Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Present
FIRST TIME IN THE U.S.A

Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit an abstract – Extended deadline is now July 30, 2018.

For abstract submission go to the following link:

https://www.xcdsystem.com/weef/abstract/index.cfm?ID=CK3RwTr

Letter from the WEEF-GEDC chair:

“Dear colleague,

Peace engineering envisions and works towards a world where prosperity, sustainability, social equity, entrepreneurship, transparency, community voice and engagement, and a culture of quality thrive. Engineers have the power to play a vital role in delivering creative solutions that can radically transform and improve human and natural wellbeing.

As we educate future engineers, we must ensure that they embrace their role as engineers of peace. We must provide them with the skills, understanding, capacity for reflection, sense of social responsibility and ethics, and resources to successfully navigate the socio-political impacts of their projects, engage in transdisciplinary developments and frankly, imagine, design, and create a better world for us all.

On behalf of the conference planning committee, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for presentation or poster to the 2018 World Engineering Education Forum – Global Engineering Dean’s Council to be held in the heart of the Southwest, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Ramiro Jordan, PhD
Chair, 2018 WEEF-GEDC”

Dr. Barry Lanman, Professor of the Practice and Director of UMBC's Martha Ross Center for Oral History, will be teaching the following course on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30 to 3:45 pm.

Oral History, HIST 736

Course Description

Oral history is a powerful yet complex methodology for creating unique historical primary sources available in no other way. While it seems deceptively easy as turning on a recording device and striking up a conversation, doing so effectively while ensuring that the results are useful and meet accepted professional standards is challenging. While some of the techniques and methodology can be learned in the classroom, practical experience is essential. Thus, the course will integrate the theory, the historiography and the practice of oral history.    

Almost all scholars working in recent historical research must use or conduct oral history interviews.  Anyone working in historical societies, museums, historical preservation, archives and many other venues will eventually deal with oral history and video history in some capacity. Oral history and video history projects are funded from a diverse set of sources. Therefore, project evaluation, project use, project development and acquisition of funding are also themes of the course.

Every effort will be made to accommodate students’ existing research projects and interests so that the interviews and associated work can be directly relevant to their professional goals.