There are dual themes in this year's AaeE Conference: the many challenges facing engineering educators in their professional lives; and the increasing need for a focus on issues of sustainability in engineering practice.

We continue to see declining numbers of students opting for a career in engineering, and every year fewer students are taking up science and maths subjects in secondary school. Continued inadequate government funding of higher education in an era of rapid technological change makes it increasingly difficult to maintain and update specialist laboratories and provide student/teacher ratios conducive to good pedagogical outcomes. Some fields of engineering are undergoing such rapid change that new career pathways are likely to emerge for students before they have even graduated.

There are also social and professional pressures for engineering professionals to address issues of sustainability at local, national and international levels.

All of these factors have profound effects on engineering education, posing challenges for us to continually update curricula and pedagogy so that we might produce graduates capable of constant adaptation and growth.

We invite you to Melbourne for the 14th Annual Conference for Australasian Association for Engineering Education and 9th Australasian Women in Engineering Forum to be held from 29 September to 1 October 2003. This conference provides an opportunity to meet colleagues and collaborate on ways we can move forward under these challenges

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Purpose

Conference Themes

Invited Speakers

Richard Felder
Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus,
Department of Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University

Dr. Richard M. Felder is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, and co-director of the SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition faculty development program. He is coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2000), which has been used as the introductory course text by most American chemical engineering departments for more than two decades. He has authored or coauthored over 150 papers on chemical process engineering and engineering education and presented hundreds of seminars, workshops, and short courses in both categories to industrial and research institutions and universities throughout the United States and abroad. Since 1991 he has codirected the National Effective Teaching Institute under the auspices of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Dr. Felder received the B.Ch.E. degree from the City College of New York in 1962 and the Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1966. He worked for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell, England) and Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining the North Carolina State faculty in 1969. His honors include the R.J. Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Extension in 1982, the AT&T Foundation Award for Excellence in Engineering Education in 1985, the Chemical Manufacturers Association National Catalyst Award in 1989, the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering education in 1997, and a number of national and regional awards for his publications on engineering education. He was named a Fellow of the ASEE in 1996.

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Tricia Caswell
Executive Director
RMIT Centre for Global Sustainability

Since October 2000 Tricia has been the Executive Director of GS@RMIT, responsible for establishing the Institute and creating its vision, mission and strategy. She is the public face of the Institute.

Tricia began her working life as a teacher at secondary, TAFE and tertiary levels. She became one of the nation's first women trade union leaders as secretary of the Teachers Trade Union of Victoria an elected industrial officer at the Victorian Trades Hall Council, and a member of the ACTU Executive.

From 1992 to 1995 Tricia held the position of Executive Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation. From here she went on to be the Executive Director of PLAN International Australia, an aid and development organisation.

Tricia has been a representative on many public and private organisations, including UNESCO, The Australia Council, RMIT University Council and Chair of Circus Oz.

As a leader in Global Sustainability in Australia, Tricia has a number of Advisory and Board positions. These include:

Tricia is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

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Professor David Brereton
Professor and Director
Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
University of Queensland

David Brereton is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) at the University of Queensland, a position which he took up in late 2001. The Centre, which is part of the University's Sustainable Minerals Institute, has been established to conduct research on social issues relevant to the mining industry and help build the capacity of the industry to manage these issues more effectively.

From 1993 to 2001 Professor Brereton was Director of Research and Prevention at the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission. His previous positions include Principal Consultant to the Law Reform Commission of Victoria and Senior Lecturer in Legal Studies at La Trobe University. Dr Brereton is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University

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Awards

Awards for Excellence in engineering education will also feature as part of the conference. For further information regarding these awards please visit the Australasian Association for Engineering Education website: www.aaee.com.au

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Registration

For a pdf version of the registration form please click here

All Amounts in AUD Dollars

	by 8 Aug 2003	after 8 Aug 2003
Full Registration	$575.00	$625.00
Accompanying person		$125.00
Additional Banquet tickets		$90.00
Day Registration	$220.00	$240.00
Student Full Registration	$220.00	$240.00
Student Day Registration	$155.00	$165.00
VET Workshop Half Day Registration	$66.00	$77.00

Cancellation: For Registrations cancelled after 08/08/03 no refund applies, however substitutions are permitted. Registrations cancelled before this will incur a cancellation fee of $100.00

Presenter / Author registration is required by 8 August 2003

FULL REGISTRATION INCLUDES:

ACCOMPANYING PERSON REGISTRATION INCLUDES:

DAY REGISTRATION INCLUDES:

STUDENT FULL (DAY) REGISTRATION INCLUDES:

ACCOMMODATION AT STUDENT COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

$58.00 per person per night

Please send registration form with payment in Australian Dollars (AUD), payable to:

AaeE 2003
To
Bronwen Hewitt, Conference Management,
Old Physics Building,
The University of Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia, 3010
Telephone: 61 3 8344 6389 Fax: 61 3 8344 6122
Email: bhewitt@unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://www.aaee.com.au

 

Conference Secretariat

Conference Management
Phone: +61 3 8344 6107
Fax: +61 3 8344 6122
Email: westphal@unimelb.edu.au

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