Summary:

Description:
The Fourth IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit will be held from October 18 – 21, 2010, in Singapore. This year's IFEES Summit is part of the World Engineering Education Forum, a weeklong event bringing together conferences for five international engineering education organizations. The common events for this forum will be held at the newly constructed Marina Bay Sands Convention Center.

Government, University, Industry and Civil Society partnerships are key vehicles to develop and sustain economic and social development. This Summit will bring together stakeholders from throughout the world to share their successes and challenges in building and nurturing these partnerships. The role of engineering education associations, government entities and industry will be highlighted as well as the engineering grand challenges of the 21st century. The Summit will provide an opportunity for IFEES members and guests to engage in a dialogue and discussion to catalyze and sustain R&D and innovation partnerships in the next decade.

The Summit plans to conduct various sessions focusing on Government-Industry-Academic-Civil Society Partnerships to Address the Engineering Grand Challenges, focused on Energy, Water and Industry. It also aims at bringing together engineering stakeholders leadership to sign a declaration on agreements and next steps to address the various challenges and opportunities identified during the week.

Chairs: Lueny Morell (lueny.morell at hp.com) and Soon Hoe Chew (cvecsh at nus.edu.sg)

Content:

The goals of the Third IFEES Summit are:

• Share challenges and best practices on accreditation/global recognition of engineering education
• Provide an opportunity to IFEES members and world engineering education community to understand the Russian engineering educational system as a first step in building collaborations
• Foster multi-stakeholder, multi-national partnerships
• Work with the Russian Association for Engineering Education to co-locate/co-present a conference on global engineering education accreditation

The Summit's main sessions are organized according to IFEES' areas of focus:

• Engineering Education Infrastructure: Includes initiatives for development of engineering faculty, curriculum and academic leadership, and promotion of globally recognized quality and accreditation
• Research & Development and Entrepreneurship: Includes initiatives for integrating research experiences across the engineering education pipeline, promoting entrepreneurship and technology transfer, and excellence through creation and enhancement of Ph.D. programs
• Student Attraction and Success: Includes initiatives focused on increasing the visibility of engineering as a profession, improving retention, participation of women and underrepresented populations, promoting student mobility worldwide, and promoting collaborative and joint degree programs
• Lifelong Learning: Includes initiatives focused on promoting continuing education opportunities

Examples of initiatives that will be featured in the panels:

• Indo-US Collaboration on Engineering Education (IUCEE): This IFEES-sponsored initiative encourages collaborative engineering education discussions between the two nations, India and the US. As one of its main activities, IUCEE brings together the World Bank, National Academy of Engineering, leaders of engineering education, industry and government representatives from India and the US to address four strategic areas through an Indo-US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute. The first Indo-US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute was conducted in the summer of 2008 and the next series of train-the trainer seminars, as part of the Second Faculty Leadership Institute, will be conducted in June-July, 2009, at the Infosys Campus in Mysore, India.

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