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THE COL LEGE COURIER SPRING 2003 Teaching THE COLLEGE COURI ER SPRING 20 03 6. What are your favourite sections of the magazine, and why? 1. 2. 3. 4. 7. Are there other areas of interest that are not currently covered in the magazine? If there are, please give details of same. 1. 2. 3. 4. 8. Do you like the design and layout of the magazine? If Y E S, please outline what design elements you like? If NO, please outline why not? L-R: Professor Fernanda Oliveira, Head of Department, Process Engineering, and Professor Dan Shunk, Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Arizona State University 9. Have you ever submitted material to The College Courier? If YES, how often? Fulbright Scholar Expert In Supply Chain Engineering Curriculum If NO, why not? 10. The College Courier issues three times a year. Do you think this is too frequent ? not frequent enough ? Additional Comments: THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS QUESTIONNAIRE Questionnaire completed by Name: Department/Office: The third specialization stream of the BE Process Engineering offered by the Department of Process Engineering, Supply Chain Engineering & Management, started in October 2002. This initiative is driven by the strategic importance global corporations are placing on internationally competitive supply chains. This specialization option will also support the Irish-owned enterprises wishing to succeed in linking to their customers and suppliers in a world-class manner. Emphasis will be placed on the global value-added services that Ireland has to offer. It shall include customer orientation that incorporates value through service and product success. In order to develop a world-class programme at the forefront of industrial process engineering the Department of Process Engineering has benefited from the support of the Fulbright Scholarship programme. Professor Dan Shunk, an industrial engineer with the Arizona State University and holder of the Avnet Chair of Supply Network Integration, is with UCC for two semesters as a Visiting Fulbright Scholar. He is working with the department in developing an innovative and unique programme that will build on UCC’s core competencies and promote a niche of excellence in teaching and research in supply chain engineering. In the global manufacturing environment, organizing production systems that involve companies who are placed worldwide will be as important as organizing excellence of production in each local factory. These issues are crucial to an export-oriented economy such as Ireland’s, as over 50 per cent of food products and 95 per cent of pharmaceutical products are exported. In the same way that process engineering has designed highly effective production lines in factories, new engineering concepts need to be applied to design production systems without boundaries. Ireland cannot afford to be outside the cutting edge in supply chain engineering and management. Date: 2 2 2 3
T HE COLLE GE COURIER SPRING 2003 Teaching Teaching THE COL LEGE COURIER SPRING 2003 WORD PLAY Opening of the new Information and Communication Technology Facility, Crossleigh House, l-r: Dr Tom Mullins, Head, Department of Education, Michael Delargey, Department of Education, Michael O’Halloran, Computer Centre, Professor Áine Hyland, Vice President, Kenneth Burns, Department of Applied Social Studies, Professor Alastair Christie, Department of Applied Social Studies and Dr Francis Douglas, Education Back Row l-r: Phoebe Hadden, Seoirse Ó Conchuir, Iain Flynn, Vlad Muresan, James Conron, Neil Ainsworth and Patricia Lambert, CELTA trainees on the 10-week intensive course F ront Row l-r: P rofessor David Mackenzie, Hispanic Studies and interim Director of the Language Centre, UCC, guest lecture r, Ramesh Krishnamurt h y, Sally-Ann Attale, TEFL/EFL College Language Teacher and Tr a i n e r, Language Centre, UCC, and Cathy Gannon, TEFL/EFL College Language Teacher and Tr a i n e r, Language Centre, UCC Opening of ICT Facility The Departments of Applied Social Studies and Education opened their new computing facilities in Crossleigh House on the 24 January 2003. Opening the laboratory, Professor Áine Hyland, Vice President, congratulated both departments, and in particular Kenneth Burns, Department of Applied Social Studies, and Michael Delargey, Department of Education, on their collaborative work in achieving this modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facility. Dr Tom Mullins, Head of the Department of Education and Professor Alastair Christie, Acting Head of Applied Social Studies paid tribute to all those involved in the successful completion of the project. The laboratory contains 29 PCs, audio-visual facilities, printing facilities and a range of state-of-the-art software relevant to the fields of Applied Social Studies and Education. It is envisaged that the laboratory will be a major asset to the research and teaching facilities of both departments. ICT has assumed great importance in both subjects and it is imperative that students achieve a high degree of ICT capability on completing their studies. Students of the Education Department will receive training in software relevant to their subject methodologies such as Vektor for modern languages or The Geometer Sketchpad for trainee mathematics teachers. In addition to upskilling in specialist software, the laboratory will be used to present the Intel Teach to the Future Pre-service training programme. This programme is pedagogically focused and the Department has successfully incorporated it into the Higher Diploma in Education over the last two years. A special feature of the laboratory is the inclusion of Assistive Technology (AT). The PCs all have Zoomtext and Read & Write installed. Jaws, Kurzweil 1000 and Kurzweil 3000 are installed on two computers. It is hoped that the inclusion of AT in the new laboratory will act as a precedent for other computer facilities on campus. P rofessor David Mackenzie, Hispanic Studies, has recently taken over as interim Director of the Language Centre following the depart u re of Steven Dodd, and in this capacity he invited Ramesh Krishnamurt h y f rom the University of Birmingham to give a talk, the title of which was “Collocation: linking lexis, grammar and semantics”. Mr Krishnamurt h y a d d ressed the issue of collocation (words and word groups that go together), how native speakers deal with this in their everyday speech, and some of the difficulties that learners of the English language may have when faced with collocation issues. He pointed out that native speakers produce collocations eff o rtlessly and naturally in spontaneous discourse, and yet sometimes have difficulty in analyzing and re c a l l i n g them through introspection. He then went on to suggest some practical ways of incorporating collocation into language teaching and l e a rning, and warned of the dangers of teaching words in isolation. Ramesh Krishnamurthy is an expert in the field of dictionaries and collocation. He has many publications to his name and is a wellknown speaker at conferences worldwide and also on BBC radio. At present he is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English at the Universities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and he is also Corpus Consultant for the Bank of English, Cobuild, Harper Collins Publications and the University of Birmingham. He has worked as a compiler and editor for the Cobuild Dictionary series, is a conference speaker and presenter for Collins Dictionaries, and is a regular contributor to journals and magazines. The lecture was well attended by members of other departments in UCC as well as the Language Centre, and representatives of other language schools in Cork and teachers and students on the MA programme. Also in the audience were eight trainee teachers who are following an 11-week course leading to the Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). This is an internationally recognized qualification that enables people to find jobs teaching English in most countries of the world as well as Ireland, and the course combines theory with teaching practice in classes of English language learners. This course is run twice a year by the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) section of the Language Centre and applications are always welcome from anyone holding a first degree. Trainees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from recent graduates to those who perhaps wish to have a career change or who want to travel and work abroad. In addition to offering the CELTA course at least twice a year, the Language Centre also offers a course leading to the Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults, which is for teachers of English as a Foreign Language who have already had some experience in the field. Another training course offered each year is the Diploma in Advanced English Studies. In addition to these training courses, the EFL section offers yearround and summer English language courses. As well as providing services to students who come to Ireland specifically to learn English and perhaps to work at the same time, there are also many postgraduate students and those who are at UCC on exchange programmes from other countries and who take the opportunity to improve their English. Staff members from other countries also follow courses in the Language Centre to improve and develop their oral and writing skills. The EFL section also runs a foundation course for students mainly from Kuwait and Malaysia who are at UCC for six years to train in the medical and dental professions. Hundreds of foreign students also come to the Language Centre every year to take the Cambridge Examinations - First Certificate, Cambridge Advanced English and Cambridge Proficiency in English, as well as the examinations for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), which is used by the Irish and British Medical Councils and by universities as a standard of English language. For more information on courses offered by the EFL section or by other sections of the Language Centre, please contact the Secretary on extension 2043 or email info@langcent.ucc.ie 2 4 2 5
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