This year the AAEE conducted its seventh annual conference under the theme of 'Internationalisation of engineering education' where six keynote speakers including BHP corporate General Manager (External Affairs), the chair of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans, and the president of The Institution of Engineers, Australia made presentations.
The conference had two panel discussions:
Internet/World Wide Web in support
of engineering education, and
Women in engineering.
The first was proposed, organised and chaired by Dr Parviz Doulai from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The University ofWollongong presence at the AAEE was strengthened by the contributions of the academic director of the UOW Engineering Clearinghouse, Associate Professor Bill Upfold, and the director of Information Technology Sevices, Mr Greg Naimo. They had short presentations, and answered the queries of the more than 80 conference de]egateswhoattended the session. The UOW Engineering Clearing-house was the main topic of Associate Professor Upfold's presentation. Mr Naimo discussed issues related to Australian Internet backbone, NSW future networking initiatives and new charging schemes.
A unique feature of this panel discussion was its 30-minute demonstration conducted before the panelists' short presentations. Power Point and Netscape environments were used to introduce the World Wide Web not only as a tool to explore the information super-highway but also as an emerging educational tool. The Power Point presentation mainly covered a short history of the Internet and Web. The Netscape (HTML) presentation intended to illustrate features and ca- pabilities of the hypermediaenviron ments when used as an educational deuvery tool. This allowed the incorporation of diverse media files such as audio, video, animation and text into the presentation in a meaningful and structured way.
Early in 1995, Dr Doulai conducted 12 seminars on the use of Internet/ Web tools and resources for tertiary teaching and research at different universities. He is involved with a collaborative publishing engineering resources on Web. The project uses Web and Internet to exchange material among content authors from five Australian andover-seas universities. Dr Doulai is a member of the steering committee of the IEEE second International Conference on Multimedia in Education that will be held in Melbourne in July 1996. He will present a six-hour tutorial session on the 'Development of Computational Hypermedia Environments' during this conference.
Dr Doulai is willing to share his experience on using Internet/Web for teaching purposes with other interested staff member across the campus. He is also available to run his presentations for different faculties.
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