Submission of applications to the organization of the 5th and 6th editions of the SPEE international conference is open (CISPEE2022 and CISPEE2024, respectively).

Applications must be sent by email to SPEE ([email protected]) by April 15, 2020 with the following information:

• Organizing Institution Name
• Place and Date (which should preferably be in the period October / November 2022 and 2024)
• Organizing Committee Members
• Conference theme and scientific topics
• Conference structure
• Physical and technical conditions for the conference
• Budget containing the forecast of the main revenues and expenses, including an estimate of the value of the registration of participants
• Reasons to applying for organization
• Declaration of commitment in the following terms:
  “The Organizing Committee undertakes to request the indexing of minutes by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference signs will follow the model of previous editions. Conference directors and program coordinators will be selected according to the model of previous editions: the President of SPEE and the head of the Organizing Institution will be General Chairs; one of the Program Chairs is designated by the Organizing Institution, another will be responsible for the program for the previous edition and the third Program Co-chair will be designated by the Organizing Institution for the next edition of CISPEE. The Organizing Committee will deliver to SPEE, up to 6 months after the end of the event, 50% of the profits, evidenced by sending the respective report and accounts. ”

The applications received will be evaluated by SPEE Board, with the result communicated during the General Meeting of the Society, scheduled for May 6, at 2:30 pm, at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EE-UM). Proponents of selected applications must make a presentation at the closing session of CISPEE2020 scheduled for July 3, 2020.

Australasian Journal of Engineering Education (AJEE).

Initial Submission Deadline: 1 March 2020

Mais informação em: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22054952.2019.1694301

In the 2019 edition the winners were:

– in the Teachers category, the work “Using the Jupiter Notebook as a tool to support the Teaching and Learning Processes in Engineering Courses” by Professors Alberto Cardoso, Joaquim Leitão and César Teixeira, from University of Coimbra;

– in the Students category, under the theme “Engineering takes care of the Environment”, the work “Noé’s Space Shuttle: We monitor, because we care!” students Alexandre Alípio, João Duarte and Francisco Loureiro, from the Colégio da Imaculada Conceição – Cernache, under the guidance of Professor Susana Devesa;

Honorable Mention for the work “Smart Cities” by students João Botelho, Miguel Oliveira and Simão Rocha, from the Associação desenvolver o Talento  – Guarda, under the guidance of Engineer Carlos Martins.

Graça Rasteiro (Chair of the Coordinating Committee) and Isabel Pinto (Chair of the Board)

The application period for the 2020 edition of the Awards, in the “Higher Education Teachers” and “Basic and Secondary Education Students” categories runs from January 2nd to April 30th.

The “Higher Education Teachers” award distinguishes the best article published in a national or international scientific journal or communication in a national or international scientific congress related to Engineering Education, by a professor or group of professors in Higher Education, University or Polytechnic, being that at least 50% of the authors are teachers at a School of Engineering in the Central Region of Portugal. The prize amount is 2500 €.

The  “Basic and Secondary Education Students”  award distinguishes the best works on a theme of Engineering or Technology, authored by a student or a group with a maximum of 4 students, from a secondary school or elementary school located in the Center Region. Every year a different theme is launched to be developed by the students, being, for 2020: “Engineering makes a better world”. The value of the prizes is 1200 € for the work classified in 1st place, 500 € for the 2nd and 300 € for the 3rd.

The regulations and additional information on how to apply can be found on the OE portal:

https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/regiao-centro/premios-novas-fronteiras-da-engenharia/

Bill Williams presented a Keynote Address entitled “lt’s not just about innovation: 14 ways engineers create value” at the 19th World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) 2019 organized by IFEES and held in Chennai, India from 13 to 16 November 2019.

After the presentation, he received a commemorative plaque and a traditional cloth from the host university Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT).

In Chenai Bill Williams participated in the launch of the book “Rising to the Top, Global Women Engineering Leaders”. The book presents the paths of female engineers in various parts of the world, from Sudan to Chile to Malaysia and it is available for download on the IFEES website.

Filomena Soares and Bill Williams attended the annual UK & Ireland Engineering Education Research (EER) Network Symposium that took place at the University of Warwick from 16 to 17 December 2019.

More information at https://hefocus.raeng.org.uk/events/uk-ireland-7th-engineering-education-research-network-annual-symposium/

Invited Talks

Tentative Title:          Campus of the Future

By:                                    Alexandra Den Heijer, TUDelft, NL

Alexandra den Heijer is Professor of Public Real Estate. The Chair of Public Real Estate focuses on the challenges of managing public real estate portfolios by building theory on improving decision-making processes and finding new concepts for the built environment. She has a background in Architecture and Management.

Alexandra den Heijer is internationally renowned as an expert on campuses for higher education, having studied the future of (managing) the university campus for many years, working with universities all over the world. Her legacy and knowledge about university campuses are the foundation by which the expansion of the research field will be grounded, applying her knowledge to other owners of the built environment. She has made it her challenge to serve as a connector and interpreter in management and design processes.

Workshops

1 July

– Aida Guerra, Problem Based Learning

– Joana Lobo Antunes, Comunicação em Ciência

– Isabel Gonçalves, A inteligência emocional no treino das competências transversais

-Ana Moura Santos: MOOC Lab

2 July

– Gonçalo Pinto, 3D Mapping

– Sofia Sá, Active Learning

– Manuel João Costa, Team Based Learning

O próximo webinar do Capítulo Português da EdSoc do IEEE será no dia 16 de dezembro, com o título “AVILA Crew: Pedagogical Innovation with Peer Learning” e é uma experiência muito interessante de apoio a aluno por outros alunos.

O evento está disponível aqui: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/212219

“HELPING NEW ENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERS

GET THEIR CAREERS OFF TO A GOOD START”

Rebecca Brent

President, Education Designs, Inc.

Cary, North Carolina

Richard M. Felder

Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering

North Carolina State University

Wednesday, January 8 at 6:30 pm IST

1 pm GMT, 8 am US EST

link to register:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/779447495417433613

Tentative Title: New Engineering Education Transformation

By: Amitava “Babi” Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Amitava “Babi” Mitra is the Executive Director of the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program at MIT and responsible for the strategic direction, tactical execution and operational oversight of the program. Mitra is co-leading what is arguably one of the most impactful initiatives in higher education today, an initiative launched by MIT’s School of Engineering in 2016 to reimagine and transform MIT’s undergraduate engineering education. NEET’s vision is that it will deliver a new program and pedagogy in engineering education with a focus on new machines and systems that cuts across existing departmental boundaries, and with a strengthened emphasis on synthesis (design and engineering) of these new machines and systems. The program is being built on a modern engineering pedagogical approach, with the integration of leadership, service, and professional experiences, including entrepreneurial thinking and action. Two pilot threads, Autonomous Machines and Living Machines were launched in Fall 2017; they were oversubscribed and sophomores in the NEET programs are enthusiastic. These two threads together with two more new pilots, Advanced Materials Machines and Clean Energy Systems launched on the Fall 2018.

Tentative Title:  Gender Balance and Diversity in Engineering”

By: Zita Martins, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), PT

Zita Martins is an Astrobiologist, an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Portugal), and the Co-Director of the MIT-Portugal Program. She works in the field of Astrobiology and Cosmochemistry. She has a 5-year undergraduate degree (Licenciatura) in Chemistry from IST (2002) and a PhD in Astrobiology from Leiden University (The Netherlands, 2007). She was an Invited Scientist at NASA Goddard (2005 and 2006), and an Invited Professor at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) (2012). In 2009 she was awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship worth 1 Million British Pounds, and she was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial College London (UK) until 2017. Zita Martins has been actively involved in several space missions: she is a Co-Investigator of the OREOcube and EXOcube missions, a Member of the ARIEL space mission from ESA, a Member of the Japanese space mission Hayabusa2 from JAXA, and the only Portuguese scientist in the class-F space mission Comet Interceptor from ESA. She has an active involvement with public outreach activities, including more than 100 international media interviews, and public talks at museums and Science festivals. She had the honour of having her portrait sketched (special commission) for the Royal Society exhibit about successful women in science. She was selected by the BBC as an Expert Women Scientist, and as one of “100 Women in Science” by the Portuguese Agency of Science and Technology “Ciência Viva”. In 2018 she received a Barbie Award 2018 on the International Girl Child Day for being an inspiration to girls. In 2015 Zita Martins was appointed Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant’Iago da Espada (OSE) by the President of Portugal.