efficien-cy of fossil fueled power plants, Siemens AG supports the CO2 balance. Finally, Sie-mens also specializes in power transmission, wind power, and solar and hydroelectric energy. Siemens finds solutions through technology-based ser-vice to their customers to high cost pressure in the manufac-turing and process industry, rising energy prices, and strin-gent environmental regula-tions. Drive technologies en-sure customers high produc-tivity, industrial software help to optimize customers entire production chain, and metal technologies provide service for metallurgical plants from the raw materials to the fin-ished products. All these solu-tions are relevant for the effi-ciency and productivity of Sie-mens clients.

About Siemens Industry Auto-mation Division (Nuremberg, Germany): supports the entire value chain of its industrial customers from product de-sign to production and services with an unmatched combina-tion of automation technology, industrial control technology,

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Siemens Products and Technological Marvels

(http://www.sea.siemens.com/us/products/Pages/Products.aspx)

and industrial software. With its software solutions, the Division can shorten the time-to-market of new products by up to 50 per-cent. Industry Automation comprises five Business Units: Industrial Automa-tion Systems, Control Components and Systems Engineering, Sensors and Communications, Siemens PLM Software, and Water Technologies. For more information, visit www.siemens.com/industryautomation.

Siemens PLM Softwares Global Opportunities in PLM (GO PLM initia-tive) leads the industry in the commercial value of the in-kind grants it provides and brings together four complementary community involvement programs fo-cused on academic partner-ship, regional productivity, youth and displaced worker development and the PACE (Partners for the Advance-ment of Collaborative En-gineering Education) pro-gram. GO PLM provides PLM technology to more than one million students yearly at more than 11,000 global institutions, where it is used at every academic level from grade schools to graduate engineering research programs. For more information on GO PLM and the partners and programs it supports visit www.siemens.com//goplm.

The South African Society for En-gineering Education (SASEE) was founded at its inaugural meeting on 27 August 2010, Bruma, Gauteng. The constitution of the society was adopted by its members at the first biennial general meeting on 12 August 2011 at Stellenbosch.

SASEE is a voluntary association, governed by the Board and its members. SASEE defines engineer-ing education as the activity of teaching and learning engineering and technology, at all educational levels. The goal of engineering education is to prepare people to practice engineering as a profes-sion, to spread technological literacy, and to increase student interest in technical careers through science and math education and hands-on learning. The mission of SASEE is to foster excellence and innovation in engineering educa-tion. This mission is accomplished by:

a) exercising leadership in the field of engineering education in South Africa and beyond; b) promoting excellence in teaching and learning, research, engagement at universi-ties and practice in the world of work; c) fostering the public un-derstanding of technology in South Africa, and d) providing regular forums for discussion and opinion sharing, networking and dissemi-nating engineering education infor-mation. SASEE brings together people in South Africa and beyond who have an interest in engineering education which include engineer-ing academics and educators at higher and further education insti-tutions, academics from other disci-plines who teach engineering stu-dents, engineering professional support staff, engineering li-brarians, professional engineers, certified engineers, engineering

technologists, engineering techni-cians and industry.

The objectives of SASEE are to:

a) advance engineering education in theory and in practice, and to pro-mote research in the field of engi-neering education; b) encourage lo-cal, national and international collab-oration through hosting forums in the field of engineering education; c) promote strategies to improve success of engineering students;

d) promote the development of en-gineering curricula in South Africa by aligning them with national needs and international trends; e) promote the development and use of new teaching methodologies and meas-urement of teaching effectiveness;

f) promote cooperation with the Engineering Council of South Africa and professional engineering related societies in South Africa; g) promote the development of a database on all aspects of engineer-ing education within South Africa, and h) promote the understanding of technology in society as the appli-cation of knowledge, design, and produce the development and use of objects, systems, and processes to satisfy societal needs.

Membership is open to anyone with a keen interest in engineering educa-tion. The categories of membership

include Individual membership; Cor-porate membership for organizations and Institutional membership for

educational institutions. The first SASEE Biennial Confer-ence was held on 10-12 Au-gust 2011 at Stellenbosch where more than 100 delegates attended, including interna-tional delegates. Keynote speakers included Prof Karl Smith from Purdue University in the U.S., Prof Jonathan Jan-sen, Vice-Chancellor of the UOFS, and Mr. Clem Sunter, of Anglo American back-ground. 51 papers were pre-sented and three workshops were held. The next SASEE Workshop on HEQF and Cur-ricula Design has taken place on 7-8 June 2012 at the Blue-waters Hotel, Durban. The Second Biennial SASEE Con-ference is scheduled for June 2013 at Potchefstroom.

For more information please visit SASEE web site at www.sasee.org.za. Alterna-tively, you are welcome to contact the SASEE General Secretary at: [email protected]

(http://www.sasee.org.za/)

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The South African Society for Engineering Education

playing an active role in South Africa



On Tuesday October 16th, 2012 at 2:30 4:00 pm, Room A, HP facilitators Claudia Lisete and Oliveira Groenwald are arranging the session of Teaching Mathe-matics Effectively with Ad-vanced Calculators

Scientific and graphing cal-culators are standard tools for engineering students. This workshop explores research on teaching effectively with advanced calculators. Dr. Claudia Lizette Oliveira Groenwold, Director of the Graduate Program for Mathe-matics Teaching at ULBRA University in Brazil will share her insights and body of research on enhancing student engagement and com-prehension in high level-mathematics and engineering courses.

On Wednesday October 17th; at 9:00-10:30 am, Room A

The HP Institute under the leadership of Brian Beneda and Daniel Amato, will be developing projects with uni-versities to develop what would be tomorrows IT workforce.

HP has spent 3 years re-searching the evolving needs of business and industry and has gained important insights into how to close the skill gap and provide immediate em-ployment opportunities for students.

Brian Beneda, Global Director of HP Institute, and Daniel Amato, Certiport Regional Manager - Mercosur & Per, will share HPs research and introduce a new education program developed by HP that can help universities provide a business context and the prac-tical skills to develop the fu-ture IT workforce without ever leaving their classrooms.

Daniel Amato serves as Certi-port Regional Manager in the Southern Cone of Latin

America. Certiport is a lead-ing company in the education and certification market and is the HP partner to deploy the HP Institute worldwide. Ama-to has been working for Certi-port for more than 2 year. Prior to Certiport he was the Latin America Director for SCO a Unix software compa-ny. Amato has been working in the IT industry for the last 25 years, he holds a Bachelor of Science in IT from the John F. Kennedy University.

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HEWLETT PACKARD PROGRAM

AT WEEF, 2012

The 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Engi-neering & Technology Education (APCETE)

the Association of Taiwan Engi-neering Education and Manage-ment (ATEEM) at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan, will hold the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Engi-neering & Technology Education (APCETE) from October 29 to November 2, 2012.

This conference will promote the development of research in Engi-neering Education and Manage-ment and facilitate international exchanges and collaboration in Asia-Pacific region. The Interna-tional Federal of Engineering Ed-ucation Societies (IFEES) will be one of the organizers of this con-ference. The deadline for submis-sion of full papers was July 31, 2012. For Further information please visit the following web site: http://www.ateem.org.tw/apcete2012/default.php

For the past three years, the American Society for Engi-neering Education (ASEE), Corporate Member Councils Special Interest Group for International Engineering Education and IFEES devel-oped, presented, and vetted with its stakeholders a series of attributes representing the desired competencies and characteristics needed by engineers in order to effec-tively live and work in a global context. A global online survey in 13 languages was launched to validate the performance and proficiency levels of each attribute, in-cluding the stages at which attributes were essential to

the preparation, performance, and employability of global engineers. On October 18th, under the mark of WEEF, in Buenos Aires the ASEE event will describe the stake-holders driven process to identify attributes of a global engineer; present a summary of key recent findings; high-light the recommendations and implications of how re-search results should be used to enhance engineering edu-cation; and engage partici-pants in a focus group discus-sion to permit additional in-put and perspectives on The Attributes of a Global Engi-neer Project.

(http://www.asee.org/)

Finally, attendees will have the chance to discuss and receive feedback on concrete ways in which they can in-corporate online learning tools in their own classrooms. This workshop is geared to-wards faculty and instructors of engineering courses.

This workshop is offered free to the participants thanks to the support of a key partici-pating corporate partner, HP Calculators. For further infor-mation Please contact IIDEA Secretariat EU:

[email protected]

[email protected]

In mid October, 2012, Hewlett Packard will lead a three-hour workshop that will provide an overview of the ways in which instructors can employ new online learning tools to support student learn-ing and enhance their teach-ing. Participants will learn about the varied types of online or blended learning

structures and activities, the research on student behaviors in online environments and what works, and the possi-ble pitfalls of using online/blended learning. The work-shop will feature key exam-ples of programs that facili-tate online learning.

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Attributes of a Global Engineer Project Focus

Group Event at WEEF, Argentina

Strategies for Facilitating Online

Learning in Engineering Courses

...This three-hour workshop will pro-vide an overview

of the ways in which instructors can employ new online learning tools to support student learning

and enhance their teaching


...A global online

survey was launched

to validate the

performance and

proficiency levels of

each attribute...

and employability of

global engineers...


Within the framework of academic activities that ASI-BEI organizes each semester, on March 22, in San Andrs Island, Colombia an academ-ic session took place to dis-cuss the topic of competen-cies with the attendance of delegates from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cos-ta Rica, Ecuador, Peru. Portu-gal. This activity was initiat-ed with a keynote address by Professor Vicente Albniz, a member of the Advisory Committee of ASIBEI and a Faculty member of the Co-lombian School of Engineer-ing. Afterwards, a panel with the participation of Prof. Daniel Morano (CONFEDI) and Ramon Blasco (Ministry

of Education of Argentina; Dean of Engineering at the University of Santiago de Chile and presently the Presi-dent of ASIBEI; Professor Vicente Albeniz; Eng. Jaime Salazar Contreras, from Co-lombia and the Moderator of the Panel who is Executive Secretary of ASIBEI and Titular Professor of the Na-tional University of Colom-bia.

For some skilled analysis of education, competencies are a way of understanding educa-tion. In principle, competen-cies are neither good nor bad. We could say about compe-tencies what Mario Bunge says about Science; that they are essentially neutral. Their

appraisal depends of the ori-entation they are given. It is not the same if competencies are thought only in terms of the labor market, or if they are conceived for the creation of knowledge, or for the edu-cation of an individual as an integral person. It does not seem to be enough to consid-er the process of education by competencies, since then, they are considered only by their instrumental value. The debate about competencies is not only technical in nature; it is an ideological debate which hinges upon the con-cepts of the human being, of society and that of education itself.

(http://www.efta.oas.org/)

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Blended Learning in Engineering Education

Ibero-American Society for Engineering Education

(ASIBEI) Academic Activities

teaching method enables instructors to have more time to work directly with students, because lectures and grading would be automated.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (2009), students in fully online and blended cours-es tend to perform better than students in face-to-face courses, therefore students in blended courses perform better. However, online classes require more study time due to more interactive material and additional opportunities for collabo-ration. For instance, blogs, discussion boards, reflections, and writings to learn

Due to new innovations and evolutions in technol-ogy, online learning is becoming more attractive to universities and stu-dents. Online education enables students to be taught by world-class pro-fessors, to learn at their own pace, test their knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interac-tive exercises. Research studies reveal that online learning, and in particular blended learning, can re-sult in significantly better student learning compared to the learning process in the conventional class-room. In fact, blended learning is taught in per-son as well as online. This

strategies are the main com-ponents that contribute to a more effective learning ex-perience.

Schools like Princeton, Stanford, MIT, the Universi-ty of Michigan, and the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania all recognize the importance of this new teaching method and therefore, offer several online courses with a mind-set to expand this system in the future. Thus, the so called democratizing edu-cation system has much room for improvement, but is believed to have the po-tential to change the world of education.

...For some skilled

analysis of education,

competencies are a

way of understanding

education. We could

say about

competencies what

Mario Bunge says

about Science; that

they are essentially

neutral.

Cypress University Alli-ance, started the summer in San Antonio at the inau-gural ASEE International Forum followed by the annual ASEE conference. The international forum in particular was a great place to learn about educa-tion issues in other coun-tries.

In July was prepared the FIRST Robotics supplier

summit to discuss ways and means of improving upon the annual (now in its 22nd year),

FIRST Robotics Competition over 2,500 high school teams participate in this event each year. (www.usfirst.org)

CUA ended the summer by attending the inaugural Teach-ing, Assessment and Learning in Engineering Education

(TALE 2012) conference in Hong Kong and had an excel-lent PSoC Workshop with 48 attendees from 12 countries and 28 different institutions. Cypress University Alliance is looking forward to contin-ue the discussions and mak-ing plans for improving Engi-neering Education on a world-wide basis at WEEF in Bue-nos Aries in October 15-18, 2012.

(http://www.cypress.com/?id=1163)

will contribute to disseminate valuable knowledge on engi-neering and technology on developing national and in-ternational mega-projects.

To introduce efficient and effective integration practices as well as innovation when particularly large engineering projects are being considered.

Promote cooperation and collaboration among mem-bers of the institutions in are-as of engineering education, research and technological advances focused on larger projects

Address issues expected to have positive impact on engi-neers, educators and students in the region, when establish-ing a community to work for the engineers education on the Americas.

In July 23 - 27, 2012, was held the 10th International Conference of LACCEI in Panama City, Republic of Panama, under the topic Megaprojects. The event was be hosted by the Univer-sidad Tecnolgica de Pana-m (Panama University of Technology).

The meeting focused on dis-cussions addressing topics related to Megaprojects: building infrastructure by fostering engineering collab-oration, efficient and effec-tive integration and innova-tive planning. The objectives of the event are:

To facilitate the discussion of issues related to engineering problems and best practices in large infrastructure pro-jects. Fostering collabora-tion among engineers which

The Conference was an inter-national forum to exchange ideas, to present best practic-es, discuss on future direc-tions in international collabo-ration, establish dialogues on research agendas, and pro-vide instruction and a training springboard to engineering professors with basic instruc-tion on these topics. The par-ticipating faculty and stu-dents will address and define experiences that could be implemented in their own working environment, while interacting with other faculty, research personnel and stu-dents from various countries to share experiences and to encourage the formation of partnerships to collaborate on projects of mutual interest.

(http://www.laccei.org/)

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Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of

Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) Symposium on

Software Architecture and Patterns

Cypress University Alliance (CUA),

Engineering Education Activities

N e w s l e t t e r T i t l e

...Every year

since 2003,

the Latin

American and

Caribbean

Consortium

of

Engineering

Institutions,

LACCEI, has

organized an

Annual

Conference to

integrate the

Americas


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LACCEI is aimed at a wide variety of engineering profes-sionals and students, academ-ics and researchers, profes-sionals and engineers.

Every year since 2003, the Latin American and Caribbe-an Consortium of Engineer-ing Institutions, LACCEI, has organized an Annual Confer-

ence to integrate the Ameri-cas. Papers are accepted in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French as an effort to include the nations of all the hemisphere.

The mission of LACCEI is to be the leading organization of Latin American and Caribbe-an Engineering Institutions that will further bring innova-

tions in engineering educa-tion and research, and emerge as a power house to foster partnerships among academ-ia, industry, government and private organizations for the benefit of the society and the world.

This organization has served as a vehicle to establish ini-tial contacts and exploration of new ideas.

(http://www.laccei.org/)

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USC Viterbi Launches Global Teaching Alliance

International Symposium on Software Architecture

and Patterns

our commitment to training our undergraduates to flour-ish in an interconnected world by bringing them to-gether with students overseas in a virtual classroom that encourages collaborative discussion and projects. Prov-ost Garrett said that: The alliance also allows USC to play a leading role in promot-ing mutual understanding among nations, for example, bringing into the same class-room the top students from along the Pacific Rim and involving universities from all continents. The alli-ances charter members in-clude USC; Peking Universi-ty (PKU) in Beijing, China; National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei, Taiwan; Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel; the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea; the RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany; and the Indian Institute of Technolo-gy, Bombay in Mumbai, In-dia. Additional university

partners are also currently under consideration. USC Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yort-sos described the iPodia Alli-ance as a new paradigm that leverages communication technologies to provide a truly global educational op-portunity to its member uni-versities. Professor Stephen Lu, iPodia founder and pro-gram director, said: The iPodia model demonstrates our belief that what students learn depends on with whom they learn, that context can-not be taught but is learned by students and that cultural diversity can inspire global innovation. Throughout each semester of the course, iPodia students enjoyed joint classroom instruction, shared coursework, connected through social media and participated in live discussion through synchronous video conferencing. The most re-cent class culminated with USC and PKU students join-ing classmates at the NTU campus in Taipei for three weeks to complete and

On July 9th, The University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineer-ing launched the Global Teaching Alliance, which unveiled an international partnership that allows stu-dents from multiple countries across the world to simulta-neously take the same class. Known as the iPodia Alli-ance, the partnership creates a classroom without bor-ders that enables students from partner institutions to interactively take a common class and learn collaborative-ly from one another in a real-time video environment. According to USC provost and Senior Vice President for academic Affairs, Elizabeth Garrett the USC prepares students to succeed in our global society by developing cutting-edge pedagogical technology, interdisciplinary curriculum and unique oppor-tunities to engage with other students from around the world.

The iPodia Alliance, reflects

demonstrate their se-mester-long innovation projects. Universities participating in the iPo-dia Alliance will collab-orate on curriculum de-velopment and share course delivery across institutional and physi-cal boundaries. iPodia courses focus on emerg-ing socio-technical sub-jects of global im-portance that can benefit from the provided unique, borderless set-ting. Learning together on different campuses, stu-dents can engage in in-teractive discussions, group exercises and team projects to develop contextual understand-ing of the subject and, ultimately, a mutual understanding across different cultures.

Katie Dunham

http://viterbi.usc.edu/

In Spring, Summer, Fall of last year and Spring 2012, IUCEE Virtual Academy has successfully completed a total of 84 Free Webinars taught by US experts on lat-est topics in teaching, re-search and engineering edu-cation. These have been viewed LIVE by over 20,000 faculty and students all over India. During Spring 2012, the IUCEE Virtual Academy has successfully piloted 11 Short Term Courses of 10 Webinar Lectures each lec-tured by US experts. These were viewed LIVE by 4,487 students and 133 faculty at 39 paying host college locations all over India.

This Summer Faculty Lead-ership Institutes (FLIs) are underway with 24 FLIs con-firmed to be hosted at vari-ous colleges in India.

June and July, 2012, have been very busy for IUCEE. The demand for membership in IUCEE College Consorti-um has increased. IUCEE currently has 53 members with another 10 in the pro-cess of confirming member-ship. This is good news for the sustainability of our pro-grams and organization.

We have successfully con-cluded 21 workshops under 2012 Faculty Leadership In-stitutes (FLI) and four more workshops are being planned.

The plans for 2012-13 Virtual Academy are being finalized. We expect to offer more than 120 Individual Webinars and 25 Short Length Courses (10 Webinars each) during Sept. 2012 to April 2013. Most of these will be limited to IU-CEE Consortium College Members.

For Further Information please visit:

http://iucee.org/iucee/index.php

link:http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=so1jAgf91cQ

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Indo US Collaboration

for Engineering Education (IUCEE) News

Airbus launches a new assembly line

in the United States In July 2nd, 2012, Airbus announced that it will es-tablish a manufacturing and an assembly plant for the A320 family of air-crafts at the Brookley Aer-oplex in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It will be the companys first factory in the United States which will deliver a new Airbus line of production. Airbus executives emphasized that U.S. based this assembly line, will create jobs and strengthen their worldwide presence in aerospace in-dustry and it will enhance their competitiveness by meeting the growing needs of its customers in the United States and else-where.

By Summer, 2013, the A 320, class of aircrafts, Airbus pro-tg, including A 319, and A321, will be assembled in the Alabama based factory. By 2015 Airbus is scheduled to make the first Aircraft as-sembly and in 2016 is set to make the first deliveries. According to Airbus Presi-dent and CEO, Mr. Fabrice Bregier stated that: The time is right for Airbus to expand in America. Bregier added that the United States is the largest single-aisle aircraft market in the world with a projected need for 4,600 air-craft over the next 20 years - and this assembly line brings us closer to our customers.


The demand for

membership in IUCEE

College Consortium has

increased. IUCEE

currently has 53

members with another 10

in the process of

confirming membership.

Mr. Fabrice Bregier

stated that: The time

is right for Airbus to

expand in America.

Bregier added that the

United States is the

largest single-aisle

aircraft market in the

world with a

projected need for

4,600 aircraft over the

next 20 years...

Mobile is now becoming part of Airbus global production net-work, joining our successful and growing assembly lines in Ham-burg, Toulouse and Tianjin.

Alabama Governor Robert Bent-ley at the inauguration ceremony had these words to say: When Airbus aircraft take to the skies, our pride and workmanship will soar along with them[we] owe thanks to so many people who helped make this effort a success. This project will create 1,000 sta-ble, well-paying jobs that the peo-ple of this area need and deserve.

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It was a clear Tuesday morning over the Atlantic, and we were a little more than halfway through a flight from London to Dallas. After a light meal, I was getting ready for a short nap when the captain made a cryptic an-nouncement that we were begin-ning our descent and were ex-pected to land shortly, not in Dallas, but in Newfoundland, Canada, because the U.S. had shut down its airspace!

A wave of apprehension immedi-ately swept over all of us in the aircraft. Our minds went into overdrive in the sudden silence that engulfed the plane. Since there wasn't any aircraft mal-function, a hijack was the only plausible explanation! But a few minutes later, the captain reas-sured us that the change in flight plan was solely due to the clo-

sure of U.S. airspace. In hind-sight, that turned out to be empty reassurance. For the world would never be the same after that fateful 11th of September. As the pilot cir-cled and landed at the airport in Gander, Newfoundland, the dozens of aircraft filling the runways indicated that something was definitely amiss. After spending six hours on seats that were get-ting increasingly uncomforta-ble by the minute, we were shown a BBC news broadcast which relayed the horrifying details of the day's unfolding events. We spent another six hours in the aircraft, waiting for further word from the Canadian authorities, unsure of when we would fly out, or where to.

Later that night, the airport authorities cancelled all flights and allowed us to disembark. We soon realized that our trou-bles were far from over - 37 aircraft had offloaded passen-gers in this small town of 10,000, which was now burst-ing at the seams. How could it possibly cope? We were bun-dled into buses and taken to a nearby church, where we spent the next two days and nights. Misfortune has a way of bring-ing people closer; it took little time for all the 137 people from our flight to bond togeth-er as one big family!... Please view the link for a full article:

http://www.infosysblogs.com/infytalk/2012/09/atti-tude_makes_organizations_smart.html#more

Alabama has the best workforce youll find any-

where in the U.S. Airbus has recog-nized all that this

state can offer expanding indus-

tries, and the com-pany is making a significant new

investment in this state.

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Airbus New Assembly Line in U.S.

A question of attitude!

aircrafts of the U.S. Coast Guard. In addition, Airbus op-erates an Engineering Center in Wichita, Kansas; an aircraft Spares Center in Ashburn, Vir-ginia; a Training Center in Mi-ami, Florida, and a regulatory and government liaison office in Washington, D.C. A Subsidiary Metron Aviation, a leading pro-vider of advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) products and services, is based in Dulles, Virginia. The headquarters of Airbus Americas are located in Herndon, Virginia. Altogether, Currently Airbus facilities is US territories employ more than 1,000 people. Airbus assembly line in Mobile will become an additional value to other compa-nies such as European Aeronau-tic Defense and Space Company (EADS), American Eurocopter Helicopter manufacturing facto-ry in Mississippi and Cassidian Communications in California.

Airbus is the largest export customer for the U.S. aero-space industry. Since 1990, the company has spent $127 billion with U.S. suppliers only last year spent USD $12 billion.

Airbus partners with hundreds of US suppliers in more than 40 states, and the companys expenses in the U.S. support more than 210,000 American jobs. Airbus is the leading air-craft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehen-sive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Over 11,500 Airbus air-crafts have been sold to more than 470 customers and opera-tors worldwide and more than 7,200 of these have been deliv-ered since the company first entered the market in the early seventies. Airbus is an EADS company. http://www.airbus.com/

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Alabama has the best work-force youll find anywhere in the U.S. Airbus has recognized all that this state can offer ex-panding industries, and the company is making a signifi-cant new investment in Ala-bama. Airbus and its parent company, EADS, have been great citizens of Alabama for years now, and we are excited to build on our wonderful rela-tionship.

Airbus already has a strong and growing presence in Ala-bama and throughout the Unit-ed States. In Alabama, the company operates an Engi-neering Center in Mobile also located at Brookley Aero-plex which employees more than 200 engineers and sup-port staff as well as an Air-bus Military customer services operation in supporting the

The Student Platform for Engineering has been vigor-ously preparing for its largest event yet. The upcoming 8th Global Student Forum (www.worldspeed.org/8thgsf)

will feature core activities from previous forums as well as new additions to our week-long program. Action plan development, our core event, allows students to improve current initiatives through concrete strategic planning. We will have opportunities for networking, cultural ac-tivities, community service, SPEEDs General Assembly, paper presentations, and issue discussions. We will also have the final featured plena-

ryour Intergenerational Panelwhere we moderate student and non-student per-spectives on the conference theme. This year, we will feature technical visits to local industry partners, a pro-fessional development work-shop, and simultaneous EE workshops on important is-sues in the field. Key partner professional organizations and universities as well as corporate colleagues are gra-ciously supporting students participation, and our strong local team has made amazing plans for the hundreds of student leaders who will be joining us.

In addition, SPEED is prepar-ing to expand its leadership workshop series in India, this year preparing 5 student workshops before and after the Indian Society for Tech-nical Education (ISTE)s annual meeting.

This years workshop series is designed to enhance not only individual students ca-pacities, but to build on ISTEs student chapter struc-ture and increase ISTEs reach and impact.

For more information Con-tact:

[email protected]

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SPEED Briefing:

The Student Platform for Engineering


...We will have

opportunities for

networking, cultural

activities, community

service, SPEEDs General

Assembly, paper

presentations, and issue

discussions

...SPEED is preparing

to expand its

leadership workshop

series in India, this

year preparing 5

student workshops

before and after the

Indian Society for

Technical Education

(ISTE)s annual

meeting

Students complete a hands-on engineering teambuilding activity at a leadership workshop in Punjab Province, India


The International Institute for Developing Engineering Aca-demics (IIDEA) is happy to report successful growth and implementation of numerous workshops in the last six months. Workshops have been held in China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Kenya, Tanzania, and the United States by multiple facilitators. In July, the se-cond multiple-day workshop series was implemented at Tsinghua University, facili-tated by Lueny Morell (HP Labs), Erik de Graaff (Aalborg University), Won-jong Joo (Seoul tech) Eng Soon Chan (National Univer-sity of Singapore) and Jim Tung (Mathworks), with the participation of Dr. Shouwen Yu (University of Tsinghua). In August, the Technological University of Apizaco hosted nearly 100 participants for a

two-day workshop on the Learning Factory model, im-plemented by Lueny Morell (HP Labs) and supported by the National Association of Faculties and Schools of En-gineering (ANFEI).

More information on previ-ous workshops and activities offered can be found at www.iideainstitute.org. IIDEA is also happy to an-nounce two new workshops that will take place alongside the upcoming SEFI and IGIP meetings in Europe. Leaders from MITs Teaching and Learning Laboratory (web.mit.edu/tll) will facili-tate one workshop on strate-gies for online/blended learn-ing and one workshop on TLLs flagship teacher certi-fication program. The coop-eration between SEFI and IGIP marks an important growth for IIDEA in estab-

lishing the tradition of an IIDEA presence as part of a series of major global engi-neering education meetings. In the major upcoming World Engineering Education Forum in Buenos Aires, IIDEA will host a number of workshopsProblem Based Learning, Ac-creditation (ABET), Strategic Planning, and Tablet PCs. Lueny Morell and Anette Kol-mos, IIDEA co-founders and co-directors, will also formally pass on the directorship and co-directorship to Jennifer DeBo-er and Claudio Borri at this meeting. The international engineering education commu-nity and IIDEA have benefited greatly from the leadership, vision, and dedication of Lu-eny and Anette, and IIDEAs community is grateful they will continue to offer their expertise through continued workshop facilitation.

(http://www.sefi.be/iidea/)

...In the major upcoming World Engineering Edu-cation Forum in Buenos Aires,

IIDEA will host a number of work-shopsProblem Based Learning,

Accreditation (ABET), Strategic

Planning, and Tablet PCs

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The International Institute for Developing

Engineering Academics (IIDEA)

...Workshops have

been held in China,

India, Brazil,

Mexico, Portugal,

Kenya, Tanzania,

and the United

States by multiple

facilitators

IIDEA Workshop 2012, leaders at Tsinghua University,

Beijing, PRC

The Consortium continues to focus on its core initiatives, as follows:

R&D: Through generous donations from Xilinx, FPGA workshops have been offered in Bolivia, Mexico, and Pana-m this year, in the area of Digital Signal Processing Applications; Reconfigurable Computing Electronic Digital Systems Design; and Rapid System Prototyping. In addi-tion, the ISTEC-R&D Initia-tive participated as co-host in various international confer-ences, such as the Nano-Bio Collaborative International 2012 held in March at Uni-versity of South Florida.

Liblink (Library Network): The volume of document exchange among ISTEC members continues to experi-ence considerable growth, through which 60+ libraries of member institutions share bibliographic material free of any ILL type costs. As of September 2012, we will also begin a series of bi monthly training sessions for all par-ticipating members, to assist in maximizing search strate-gies for the library network personnel. An international library symposium is being co-hosted with 3 other organ-izations, to take place at the Universidad del Norte, Bar-ranquilla, Colombia, Nov. 13 -16, 2012, with such re-nowned speakers as Alice Keefer and Alma Swan, on

the topic of open access, digi-tal preservation, and scien-tific communication.

ACE (Advanced Continuing Ed): As of the past 12 months, this Initiative has hosted the deployment of the ISTEC-GRANA quality certification program in Latin America, which provides a 100% online self-evaluation tool with the purpose of as-sisting institutions in estab-

lishing a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and internationalization. As of this date, the program has certified or is in the process of certifying various degree programs at Universidad Technical Particular de Loja, Ecuador; Universidad de Cundinamarca, Colombia; Universidad Autnoma de Nuevo Len, Monterrey, Mxico; and Universidad de Guadalajara, Mxico. In ad-dition, 15 professors received a course in international ac-creditation at the Universidad del Valle, Colombia.

While the mission of the IS-TEC Consortium is STEM

education, the GRA-NA cer-tification program is inter-disciplinary and has been extended to other disciplines, such as healthcare and com-munication sciences.

Entrepreneurship/Innovation: ISTEC is currently working with the University of New Mexico in an innovation-focused project called Inno-vation Plaza, with the objec-tive of increasing retention among first year engineering students, through a collabora-tive project with various Al-buquerque high-schools and the establishment of an inter-disciplinary hands-on lab at UNM. Industry partners in-clude Quanser, NI, Nano Professor, etc., and we hope to extend the program into Latin America in 2013.

For a calendar of ISTEC events, please visit: http:// www.istec.org/events/

The Innovation-Plaza:

The idea is to create a pro-gram that integrates enhanced curricula and educational out-reach with an open, globally connected, interdisciplinary lab for hands-on experiential learning and interdisciplinary collaboration an Innovation- Plaza. This model forms the basis for developing and growing the Innovation-Plaza into a distributed Global In-novation-Plaza.

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Ibero-American Science and Technology Consortium

(ISTEC) Continues to Focus on its Core Initiatives


...While the mission

of the ISTEC

Consortium is STEM

education, the GRANA

certification program

is inter-disciplinary

and has been

extended to other

disciplines, such as

healthcare and

communication

sciences


Through the Innovation Pla-za, students from high school and university under-graduate and graduate pro-grams have the opportunity to actively interact and collaborate with industry and re-search institu-tions, and ultimately produce world-class, functioning pro-jects as part their Senior De-sign course. The Innovation-Plaza trains students to be-come proficient using the tools currently employed in industry and re-search, and facilitates long-distance and off-site local and global col-laboration with connected satellite laboratories.

The Innovation-Plaza is de-signed to help bridge the gap connecting Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering at a very early stage by link-ing theory to real world expe-rience. Minimizing this gap early facilitates the learning process of engineering and increases the creativity and innovation of students. Get-ting undergraduate students involved at an early stage in real-world projects and R&D excites them and gives them a sense of ownership, in-creasing retention.

The model being followed with several ISTEC Industrial members is the ISTEC-Motorola model developed when ISTEC was created in 1990. Jointly, Motorola and ISTEC developed an action plan to build laboratories using the latest technology throughout the Ibero-American Region.

This capacity building exer-cise resulted in the installa-tion of 172 laboratories in academic institutions using Motorolas latest mi-coprocessor, microcontroller and DSP technologies.

The initial laboratories were developed at the UNM-ECE department and then replicat-ed through-out the ISTEC network. Content was devel-oped by the ISTEC member-ship in Spanish, Portuguese and English. From 1992 to 2005, over 600,000 engineer-ing students have taken hands-on classes in these laborato-ries. In addition, in 2000, Motorola shared their M-CORE technology with sev-eral ISTEC academic mem-bers that were pre-pared to work in VLSI design. Contin-uing the close collaboration between ISTEC and Motorola, in the year 2000, a microelectronics / nanotech-nology design centre was created in Porto Alegre, Bra-zil. This center of excellence, CEITEC, is a joint venture among the Federal Govern-ment of Brazil, Motorola, Free scale (Motorola microe-lectronics division spinoff) and local industries, facilitat-ed by ISTEC.

The Innovation-Plaza is a collaborative design between the Ibero- American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC), Quanser and National Instru-ments, who are industrial members of both ISTEC and the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). Other industrial participants are Nano-Professor, Silterra, Xilinx, and Huawei.

(http://www.istec.org)

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...From 1992 to

2005, over 600,000

engineering

students have taken

hands-on classes in

these laboratories.

In addition, in the

year 2000, Motorola

shared their M-

CORE technology

with several ISTEC

academic members

that were prepared

to work in VLSI

design

Suggested Readings:

Bidanda B., Arisoy O., and Shuman L. J.. Offshoring Manufacturing: Implications for

engineering jobs and education: A survey and case study, Robotics and Computer

Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 22., Issue 6, December 2006.

Arisoy O., Azim M. and Bidanda B., Project Management in a Flat World Circa 2025,

Chapter 28 in Project Management Circa 2025, Project Management Institute, No-

vember 2009. (Editors: David Cleland and Bopaya Bidanda).

Bidanda B., & Arisoy, O., Project Management in an Outsourcing Environment, Chap-

ter in The Global Project Management Handbook (2nd Edition), Eds. Cleland D & Ga-

reis R., McGraw Hill, 2006.

Bidanda B., Shuman L.J., Thomes K., & Arisoy O., Adapting Engineering Coursework

for Increased Global Relevance., Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Ameri-

can Society for Engineering Education, Salt Lake City, June 2005.

Richter, Stephen; Germany and China: The New Special Relationship, Thursday,

August 30, 2012 (http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?storyid=9734)

John Prout and Stephan Richter: Tackling Too Big To Fail: The Most Important Right-

sizing in U.S. History: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 (http://www.theglobalist.com/

storyid.aspx?storyid=9747)

Srikantan Moorthy; A question of attitude!: http://www.infosysblogs.com/

infytalk/2012/09/attitude_makes_organizations_smart.html#more

http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-free-online-computer-science-courses-from-princeton-

stanford-umich-penn-start-Monday

Articles on Blended Learning:

Allen, I. E., Seaman, J., & Garrett, R. (2007). Blending in: The extent and promise of

blended education in the United States. Needham, MA: Sloan Consortium. Retrieved

from http://sloanconsortium.org/sites/default/files/Blending_In.pdf

Garrison, D. R., & Vaughan, N. D. (2007). Blended learning in higher education:

Framework, principles, and guidelines. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

U.S. Department of Education. (2009). Evaluation of evidence-based practices in

online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies. Washington,

DC: Author.

Zhao, Y., Lei, J., Yan, B., Lai, C., & Tan, S. (2005). What makes the difference? A prac-

tical analysis of research on the effectiveness of distance education. Teachers Col-

lege Record, 107(8), 1836-1834.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/education/consortium-of-colleges-takes-

online-education-to-new-level.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www

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