Australasian Association for Engineering Education

Welcome

Welcome to the website of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. AAEE (a technical society of Engineers Australia) is a professional association of academics, support staff, postgraduate students, librarians, professional engineers, and employers who all have vested interests in fostering excellence and innovation in engineering education.

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The general mission of AAEE is to improve the quality, relevance and performance of engineering education in Australasia. More specifically, the objectives of the Association are to:

Quantify and make more visible within Australasia the increasing need for specific advanced engineering skills.
Increase the participation rates of high school leavers in engineering education and training, especially of women and non-traditional sources of students.
Promote the development and use of new teaching techniques and tools and promote measurement of teaching effectiveness.
Provide assistance to the engineering educators, especially to the new members of the teaching staff.
Promote the professional development of engineering educators.
Make the Association the focal point for information on all aspects of engineering education within Australasia.
Develop co-sponsorship of the Association by other engineering professional institutions and associations in Australasia.
Develop global links with similarly minded organisations in other countries.

The 2011 Annual Conference

This year our annual conference will be held in Fremantle, Western Australia, from Monday December 5th to Wednesday December 7th. The call for abstracts has just been released – visit the conference website to find out more:

http://www.aaee.com.au/conferences/2011/.

Thinking further ahead?

Click here for provisional details of the 2012 conference

The Make It So List

In 2010 Engineers Australia ran an awareness campaign designed to promote the role of engineers in society, asking the general public to complete the sentence “Make it so…”. Over a period of twelve weeks, a total of more than 7,000 ideas were submitted via the website http://makeitso.org.au. The ideas vary in scale and focus, with many of the that were submitted in fact being suitable as potential topics for final year engineering capstone projects.

In order to take advantage of this opportunity, AAEE and Engineers Australia have put together an edited version of the list, identifying the leading ideas in each of the six most popular categories of response. This list is available for download from the AAEE website at http://www.aaee.com.au/MakeItSoList.pdf.

To support and promote this initiative of engaging engineering students with society, AAEE will be providing a Student Thesis prize for the Best 2011 Capstone Thesis for a topic from this list.