NEXT ONLINE DISCUSSION—DEFINING & TEACHING ENGINEERING ETHICS
University of Texas Professor Billy V. Koen will be the next guest speaker in the Education Society's online discussion forum. His topic will be 'defining and teaching of engineering ethics.' This presentation is scheduled for late September (or early October).

Professor Koen is noted for his cutting edge points-of-view and this session promises to be a very interesting discussion of a very timely topic—defining and teaching engineering ethics.

Billy V. Koen has been a mechanical engineering professor at The University of Texas/Austin since 1968. He served from 1988-1993 as Vice President of ASEE and has held 25 different positions and is an ASEE Fellow. He is the author of Discussion of the Method: Conducting the Engineer’s Approach to Problem Solving (Oxford University Press, March 2003) and Definition of the Engineering Method (ASEE, 1985). He has received Olmsted, Chester F. Carlson, Centennial Medallion, and W. Leighton Collins awards from ASEE. He received the Helen Plants Award in 1994 and in 1985, and the Benjamin Dasher Award in 1984 and again in 1985.

To provide some background material for this presentation two of Professor Koen's most recent papers are available online. These papers were presented at the Nashville ASEE Conference in June 2003:

FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2005 ISSUES CALL-FOR-PAPERS
The 2005 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2005) continues a long tradition of promoting the widespread dissemination of innovations that improve computer science, engineering, and technology (CSET) education. FIE is a major annual international conference devoted to improvements in CSET education. It is an ideal forum for sharing your ideas, learning about new developments in CSET education, and interacting with your colleagues.

CSET education faces significant challenges, such as rapidly evolving technologies, globalization, changing student demographics, and problems associated with funding higher education. Moreover, the rapidly emerging global economy is profoundly affecting the employment patterns and the professional life of CSET graduates. Articles in recent issues of the ASEE Prism and other CSET education literature suggest that current educational practices and policies are not sufficient for dealing with these changes. Successfully addressing these issues will require innovative solutions, including use of new pedagogies and technologies that improve student learning; partnerships among universities, industry, government, and K–12 educators; curriculum reform; and distance learning. This year's FIE conference presentations will address changes foreseen for CSET education and CSET graduates.

The FIE technical program will include paper presentations, panels, interactive sessions, and workshops. Abstracts are being solicited for contributed peer-reviewed full papers and works-in-progress. Proposals also are invited for panels, interactive sessions, and workshops.

IEEE APPROVES NEW GUIDELINES FOR HANDLING PLAGIARISM
The IEEE Publications Products and Services Board (PSPB) has approved new policies and procedures on plagiarism to be included as “Guidelines for Adjudicating Different Levels of Plagiarism” within Section 8.2 “Publication Guidelines” of the PSPB Operations Manual. The new guidelines define plagiarism and the required corrective actions for this misconduct.

The new guidelines also specify that the publication editor shall be responsible for conducting an investigation to determine if plagiarism has taken place. In the case of conference proceedings, allegations of misconduct shall be investigated by the conference publication chair or the publication officer of the IEEE organizational unit that sponsored the conference. All editors must report their investigations to the vice president of PSPB.

IEEE defines plagiarism as the reuse of someone else’s prior ideas, processes, results or words without explicitly acknowledging the original author and source. Plagiarism in any IEEE publication is unacceptable and considered a serious breach of professional conduct, with potentially severe legal consequences.

IEEE WEB SITE HELPS CHOOSE THE RIGHT PUBLICATION PACKAGE
Discover IEEE is a relatively new section of the IEEE Web site that helps you choose the best publications package for your needs from among the eight packages that the IEEE offers online. After you answer three questions about your intended use of the technical papers, Discover IEEE will provide you with a list of up to four possible choices.

GERMAN ENGINEERS FACE CHINESE COMPETITION
ASEE's International Engineering Digest for August 2004 reports:

"German engineers face Chinese competition - Siemens has begun to turn east for engineering know-how, having relied primarily on the ingenuity of its German engineers for more than 150 years. According to an article by Matthew Karnitschnig in the July 15th Wall Street Journal, the management of the company - no longer dominated by engineering - is moving engineering jobs to China where they can produce high tech at low cost. The company has announced plans to hire 1000 Chinese engineers this year and to invest about $1.23-billion in China. Germany's preeminence in engineering is being threatened by high labor costs, a lagging education system, and sluggish innovation. Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, in trying to shore up the engineering sector, has declared 2004 the "year of innovation". But so far that effort is sputtering, as Germany's exploding deficit and stagnant growth forced Mr. Schroder to trim federal support this year for research and development. China, in the meantime, is moving in the opposite direction - aggressively improving technical education."

IEEE NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR NEW FACES IN ENGINEERING 2005
The IEEE is encouraging members to nominate their colleagues for participation in the New Faces of Engineering program.

New Faces strives to promote the accomplishments of young engineers by highlighting their contributions and their resulting impact on society around the world. In 2005, five IEEE members will be among the New Faces profiled on the EWeek Web site, and the top nominee will appear in USA Today during EWeek 20-26 Feb. 2005. To download a nomination form, visit the New Faces of Engineering program. IEEE members should submit their nominations to Helen Hall, IEEE-USA at h.hall@ieee.org by 1 October. [Note: even though this is an IEEE-USA program, non-USA nominations are sought.]

ENCORE: TRANSACTIONS ISSUES CALL FOR PAPERS—MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
Contributions are invited for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Education that will address “Mobile Technology for Education.” This special issue is motivated by the emergence and development of mobile technology for teaching, learning, and education. Mobile technology has brought tremendous potential and opportunities for educators to enable and deliver learning in ways that could not have been accomplished before. With its unique features and functions such as mobility, reachability, localization, and personalization, mobile technology shows considerable promise in supporting and delivering education as compared to the traditional means.

The special issue will focus on mobile technology as it is currently covered within the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering technology, computer engineering technology, and allied disciplines (such as Computer Science and Information Technology).

ENCORE: INTERACTIVE COMPUTER AIDED LEARNING CONFERENCE—AUSTRIA
This interdisciplinary conference aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of interactive computer aided learning. This conference will be organized by the Carinthia Tech Institute, Villach, Austria.