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The centrepiece of the UICEE's commission is human resources development within engineering through engineering education, a dual brief in its concern with the two principal facets of education: teachers and students - the instructors and future practitioners of engineering. To this end, the Centre's work involves the development of pedagogy, through research and development of courseware, software and teaching methodologies, as well as of engineering curricula in consultation with industry, the primary employer of engineers.
The sphere of its interest is global, although, based as it is in Australia, the Centre does have a particular interest in the state of engineering education in this country. The implications of such a brief are tremendous, most clearly, though by no means exclusively, in the impact of such work in developing countries: engineers are the innovators and realisers of technological and industrial development from which so many material benefits proceed.
The Centre operates to serve the international engineering education community by carrying out research and development activities, providing expertise in, and improving the quality of, engineering education (curricula and teaching methodologies) in Australia and abroad to better meet the needs of industry.
Its mission is the empowerment of developing nations to achieve technical development and economic progress. Its modus operandi is both to facilitate the exchange between institutions and individuals of information, expertise and research on textbooks, engineering teaching courseware, software, teaching methodologies and equipment utilised in engineering education, and to transfer this knowledge from developed to developing countries.
In its role as a clearinghouse of engineering education information and material, the UICEE has established the Global Journal of Engineering Education (GJEE) with the principal objective of providing the international engineering education community with a forum for discussion and the exchange of information on engineering education and industrial training at tertiary level.
It is not intended that this journal become a commercial enterprise. The publisher is prepared to subsidise its publication so that it is affordable to every individual concerned with engineering and technology education.