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ACED Meetings and Events.

Future Meetings and Events
Preliminary dates and venues for the following forthcoming events have been announced:

• No meetings scheduled

Further details will appear here when they become available.

Past Meetings and Events

May 2007: Joint ACED / ICE / IStructE Heads of Department Meeting
A joint ACED / ICE / IStructE Heads of Department meeting took place on Wednesday 2nd May 2007 at IStructE, London. Many of the speakers have made their presentations available for download; all of the following files are in "PDF" format.:

• "Overview of IStructE activities" - click here (232 KB)
• Colin Bailey (The University of Manchester, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering): "The Quality of Design within the Built Environment" - click here (232 KB)
• Raymond Coe (Black and Veatch) - click here (200 KB)
• Professor D L Loveday (Loughborough University): "Sustainability in Design Teaching: A Loughborough University Perspective" - click here (608 KB)
• Peter R Head (Director, Arup): "Responding to Climate Change: Training Engineers to help rethink urban infrastructure" - click here (1.5 MB)
• Professor Roger Venables (Managing Director, Crane Environmental / Queen's University Belfast): "Meeting the Challenges - Sustainability in Design Teaching Experience at Queen's University" - click here (920 KB)
• John Hill (JBM Chairman): "The purpose of accreditation" - click here (208 KB)
• Ian Whyte (The University of Manchester, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering): "Accreditation - An Academic's View" - click here (200 KB)
• Gerry Parke (University of Surrey): "Bologna - the impact on UK university degrees" - click here (104 KB)
• Jessica Olley (Europe Unit): "UK Higher Education Europe Unit" - click here (80 KB)

You can also download all of the presentations as one file - click here (4.1 MB)

October 2006: Annual Conference and AGM
The 2006 meeting took place on 19th and 20th October at City University, London. Click here to download (60 KB) a copy of the conference programme. Conference Secretariat: e-mail / Tel: +44 (0)207 040 8150 / Fax: +44 (0)207 040 8570

October 2005: Annual Conference and AGM

The 2005 ACED Annual Conference and AGM took place in October at Coventry University. Several of the speakers have made their presentations available for download in "Powerpoint" format (unless otherwise stated):

Day 1:

• Professor Adrian Long (Queens University Belfast and Head of Civil Engineering RAE Sub panel): "RAE 2008 - are you prepared ?" - click here (165 KB)
• Professor Fred Maillard (University of Brighton): "QAA Revised Benchmarks - Are we ready for these ?" - click here (130 KB)
• Richard Shearman (Deputy Director, Engineering Council, UK): "QAA Revised Benchmarks - Are we ready for these ?" - click here (340 KB)
• Steve Garrity (Principal, Garrity Associates): "JBM accreditation and output standards" - click here (695 KB) and here (690 KB)
• Professor Duncan Lawson (Coventry University): "The Mathematics CETL" - click here (2.2 MB)

Day 2:

• Professor Paul Jowitt (Heriot Watt University): "Who will engineer a sustainable future ?" - click here (PDF format - 340 KB)
• Mr David Wilson and Ms Eva O'Connor (ARUP): "A graduate's perspective" - click here (5.3 MB)

A listing of the Conference programme is available - click here (60KB) to download a copy.

Click here (150KB) to download a copy of the Chairman's Report for 2004/5, and here (150KB) to download a copy of the Secretary's Report, which were both presented at the AGM..

Conference Secretariat: e-mail / Tel: +44 (0)2476 888297 / Fax: +44 (0)2476 888297.

April 2005: Joint ACED / ICE / IStructE Heads of Department Meeting
A joint ACED / ICE / IStructE Heads of Department meeting took place on Tuesday 19th April 2005 at the headquarters of IStructE in London (click here for a copy of the agenda (450KB)). Several of the speakers have made their presentations available for download; all of the following files are in "Powerpoint" format.:

• Professor Alan Ervine (University of Glasgow) and Barbara Carroll (Enfusion Ltd): "Sustainable Development in the Curriculum" - click here (4.3MB).
• Douglas Oakervee OBE (ICE): "HE-related activities" - click here (376KB).
• David Anderson (IStructE): "The Eurocodes and the teaching of Structural Engineering" - click here (2.0 MB).
• John Hill (JBM): "Joint Board of Moderators" - click here (510KB)

October 2004: Annual Conference and AGM
The 2004 ACED Annual Conference and AGM took place in October at the University of Plymouth. Several of the speakers have made their presentations available for download; all of the following files are in "Powerpoint" format.

• Ms Deborah Seddon (ICE): "ICE - Present and Future; an update for ACED" - click here (650KB)
• Miss Marie Dignan (IStuctE): "Future Developments in Civil Engineering Education" - click here (226KB).
• John Newton (Cardiff University):" Transparency Review and Full Economic Costing" - click here (72KB).
• John Newton (Cardiff University): "Strategic Pricing" - click here (48KB).
• Steve Donohoe (University of Plymouth / SLICE): "Development of a Student-centred Learning Project" - click here (1.5MB).

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