Continuing Engineering Education (CEE) has been transformed significantly with rapid development in various delivery means as well as variations in demands from industries in many parts of the world. The central theme for 2012 IACEE Worls Conference is “Continuing Engineering Education: solutions for competitiveness, innovation and grand challenges. New ideas for tired programs, new missions and services”

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Major issues
The major issues/topics to be discussed at WCCEE 2012 include:

1. CEE Management: Leading the way on Return of Education metrics

* Marketing strategies: what works, what doesn’t?

* Developing and Marketing Short courses

* Demand Analysis: needs and future needs

* Quality Road Maps: Evaluating programs and organizations

* Strategies for engaging faculty: incentives, training programs, etc.

* Internal marketing: informing and influencing university colleagues

* Successful business and financial models of continuing education organizations

* Best practices of student and alumni support services

* Engaging the newest generation of engineers in CEE – what do they want?

2. CEE & Instructional Design

* Production for distributed – synchronous space

* Learning in a web 2.0 world: new technologies and pedagogical approaches

* Learning and delivery technology applications

* Engineering Pedagogy versus CEE Andragogy

* Open courseware

* Experiences Evaluation: how effective is blended vs F2F?

3. CEE & Global Market: Global Innovation and Economic Development

* Internationalization & Global Competition

* Global Markets: opportunities and delivery approaches

* Building and sustaining partnerships with other universities and the private sector

* Managing the brand

* Program design and pricing models

* Supporting a new sociology of work – global teams

* How to do more training with industry

* Networking and partnership

* Ensuring Humanization and Connection in Virtual Environments

4. CEE & Linking Industry, Government and Universities

* Engaging the newest generation of engineers in CEE – what they want?

* Good practices of Industry ad-hoc services

* Managing the brand

* Supporting a new sociology of work – global teams

* Good practices of student and alumni support services