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The Executive guides the direction of AAEE and undertakes the day-to-day operations of the Association. The Executive consists of 13 members - 12 elected by the membership and one nominated by the Australian Council of Engineering Deans. Office bearers are elected from within the Executive.

Election to the Executive

The executive is elected by a vote of members at the annual general meeting. This meeting is usually held at the annual conference. Some time prior to the meeting, nominations will be invited and relevant details placed here.

Meet the current Executive for 2003-4

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Name (title):

Ms Gunilla Burrowes

AAEE position:

President

Professional position:

Lecturer

Department/Faculty:

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Institution:

University of Newcastle

Institution Address:

Callaghan Campus

Years on Executive:

4

Phone number:

+61 2 4921 6352

Fax Number:

+61 2 4921 6993

E-mail address:

gunilla@ecemail.newcastle.edu.au

 

 

Name (title):

Professor Brian Stone

AAEE position:

Past President

Professional position:

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Department/Faculty:

Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering 

Institution:

University of Western Australia

Institution Address:

35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009

Years on Executive:

4

Phone number:

+61 893803120

Fax Number:

+61 893801024

E-mail address:

bjs@mech.uwa.edu.au

 

 

Name (title):

Professor David Radcliffe

AAEE position:

Vic-President

Professional position:

Thiess Professor of Engineering Education and Professional Development

Department/Faculty:

Mechanical Engineering

Institution:

University of Queensland

Institution Address:

St Lucia, Qld 4067

Years on Executive:

3

Phone number:

+61 7 3365 3579

Fax Number:

+61 7 3365 4799

E-mail address:

dradcliffe@thiess.com.au

 

 

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Name (title):

Dr Wageeh W Boles

AAEE position:

Joint Vice President
Conference Coordinator

Professional position:

Associate Professor

Department/Faculty:

Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

Institution:

Queensland University of Technology

Institution Address:

Gardens Point Campus

Years on Executive:

4

Phone number:

+61 7 3864 2866

Fax Number:

+61 7 3864 1516

E-mail address:

w.boles@qut.edu.au

 

 

 

Name (title):

Dr Vojislav (Vic) Ilic

AAEE position:

Co-Editor AJEE

Professional position:

Senior Lecturer

Department/Faculty:

School of Mechatronic, Computer and Electrical Engineering

Institution:

University of Western Sydney

Institution Address:

Kingswood campus
P.O Box 1000
St Mary's
New South Wales

Years on Executive:

4

Phone number:

+61 2 47360 386

Fax Number:

+61 2 47360 129

E-mail address:

v.ilic@uws.edu.au

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Name (title):

Assoc. Professor David Dowling

AAEE position:

Secretary

Professional position:

Associate Dean (Academic)

Department/Faculty:

Faculty of Engineering & Surveying

Institution:

University of Southern Queensland

Institution Address:

Toowoomba QLD 4350

Years on Executive:

6

Phone number:

(07) 4631 2514

Fax Number:

(07) 4631 2526

E-mail address:

dowling@usq.edu.au

 

 

Name (title):

A/Prof. Roger Hadgraft

AAEE position:

Co-Editor AJEE
Website manager

Professional position:

Director, Teaching & Learning

Department/Faculty:

School of Civil & Chemical Engineering 

Institution:

RMIT University 

Institution Address:

GPO Box 2476V, Vic 3001

Years on Executive:

2

Phone number:

+61 3 9925 1830

Fax Number:

+61 3 9925 3746

E-mail address:

roger.hadgraft@rmit.edu.au

 

 

Name (title):

Dr Nathan Scott

AAEE position:

Co-Editor AJEE

Professional position:

Lecturer

Department/Faculty:

Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering 

Institution:

University of Western Australia

Institution Address:

35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009

Years on Executive:

2

Phone number:

(08) 9380 3761

Fax Number:

(08) 9380 1024

E-mail address:

nscott@mech.uwa.edu.au

 

 

 

 

Name (title):

Assoc. Prof. Allison Brown

AAEE position:

 

Professional position:

Director, Teaching & Learning

Department/Faculty:

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Institution:

RMIT University 

Institution Address:

GPO Box 2476V, Vic 3001

Years on Executive:

1

Phone number:

+61 3 9925 2925

Fax Number:

+61 3 9925 2007

E-mail address:

Allison.Brown@RMIT.edu.au

 

 

 

Name (title):

Prof Adrian Page

AAEE position:

ACED Representative

Professional position:

Dean

Department/Faculty:

Faculty of Engineering

Institution:

The University of Newcastle

Institution Address:

Newcastle

Years on Executive:

2

Phone number:

+61

Fax Number:

+61

E-mail address:

 

 

 

 

Name (title):

Prof. Alan Bradley

AAEE position:

IEAust Representative

Professional position:

Accreditation Manager

Department/Faculty:

 

Institution:

The Institution of Engineers, Australia

Institution Address:

Bedford St, North Melbourne

Years on Executive:

2

Phone number:

+61

Fax Number:

+61

E-mail address:

ABradley@ieaust.org.au

AaeE Executive Committee Contributions to Engineering Education

Gunilla Burrowes 

AaeE Vice President 00/01, AaeE Awards Co-ordination 99/00 

Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Manager: Diversity of Engineering Project The University of Newcastle

Achievements:  Instigator and facilitator of several workshops to improve educational practices within the faculty. 

Facilitator of a workshop in the 1997 conference.

Publications: 6 referred papers on engineering education.

Engineering Education Interest Area:  Current research area has focused on the dynamics between student/teacher interaction within engineering classrooms and the implication that these interactions have on student outcomes.  Gender is often used as a variable within this research and analysis of the implication on curriculum.  Interest in on-line education has led to work both from a university wide perspective as well as practices in the classroom.

Dr Wageeh Boles

AaeE Conference Portfolio

Assistant Dean - Teaching and Learning, Assistant Dean - Student Services

Chair - Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee

Achievements:  Implementing Minors into all Faculty undergraduate courses.  Benchmarking the Engineering Schools with RMIT University.  Several undergraduate and postgraduate courses developed.

Scholarship:  Studying and using student cognitive styles for computer assisted learning.  Using e-mail and student groups as classroom teaching tools.  Utilising contract learning in teaching.  Web based instruction and interactive tutorials in teaching image processing

Funds attracted:  Obtained competitive Teaching and Learning grants, including one CAUT grant, totalling more than $100,000.

Publications:  Total of 16 teaching and learning publications: Refereed Journal Papers: 4, Refereed Conference Papers:5, Technical Reports and Notes:4, Booklet:1, Software Packages:2.

Awards:  QUT Outstanding Academic Contribution Award, Teaching Performance and Leadership.  Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, QUT.  Nominated as one of only 3 QUT academics to the Australian Awards for University Teaching.  Received two Outstanding Teaching Assistant Medals, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Professor Brian J Stone

AaeE Publications Portfolio

Chair of Mechanical Engineering at UWA since 1981

Achievements:  Introduction of WWW based tutoring for first year dynamics.  Chaired Flexible Delivery Task Force at UWA 1997.  Resulted in Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL).  This is the focal point for bringing together and expanding the broad range of teaching innovations and staff development activities currently directed towards providing the highest quality learning opportunities possible for students. CATL aims to encourage and assist with the development and evaluation of faculty-based initiatives and to facilitate the effective university-wide applications of skills and resources developed locally.

Scholarships: Use of WWW in teaching, tutoring and assessment. Development of labs for a low funding environment. Efficiency of teaching and tutoring.

Funds attracted:  Since 1992 over $800,000 in grants for teaching research (including 4 CAUT grants and one CUTSD grant) mainly for developing the use of the WWW in teaching, tutoring and assessment.

Publications:  Has 36 papers on engineering education, two of which have won prizes. 

Awards:  Won the inaugural Australian National Teaching Award for Engineering in 1997, the inaugural Motorola Award for Innovation in Engineering Education in 1998 and the inaugural NCAM (Institution of Engineers Australia National Committee for Applied Mechanics) Award for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching Applied Mechanics in 1999.

Vojislav Ilic

AAEE Journal Portfolio supernumerary

Senior Lecturer, College of Science, Technology and Environment, University of Western Sydney.

Inaugural Chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Australian Section.

Australian delegate at the ICEE/iNER

Guest Editor IJEE

Achievements: Contributed to the Mechatronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering curriculum development at UWS; helped develop Behaviour, Communication and Ethics subject for engineers; coordinated web delivery of  several first year subjects and laboratory projects for later years; helped in introduction of IT electives into revised Mechatronic Engineering  curriculum.

Scholarship:  Interest in web based learning and virtual university concepts, preventative medicine issues, enhancing cognitive processes in learning, renewable energy, IT issues in Engineering.

Publications:  45 refereed publications including 6 on engineering education; 3 patents.

David Dowling

Associate Dean (Academic) Faculty of Engineering and Surveying University of Southern Queensland

Achievements:  Currently leading a review of all engineering courses focused on ensuring students acquire generic graduate attributes and capabilities.  Organised the weekly Engineering Education Seminar Series in 2000, and currently facilitating the 2001 series. Planned and facilitated a 1day workshop on problem based learning in May 2000.  Planned and facilitated a 2 day teaching and learning workshop for new and continuing academic staff in February 2001.  This was run as a pilot program for the university and 16 engineering staff attended including six new staff.

Scholarship:  Focus on facilitating change in both curriculum and the teaching and learning environment, and on measuring learning outcomes and the development and implementation of a teaching and learning quality system.  . 

Publications:  1 refereed international conference paper and 2 conference papers on surveying education.

Nathan Scott

PhD title: "A study of the introduction of educational technology into a course in engineering dynamics: classroom environment and learning outcomes" (1996)

Have developed several generations of computer based tutorial system specifically for engineering subjects. The first version was in use by 300 students in 1995. The latest is a commercial product called FlyingFish/Jellyfish and it is used by several thousand students at UWA and at 7 other universities, both in Australia and abroad. The systems are characterised by:

innovative computer based question types that are NOT multiple choice * computer based diagnostics - if a student gives the wrong answer, we try to work out what they did wrong so we can give good feedback

simple interfaces that can be used at home by mode

integral bulletin boards that have one discussion thread for every problem

carefully designed problem sequences written by excellent teachers, that probe all the main known misconceptions of students in the subject.

For more information, and to try the systems on line, visit http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/login.html (for engineering subjects such as Statics, Dynamics, Thermodynamics) http://calmaeth.maths.uwa.edu.au (to see an excellent extension of the system for problem sets in Calculus, Statistics and Linear Algebra, written by Dr Kevin Judd of UWA)

The FlyingFish tutorial environment has also been taken up and is heavily in use in the UWA Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - but that is another story.

Main contribution to Engineering Education: have demonstrated that it is possible and even desirable to have computer based tutorial sets for some introductory subjects, provided that the problem sets and the environment are crafted by experienced teachers rather than computer programmers.

Reason for signing up for the AaeE executive: on-line education is currently the subject of much debate and anxiety. Since my group here at UWA have done it successfully for many years I feel I can contribute to changes in policy direction and also by offering practical advice to teachers

Roger Hadgraft

Roger Hadgraft is Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Civil and Chemical Engineering at RMIT University. In this role, he is part of a small team that is revising (renewing) all of the Faculty's degree programs (more than a dozen disciplines) based on graduate capabilities and project-based learning.

Roger has had a long involvement with AAEE, with papers published almost every year since 1990. His particular interest is problem-based and project-based learning and he was instrumental in redesigning the civil engineering degree program at Monash University (as a former staff member) using these approaches.

Roger was a co-opted member of the executive during 2001-2 and formally elected at the 2002 conference, with particular interest in the website and he has been a member of the editorial group for the new electronic AJEE journal. As a staff member at RMIT, he offers boundless enthusiasm for the cause of student-directed learning!


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