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Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE)
www.aaee.com.auIt was a privilege to be elected President of AaeE as the first New Zealander in the role. I am enjoying working with the Executive Committee to serve the members of the association and the engineering education community.
I would like to recognize the enormous contribution of Roger Hadgraft to the Association. He stepped down as President at the end of 2008, after several years on the Executive. Roger was asked to Chair the 2009 international Research in Engineering Education Symposium in Queensland in July, and was appointed one of the two Discipline Scholars for engineering – exemplifying his national and international standing.
The Association has matured in the 20 years since its first conference in 1989. The high levels of experience and expertise of our members was demonstrated in the papers and the quality of peer review for our 2008 Conference. The presentations by the finalists for the AAEE Teaching Awards, included in the programme for the first time, were inspirational and fully justified their selection. The conference was held in Yeppoon, and both the weather and the hospitality were warm – many thanks to Prue Howard and her team from CQU. The sense of community was commented on as a special feature of the conference.
My main focus as President has been communication and dissemination. The Executive Committee has put material of interest to our members on a wiki site at http://aaee-scholar.pbwiki.com. Comments and feedback on any of the wiki material is welcomed.
We have been particularly pleased to use the expertise of our AaeE Educational Research Methods special interest group and the success of our recent Engineering Education Research and Your Career workshops. The aim of these workshops is to strengthen our sense of community, and provide engineering academics with the opportunities and resources to build their knowledge and skills.
Our Australasian Journal of Engineering Education is hosted online by Engineers Media arm of Engineers Australia. Members and non-members can download papers since 2007 from http://www.engineersmedia.com.au/journals/aaee/ papers.asp. Archives can be found at The National Library Archive at http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10589 AaeE gratefully acknowledges financial support by the Australian and New Zealand Councils of Engineering Deans and Engineers Australia. This enables AaeE to be a free technical society for all those involved in engineering education at Australian and New Zealand universities.
Elizabeth Godfrey
President
