Updating For Engineering Faculty Members In Developing Countries

Many faculty members at engineering schools in developing countries have difficulty in participating in professional development activities such as international conferences on engineering education, or conferences on their technical specialty areas. Often advanced graduates from engineering programs in developed countries, they are heavily constrained for resources upon return to teaching positions in their native countries – little funding for labs and research, limited access to current publications, and scarce if any funding for travel to professional and technical meetings. This paper describes efforts of the WFEO Committee on Capacity Building and other groups to address these problems, typically through electronic means.