Caroline Baillie, DuPont Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University in Ontario
Union will a host a major international conference next week on the future of engineering and technology education, an event that is expected to draw more than 600 educators and other professionals from some 85 institutions and 34 countries.
The 38th annual Frontiers in Education Conference will be held at the Saratoga Hilton and Conference Center in Saratoga Springs Oct. 22-25. Keynote speaker Caroline Baillie, the DuPont Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University in Ontario, will talk about “Engineering for a Just and Sustainable Future.”
Other topics to be discussed include preparing the engineers of 2020, globalization and the role of feminism in engineering education.
“This is an excellent opportunity to engage with other educators about the challenges of the future, and to share our contributions to the frontiers of computer science and engineering education,” said Cherrice Traver, dean of engineering and professor of computer engineering at Union, who is chairing of the conference.
Cherrice A. Traver, dean of the Division of Computer Science and Engineering. September 2007.
A number of Union faculty members will present papers or lead panel discussions, and Union students will present engineering and digital art projects. President Stephen C. Ainlay will give a welcome address.
Union was selected as conference host in 2005, joining a roster of past hosts that includes Georgia Tech, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University. The conference is sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research Methods division, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society and the IEEE Computer Society.
Caroline Baillie, DuPont Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University in Ontario
More than 600 educators and other professionals will discuss the future of engineering and technology education at a major international conference hosted by Union Oct. 22-25.
The 38th annual “Frontiers in Education Conference” (FIE), will be held at the Saratoga Hilton and Conference Center in Saratoga Springs.
Keynote speaker Caroline Baillie, DuPont Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development at Queens University in Ontario, will talk about “Engineering for a Just and Sustainable Future.”
Other topics to be discussed include preparing the engineers of 2020, globalization and the role of feminism in engineering education.
Union has been planning for its role as host since it was selected in 2005. A number of faculty will present papers or lead panel discussions. In addition, President Stephen C. Ainlay will give a welcome address to attendees, who represent nearly 285 institutions and 34 countries.
“This is an excellent opportunity to engage with other educators about the challenges of the future, and to share our contributions to the frontiers of computer science and engineering education,” said Cherrice Traver, dean of engineering and professor of computer engineering at Union and chair of the FIE conference.
Cherrice A. Traver, dean of the Division of Computer Science and Engineering. September 2007.
The conference is sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research Methods division, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society and the IEEE Computer Society.
Previous hosts include Georgia Tech, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University.
Union has a rich tradition with engineering. In 1845, Union became the first liberal arts college to offer engineering. Last spring, the College hosted academic leaders from more than a dozen top colleges and universities who participated in a national symposium, “Engineering and Liberal Education.”
Photographs by Meghan Haley-Quigley ’08, Rui Fen Huang ’08, Tobias Leeger ’09, Steven Leung ’08, Lauren Muske ’07, Jonathan Scheff ’11 and Juneui Soh ’08, taken from final portfolios from spring 2008’s Photography 3 class taught by Professor Martin Benjamin. The focus of each student’s portfolio ranges in subject and style, from documentary images to portraits to abstractions.
Through Nov. 23 (extended)
Mandeville Gallery
Nott Memorial
Outside Information: A Site-Specific Sound Installation by Stephan Moore
Moore, a composer, audio artist and sound designer in New York City, uses the complex acoustics inside the Nott Memorial to transform the building’s interior into a dense wilderness of small, shifting sounds. Says Rachel Seligman, director and curator, Mandeville Gallery, “This wonderful piece is a subtle blanket of shifting, tantalizing sounds, which engages the careful listener with its mysterious and delicate textures.”
Anthony Cafritz's Knacker's Yard, Aug. 2008
Through Dec. 1
Visual Arts Building
Burns Atrium Art Gallery
Knackers Yard
Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Anthony Cafritz’s recent installation of seemingly disparate materials that “attempts to describe the current state of things.”
Parabolas Mexicanas by Bernardo González , Madeville Gallery Oct. 2008
Through Feb. 8
Mandeville Gallery
Nott Memorial
“Parabolas Mexicanas: Paintings, Prints and Drawings by Bernardo González and Francisco Verástegui”
This exhibition features some 50 paintings, prints and drawings by Mexican artists Bernardo González and Francisco Verástegui. The College will be hosting a series of events in connection with the show, including events with the artists, a film series, performances and lectures during fall and winter terms. Artists’ reception and gallery talk with González and Verástegui set for Thursday, Oct. 30, 5-7 p.m. in the Nott. Improvisation performance to follow at 7 p.m., with Steven Koenig, poet, and Gustavo Aguilar, percussion.
Thursday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m. / Hale House / “Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives,” panel with Nick Salvatore, the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and professor of American studies at Cornell University, and Joseph McCartin, professor of History at Georgetown University. Co- sponsored by Department of History, Catholic Chaplaincy, Religious Studies and American Studies programs.
Thursday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Classic film: “The Sting”
Friday, Oct. 17 – Sunday, Oct. 19 / Campus wide / Homecoming & Family Weekend, featuring open houses, panel discussions, sports, dinners, receptions, celebrations, picnics, children’s activities and more; www.union.edu/HFW
Friday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s ice hockey vs. Wayne State
Friday, Oct. 17 – Monday, Oct. 20, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: “The Dark Knight”
Saturday, Oct. 18, 1 p.m. / Frank Bailey Field / Football vs. St. Lawrence (Liberty League contest)
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s ice hockey vs. Wayne State
Saturday, Oct. 18, 3 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Classic film: “The Sting”
Saturday, Oct. 18, 4 p.m. / College Park Field / Men’s soccer vs. Skidmore (Liberty League contest)
Monday, Oct. 20, 3:05-4:45 p.m. / F.W. Olin Center, Room 115 / Election 2008 course lecture on “Media and the Election” by Zoe Oxley, associate professor/chair of political science
Monday, Oct. 20, 6 p.m. / Golub House / Educator Voter series looks at health care; brief faculty talk followed by discussion and desserts
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m. / Wold House / Death in Film Series presents: “Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself,” Danish black comedy about Scottish two brothers, one chronically suicidal, the other left to care for him
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women’s volleyball vs. Russell Sage
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 3:05-4:45 p.m. / F.W. Olin Center, Room 115 / Election 2008 course lecture on “The Art and Science of Polling” by David Cotter, associate professor of sociology
Kathy Ferguson, speaker, Oct 2008, on “Bush in Drag: Palin, McCain and the Endless War”;
Thursday, Oct 23, 12:55 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center 302 / Women and Gender Studies presents Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawaii professor of political science and women’s studies, on “Bush in Drag: Palin, McCain and the Endless War”; jointly sponsored by the Valerie J. Hoffman Lecture Series, Feminism for the 21st Century
Yvonne Hansbrough,flutist
Thursday, Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Room 205 / Dedication of Union's new Prayer and Meditation Room; all welcome
Thursday, Oct 23, 7:30 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Fred L. Emerson Foundation Auditorium / Department of Music presents: A Trio of Trios, Young Kim & Friends, Young Kim, piano; Yvonne Hansbrough, flute; and Jonathan Brin, cello in a program of Haydn, Poulenc, Gaubert, Tann and Piazzolla; free and open to the public
Friday, Oct. 24 – Monday, Oct. 27, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: “Mamma Mia”
Saturday, Oct. 25, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. / “House Trip through History,” tour of homes of Harriet Tubman and William Seward in Auburn, N.Y. Free bus trip led by Katherine Lynes, assistant professor of English and Africana Studies, lynesk@union.edu
Saturday, Oct. 25, 3 p.m. / College Park Field / Women’s soccer vs. Clarkson (Liberty League contest)
Sunday, Oct. 26, 1 p.m. / College Park Field / Women’s soccer vs. St. Lawrence (Liberty League contest)
Monday, Oct. 27, 3:05-4:45 p.m. / Olin 115 / Election 2008 course lecture on “Some Economics for Political Scientists” by Lewis Davis, assistant professor of economics
Monday, Oct. 27, 6 p.m. / Golub House / Educator Voter series on key election issues; brief faculty talk followed by discussion and desserts
Facilities receives APPA award, 2008. From left are Richard Patierne, Alan Kratzke, Raffaella Viscusi, Loren Rucinski and Tom Litts.
The Facilities Services Department received the 2008 Effective and Innovative Practices Award from APPA Leadership in Educational Facilities for its Excellence Program. Accepting the $4,000 award, sponsored by Sodexho USA, at the annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, were: Alan Kratzke, senior night cleaner, College Park Hall; Tom Litts, supervisor of electrical trades; Rich Patierne, manager of Building Services; Loren Rucinski, director of Facilities and Planning; and Raffaella Viscusi, senior day cleaner. In addition, last month Facilities gave a presentation on its award-winning program at ERAPPA, the Eastern Region annual meeting of APPA, in Baltimore. Presenters were Mike Connelly, supervisor of structural trades; Diana Mirabile, buyer and scheduling coordinator; Patierne; and Rucinski.
Jay Newman, the R. Gordon Gould Professor of Physics, has authored a textbook, “Physics of the Life Sciences,” recently published by Springer. The full-color text, which has its origins in a course developed at Union, is designed to show the fundamental connections between physics and modern biology and medicine. With more than 900 photos and drawings to illustrate the principles and applications of physics and a large collection of homework problems for students, the 700-page book is designed for a two- semester or trimester course in introductory physics. The text fills a large niche in providing an interdisciplinary book for those who study physics at the college/university level.
“Fanfare for a River,” an orchestral work by Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, will be included in “Hidden Gems: Mohawk Valley Vistas” Sunday, Oct. 19 at 3 p.m. at Proctors Theater. Tann’s work will be performed by local pianist Allen Yu in a program by the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra that highlights the Schenectady region. The program features photochoreography by nationally acclaimed James Westwater on giant screens above the stage.
A column by President Stephen C. Ainlay on “Education and Religious Fluency” was featured in the Albany Times Union Saturday, Oct. 12. The piece was adapted from his address, titled “Religious Fluency: Notes on Competency in the 21st Century,” at the Capital Region Theological Center’s recent sixth anniversary celebration. In the piece, Ainlay makes distinctions between religious literacy and fluency and argues that the demands of global citizenship dictate that people develop religious fluency.
