The Steering Committee for the Ninth Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education invites proposals pertinent to the issues of globalizing engineering education, in the form of:

• Contributed Papers , which may be integrated into the program as a session or panel contribution, workshop contribution or developed as a full workshop topic.
• Workshop Proposals , for either a two-hour or four-hour post-conference workshop on an engaging topic for Sunday morning, November 5.
• Working Sessions: One full morning of the conference will be devoted to “working sessions,” at which conferees may engage in guided discussion with experts on a topic related to the conference mission. Each session will run twice to enable conferees maximum exposure to the topic.   Proposals for such sessions, which are to include a “start-off paper,” are welcomed.  

We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in proposals on the following topics:

• Assessment

• Health and Safety

• Collaborating with Industry

• Global Design Teams

• Innovative Curricular Approaches

• Funding Strategies

• Defining the Global Engineer

• Global Service Learning

• China

Submit papers or proposals in the form of a one-page abstract, preferably electronically, by May 15 to:

John M. Grandin
Professor and Director
International Engineering Program
University of Rhode Island
IEP House, 67 Upper College Road
Kingston, RI 02881

tel:  401-874-4700
fax:  401-874-7445
grandin@uri.edu

Decisions on proposals will be made by the Steering Committee by July 1.   Final papers/presentations will be due by September 1.