The Portuguese Chapter of IEEE Education Society in association with the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education are organizing the webinar “Getting Published in Engineering Education Journals” by Bill Williams, from IPSetubal, on Jan 30th, 5:00 PM (Europe/Lisbon),
The webinar will be held in English and last for one hour, including a Q&A session at the end.
More info here: http://sites.ieee.org/portugal-es/home/2019-webinar-cycle/
Bill Williams, Vice-president of SPEE and emeritus professor from Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Barreiro of Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, delivered a keynote about “Internationalisation Challenges in Engineering Education” at the XLVI Congresso Brasileiro de Educação em Engenharia (COBENGE) and 1º Simpósio Internacional de Educação em Engenharia da ABENGE, held at S. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from September 3-6, 2018. Prof. Bill’s keynote focused on the challenges related to publishing scientific articles about engineering education in international, peer-reviewed, indexed journals.
Also during COBENGE2018, the Board of Directors of SPEE and ABENGE had a working meeting to discuss the new layout of the revista de Educação em Engenharia, edited by ABENGE, targeting an international outreach, with the collaboration of Portuguese researchers.
Following the call bids for the organization of the 3rd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE), planned for 2020, an application was received from Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon (IST-UL). After an exploratory meeting between the SPEE Board and the proposing team, which took place via Skype, in July 2018, the proposal was approved during a meeting of members of the three SPEE management bodies (also via Skype) at the end of that month. CISPEE2020 will be organized by IST-UL, with the Local Program Committee being led by Prof.ª Raquel Aires Barros (Instituto Superior Técnico) and Prof.ª Bárbara Gabriel (University of Aveiro).
Following the plan of activities of the Society for 2018, contacts were established between the Direction of SPEE and the Secretary General of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Dr. Hans Jürgen Hoyer, for the participation of SPEE as an observer member of IFEES. The first formal IFEES involvement took place in June this year, with the participation of SPEE in the VIII World Engineering Education Forum – X Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF-GEDC 2018), which was held in Albuquerque, NM, USA, from November 12 to 16.
As part of the implementation of the internationalization dimension of the plan of activities of the Society for 2018, contacts were also established between the Board of SPEE and the Executive Secretary of the Ibero-American Association of Institutions of Engineering Education (ASIBEI), Dr. Jaime Salazar Contreras, for the participation of SPEE, as an observer member of ASIBEI. The contacts took place in June of this year, and SPEE is expected to participate in the first ASIBEI meeting planned for 2019. The next ASIBEI meeting will be held in Iquique, Chile, from 24 to 26 October 2018.
The Direction of SPEE met with the President of ABENGE at the end of CISPEE2018 on 29 June. At the meeting, points of interest were discussed between the two Societies, following the recently established protocol, namely a plan of action to promote the creation of similar societies in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP). The President of ABENGE also extended an invitation to the President of SPEE to participate in COBENGE2018. At this event, a new meeting was held on September 5, with the participation of several members of the ABENGE Board along with the SPEE President and one of the SPEE Vice-presidents. A noteworthy point discussed at the meeting, was a potential new format of the ABENGE Engineering Education journal, one with a more international character and developed with the collaboration of Portuguese experts in the area.
The 3rd SPEE Conference, entitled “Changing Higher Education One Teacher at a Time”, took place at Creative Science Park in University of Aveiro, from June 27 to 29, 2018.
All information in see.web.ua.pt/cispee2018/
The SPEE Annual General Meeting Nº 11 took place on May 15, 2018, at 14:00, in room 3.5 of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (Pole II of the University of Coimbra). During the AGM, the new SPEE Social Organs were elected.
A Springer book has recently been published, which brings together a set of selected articles from CISPEE2016. The editorial team was made up of the program leaders of the event along with Eva Morais.
All information in Springer
During the Annual Congress of the Brazilian Association of Engineering Education (COBENGE2017), held in Joinville, SC, Brazil, in September 2017, a cooperation protocol was signed between the two societies. The protocol establishes a set of partnerships and exchanges open to members of both Societies.
