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EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

"Engineering Education: Rediscovering the Centre" was the theme of the 1999 European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) Annual Conference. Held in Winterthur and Zurich, Switzerland from September 1-3, various working group themes included were: women in engineering, ethics in engineering education, and physics in engineering education, among many others. ASEE's immediate Past President, Ernest T. Smerdon, represented ASEE at the conference and was the banquet speaker.

Next year's SEFI conference will be held in Paris from September 6-8, 2000. The theme will be "The Many Facets of International Education of Engineers." For more information, see the SEFI Web site at: www.geiparis.org/sefi2000. To read Smerdon's comments on the conference, please see the ASEE Web site at: www.asee.org/intemational.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Only three weeks after the tragic earthquake in Turkey, the 28th Annual Symposium for the International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) was held, from September 20-24. The theme was "Engineering Education in the Third Millennium," and had workshops ranging from "Education in Geotechnical Engineering," to "Educating Officers for Merchant Marine." Frank L. Huband, ASEE's Executive Director, and Ernest I Smerdon, ASEE's Immediate Past President, both attended the conference. Smerdon presented an ASEE salutatory at the opening session and was also a major invited lecturer at the general plenary session.

The 2000 IGIP Symposium to be held during March in Biel and Zurich, Switzerland, has the theme, "Unique and Excellent." For more information, see the IGIP Web site at: www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/igip.

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