AaeE Newletter - August 2008

The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE) August newsletter is now available.

Find the newsletter here.

ACCESS Group Meeting - October

The next ACCESS meeting will be held on Wednesday 1 October, 12pm-2pm. Melissa Porritt has kindly offered to host the meeting at Sinclair Knight Mertz.

Street address:
32 Cordelia Street
South Brisbane QLD 4101

Those attending the meeting are asked to meet on the ground floor.

Melissa will be showing the group around her new premises and we will be discussing the future of the ACCESS Group. Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to Loretta Atkinson if you would like to attend by the 29 September. Also please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting.

2008 Year of the Engineering Team

The Engineering Team Task Force have put together an online Blog to help facilitate communications between the members of Engineers Australia and the Engineering Team Task Force on matters relating to the Year of the Engineering Team.

Visit the section of the Engineers Australia website dedicated to the Year of the Engineering Team to see the latest updates, copies of the Engineers Australia magazine articles, and activities happening in divisions.

ScientificCommons

The ScientificCommons.org project makes it possible to access the largely distributed sources with their vast amount of scientific publications via just one common interface.

ScientificCommons identifies authors from all archives and makes their social and professional relationships transparent and visible to anyone across disciplinary, institutional and technological boundaries.

Currently ScientificCommons has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names out of this data.

http://en.scientificcommons.org/

NLA Online Newspaper Archive

Bronwyn Hicks has alerted us to the Australian National Library's digital scanning project. The online search facility will allow users to access 16 newspapers dating from 1803 to 1954.

Currently at testing stage, the NLA has made the site available for the public:
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

For more information:
http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://20080730000030085242&section=technology

AaeE 2008

The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) and CQUniversity are pleased to invite you to Yeppoon for AAEE’s 19th Annual Conference.

The central theme for this year's conference is ' to industry and beyond', focusing on:
Beyond University
Beyond Australasia
Beyond the Present

This includes the focus on social responsibility and developing engineering graduates for a global workplace.

What is engineering? What do the various stakeholders want from an engineering graduate? How is the engineering workplace changing? What pressures will engineering graduates face at work now and in the future? What are the internal and external pressures experienced in engineering education?

This conference invites participants to reflect on and develop responses to these questions.

Conference Aim
The purpose of this conference is to:

Share ideas and experiences;
Identify and promote best practice
Develop networking opportunities
Foster active participation in presentations and workshops
Foster student involvement in their education

http://www.events.rockhamptoninfo.com.au/

Looking for Standards?

Standards are official publications used in all areas of industry and trade. They consist of specifications or recommendations on issues such as quality, safety, performance and construction requirements, codes of practice, methods of testing, symbols and terminology.

http://www.saiglobal.com/

Search by organisation:

American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM)
http://www.astm.org/

American National Standards Insitute (ANSI)
http://www.ansi.org/

British Standards Institution (BSI)
http://www.bsi.org.uk/

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
http://www.iec.ch/

International Standardization Organization (ISO)
http://www.iso.ch/

Additional Internet site for Standards:

Techstreet – one of the most comprehensive standards searching site on the Internet. Provides access to standards from over 350 standards organisations.
http://www.techstreet.com/