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The event was organised in a rather unusual way: the main part of the day consisted of 3 panel discussions on various aspects of the main topic of the conference. A keynote speech introduced each day. Dialogue sessions were organised in the afternoon, followed by demonstrations.
The motto was "Tomorrow's Education in Electrical Technologies: revisited Methods and Tools for renewed Motivation": E=TeM2.
E for Education,
Te for Technologies of Electrical Engineering,
M2 for Methods and Motivation.
Renewed Motivation was at the core of the discussions. How to increase the number of students in Electrical Engineering? Methods were questioned: how to use information Technologies to attract students? To be more effective in teaching? To fulfil new educational needs? Worldwide experiences were shared as the attendance, although limited, 55, had a world coverage, with participants from all continents except Africa.
The organisers had tried to bring together teachers in electrical engineering, pedagogues and industrialists. The industry was to explain its needs and give the audience some hints about the number of engineers to be hired in the future and their requested knowledge: field, abilities, etc... Pedagogues were to present new methods made possible using Information Technologies and teachers and professors showed their accomplishments, explained their successes, their problems and exchanged ideas at large. The industry almost did not show up. The time has not come where industry engineers will be allowed to go to a conference on education to help recruiting the future engineer to be hired. The discussion with pedagogues was difficult to engage as the vocabulary is different and the handled concepts are difficult to share.
Actually, the main benefit of this event has been to bring together teachers and professors from different nation, different universities, with sometimes very different experiences and accomplishment, on but one topic: teaching electrical engineering.
This great small conference was high spirited and participants agreed that the experience should be renewed within 2 or 3 years. Further more, IEEE-PELS sponsored this event by inviting prominent lecturers whose input was highly appreciated: Parviz Doulai of University of Wollongong, Australia, and Bill Robbins of University of Minnesota. The organisers are thankful for this support.
Download the Slides of Prof. Jufer in Powerpoint format (268kB)
Download the Slides of Prof. Lorenz in Powerpoint format (1390kB)
Access Prof. Parviz Doulai's website
