Gudrun KAMMASCH, Bernd LUEBBEN
The 2nd IGIP Regional Conference, ÃLearning and Teaching in Virtual and Real RoomsÄ, has taken place in the University of Wuppertal (13. Æ 15.09.2007). It has been found an increasing success to install this concept of regionally organized IGIP Conferences. More than 40 participants appeal with this concept. They conducted seminal and comprehensive discussions over 2? days at the Uni Campus Freudenberg. The Conference was organized by Prof. Dr. Hans Bernhard Woyand, speaker of the working group ÃKnowledge Management and Computer-Aided TechnologiesÄ. It was really agreeable and pleasant for the participants discussing together from start to finish, without any segmenting in parallel groups due to different themes or something near it.
The present members of the working groups have used the opportunities to exchange information, to vote for speakers of a working group as well as to plan further activities due to the next IGIP Regional Conference in Mittweida:
European Qualification Framework
Discussions due to the ÃEuropean Qualification Framework (EQF)Ä and its impacts to all European educational systems should be one main focus in Moscow. Possible interferences with the IGIP Qualification Standards have to be checked. The present speakers of the IGIP Working Groups in Miskolc have decided prospectively to create a new working group ÃPostgraduate Education and European Qualification FrameworkÄ. Prof. Sorin Zaharia (Rumania) was elected as speaker, Ralph Dreher (University of Bremen) was elected as co-speaker. The new working group invites all interested persons to prepare contributions for a special workshop in Moscow.
Double Head of the Working Group ÃPeople and TechnologyÄ
In Wuppertal, the members of the working group ÃPeople and TechnologyÄ have chosen the opportunity to elect their new speaker. Unanimously, they have elected a double head of two equally authorised speakers: Joachim Hoefele (Hochschule Winterthur) and Erik de Graaff (TU Delft). This decision makes allowance for its special subject matter in IGIP and in SEFI. The working group will tend towards a statement to proscribe wars and to support engineering pedagogues to become more sensitive in fundamental ethic questions.
3rd IGIP Regional Conference, Spring 2008 in Mittweida
The next regional conference of IGIP will be in Mittweida (3-5 April 2008), Saxony. The working group ÃPeople and TechnologyÄ of IGIP and the working group ÃEthicsÄ of SEFI will shape a common focal point.
Glossary for the Engineering Pedagogy
Together, the IGIP working groups will develop a ÃGlossary for Engineering PedagogyÄ in German, in English and in Russian as a ÃSupplement to the IGIP Accreditation CriteriaÄ. Preliminary work of TREE will be used.