ACTIVITIES

20 August 2008

2nd IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit

The Second IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit will be held on October 19-20 in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted by the University of Cape Town and the African Engineering Education Association, co-located with the American Society for Engineering Education Global Colloquium.

The Program for the Second IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit is now available.

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27 May 2008

Indo US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute, Summer 2008

A draft brochure on the IFEES-supported Indo US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute, Summer 2008 is available here. The Institute will take place from May 26 to July 18, 2008, on the campus of the Infosys Global Education Center, in Mysore, India.

3 May 2008

Global Engineering Deans Council

1st Executive Committee Meeting
May 8-9, Paris, France
By Invitation Only
Co-hosted By:
 

One of the strategic initiatives of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) is the creation of a worldwide forum for the Engineering Deans called the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC). The GEDC idea was first introduced during the IFEES meeting at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 9, 2006. The IFEES executive board decided to go forward with the GEDC concept at its September 30, 2007 meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.

On May 8-9, 2008, the Global Engineering Deans Council will hold its first Executive Committee meeting in Paris, France. Co-hosted by Dassault Systemes and Hewlett Packard, the event will convene engineering deans from across the world who have been invited to join the GEDC.

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26 September 2007

IFEES Summit Proceedings Online

Please click here(PDF: 4,884KB) to see the proceedings and schedule for the First IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit.

View the IFEES Summit Proceedings and Schedule(PDF: 4,884KB)

12 June 2007

IFEES Plays Role In Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE)

Draft Press Release, June 8, 2007

Leaders of engineering education and engineering businesses from India and the US plan for collaboration

Leaders of engineering education and engineering businesses from US and India, along with several government dignitaries met at an Action Planning Forum for Indo US collaboration in engineering education, hosted by Kris Gopalakrishnan, Managing Director and CEO-Designate of Infosys at their Mysore Campus on June 3 to June 5, 2007. Infosys offered outstanding hospitality at their state-of-the art facilities of their Leadership Institute to the 81 participants who included several directors, deans of engineering, vice chancellors as well as over 25 business representatives. Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science and Dr. Frank Huband, Executive Director, American Society for Engineering Education, welcomed the participants on behalf of the organizers. Prof V.S. Arunachalam, Former Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister, Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology and Dr. D. Acharya, Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education, gave keynote addresses...

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