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Programme v2.3

Tuesday 26 September 2006

08:00
Opening of conference
08:30
Plenary Address

Opening address: Hon. Mosibudi Mangena, Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa
09:00
Engineering Capacity Building in Developing Countries (Russel C. Jones)
09:40
Community-based learning: Project presentation by University of Pretoria students
10:10
Tea/Coffee
10:50
Engineering and globalisation in developing countries: Nigeria, a case study (Funso Falade)
11:30
Issues facing engineering education in South Africa (Jennifer Case)
12:10
Lunch

Parrellel Session 1A: Accreditation and other issues facing Engineering Education
Parallel Session 2A: Engineering Education for Sustainable Development
Parallel Session 3A: Student Learning
13:10
Benchmarking Engineering Higher Education Qualification Standards
(Hu Hanrahan)
Sustainable development by apprenticeship through projects-oriented engineering education
(Peter Achi)
A re-conceptualisation of engineering education based on situated learning theory (L Woollacott, D Snell)
13:40
Defining the Engineering Team: The Engineering Qualifications Framework and the Engineering Contextual Level Descriptors
(Liesel Kirsten, Hu Hanrahan)
Observations from a mathematics and science intervention programme in township schools
(Irene Fricke, Emile Horak, Lizel Meyer and Netta van Lingen)
Facilitate engineering education within SADC: a case study of the Universities of Namibia and The Witwatersrand
(A. A. Ilemobade, Y Ballim)
14:10
The role of universities in continuing professional development
(Estelle Trengove, Bea Lacquet)
Engineering Education and Graduate Attributes in Post-Modern West African Nation - Ghana: Technical & Social Drivers and Challenges
(Kwadwo Amoako Appiagyei, Jonas Addai-Mensah)
An engineering education process model
(Willemien Krüger, Prof JIJ Fick )
14:40
Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee
15:10
Engineering Education in South Africa: In fragile good health, denial or crisis?
(Hu Hanrahan, N. Beute, D.M. Fraser, J.Gosling, A. Lawless, I.R. Jandrell)
Building sustainable engineering education in Africa
(Duncan Fraser)
Facilitating electronic learning activities for first year students in an open learning system: is it worth the effort?
(Bertha Pitout)
15:40
Expanding the Engineering Qualifications Framework to engineering support personnel through Level 5 and Level 6
Certificates
(Keith Jacobs, JPL Janse van Rensburg)
Engineering for Developing Communities:
Integrating Education, Research and Development, and Service/Outreach into Engineering Education
(Robyn Sandekian, B. Amadei, A. Bielefeldt, and R.S. Summers)
Case for Mutiny or Exhilarating Expedition?
Student Experiences of Learning Events
(Corrinne B. Shaw, Tom Ryan)
16:10
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Training and Future Contributions to Economic Development in Zimbabwe
(Steadyman Chikumba, Davison Zimwara)
Internationalisation of African engineering education: bridging the North-South gap
(Zola Mbanguta)
Blending traditional learning styles with technology-based learning
(DA Dicks, HJ de Jager and Trudy Sutherland)

Wednesday 27 September 2006
08:00
Student Development: An alternative to Sink or Swim (Ray Landis)
08:40
Keynote address: Dr Joseph Massaquoi, Director: UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Technology in Africa

Parrellel Session 1B: Innovation in Teaching
Parallel Session 2B: Curriculm Development
Parallel Session 3B: Computer Usuage; Foundation Programmes
09:20
Project based learning: Lessons learned from Innovation 110
(Liezl van Dyk, E Horak, S Maharaj, L Liebenberg and L Barlow)
Balancing Engineering Science with Technical Skills Development
(Justin S. Manong'a, Paul Nosike Ekemezie)
Is the current engineering drawing curriculum at tertiary institutions still applicable?
(PW Jordaan)
09:50
Engineers on the foreground: An integrated approach to language acquisition
(Marisca Coetzee, Tobias van Dyk)
Preliminary review of skills and competencies of Non-Engineering Built
Environment professions: case study of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
(A Sorinolu, AA Ilemobade and MB van Ryneveld)
Computer Skills for Engineering Students: Definitely, but how can this be facilitated in the most efficient manner?
(J.A. Buisson-Street, A.M. Marks)
10:20
Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee
10:50
Developing team work in an undergraduate engineering programme through extended essays, practical exercises and tutorials
(Jonas A S Redwood-Sawyerr)
Information literacy assessment in an Information Society: The Case of the Mechanical Engineering department at CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology)
(Mark D Frier)
Microcontrollers in Engineering Education
(Paul Nosike Ekemezie)
11:20
Evaluation and prioritisation of learning principles for modules of postgraduate engineering and technology management
programmes
(Alan Brent, Pieter du Toit)
The Education and Training of the Structural Engineer in the 21st Century
(G.L. Oyekan)
From Academic Development to Student Development: A Scenario for a Transformed Curriculum in South African Engineering Education
(L Woollacott)
11:50
Innovative Teaching Approaches: Comparison of Some Teaching Methods Employed at the Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, USA and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
(Kwadwo Amoako Appiagyei )
Nigerian first degree in Civil Engineering: the "Option" Problem
(BU Dike, JC Agunwamba)
Bridging Programmes - Easy access into the Higher Education study fields of engineering? - A case study
(Trudy Sutherland, Michelle Waetzel)
12:20
Lunch
Lunch Lunch

Parrellel Session 1C: The Industrial Interface
Parallel session 2C: Curriculum Development; Teaching and Learning Strategies
Parallel session 3C: Student Learning and Student Success
13:20
Enhancing curriculum delivery in engineering through teachers' industrial work-experience
(Olusegun A.T. Mafe)
Analysing the raw material: Who are our first years?
(George Gibbon, Ken Nixon and Mia Nixon)
Student Learning and Retention: Factors Related to Success in Engineering Education
(Glennelle Halpin, Gerald Halpin, and Larry Benefield)
13:50
Drivers of knowledge transfer between universities and industry R&D partners in South Africa
(Anthea van Zyl)
Team-Teaching Strategy for Carbon Nanotechnology & Engineering: A Course in Advanced Chemical Engineering
(SE Iyuke, H.J. Potgieter, M. Cross, and P.O. Iyuke)
Tracking student success in engineering education
(Duncan Fraser)
14:20
Improving technology transfer in developing countries
(JP Kloppers, J. Tapson, D. Bradshaw and C.T. Gaunt)
Practical wiring training for power engineering students
(Raj Naidoo, Wilhelm Leuschner)
Student perspectives on learning and performance in Engineering Mechanics
(Rosetta Ziegler)
14:50
Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee
15:20
The triple dimension model for socioeconomic policy innovation
(Peter Butera Bazimya)
Utilizing computer aided equipment in conveying Amplitude Modulation principles to senior engineering students
(James Swart, Henk de Jager)
Learning through computer simulation
(Duncan Fraser, Jenni Case, and Cedric Linder)
15:50
Opportunities for Technology Transfer and Industrial Development through Technoparks in Zimbabwe
(Steadyman Chikumba)
Electronic Circuit Analysis and Design Using Circuit Simulators
(Paul Nosike Ekemezie, Linoh Magagula )
Why do students find mathematically related problems in chemistry hard? A study with chemical engineering students
(Marietjie Potgieter, Ansie Harding and Johann Engelbrecht)

16:20 CLOSING SESSION