Posted on Nov 5, 2004

Thomas
Jewell,
Carl B. Jansen Professor of Civil Engineering, and William Thomas, director of International Programs, collaborated on three papers published in the
proceedings of three international conferences. “Benefit/Cost Analysis for
International Study Options” was presented at the 2004 International Symposium
on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2004) in June at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. “Exchange Programs as a Means of Increasing Engineering
Students' International Study Options” was presented at the 2004 International
Conference on Engineering Education and Research (ICEER
2004), held in Prague and Olomouc, Czech Republic,  in June. “Maximizing Student
International Study Options Under Tight Resource
Constraints” was presented at the 2004 International Conference on Engineering
Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville,
in October. Jewell presented the papers. Also, Jewell is a civil engineering
program evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,
which this fall evaluated the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the
United Arab Emirates University.