Invited Keynote Speakers
Prof. Cynthia J. Atman (USA) Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair
Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Director, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT)
Director, Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE)
Dr. Cynthia J. Atman is the founding Director of the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Atman is also Director and Principal Investigator of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE). This NSF-funded Center is a five-year, $12 million dollar center that is a collaboration of the University of Washington (lead), Colorado School of Mines, Howard University, Stanford University, and the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Atman is the inaugural holder of the Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair and is a professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering. She received her PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, her MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio State University, and her BS in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University. Dr. Atman received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator award in 1993 and the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education in 2002. She was elected Fellow of AAAS in 2005 and Fellow of ASEE in 2006. In 2009 she received the David B. Thorud Leadership Award, which is given to a UW faculty or staff for demonstrating leadership, innovation, and teamwork.
Dr. Atman’s research focuses on engineering education issues. Specifically, she investigates issues of engineering design learning and students as emerging engineering professionals.
Prof. Peter Dowd (Australia)
Executive Dean , The University of Adelaide. Professor Peter Dowd has more than 30 years experience in academic research, teaching and administration and in consulting to industry. His research interests include geostatistical modelling and prediction in mineral resource, petroleum reservoir and environmental applications; geological modelling and mathematical geology; stochastic modelling and quantified risk assessment in natural resource and environmental applications; definitions and reporting of ore reserves; mineral economics; financial analysis and modelling; operational research; and computer-aided mine design. The context of much of this work has been the modelling and estimation of orebodies, coal deposits and hydrocarbon reservoirs, often in very complex geological settings; the generation of three-dimensional orebody models as the basis for optimal mine design and scheduling; establishing resources and reserves together with associated confidence limits; the design of blasting and loading operations to optimise mineral extraction; and the quantification of geological and technical risk associated with resource extraction.
Recent work (since 1996) has focussed on the characterisation of rock masses for environmental risk analysis and assessment and for mining applications.
Professor Dowd’s contributions to the development and application of geostatistics were recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998 when he was elected to Fellowship of the Academy. The citation particularly noted his “distinguished international contributions” to the application of geostatistics in mine planning and design. In 2006 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in recognition of his contributions to geostatistics and for leadership in engineering education.
He has consulted extensively in geostatistics and mineral economics to the mining industry in Africa, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America and the petroleum industry in the UK and Saudi Arabia. Consultancies include ore reserve estimation, reporting of reserves, mine planning, geological modelling, feasibility studies, valuation, input to the development of mining codes and assessment of the micro- and macro-economic effects of mining taxation systems. These consultancies have included evaluations of many of the world’s major orebodies and mineral deposits, particularly in Australasia, Europe and the Americas.
He has published over 180 papers and parts of books in the fields of geostatistics, stochastic modelling and spatial statistics, operational research, computer-aided mine design, mine finance and valuation and has developed commercialised software products for the minerals industry.
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Research Projects
- Geostatistical Integration & Calibration of Seismic, Geophysical & Core Data
Education
BSc (University of New England, 1967)
MSc (Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université de Montréal, 1973)
PhD (University of Leeds, 1978)
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Prof. Tatjana J. Poljakova (Russia) State University of Technology - MADI, Moscow Candidate of Pedagogical
Sciences (PhD equivalent)
Professor of Moscow
Automobile and Road Construction Institute (State Technical
University) Since 1995,
Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, MADI (STU)
Specializes in ESP courses for
students, graduates and post graduates of technical universities; conducts
workshops for foreign language teachers. Organises multilevel foreign language
courses, educational programme
“Translator in the Sphere of the Professional Communication”
Scientific interests are
focused on the development of up-to-date diversified system of foreign language
teaching in engineering education. Author of several career-targeted English
language training curricula for tertiary education based on needs analysis of
learners.
Award winner of the 2003 All-Russian
Contest for the Best Set of Materials for Non-linguistic Universities for the series
of books “English for Engineers”.
Nationally published author of
over 10 English textbooks and manuals for engineers. Wrote over 40 research
papers on the methods of foreign language teaching at technical universities. Executive
Editor of the IGIP official journal
«REPORT», editor of the proceedings “Theory and Practice of Foreign Language
Teaching at Technical Universities”.
Since 1998, an active
participant of the IGIP symposia, giving presentations every year since 2000. At present, the Chairperson
of the IGIP Working Group «Languages and Humanities in Engineering Education».
Research
The scientific leader of the research
programme “Variable system of lifelong foreign language training of engineers meeting
the requirements of the national labour market and the Bologna process” (2006-2008)
International
Projects
Leader
of the development team during the implementation of Tempus-project
“Innovative Language Curricula in Technical
Universities (ILAN)” (2008-2010).
Prof. Karl A. Smith (USA)
 Karl A. Smith is Cooperative Learning Professor, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University. He has been at the University of Minnesota since 1972 and is in phased retirement as Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Civil Engineering. His research and development interests include building rigorous research capabilities in engineering education; the role of cooperation in learning and design; problem formulation, modeling, and knowledge engineering; and project and knowledge management and leadership. His bachelor’s and master’s degrees are in metallurgical engineering from Michigan Technological University and his Ph.D. is in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Karl has received numerous awards, including Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota; Distinguished Service Award, Educational Research and Methods Division, American Society for Engineering Education; Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education; Outstanding Contributions to Cooperative Learning Award; Cooperative Learning Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association; Fellow, American Society for Engineering Education; and Ronald J. Schmitz Award for outstanding continued service to engineering education through contributions to the Frontiers in Education Conference, ERM Division of ASEE and Education Society of IEEE.
He has served as Co-Coordinator for the Archibald Bush Faculty Development Program for Excellence and Diversity in Teaching, and Associate Director for Education at the NSF-ERC Center for Interfacial Engineering at the University of Minnesota; as a member of the Board of Directors of the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning; and as Chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Between 1999 and 2004 Karl had a split appointment with Michigan State University where he served as a Senior Consultant to the Provost for Faculty Development. He currently serves on several advisory boards, including the National Academy of Engineering Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education.
Karl has published numerous articles on the active learning strategies of cooperative learning and structured controversy, problem formulation and modeling, and engineering education research. He teaches courses on engineering education at Purdue, and project and knowledge management and leadership at Minnesota. He conducts workshops on building engineering education research capacity, active and cooperative learning, problem formulation and modeling, and project management and teamwork. His faculty development programs on cooperative learning have helped thousands of faculty learn how to involve their students in more active, interactive, and cooperative learning both during class time and outside of class. The effects of the work are significant in terms of creating a sense of belonging and membership in a community, as well as much more engaged and deep learning.
Karl has written eight books including Cooperative learning: Increasing college faculty instructional productivity (with David and Roger Johnson), published by ASHE-ERIC Reports on Higher Education in 1991; How to model it: Problem solving for the computer age (with A.M. Starfield and A.L. Bleloch), published by McGraw-Hill in 1990 and a second edition published by Burgess International in 1994; Strategies for energizing large classes: From small groups to learning communities (with James Cooper and Jean MacGregor) published in Jossey-Bass’s New Direction for Teaching and Learning series in 2000; Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, 3rd Ed. (with David and Roger Johnson), published by Interaction Book Company in 2006; and Teamwork and project management, 3rd Ed. published in McGraw-Hill’s BEST Series in 2007.
Prof. Elsbeth Stern (Switzerland)
Head of Institute of Behavioral Sciences
Deputy head of Dep. of Humanities, Social and Pol.Sc., professor at the departement Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
Since
October 2006 Elsbeth Stern has been full professor for Research on
Learning and Instruction at ETH Zurich and functions as the dean of the
Institute of Behavioral Sciences. She also works as head of the teacher
education program at the ETH Zurich.
Elsbeth Stern is a
cognitive psychologist with special focus on academic learning in
science and mathematics. After her PhD in 1987 at the University of
Hamburg she held positions at the Max-Planck-Institute for
Psychological Research in Munich, the University of Leipzig, and the
Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
She has
been researching the interaction between intelligence and knowledge in
cognitive functioning in the age range of 4 to 25. How knowledge
transfer can be fostered by the use of visual-spatial cognitive tools
is one of her major topics.
She has widely published in refereed
journals and books and is member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of
the journal SCIENCE. Moreover she is involved in international
discussions on the potentials and limits of cognitive neuroscience on
improving academic learning.
Prof. José Carlos Quadrado (Portugal) 
José Carlos Quadrado is the full professor of electrical machines in the electrical engineering and automation department of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal.
Currently he holds the position of President of ISEL.
He has a BSc in Energy and Power Systems, a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation and Industrial Electronics from ISEL, a MSc and a Doctor degree in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Lisbon Technical University. He also holds the Habilitation degree (Agregacion) in Electrical Engineering from Beira Interior University.
Holds the position of President of the Ibero-American Engineering Education Association (ASIBEI), the position of board member and founding member of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and he is also the vice-President of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). Since 2009 he was nominated by the Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education as a member of the National Bologna Expert Group. He leads the Portuguese Observatory on European and Latin-American University management strategy best practices.
Being a member of several engineering societies and engineering education societies in several continents, including: the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, SICE (Japan); the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE (USA), where he was the national CIS Chapter chair; and the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, WSEAS (Greece), where he belongs to the board of directors. He was also a visiting professor in several universities around the world.
Currently is the president of a research and project center on electrical machines control and applications (CIPROMEC). He is a member of the board of directors of the Portuguese Electrical Vehicle Association (APVE) and also an active member of the Research Center on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research (GECAD).
He holds over 100 international publications (including journals and chapters of books), several patents and some international technical prizes and scholarships, and also holds the position of editor and editor-in-chief in some journals. He has also developed several international engineering projects in the fields of renewable energy, fuel cells, electrical vehicles and intelligent control.
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