Rob Reilly, News&Notes Editor 
reilly@media.mit.edu


****FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE - REVIEWERS NEEDED & 
        SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ACCEPTED PAPERS APPROACHES****

Tim Skvarenina is the Education Society Program Co-chair for the 
2004 Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference. He advises us that 
papers, which have **already been accepted** for the FIE 2004 
conference, are due back to the FIE Web site by March 8, 2004:

To submit your accepted paper click on "AUTHORS" at: 
                                                   
                      http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2004/ 

Tim is also in-need of reviewers who can review three or more papers 
within 4 weeks of their assignment. Reviewers are needed for the 
following areas: 

    -Capstone and creative design experiences
    -Diversity: achieving it and teaching it
    -EE papers (assorted papers)
    -Faculty development and retention
    -Globalization initiatives and programs
    -K-12 (pre-college) initiatives: increasing the pool
    -Life-long learning
    -Multidisciplinary teaming
    -Engineering Technology Papers

If you would like to be a reviewer, please contact Tim at 
tskvaren@purdue.edu and let him know which area or areas you would 
prefer to review. He will then provide directions so that you can 
register as a reviewer.


****INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN SWITZERLAND - IGIP/ASEE/  
        IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY****

Local Identity - Global Awareness: Engineering Education Today

Fribourg, Switzerland, September 27 - October 1, 2004

For more information see: http://cflwww.eng.temple.edu/engredu2004 

Living in an information society, globalization brings new 
challenges for cooperation, collaboration and exchange while we 
stress the importance of local tradition and identity in engineering 
education, as well as challenges in pedagogy and practical 
experience. This international forum brings together academia, 
industry and government from the corners of the world to 
Switzerland. The theme of this international Symposium is: Local 
Identity -- Global Awareness. 

The topics include: people and technology, international aspects in 
engineering education, curriculum development, working with 
projects, women in technical education, knowledge management, 
mathematics and natural sciences in engineering education, 
postgraduate training, humanities and social science in engineering 
education, teacher training, and many more.

Important Dates:

Submission of Abstract: March 31, 2004
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2004
Final Manuscript submission: June 15, 2004