Taylor's on NTV7! Graduation and IETEC'11

Celebration was in the air as hundreds of students from Taylor's University proudly donned their graduation robes and mortars on October 31, 2010. Held for the first time at the Taylor's University Lakeside Campus, the ceremony saw the first batch of graduands stepping out from the recently-upgraded institution.



The International Engineering and Technology Education Conference (IETEC'11) is being organised to foster cooperation between a wide range of stakeholders of engineering and technology education to enhance educational policy developments, learning, teaching and research that will help enhancing 21^st century skills for global engineers and technologists.

The IETEC'11 will be structurally organised in order to promote active participation of all attendees and presenters via plenary presentation sessions, key note addresses, interactive workshops and panel discussions. In addition, facilities will be provided for group meetings and one-on-one interaction of the participants to discuss issues of engineering and technology education and to network with conference participants and organisations.

The conference is jointly organised by Taylor's University Malaysia, CQUniversity Australia, the UTHM Malaysia and the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The venue for 2011 conference is Taylor's University, Selangor (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia.

Welcome Address:

• Dato’ Professor Dr Hassan Said, Vice-Chancellor & President, Taylor’s University College, Selangor, Malaysia

Key Note Speakers

• Peter J. Gray, Ph.D., Director of Academic Assessment, the United States Naval Academy, USA
• Professor Dr. Giuliano Augusti, Leader of EUGENE Line C & President, European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE). Professor Augusti's participation is supported by the EUGENE Academic Network, financed by the LLL Programme of the European Union.
  
• Professor Iven Mareels, Dean, School of Engineering, the University of Melbourne
  

Panel Chair

•  Ir. Dr. Gue See Sew, International Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of APEC Engineer

(source: IETEC web)


International Engineering and Technology Education Conference (IETEC) 2011 will be held on the 16-19 January 201. Click here for Full programme list, registration,contact.