The American Society for Engineering Education 2008 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference is an opportunity for anyone interested in engineering education to hear the latest ideas and find out what is new and exciting in the field. The Gulf-Southwest Conference includes New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana. The conference is scheduled for March 26-28, at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel and hosted by the School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico. This year’s conference theme is “Current and Future Challenges and Opportunities in Engineering Education.”
The conference includes a keynote speech by Neal Shinn, Ph.D., the User Program Manager of the Department of Energy Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Sandia National Laboratories. Shinn will provide an overview of CINT and its capabilities, services and structure. He will also discuss the user program and explain the proposal process.
Gerhard Salinger, Ph.D., program director in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF) will also speak. Salinger will discuss funding opportunities that relate to engineering education and describe features of the ASEE sponsored Global Colloquium on Engineering Education.
The conference will be attended by faculty/staff and students from around the nation and by leaders of the ASEE National Organization, as well as administrators from several universities.
There will also be a student technical paper/poster competition with awards to the top three competitors as well as awards for the three best papers in the faculty/staff category.
Anyone interested in the conference is invited to attend. More information is available at ASEE National Organization or by contacting the conference chair Tariq Khraishi at (505) 277-6803 or khraishi@unm.edu.
Posted by scarr at February 28, 2008 04:21 PM