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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

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.

Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC): IFEES and the GEDC seek to help member societies and deans and rectors contribute to effective, high quality engineering education around the world. By strengthening the global network and capacity building of engineering education stakeholders such as deans and rectors, IFEES and the GEDC foster excellence and share best practices in engineering education globally. In collaboration with its members and partners in industry, IFEES and the GEDC connect deans, rectors, faculty, and engineering graduates with international corporations seeking globally-minded engineering graduates. With Dassault Systemes and HP’s critical intellectual and financial support, GEDC’s Executive Committee was formed in Paris in May 2008. There will forthcoming meetings in Boston in March 2009 and Budapest in October 2009 as part of the GEDC Leadership Institute. Plans are also being made for the First Global Conference of the GEDC in 2010.

Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED): IFEES and ASEE have been working with global engineering student leaders to create a new student organization - Student Platform for Engineering Education (SPEED), dedicated to the perpetuation of student involvement in the global dialogue on engineering education. There will be a Global Student Forum, co-located with Third IFEES Summit in St. Petersburg, and several US and Hungarian student leaders are involved in planning for the Global Student Forum in Budapest 2009.