8 July 2002
Copyright © 2002 World Expertise LLC – All rights
reserved
A periodic electronic newsletter for engineering education leaders,
edited by Russel C. Jones, PhD., P.E.
International developments
1.
Germany
works at attracting scholars
2.
Russia
and US reduce cost of student visas
3.
Arab
societies are falling behind
4.
Myanmar
universities open again
5.
Swiss
government notes stagnation in science
6.
China’s
space program promotes basic science
7.
G-8
countries promise aid to Africa
8.
Russia
may save the Kyoto protocol
9.
Smaller
Japanese universities compete for research funds
10. Kuwait opens first private university
11.
Global
Environment Fund struggles for budget
12.
Declining
engineering enrollments blamed on curricula, job market
13.
NRC
reports on anti-terrorism needs
14.
Non-traditional
students dominate undergraduate enrollments
15.
Foreign
visitors to be photographed, fingerprinted
16.
MIT
faculty outline policy to protect academic openness
17.
Study
reports on financing of graduate assistantships
18.
“Why
the Towers Fell” video available
19.
SAT test
to get major overhaul
20.
Tailor
made programs for specific industries
21.
Syria
opens first electronic university
22.
Computer-discipline
offices spring up
23.
Universities
expanding anti-cyberterrorism research
24.
Libraries
and museums slow to digitize
25.
New
reference librarian service available
26.
Gender
gap in higher education – men missing
27.
Urban
league report urges college educations on welfare
28.
Female
engineering students completion needs
29.
Women
underrepresented in Canadian chairs awards
30.
Report
from ASEE annual meeting
31.
Upcoming
international engineering education conference
32.
International
Journal of Engineering Education
33.
Change
magazine
34.
Journal
of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
35.
TechKnowLogia
International developments
1) Germany is trying to market itself as an attractive home
for the world’s finest scholars, according to an article in the Chronicle
of Higher Education by Rick Perera. While the country has a rich academic
tradition, top-flight research, and lavish financial support for academia, it
faces handicaps in attracting the best academic talent from abroad. Along with
the language barrier, Germany has an opaque system of diplomas and degrees and a
reluctance to recognize foreign academic credentials. Regulations governing
visas and residency permits are confusing, and racist violence and a rightward
slant in politics mar the country’s image. But a new glossy, marketing
campaign, Guide to Academic Training and Education (GATE) is aimed
at bolstering Germany’s academic profile abroad. The marketing program
includes slick Web sites and road shows at college fairs outside Germany.
Financial support is also increased, with a 30% increase in stipends to support
scientists. The number of foreign students is up 17% since the GATE program
started. See http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i43/43a03901.htm
2) Russia and the United States have drastically lowered
the cost of visas for students who wish to study in the other’s countries,
according to a note in the Chronicle by Beth McMurtrie. Students
exchanging between the two countries will now be charged $65 instead of $500,
and the time for processing of visas has also been cut. The changes are part of
a larger effort to improve relations between the two nations. The US embassy in
Moscow issues some 1500 visas each year to Russian students enrolling in degree
programs in the US, and another 10,500 students, scholars, and professionals are
issued visas for exchange programs and vocational training. See http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/06/2002060604n.htm
3) A blunt new report commissioned by the United Nations
warns that Arab societies are being crippled by a lack of political freedom, the
repression of women, and an isolation from the world of ideas that stifles
creativity. According to an article in the 2 July 2002 New York Times by
Barbara Crossette, the Arab Human Development Report 2002 was prepared by Arab
intellectuals, and released recently in Cairo. The report noted that while oil
income has transformed the landscapes of some Arab countries, the region remains
‘richer than it is developed’. Research and development are weak or
nonexistent. Science and technology are dormant. Productivity is declining.
Intellectuals flee a stultifying, if not repressive, political and social
environment. Arab women are almost universally denied advancement. There are
280-million people in the 22 Arab countries covered by the report. The team
preparing the report consisted of nearly 30 authorities in various fields. The
study was cosponsored by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and
by members of the Arab League. See http://www.nytimes.com
4) Universities are open again in Myanmar, but learning is
hard to come by under a repressive military regime. According to an article by
Jen Lin-Liu in the Chronicle, the military junta has been wary of
students since a round of student pro-democracy protests in 1996. Most colleges
were closed indefinitely at that time, and academic calendars have been
regularly disrupted since then. With close control by the military government,
most students have little faith in the public higher education system. Many
students go to religious colleges left untouched by the regime, visit embassy
libraries, and take private courses. While the government has plans for
increased information technology learning, it neglects the fact that the
Internet is still banned on campuses. Many campuses do not have libraries, and
those that do keep books behind counters with access only through a librarian.
See http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i39/39a04201.htm
5) The Swiss government’s science advisory body has said
that a decade of stagnation has sent Swiss science into a downward spiral that
only broad reforms and a massive infusion of funds can reverse. According to an
article by Giselle Weiss in the 7 June 2002 issue of Science, the Swiss
Science and Technology Council proposes corrective measures including unifying
Switzerland’s fragmented higher education system, installing a modern
tenure-track system, shoring up support for long-term basic research, and
increasing the science and technology budget 10% per year from 2004 to 2007.
Part of the problem is money – Federal R&D budgets have remained
essentially unchanged over the past 10 years. But structural issues are also a
problem – such as the fact that most universities have few stable positions
below the level of full professor. See http://www.sciencemag.org
6) China’s ambitious space program is allowing science to
emerge from the shadows, according to an article by Dennis Normile and Ding
Yimin in the 7 June 2002 issue of Science. Its ambitious program to
develop its own astronaut corps is giving Chinese scientists a chance to push
back the frontiers of science and to collaborate globally. The goal is to launch
a person into space within the next year or two – becoming only the third
country to do so. The rocket and satellite capabilities that underpin the
piloted space effort are being coupled with a growing budget for space science.
And the program is moving toward more basic research, including international
collaborations with European scientific bodies. See http://www.sciencemag.org
7) The G-8 countries have adopted a financial aid package
for African nations at the conclusion of their Calgary summit, according to an
article in the 28 June 2002 issue of the New York Times by David Sanger.
Billions of dollars in aid were committed for African nations that successfully
reform their economies and governments. But the prosperous countries offered
only the vaguest assurances that they would dismantle the huge subsidies for
their own farmers, which African leaders bitterly complain have undercut the
ability of the poorest nations to compete in world markets. The aid to Africa
would be part of a broader commitment of $12-billion in new international aid
per year by 2006 that many nations made at a United Nations conference in March
in Monterrey, Mexico. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development, drawn up
in large part by African leaders, is intended to ease a crushing debt burden by
relying more on grants than loans and by attracting foreign investment through
economic liberalization. But the plan is very controversial in Africa, where
many view it as just a new way to impose Western-style economic theories on
their countries. See http://www.nytimes.com
8) Russia has emerged as a possible savior of the Kyoto
protocol, which was dealt a heavy blow when the United States withdrew from
negotiations over carbon emissions last year, according to an article in the 21
June 2002 issue of Science by Paul Webster. To come into force, the
treaty must be ratified by enough industrialized nations to account for 55% of
carbon emissions in 1990, Kyoto’s baseline year. The US withdrawal puts its
leading 36% share off limits, making participation by the other major players
even more important. Russia holds second place, with 17% of the 1990 emissions.
After the Russian government deliberated for more than a year, President Putin
announced in April “We’ll do it”. The incentive seems to be financial –
with Russia able to sell pollution credits to other countries due to its greatly
reduced emissions due to an economic downturn which has shuttered factories and
shrunk agriculture. See http://www.sciencemag.org
9) Smaller universities in Japan will benefit from a new
government research grant program, according to an article by Dennis Normile in
the 21 June 2002 issue of Science. The ministry of education has launched
a new $160-million-a-year program which will concentrate grants in specific
areas at the university level, as opposed to Japan’s traditional approach of
scattering small grants across the academic research enterprise. The ministry
plans to fund 20 or so centers in each of five areas: life sciences, chemistry
and materials sciences, electronic and information sciences, humanities, and
interdisciplinary studies. Grants will range from $800,000 to $4-million per
year for five years. The funding levels may not be so attractive to large
universities, so smaller ones are expected to benefit more from the new program.
See http://www.sciencemag.org
10) Kuwait has opened its first private university,
according to a note by Daniel Del Castillo in the Chronicle. The Gulf
University for Science and Technology is accepting students for its September
opening, when it will offer undergraduate degrees in science related fields and
in business administration. About 1500 students are expected to enroll this
year, paying tuition of $13,000 per year. The language of instruction will be
English, with curriculum development assistance coming from the University of
Missouri at St. Louis. The country of 2-million people currently has only one
university, Kuwait University, and the expatriates who make up half of that
population are not eligible to attend it. The new university will be open to
students of all nationalities. See http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/06/2002062502n.htm
11) The Global Environment Facility (GEF), an international agency aimed at getting environmentally sound initiatives off the ground, is struggling to keep its scientific programs funded as donor nations have failed to agree on its future budget. According to an article in the 31 May 2002 issue of Science by Adam Bostanci, GEF has requested an increase in funding from $2.2-billion to $3.2-billion for the next four-year period. One key holdout is the United States, where the Treasury Department has raised concerns about whether grant money is spent wisely and whether monitoring of how funds are spent is adequate. The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the GEF has stated that the fund’s most pressing issue is weak scientific underpinnings of many projects. Since its establishment a decade ago to fund the United Nations Conventions on Biological Diversity and Climate Change, the GEF has spent $4.2-billion on more than 1200 projects, and catalyzed an additional $12.7-billion in matching funds from governments and private investors. See http://www.sciencemag.org.
12) In a pair of articles in the Wall Street Journal, Sharon
Begley has critically raised the issue of declining engineering enrollments, and
what that trend means to the future of technology in the US. In a 7 June 2002
article entitled “As we lose engineers, who will take us into the future”,
the author notes that many engineering students drop out because of the heavily
math and science oriented curriculum – particularly the earlier years, where
engineering content is often sparse. Women in particular are turned off by the
‘boot camp’ mentality that pervades traditional engineering programs. Some
universities have responded by inserting more real engineering content into the
early courses, but many have not. In a follow-up article on 5 July 2002,
entitled “Angry engineers blame shortages on low pay, layoffs, and age
bias”, Ms. Begley cites another major problem – brought to her attention by
a flood of letters from working engineers. Hundreds of letters griped about
salary stagnation, age discrimination, and the boom-and-bust cycle in the field.
Engineers complained that if corporate CEOs were worried about an adequate
supply of engineers for the future, they had only themselves to blame. See http://www.wsj.com.
13) A team of leading US scientists has called for a
comprehensive rethinking of the nation’s anti-terrorism infrastructure,
according to an article by Guy Gugliotta in the 25 June 2002 edition of the Washington
Post. A report by the National Research Council underscores the need to
quickly bring existing technologies into use, to accelerate new research, and to
create a Homeland Security Institute to evaluate counterterrorism strategies.
The report points out that the federal government is structured with a
distinction between national security and domestic policy, and that that
compartmentalization does not allow it to carry out a science and technology
agenda for countering catastrophic terrorism. The report gives a long list of
shortcomings in scientific preparedness, including lack of coordination in
research on nuclear or ‘dirty bomb’ threats and enormous vulnerabilities in
the ability of the public health system to defend against biological warfare.
The report noted that many government agencies with responsibility in this area,
such as the new Transportation Security Administration, have little experience
interacting with the scientific community. It states that such non-science
agencies have to develop the ability to identify technological needs and develop
relationships with the technologists who can fulfill them. See http://www.washingtonpost.com
14) Nontraditional students dominate undergraduate
enrollment in the US, according to a report by the National Center for Education
Statistics of the US Department of Education. As reported in the Chronicle by
Jamilah Evelyn, almost 75% of today’s undergraduates are considered
‘nontraditional’ because of their age, financial status, or when they
entered college. The remaining 27% are ‘traditional’ students who have a
high-school diploma, enroll full time right after high school, and depend on
parents for financial support. The most common nontraditional characteristic was
financial independence, at 51%, followed by part-time attendance at 48%, then
delayed enrollment at 46%. See http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/06/2002060402n.htm
15) The US Justice Department is proposing a rule that
would require the government to begin fingerprinting, photographing, and keeping
detailed background information on some foreigners – including student visa
holders – who visit the US. According to an article in the Chronicle by
Richard Morgan, the plan – which some critics call ‘ethnic profiling’ –
could affect 20,000 foreign students living in the US. The plan would enforce
WW-II era laws that are already on the books, and expand a 1998 federal rule
that requires visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria to be photographed and
fingerprinted upon arrival. The Congress has stipulated that all foreign
visitors to the US be tracked by 2005. A pilot fingerprinting program conducted
at border entry points has resulted in 1400 arrests in the past five months,
according to Attorney General Ashcroft. The new program will also require
periodic registration for foreigners ‘of elevated national security
concern’. See http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/06/2002060603n.htm
16) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has
become the first major academic research institution to outline a policy
designed to protect intellectual openness on campus amid growing pressure to
limit access to sensitive information and materials as part of the war on
terrorism. According to an article by Michael Fletcher in the 14 June 2002
edition of the Washington Post, recommendations developed by a faculty
committee include confining classified research to separate off-campus
locations, refusing contracts that require government pre-screening of research
results, and assembling a standing faculty committee to monitor and respond to
legal restrictions on the disclosure of scientific information. Congress has
passed two measures since October that, among other things, restrict the
handling of biological agents commonly used by university researchers. Also, the
Department of Defense recently proposed to make it illegal for scientists to
publish certain basic research without prior government approval — a measure
that was pulled back in the face of vehement opposition from scientific
organizations. See http://www.washingtonpost.com
17) A new government report provides details on financing
of graduate student assistantships, according to a note in the Chronicle by
Scott Smallwood. Data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study indicate
that more than 60% of doctoral students receive paid assistantships, and that
students in engineering and the sciences get larger awards. On average, full
time PhD. students with assistantships received $12,837, but those in the
sciences received $14,994. About half of the teaching and research assistants in
doctoral programs reported getting some type of insurance benefit, and more that
three-quarters of them said they were given a tuition waiver or discount. See http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/06/2002062703n.htm
18) “Why the Towers Fell”, a Public Broadcasting
Service documentary program which recently took viewers through the process of
how an ASCE led investigative team came to understand the how’s and why’s of
one of America’s greatest tragedies, is now available on video tape. From a
detailed examination of the building’s original design to the relentless
process of combing scrap steel yards and Ground Zero itself for evidence, this
was one of the most extensive and difficult disaster investigations ever
undertaken. In the judgment of the editor of this Digest, every engineering
school should obtain a copy of this video tape and show it to all current and
future engineering students – along with the classic film on the failure of
the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Copies may be ordered from ASCE at http://www.pubs.asce.org/BOOKdisplay.cgi?9991340
19) The College Board has undertaken a major overhaul of
the SAT test, one that will include a handwritten essay and take an extra
half-hour to complete. According to an article by Tamar Lewin in the 28 June
2002 edition of the New York Times, the revised test will be made up of
three sections, each scored on a 200- to 800-scale, and each differing at least
somewhat from the current verbal and math sections. The math test will cover an
additional year of high school math, and the format of the questions will be
new. The verbal test, renamed the critical reading test, will also have
different types of questions, eliminating verbal analogies and quantitative
comparisons. The most striking change is the addition of a new writing test,
including both an essay and multiple-choice grammar and copy-editing questions.
The essays, designed to assess basic writing skills, not creativity, will be
scored by two readers – high school or college English teachers – based on
criteria like sentence structure and grammar errors. The revised test will be
ready for March 2005. See http://www.nytimes.com
20) Some colleges and universities are reaching niche
markets by creating tailor-made distance education programs for employees in
specific industries, according to a note by Dan Carnevale in the Chronicle. For
example, industry specific programs for the telecommunications industry have
been around for at least three years, and electricity and health care industries
have been getting more attention within the past year. A group called the
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning has helped some companies form
industry coalitions to decide what skills should be taught in online programs.
The Council says that companies benefit from getting a trained workforce, but
that students get even more out of the program. Many companies want more than
just training, and have courses cover basic math and theory as well as hands-on
work. See http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061401u.htm
21) Over the past eight months, the government of Syria has
built and opened the country’s first electronic university, according to a
note in the Chronicle by Daniel Del Castro. The Syrian Virtual University
has begun accepting students and plans to be operational for the fall semester
with an enrollment of 600. The university will be entirely online. It continues
a gradual move from a Soviet-style closed society to a more open
Western-oriented model. The virtual university will concentrate on science,
engineering and information technology. Instruction will be in English and
European languages at first, with the hope of eventually offering courses
throughout the Middle East in languages like Arabic, Armenian and Farsi. To aid
students who lack computers or Internet access, the university is building ten
‘telecenters’ in Syria’s most populous regions. See http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061901t.htm
22) A handful of universities have set up
computer-discipline offices to handle crimes and near-crimes, human errors, and
assorted foibles on their increasingly Internet connected campuses. According to
an article by Scott Carlson in the Chronicle, such offices respond to
complaints that computer-savvy students are doing something they shouldn’t –
like hacking into a company’s computer system, or downloading MP3s illegally,
or using computer lab machines to look at pornography – and deliver stern
warnings, or in the worst cases contact the police. In addition to providing a
central office from which the university can dispense clear and consistent
information about computer use policies on campus, such offices provide students
and others with people trained to deal with human issues as well as technical
ones. See http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i39/39a03501.htm
23) Universities are expanding their anti-cyberterrorism
research, according to a note in the Chronicle by Florence Olsen. Seeing
that there is a void that they may fill, universities are establishing programs
to meet demands for research on information security – hoping to attract
funding from sources such as the US government, banks, and insurance companies.
Such programs will also educate a new generation of students for jobs in the
computer-security area. Schools such as Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, and Johns
Hopkins have recently established such programs. See http://crronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002062501t.htm
24) Most libraries and museums are not digitizing their
collections, according to a recent survey by the federal Institute of Museum and
Library Sciences. As reported in the Chronicle by Scott Carlson, a
minority of libraries and museums are involved in projects that make traditional
materials available to users in a digital format, such as a CD-ROM or online. In
the first of its kind survey of 700 museum and library organizations, only a
third of museums and academic libraries, and only a quarter of public libraries,
are involved in digitization efforts. Museums and libraries that do have
digitization projects often use the technology to preserve and provide easier
access to photographs and fragile historical documents. Among other
recommendations, the Institute suggests that libraries and museums set up
policies on the standards, preservation, and selection of digitized materials.
See http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002060701t.htm
25) A new library service allows the public to pose
reference questions without visiting a library, according to a note by Scott
Carlson in the Chronicle. The service, called QuestionPoint, has been
developed by the Library of Congress and the Online Computer Library Center. It
operates through a Web browser, and may make some visits to a library
unnecessary. A patron will gain access to QuestionPoint
through his or her local library’s web site. Questions will be
routed to local libraries first. If the user’s local library is not open, the
question will be sent to an open library elsewhere – one that has the
strengths in disciplines to match the nature of the question. QuestionPoint
offers a reduced subscription price for libraries that agree to help answer its
inquiries. See http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002053101t.htm
26) A gender gap among college graduates has educators
wondering where the men are, according to an article by Michael Fletcher in the
25 June 2002 edition of the Washington Post. At colleges and universities
across the US, the proportion of bachelor’s degrees awarded to women reached a
post-war high estimated at 57%. The gender gap is even wider among Hispanics,
with only 40% of college graduates male, and African Americans where two women
earn bachelor’s degrees for every man. The trend began in the mid-1980s –
and while business leaders and demographers applaud the growing academic success
of women, they fear that the lopsided graduation rate may foretell significant
problems. Business groups are beginning to worry about a possible dwindling
share of men to fill top corporate jobs. Researchers say that the growing
disparity reflects the educational problems of men, who account for 51% of the
college age population. High school graduation rates for men are slightly lower
than those of women, and male students make up the vast majority of those
enrolled in special education classes. Some researchers believe that the
imbalance will cause problems in the nation’s social norms, with
college-educated women having growing problems finding mates of equal
educational footing. See http://www.washingtonpost.com
27) A report from the Urban League says that US welfare
policy undervalues education, according to a note in the Chronicle by
Richard Morgan. The report states that federal welfare policy encourages a
massive underinvestment in the skills of welfare recipients that will
permanently lower their lifetime earnings. The report, “Negative Effects of
TANF on College Enrollments” targets the Temporary Assistance to Needy Family
program of 1996 for failing to consider the importance of educational attainment
in promoting the economic well-being of low-income families. Proponents of
change argue that people on public assistance can successfully complete college,
and that people with a degree will not likely have to rely on future assistance.
See http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/06/2002060503n.htm
28) Female engineering students are more likely to complete
a degree when they have strong social support networks within the engineering
field, according to the recent report “Women’s Experiences in College
Engineering”. Such mechanisms as mentoring programs and opportunities to
network with practicing women engineers increase the likelihood that they will
continue their engineering studies. These findings are based on a study
involving some 20,000 female undergraduates, plus faculty members and
administrators at 53 colleges and universities. Engineering schools currently
have an average female population of about 20%, at a time when other
historically male-dominated fields such as law and medicine have reached gender
parity. See http://www.grginc.com/
29) Women are seriously underrepresented in a fledgling program to help Canada retain its best academic talent, according to an article by Wayne Kondro in the 28 June 2002 issue of Science. In 1999, the Canadian government committed $585-million to create 2000 new posts under the Canadian Research Chairs program. The program provides funds to free up established researchers from teaching, and to help universities to hire rising stars to replace aging faculty. A report looking at the first four classes shows that women, who make up 25% of the total academic pool, have received just under 15% of the 532 chairs. Critics say that this imbalance is due to the old boy’s network of deans and academic vice presidents. It is hoped that publication of the statistics of results to date will encourage universities to appoint more women for the roughly 1400 chairs yet to be awarded. See http://www.sciencemag.org
30) At the annual meeting of the American Society for
Engineering Education in Montreal in late June, the opening keynote plenary
session featured two outstanding speakers: John Slaughter, President of the
National Action Council for Minorities in Education, and William Wulf, President
of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Slaughter outlined the work of NACME,
which has provided scholarships to some 17,000 promising minority students in
its 28 year history. He observed that there is much yet to do -- while
minorities make up some 30% of the overall college age populations, only 11% of
engineering students are minorities. He noted the need to provide support
structures for minorities in engineering education and in the pre-college
pipeline, the need to increase the numbers of minority faculty in engineering
schools, and the need to make curricula more user friendly. Dr. Wulf focused on
the need for reform in engineering education – saying that engineering
practice is changing rapidly, and that engineering education is not keeping up.
He cited the following changes needed: prepare students to deal with new
complexities and constraints in design; update the curriculum and pedagogy of
engineering programs; increase diversity in the engineering student population;
improve the retention rate of engineering students; move beyond the BS as the
first professional degree; change the faculty reward structure to promote
practical experience; and develop programs to build technological literacy in
the broader public.
31) The International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island has announced its Fifth Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education, to be held in Warwick RI on 24-27 October 2002. This interdisciplinary meeting will bring engineering faculty, language faculty, and international education administrators together with leaders from the private and public sectors to discuss best practices and strategies to internationalize American engineering education. See http://www.uri.edu/iep for details.
32) The International Journal of Engineering Education has
published Volume 18 Number 3, 2002, with some 15 papers on education policy and
research and on several engineering education technical areas. The papers deal
with design practice, quality assurance and assessment, and with specific course
approaches in technical fields. See http://www.ijee.dit.ie
33) The July/August issue of Change features a
series of articles on “Enhancing Educational Capital – Challenges and
Benefits”. One article examines major demographic changes in higher education,
with an eye toward shaping policy as Congress prepares to take up the Higher
Education Act of 2004. Another major article examines the state of America’s
educational capital – the reservoir of knowledge and skills that is the
nation’s greatest asset. Noting that college level education has become
increasingly important to the economic prospects of states and nation, the
authors urge a long-term effort to take stock of this important aspect of the
nation’s educational capital. See http://www.heldref.org
34) The July 2002 issue of the Journal of Professional
Issues in Engineering Education and Practice contains some ten articles on
engineering education and practice. But its highlight may be a lengthy editorial
on “Engineering Faculty Reward Systems” by Jose Roesset and James Yao. See http://www.pubs.asce.org/
35) The July-September issue of the online journal TechKnowLogia has been posted on the web at http://www.TechKnowLogia.org The thematic focus of this issue is “Technologies for all – issues of equity”.
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