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International
Network for Engineering Education and Research (iNEER) General Secretariat
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: January 30, 2003
SUBJECT: iNEER Report for 2001-2002
Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to forward to you the attached “iNEER Report for 2001-2002”.
This report is closely linked to information posted on the iNEER website. In order to get the full story, we recommend that the two be used together.
Please let us know if you have any question. As always, your advice and suggestions are welcome.
Thank you for the opportunity of working with you during the past year. We are deeply grateful for the privilege. We look forward to seeing you in the near future.
Sincerely,
Vaclav Roubicek
Chair, iNEER Board
Rector, Technical University of Ostrava (1997-2003)
VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Che-Ho Wei
Past-Chair, iNEER Board
Chairman, National Science Council
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Win Aung, Ph.D., P.E., Dr.h.c.
Secretary General
iNEER REPORT FOR 2001-2002
General Secretariat
iNEER/ICEE-ISC
e-mail: ineer@ineer.org
http://www.ineer.org
January
30, 2003
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iNEER REPORT FOR 2001-2002
January 30, 2003
A. Introduction
The past year was a busy and productive one for iNEER. The Retreat held in Taipei in February helped lay the ground work for a number of new directions. The iNEER Board voted to incorporate iNEER as a non-profit organization. After discussion and review over a 9-month period, the iNEER By-Laws were adopted by the iNEER Board in November 2002. iNEER and ICEE-ISC collaborated with UMIST in the planning and implementation of ICEE-2002.
With personal visits and through e-mails, we expanded our outreach and networking to the worldwide engineering education and research community.
The iNEER/SEU International Engineering Education Partnership Workshop was convened in Nanjing, China, in June.
The first iNEER Special Volume, an archival publication giving a voice to the iNEER community, entitled “Engineering Education and Research – 2001: A Chronicle of Worldwide Innovations”, was published in August. The second volume is scheduled for publication in July, 2003.
We also initiated an iNEER regional workshops series. Each workshop will be interspersed between two successive ICEE. The first such workshop will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil in March, 2003. It is called: Ibero-American Summit on Engineering Education: A Regional Conference of the iNEER Network.
A 39-item listing of iNEER’s programs and activities undertaken during 2002 is given at:
http://www.ineer.org/AboutUs/ITEMPOSTEDDURING2002-2.htm. This listing also provides the links to further details on each item. (Please bookmark this link as you will need to re-visit this page several times to get a complete picture of what took place in 2002.)
B.
iNEER/ICEE-ISC Retreat and iNEER Board Meeting, Taipei
An iNEER/ICEE-ISC Retreat, the third in the series since 2001, was held in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, during February 19-23, 2002. Ahead of the Retreat, the iNEER Board held a Board meeting on February 20. Minutes of the Board meeting and a summary of the discussion held at the Retreat are posted at:
http://www.ineer.org/Events/WorkshopInfo/MinutesofiNEERBoardMeeting2-19-022.pdf
An important outcome of the Board meeting was the decision to incorporate iNEER as a non-profit corporation. The first draft of the by-laws was circulated in advance of the meeting and discussed during the meeting.
The Retreat was held under the auspices
of Dr. C.H. Wei, Chair of iNEER and ICEE-ISC.
Concurrently, Dr. Wei is also Chairman of the National Science Council
(NSC) of R.O.C. on Taiwan. In addition
to being the primary funding agency for education and research at academic
institutions, NSC is also responsible for driving Taiwan’s economic development
through technology innovations. It also
has oversight on two science-based industrial parks with a third one under
consideration. Attendees visited the
first of these, the Science-Based Industrial Park in Hsinchu, one hour’s drive
from Taipei. This high tech park has
been given much of the credit for Taiwan's economic surge in the 1980’s and
1990’s.
Chaired by
Dr. Wei, the Retreat was an informal event that focused on future plans for
global partnerships in higher education, especially engineering education. Of particular interest were emerging trends
in regions around the world as represented by the attendees; new potential
iNEER partners; new partnership forums; meetings where iNEER representation was
needed, influential people we should invite to future iNEER/ICEE meetings, etc.
Attendees were assigned as lead
discussers for selected items in the agenda. To facilitate communication, it was suggested that attendees
consider framing their remarks in writing in advance of the Retreat.
The list of attendees, Retreat agenda and a photo journal of the event is available at: http://www.ineer.org/ISCMeet/Welcome.htm#TAIPEIRETREAT.
The main purpose of this workshop was to initiate interaction between the iNEER community and the engineering education community in China. China has just started to reach out to the international community through its membership in WTO; Chinese engineers are increasingly noted for their contributions to technology innovations; and multinationals are increasingly employing Chinese engineers in their new R&D centers in China. Still, the engineering education community there has not started to develop any meaningful collaborative activities in engineering education with educators in other countries.
The iNEER/SEU workshop represented a major effort launched to develop possible future linkages between iNEER and Chinese universities. The workshop pulled together 19 leading educators from outside of China, and 14 official delegates from leading universities in China. In addition, a number of local participants were also present. Academician Gu Guanqun, President of SEU, and Prof. Wu Jieyi, Senior Vice President of SEU, attended the workshop. This workshop was held in conjunction with the 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
The proceedings of the workshop was jointly edited by Win Aung, Wu Jieyi and F.K. Tsou. This report, which includes a description of the scope of the workshop, the agenda and the list of attendees, is posted at:
http://www.ineer.org/Events/WorkshopInfo/SEUWorkshopReport5-30-02.pdf
A photo journal documenting the event is available at: http://www.ineer.org/ISCMeet/Welcome.htm#SEUWORKSHOP
D. ICEE-2002
John
Garside and Peter Hicks, Vice Chancellor and Principal, and Dean, respectively
of UMIST, and their associates are to be congratulated for their leadership in
planning and execution of this successful event. An evaluation of the conference is provided by Robin King of the
University of South Australia at: http://www.ineer.org/Events/ICEE2002Info/RobinKingReport.pdf.
The
9/11 attacks did not seem to have a significant negative impact on abstract
submission to ICEE-2002. Per agreement
with UMIST, the host for ICEE-2002, iNEER again helped with program development
and abstract generation, leading to 15 technical sessions being proposed and accepted
by UMIST. These 15 sessions targeted
specific emerging areas in engineering education. Volunteers from 10 nations stepped forward to organize these
sessions.
The
Calls for Papers were forwarded to the iNEER community in December, 2001. By the closing date in February, 2002 a
record total of 484 abstracts were received from 47 countries. The 15 targeted Calls received over 200 of
the abstracts. Over 90% of all the
abstracts came from the iNEER community.
The iNEER Secretariat had direct access to the ICEE-2002 abstract and paper submission database and, with the help of two assistants linked through the iNEER computer network, helped monitor the rate of abstract submission and later the rate of paper submission.
The results are shown below:
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# of |
Session # |
Title/ |
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TOTAL: |
484 |
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Abstracts |
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Theme |
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SUBTOTAL Sessions 1-15: |
209 |
43% |
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SUBTOTAL Sessions 16-24: |
275 |
57% |
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11 |
1 |
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Outreach to Increase
Diversity |
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7 |
2 |
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Educational Robotics |
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1 |
3 |
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Educational Challenges in
Nanoengineering |
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11 |
4 |
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Short/Modular Courses for
Ind. & Prof. Dev. |
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21 |
5 |
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Innov. In Virtual &
Remote Lab. |
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18 |
6 |
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Eng. Ed. In Dev. Countries |
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4 |
7 |
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Network-Based Control &
Ident. Ed. |
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24 |
8 |
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Innov. Web.Based Teaching |
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31 |
9 |
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Unique Design Experience |
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12 |
10 |
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Supplementary eLearning
Materials in Eng. & Com. Sci. |
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11 |
11 |
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Tech. & Society: Eng.
Ed. In Age of Digital Tech. & Globalization |
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23 |
12 |
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Assessment of Stud.
Learning |
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6 |
13 |
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International Ed. &
Accreditation |
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14 |
14 |
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Ed. In Com. Disciplines |
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15 |
15 |
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Impact of IT on Ed. And
Res. |
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29 |
16 |
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Facing the Global Challenge |
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40 |
17 |
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Changing Structures for
Delivery |
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37 |
18 |
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Partnership for Progress |
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2 |
19 |
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