Keynote Speakers
Prof. Manuel A. Castro
Spanish University for Distance Education (Spain)
Head of the IEEE Spanish Section
Talk: International Societies and their implication in Transnational Education - the example of IEEE
Bio: Manuel Castro, Electrical and Computer Engineering educator in the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED), has an industrial engineering degree from the ETSII (Industrial Engineering School) of the Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM) and a doctoral engineering degree from the same University. He has received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award in the UPM and the Viesgo 1988 Award to the Doctoral Thesis improving the Scientific Research about the Industrial Process Electricity Application, as well as the 1997 and 1999 years UNED's Social Council Award for the Best Didactic Materials in Experimental Sciences and the 2001 Award for the Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Technology from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.
He works as researcher, coordinator and director in different projects, ranging from systems applications of simulation techniques, solar system and advanced microprocessor system simulation to telematics and distance learning applications and systems, as well as computer-aided electrical engineering (CAEE), acting now as and senior technical director. He is now with the UNED (Spanish University for Distance Education) as Professor of Electronics Technology inside the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as well as he is Director of the Department. He was previously UNED's New Technologies Vice-Rector, UNED's Information Services Center Director and Research and Doctorate Vice-director and Academic Affairs Vice-director of the Engineering School at UNED. He worked during 5 years in Digital Equipment Corporation as senior system engineer.
He publishes different technical, research and teaching books and articles for journals and conferences as well as multimedia materials and radio and TV programs. He belongs to the organizing committee of IEEE EDUCON, IEEE FIE (International and Europe Chair, 2000-2006), ISES, TAEE and SAAEI conferences as well as program and planning committees' member and reviewer and chairman of several ones. He is co-chair of the conference EDUCON 2010 (Engineering Education Conference), TAEE 2010 (Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Enseñanza de la Electrónica) and ICECE 2005 (International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education). He is co-editor of IEEE-RITA (Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje) and of the Electronic Journal of Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society. He is Fellow member of IEEE (for contributions to distance learning in electrical and computer engineering education) and member of the Administration Committee (AdCOM) (2005-2010) of the IEEE Education Society serving in the chapter, awards, nominating and meetings committees, Founder and Past-Chairman of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society, and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Spain Section. He has been awarded with the 2009 Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award of the IEEE Education Society, with the 2006 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award and for the collective work inside the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society with the 2007 Chapter Achievement Award. He is Vice-President of the Board of the Spanish International Solar Energy Society (ISES).
PhD. Alfredo Jiménez Eguizábal
University of Burgos (Spain)
Talk: EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA: The bowels of ECTS and the new classroom concept.
Bio: The author holds Doctorate in Philosophy and Educational Science and is a University Professor of the Theory and History of Education and ex-Vice-Rector of Academic Planning and European Convergence at the University of Burgos (2000-2008). He is the director of Formadesa, an international research group specialising in Educational Planning and Policy, funded by the European Union, the National RD&I Plan in Spain [Plan Nacional de I+D+I ], the Public Health Research Foundation [Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria], and Autonomous Region Research Funds. He has directed doctoral programmes in collaboration with Universities in Chile, Colombia and Mexico, and has broad experience in university management as the Secretary of the Committee for the Evaluation of Contracted University Teaching Staff [Comisión de Evaluación del Profesorado Contratado], part of the Agency for the Quality of the Educational System in Castile and Leon [Agencia para la Calidad del Sistema Educativo de Castilla y León] and is a member of the School Board of the Autonomous Region of Castile and Leon [Consejo Escolar Autonómico de Castilla y León].
Mr Gilles Gervais
European Commission
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Project Manager Erasmus CD
Talk: European activities in the field of Higher Education. ERASMUS actions .
You can download the slides hereBio: Gilles Gervais is currently working as Project Manager at Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. He provides direction and integrative coordination in the planning, development, and implementation of the Erasmus Curriculum Development action. This imply coordinating the reporting of the programme, monitoring the progress of the action and contribute organizing valorisation of results. Previous experiences at the European Commission with the ALFA programme (America Latina Formacion Academica). ALFA being a programme of co-operation between higher education institutions (HEI's) of the European Union and HEI's of Latin America. He was particularly involved in the development of the Joint Partnerships of European and Latin American institutions and attached to the overall managemlent of the Programme. Before hand, most of his career has been dedicated to the international cooperation in the sector of formal and non formal education. Main responsibilities involve developing of partnership, management and monitoring of Programmes in India, Togo, Ethiopia, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay.
