PICMET 12 announcement

PICMET’12 will be held on July 28 – August 2 in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Vancouver, BC – Canada. The venue will be the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel right in the middle of the city. The theme of PICMET’12 is “Technology Management for Emerging Technologies”. Managing emerging information technologies, bio …

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Interdisciplinary teamwork is increasingly important

From the April edition of the Journal Of Engineering Education http://www.jee.org/2011/April/10 An interesting study: “Student and Faculty Interdisciplinary Identities in Self Managed Teams” How can self-managed work teams can be used as a pedagogical strategy for promoting interdisciplinarity? LISA D. MCNAIR Virginia Tech CHAD NEWSWANDER University of South Dakota DANIEL BODEN Virginia Tech MAURA BORREGO …

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Free courseware (Transforming Engineering Education)

Keep your approach to teaching engineering topics current with a complete solution for measurements, circuits, and controls education from National Instruments.  Using tools like the NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment,  NI hardware, and the NI Multisim circuits teaching environment extends hands-on-learning from the laboratory to the dorm room and equips students to experiment easier, learn …

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TEE conference proceedings now available

The IBM & IEEE conference we called “Transforming Engineering Education; Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for a Global Environment” has now published it’s proceedings at the IEEE.org web site, on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.  This service is free to IEEE members. I have about 20 CD’s of the proceedings available to the first 20 people who …

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