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Philosophy of Journal of International Engineering Education

For more information, please see Journal of International Engineering Education Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Journal of International Engineering Education provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Journal of International Engineering Education, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Journal of International Engineering Education. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Journal of International Engineering Education, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

Journal of International Engineering Education has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);
  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series); and
  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact the editors.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the DigitalCommons@URI website and/or software agree not to misuse the DigitalCommons@URI service or software in any way.

The failure of DigitalCommons@URI to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between DigitalCommons@URI and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. All articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative 4.0 License (CC BY-NC-ND). Authors retain copyright of their article and following publication are free to share the paper, post it online on a website or repository, or repurpose it, including for commercial purposes, without permission of this journal or Digital Commons, as long as they attribute first publication to the journal.

Readers can freely download, share, and place the articles on open noncommercial websites, as long as the article is not edited or modified in any way, and full attribution is given to the author and this journal for first publication. Third-parties may not make any commercial use of the articles without the permission of the author who holds the copyright, and should contact the author if they wish to do so.

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