2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM on Global Research Universities:
Effective Education and Innovative Learning
October 16, 2012 The Westin Chosun Seoul, Korea
Edited by Nam Pyo Suh & Chang Dong Yoo 2012 International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
October 16, 2012 The Westin Chosun Hotel, Korea
Sponsored by
Organizers
Chairman: President Nam Pyo Suh Co-Chairman: Associate Vice President Chang Dong Yoo
Forum Secretariat
Hyunsook Min Younghye Cho Jungil Lee Yurina Song Dabit Jung Jiyoon Im Joe Oh Insun Jang James Park Sungjin Ahn Naeun Lee
CONTENTS
Preface Ⅰ Nam Pyo Suh
Acknowledgments Ⅱ Chang Dong Yoo
Forum Program Ⅲ
Plenary Session: Innovation in Higher Education
Globalization and Innovation: The Transformation of Higher Education in the 21st Century 01 - Gene D. Block
Interdisciplinary Academic, Research and Innovation Excellence in Higher Education in a Rapidly Changing World 03 - Bertil Andersson
Curriculum Innovation in Research-Intensive Universities: A UK Perspective 05 - Don Nutbeam
Panel Discussion: Education, Technology and Enterprise for Innovation
The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Alive and Well at Caltech 07 - Mory Gharib
Perspectives on the Global Role of Technical Universities in Driving Innovation and Enterprise 08 - Anders O. Bjarklev
Transforming Higher Education: Innovation, Collaborative Research & Partnerships for Economic Growth 10 - Michael Stevenson
Teaching & Learning Innovation at KAIST: Education 3.0 Initiative 12 - Tae-Eog Lee
General Session: Effective Learning Through Innovation in Practice
KAIST SYL International Education Initiative (KIEI) 15 - Nam Pyo Suh
Innovation in Higher Education at the University of York 18 - Brian Cantor
Effective Education and Innovative Learning at Tokyo Institute of Technology 19 - Yoshinao Mishima
Education Program to Promote Technological Evolution in Engineer Education: The UTBM Case 20 - Pascal Brochet KWASU Engineering: Reshaping Engineering Education Curriculum in Nigeria for the 21st Century 21 - Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
Activities of Kumamoto University for Effective Education and Innovative Learning 22 - Isao Taniguchi
Delivering World-Class Education in a Research-Led Institution 24 - Koen Lamberts
Hong Kong’s 2012 Higher Education Curriculum Reform 26 - Benjamin W. Wah
Effective Education and Innovative Learning: The Story of Teaching Medicine 28 - Talal Almalki
Education Reform in the University of Tsukuba 30 - Michiyoshi Ae
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures 32 - Wayne Johnson
Toward Innovative, Entrepreneurial and Global Positioning: The Sustainable Way Forward for UTM 33 - Mohd Ismail Abd Aziz
Beyond Tradition - Innovative Industry Engagement Models for Effective Research 35 - Khin Yong Lam
Roles and Strategies of TMU in Consistent Global Education for Collaboration in Asia 37 - Shigeru Aomura
Double Degree Programs for Local Government Capacity Building, Academic Excellence, and Staff Development 39 - Akhmaloka
A Graduate Fellowship for Innovative Students – The Fannie & John Hertz Foundation 40 - John F. Holzrichter
Learning Styles and Impact in the Contemporary Classroom 42 - Rodney Wissler
The Significance of Volunteering Activities in Higher Education 44 - Kazuyoshi Tateyama
Exploring New Pathways of Scientific Research Innovation in Chinese Universities: Government-University-Industry Collaboration 45 - Nan Qi Ren
Universities as Agents of Change in Pakistan 47 - Arshad Ali
Costs, Access & Effectiveness in Higher Education 49 - Mark S. Kamlet
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Preface
With the increasing pace of change in the 21st century, the world is becoming more interconnected and complex. Digital technology opens new pathways for distributing knowledge beyond national borders and promotes the explosive growth of the international information-based economy. Surely we are in the midst of a grand educational transition, a movement beyond knowledge building alone and toward supporting flows of knowledge innovatively and effectively. This is a development that holds tremendous challenges and opportunities for universities.
To adapt and remain relevant in this era of dynamic change, especially in science and technology, research universities and industry must cooperate. Together, they can contribute constructively and powerfully to the growth and development of the larger global society in which all take part. Under the theme “Effective Education and Innovative Learning,” this forum will serve as an opportunity for participants to seek and examine methods of moving education forward in new and productive ways.
Institutions must invent radical and innovative methods of educating today’s students because the way in which they learn differs from the learning patterns of past generations. We must search for an interface of collective intelligence and the mass customization of education that fits the aptitude of each individual student. Reliable and accessible academic resources should be made readily available, so that everyone has the intellectual resources to tackle problems in his or her surrounding environment. In traditional education, professors have taught at their own pace and expected their students to learn at that rate as well, but this methodology is inefficient. In its place, an interactive student-centric approach must be developed, fostering the growth of future leaders who are competent in solving global problems. This educational innovation will, in turn, create new growth engines through the convergence of science and technology with business, making it possible to contribute further to the enhancement of the quality of life for all of humanity.
Since 2008, KAIST has been the proud host of the International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities, focusing on pertinent issues that permeate all sectors of society. Representatives of leading global research universities from around the world gather in Seoul to share their ideas and expertise toward the ultimate goal of serving human needs through the advancement of science and technology.
I would like to thank all of you for joining us at this year’s forum and look forward to hearing about your ideas and insights in creating a world that utilizes effective education and innovative learning.
Nam Pyo Suh President KAIST
PREFACE • Ⅰ 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
Acknowledgments
The 5th International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities would not have been possible without the support of participants from academia, government, and industry from all over the world. I would like to send my heartfelt appreciation to all of you. For the past five years, we have gathered annually here in Seoul to examine pertinent problems faced by higher educational institutions around the world, to consider plausible solutions, and to discuss the future direction of research universities.
The aim of the 2012 IPFGRU themed ‘Effective Education and Creative Learning’ is to identify the crucial elements in creating an innovative academic infrastructure and formulating a reliable collaborative network for institutions all around the world. Our goal is to devise new and effective education models, utilizing innovative and creative learning methods. It is the responsibility of global research-oriented institutions of higher education to strive continuously to enhance the quality of life. Accordingly, it is our obligation to distribute equal educational opportunities to all of humanity and to achieve innovation in education through close collaboration between industry and academia.
As scientific and technological advancements transform our world, higher education institutions have been evolving rapidly, working to keep pace in the new information society. Now we need to take the next step. We must make education more effective by utilizing technology in fundamentally new ways. Institutions around the world are already reinventing education, but these efforts must penetrate geographical borders, allowing higher learning to be accessible to all.
Thanks to your immense support, we have more than 80 participants from about 60 institutions in 27 countries. I’d like to express my heartfelt appreciation to all the guests, both from Korea and from abroad, representing academia, industry, and government, for sacrificing their time to come and share their expertise and insights. I would also like to thank all the sponsors: the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), S-Oil, Samsung Heavy Industries, the Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies, and Elsevier Korea.
Chang Dong Yoo Co-Chair of IPFGRU Associate Vice President Office of Special Projects and Institutional Relations
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • Ⅱ 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
2012 IPFGRU Program (subject to change without notice)
• Welcoming •
Day 1 - Oct. 15 (Monday) Cultural Excursion: 13:00 ~ 14:30 Option A: Kyongbok Palace, the National Folk Museum Option B: Samsung Dilight, Showroom of Samsung Electronics 18:30 Welcoming Reception @ Cosmos + Violet, the Westin Chosun Hotel 19:30 Welcoming Dinner @ Orchid, the Westin Chosun Hotel
• Forum Day •
Day 2 - Oct. 16 (Tuesday) Grand Ballroom at the Westin Chosun Hotel
Welcoming and Opening - Welcoming Remarks by KAIST President Nam Pyo Suh 8:30 ~ 9:00 - Opening Speech by Institute for Global Economics Chairman & CEO Il SaKong
Plenary Session Innovation in Higher Education Moderated by University of York Vice Chancellor Brian Cantor
University of California Los Angeles Chancellor Gene D. Block 9:00 ~ 9:40 Globalization and Innovation: The Transformation of Higher Education in the 21st Century Nanyang Technological University President Bertil Andersson 9:40 ~ 10:10 Interdisciplinary Academic, Research and Innovation Excellence in Higher Education in a Rapidly Changing World University of Southampton Vice Chancellor Don Nutbeam 10:10 ~ 10:40 Curriculum Innovation in Research-Intensive Universities: A UK Perspective 10:40 ~ 11:30 Open Discussion 11:30 ~ 11:40 Official Photo Session 11:40 ~ 13:10 Luncheon
Panel Discussion Education, Technology and Enterprise for Innovation Moderated by California Institute of Technology Vice Provost Mory Gharib
Intro by Moderator California Institute of Technology Vice Provost Mory Gharib 13:10 ~ 13:25 The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Alive and Well at Caltech Technical University of Denmark President Anders O. Bjarklev 13:25 ~ 13:40 Perspectives on the Global Role of Technical Universities in Driving Innovation and Enterprise Cisco Systems Inc. Global Education Vice President Michael Stevenson 13:40 ~ 13:55 Transforming Higher Education: Innovation, Collaborative Research & Partnerships for Economic Growth KAIST Dean of Education 3.0 Initiative Tae-Eog Lee 13:55 ~ 14:10 Teaching & Learning Innovation at KAIST: Education 3.0 Initiative 14:10 ~ 15:00 Discussion 15:00 ~ 15:20 Coffee Break
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General Session Effective Learning Through Innovation in Practice Moderated by KUSTAR President Tod A. Laursen
KAIST President Nam Pyo Suh 15:20 ~ 15:40 KAIST SYL International Education Initiative (KIEI)
University of York Vice Chancellor Brian Cantor 15:40 ~ 15:50 Innovation in Higher Education at the University of York
Tokyo Institute of Technology President Yoshinao Mishima 15:50 ~ 16:00 Effective Education and Innovative Learning at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Université Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard President Pascal Brochet 16:00 ~ 16:10 Education Program to Promote Technological Evolution in Engineer Education: The UTBM Case
Kwara State University Vice Chancellor Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah 16:10 ~ 16:20 KWASU Engineering: Reshaping Engineering Education Curriculum in Nigeria for the 21st Century
Kumamoto University President Isao Taniguchi 16:20 ~ 16:30 Activities of Kumamoto University for Effective Education and Innovative Learning
University of Warwick Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost Koen Lamberts 16:30 ~ 16:40 Delivering World-Class Education in a Research-Led Institution
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Provost Benjamin W. Wah 16:40 ~ 16:50 Hong Kong’s 2012 Higher Education Curriculum Reform
Taif University Vice President Talal Almalki 16:50 ~ 17:00 Effective Education and Innovative Learning: The Story of Teaching Medicine
Tsukuba University Vice President Michiyoshi Ae 17:00 ~ 17:10 Education Reform in the University of Tsukuba
California Institute of Technology 17:10 ~ 17:20 Assistant Vice President Wayne Johnson Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Director of International Affairs Mohd Ismail Abd Aziz 17:20 ~ 17:30 Toward Innovative, Entrepreneurial and Global Positioning: The Sustainable Way Forward for UTM
17:30 ~ 17:40 Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
17:40 ~ 18:30 Open Discussion
18:30 ~ 18:40 Wrap-up and Closing
Banquet 18:40 ~ 20:30 Closing Speech by Vice Minister of Education, Science and Technology Yul-Rae Cho
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• Spouse Program •
Day 2 - Oct. 16 (Tuesday) 10:00 ~ 10:30 Move to the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art from the Hotel 10:30 ~ 12:00 Visit to the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art 12:00 ~ 12:40 Move to Samchong Gak 12:40 ~ 14:30 Luncheon at Samchong Gak 15:00 ~ 17:00 Tour of Secret Garden, Changdeok Palace (World Cultural Heritage)
• KAIST Daejeon Campus Visit •
Day 3 - Oct. 17 (Wednesday) Time Activity Venue 8:00 Departure from the Westin Chosun Hotel to Daejeon Hotel Lobby 10:00 ~ 10:40 Welcoming and Introduction of KAIST E-14
Presentation of KAIST Research Projects 10:40 ~ 11:00 E-14 by Vice President for Research Kyung-Wook Paik
Presentation of KAIST Students Research Projects 11:00 ~11:20 E-14 by Mr. Jungwoo Shin, Dept. of Material Sciences and Engineering
Introduction of International Conference for the Integration of Science 11:20 ~ 11:30 E-14 and Technology into Society (ICISTS) 11:30 ~ 12:00 Test Ride on the On Line Electric Vehicle Shuttle (OLEV) KAIST Campus 12:00 ~ 13:20 Luncheon at the Faculty Club N-6 Optional Program 1 13:40 ~14:30 Visit to KAIST Institute E-4 Optional Program 2 13:40 ~14:30 Individual Pre-Arranged Meetings with KAIST Departments
2012 IPFGRU PROGRAM • Ⅲ PLENARY SESSION
Innovation in Higher Education Moderated by University of York Vice Chancellor Brian Cantor 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
•• Globalization and Innovation: The Transformation of Higher Education in the 21st Century
Gene D. Block Chancellor University of California, Los Angeles USA
Abstract
In this keynote presentation, UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block discusses two interconnected trends that are transforming higher education around the world: Globalization and Innovation. He outlines the forces behind these trends and offers examples of how various institutions, including UCLA and other research universities, have been adjusting to the new 21st century realities.
A key message can be summed up in five words: global challenges require global solutions. About ten years ago, Richard Smalley, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, compiled what he referred to as the “Top Ten Problems Facing Humanity Over the Next 50 Years.” Most, if not all, of these ten problems are global in nature: Energy; Water; Food; Environment; Poverty; Terrorism & War; Disease; Education; Democracy; Population. As such, they each cry out for a cooperative global response.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the number of international students has mushroomed more than fourfold since 1975, growing from 800,000 to 3.7 million in 2009. The growth in global study and research opportunities parallels the growth in the globalization of business, capital and trade flows, and globe-spanning information technologies. Higher education institutions are pursuing various models for innovation and international expansion. Some – such as New York University’s portal campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai or NYU Law in Singapore, and ten academic sites in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Asia – are opening university branches in other countries. Other universities – including UCLA – are forging international partnerships and joint research affiliation arrangements with sister institutions abroad. In Korea, for example, over the past 30 years, UCLA has signed academic exchange agreements with over ten prestigious Korean institutions, facilitating exchanges of scholars and research publications, along with agreements promoting joint research projects.
With approximately $1 billion in competitively awarded grants and contracts in each of the past three years, UCLA ranks in the top echelon of research universities nationwide. These resources enable UCLA to generate innovations that create new jobs, businesses, and industries—and breakthroughs in engineering, medicine and numerous other areas. All told, some 100 companies have been created using technology developed at UCLA, including 67 in the past five years alone, and UCLA has a portfolio of 1,800 inventions and manages 630 U.S. patents. Last year UCLA launched a comprehensive initiative to create an “Ecosystem for Entrepreneurs” to foster a campus-wide culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Forbes recently ranked UCLA in the top ten of the most entrepreneurial U.S. colleges.
In addition, the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), with locations at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, encourages international collaborations. CNSI specifically emphasizes industry-relevant areas such as renewable energy, alternative fuels, hydrogen storage, water purification, nanosafety and nanotoxicology, three-dimensional batteries, early-stage medical diagnostics, targeted drug delivery, and molecular switches.
UCLA’s experience has proven that the quality of science and research improves through collaborative research across international borders. Global challenges require innovative global solutions. Research universities will increasingly compete and cooperate on a global scale and in the process will push the envelope on collaborative innovations that address the most pressing global problems facing humanity.
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Biographical Information
Gene D. Block was appointed UCLA chancellor on August 1, 2007. Prior to joining UCLA, Chancellor Block served as vice president and provost at the University of Virginia, where he was also the Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professor of Biology. During his 29 years there, he served as vice president for research and public service and as director of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center in Biological Timing.
An expert in circadian biology, Chancellor Block’s research career has focused on the brain mechanisms responsible for 24-hour rhythms. His laboratory was the first to demonstrate that 24-hour rhythms can be generated within single neurons in an invertebrate model. His current research focuses on the effects of aging on biological timing in mammals, including humans. Chancellor Block’s contributions to neuroscience research and scientific leadership have been recognized by his election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in 1997 and the NSF Pioneer Award in 2003. He holds faculty appointments in psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and in physiological science in the College of Letters and Science.
As chancellor, he oversees all aspects of the university’s three-part mission of education, research, and service. He has defined academic excellence, civic engagement, diversity, and financial security as priorities for his administration. A champion of public universities, he has called for UCLA to deepen its engagement with the city of Los Angeles and to increase access for students from under represented populations. His efforts at improving diversity at UCLA were recognized in 2009 with the Los Angeles NAACP Foundation President’s Award. Chancellor Block serves on the boards of several leading national associations, including the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Council on Competitiveness. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with distinction from Stanford University and a master’s and PhD in psychology from the University of Oregon.
PLENARY SESSION • 02 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
•• Interdisciplinary Academic, Research and Innovation Excellence in Higher Education in a Rapidly Changing World
Bertil Andersson President Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Abstract
As countries worldwide have become increasingly more interconnected due to globalization, higher education institutions have likewise undergone significant changes. To achieve and maintain academic, research and innovation excellence in today’s fast-paced knowledge- and innovation-driven economy, it is critical for international universities to transcend traditional education. With the blurring of boundaries and the rise of Asia, universities worldwide have increased collaborative efforts. Asia’s giants – China, Korea, and India – are starting to have global impact not only in industry and business but also in academia. No longer is the academic scene made up only of heavyweights from Europe and the United States. Several Asian universities have, in more recent years, acquired top rankings in parity with many iconic Western institutions.
Over the years, research has become more interdisciplinary, involving the melding of traditional disciplines into new fields of endeavors such as global sustainability issues. New scientific and technological breakthroughs are increasingly residing in interdisciplinary domains, resulting in the generation of broad new research initiatives having different sets of requirements.
Using NTU as a case study, the keynote session aims to examine important factors that give universities a critical competitive edge as well as a building platform for the creation of greater interdisciplinary scientific knowledge and research innovation. Some of the issues covered include institutional management structure, talent migration, research competitiveness, and international and industrial collaborations.
Biographical Information
Bertil Andersson is a plant biochemist of international reputation and is the author of over 300 papers in photosynthesis research, biological membranes and light stress in plants. Having strengthened NTU’s reputation as one of the fastest-growing research-intensive universities in the world, Professor Andersson was appointed to take the helm of the university on July 1, 2011.
He was educated at Umeå and Lund Universities in Sweden. He started his research career at Lund University, after which he became a professor of biochemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden, in 1986. From 1996 to 1999, he served as dean of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at Stockholm University. In 1999, he became the Rector of Linköping University, Sweden, where he served until the end of 2003. From 2004 to 2007, he led the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg, France, as its chief executive.
From April 2007 to June 2011, as Provost of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, he was instrumental in helping to redefine education and research at NTU through championing the growth of high-impact science and engineering, and making the university the choice of top international young scientists. In domains such as sustainability, healthcare, new media and innovation, he spearheaded institutional changes leading to bold new programs as well as large increases in funding support. A visiting professor and fellow of Imperial College London, Professor Andersson is the key driver of Singapore’s new medical school jointly established by NTU and Imperial College London.
Professor Andersson has had a longstanding association with the Nobel Foundation. From 1989 to 1997, he was a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry (chair in 1997), later becoming a member of the Nobel Foundation (2000 to 2006). He was, from 2006 to 2010, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nobel Foundation. He holds honorary doctorates from several universities – the latest being from the University of Edinburgh and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Andersson has served on the boards of several Swedish and international foundations and learned societies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Australian Academy of Science, Academia Europaea, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the
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Austrian Academy of Sciences. Professor Andersson is a research adviser to the Swedish government and was, between 2004 and 2009, the vice president of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) of the European Commission in Brussels. He has also been an adviser to business activities in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals sector.
In Singapore, he serves on the governing board of the Singapore Center on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, and is a board member of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority and A*STAR Singapore, the government agency in charge of national scientific research and development. In November 2010, Professor Andersson received the Wilhelm Exner Medal in Vienna, Austria, joining an illustrious list of laureates, which includes Nobel Prize winners.
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•• Curriculum Innovation in Research-Intensive Universities: A UK Perspective
Don Nutbeam Vice Chancellor University of Southampton UK
Abstract
In many countries higher education is experiencing unprecedented change. Many nations recognize the economic and social advantages of a well-educated population and have invested heavily to grow capacity in higher education. Many more young people aspire to university education as a route to better employment and social mobility. In many cases, they (and their parents) have been required to pay substantial fees to attend their university of choice. Whether we like it or not, higher education has become a major globalized business.
Established universities have needed to define their position in this increasingly crowded and competitive market for higher education – clarifying the added value that comes from an education at a research intensive institution. In the past, research intensive universities in the UK have taken pride in specialization, supporting students in the mastery of a relatively narrow field of learning, often as preparation for continuing their study at the post graduate level.
Such an approach to education may once have served students, employers and universities well. But as participation in higher education has expanded, a far higher proportion of students will leave university and directly into employment. Graduate careers are based less on specialized knowledge and are far more fluid than a generation ago. In the UK, employers have been clear in expressing the value they place on graduates who are equipped with so-called 'soft skills,' such as abstract reasoning, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork, alongside specialized knowledge and technical skills that research universities have traditionally delivered. They are looking for added breadth to the depth traditionally provided by British research universities. In turn, students say they are looking for customized education offering courses that are flexible yet structured, and an education that develops these valued transferable skills.
This presentation will examine innovations in undergraduate education in research intensive universities in the UK and internationally as a response to what students say they want from their university education, and what employers say they need from graduates. The presentation will consider examples of interdisciplinary learning based on interdisciplinary research; the management of choice and flexibility in undergraduate education curricula – how to maintain depth while offering greater breadth in education; and the use of teaching and assessment methods that develop transferable skills.
Biographical Information
Don Nutbeam is vice chancellor of the University of Southampton and a professor of public health, a position he has held since 2009. His career has involved senior positions in universities, government, health services, and an independent research institute. Between 2000 and 2003, he was head of public health in the UK’s Department of Health, leading policy development within the department and across government on a range of public health challenges. From 2006-2009, he was provost of the University of Sydney.
Prior to being appointed as provost, he was the University’s pro vice chancellor (health sciences) from September 2003. In this position, he was head of the College of Health Sciences, comprising the faculties of medicine, health sciences, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy. His research career, which spans 30 years, has included public health intervention research in schools and communities, as well as studies of health literacy and adolescent health behavior. He is author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as two popular public health textbooks. He remains research active through three MRC funded projects/programs and PhD student supervision.
He has also worked as an advisor and consultant for the World Health Organization over a 20-year period and as consultant and team leader in projects for the World Bank.
PLENARY SESSION • 05 PANEL DISCUSSION
Education, Technology and Enterprise for Innovation Moderated by California Institute of Technology Vice Provost Mory Gharib 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
•• The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Alive and Well at Caltech
Mory Gharib Vice Provost California Institute of Technology USA
Abstract
Caltech has a long tradition of protecting its inventions and has received over 1800 U.S. patents since 1980. Caltech receives more invention disclosures per faculty member than any other university in the nation. In the last 10 years licensing efforts have resulted in 40 to 50 patent licenses per year and the Office of Technology Transfer fosters start-up companies at a rate of about 8 per year; a very high number in view of the small size of the university. This success is achieved with a model which emphasizes on supporting high risk-high payoff projects internally, helping faculty to protect their innovations, and effective licensing and commercialization through establishing faculty funded start-ups.
Biographical Information
Mory Gharib is vice provost for research and the Hans W. Liepmann professor of aeronautics and professor of bio-inspired engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He received his BS in mechanical engineering from Tehran University (1975) and then pursued his graduate studies at Syracuse University (MS, 1978, aerospace and mechanical engineering) and Caltech (PhD, 1983, aeronautics). After two years as a senior scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/CIT), he joined the faculty of the Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences Department at UCSD in 1985. He became a full professor of fluid mechanics in 1992 and, in January 1993, joined Caltech as a professor of aeronautics.
Dr. Gharib’s current research interests include bio-inspired engineering for the development of medical devices, wind energy harvesting and propulsion systems. His other active projects include the development of advanced 3-D imaging systems, and nano and micro- fluidics. His biomechanics work includes studies of the human cardiovascular system and physiological machines.
Dr. Gharib’s honors and affiliations include: fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); fellow, American Physical Society (APS); fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). He has received five new technology recognition awards from NASA in the fields of advanced laser imaging and nanotechnology. For his 3-D imaging camera system, he received R&D Magazine’s “R&D 100 Innovation Award” for one of the best invention of the year 2008. Dr. Gharib holds 182 publications in refereed journal and 50 U.S. Patents.
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•• Perspectives on the Global Role of Technical Universities in Driving Innovation and Enterprise
Anders O. Bjarklev President Technical University of Denmark Denmark
Abstract
Since the foundation of DTU, its mission has been to develop and create value using the natural and technical sciences to benefit society. On the basis of this mission, the vision for DTU has gradually changed into a global context: to be globally recognized as a leading technical university with roots in Denmark, but international in scope and standard. Our mission is shared among many technical universities around the world and participants of this forum.
We all know the grand societal challenges are ahead of us: climate, energy, resources & environment, and health. All of us are engaged in research & education connected to solving these challenges or providing the technological solutions to mitigate the effects. This is a very important reason for technical universities to exist: we provide the new findings and educate excellent people that will bring us a step closer in dealing with global challenges.
Moreover, the global financial crisis has now existed for so many years that it is part of everyday rhetoric. The crisis is a challenge that very much influences universities, which reinforces the role of universities as drivers for innovation and creators of jobs, new technological solutions and products.
With the current global challenges, it is apparent that universities do play a pivotal role and take responsibility for providing technological solutions to society. How has DTU decided to contribute to solving the challenges ahead? The efforts in the coming years can be described under the following headlines: DTU for the sustainable university, the university of innovation, the world-class university.
To reinforce DTU’s status as a sustainable university, scientific efforts in renewable energy technologies and new solutions on the basis of advanced materials, information technology and biotechnology are its focus areas.
To increase and strengthen innovation, DTU will work specifically within the framework for collaboration with industry to increase the number of contracts, patents, spin-offs, and market testing of ideas in a structured manner.
To strengthen DTU’s international reputation, there is a constant focus on the scientific basis of our organization. We will work with the organizational setting in order to secure the optimal development and use of strong scientific competences within the DTU campuses. Excellent students are a pre-requisite for being a world-class university, and therefore, the evaluation and improvement of the educational programs as well as the development of special projects and contests like the 'Green Challenge' has a high priority. Last, but not least, attracting excellent collaboration partners internationally palys a pivotal role for increasing DTU’s reputation and to the university’s ability to develop new knowledge with the best universities around the world.
Biographical Information
Anders O. Bjarklev has an MSc in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, (thesis on optical communication, 1985), PhD (thesis on optical fiber characterization, 1988), and Doctor techniques (Dr. Techn.)(thesis on optical fiber amplifiers in 1995) from his alma mater DTU.
He has been employed at DTU since 1985 and was appointed as a professor in optical waveguides at Research Center COM in 1999. In April 2001, he became a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. In March 2004, he was appointed as the director of COM- DTU (now DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering). He was provost before he became the president of DTU in 2011.
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President Bjarklev serves as a referee on several international journals, and he has supervised more than 35 PhD projects and more than 60 MSc thesis projects. He is author and co-author of 2 books (the latest published in September 2003), more than 155 international journal articles, and more than 200 articles in international conference proceedings. President Bjarklev’s research interests are within the areas of dielectric optical waveguides, rare-earth-doped waveguide components, fiber amplifiers and laser sources, optical communication systems, planar waveguide structures, electromagnetic field theory, and photonic crystal waveguides. In 1999, President Bjarklev became a co-founder of the company Crystal Fiber A/S. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America.
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•• Transforming Higher Education: Innovation, Collaborative Research & Partnerships for Economic Growth
Michael Stevenson Vice President, Global Education Cisco Systems Inc. UK
Abstract
Global shifts, technology, and increasing competition are creating a new playing field for higher education. Universities are facing severe pressures to show results to better prepare their students for a global marketplace to innovate and to increase administrative and operational efficiencies with tighter budgets and resources. However, it is precisely in times of austerity that higher education institutions need to carefully consider the true drivers of innovation and growth.
This presentation will share Cisco’s perspectives on how universities can transform themselves into powerful agents that contribute to the advancement of societies in three important ways: by helping generate new industries; by stimulating innovation, entrepreneurialism, and economic growth; and by preparing their students to become the global citizens and leaders needed for the 21st Century. Following core themes will be reflected in the presentation: research oriented collaboration, innovation in higher education, and partnerships with businesses for economic growth.
Research-oriented collaboration: how multi-university and multi-jurisdictional projects leveraged by technology are creating third party partnerships, transnational data centers, and powerful human networks that expand the boundaries of research and knowledge beyond a single campus; and how joint research initiatives with the industry help develop links and maximize the innovation capabilities of both businesses and universities.
Innovation in higher education – how to capitalize on the true mission of the university as a creator and replicator of knowledge to devise new models for teaching and learning; how to move from internationalizing and automating old methodologies into delivering true pedagogical innovations leveraged by technology; and how to make sure higher education institutions play a bigger role in strengthening the education pipeline (primary, secondary, and tertiary) to bring through the next generation of local innovators and leaders.
Partnerships with businesses for economic growth: how to bring universities to the heart of economic innovation; how to make sure universities play a major role in the development of knowledge and expertise in particular regional industries; and how to partner with industry and government to jointly create entrepreneurship ecosystems that facilitate collaborative research and the creation of enterprise.
Biographical Information
Michael Stevenson is vice president of global education at Cisco Systems Inc. He leads an international team that is actively engaged in the work of transforming education systems to meet the needs of 21st century learners, educators, and organizations through an innovative and dynamic approach to thought leadership, country education engagements, and global programs.
His focus in recent years has been on Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, UK and the US. He has established and led both the Global Education Leaders Program (GELP) and Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S).
Mr. Stevenson built his expertise in education technology through roles in the government and media. Until September 2006, he was chief information officer and director of technology at the Department for Education and Skills in England, driving the use of ICT in schools, colleges and universities. Before that he was DFES director of strategy. From 2000 to 2003, he founded and led the BBC’s Factual and Learning Directorate, responsible for factual programs and content across television, radio and online and spearheading an innovative education strategy that created an online curriculum for children at school and at home.
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After studying classics at Oxford, he joined BBC as a graduate trainee. As a program maker he specialized in politics and religion, going on to found and edit the flagship political program On the Record. He then went into management, initially as BBC secretary for the years leading up to the successful 1996 Charter Renewal. In 1996 he became deputy director of nations and regions, leading BBC Scotland and BBC Wales through the period of political devolution.
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•• T eaching & Learning Innovation at KAIST: Education 3.0 Initiative
Tae-Eog Lee Dean of Education 3.0 Initiative KAIST Korea
Abstract
We are all under the common understanding that teaching in the classroom should be more interactive through discussion, Q&A, student participation, and so on in order to make students develop more creative, synthesizing, and teamwork & leadership capabilities. We hope that students will be able to formulate questions and derive knowledge from what they learn and also create new solutions in a new context by applying this knowledge. However, this well-recognized mission of education has failed. The main reason is that we have relied too much on lecturing. Lecturing has been often regarded as synonymous with teaching and learning although the former is just a part of the latter. Lecturing has been criticized as one-way information transfer, limited interaction between a teacher and students, teacher- centric nature, passive student roles, etc. Unless lecturing is practiced in a class, interaction cannot help being limited.
KAIST proposes a simple but bold approach to overcome the limitations of conventional lecturing by utilizing recent e-learning technologies. Lecturing is removed or minimized in the classroom. In a class, any teaching and learning activities other than lecturing are encouraged. A new classroom was created to facilitate interaction by changing the unidirectional table layout to a group layout with the installation of a whiteboard and a digital display for each group. Lectures are recorded and accessed for self-learning through the Internet together with other learning contents such as lecture slides, quizzes, exercises, etc. Therefore, class hours are mostly filled with teacher- student, student-student, and TA-student interactions including discussion, Q&A, exercise problem solving, group or team learning, team projects or tasks, etc.
This teaching and learning model was named Education 3.0. Student feedback from three pilot Education 3.0 freshmen classes, Calculus 1, General Chemistry 1, and Design & Communication, in Spring 2012 indicate very high satisfaction and the effectiveness of group discussion and team learning and positive feedback from teachers and TAs. In Fall 2012, we ran ten Education 3.0 classes, including major courses. We will keep increasing the number of Education 3.0 classes and developing classroom interaction methods and contents. We will make more interactive classrooms and improve IT devices for class interaction. The online self-learning contents and platform will be improved to be more interactive, intelligent, and personalized. In order to share and disseminate our experiences, we will also develop Education 3.0 Global to have an interactive class for students in different areas by using modern tele-presence, tele-collaboration, and immersive communication technologies. We are developing global partners and joint degree programs based on the Education 3.0 Global classes.
Biographical Information
Tae-Eog Lee is dean of the Education 3.0 Initiative at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). His duty is to innovate teaching and learning at KAIST. He is also a full professor and department head at the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. He obtained his BS from Seoul National University (1980), MS from KAIST (1982), and PhD from Ohio State University (1991), all in industrial engineering. He joined KAIST in 1991. He served as director of library and information systems at KAIST during 2000-2001. He was a founding director of the National Digital Science Library in 2001. He also served for the National Presidential Committee on Deregulation from 2010-2011 and is a member of the university restructuring committee for the minister of education and science in Korea.
His interests include modeling and scheduling of discrete event dynamic systems and robotized manufacturing systems such as cluster tools for semiconductor manufacturing, cyclic scheduling theory, and modeling & simulation of complex engineering systems. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2004-2008) and an advisory board member for OR Spectrum journal, and served as a vice president, a journal editorial board member, and a journal editor for KIIE and KORMS, and also an editorial member for ICASE (Institute for Control, Automation Science and Engineering) journal, Korea. He also served on program committees, as track chair or coordinator, and program co-chair for the International Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor
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Manufacturing, IEEE CASE, ICARCV (International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision), CSCWD (Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design), and etc.
He is running as director of two large sponsored multidisciplinary research centers on system modeling at KAIST. He has close industrial collaboration with semiconductor manufacturing companies and process tool vendors and many of his graduates are working at Samsung Electronics. He has also been invited to talk at Samsung Electronics, Micron Technologies, and Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a plenary talk at the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering in 2012.
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Effective Learning Through Innovation in Practice Moderated by KUSTAR President Tod A. Laursen 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
•• KAIST SYL International Education Initiative (KIEI)
Nam Pyo Suh President KAIST Korea
Abstract
Early in 2012, KAIST introduced a new educational format, I-4, to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional lecture-based pedagogy of university education. The response of students to I-4 has been overwhelmingly positive. Based on this experience, KAIST has initiated the KAIST SYL International Education Initiative (KIEI) with the financial backing of Chairwoman S. Y. Lee. The purpose of KIEI is to make KAIST education more global by bringing international students into the KAIST I-4 programs through the use of modern cyberspace technologies. Some of these students will be enrolled in the dual degree programs of KAIST and participating universities. The purpose of this presentation is to explain the need for KIEI education and to outline the proposed format for KIEI programs.
A. Why a New Educational Paradigm?
1. In the 21st century, university education will undergo a major transformation from current practice, both to advance the quality of education and to improve the efficacy of educational enterprises.
The current university education, which is based primarily on lectures delivered by a professor to a group of students assembled on a campus, is pedagogically inefficient and financially expensive. As a result, students suffer and the educational system becoms too costly to sustain.
2. Leading Korean universities must globalize in order to prepare their students for the global era, because the growth of the Korean economy depends on international trade. Korea must import energy, materials, and information and export manufactured goods, intellectual and technology products, and services. Our young people must feel comfortable working with people from other nations, and they must learn to collaborate across the globe.
3. In the information era, students have changed, differing from their counterparts in older generations. They are used to acquiring knowledge and information directly from the Internet and are more adept at using information technology. They are better at collecting disparate and specific knowledge and assembling what they have found to develop their own solutions.
4. Many leading universities – including MIT, Harvard, and Stanford — have announced plans to make their educational materials available to anyone in the world by putting their lectures and other information on the Internet. If they are successful in disseminating their lecture materials, some of the world’s other universities may simply make use of these free resources rather than providing their own lectures, especially on some of the fundamental subjects, such as freshman calculus.
5. KAIST’s educational programs also face a unique set of problems specific to this university:
a. KAIST is having difficulties in attracting top-notch international students to our campus.
b. The Dual Degree Programs we have initiated with universities in other countries have not achieved their original goals because of limited student interest as well as the additional costs of tuition, travel, and living expenses. These costs, often borne by the students and their families, are major barriers and impediments to successful adoption of the Dual Degree Program.
c. The future theater of operations for our students is going to be global. Our students must be aware of the cultures of the people they will work with in other nations. Although KAIST is the most internationalized of all Korean universities (with, for example, instruction in English, collaborative research projects, and the Dual Degree Programs), we still face obstacles in promoting true globalization among our students, faculty, and staff.
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6. The data and knowledge we have acquired from the KAIST I-4 education conducted last semester indicate that the traditional mode of higher education —the lecture-based, teacher-centric, and teaching-focused approach rather than the learning- focused system — is not effective. In the I-4 education system tried at KAIST during the spring semester, students in a course were divided into groups of six. There were no classroom lectures. Individually or in their assigned groups, students listened to lectures stored on the Internet. The students in each group of six always learned and did their work together as a team. They discussed the subject matter and did their homework together, but took the final examination individually. The end-of-term survey provided us with surprising results: that students learned more -- by a factor of 5 or more -- from the group collaborations and discussions than from lectures. This finding implies that programs like MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW), while certainly commendable, may not be sufficient for effective education.
7. We can demonstrate how the educational infrastructure of modern universities can be improved by increasing the efficacy of the pedagogical process while at the same time containing costs and enabling our professors to spend more time on research and close supervision of students.
B. Description of KAIST SYL International Education Initiative (KIEI)
The KAIST SYL International Initiative (KIEI) is proposed as part of the activities of the KAIST Education Center.
The central idea is to make use of the advantages offered by the I-4 education and combine them with information technology, both to overcome the KAIST problems outlined in A.5 of the preceding section and to advance higher education worldwide.
Initially KIEI will be tried in collaboration with our partner universities in other countries, i.e., those that are collaborating with KAIST in the Dual Degree Program.
C. Outline of the KIEI
1. Students for KIEI will be recruited from around the globe, especially from those institutions that have agreements with KAIST for the Dual Degree Program. In the KIEI model, students enroll in selected courses for credit. When they successfully complete the courses, they earn credit hours from KAIST and the collaborating universities. These credits can be applied toward their dual degrees at KAIST.
2. Students in each course are divided into study groups. Each study group consists of four to six students. Two to three KAIST students are selected to be in each group with three to four international students. The students interact through the Internet and by other means.
3. The professor in charge provides a list of topics the students must learn together each week throughout the semester. The professor recommends the lectures available on the Internet that the students should audit and assigns homework problems to be solved collectively by each student group. The professor also works with Teaching Assistants who provide consulting and tutorial help to the students. Students submit their joint homework as a group.
4. The students “meet” at the assigned time in cyberspace. They may simply use Skype or other similar technologies for group discussions. We may need IT technologies that will enable six students in a group to see each other while solving their problems together and to discuss as if they were in the same room. In some cases, a specially equipped teleconference classroom may be used. The students solve their homework problems together and discuss specific difficulties they have encountered in doing the homework. Each group of students – not individually but as a group -- submits one set of homework to the instructor through the Internet.
5. The language of instruction is English.
6. At the end of the term, the professor gives the final examination, oral or written, to each individual student.
D. Conclusions
KAIST SYL KIEI is an ambitious educational initiative to achieve several different goals: enhancement of learning process, globalization of KAIST and KAIST students, introduction of I-4 education globally, realization of cyber education, elimination of the traditional boundaries
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that isolate educational institutions, and more effective use of human resources for research and intellectual inquiry.
Ambitious new educational paradigms raise many questions related to operational and pedagogical issues. Many can be answered only after an attempt is made to implement KIEI successfully. We are hopeful that KIEI will be a successful educational paradigm of the future.
Biographical Information
Nam Pyo Suh, President of KAIST, received his BS and MS degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 and 1961 respectively and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1964. After finishing his PhD, he taught as an assistant and associate professor at the University of South Carolina, USA from 1965 to 1969 and moved to MIT as a faculty in 1970. At the Department of Mechanical Engineering, he has served as Head of the Department from 1991 to 2001 and as an Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation for four years since 1984. He founded the MIT-Industry Polymer Processing Program and Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity. President Suh also established the Manufacturing Institute at MIT to provide an educational mechanism for teaching engineering systems and to strengthen the interaction between MIT and industry, by conducting industrially funded research in the field of large systems and by creating more effective technology transfer mechanisms.
He was appointed as the Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor of Manufacturing for 17 years since 1989 and as the Director of Park Center for Complex Systems from 2005 to 2006 before joining KAIST as the President of the university in 2006. And since assumed the President at KAIST, he went on to carry out services for the government of Korea as well, serving as the member of the Korean National Science and Technology Council and the Director of Korean Presidential New Growth Engine Search Group. He has received seven honorary doctorate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Israel Institute of Technology, the University of Queensland, Royal Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Babes-Bolyai University in Romania.
His research interests are related to the areas of axiomatic design principles and methodologies, complex theory, functional periodicity, delamination theory of wear, solution wear theory, friction space and friction theory, reaction injection molding, solid state forming, mixed-alloy process, microcellular plastics, and engineering education. He has received many awards such as the ASME Medal, Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award of ASME and Pi Tau Sigma in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of tribology, Blackall Award of ASME for the solution wear theory, SPE Award for tribology of polymers, and the F. W. Taylor Research Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers etc. He has published seven books and edited four books so far. President Suh has a total of more than 60 registered patents and more than 300 scholarly papers have been published in internationally renowned journals.
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•• Innovation in Higher Education at the University of York
Brian Cantor Vice Chancellor University of York UK
Abstract
The University of York was ranked first for teaching along with Cambridge University by the UK government’s Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA). It is ranked eighth for teaching quality in the latest Good University Guide, eighth for research quality in the UK government’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and eighth for business-university interactions in the Higher Education - Business Survey (HEBUS). We believe strongly in balancing outstanding teaching, outstanding research, and excellent innovative links to business.
This presentation will discuss how we achieve a balance of these different activities. For teaching it will discuss the impact of virtual learning resources, problem based learning, and creating a framework for the enhancement of good practice. For research, it will discuss the difficulty of building world leading discipline-based research with interdisciplinary activities. And for innovation and enterprise, it will discuss the overarching goals of delivering improvements to the health, wealth and well-being of society, and the value of operating in a science city.
Biographical Information
Brian Cantor is vice chancellor of the University of York and a vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is acknowledged as a global authority on materials manufacturing.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Christ’s College, Cambridge University. He has worked at universities including Sussex, Oxford, and York, and for companies including Alcan, Elsevier, General Electric, and Rolls-Royce. He has published over 300 books and papers and is on the ISI list of most cited researchers. He founded the Begbroke Science Park at Oxford and led the Heslington East Campus development at York. He has advised organizations such as NASA, the EU, and UK, Dutch, Spanish, and German government agencies. He has chaired and served on the board of numerous companies and agencies including Isis Innovation, the Kobe Institute, the National Science Learning Center, the UK Universities Pensions Forum, and the Worldwide Universities Network. He was awarded the Rosenha in and Platinum Medals of the Institute of Materials and was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the York Press.
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•• Effective Education and Innovative Learning at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoshinao Mishima President Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
Abstract
Tokyo Tech strives to cultivate science and engineering students with strong scholastic ability, the capacity to apply diverse perspectives and approaches to real-world problems, and the creative competence to become future pioneers of scientific technology. Academic research, driven by intellectual curiosity, has given birth to new technologies and industries that have made the impossible possible and built our modern society. More keenly today than ever before, the institute recognizes the important role academic research and education play in resolving our myriad global problems. Tokyo Tech responds to these pressing concerns by promoting the most advanced research with the highest ethical standards across the spectrum of scientific and technological fields. By providing this kind of stimulating environment, Tokyo Tech aims to inspire and develop the creativity of each student and enrich the international community.
Biographical Information
Yoshinao Mishima is president of Tokyo Institute of Technology and was executive vice president for Education and International Affairs till he took up his current position. He graduated from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology (hereafter Tokyo Tech) in 1973 and then earned a MEng from the same department in 1975. He earned his PhD in 1979 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
He started his career in Japan in 1981 as an assistant professor at the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory of Tokyo Tech, and was promoted to associate professor in 1989. He earned full professorship in the Department of Material Science and Engineering in the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Tokyo Tech in 1997.
His major research fields have been the design of high temperature structural materials such as heat resistant steels, nickel-base super alloys and high temperature structural intermetallic alloys. He has received many awards for his outstanding research achievements from such academic societies as the Japan Institute of Metals, the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, the Japan Society for Heat Treatment, and ASM International.
He was a member of the Educational and Research Council in the 2005 academic year, and dean of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering from 2006 to 2009. He was director of the Frontier Research Center from 2010 and director of the Solution Research Laboratory in 2011.
Dr. Mishima was president of the International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering from 2006 to 2007, president of the Japan Institute of Metals in 2010, and is currently vice president of the Japan Society for Heat Treatment.
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•• Education Program to Promote Technological Evolution in Engineer Education: The UTBM Case
Pascal Brochet President Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard France
Abstract
How can engineering education be quickly operational and particularly suited to technological evolution and changes? This question is very important in our rapidly-changing society. In demonstrating the UTBM case, this presentation will deal with this topic.
UTBM trains engineers in computer science, energy and environment, mechanical engineering and design, manufacturing management engineering, ergonomics, and industrial design. UTBM offers a high-level, 5-year engineering degree course (300 ECTS). The first two years of studies provide not only the scientific and technical skills needed to form a sound basis for engineering training, but also a significant amount of human sciences.
The Humanities Department provides sound knowledge in human sciences and represents about 30% of the teaching time over the five years of engineering training. It serves to enable the student to acquire specific skills useful to the profession of engineer, such as management, organization, and communication, giving the student, through the use of specific teaching methods, a solid grounding in general culture, and enabling students to develop certain qualities, such as their problem-solving skills, their ability to confront decisions objectively, and their capacity to communicate both in French and in foreign languages.
The Humanities Department offers a great diversity of courses (more than 80 study modules), enabling the student to grasp the main fields of human and social science. This department is divided into two main sections: general culture and foreign languages and communication
All UTBM students must realize two industrial internships of six months in corporations or in university laboratories. Moreover, students can realize one or two semesters of study abroad at any time for five years. More than 50% of our students have foreign experience for six months before they obtain their final degree
For example, one of UTBM’s students, Mr. Valentin Janiaut, as an exchange student, undertook one semester of study at KAIST and an internship in a laboratory of computer science at KAIST. Then, for his final project, he accepted an industrial internship in India. Finally, before he obtained his degree, he landed a very interesting job at LG.
In summary, I can say that different experiences in real contexts with good human knowledge help to work efficiently in technological innovation.
Biographical Information
Pascal Brochet is the president of Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard since September 2011. He is a full professor in electrical engineering. He was the director for research at Ecole Centrale de Lille and the leader of a research team in the field of the design and optimization of electrical machines.
His main interests are on the numerical modeling and simulation of electrical machines, particularly the multiphysical and multidisciplinary modeling, and on optimization problem formulations and algorithms. He has a PhD in numerical analysis from Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille and had worked for seven years at an automotive equipment company as a research engineer in the field of computer aided design of electrical machines before joining Ecole Centrale de Lille in 1990. He managed many industrial projects with French industrial enterprises such as Alstom, Renault, EDF, and etc. He is the senior member of Société Délectricité and member of the Society of Information and Communication Technology.
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•• KWASU Engineering: Reshaping Engineering Education Curriculum in Nigeria for the 21st Century
Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah Vice Chancellor Kwara State University Nigeria
Abstract
The concepts and practices of technology transfer, imitation, and foreign dependency, when it comes to equipment importation, have, since colonization, led to continued under-development of Nigeria, and national research institutions have done little to positively change this situation. Nigeria, with her huge resources, has the potential of becoming a global leader and economic powerhouse in many facets of economies and technological development. This is achievable through restructuring the engineering curricula to bolster the engineering professional practice, providing a foundation for knowledge-based economies and supporting social changes for new demands on engineering education. Kwara State University (KWASU), the university for community development, is leading in this effort to train and educate the next generation of engineers, scientists, and technologists with the capacity of solving real engineering problems and providing leadership that can lead to meeting the economic and social transformation needs of Nigeria.
KWASU Engineering has, therefore, adopted new concepts of indigeneous technology and local resources, as a driving force for its technology curriculum and pedagogy. This paper focuses on the steps KWASU Engineering is taking to promote a strong foundation in the fundamentals, a deep understanding of the research frontiers within a global interdisciplinary framework, and an orientation toward entrepreneurship and community outreach that can lead to the continuous development of Nigeria in the 21st century.
Biographical Information
Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah is a poet, scholar, critical thinker, and recipient of numerous awards. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, most recently Cultural Plurality: Africa and the New World (AWP, 2011) and Ilorin: Praise Poetry (Bookcraft, 2011). Prior to joining KWASU, he was chair of the African American Studies Department at Western Illinois University in the US.
Professor Na’Allah was born in Ilorin. He received his BA (Hons) in education and English and his MA in literature-in-English from the University of Ilorin. In 1999, he received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He attended the management development program at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, in 2009.
Both as a student and in his professional life, Professor Na’Allah actively engaged in civic activities. For three years now as pioneer vice chancellor of KWASU, he helps to lay a solid foundation of a world-class research intensive university with strong orientations in community development. The university is already noted in entrepreneurship and is the first in West Africa to develop a Film Village as a training and production facility for film producers and actors from the Nigerian Nollywood and from around the world. He is helping to lay a strong foundation for KWASU engineering with orientations for indigenous resources and local technology. The university won the UNESCO Chair in alternative energy and is the first to do so in the Africa UNESCO Category II Asia Studies Institute.
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•• Activities of Kumamoto University for Effective Education and Innovative Learning
Isao Taniguchi President Kumamoto University Japan
Abstract
In this presentation, our recent activities related to effective education and innovative learning will be introduced. In the present society, leading global research universities are expected to educate students effectively to be world-leaders, who can lead our (local, national, and international) society to be more innovative for the promising future. The educated world-leaders should be really innovative and challenging. Therefore, students need to get enough sophisticated abilities not only to create research products, by which new businesses can be produced for providing an innovative society, but also to have a personal magnetism based on deep and wide learning of liberal arts to work together with other persons who have different backgrounds in culture and academic aspects.
Kumamoto University (KU) has been revising the liberal arts program for first and second–year students to make students understand more about cultural background of the society with fundamental sciences and relations between each class subject and the real society. Top- level professionals of various fields give special classes (lecture with discussion). I, myself as a president of the university, also give small- group classes to all first-year students about the history and the policy in education of our university (past, present and future) using the original 125-year-old classroom. In addition, we are encouraging research and educational activities related to the environmental-friendly science and technology. Namely, these are projects of green energy (solar cell and its new applications including smart-grid technology, bio-fuel battery, new organic thin-films, etc.), powerful pulsed-power energy, water management, new magnesium alloy as a new energy- saving material, and many other green sciences and technologies, which are some of the strongest fields of our university in Japan and in the world. All these research projects and educational programs are aiming to solve the present problems and future challenges of the world for the promising future. Such educational projects and classes based on cut-edge research activities are very effective for students for increasing their motivation in active learning.
Through these activities, we believe that we are able to educate students to be innovative world leaders. In the present globalizing society, KU is promoting international collaboration with willing to act as an organization of not only regional but of national/international center of researches and education.
On such bases, we have been organizing so-called Kumamoto University Forum in the world (e.g., Shanghai, China in 2005 and 2012, Daejeon, Korea in 2006, Surabaya, Indonesia in 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam in 2010 and Kumamoto in 2009, etc. and other places in Japan) and many international conferences for students (in Korea, China, Turkey, etc.).
KU is one of the Japan's oldest and most prestigious national universities, having more than10,000 students including around 450 international students (aiming to be 500 at first, and then to be 1,000 international students). The University provides an excellent education and research experience to students from all over the world. We will, as one of leading research universities in Japan, continue to challenge to educate students effectively and internationally and help students learning actively through solving present challenges in the world.
Biographical Information
Isao Taniguchi has been the 12th president of Kumamoto University since 2009. He obtained degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in Applied Chemistry in 1970 (BEng), 1972 (MEng) and 1975 (PhD), respectively. After post-doctoral research work at the Department of Electronic Chemistry at Tokyo Tech, he was appointed as a research associate at the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto University, in 1977. At Kumamoto University, he was promoted to a lecturer in 1979, an associate professor in 1981, and a professor in 1990 at the Department of Applied Chemistry. Prior to the current position, he served as a dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the university in 2002 and 2008.
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Since 1996 he has served as a professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry, and at the Graduate School of Science and Technology of the university. He joined Texas A&M University as a post-doctoral research fellow in 1982-83, as a visiting professor at the Institute for Protein Research of Osaka University in 1997 and at the Institute for Molecular Sciences in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in 2000-2001. He received the Divisional Award of Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) in 1995 for his research activity on protein electrochemistry using modified electrodes. He also received the Outstanding Paper Award from the Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ) in 2005 for his findings on the electro-catalytic oxidation of glucose at a single crystal gold electrode. He received the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) Award in 2009 for the study on electrochemistry of biologically related metal complexes and its applications. He also was awarded the Shikata International Medal from the Polarographic Society of Japan in 2011 for his research on bioelectrochemical analysis of biological molecules and its applications. He has published approximately 220 papers, more than 25 books, more than 30 proceedings and more. He gave more than 100 invited talks at international conferences. He has been serving as an associate member of the Science Council of Japan (for the 21st and 22nd terms) from 2006, and an ad-hoc member of the Central Council for Education of Japan from 2011.
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•• Delivering World-Class Education in a Research-Led Institution
Koen Lamberts Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost University of Warwick UK
Abstract
This presentation examines how a research-led university ensures that it continues to provide a world-class education to its students. Three factors are considered: the culture of the university, the need to recognize excellence and central support for developing teaching practice.
The culture of the university means that research-led teaching and learning is widespread. This is coupled with a tradition of strong student involvement. The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme provides bursaries for over 100 students a year to undertake original research. The Student as Researcher project is being piloted across 7 academic departments. The program continues throughout a student’s entire course and equips undergraduates with research skills and information literacy to undertake a major research project. The university also publishes Reinvention, an online, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to the publication of high-quality undergraduate student research. The journal is produced, edited and managed by Warwick students and staff.
The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence were set up in 2007 to recognize and celebrate excellent teaching. Winners are presented in the summer graduation ceremonies. Teaching excellence has also achieved external recognition with 11 academic staff having won National Teaching Fellowships since 2006, one of the highest in the country.
Warwick showed its commitment to research in 2007 by setting up a central unit to support research excellence - the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2010 Warwick showed its commitment to innovation in teaching by establishing the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) to centrally support academics in developing their teaching practice. IATL provides resources and funding for staff to develop their teaching, develops interdisciplinary modules and also publishes the Reinvention journal. IATL works in themes such as open-space learning and interdisciplinary. IATL are also involved in large-scale projects such as the re-design of the teaching spaces in the Ramphal Building (Social Science) at Warwick.
The presentation closes by looking at how these factors were brought together in Warwick’s institutional teaching review. The changing higher education context in the UK, particularly the changes in tuition fees and the increasing expectations of students require a response at the institutional level. Warwick recognized that is important to look at its teaching and learning holistically across the institution. In November 2011 Warwick undertook a large-scale, concentrated review of all undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience provision. Thirty academic departments were reviewed in a three-day period. Each review panel consisted of Warwick staff and an external academic member. Drawing on the tradition of student involvement, each panel also included a student. Each student sat not as a representative of a department or of the Students’ Union but as a full member of the panel. Warwick believes that student involvement at this level was vitally important in shaping the approach to learning and teaching. Faculty engagements were also organized to share best practice across departments. The review gave a snapshot of teaching and learning across the whole university, not just validating the quality but also signaling ways forward for the future.
Biographical Information
Koen Lamberts has responsibility for academic resourcing strategy and implementation via chairing the Academic Resourcing Committee (ARC) and for the capital program and sustainable space planning via the chairing of the Capital Planning and Accommodation Review Group (CPARG). He has line management responsibilities for heads of academic departments and has a primary relationship with chairs of faculty in developing this role and in developing academic management of departments. As deputy chair of the Academic Staff Committee, he has oversight of electoral boards plus associate and assistant professorship panels, along with the review of academic, teaching, and research recruitment and promotions to ensure all appointments are of the highest quality. Working with the pro vice chancellor for research (science and medicine), he has senior oversight of the Science City research
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partnership with the University of Birmingham. He has, with the pro vice chancellors, responsibility for developing the university's international profile, relationships, and alumni activities.
Professor Lamberts first joined Warwick in 1998. He is a cognitive psychologist, with an extensive track record in experimental and theoretical research on human perception and memory. His research has been recognized with prizes from the Experimental Psychology Society and British Psychological Society. He was elected head of the Department of Psychology in 2000 and served until 2008. He became chair of the Faculty of Science in 2007 and served in that role until 2010, when he was appointed as pro vice chancellor for research. He has been pro vice chancellor for academic resourcing since November 2011, with primary responsibility for over £245m of academic expenditure. Most recently, he has led the establishment of Warwick’s Global Priorities Program to promote emerging strategic research areas with a focus on multi-and interdisciplinary research.
He is also a member of the BIS Higher Education Student Mobility Joint Steering Group and has convened the Russell Group Pro Vice Chancellors for Research Meetings. He has already represented the vice chancellor at a number of national and international events, and he has played an active role in Warwick’s recently announced partnership with Monash.
GENERAL SESSION • 25 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
•• Hong Kong's 2012 Higher Education Curriculum Reform
Benjamin W. Wah Provost The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
Abstract
In 2012, Hong Kong moved from a three-year undergraduate curriculum to a four-year curriculum, while shortening the high school education from seven years to six years. To accommodate this change, the eight publicly-funded institutes of higher education in Hong Kong have embarked on a campaign to overhaul both the high school as well as the university curricula, while improving the infrastructure to accommodate a double cohort of first-year students in 2012.
In the new curriculum at CUHK, students in most programs need to complete a minimum of 123 units to graduate (as compared to 99 in the 3-year curriculum). In line with the long-standing educational philosophy of CUHK, the new curriculum aims to enable students to appreciate the values of a broad range of intellectual disciplines as well as general knowledge, and within the wide spectrum, gain a depth of knowledge within a specialty, not only as an end in itself but also as a vehicle for experience in serious study and enquiry. They will have a high level of bilingual proficiency in Chinese and English, and a basket of skills, including numeracy, critical thinking skills, and IT literacy, appropriate for the modern age, and above all the capacity for life-long learning and continuing professional development.
To broaden interdisciplinary knowledge, every freshman will be required to take three courses of the Faculty Package. These courses are offered by each faculty and will allow students to learn outside of their majors and in the broad area of a discipline. For instance, a student majoring in computer science will be able to learn the various aspects of engineering offered by different engineering departments in these courses. To provide the opportunity for students to better integrate the knowledge learned in a major program, they will be asked to work on a dissertation or enroll in a capstone course that requires participation in research and/or internships.
A unique offering of the new curriculum is two foundation courses in general education: In Dialogue with Humanity and In Dialogue with Nature. Through studies of classics, students engage in dialogues with nature and humanity to explore the world of science and knowledge and reflect on ideal society and good life. These courses, in line with similar provisions in other leading universities around the world, seek to explore with students deep and enduring issues through exposure to wisdom and writing throughout the ages, bridging the ancient and the modern, East and West, and the cultures of the humanities and of the sciences.
The new curriculum is also less packed, and students will have more time for overseas exchange or internships. Together with the unique college system, students embark on a wide variety of experiential learning opportunities and non-formal education. These include numerous activities that encourage reflection and life-long learning and provide scholastic and cultural activities to complement academic learning.
Biographical Information
Benjamin W. Wah is the provost and Wei Lun Professor of computer science and engineering at CUHK. Deputizing for the vice chancellor as the principal academic officer of the university, the provost oversees all programs in education, research, and student affairs, as well as academic links at CUHK. He works closely with the vice chancellor and is in charge of a number of new development efforts. As provost, he is responsible for the academic excellence of the university by making plans for the proactive academic recruitment and retention of quality staff of high international standing. He is also in charge of faculty strategic directions on advanced scholarship and quality education. Born and brought up in Hong Kong, Professor Wah received his BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer science from Columbia University and his MS in computer science and PhD in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He began teaching at Purdue University in 1979 and later joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He also served as director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, established by the University of Illinois, in Singapore in 2009 with funding from the Singapore government’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research. GENERAL SESSION • 26 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
Professor Wah is a prominent computer scientist with expertise in non-linear programing, multimedia signal processing, and artificial intelligence. He has received a number of research awards, including the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai and W. Wallace-McDowell Awards, and the University of California, Berkeley, Distinguished Alumni Award in computer science. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and served as the president of the IEEE Computer Society in 2001.
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•• Effective Education and Innovative Learning: The Story of Teaching Medicine: The Journey, the Challenges and the Achievements
Talal Almalki Vice President for Development and Quality Taif University Saudi Arabia
Abstract
The presenter will discuss the development of a medical college, what factors were behind its inception, how the curriculum was implemented and what the outcomes were. The underlying philosophy: The CM started in the year 2005 with 70 male students in the outskirts of Taif. National and international requirements of a modern day graduate were taken into consideration. Modern educational philosophy (of cognitivism) was the soul of the entire curriculum. The main designing was done by medical educationists instead of by subject experts. The key characteristics of the curriculum are: 1. Active learning 2. Competence based 3. Community oriented 4. Integrated vertically 5. Student centered 6. Supportive environment The acronym given is ACCISS
Implementation: A lot of importance was given to student induction and faculty recruitment. Marks of written tests administered by the government were taken into consideration along with high school marks. A rigorous multiple mini interview system was developed and used for screening the best of the applicants. Deliberately, a mixture of faculty members was recruited. Some came from innovative backgrounds, like from schools following the problem based learning system; others came from traditional backgrounds. Both contributed in their own ways in implementing the designed curriculum. There was extensive faculty training and faculty involvement in curriculum implementation and a strong college administrative support. The university administration was an important factor which had to be dealt with. It was traditional. Continuous communication was used. People at higher levels of authority were constantly kept in the picture. External validation was sought; feedback from internal experts was requested. Student opinion was always given due consideration. A student orientation program was designed and implemented.
The challenges faced: 1. A traditional administrative set up. 2. Faculty resistance. 3. Insecurity among the students about whether what they were getting was of good quality or not
Outcomes: Our graduates have cleared local exams. Many graduates have got into residency programs across the nation; some have got governmental scholarships; some have published articles and presented them in international conferences nationally and internationally. Feedback from employers is largely positive. Our vision is to provide the kingdom with doctors who are multi-faceted and effective. Sustained dynamism are our key words.
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Biographical Information
Talal Almalki is a professor of pediatrics and neonatal surgery, Taif University. As a vice president for development and quality, he is responsible for international collaboration and for achieving and boosting research quality and excellence in the university. Furthermore, he has an instrumental role in the accreditation of the university academic programs by the local and international accrediting agencies. In addition, he is responsible for the planning and development of the university in the form of new academic programs and research facilities.
Over the past two years, Dr. Almalki has been leading a team of experts in revising the universities strategic plans. Taking into consideration the importance of globalization and its impact in the progress of higher education in KSA, Taif University, through the Vice President’s Office, has established ambitious international collaboration programs, where many MOU's and service contracts in various fields were signed with world renowned universities such as Monash University (Australia), University of Florida (USA), and Yonsei University (South Korea.
Dr. Almalki, after attaining his MD degree, he finished his training in general & pediatric surgery at University of Toronto in 1989, and McMaster University in Canada and University of London, UK. As a testimony of his research activity in his medical field, he published over 70 scientific papers. In recognition of his academic and administrative reputation he was appointed as the founding dean of the College of Medicine and College of Clinical Pharmacy at Taif University, in 2004.
Exploiting his medical education interests, experience and vision, he established a very ambitious and practical curriculum for the newly established Medical School. Dr. Almalki was a founding member of the Saudi Scientific Society for Pediatric Surgeons which was very instrumental in graduating a group of Saudi pediatric surgeons.
GENERAL SESSION • 29 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
•• Education Reform in the University of Tsukuba
Michiyoshi Ae Vice President University of Tsukuba Japan
Abstract
It is important for a university to make an effort to guide the world’s knowledge-based society as an academic center that innovates through high quality education and research, advance the cultivation of human resources that respond to the demands of the present age, and benefit society through its work. In that sense, one needs to be creative, not only to promote advanced and forward-looking research and education, but also to make the world recognize innovations in governance and the value of the university in order to achieve these goals. The university, as a center of future knowledge, must solve a jumble of global issues and has functions and responsibilities to fulfill as an engine for social advancement.
The University of Tsukuba, with over 140 years of history, is one of the national universities representing Japan and was established as a new concept university aiming for “interdisciplinarism” and “internationalism” with its “open university” founding principle. In order to lead the wave of globalization that Japan faces today, the University of Tsukuba has been striving for the promotion of degree programs taught in English, higher acceptance of international students and faculty, and greater numbers of Japanese students studying abroad.
Under the new slogan, “Imagine the Future,” based on the perspectives of students, international society, and the future, the University of Tsukuba has been proceeding with educational reforms aiming to cultivate global human resources while promising educational improvement and quality assurance. In keeping with the philosophy of its foundation, one of the examples of educational reform has been the establishment of the school declaration, the so-called “University of Tsukuba Standard” (Tsukuba Standard, University of Tsukuba General Education Standard, and University of Tsukuba Graduate School Standard), which is the declaration on education explaining the mission of education and its method of achievement along with the framework of education including the improvement measures for the curriculum. Another example of educational reform is the enrichment of liberal arts education by making the best use of the school’s distinctive features, which offer a wide range of academic fields including medicine, sport science, arts, and library information. For instance, in one physical education class, an Olympic medalist cum professor is teaching sport activity to regular students.
Another reform is the transition from an educational system focused on schools and colleges to an educational system based on degree programs that take into account the viewpoints of the students.
The University of Tsukuba has been undertaking education reforms through creating a framework that aims to establish degree programs for undergraduate education and enhance graduate educational programs from the following four points of views: student admission and student mobility, systematization of education and clarification of policy on degree conferment, graduation and career guidance, and student guidance and life assistance.”
Biographical Information
Michiyoshi Ae is vice president of the University of Tsukuba. He received his BS in physical education from the Tokyo University of Education (1973), MS in health and sports sciences from the Tokyo University of Education (1975), and PhD from the University of Tsukuba (1982). He first joined the University of Tsukuba as a post-doctoral researcher and assistant in 1982 at the Sport Center. After serving as a lecturer between 1984 and 1985 at JosoGakuin High School, Dr. Ae returned to the University of Tsukuba at the Institute of Health and Sports Sciences as an assistant professor in 1985, associate professor in 1991, and professor in 2000. While at Tsukuba, he has held various positions of vice provost of the School of Physical Education from 2000-2003, chair of the Institute of Health and Sports Sciences in 2006, and provost of the School of Health and Physical Education in 2008. He has conducted research in sports biomechanics, paying particular attention to athletics, as well as sports techniques. He has published over 300 papers and articles and participated in more than 480 presentations. Dr. Ae is a fellow of many academic societies such as the Japan Society of Biomechanics,
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where he has served as president since 2009. He has been an editorial board member for Sports Biomechanics, Japan Journal of Biomechanics in Sports and Exercise, Japan Journal of Physical Education, Health and Sports Sciences, and the International Journal of Sport sand Health Sciences.
In addition to academic societies and boards, Dr. Ae also commits substantial time to being a part of the sports world directly, as he is the head of the scientific committee of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations and a member of the scientific committee of the Japan Olympic Committee. He received research awards from the Society of Biomechanisms Japan, Japan Society of Physical Education, Health, and Sport Sciences, and the Japan Sports Association. He served as a leader of the Biomechanics Research Project of the 3rd and 11th World Championships in Athletics in both 1991 and 2007 and the Nagano Winter Olympic Games in 1998.
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•• Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures
Wayne Johnson Assistant Vice President, Institute Corporate Relations California Institute of Technology USA
Abstract
The world has become an increasingly competitive, interconnected, flat space. Today’s knowledge-based economies mean educational success will determine our collective economic performance, and ultimately our standard of living. For industry, it is a world marked by unrelenting change and corporate strategies that must simultaneously be global in scope, responsive in balancing business needs, and constantly seeking top talent. For universities, the widespread availability of high speed internet connectivity, increasingly powerful and inexpensive wireless devices, and an explosion in media-rich social networking opportunities has created a fundamental change in the way we communicate, learn, and behave. The acceleration with which these changes are happening is remarkable and has fueled uncertainty and speculation on the long-term effects these trends will have on the very nature of higher education.
Educators, especially in engineering, have put tremendous thought and energy into “reforming” curricula to better match both industry needs and student desires. A myriad of initiatives have addressed these challenges. In this talk, Mr. Johnson will examine a few of the more significant efforts aimed at improving education and national competitiveness.
This presentation will address and review trends, developments, and global realities from the perspective of both the private sector and global universities, drawing on Mr. Johnson’s extensive executive experience in both the aerospace and information technology industries, his recent experience at the California Institute of Technology, and his direct involvement in global partnerships with the world’s leading universities.
Biographical Information
Wayne Johnson has joined Caltech as assistant vice president for institute corporate relations in 2011. In his role at the helm of the newly created Office of Institute Corporate Relations, Mr. Johnson is responsible for exploring, establishing, and extending strategic corporate partnerships for Caltech. In close collaboration with senior institute leaders, he develops and fosters strategies to increase corporate awareness of, interest in, and financial support for Caltech's transformative research and educational priorities and initiatives. As part of this effort, Johnson and his team identifies and leverages federal research-funding options via new models for engagement with the private sector.
Mr. Johnson is a nationally renowned expert in domestic and international innovation ecosystems and experienced at creating complex partnerships between government, academia, industry, and nongovernmental organizations. Before joining Caltech, Mr. Johnson served as an independent consultant on strategic corporate initiatives for clients such as the National Science Foundation, the University of Texas at El Paso, the Government University Industry Research Roundtable, and the Intuit Corporation. From 2001 to 2009, Mr. Johnson was vice president of University Relations Worldwide for the Hewlett-Packard Company; and from 2000 to 2001, he was manager of university Relations for Microsoft Research. Prior to that, Mr. Johnson contributed in a number of management and operations roles at Raytheon Company and served as an adjunct professor of management at Boston University from 1977 to 1999.
He received his BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. He is a board member of the Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America, the Wentworth Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, the National Leadership Council for the national initiative Liberal Education and America’s Promise, and the Kauffman Foundation iBridgeSM Network Strategic Advisory Board.
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•• Toward Innovative, Entrepreneurial and Global Positioning: The Sustainable Way Forward for UTM
Mohd Ismail Abd Aziz Director of International Affairs Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia
Abstract
In the current global climate, which is becoming extremely competitive and challenging, universities need to transform in impactful ways to remain relevant and sustainable. This drives UTM to move forward, promoting a culture of excellence, innovation, and entrepreneurship beyond conventional paradigms based on the concept of “New Academia.” Through the UTM Global Plan 2012-2020, UTM aims to position itself as a renowned institution, not only in terms of outstanding scholarly contributions, but also ensuring quality human capital development, impactful contribution to the Malaysian and regional innovation economies, strong financial standing, prominence at the international level, and a reputable academic brand. To achieve this goal, UTM has undergone a comprehensive institutional transformation with better functional operations, service offerings, strategic engagements, brand positioning, and delivery systems to transform the university’s current operating models into one that is innovatively, entrepreneurially, and globally aimed toward capacity building. Most importantly, the autonomous status UTM has achieved sets the impetus for UTM to become more dynamic and vibrant in relation to value management, sustainable and prudent resource and financial management, and high-impact contribution.
The New Academia concept UTM is currently advocating also promotes new dimensions in academic and research engagements while promoting integration and synergy with new partners beyond the academic fraternity. For example, UTM has engaged with construction investors to build residential blocks on campus and is currently materializing the construction with the UTM-KPJ Healthcare public-private hospital. In addition, UTM has strong links with the national car maker Proton, working closely to produce quite a number of innovative patents each year. What is significant is the fact that, with its focus on entrepreneurial mindset and innovative culture, UTM is keen on keeping its development projects self-financed, with a focus on sustainable, eco-friendly development with a touch of commercial orientation that can generate financial returns for the university.
At the same time, UTM aims to unlock human capital by ensuring quality, talented, and innovative graduates. For example, through the UTM Job Creation Program, students are provided alternative learning paradigms of experiential learning, peer instruction, and entrepreneurs in residence. Global exposure is also provided to students through the Global Outreach Programs, where they engage in mobility programs abroad through experiential learning and cross-cultural integration. Global exposure to real-life issues and problems facing international companies is provided through the use of Harvard Business School Case Studies as part of innovative teaching and learning at UTM. Through this, students engage in negotiations, problem-solving, and decision-making in resolving real-life issues. Excellent students are also offered the 5 Excellent Track Program (5ETP), which focuses on enhancing students’ talents, skills, creativity, and interest in the fields of sports, entrepreneurship, Tahfiz, leadership, and academic excellence. In addition, the Student Innovation Centre has been established to encourage innovative culture and mindsets in all dimensions among students of the university, both at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels. UTM, thus, provides a stimulating, entrepreneurial, and innovative learning environment to remain competitive and sustainable.
Biographical Information
Mohd Ismail Abd Aziz is the Director in the Office of International Affairs at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is currently the Chair of Critical Agenda Project (Internationalization) for Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. He has held various administrative positions in UTM for more than 10 years ranging from Head of Department for External Programmes, Faculty of Science; Deputy Dean for School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPACE) and Deputy Director for Office of International Affairs. He is an applied mathematician specializing in dynamic optimization methods and its applications. Besides his own specialization, his other research interest is internationalization of higher education, with a focus on policies and operational frameworks in operationalizing internationalization activities in individual institutions. He has a PhD from City University, London in Control engineering; a MSc degree (Mathematics of Control
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Systems) from Loughborough University, UK and a BSc degree (Applied Mathematics & Computer Science) from University of New South Wales, Australia.
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•• Beyond Tradition - Innovative Industry Engagement Models for Effective Research
Khin Yong Lam Chief of Staff and CEO (NTU Innovation) Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Abstract
A research-intensive university in Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is one of the fastest-rising universities in the world, with globally acknowledged strengths in science and engineering.
As a hub of innovation and technology, NTU has constantly sought to advance its research interests through close collaborations in significant project areas with various industry partners. In more recent times, the university has recognized the need to engage in an inclusive approach with industry in research and innovation to foster the growth of research opportunities
The level of industry engagement is built upon NTU’s current research capacity and is centered on the ideal of an effective medium for the university to share its expertise, capacity, and infrastructure with industry partners to devise solutions and improve performance, while exposing NTU researchers and students to concrete issues and problems.
Seeking to promote an understanding of effective models and partnership development processes, this presentation will discuss the forms of engagement between science and technology firms and NTU to generate positive research outcomes. In particular, the different models of industry collaboration, management practices for these strategic partnerships and their effectiveness and impact on initiatives will be highlighted.
The presentation will also touch upon the innovation and entrepreneurship activities of NTU, which involve working with entrepreneurial faculty and students across diverse cultures to take discoveries from a multitude of disciplines to industry through licensing, spin-offs, and venture creation.
Together, these initiatives form the base of a comprehensive framework focused on engaging directly with firms to respond to clearly identified research problems and needs. In conclusion, this presentation will also showcase the collaborations with Technical University Munich, Rolls-Royce, DLR (The German Aerospace Centre), and Thales, amongst others.
Biographical Information
Khin Yong Lam is the chief of staff at Nanyang Technological University. His responsibilities are to assist the president and provost by ensuring that decisions made by senior academic leaders are well implemented. He is also the chief executive officer of NTU Innovation. Prior to his current appointment, he was the associate provost for Graduate Education & Special Projects from 2008 to 2011 and the dean/ chair of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2008. As associate provost, he had strategically grown NTU’s graduate programs, including spearheading joint PhD programs with top universities overseas.
Professor Lam has held many key academic, research and administrative appointments. These include his appointment as founding director of the Center for Computational Mechanics and the NUS-MINDEF Underwater Shock Laboratory. In addition, he was the program director of the IHPC-MINDEF High Performance Computing Center. He was also the founding executive director of the Institute of High Performance Computing and the founding executive director of the A*Star Graduate Academy.
As executive director of A*Star Graduate Academy, he initiated PhD training collaborations between A*Star and universities including NTU, NUS, KarolinskaInstitutet, Imperial College London, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Dundee, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Cambridge.
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In addition, he held directorship positions in the then NSTB and A*Star Holding companies as director of ETPL Investment Pte Ltd. and KRDL Holdings Pte Ltd. Professor Lam was also the technical advisor to the executive chairman of ETPL, program advisor for the High Performance Computation Program at Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) and deputy director of SMA. He worked with the MD of A*Star and executive chairman of ETPL to set up the Managing Director Office and ETPL at A*Star.
For his contributions to computational mechanics, he received National/University Awards from NUS and the then NSTB. He was also the first academician to lead an R&D Team to win the Ministry of Defense Technology Prize for contributions in underwater shock technology. He obtained his first degree in mechanical engineering from Imperial College and his Masters and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
Given his extensive experience in pioneering and leadership roles, Professor Lam is instrumental in positioning NTU in the Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE), an initiative under the National Research Foundation that brings together world-class international research universities, corporations, Singapore-based universities, and research institutions to collaborate and work together. He is also the co-scientific advisory director for the TUM-CREATE Centre on Electromobility in Megacities and Chairman of the Advanced Remanufacturing & Technology Centre of Singapore.
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•• Roles and Strategies of TMU in Consistent Global Education for Collaboration in Asia
Shigeru Aomura Executive Director of International Center Tokyo Metropolitan University Japan
Abstract
The mission of TMU, a unique public university founded by the Tokyo government, is to pursue the vision of an ideal human society in a metropolis. Based on this mission, our philosophy is to give instruction and do research on a broad range of topics in highly specialized scientific and technological fields.
TMU engages in research and education to realize a highly intellectual society with vitality and longevity in dynamically industrialized metropolises on a global scale, especially focusing on Asia. The students/researchers who challenge to build up such a society must have strong leadership and global character.
Although TMU has been promoting a consistent education from high school to faculty, some students are not very positive about recent global education that imbeds strong leadership and global character. TMU decided to build a Minor for Global Education (MfGE) and high school students with high potential for globalization and leadership are specially admitted to attend. This year, the Tokyo government started the program by sending the high school students interested in studying abroad at an early stage of their high school education. The students will be strong candidates of the members of the MfGE.
The MfGE recruits the students through three different ways which are dependent on the personal history of the students, and is open to all majors of the students. In the MfGE curriculum, the five year leadership program and one year of studying abroad are compulsory. The students with global experience and strong will to be a leader are expected after five years of special education.
TMU has been accepting many graduate students through scholarships supported by the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 by the Tokyo Government, and many graduates are contributing by doing research actively in many fields such as science, environment, welfare, nursery, medicine, etc. in Asian countries after getting their doctoral degree at TMU. TMU will also shift the student exchange system gradually from the North America and Europe centered strategy to the Asia focused strategy.
We can build more tight academic relationships with universities in Asian counties through the active student exchange of every class and an established system for double degree and credit exchange.
Shigeru Aomura is the executive director of the International Centre, and a professor of the Graduate School of System Design at Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU). He received his BS, MS and PhD (1981) from Hokkaido University in engineering. He began his academic career as a research engineer at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Technical University of Darmstadt (Mashinenbau, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt). After spending his time for his research on the stability of a rotating turbine shaft with a crack at TH Darmstadt, he worked for a plant engineering company, Toyo Engineering Corp. and attended to the design and construction of chemical plants. He led the consortium of the applied production system with laser technology, which consists of 12 companies, as a project manager. He was awarded the Prize of Machine Tool Engineering Foundation in 1992 and 1995 for his excellent journal papers. In 1995, he moved to the precision engineering department of TMU. His recent research interests lie in Biomechanics and brain injury by an impact is the main subject, which widely covers the field of mechanics, computational method, biology/morphology of nerve cells and endothelial cells. He also has served as the leader of the barrier-free activity in TMU for handicapped students.
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Biographical Information
Shigeru Aomura is the executive director of the International Center and a professor of Graduate School of System Design at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received his BS, MS, and PhD (1981) from Hokkaido University in engineering. He began his academic career as a research engineer at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Technical University of Darmstadt (Mashinenbau, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt). After researching the stability of rotating turbine shaft cracks at TH Darmstadt, he worked for a plant engineering company, Toyo Engineering Corp., and attended to the design and construction of chemical plants.
He served as project manager of a consortium of 12 companies dealing with the applied production system with laser technology. He was awarded the Prize of Machine Tool Engineering Foundation in 1992 and 1995 for his excellent journal papers. In 1995, he moved to the Precision Engineering Department of TMU. His recent research interests lie in biomechanics and brain injury by impact, which involve diverse fields such as mechanics, computational method, and the biology/morphology of nerve cells and endothelial cells. He has also served as the leader of barrier-free activity at TMU for disabledstudents.
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•• Double Degree Programs for Local Government Capacity Building, Academic Excellence, and Staff Development
Akhmaloka Rector Institut Teknologi Bandung Indonesia
Abstract
Higher learning education is aimed to produce excellent human resources and also to create new knowledge. Traditional education and learning, as we know it, is carried out by direct interaction between the professor and students, where formally, students must enroll in a university whereby academic mobility is not considered to be part of an important element. Today, we can see many innovations in education and learning. The use of ICT, for example, has diminished the importance of direct interaction between the professor and students. Students must have self-discipline, be mature, and play an active role in absorbing teaching materials, whereas mobility has demonstrated that inter-cultural understanding is as equally important as the science itself. Students nowadays are encouraged to mobilize to different countries so that they can be exposed to different cultures. Such experience is regarded as an important part of education in the global world.
Double degree programs and their variants have recently received great acceptance from almost all universities, although for some universities in some countries, such practices may not be common yet for some reasons. In my opinion, such programs could also be considered as effective education and innovative learning – effective in terms of cost and time, but also encouraging mobility that is part of academic excellence and inter-cultural experience for the students.
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) has been playing an active role in the development of the country through producing human resources that are not only excellent, but also in meeting needs. A double degree program, for local government capacity building, is the program addressing the need for human resources caused by the recent change in government management – from centralized to de-centralized. Double Degree Indonesia-France is another program created by the directorate general of higher education and ITB for effective academic staff development. Double degree programs are created with partners to achieve academic excellence particularly for very talented ITB students. The program starts from the final year of the bachelor degree and the best bachelor students in science can target their study until their doctoral degree.
Biographical Information
Ahkmaloka is the rector of Institut Teknologi Bandung and a professor of biochemistry. He is a member of national and international associations in microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. As a scientist, he has received numerous national and international grants to support his interest and research. The molecular biology of the yeast saccharomycecerevisiae and the molecular biology of thermophylic microorganisms and thermostable enzyme have become his research interests since 1987. As a rector he has actively promoted the idea that the university must make more efforts to address national problems. Thus, research must not only focus on how to create new knowledge, but also how it can directly impact the society.
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•• A Graduate Fellowship for Innovative Students – The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
John F. Holzrichter President Emeritus The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation USA
Abstract
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program was begun in 1961 to support the demand for more scientists and engineers, with advanced degrees, who wished to work on applied topics. At that time, traditional university programs emphasized rigor in the pure sciences, mathematics, and engineering, with fewer opportunities for “crossover” work. However, new inventions of great importance to the commercial, defense, and public service sectors had taken place during the 1940s and 1950s, requiring graduates with flexibility and a wide range of skills to understand and develop their potential. The Hertz Foundation, under the sponsorship of John and Fannie Hertz, decided to create a specialized Fellowship for unusually gifted students in the applied sciences, mathematics, and advanced engineering. While John Hertz is remembered primarily for creating Hertz rental cars, he started as an immigrant to America in 1896 (Chicago). He made major contributions to the taxi, rental car, horse racing, public service, and early venture capital businesses (a Lehman Brothers Partner) until his death in 1961. Shortly thereafter, the board of directors completed the transition of the foundation from an undergraduate engineering focus to an applied science and engineering focus at the graduate level.
The Hertz Fellowship is unusual in that it is characterized by a wide and rigorous search for gifted technical students who are about to enter graduate school. It then provides them with a five-year fellowship at any participating university in the US. The purpose is to enable unusually gifted, innovative students to pursue an advanced degree, working with great professors on high-risk topics.
Since 1961, the Foundation has supported 1200 students and has spent over $130M in today’s dollars for fellowship costs alone. Overhead is minimal with many fellows, board members, and colleagues contributing their time and financial support. Typically, the foundation identifies 25-35 outstanding candidates each year (from approximately 600 who apply); however, the difficult financial conditions of the past 10 years are limiting support to 15-20 new fellows each year. A total of 75 are being supported at any one time at all the major public and private universities across the country.
Retrospective studies show that 80% of the Fellows credit the Hertz Fellowship with improving their performance, jobs, and quality of life. Of them, 20% attribute its support to dramatic successes in their careers. The remaining 20% state that the Fellowship was helpful but they would have reached the same performance levels without it.
While a focused fellowship such as Hertz is somewhat usual, it can have important outcomes on selected groups of individuals. For those of us who experienced a Hertz fellowship and who have also helped guide the foundation, the opportunity to support unusually innovative persons working with leading professors at great universities and see great outcomes is most satisfying. We all benefit from meeting and helping support such innovative, young people.
Biographical Information
John F. Holzrichter is president emeritus of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. He consults at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he has had two major roles. First, he was a founder of its laser program and head of the related inertial fusion program, and then he became director of its IR&D program (n.b., called LDRD at the DOE laboratories). He began his science and technology studies at the University of Wisconsin, finishing a BS in 1965. He obtained his PhD from Stanford in 1971 (working with Professor Arthur Schawlow, co-inventor of the laser). He joined the Livermore Laboratory in 1972, where he and his colleagues developed and managed a wide variety of laser and fusion experimental programs, including the first demonstrations of laser-fusion processes. This work continues today with laser-fusion ignition experiments on the 192-beam NIF Laser. In 1987, he began directing the Livermore Laboratory’s internal R&D program with the objectives of modernizing the laboratory’s S&T infrastructure and using its expertise to attack national and international problems. In 2000, he retired from Livermore and was
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elected president of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Its mission is to identify and select unusually gifted students for PhD studies at leading universities. For ten years, he led modernization efforts, obtaining new financing and extending the foundation’s capacity to continue its mission. He has published numerous papers and has given many lectures on lasers, optical devices, plasmas, R&D management, and advanced speech recognition. He holds 15 patents, has published numerous papers, and has helped start four companies. He enjoys painting, traveling, design-construction, and fine food.
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•• Learning Styles and Impact in the Contemporary Classroom
Rodney Wissler Executive Dean of Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology Australia
Abstract
QUT’s 45,000 students are located in six faculties – Science and Engineering; Health; Business; Law; Education and Creative Industries – and a high proportion of students increasingly take boundary-crossing double degrees. The Institute for Future Environments, the Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, and the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation bring together theme-based research across the university in pursuit of effective, high impact outcomes.
The Creative Industries Faculty at QUT is home to six thousand students in design, media, and arts fields – all of these fourteen disciplines, from industrial design to journalism to animation to dance, music, and beyond, have a critical role to play in the knowledge economy and in underpinning social resilience in the face of rapid and profound technological change. This presentation highlights significant trends in learning and teaching at QUT, and in its Creative Industries Faculty, as influenced by global developments in online and blended education modalities, emerging national policy frameworks, individual consumer preferences in a digital society, and the growing awareness of the efficacy of interdisciplinary models in teaching and research, as well as traditional studio and laboratory-based approaches.
High tech facilities, stimulating campus environments, collaborative learning opportunities, and an internationalized curriculum all contribute in different, but critical, ways to a quality university education for the twenty-first century. Looking ahead, the effectiveness and efficiency of university-based education models will be increasingly challenged by alternative paradigms for delivering workforce formation and social renewal. A critical element in the response to these challenges involves a university management focus on, and reward for, risk- taking, creativity, and passion in the pursuit of knowledge.
Biographical Information
Rodney Wissler is the executive dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. He was previously dean of Research and Research Training at QUT, a role which embraced wide-ranging responsibilities in the development of QUT’s research culture and research outputs. Rod has wide experience as a board member of QUT’s nationally-funded research consortia in diverse fields such as interaction design, construction management, and sugar processing and injury prevention. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Following completion of his PhD in German Drama (1979), Professor Wissler built a successful career as an award-winning actor, theatre director, and producer, culminating in a seven-year engagement as CEO and artistic director of the Twelfth Night Theatre (Inc), following which he was appointed to the Theatre Board of the Australia Council in recognition of his national profile in the industry.
In 1992, he directed the US premiere of Australian playwright Alma de Groen's The Rivers of China and performed his second solo show Brief Lives for the Stony Brook International Theater Festival in New York. Professor Wissler founded QUT’s PhD program in the visual and performing arts, and the multi-disciplinary Center for Innovation in the Arts in 1993 to focus on research onthe interface of the arts, media, and design with new technologies. He established spin-off organizations from this work, including Catalyst Youth Arts (Inc) in 1997 to undertake arts-based youth development work in peri-urban communities, and Another Country Intercultural Performance Group to develop hybrid Asian-Australian theater works aimed at international festival distribution.
A particular focus of his scholarly activity over the past ten years has been doctoral education, with particular emphasis on the employability of PhD graduates. He received the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Postgraduate Education in 2007 for project leadership in LEAP (Learning Employment Aptitudes Program), and in 2009 was invited by the US-based Council of Graduate Schools to present this work to a global audience in Washington DC. Professor Wissler has supervised more than 20 research degrees in
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the creative arts and media to completion and among his graduates are internationally recognized artists, policy advisors, performers, university academics, managers, and consultants.
He was the founding director of e-Grad School, Australia (http://www.egradschool.edu.au/). This large-scale research education reform project, funded by the Australian Government (Collaboration and Structural Reform Fund) and the Australian Technology Network of universities, provides online professional education and graduate certificate, graduate diploma and masters courses for researchers in commercialization, R&D management, and related fields.
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•• The Significance of Volunteering Activities in Higher Education
Kazuyoshi Tateyama Special Aide to the Chancellor Ritsumeikan University Japan
Abstract
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake struck the eastern region of Japan, bringing unprecedented consequences. After the disaster, people from all over the world sent their support and encouragement to Japan, giving us hope and strength to recover. Immeasurable tasks still remain, but by continuing our efforts, we firmly believe that our nation will overcome this tragedy.
At Ritsumeikan University, we have been providing support for recovery and reconstruction in many ways with a special emphasis on student volunteering activities. Since the disaster, a number of students have been involved in volunteering, visiting the affected areas and helping those in need.
The volunteering is acknowledged to have a significant effect from an educational perspective, as this activity may promote goodwill towards others and foster motivation to act independently. However, due to the difficulty of evaluating the effectiveness of such activities, how to incorporate volunteering into our educational framework is still open to debate. Through our volunteer activities, we gained insight into this issue.
In the temporary housing occupied by many affected by the disaster, there are no spaces for the residents to interact with each other, and it is hard for communities to develop. Faculty and students in the Department of Architecture conducted on-site research and discovered this fact. Over the course of half a year, the students, with the cooperation of Ritsumeikan alumni and local residents, built a place for residents of temporary towns to gather and socialize. The residents showed great appreciation and sent many messages of gratitude to the students that participated. The students involved in the activities already had interest in constructing their own designed buildings when they began volunteering, but by the end of this project, they were able to experience how their actions could help make others happy. Many of the students will be involved with the construction industry after graduation, and we hope this experience will be a great asset for the students, positively influencing for their future career.
This experience in the field of architecture has helped us rediscover the educational significance of volunteering as “experiencing how one’s actions can help others and make others happy,” and I think it will have a great impact on the character formation of the participating students, even after they graduate. It is difficult to quantitatively evaluate the educational effects of volunteering, but we intend to continue to make efforts toward establishing volunteering as an essential educational tool at our university.
Biographical Information
Kazuyoshi Tateyama is a special aide to the chancellor of Ritsumeikan Academy and a professor of science and engineering at Ritsumeikan University. He earned his BS(1980), MS(1982), and PhD(1985) in engineering from Kyoto University and began his academic career as a research assistant at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Engineering from 1985-1990 and continued to teach as an associate professor from 1990-2004. In the same year, he came to Ritsumeikan University as a professor to teach at the College of Science and Engineering. In 2008, he served as dean of academic affairs of Ritsumeikan University and in 2010, dean of the Division of General Planning and Development of the Ritsumeikan Trust until 2012. His major research field is soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering, and construction engineering and mechanics of construction, as well as automation in construction. He is a member of the Japan Society of Civil Engineering (director from May 2011- present), the Japanese Geotechnical Society, the International Society for Terrain Vehicle Systems (served as president from 2009- 2011), the Japanese Society for Terramechanics (served as president from 2005- 2008), and the Japan Construction Mechanization Association (vice president from 2008 - present).
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•• Exploring New Pathways of Scientific Research Innovation in Chinese Universities: Government-University-Industry Collaboration
Nan Qi Ren Vice President Harbin Institute of Technology China
Abstract
In the face of the new trend of world socio-economic development, the new tasks include China’s modernization project and the new waves of harmonization among diverse human civilizations. Chinese universities have taken it upon themselves an unprecedented mission that is at once noble and historical, with the strategic vision targeting the international development frontier, solving national critical development problems.
In China, the era of research universities started from the 1980s. In 1995, China adopts the national strategy of “Rejuvenating the Country through Science and Education” and in 1999, the government proposed a national plan to build world class universities. HIT is one of the members of the Top 9 University Union (C9) in China and because of its astounding contribution to the nation's scientific and research development HIT has been crowned, “The Cradle of Cultivating Technical Talents in Modern China.”
Recently, HIT established the HIT YIXING Academy of Environmental Protection based on a new collaboration mechanism between the government, university, and industry. The academy incorporates various collaboration patterns in order to pursue acceleration for the commercialization of scientific research and to amplify collaborative efforts. Specifically, the local government of the park is playing a proactive role in policy guidance and policy supports for the university-industry collaboration with the channeling of financial funds for scientific and technology innovation and commercialization. It is worthy to mention that Harbin Institute of Technology invests in collaborative academics in terms of technology and talents with maximum returns for the research innovation team. Such mechanism provides incentive-based policies for the research team and minimizes the risks of the university.
HY MODEL -Integrated Invention
In the past two years, the university-industry partnership has greatly driven the innovation of scientific research and commercialization in Yixing. In the future, the academy aims to improve its competitiveness in the environmental industry through the government, university, and industry partnership and accelerate the commercialization for research outputs. In return, HIT will also benefit from such partnerships in the academy for scientific research innovation.
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Biographical Information
Nan Qi Ren, is vice president of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and member of the China Academy of Engineering (CAE), director of State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Research and Environment(HIT). He is also the fellow of International Water Association (IWA), the member of Evaluation Group of Graduate Degree Committee of State Department of China, the Evaluation Expert of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the vice president of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, the vice president of China Energy Society, the member of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the member of America Society for Microbiology. He is the leader of Chinese Research Group of China. He also serves as the Editor of 7 journals includes China Environmental Science, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China, Journal of Chemical Engineering, etc.
Professor Ren focuses on environmental biotechnology, bio-energy technology of H2, CH4 and electricity, microbial ecology, POPs in water, air and soil, and R&D of novel industrial wastewater treatment technique and equipment, etc. He invented a technology of bio-hydrogen production from ethanol-type fermentation, and establishing a full-scale bio-hydrogen production plant firstly in the world. His research achievement on “Hydrogen bio-production from organic wastewater fermentation” was selected as one of the “Ten Chinese Science & Technology Progress News in 2000”. In high concentrated & toxic industrial wastewater treatment field, Professor Ren invented several integrated technologies which has been applied in 30 demonstrations in China and contributes a lot for environmental protection in China. He has been awarded 3 National Science & Technology Awards and 13 Provincial Awards. He has published over 400 paper, 10 books and 30 National Invention Patents.
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•• Universities as Agents of Change in Pakistan
Arshad Ali Principal, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science National University of Sciences and Technology Pakistan
Abstract
Changing human beings and the systems they have lived with for a life time is a huge challenge that can be braved by superhuman effort only. A socio-economic and political change requires a conducive environment shaped by a multitude of factors, a superior ideology, or a vision that originates in the minds of visionary leaders and is implemented by a team of committed and determined people that have faith in their leader and his or her vision.
The change from an agricultural society to an industrial society took approximately 100 years, but the change from the industrial to informational society took just 20 years. This rapidity of change is attributed to the growth and rapid transmission and absorption of knowledge and the accompanying globalization of socio-economic and technological developments. In the world of today, universities have become the engines of power and agents of change – as every institution must remain connected with universities to gain new knowledge, new technologies, new concepts, and newly-developed human resources.
The universities of Pakistan woke up from their deep slumber in 2002, when the Higher Education Commission was launched and a higher education revolution started alongside an ICT revolution. Pakistani universities are now embracing the new religion and are acquiring the requisites of knowledge capital to influence the socio-economic landscape of Pakistan.
According to the Knowledge Economy Index of countries devised by the World Bank, Pakistan is ranked 118th and its KEI score is only 2.34, which is absolutely unsatisfactory. However, not all is dismal. Pakistan in the last two decades witnessed two major revolutions that have supplemented each other. The revolution in ICT is closely followed by a revolution in higher education in Pakistan, and it is fully supported by ICT infrastructure. The Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN) has provided access to all Pakistani universities to about 45,000 e-books and 23,000 e-journals. It connects Pakistan to 100 million researchers in Europe and Asia through GEANT.
The low score of Pakistan in education and training is because of its low literacy rate (57.7%), and lower educational and vocational indices that need the declaration of an education and skill development emergency in Pakistan. The Triple Helix Model is the best model that can demonstrate, to the government and the people of Pakistan, the way to accelerate the pace for developing a knowledge economy. In a Triple Helix Model, the university needs close interaction and collaboration with industry, and intimate support from the government. This message has reached Pakistan quite late, but Pakistan is a country of talented people and it can catch up provided it makes a concerted effort. Under difficult circumstances, the people of Pakistan have shown tremendous resilience and the Pakistani universities have gallantly continued on their growth trajectory. Under these difficult circumstances, the people of Pakistan have shown tremendous resilience and Pakistani universities have gallantly continued on their growth trajectory. NUST is one such university that continues to stay in the rank of top 500 world universities and among the top 108 Asian universities. NUST has taken pains to develop its linkages with industry and promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. It has a vibrant Corporate Advisory Council that has members from eleven sectors of industry in Pakistan.
Biographical Information
Arshad Ali, principal, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is a researcher and academician. He has over 100 publications to his credit in domestic and international conferences and refereed journals. He has been awarded a Gold Medal by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and COMSTECH for IT research, the Presidents’ Gold Medal for the best NUST researcher of the year (2005), and the Distinguished Scientists of the Year Award (2006) by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. To date, over 100 Pakistani scientists have been given these awards. Dr. Arshad is also a recipient of the President’s Pride of Performance in IT research. He has also been awarded the NCR National IT Excellence Award in the IT research and development category.
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Dr. Arshad has also initiated research collaboration with the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland and earned Associate Institute status of CMS-CERN for the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST). Dr. Harvey Newman from Caltech, USA, and Dr. Arshad formed a joint consortium with University of the West, England, UK, and Beijing Institute of Technology China, University of Savoie, France, and NUST, Pakistan, and initiated various projects that attracted research funding from the European Union.
Dr. Arshad has also served as member of the International Advisory Board of the "International ICFA Workshop on HEP Networking, Grids, and Digital Divide Issues for Global e-Science."
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•• Costs, Access & Effectiveness in Higher Education
Mark S. Kamlet Provost Carnegie Mellon University USA
Abstract
There are three phenomena that are putting significant pressure on many institutions of higher education in the United States as well as in other developed countries around the world today.
One of these phenomena is of very long standing. It is the lack of “productivity growth” in higher education. The basic mode of production in higher education — a professor stands before a class and lectures — has not changed much since the original universities in medieval Europe. For reasons explained in the paper, this has led to a secular increase in the cost of higher education (e.g., tuition) relative to other goods and services—something that is referred to as “Baumol’s Disease.” The second phenomenon is of more recent vintage and consists of the growing reluctance and/or inability of governments and the electorate to subsidize public universities to the extent that they have done in the last few decades. The paper also presents some reasons why this drop in public support is now taking place. The third phenomenon, which dates back at least to World War II, is the growing importance of a highly educated work force in the global knowledge economy. Attainment of some kind of post-secondary credential has become more essential now than ever before in history.
The combination of these three phenomena has led, on the one hand, to enormous pressures to reduce the cost of higher education while, on the other hand, putting a dramatically increased priority on access and quality. That is the heart of the dilemma upon which this paper focuses.
In this context, what potential does technology hold to reduce costs, expand access, and/or improve effectiveness? While it is hardly new to higher education, distance learning and other online learning (OLL) methods have been the focus of much recent attention. The so- called Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOC) initiative is one such approach which is being spearheaded by a set of prominent US universities. Its core method consists of transmitting lectures and exercises, but using the Internet to make them available to a broad audience for zero or very low cost.
Yet others argue that not only is lecturing not the most effective approach to learning, but also merely publishing free lecture content does not begin to take advantage of what technology can do help learners. Much of the literature in the cognitive sciences of learning emphasizes that rather than the lecture format– the so-called “sage on the stage”—learning is often most effective in the context of a high degree of interactivity, student customization, rapid and effective feedback, learning by doing, and blended learning (where technology is used to supplement and support the work of a human instructor).
An alternative methodology to the lecture transmission paradigm is one that combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive science, through modalities that are sometimes referred to as “cognitive tutors.” This paper explains the cognitive tutor approach in greater detail, focusing on two particular case examples: one that has been applied effectively in secondary education, and one that is now being explored more extensively in higher education.
Biographical Information
Mark S. Kamlet, provost of Carnegie Mellon since 2000, was reappointed to a second five-year term in 2005, at which time he was also named senior vice president. As CMU's chief academic officer, Provost Kamlet has worked with the deans and department heads to strengthen the university’s academic programs, retain and recruit world-class faculty, enhance its many research programs, centers and institutes, and create new academic and research initiatives leveraging the university’s talent and expertise. A leading expert in economics and public policy, the economics of health care, quantitative methodology and public finance, he also has worked with local government and with Carnegie Mellon's many outreach initiatives to foster economic, educational and cultural development in southwest Pennsylvania.
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Provost Kamlet joined Carnegie Mellon's central leadership team after a successful eight-year tenure as dean of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at CMU, now the Heinz College. Under Provost Kamlet, the Heinz School's endowment increased more than 80 percent and its research funding grew by nearly 400 percent.
He became a member of the CMU faculty in 1976 and was named a professor in 1989 with a joint appointment in the Heinz School and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS). Before becoming dean of the Heinz School in 1993, he was associate dean of H&SS and head of its Department of Social and Decision Sciences. He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford University, master's degrees in economics and statistics and a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Participants
Il SaKong Chairman and CEO Institute for Global Economics Korea
Il SaKong is the founder and chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Economics (IGE), a private non-profit research institute based in Seoul since 1993. He served in the government of the Republic of Korea as minister of finance (1987-88), senior secretary to the president for economic affairs (1983-87), Senior Counselor to the Minister of Economic Planning Board (1982) and Senior Economist of the Council on Economic & Scientific Affairs for the President (1979-80). He previously spent nearly 10 years (1973-82) at the Korea Development Institute (KDI) which is the leading economic think tank for the Korean government.
More recently (2009-11), Dr. SaKong led Korea’s endeavor for the G20 Summit in 2010 in Seoul. As the chairman of the Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, he was wholly responsible for the entire preparation and coordination for the Seoul G20 Summit. Simultaneously, he chaired the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) from February 2009 to February 2012.
Also, Dr. SaKong served in the Office of the President as Special Economic Adviser to the President from March 2008 to April 2009. He headed the Presidential Council on National Competitiveness from March 2008 to January 2009. The Council was established with the primary objective of enhancing Korea’s national competitiveness and economic growth potential through necessary structural adjustments. He also served as Ambassador for International Economy and Trade (2000-02).
Dr. SaKong currently serves as advisor to the JoongAng Media Group which owns the JoonAng Ilbo, one of the major dailies in Korea, and its sister TV station, JTBC.
He has received various honors and prizes, including the Korean government's Order of Civil Service Merit “Blue Stripes (1990)", the Republic of China's Order of the Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon (1987), the Kingdom of Belgium's Order of the Crown (1986), the Korean government's Order of Civil Merit “Moran Medal” (1983), Korea University's Grand Prize for Distinguished Policy Makers (2002), the Outstanding Achievement Award for 2008, the Korean Association of Translators & Interpreters’ Speaker of the Year (2009), and the Proud UCLA Alum Award (2010).
Dr. SaKong graduated from Seoul National University (1964) and received his MBA (1966) and PhD (1969) from the University of California at Los Angeles. He taught economics at New York University (1969-73).
Yul-Rae Cho Vice Minister Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Korea
Yul-Rae Cho is vice minister II of the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. He earned his BS in law from Sung-Kun- Kwan University, Korea, and his MA in Economics at Rutgers University, USA, in 1985 and 1993, respectively. From 1999-2000 he served as the director of the Office of Policy Research I for the presidential advisory committee on science and technology. From 2001-2002, he served as the director of the Planning and Budget Division for the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). From 2003-2005 he was a visiting fellow at the International Cooperation Division, DG Research for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. From 2006-2008 he was the assistant secretary to the President of Korea for Science and Technology. He then served one year as the director general for the Policy Planning Bureau and the following year he served as the assistant minister for Research and Development Policy, both part of the Ministry of Education, Science & Technology (MEST). Since June of 2012, he has been serving as vice minister II for the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology.
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Chang Dong Yoo Co-Chair of IPFGRU Associate Vice President of Special Projects and Institutional Relations KAIST Korea
Chang Dong Yoo, associate vice president of Special Projects and Institutional Relations at KAIST, is a co-chair of the annual KAIST International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities. He received his BS in engineering and applied science from California Institute of Technology in 1986, MS in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1988, and PhD in electrical engineering from MIT in 1996. He worked as a senior researcher for Korea Telecom from 1997-1999. Since 1999 he has been a professor at KAIST and became the associate vice president of Special Projects and Institutional Relations in 2011. He had also previously joined MIT as a visiting scholar from 2005-2006. He was the recipient of the POSCO Scholarship from 1986-1996. He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. Additionally, he is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ISCA. He won the Best Lecture Award in 2009, awarded by the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. His research interests include machine learning for speech, music, audio, image and video processing.
Michael Cardew-Hall Pro Vice Chancellor for Innovation & Advancement Australian National University Australia
Michael Cardew-Hall is pro vice chancellor for Innovation & Advancement at Australian National University. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institution of Engineers Australia. He has held technical and management positions with GEC and Rolls-Royce Aero Engines in the UK prior to joining the ANU in 1993. He has been an active researcher in the area of CAD, Computer Aided Manufacture, application of machine learning and knowledge based systems to manufacturing and optimisation of manufacturing processes, in particular sheet metal forming. Much of this work has been carried out in collaboration with industry partners, particularly in the automotive sector. He is involved with the Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (Auto CRC) being a member of their expert panel.
Professor Cardew-Hall has his BS from Nottingham University in 1983 and PhD from Imperial College, London in 1988. He has ongoing interest in technology transfer, commercialization and industrial policy and has been involved in a number of spin off start-up companies. He is currently CEO of ANU Connect Ventures, a pre-seed venture capital fund associated with the ANU.
He has held the position of head department of engineering, deputy dean, and acting dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University.
Peter J. Scales Deputy Dean, School of Engineering University of Melbourne Australia
Peter J. Scales leads an internationally recognized solid-liquid (sludge) separation group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a member of the Particulate Fluids Processing Special Research Center. Professor scales is also deputy Dean at the Melbourne School of Engineering.
Professor Scales is president of the Australian Society of Rheology, Regional Editor of the Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FICHEME) and Engineers Australia. He is also a member on the editorial boards of the journals: Colloids and Surfaces A and Transactions of the Filtration Society.
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The key research expertise of Professor Scales is in the yielding in shear and compression of concentrated particulate dispersions, coagulation and flocculation processes, the measurement of particulate suspension material properties in shear and compression, the role of molecular additives in changing the flow of suspensions, particle dispersion (including electrokinetics) and membrane fouling. A further expertise is the application of this knowledge base to the quantitative prediction and optimization of particle sedimentation, thickening, filtration and centrifugation processes. The industrial application of the work is to environmental cleanup, water recycle, waste disposal practices, particulate processing and operations optimization in the minerals, water, waste water, dairy, nuclear, pigments, ceramics, food, dredging and pharmaceuticals industries.
Professor Scales is the recipient of a number of awards including the Frederick White Prize of the Australian Academy of Science; the Shedden-UBDE Medal (Chemeca); and the Grimwade Prize in Industrial Chemistry. He has been with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering since 2002. Prior to this he was manager of the Advanced Mineral Products Special Research Center at the School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne and senior research associate at ICI Corporate Colloid Group in the UK.
Leslie Field Vice President and Deput Vice Chancellor for Research The University of New South Wales Australia
Leslie Field is Vice President and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Professor Field is responsible for the strategic research direction and overall research performance of the University, and in particular, maintaining and advancing the University’s profile in research and research training, as well as in technology transfer. Professor Field is a graduate of the University of Sydney (PhD in chemistry in 1979) and, following Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at Oxford, he took up an academic post at the University of Sydney in 1982. He was awarded a DSc by the University of Sydney in 1991. At the University of Sydney, Professor Field was professor of Organic Chemistry (1990 to 2005); he was head of the School of Chemistry (1997-2001), associate dean for research in the Faculty of Science (1998-2001) and acting deputy vice chancellor (Research) (2001-2003). He took up his current post at UNSW in 2005.
His main areas of research are organometallic chemistry, catalysis and NMR spectroscopy. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and 4 text books. He was the recipient of the Organic Chemistry Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1994 and was elected as a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science in 1996. He has served as a member of the Council of the Australian Academy of Science (2004-6) and the Council of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (2004-8). He was appointed as Member of the Order of Australia in 2011 for his services to Chemistry and to Higher Education.
Academic Awards include: The Rennie Medal (1983); The Edgeworth David Medal (1986); The Organic Chemistry Medal (1992), the Centenary of Federation Medal in 2003 and the Leighton Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2010. Professor Field is a director of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Pty Ltd; Australian Technology Park Innovations Pty Ltd; and Spatial Information Systems Ltd. He is also Chairman of New South Innovations Pty Ltd (NSi) which is the technology transfer company for UNSW, responsible for industry engagement, managing the University’s patent portfolio and for dissemination of research done at UNSW into the wider community.
Laura Poole-Warren Dean of Graduate Research The University of New South Wales Australia
Laura Poole-Warren received her PhD in biomedical engineering from The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1990. After commencing as a lecturer at UNSW in 1995, she built a successful research group focused on understanding structure-property relationships of polymeric biomaterials. Between 1999 and 2001, she was a research professor at Rutgers University in the USA and during that time worked closely with the biomedical device industry. After returning to UNSW, in 2006 she took on the role of
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associate dean of research in engineering, a position held until being appointed as dean of Graduate Research in 2010. As the dean of Graduate Research, Laura has executive responsibility for the Graduate Research School, the unit responsible for administration of the more than 4000 graduate research candidates enrolled at UNSW. The other majar part of her leadership role is in developing and implementing strategy and policy relating to higher degree research at UNSW and interacting with major partners such as the Group of Eight, Universitas 21 and China 9 Universities. In 2012, Laura was appointed acting pro vice chancellor Research and in this role has responsibility for management and strategic support of grant applications, including fellowships and post-doctoral researchers and researcher development activities. She continues to be actively involved in research and teaching in the biomaterials and tissue engineering field and currently supervises five PhD students and several MS and undergraduate thesis students.
Michael E. McManus Vice Presidens for Academic University of Queensland Australia
Michael E. McManus was appointed deputy vice chancellor for academic in December, 2011. Prior to this role, he held the position of dean of academic programs from April, 2010, where he strengthened and developed UQ’s academic programs in a range of areas (e.g., extra-curriculum) and provided leadership in internationalizing the university’s curricula, embedding indigeneous perspectives into the curricula and strengthening pathways from secondary school to university. Prior to this position, Professor McManus was acting deputy vice chancellor for International relations from January 2009 to April 2010. He has also held positions at UQ as executive dean of the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 1998-2008, and head of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, 1993-1997.
In 2006, he led the review of the Bachelor of Science degree at UQ and provided major input into a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) plan for schools in the state of Queensland. During his time as executive dean, Professor McManus was also a member of the boards of three research institutes, two cooperative research centers, a number of spin-out companies (VasCam Pty Ltd, Bireme Pty Ltd (Chair), ICT-IX Pty Ltd, IPCo Ltd) and was chair of the Queensland Australian-American Fulbright Awards Committee from 2006 – 2008.
He received his Bachelor of Pharmacy from Curtin University of Technology and completed his PhD in biochemical pharmacology at the University of Western Australia. Michael is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has held research positions at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, National Institutes of Health in the US and at Flinders University in Adelaide.
Professor McManus has been the recipient of a Fogarty International Fellowship/Associateship, an Anti-Cancer Foundation Fellowship of the Universities of South Australia, National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship, and an International Union Against Cancer Yamagiwa-Yoshida Fellowship. He was president of the Australasian Society of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT) from 2000-2001 and chairperson of the 9th International Congress of Toxicology held in Brisbane in 2001. In 2007, Professor McManus was the recipient of ASCEPT’s Inaugural Service to the Society Award.
Marcelo Fernandes de Aquino President Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Brazil
Marcelo Fernandes de Aquino, SJ (Jesuit), has been the president of Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS since 2006 and titleholder professor of the Post-Graduation Program in philosophy of this university since 1998. Marcelo Fernandes de Aquino graduated in philosophy from Faculdade de Filosofia Aloisianum and in theology from Pontifícia Universidade Gregoriana, both in Italy, and philosophy at the Hochschulefür Philosophie in Germany. He concluded the master’s and doctorate degrees in philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Gregoriana, where he also obtained his master’s degree in theology. He holds a post-doctorate from Boston College in the United States.
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At UNISINOS, besides serving as vice president (2002 to 2004), he was executive coordinator of the post-graduation program in philosophy at the university. He was a visiting professor at Boston College in the United States and of the Federal University of the State of Minas Gerais. Furthermore, he was dean (1992 to 1998) of the Higher Studies Center Companhia de Jesus in Belo Horizonte and professor of philosophy at Faculty Cristo Rei. He was vice president of ABRUC (2010-2011) and president of the Portal Futurum (2011).
He is the second vice president of the Rio Grande do Sul State Community Universities Consortium (COMUNG), finance director of the Catholic Education National Association of Brazil (ANEC), member of the Superior Council of the Rio Grande do Sul State Program of Quality and Productivity (PGQP), member of the Board of Universia Brasil, and member of the Deliberative Council of the Non- Governmental Organization Parceiros Voluntários (Volunteer Partners). He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Catholic University of Portugal Portuguese magazine and of Kriteriun magazine.
Cristiano Richter Director of Development and Expansion Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Brazil
Cristiano Richter is a graduate in civil engineering from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos and has MD in civil engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS. He earned his PhD in Engineering Production at UFRGS. He has experience in the area of civil engineering, with emphasis on the Process of Product Development, Project Management, and Civil Construction.
He’s the Director of Development and Expansion of the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) and professor of the Civil Engineering Course. He was Advisor for Strategic Projects the UNISINOS’ President for Strategic Projects; Executive Coordinator of the Semiconductor Institut Project in UNISINOS; Coordinator of Civil Construction Lato Sensu Course – Management, Technology, and Sustainability.
Luiz Felipe Vallandro Director, Finances and Controllership Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Brazil
Luiz Felipe Vallandro, MSc has graduated in business administration from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUC/ RS, 1993-1996, PhD in marketing from Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing - ESPM, 1998-2000, MBA in corporate finance from Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – Unisinos, 2005-2006, and a master degree in accounting from Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – Unisinos, 2007-2009. Currently, he has been doing PhD in business administration at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS.
He works in the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS as chief financial officer and is professor of finance at both the undergraduate course of business administration and the MBA in finance and controllership at the same university. He has experience in business administration and in corporate finance.
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Daniel Coderre Rector Institut National de la Recherché Scientifiqué Canada
Daniel Coderre was appointed as the president of Institut National de la Recherché Scientifiqué in May 2009. Dedicated to research and graduate studies, INRS ranks first in Canada in terms of research intensity (grants per professor). INRS conducts its activities, including postdoctoral internships, at four research centers in Montréal, Québec City, Laval, and Varennes. Its research teams perform fundamental research and play a critical role in developing concrete solutions to problems facing our society.
From 2004 to 2009, Dr. Coderre was vice president of academic affairs and research at Université du Québec, as well as its interim president in 2009. At UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), he was vice rector of research and creation (2001-2004), as well as dean of the Faculty of Science (2001) and director of the environmental sciences doctorate program. At that university, he also helped develop the first problem-based learning curriculum for the bachelor biology program.
Dr. Coderre is very active on the Québec, national and international scenes through his efforts to advance and strategically position science and technology. He notably sat on Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie's international scientific committee and chaired its Commission Régionale D'experts des Amériques. He is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada Standing Advisory Committee on University Research. In Québec, Dr. Coderre chairs the Strategic Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation of the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Québec Universities (CREPUQ). He also sits on Laval Technopole's board of directors, as well as on the board of directors and executive committee of Laval's Biotech City. He was a member of the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade's advisory group for the Québec Research and Innovation Strategy and member of Conseil de la science et de la technologie.
With a PhD in biology/entomology from Université de Sherbrooke, Dr. Coderre began his university career as a professor at UQAM's Department of Biological Sciences which he joined in 1982. He has been a guest professor at prestigious institutions such as the University of California (Santa Cruz) and the United States Department of Agriculture (Phoenix, Arizona), among others, and has collaborated on a number of research projects related to biodiversity and biological control in Canada and abroad, notably in the United States, Morocco, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, and Portugal. In the 1990s, Dr. Coderre was the scientific director of the Montréal Insectarium, the largest insectarium in North America and one of the largest in the world. He also coauthored the first French-language work on biological control and has written nearly 100 publications in international scientific journals.
José Eusebio Consuegra Bolívar President Universidad Simón Bolivar Colombia
José Eusebio Consuegra Bolívar is president of Univesidad Simón Bolivar and a medical doctor specialized in surgery and has graduated from the University Leadership Program of the School of Education at Harvard University. He holds a master’s degree in social development projects as well as a postgraduate studies in education management through the Permanent University Symposium. He possesses a high sense of responsibility and commitment to the continuous improvement of higher education in Colombia. In addition President Consuegra has extensive management experience in both the education field and the health sector. In the past, he has served as director of the Barranquilla Pediatric Hospital and as regional manager of the Social Insurance Institution. He is an active member of several national, regional and international institutions or associations of higher education.
Currently, he is the representative of private universities to the National Council of Higher Education (CESU) and president of the Higher Education Institutions Network of Barranquilla and the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Consuegra is part of the board of directors for ICETEX (Colombian Institute of Educational Credits and Foreign Studies) representing the national council of universities. Finally, he is a member of the Ibero-American University Association of Graduates-AUIP.
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Martin Philip Bendsøe Senior Vice President Technical University of Denmark Denmark
Martin Philip Bendsøe is senior vice president and dean of graduate studies and international affairs at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He received his MSc in mathematics and physics at the University of Copenhagen in 1979, his PhD in applied mathematics at DTU in 1983 and in 1995 defended his DTech degree titled "Optimization of Structural Topology, Shape and Material."In 2010 Martin P. Bendsøee received the Doctor honoris causa (Dr.h.c.) from the University of Liège, Belgium, for his contributions to computational mechanics.
He has, during three different periods, served as the chairman of the Department of Mathematics, DTU (1989-92, 1998-2001, 2006- 2009) and has also earlier been the dean of the graduate school at DTU (1995-98). With more than 6,000 citations, he is the author of six monographs (four as editor), two textbooks, and more than 150 papers in journals, research monographs and refereed proceedings, on optimal design and control of structures and materials. He has a broad international background and has served as reviewer for universities and research foundations in more than 10 countries. He served as president of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO), 2003-2007, and he is the current chairman of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. He has received several awards including the Villum Kann Rasmussen Award, the most prestigious Danish award in the technical and natural sciences.
Martti Raevaara Vice President Aalto University Finland
Martti Raevaara has been the vice president of Aalto University since October 2009, in charge of academic affairs, especially education and learning including library and learning spaces. Before this he was the vice-rector, professor and the head of the MA eLearning programme Virt@ at the former University of Art and Design Helsinki, which is now one of the six schools at Aalto University.
Professor Raevaara’s professorship is focused on e-learning and assessment in the art and design of higher education. He has worked at the School of Art and Design since 1983 in several capacities, as a lecturer of photography and visual design, research assistant, professor, and the dean.
In addition, he has notable accomplishments in the development of teaching and learning, particularly in the use of ICT in education and learning. He is a member of several domestic and international boards and working groups of blended learning and cross- disciplinary initiatives for learning and innovative education.
Jung Sook Bae-Kopp Professor Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard France
Jung Sook Bae-Kopp is professor of coss-cultural psychology. After the Master from Seoul National University, her degrees were obtained at two French universities located at Strasbourg: the “Doctor of Human Psychology” at Louis Pasteur University and the “Doctor of Phonetics” at Marc Bloch University.
She was professor at Andong National University. She has served at Seoul National University, at Souk Myeong Women’s University
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and at Chonbuk National University in Korea. She worked at the society IN2 in Paris as a Researcher in developing a psycho-acoustic component in the frame of a psycho-physiological testing program for cosmonauts. She gave also lectures about “Perception and Cognition” at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg.
Since 1993, she has been working at the University of Technology in Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM). She gives lectures on “Semiology”, “Cultural Comportment” and “Korean Language” in UTBM. She is a full member of the Laboratory RECITS (Research Laboratory of Industrial, Technological and Scientific Choices).
She has published numerous articles in areas of Human Perception and Representation, Intercultural Comportments and Cross Cultural Studies. She is the author of a book in French published in 2007, “Regards interculturels vers l’Asie : Chine, Corée, Japon (Intercultural Looks to Asia : China, Korea and Japan) ”. She is a member of the French Association for the Study of Korea, the Society of Jean Piaget and the International Association of Intercultural Studies. Her actual research theme is focused on cross cultural studies of women and children’s life under foreign occupation based on their memories and perceptions. For example, “Occupation and Childhood: Cross Cultural Study between German occupation of France and Korea under Japanese Rule during World War II”, published in 2011. Recently, she published on “Korean Women’s Movements under Japanese Rule: Context, characteristics and Representations.”
Robert A. Baffour Vice President Ghana Telecom University College Ghana
Robert A. Baffour is the vice president of Ghana Telecom University College . As the vice president, Dr. Baffour is in charge of all academic programs including undergraduate, graduate and professional development courses. He also oversees the quality assurance processes of all the university’s academic infrastructure. Since his appointment, Dr. Baffour has worked with the university administration to introduce new programs, including the famous Coventry University, UK, one-year post graduate programs.
He came to GTUC from Southern Polytechnic State University (Marietta, Georgia, USA), where he served as an associate professor of engineering and the coordinator of the Transportation Engineering Program at the Department of Civil Engineering Technology from 2007 to 2008. During this same period, Dr. Baffour served as an engineering consultant to Corporate Environmental Risk Management in Atlanta, GA, where he directed and managed several civil and environmental engineering projects with such engineering firms as CH2MHILL, Parsons, Jacobs, and Arcadis. Before that, he served for one year as an eminent scholar in geographic information systems, engineering and technology at Gainesville State College in Georgia, USA.
Dr. Baffour began his career on the faculty at Bradley University (Peoria, IL, USA) from 1997 to 1999. He then spent six years on the faculty of Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, GA, USA), including five years as director of the Center for Environmental Policy, Education, and Research (CEPER) and four years as the associate director of the Computation and Modeling Laboratory at Clark Atlanta University. Dr. Baffour has a PhD in civil engineering from Georgia Tech (1997), a master’s degree in civil engineering from Georgia Tech (1996), a second masters in civil engineering from Iowa State University (1993), and a BSc (Hons) in geodetic engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana (1989).Dr. Baffour has received several grants and developed research programs with such agencies as NASA, US EPA, USDOD, USDOE, USAIC, and the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). For over four years, Dr. Baffour was one of a few researchers involved in the US Army High Performance Computing Research Centers (AHPCRC).
Irawati Vice Rector for Resources and Organization Institut Teknologi Bandung Indonesia
Irawati is the Vice Rector for Resources and Organization of Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Professor of Algebra. She served as a member of Faculty of Math and Natural Sciences of ITB since 1983 until now. During the period of 2006 - 2010 she served as the
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Secretary of faculty senate in her faculty and assigned as the Vice Rector for Resources and Organization of ITB in February 2010 for the period of 4 years. She was graduated from Mathematics Department of ITB in the year of 1982 and then successfully got the PhD from ITB in the year of 2004.
She is currently member of national and international association in mathematics. As a scientist she has been received a number of national and international funding to support her interest and research. Ring and Module Theory and Algebraic Graph Theory, have become her research interest since the year of 1983.
Many PhDs have been graduated under her supervision and in the last 4 years she has produced a significant number of paper published in both national and international journals.
Edwan Kardena Director of Partnership and International Relations Institut Teknologi Bandung Indonesia
Edwan Kardena is the currently director of partnership and international relations, ITB. He got his PhD degree in October, 1995, from the University of Wales College of Cardiff, UK. He participated in brief post-doctoral training at the University of New South Wales, Australia, in November, 1996, then at Hokkaido University, Japan, under the JSPS Program in March, 1997, and at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, from May to August, 1998. He was appointed as assistant director of the Inter University Center for Biotechnology, ITB (1999-2001), and became assistant director for partnership in the year of 2002-2004, and then from 2005-2009, he served a deputy vice rector for partnership and community services. Since 2010, he has held the position of director of partnership and international relations. As the person in charge of international cooperation at ITB, Dr. Kardena has been very active in a number of international and regional networks such as the ASEAN University Network (AUN) and also the ASEAN European University Network (Asea-Uninet). He is also serving as the Asia coordinator for Asea-Uninet from 2010-2013. Dr. Edwan Kardena is a lsoan associate professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interest is in the biodegradation of organic pollutant and its application in soil and water. He has published a significant number of publications in that specific area. He has also been involved in the bioremediation of oil sludge as well as oil contaminated sites research and projects in a number of oil and gas fields in Indonesia.
Steven Nishida Director, Center for International Relations Nara Institute of Science and Technology Japan
Steven Nishida is associate professor and director of the Center for International Relations at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan, where he is responsible for strategic planning and oversight of on-campus community development and international university outreach. He is a language education specialist who has led international activities for a broad range of private, public, for- profit, and non-profit educational organizations and institutes throughout his career.
In his previous position at NAIST, he headed English education in the Graduate School of Materials Science, working directly with faculty and students to improve global competencies. Before coming to NAIST, he served as vice president of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (NPO JALT), where he collaborated with domestic and overseas language teaching associations and was instrumental in expanding the activities of the Pan Asian Consortium of Language Teaching Societies.
He also developed and coordinated an in-service elementary school English teacher-training program that was funded by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). In addition to his university endeavors, he is owner and director of English Masters – Communication Center, a privately owned language institute located in Nara, Japan. A native Californian, he received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley, with majors in Philosophy and English, in 1998. He presents frequently at
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conferences in Asia and North America on topics related to international collaboration, language education, and the importance of community in education.
Satoru Endo Professor Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
Satoru Endo is a professor at the University Management Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology. After graduating from the School of Education at Waseda University in 1981, Professor Endo worked at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) as assistant director of the JSPS Washington Liaison Office, assistant head of the Policy Planning Division and head of administration at the Research Center for Science Systems until 2009.
He has been employed in his current position at Tokyo Institute of Technology as a planning officer at the International Office since July 2009, and has been in charge of business relating to international research and education activities. His field of expertise is science and technology policy. He has continued his research into trends in science policy, with a particular focus on America from 2000.
Since 2010, he has taken an additional post as visiting researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in Japan. He is a member of the Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management, the Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies and the Japan Association of Higher Education Research. His research results have been published in the NISTEP Science & Technology Trends and other journals, and on the “Science Policy in the USA” website.
Young-Gil Kim President Handong Global University Korea
Young-Gil Kim is the founding and chartered president of Handong Global University in Pohang, Korea, since 1995. Since then, he nurtured HGU to what it is today with his new educational philosophy based on cross-border, multidisciplinary and whole-person education with global perspective commensurate with the 21st century. Prior to becoming the president of HGU, Dr. Kim was a professor of Material Science and Engineering at KAIST for 17 years. While Dr. Kim was in the US, he worked at NASA Lewis Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio, on high-temperature alloys for aerospace applications. He also worked at US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and at the Research and Development Center of the International Nickel Company (INCO), in Suffern, New York. Due to his scientific achievements in the US, he received NASA Tech Brief Awards in 1976 and 1981 and also the US Industrial Research “IR-100” Award in 1981.
As president of HGU in 1995, Dr. Kim pioneered a new educational curriculum for this global, technology-driven market place of the 21st century. For those innovative programs, HGU received excellence awards for education reforms from the Ministry of Education of Korea for three consecutive years from 1996 as a model university for the 21st century. Dr. Kim also received the King Sejong Award of Science & Technology Field in 1986 from the Korean government, and was selected as the “Scientist of the Year” in 1987 in Korea. In 2005, he also received the “Christian Academy Award” for his contribution to creation science in Korea. Dr. Kim published his autobiography entitled “See the Invisible, Change the World” in the USA in 2006. Dr. Kim received his BS in metallurgical engineering from Seoul National University in 1964; MS in metallurgical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1969; and PhD in material science and engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1972. Dr. Kim serves as the chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology, Presidential Advisory Council on Education, Science & Technology (PAC EST) of Korea since 2008. Dr. Kim also serves as the Chairman of the Education Sector of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO.
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Oh-Kyong Kwon Executive Vice President Hanyang University Korea
Oh-Kyong Kwon is senior academic vice president and received a BS in electronics engineering from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, in 1978, and his MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1986 and 1988, respectively. From 1980 to 1983, he was with LG Electronics, Inc. in Seoul, Korea, where he was involved in the development of telecommunications products, including the G-3 fax system and the PCM system.
From 1987 to 1992, he was with the Semiconductor Process and Design Center of Texas Instruments Inc. in Dallas, Texas, where he was engaged in the development of multi-chip module (MCM) technologies and smart power integrated circuit technologies for automotive and flat panel display applications. In 1992, he joined Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, as an assistant professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and he became a full professor in 2001. Dr. Kwon is now serving as the provost and senior vice president of Hanyang University.
Tae Soo Lee Executive Vice President for Research and Business Affairs Sogang University Korea
Tae Soo Lee is the executive vice president of Research and Business of Sogang University, the dean of the Industry-University Cooperation Foundation, and also a professor at Sogang University. He is on the Board of Korea Medical Devices Industrial Coop. Association (KMDICA). Also, he is currently the president of OXUS.
Professor Lee graduated from Seoul National University in 1980, majoring in mechanical design. He earned his MBA from Seoul National University in 1982 and received his PhD from Ohio State University in 1989. He received the Jang Young Shil Award twice in 2003 and 2008.
Leo Daniel Provost Kwara State University Nigeria
Leo Daniel is a professor of aerospace engineering and provost at Kwara State University. Provost Daniel was named the MIT Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2008. He received MSc in mechanical and aerospace engineering with highest honors in 1990 from the Soviet Academy of Science and PhD in Aerospace Engineering, in 2000, from University of London, Queen Mary and Imperial College. While at Queen Mary as a research fellow from 1996 to 1999, he received recognition as an exemplary researcher at the UK Defense Evaluation Research Agency (DERA). As ESA’s senior research scientist for aeronautics and astronautics from 2002 to 2004, he was responsible for the Future Launch Preparatory Programs (FLPP) and delivery of flight modules of European SOCRATES RLV at ESA, for which he received several awards.
Professor Daniel is an elected fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Materials, and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is the author and editor of books and journals among which include AIAA Aerospace Materials, and Aerospace Bio-inspired Materials and Engineering. He is strongly involved in an institutional leadership role that promotes inclusive excellence within a global framework of 21st century academic diversity, campus and community development. Leo loves flying, lawn tennis and soccer. He is currently advising Nigeria on space policy, science and technology.
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Berit Kjeldstad Prorector Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway
Berit Kjeldstad has served prorector at Norwegian University of Science and Technology since 2009. She has special responsibility for education and learning quality. She has been a professor in physics at NTNU since 2002, (PhD in physics 1987). She also obtained her MA in physics at the same university in 1981. For her doctoral work she received The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Young Scientist Award in 1988. She held a post-doctorate position at NTNU from 1988 to 1991 and became a faculty member and head of the Department of Physics from 2006-2009. She was also a visiting professor at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2000. She has also been active in promoting the participation of females in physics.
She has participated in many European Commission research programs in atmospheric physics since 1994, together with a large network of international scientists. She has been an evaluator for the European commission research program (Frameprograms 5, 6, and 7) on climate issues since 2004. From 2003 until 2010, she was a member of the World Meteorological Organization, scientific advisory board on ultraviolet radiation. Since 2007, she has worked as project leader for a collaboration project with Nepal and China on spatial and seasonal variation in solar radiation and aerosol concentration and compositions in urban and rural sites in the Himalaya region, funded by the Norwegian Program for Development, Research, and Education. Currently she is director of the board at the University Center at Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway, and member of the education committee at the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions. As prorector with dedicated responsibility for education, she has particularly been working on quality enhancement, leadership, and management in higher education teaching. She is a fellow of the the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. She is happily married with two children.
Ihron Rensburg Vice Chancellor University of Johannesburg South Africa
Ihron Rensburg is the vice chancellor and principal of the University of Johannesburg. Prior to this appointment, he was the chief executive of strategic corporate services at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. In this capacity, he served as chairman of the National Broadcasting Association (South Africa), president of the Southern Africa Broadcasters Association, and founder of the continental African Broadcasting Union. After the end of apartheid, he served as deputy director general in South Africa’s National Department of Education until 2001.
Professor Rensburg was an anti-apartheid activist and leader (1976-2004). During this time, he spearheaded the creation of local, regional and national teachers’ and students’ movements. He is widely acknowledged for his policy, strategy, leadership and managerial skills, ably demonstrated during his stewardship of South Africa’s post-apartheid education policy, legislation and programs. As deputy director general of the country’s national Department of Education (1995-2001), he led several teams that designed and created the new system of national and provincial education departments, the new national school curriculum, and various policies and legislation for schools and higher education. In 2007 he was appointed honorary professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg, where he lectures in organizational theory and education leadership.
He serves in a non-executive capacity in many governmental and non-governmental institutions. He serves on the council of the Association of Commonwealth University, is chairperson of the Southern African Universities Association, is a commissioner of South Africa’s National Planning Commission, a member of the Ministerial Committee on the review of the funding of universities in South Africa, was chairperson of Higher Education South Africa, the South African Vice Chancellors Association (2010-2011), and was chairperson of the Ministerial Committee on Student Accommodation (2010-2012).
Professor Rensburg holds a BPharm from Rhodes University (1981), and a MA (1992) and PhD (1996), both from Stanford University. He has won many awards, including the Le Matinal Africa-India Education Leadership Award (2011), Metropolitan Eastern Cape Education Leadership Award (2006), WK Kellogg Foundation Global Fellowship (1992-1996), Ford Foundation Research Grant (1995-1996), HSRC Social Movements Research Grant (1995-1996), Merck, Sharpe & Dohme Fellowship (1979-1981) and the Rhodes University Bursary (1978). PARTICIPANTS • 62 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
Ulf Nilsson Dean of Engineering Linköping University Sweden
Ulf Nilsson, born in 1961, became a professor of computer science at Linköping University in 2003. He is currently dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (a.k.a. the Institute of Technology); the largest of four faculties at Linköping University, Sweden. Before that he was vice dean of the Institute of Technology and pro vice chancellor of Linköping University. He is currently also chairman of the National Supercomputer Center at Linköping University and member of the board of the Printed Electronics Arena (PEA). He has served as chairman of the board of the Department of Mathematics and vice head of the Department of Computer & Information Science, where he was also director of PhD studies and leader of the Theoretical Computer Science Laboratory.
Nilsson received his PhD in computer science in 1992 from Linköping University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at SUNY at Stony Brook and has been a visiting professor on several occasions at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
Nilsson’s research concerns semantics of declarative languages for specification, programming, and computation. His focus has been primarily on formalisms based on computational logic, constraint programming, and automata theory. His PhD thesis concerns automatic techniques and methods for analysis and transformation of logic programs for the purpose of efficient computation. For his contributions, he received the Chester Carlson’s Research Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He has also co-authored the monograph Logic, Programming and Prolog published by Wiley & Sons in two editions. More recently, he investigated the use of logic and constraint-based formalisms for specification and verification (model checking) of discrete systems. Nilsson’s research relies on theoretical/mathematical principles driven by industrial relevance and has been carried out extensively in collaboration with industrial partners such as Ericsson, Saab, and ABB.
Yung-Sheng Liu Vice Chancellor University System of Taiwan Taiwan
Yung-Sheng Liu is Macronix Professor of the Institute of Photonics Technologies in College of EECS of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Since 2010, he was appointed as Vice Chancellor of the University System of Taiwan (UST) which consists of four top research universities in Taiwan: National Tsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University, national Central University and National Yang Ming University with an enrollment of 44,000 graduate and undergraduate students. UST has received financial support from the Ministry of Education over $100M annually for enhancing research quality and educational programs to achieve excellence as a top research university in global ranking.
Dr. Liu was Director of the Institute of Photonics Technologies (2006-2009) and Center for Photonics Research (2006-2009) of National Tsing Hua University. Prior to that, he was an ITRI Fellow and Vice President of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) & General Director of the Opto-Electronics and Systems Labs (OES) (2000-2006). He received his PhD degree in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University and BS in Physics from National Taiwan University. He had worked at GE Research & Development Center in Schenectady, NY, USA and led the pioneering effort in the development of high power solid-state Slab-Lasers. He had received numerous awards including GE Technical Achievement Award, Publications Award and Management Award for his significant technical achievement.
In 1998, Dr. Liu was appointed as Deputy General Director, later as General Director and Vice President at ITRI in Taiwan, and led the country’s largest government-sponsored industrial research and engineering programs in optoelectronics semiconductor materials and devices, optical storage, imaging and display. He served as a member on the Executive Board of the International DVD Forum. In 2001, he founded Taiwan Optical Communication Industry Association (TOCIA) and in 2003, Semiconductor Lighting Industry Association (SLIA) to promote the optical communication and solid state lighting industries.
In 2010, Dr. Liu was elected to a Fellow of SPIE; the largest photonic society internationally. In 2008, Dr. Liu received the Optical PARTICIPANTS • 63 2012 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES: Effective Education and Innovative Learning
Engineering Award, the highest honor endowed by the Optical Engineer Society in Taiwan. In 2003, He received the 10th Tung Yuen Award for his significant contribution to the advancement of the opto- electronics technology and industry in Taiwan.
Denpong Soodphakdee Vice President for Academic and Information Technology Khon Kaen University Thailand
Denpong Soodphakdee is vice president for academic and information technology at Khon Kaen University. Since 2005, he has been holding various senior academic administration positions at the university. A graduate of Khon Kaen University, he earned his master and PhD degrees in engineering sciences from the University of New South Wales. At Khon Kaen University, Professor Soodphakdee is actively involved in the development of an e-learning environment and open-source learning management system. He was engaged in the development of the online material delivery system through mobile technology. He initiated, for the first time in Southeaster Asia, the Google Apps for education at Khone Kaen University for more active student collaboration and online-interactions between students and professors. He also leads research in the areas of energy conservation and efficiency by participating in the energy conservation drive for large-scale industries in Thailand.
Sakarindr Bhumiratana President King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi Thailand
Sakarindr Bhumiratana is currently president of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. He completed dual bachelor degrees with highest honors in chemistry and chemical engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1971. He went on to complete his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1975, before undertaking a post-doctoral project on the dynamics of polymetric fluids at the same university.
In 1976-1979, He took up a position with the Department of Chemical Technology at Chulalongkorn University for a number of years before joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at KMUTT, where he served as chairman in 1979. He also held positions as associate dean for academic affairs, School of Energy and Materials in 1982, as well as the Faculty of Engineering in 1987. He was appointed as the executive director of the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in 1991, where he served for a period of ten years before returning as senior vice president for academic affairs at KMUTT from 2000-2004. He was then appointed as president of the National Science and Technology Development Agency, where he served until 2010.
He has recently been recognized as a distinguished fellow of the Petroleum Institute of Thailand (2012). He was a recipient of the ASEAN Meritorious Service Award in 2005 and was accepted as a fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology in 2006. He is currently a member of the National Economic and Social Development Board, the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Agency, the National Science and Technology Development Board, as well as serving on various university councils.
He has a keen interest in applying technology and innovation for improving the quality of life of rural communities and is active in many projects in this area. His research interests extend to systems biology, industrial biogas development and transport phenomena of food and biological materials. He has published extensively on both technical and policy issues affecting higher education and research.
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Prasit Palittapongarnpim Vice President for Research Mahidol University Thailand
Prasit Palittapongarnpim, vice president for research at Mahidol University, is a professor in Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science. His main research interest is on molecular biology and epidemiology of Mycobacterium. He has contributed to the development of VNTR (Variable Number of Tandem Repeat) typing, which is becoming a standard genotyping tool of M. tuberculosis, and pioneers the works on the biological functions of the VNTR. His recent work focuses on the interactions between the genetics of human and genotypes of M. tuberculosis. He also works on anti-tuberculosis drug target discovery and bioinformatics and leads the Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, which is jointly hosted by Mahidol University and the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. He published more than 50 original articles in international journals, with the h-index of 15. He also obtained 3 patents from his researches, with another on DNA computer being filed.
Professor Palittapongarnpim has served in several administrative posts in Thailand in the last 15 years, such as deputy director of the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, and vice president of the National Science and Technology Development Agency, where he helped found a unit dedicated for management of target-oriented scientific research and development. He currently serves as an advisor and chairs a committee overseeing research and development relating to human health. He serves in several committees nationally and internationally. He served several times as a temporary advisor for the WHO. He was a member of the subcommittee for examining the clinical proficiency of the Thai medical council.
He served as organizing chair and scientific chair of a few international meeting, including Bangkok International Conference on Avian Influenza 2008, Mahidol International Conference on Infections and Cancers, Bangkok, 2012. He is well recognized for his involvement in organizing the first International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB 2002), the first international meeting on subjects pertinent in developing countries, which is currently adopted as the official conference of APBIONET (Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network) and held annually in several countries. He currently serves as the scientific chair of the INCOB 2012, to be held in Bangkok this October.
Professor Palittapongarnpim received his MD (first class honor) from the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, in 1981, and practiced as a physician in a few rural health centers in Southern Thailand. After he got his Certificate of Proficiency in Pediatrics from Chiangmai University in 1989, he joined the Department of Microbiology at Mahidol University. He undertook further postdoctoral training in molecular genetics at the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1992.
Adnan Akay Vice President Bilkent University Turkey
Adnan Akay, vice President of Bilkent University, joined the University in 2009 as the founding head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and as its vice president. He joined Bilkent from the US National Science Foundation where he was the director of the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division. Between 1992 and 2005, Dr. Akay was the head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University where he currently holds the title of lord professor of engineering. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, he was on the faculty at Wayne State University, where he last held the DeVlieg Chair in Engineering, and prior to that, he was with the National Institutes of Health. He has held visiting appointments at MIT, University of Rome "La Sapienza," and Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (INSA) de Lyon in France. He continues to serve as an advisor to numerous companies and universities. Dr. Akay’s research area is in acoustics, vibrations, dissipation theories and friction. He has received numerous awards including the Per Bruel Gold Medal in Acoustics and Noise Control in 2005. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Akay completed his education at North Carolina State University where he received BS, MME and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering.
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Umran S. Inan President Koç University Turkey
Umran S. Inan (BS’73–MS’74–PhD’77) received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1972 and 1973, respectively, and his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford Universityin 1977.
Professor Inan is currently the president of Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He served for many years at Stanford University as a professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory. In this capacity, Professor Inan has managed numerous scientific projects totaling $90 million and has served as the principal dissertation supervisor for more than 50 PhD students.
Professor Inan is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), a fellow of American Physical Society (APS), and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the Electromagnetics Academy. He has served as the chair of the US National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and the international chair of commission (Waves in Plasmas) of URSI and is currently serving as the vice president of URSI. He was the recipient of the 2007 Stanford University Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, the 1998 Stanford University Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, several Group Achievement Awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency, the Antarctic Service Medal of the US(with an Antarctic Mountain named “Inan Peak” in his honor), and the 2008 Appleton Prize from URSI and the Royal Society. Professor Inan recently received the 2010 Special Science Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK) of Turkey and was elected as a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA).
Tod A. Laursen President Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research UAE
Tod A. Laursen has been the president of Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since 2010. Prior to becoming president of Khalifa, Dr. Laursen was professor and chair of the department of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University . While at Duke, he also held academic appointments in civil engineering and biomedical engineering and served as senior associate dean for education in engineering from 2003-2008. In the latter capacity, he had oversight responsibility for all undergraduate and graduate engineering programs at Duke University.
Dr. Laursen gained his PhD and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and BS in the same subject from Oregon State University. He specializes in computational mechanics, a subfield of engineering mechanics concerned with the development of new computational algorithms and tools used by engineers to analyze mechanical and structural systems. He has published over 100 refereed journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and abstracts in this field, as well as authoring and co- editing two books. His particular focus is the development of methods to analyze contact, impact, and frictional phenomena in highly nonlinear and complex systems.
He is a fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Association of Computational Mechanics and belongs also to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the United States Association for Computational Mechanics, and Tau Beta Pi. He served as an at-large member of the Executive Committee for the United States Association for Computational Mechanics between 2007 and 2010 and has served on the scientific advisory committees of several prominent national and international congresses in computational mechanics.
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Youngsuk Chi Chairman Elsevier USA
Youngsuk Chi is an international businessman and a leader in the media and technology industry. As chairman of Elsevier, he works directly with governments, Elsevier customers, and in industry associations worldwide. In his primary role as head of corporate affairs and Asia strategy for Reed Elsevier, he is responsible for government affairs, corporate communications, corporate responsibility, and Asia strategy for Elsevier’s parent company. Chairman Chi serves as the president of the International Publishers Association, a global organization that represents the interests of more than 50 publishing industry association members from countries around the world. Chairman Chi is based in New York and London, but travels extensively to meet with scientific research communities and government bodies worldwide.
He joined Elsevier in June 2005 as vice chairman and head of Global Academic and Customer Relations at Elsevier and became a member of the Management Committee of Reed Elsevier in May 2009. In December 2009, Chi accepted additional responsibilities as CEO of Elsevier Science & Technology (S&T). The Elsevier S&T division is the global leader in serving researchers across academic and government institutions, corporate research labs, booksellers, and other scholarly constituencies by developing innovative products and services such as Science Direct, Scopus, the SciVal suite of products, and Cell.
Born in 1961 as the youngest child of Ambassador and Madame Sungkoo Chi, Chairman Chi came of age personally and professionally in multiple cultures. He graduatedcum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Economics and earned his MBA in finance at Columbia University. Upon completing an eight-year stint with American Express International Bank in the U.S., Mexico, England, France, and Singapore, he joined Ingram Micro, the world’s largest distributor of computer products, in 1992. There he supervised the growth of Ingram Micro Europe from its first central warehouse in Lille, France, and founded and successfully led Ingram Micro’s Asian businesses. In 1996, he joined Ingram Book Group as chief operating officer and subsequently held several president and CEO positions at Ingram. He also founded Lightning Source Inc., the industry’s first print-on-demand distributor and e-Book delivery services provider, which won numerous book and technology industry awards for its historic innovations. Chairman Chi joined Random House, the world’s largest general interest book publisher, as its chief operating officer in 2001 and moved quickly to the position of president. Later, he became the founding chairman of Random House Asia, where he led the efforts to make Random House the first foreign trade book publisher with local language publishing in Japan and Korea.
Chairman Chi is actively involved in numerous educational, artistic, charitable, and professional organizations, currently serving or having served as a trustee or board member of Princeton University, the Korean American Community Foundation, Princeton University Press, the Association of American Publishers, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers, the United States Golf Association, McCarter Theatre, Watkins College of Art and Design, and Family & Children Services.
Arden Bement Purdue University Director of Global Policy Research Institute USA
Arden Bement is the Director of the Global Policy Research Institute at Purdue University. Prior to his current position, he was the director of the National Science Foundation from 2004- 2010. He served as a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and as the vice-chair of the Commission's Natural Sciences and Engineering Committee. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He joined NIST from Purdue University, where he was the David A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and head of the school of nuclear engineering. He has held appointments at Purdue University in the schools of nuclear engineering, materials engineering, and electrical and computer Engineering, as well as a courtesy appointment in the Krannert School of Management.
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Bement joined the Purdue faculty in 1992 after a 39-year career in industry, government, and academia. His positions have included the following: vice president of technical resources and of science and technology for TRW, Inc. (1980-1992); deputy under secretary of defense for research and engineering (1979-1980); director, Office of Materials Science, DARPA (1976-1979); professor of nuclear materials, MIT (1970-1976); manager, Fuels and Materials Department and the Metallurgy Research Department, Battelle Northwest Laboratories (1965-1970); and senior research associate, General Electric Co. (1954-1965). He has also been a director of Keithley Instruments, Inc. and the Lord Corp. and a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee for the Howmet Corp., a division of ALCOA.
Bement holds an engineer of metallurgy degree from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.S. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Idaho, a PhD in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, and honorary doctorates from Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, and the Colorado School of Mines, as well as a Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School Honorary Professorship.
He is a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal of the Department of Defense, and the French Legion of Honor.
John Duncan Director of Korean Studies University of California, Los Angeles USA
John Duncan received his PhD in Korean History from the University of Washington in 1988 and has taught in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA since 1989. His primary research interests are in the late Koryŏ and early Chosŏn period, although he has also done some work on the Open Ports Period of 1876-1910. His first book, The Origins of the Chosŏn Dynasty (University of Washington Press, 2000) examines the change of dynasties from Koryŏ to Chosŏn. He has edited and co-edited numerous publications, some of which include Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam (UCLA Asia Pacific Monographs, 2002), Reform and Modernization in the Taehan Empire (Jimoondang International, 2006) and The Institutional Basis of Civil Governance in the Chosŏn Dynasty (Seoul Selection, 2009).
He also has a number of translations, including several items in the Sourcebook of Korean Tradition (Columbia University Press, 1993) and two monographs: Kang Man-gil, A Revised History of Contemporary Korea (Global Oriental Ltd., 2005) and Kim Jungbae et al., A New History of Parhae (Global Oriental Ltd., 2012). He has won a number of awards, including the Korean Foundation Award (2009) and the Manhae Grand Prize for Academy (2010).
Cindy Fan Vice Provost for International Studies University of California, Los Angeles USA
Cindy Fan is interim vice provost for international studies and professor of geography and Asian American at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A member of the UCLA faculty since 1989, Professor Fan also served as the associate dean of social sciences, chair of the East Asian Studies Interdepartmental Program, and chair of the Asian American Studies Department.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Fan received her BA from the University of Hong Kong, MPhil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and PhD from The Ohio State University, all in population and economic geography.
Professor Fan’s research, supported by several National Science Foundation and Luce Foundation grants, focuses on labor migration, marriage migration, spatial and social inequality, gender, and cities in China. She is internationally known for her research on internal migration in China and has published numerous articles in flagship journals. Her book China on the Move: Migration, the State, and the
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Household (2008) is a pioneering study that integrates both institutional and household perspectives to explain sustained and large- scale migration that splits families for years and even decades. The book is being translated into Chinese. Professor Fan’s current projects focus on migrants’ household organization and new-generation migrants.
A frequent keynote speaker in Europe, Asia and the US, Professor Fan has been co-editor of two international and interdisciplinary journals: Regional Studies and Eurasian Geography and Economics. She regularly writes commentaries for the New York Times and has been interviewed by BBC, China Radio International, National Public Radio, Tavis Smiley, and other media outlets. She holds a visiting professorship at Beijing Normal University.
Professor Fan recently received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. In addition to being a passionate teacher, she has developed innovative and interdisciplinary programs to foster international education and global citizenship, including a Travel Study Program in Beijing and Hong Kong and the UCLA Global Classroom Program at Nanjing’s Jinling High School. As interim vice provost, Professor Fan has created initiatives to deepen and broaden UCLA’s international partnerships through innovative new programs in the area of international studies, partly supported by a recent grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Robert S. Nelsen President University of Texas-Pan American USA
Robert S. Nelsen is the eighth president of The University of Texas-Pan American. He comes to UTPA with a demonstrated commitment to higher education and a distinguished career history of educational leadership and community service.
He earned his BS and MS degrees in political science from Brigham Young University and his PhD. from the Committee on Social Thought at The University of Chicago. His PhD fields of specialization were modern literature, modern philosophy and modern political theory. He has lived in Texas since 1990, leaving his home state of Montana for career opportunities in academia. Nelsen was raised on a small cattle ranch in the "Big Sky Country" of Montana near Madison Valley just outside of Yellowstone Park. Like the majority of students at UTPA, Nelsen faced great financial hardships while seeking to get his degrees. He put himself through college by working as a janitor in the predawn hours before classes and by selling fishhooks and western clothing in the evenings.
Prior to his arrival at UTPA, Nelsen was an administrator at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) serving as associate vice president for Academic Affairs. He was responsible for oversight of the Academic Affair's budget preparation, the implementation of the University’s Business Incubator, and the Center for Academic Athletic Success and other NCAA related matters. In addition, he was a professor of English at TAMUCC.
Nelsen was also a distinguished faculty member at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for almost two decades where he started the creative writing program and nurtured the development of an arts and humanities curriculum. After winning the Chancellor’s Council Award for Outstanding Teaching, he was recruited into the Provost's Office and eventually served as vice provost there.
Nelsen is an accomplished author with numerous publications of fiction in journals which include the Story Quarterly, Other Voices, Chariton Review and Southwest Review. While at UTD, Nelsen completed a collection of short stories, Orphans, Bums and Angels as well as a novel, Spirits Colliding, which is currently under review by a publisher.
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Miguel A. Gonzalez Associate Dean University of Texas-Pan American USA
Miguel A. Gonzalez serves as the associate dean in the College of Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Texas–Pan American’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. He has a significant amount of executive industry experience where he held managerial and executive positions including president and CEO of a large Citrus processor, and throughout his experience, Dr. Gonzalez’ professional and academic activities are focused on an overall mission to provide opportunities for student involvement by developing and maintaining a strong reputation of excellence. In the area of professional achievement, he has been able to obtain over Ten Million Dollars in funding for his academic activities from various sources including NASA, The National Science Foundation, The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Advanced Research Program, US. Department of Commerce, The Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, and The US. Department of Labor. He has been engaged in the assessment and training of human factors associated with healthcare systems from the time of his Doctoral Dissertation. He has developed simulators for labs and healthcare providers together with integrated Logistics support systems for Advanced Cardiac Life Support. One of his current interests is in the area of manufacturing systems for rapid product design and development in international production. An extension of this work is the current effort that established the UTPA Rapid Response Manufacturing Center in a consortium of academic institutions, economic development corporations, industry, local, state, and federal governments. This initiative is an integral component of the North American Advanced Manufacturing and Research Initiative (NAAMREI). In addition, he has served and continues to serve in leadership positions in technology based economic development in the Rio South Texas Region.
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