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.
| Sunday - October 19, 2008 |
| Sessions/
Topic |
Speaker |
Time |
| Buses
leave Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays Hotel |
|
7:30 |
| Summit Registration & Refreshment - University of Cape Town |
|
8:00 |
Session 1 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
The Role of Engineering Education and Innovation
in Knowledge Economies: Perspectives of Policy Makers
Reaching out with the
goal of aligning current and future engineering education initiatives to
maximize their impact in creating and sustaining knowledge economies, the
Summit begins with policy makers and government agencies discussing their
challenges, needs and perspectives.
Moderators: María
Larrondo-Petrie, IFEES Vice President and
Summit Co-Chair, Executive Director, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium
of Engineering Institutions, Associate Dean and Professor, Florida Atlantic
University, USA; and Duncan Fraser, Secretary General of the African Engineering Education
Association (AEEA), and Professor at University of Cape Town, South Africa |
|
8:30 -10:15 |
| Welcome |
Francis Petersen
Dean
of University of Cape Town, and
South African Deans Council |
|
| African Vision for the Summit |
Funso Falade
President of African Engineering Education Association (AEEA),
and Professor of University of Lagos, Nigeria |
|
| IFEES Vision for the Summit |
Claudio Borri
President
of IFEES, Past President of European Society for Engineering Education
(SEFI), and Professor at University of Florence, Italy |
|
| African Perspective |
(invited Mosibudi Mangena)
South African Minister of Science & Technology, and Chair of
the African Ministers Science and Technology |
|
| Iberian Perspective |
(invited Jose Mariano Gago)
Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal |
|
| Russian Federation Perspective |
(invited Nikolav Ivanovich Bulaev)
Head
of Federal Agency for Education in the Ministry of Education & Science,
Russian Federation |
|
| European Perspective |
(invited Ralph Rahders)
European
Commission |
|
| American Perspective |
(invited Allen L. Soyster)
Director of Engineering Education and Centers Division at
National Science Foundation, USA |
|
| |
Discussion and Interaction |
|
| Coffee Break |
|
10:15 |
Session 2 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
Developing Engineering Education Infrastructure in
Support of Knowledge Economies: Initiatives, Best Practices and their
Application to the Developing World
Reaching in to its member
societies, IFEES spotlights initiatives and best practices, grouping them
into 3 interactive panels organized according to IFEES strategic action areas
and discusses how they can be applied to the developing world. This first panel focuses on initiatives
aimed at improving engineering education
infrastructure. The format of the panel allows for brief
5-8 minute presentations by each panelists, and schedules time for
interaction with the audience.
Moderator: Funso Falade, President of
African Engineering Education Association (AEEA) and Professor at University
of Lagos, Nigeria |
|
10:45 -12:15 |
| IFEES Global Engineering Deans
Council Initiative |
Hasan Mandal
Vice Chair of Global Engineering
Deans Council (GEDC) and Dean at Anadolu University, Turkey |
|
Satish S. Udpa
Founding
Member of GEDC, and Dean at Michigan State University, USA
|
|
| Chinese Initiatives |
Yu Shouwen
Deputy
Director of Chinese Society for Engineering Education, Member of the
Education Commission of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Former
President of Tsinghua University, China |
|
| Iberoamerican Initiatives to
Develop the Professoriate |
Jaime Salazar Contreras
Executive Director, IberoAmerican Engineering Education
Association (ASIBEI), and Professor at Universidad Nacional, Colombia |
|
| European and Bologna Initiatives |
Guy Haug
European
Engineering Education Expert |
|
| African Collaborative Initiatives |
Hamadou Saliah-Hassane
Professor, TELUQ - Université du Québec à Montreál, Canada, Former Professor at Abdou Moumouni University and École d’ingénieurs des Mines de l’industrie et de la Géologie, Niger |
|
Oumar Sock
President
of Conférence des Formations d´Ingénieurs et de Techniciens d’Expression
Française (CITEF), Senegal |
|
Andy Ward
Principal
Investigator of National Science Foundation Workshop on US-Africa
Collaborations, and Professor of Ohio State University, USA |
|
| |
Discussion and Interaction |
|
Lunch sponsored by Autodesk (location to
be announced)
|
|
12:15 |
Session 3 (Auditorium)
World Bank Workshop:
Engineering Education in the Knowledge Economy
This highly interactive 5 hour workshop,
specially designed for the Summit, aims to give a deeper understanding of the
concept of a knowledge economy in theory and in practice, specifically how
engineering education - in particular the groups that attendees represent -
can be better structured to support this economy in the context of the widely
varied regional and sector perspectives. Participants will formulate immediate and long-term action plans for
their own organizations to better support the knowledge economies of their
own countries and garner useful contacts - leaders in their own sectors and
nations.
Moderators: Bruno Laporte, Manager,
Knowledge and Human Development, World Bank Institute; Anuja Utz, Program Leader of Knowledge for Development Program,
World Bank Institute; Lueny Morell, President Elect of IFEES, and Director, Engineering
Education Innovation, HP Labs Open Innovation Office, Hewlett Packard |
|
13:15 - 18:30 |
| The Concept of a Knowledge Economy
and Engineering Education |
Bruno A. Laporte
Manager of Knowledge and Human
Development at World Bank Institute |
|
Anuja Utz
Program Leader of Knowledge for Development Program at World
Bank Institute
|
|
| Engineering Education and its
Support for the Knowledge Economy |
Lueny Morell
President
Elect of IFEES, and Director of Engineering Education Innovation, HP Labs
Open Innovation Office, Hewlett Packard |
|
Jenni Case
Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
|
|
Parallel Interactive Working Groups
Two interactive working sessions will be conducted
in parallel to allow small group collaboration to generate short and long
term action items.
Parallel Working Groups 1:
World Bank Interactive Working Session:
Integrating Perspectives - Bringing Together the Relevant
Stakeholders
Limited to 50 participants working in groups of
8-10 to consider how engineering education can augment the knowledge economy
in their own and their group members' contexts, and to generate one immediate
action item and one long-term action item that they will implement and report
on at next year's IFEES Summit.
Parallel Working Groups 2:
IFEES - Global Student Forum Working Session:
Sustainability and Engineering Education
IFEES Summit participants join 90 global student
leaders participanting in the Global
Student Forum to discuss creative solutions related to Sustainability OF
Engineering Education, Sustainability IN Engineering Education, and
Sustainability THROUGH Engineering Education. |
|
15:45 - 16:30 |
| Integrating Perspective: Bringing Together the
Relevant Stakeholders |
Facilitated by the World Bank Workshop
Moderators |
|
| Sustainability and Engineering
Education |
Facilitated by Nicolò
Wojewoda
Co-founder
and Coordinator of Student Platform for Engineering education Development
(SPEED) |
|
| Working Coffee Break |
|
16:15 |
| Continuation of the World Bank Workshop Session |
|
16:45 -
18:45 |
A Look on the Ground and Ahead - Current Work and
Future Opportunities
|
(invited)
African Institute of Science and Technology
|
|
Robert Hawkins
South Africa Representative of
the World Bank, and
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology |
|
Krishna Vedula
Executive Director of Indo-US
Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE), Executive Director of
American Society for Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI), and Dean Emeritus at University of
Massachusetts -Lowell, USA |
|
M. P. Ravindra
Advisor on Education and
Research for Infosys Technologies Ltd., India |
|
Duncan Fraser
Secretary General of the African
Engineering Education Association (AEEA), and Professor at University of Cape
Town, South Africa |
|
Jennifer DeBoer
Pre-Doctoral
Fellow at Vanderbilt University, USA |
|
| Closing and Results of First Day of
Summit |
World Bank Workshop Moderators |
|
| Break |
|
18:45 - 19:30 |
| Registered
Guest Transportation leaves Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays Hotel |
|
19:00 |
Cocktail and Dinner sponsored by
Autodesk
(Location at University of Cape Town to be announced)
(For IFEES Summit Registered Attendees and
Registered Guests) |
|
19:30 - 21:00 |
| Moderator: Claudio Borri, President of
IFEES, Past President of European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI),
and Professor at University of Florence, Italy |
|
|
Brief remarks by sponsor
|
Alan Jacobs
Senior Manager of University Programs, Autodesk |
|
Keynote Speaker
|
|
|
| (Title to be announced) |
Konrad Osterwalder
Rector of United Nations University in Tokyo,
Japan |
|
| Buses depart for Westin
Hotel |
|
21:00 |
| Monday - October 20, 2008 |
| Sessions/Topic |
Speaker |
Time |
| Buses
leave Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays Hotel |
|
7:30 |
Session 4 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
Student Attraction and Success, and Lifelong
Learning in Support of Knowledge Economies: Initiatives, Best Practices and
their Application to the Developing World
This second panel reaching
in to its member societies focuses on
initiatives aimed at improving engineering
student attraction and success and lifelong learning. The format of the
panel allows for brief spotlights (5-8 minutes) of featured initiatives, and
followed by round tables discussions.
Moderator: (invited), Board of
European Students of Technology |
|
8:00 - 9:30 |
| Student Initiatives |
(invited)
Board of European Students of
Technology
|
|
(invited Alexa Mabonga)
Association Internationale des
Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (AIESEC), Tanzania |
|
Nicolò Wojoweda and Julia Ivanova
Founders of Student Platform for Engineering Education
Development (SPEED) |
|
| Campus Connect: An Industry
Initiative |
(invited R. N. Prasad)
Vice President of Education and Research at Infosys Technologies
Ltd., India |
|
| Global Service Learning and
Technical Practice Initiatives |
(invited Monica Rucki)
Engineering Without Borders -
Canada
|
|
(invited Regina Clewlow and Julie Chow)
Engineering
for a Sustainable World |
|
| Autodesk Initiatives: K-12 and
Forming Virtual Communities |
Alan Jacobs
Senior
Manager of University Programs, Autodesk |
|
| African
Initiatives and Responses |
(invited)
UNESCO sponsored African representatives |
|
Round Tables 1 (TBA)
Participants will break into special interest
groups (topics or themes to be announced at the conference) to network,
discuss members' initiatives and explore opportunities for collaborations in
order to catalize and expand initiatives that promote knowledge
economies. The aim is to promote new
alliances and the formation of working groups that will drive projects that
realize IFEES' vision and strategic plan. |
|
9:00 - 9:30 |
| Coffee Break |
|
9:30 |
Session 5 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
Engineering Research, Development,
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Support of Knowledge Economies:
Initiatives, Best Practices and their Application to the Developing
World
This third panel reaching
in to its member societies focuses on
initiatives aimed at improvement engineering research, development,
innovation. The format of the panel
allows for brief spotlights (5-8 minutes ) 0f featured initiatives, and schedules
time for round table interaction with the audience.
Moderator: Jose Carlos
Quadrado, Summit Co-Chair and President of
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal, and Representative of
IberoAmerican Engineering Education Association (ASIBEI) |
|
10:00 - 11:30 |
| Sustainability
of Engineering Research and Education |
(invited) Maria Rimini-Döring
Director
of Corporate Research and Advanced Engineering Human-Machine Interaction at
Bosch GmbH |
|
| Initiative to Develop and Sustain
Entrepreneurs |
Ramiro Jordan
Founder
of Iberoamerican Science Technology and Education Consortium (ISTEC), and
Professor at University of New Mexico, USA |
|
| Initiative to Develop a Global
Community of Engineering Education Researchers |
Jack R. Lohmann
Editor of American Society of Engineering
Education's Journal of Engineering Education, and Vice Provost for
Institutional Development at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
|
| An Engineering Education
Accreditation System Initiative for the Greater Caribbean |
Deborah Wolfe
Director of Education, Outreach and Research at
Engineers Canada, and Board Member of Engineering for the Americas |
|
| EUR-ACE:A Pan-European Engineering
Education Accreditation System |
Giuliano Augusti
EUR-ACE
IMPLEMENTATION Project Coordinator, ENAEE President, Former SEFI President,
Università di Roma "La Sapienza" |
|
Round Tables 2 (TBA)
Participants will break into special interest
groups (topics or themes to be announced at the conference) to network,
discuss members' initiatives and explore opportunities for collaborations in
order to catalize and expand initiatives that promote knowledge
economies. The aim is to promote new
alliances and the formation of working groups that will drive projects that
realize IFEES' vision and strategic plan. |
|
10:50- 11:25 |
Session 6 (Auditorium)
Closing Session |
|
11:25
- 12:00 |
| Plans for IFEES 2009 Global Engineering Education
Summit in St. Petersburgh, Russia |
Yuri Petrovich Pokholkov
President of Russian Association
of Engineering Education (RAEE) and Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic University,
Russia |
|
Claudio Borri
President of IFEES, Past
President of European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), and Professor
at University of Florence, Italy |
|
Lueny Morell
President
Elect of IFEES, and Director of Engineering Education Innovation, HP Labs
Open Innovation Office, Hewlett Packard |
|
| Closing and Evaluation |
Maria M. Larrondo Petrie
IFEES Summit Co-Chair and Vice
President; Executive Director of Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of
Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), Associate Dean and Professor, Florida
Atlantic University, USA |
|
Jose Carlos Quadrado
IFEES
Summit Co-Chair and Representative of IberoAmerican Engineering Education
Association (ASIBEI), and Rector of
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal (ISEL) |
|
| Lunch |
|
12:00 |
| IFEES General Assembly - sponsored by MathWorks |
|
|
IFEES General Assembly
Elections, bylaw changes, sustainability, remarks by outgoing
and incoming President |
|
13:45 - 16:00 |
| Tour of the University of Cape Town Campus |
|
16:00 - 17:30 |
| IFEES Executive Committee Meeting |
|
16:00 - 17:30 |
| Buses depart for Westin
Hotel |
|
17:30 |