Conferences

ICL 2005 Villach, Austria Sept. 28-30 interactive computer aided learning.

The 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference will be held in San Diego, California USA from October 28-31, 2006. The FIE 2006 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.

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

For more information go to: http://www.fie-conference.org/fie06/

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to join us in an experiment in collaborative scholarship. The Annals of Research on Engineering Education (AREE), a web portal/journal for the community of people interested in research and practice within engineering education. The site is intended to be collaboratively generated by the community through the submission of comments, recommended resources, advice, questions, and concerns. Our aim is to highlight what has been learned in engineering education, reflect on how that learning occurred, and discuss how best to advance our enterprise.

AREE is being developed under a National Science Foundation grant to the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Engineering Education (CASEE) at the National Academy of Engineering. It has a set of participating, peer-reviewed journals which publish research on engineering and science education, sometimes in combination with other content. The editors of these journals recommend the subset of their articles which are education research and then, we invite those authors to submit both a structured summary of the article and a reflective essay on some aspect of the research process, e.g., developing the research questions, choosing methodology, and analyzing data. Only those authors who provide the structured summary and reflective essay are included in AREE. Our hope is that the whole community may be inspired by and learn from the efforts of these authors. As a member of the community, you are invited to respond to these reflective essays and the occasional invited essay. Discussions will ebb and flow, determined by the needs of the community. Our hope is that these discussions may lead to improved mutual understanding and development of education research standards and of cultures within and across disciplines.

In addition, AREE serves to bring together many types of resources which are useful for engineering education researchers. These include an annotated bibliography, lists of conferences and professional associations, and "The Jargon Book," which includes formal and informal descriptions of educational jargon. Presently, these resources contain a few illustrative examples to guide community members in submitting their own resource recommendations.

AREE is free and open to anyone until September 2006 [emphasis added]. In order to participate, all you have to do is go to the site: www.AREEonline.org and register in order to access the whole website.

It should be evident that this is a new type of venture. The site is a continual work-in-process. We can not succeed unless you actively participate and take ownership of this venture. We welcome your input and trust that you will be vigorous in your feedback. Let us together become a community of communities. Let us together, advance research through communication.

Sincerely,

Alisha A. Waller
Managing Editor

Karl A. Smith
Editor-in-Chief

Wendy Knapp
Assistant to the Editors

Norman Fortenberry
Publisher

I would like to announce the establishment of a new Journal some of you may wish to make use of in your classes or to serve as reviewers for. The name is the web-based publication is the 'International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering' (IJSLE).

Here at Penn State the engineering students who work on service projects have often mentioned they would like to be able to publish their work and to be able to see what others are doing in the field of service learning in engineering. Toward that end, I would like to introduce a new web-based journal to you that you should find interesting - and I would request that you make the Journal known to interested faculty.

The faculty-reviewed articles in each issue provide the reader with timely information related to:

• research into appropriate technologies and solutions for developing community problems
• design solutions for problem specific to developing communities
• engineering entrepreneurship in developing communities
• service learning pedagogy

My purpose in writing to you is two-fold:

1) The Journal is issuing its first CALL FOR PAPERS at the end of August. I wanted to let you know this fact now in order to enable the faculty advisers and instructors of service learning courses at each university to perhaps incorporate this opportunity into the syllabus for the service learning design course. The deadline for submission for the first issue will be December 30th.

2) To request that any faculty members who may wish to serve as a reviewer for the Journal to contact me at their earliest convenience.

The URL for Journal is: www.engr.psu.edu/IJSLE

My email address is: thc100@psu.edu

Thanks!

Tom Colledge
Editor in Chief:
International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering http://www.engr.psu.edu/IJSLE

Thomas H. Colledge, PhD, PE
Service Engineering Coordinator
The School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs
Penn State University
213 Hammond Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-1527
Fax: 814-863-7229

This committee is primarily composed of student members (with a few EdSoc faculty advisors). Each member of the Student Activity Committee has assumed responsibility for one topical section of the forthcoming student publication. A lot of ideas regarding how they can manage the various sections have been developed and shared with the committee (via email and via Skype Internet conference calls). Their magazine will be wide-ranging with in the EdSoc's field of interest.

If you missed the report that the Student committee has presented, click here to see the Student Activity Sub-committee's Report.

For more information, contact Marcelo Castro (Brazil), Student Activity Sub-committee Chair at: marceloc@feb.unesp.br

Susan Lord, the Program Co-Chair, issued a Call For Moderators a week ago. The response to that 'Call' was robust and Susan has notified us that she has a sufficient number of volunteers and does not require anymore. Susan expresses her gratitude to all those who have responded or may want to respond but have delayed that response. But again, no more moderators are needed.

As you may know, the IEEE itself confers a number of significant awards on its members each year. At its June meeting in Portland, Oregon USA the EdSoc's Administrative Committee voted to assume sponsorship of the prestgious IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. This award is not an Education Society-centric award, it is an IEEE-wide award. This award was previously sponsored by the IEEE Foundation. The proposal that the EdSoc sponsor this award was brought-forth by past Education Society President David Irwin and actively supported by current Society Vice President and Chair of the Awards Committee Joseph Hughes.

The EdSoc will assume sponsorship with the 2006 award cycle. For more information about this award Click here...

For more information about Education Society's awards see: www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/esawards.html

There are a number of reasons to form a chapter, some of these reasons are obvious (i.e., collegial networking), some reasons are not so obvious (i.e., impacting one's newly formed federal government, the European Union committee). To find out if there is a chapter in your area, or to learn how to form a chapter, see the Chapters Web page.

For more information about the Education Society's chapters see: www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/chapters.html

IMCL Conference co-organizers Prof. Al-Zoubi A.Y., Amman, Jordan, Prof. Michael E. Auer, Villach, Austria, and Prof. Göran Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden have announced the Call For Papers for the IMCL 2006 Conference, which will be held in Amman, Jordan from April 19-22, 2006.

Paper submission deadline: November 20, 2005

Scope of the conference

• The future of Mobile Technology in Education
• The conference aims to promote the development of Mobile Learning in the Middle East, provide a forum for education and knowledge transfer and encourage the study and implementation of mobile applications in teaching and learning. The conference will also present an opportunity for educators to develop new skills and to stimulate critical debate on theories, approaches, principles and applications of m-learning, hence facilitate dialogue, sharing and networking between diverse cultures with regard to the optimal use of emerging technologies.
• The conference will provide participants with the newest state of the art on portable devices and their role in university education and potential benefits for learning purposes. Examples of the implementation by laptops, palmtops, mobile phones, PDA, smartphones, WAPs, GPS and a navigational system, WWW-access via Bluetooth, WLAN or GPRS will be presented, accompanied by experiments to demonstrate their coherence and feasibility.

For more details, including a list of topics and paper submission format, etc., go to the IMCL's Web site, which is located at: www.imcl-conference.org

Before submitting an article to the IEEE Transactions on Education, or any other publication, you should read Getting Published in the IEEE Transactions on Education by Ted Batchman, who was the Editor-in-Chief from 1998-2002.

If you are considering submitting an article click here to review the Transactions Manuscript Policy.

The Interface is a joint publication of the Education Society and the American Society of Engineering Education's (ASEE) Electrical and Computer Engineering Division. The editor, Bill Sayle, is now providing online access to The Interface. The publication is available from the Education Society's web site. Future issues of The Interface will also be there. Currently the August 2005 issue is online—click below to read that issue.

Click here for a listing of the current issues and previous issues of The Interface

A special thank you to Martin Llamas-Nistal (Spain) and Burks Oakley II (USA) who serve as the Review Board for the News&Notes bulletin.

All issues of News & Notes are available on the EdSoc's web site — just click here.