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)