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November 2007
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November 2007
GEDC Executive Committee Meeting
IFEES is pleased to announce that the first meeting of the
IFEES Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) will take place
in Paris, France, on May 8 and 9, 2008.
A flyer
with additional details is available here.  (PDF:
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November 2007
Presentations from 2007 IFEES Summit in Istanbul, Turkey
A number of the presentations from the 2007 IFEES Summit
in Istanbul, Turkey, are available below:
Building,
Maintaining and Expanding Student Participation in Engineering
Education (PowerPoint:
1,401KB), by Andrej Bulat and Nicolò Wojewoda
Challenges
Facing Engineering Education in Africa, and the Role of AEEA(PowerPoint:
53KB), by Duncan Fraser
Engineering
Education Across the Continents/Cultures(PowerPoint:
1.391KB), by Yuri Pokholkov
EUR-ACE:
An Accreditation System of Engineering Education in a Pan-European
Context(PowerPoint:
5,805KB), by Giuliano Augusti
European
Engineering Qualifications in the Global Arena(PowerPoint:
49KB), by Guy Haug
The
Future Engineer: Industry Requirements to Engineering Education
Institutions(PowerPoint:
2,179KB), by M.P. Ravindra
IFEES
Vision and Strategic Plan(PowerPoint:
170KB), by Claudio Borri
An
International Partnership: the Washington Accord(PowerPoint:
416KB), by Bill Kelly
Pillars
of the Knowledge Based Economy - The Role of Engineering Education(PowerPoint:
428KB), by Bruno Laporte
Quality
Assurance in Higher Education: A Historical Perspective(PowerPoint:
1,521KB), by Mehmet Durman
The
Turkish Engineering Deans Council(PowerPoint:
775KB), by Hasan Mandal
The
World Wide Dimension of EU Higher Education and Research(PowerPoint:
1,935KB), by Upton van der Vliet
More presentations will be posted soon. Enjoy!
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November 2007
Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) 2008 Conference
in San Francisco, California
IFEES Member Engineers
for a Sustainable World (ESW) is holding its 2008 conference
from February 8-9 in San Francisco, California. This meeting
will bring together leading faculty, students, and industry
partners for a constructive dialogue on global sustainability
and the role of engineering solutions. The event will include
a conference track focused on engineering education, featuring
leading initiatives to integrate sustainability into the engineering
curricula.
Registration for the conference will open in November 2007,
and close on January 15, 2008. A limited number of presentations
will be selected through an open call for papers and posters.
Abstracts for presentations are due by November 20, 2007.
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October 2007
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October 2007
IFEES Summit and General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey
The IFEES Secretariat is pleased to announce that the first
Global Engineering Education Summit, Moving from Concept
to Action, turned out a great success. The full-day meeting,
hosted on the beautiful campus of Bogazici University, took
place on September 30, 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey, in affiliation
with the 6th ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education.
The meeting featured a wide variety of presentations by representatives
from IFEES member societies and by distinguished guest speakers.
Digital versions of these presentations will be available
at ifees.net in the coming weeks.
On October 1, 2007, the IFEES members convened for the 2007
Assembly of Members on the campus of Bogacizi University.
Pursuant with the IFEES bylaws, representatives from member
societies present at the meeting voted on a president-elect
and executive committee for 2007-2009 term. We are excited
to welcome our new IFEES
leadership team.
During these two meetings, significant progress was made
in many avenues. The Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC),
an IFEES initiative led by Seeram Ramakrishna, dean of engineering
at the National University of Singapore and representative
of IFEES member society the ASEAN
Engineering Deans Steering Committee, has taken definitive
shape. The first meeting of the Executive Committee of the
GEDC from around the world is being scheduled for May 8 and
9, 2008 in Paris, France. Details on this meeting will be
posted on ifees.net soon.
The integration of students into IFEES’ work, seen
as a critical strategic component in IFEES since the organization’s
genesis, has grown in size and scope. Nearly 30 student representatives
from around the world participated and presented in IFEES
Summit. Additionally, we are especially pleased to announce
that Omer Hantal, president of the Board
of European Students of Technology (BEST), was elected
to the IFEES executive committee for the 2007-2009 term.
The IFEES executive committee has agreed to hold the 2008
IFEES Summit concomitantly with the ASEE Global Colloquium
(GCEE), in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday October 19,
2008. Members of the IFEES executive committee have and will
continue to meet intermittently throughout 2007 and 2008.
The first such meeting will be take place in Cape Town, South
Africa, from January 7 to 11. Here the executive committee
will meet with the planning committee of the 2008 ASEE Global
Colloquium. From February 24 to 26, 2008, IFEES will hold
a two-hour session during the SEFI Second European Deans meeting
at the Technical University of Berlin. This will be accompanied
by an informal meeting of the IFEES representatives present.
On May 7, 2008, the IFEES executive committee will meet in
Paris, immediately prior to the first meeting of the Global
Engineering Deans Council. Building on the recent IFEES meetings
on October 14-16, 2007, in Cartagena, Colombia, during the
Red of Cartagena conference and on the October 14 – 20 ASIBEI
meeting held from October 14 to 20, an IFEES presentation
and meeting will be held during the annual SEFI conference
in Denmark in July 2008. It is possible that IFEES members
will also meet in Moscow in September 2008 during the annual
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September 2007
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NEWS
August 2007
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August 2007
Cartagena Network of Engineering RCI Holding International
Conference on Education Engineering (ICONEED)
The Cartagena
Network of Engineering RCI, a member of IFEES, will be
holding their International Conference on Education Engineering
(ICONEED) in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from October 14
to 16, 2007. This meeting will be held immediately prior to
the 25th anniversary celebration of IFEES member ASIBEI, which
will be held from October 16 – 20 in the same location.
The forum will be supported by IFEES and a number of IFEES
member institutions, including SEFI,
IGIP, ASEE,
ASIBEI, and LACCEI.
If you are interested in attending the event, more information
will eventually be posted here: www.cartagena-engineering-network.org.
To learn more, see
the full flyer for the event here(PDF:
20KB).
Learn
More about Cartagena Network of Engineering RCI »
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about SEFI »
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about IGIP »
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about ASEE »
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NEWS
July 2007
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July 2007
IFEES member the European
Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
will be holding its 2nd
Deans' Conference, entitled Special Challenges in
Engineering Education, in Berlin, Germany from February
24 - 26. The forum, sponsored by IFEES
and the European
Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE),
will focus mainly on the best practices in overcoming the
challenges faces in adopting the Bologna Process. The meeting
will include discussion on the following issues: quality assurance
education at engineering education institutions, internationally
acknowledged accreditation, global perspectives provided under
the umbrella of IFEES, motivation of first year students,
best practices in engineering curricula. The conference is
especially designed for rectors, deans and colleagues responsible
for engineering curricula. On behalf of IFEES, Dean Seeram
Ramakrishna of Singapore as well as other IFEES representatives
will be presenting on the proposed formation of an IFEES Global
Deans Council.
SEFI would like to cordially invite you to attend and/or
contribute to this event. To register and for further information,
please visit www.deans-conference.com.
For any questions about registration, hotel reservations,
or the program, please contact Ms. Lisa Hertel at hertel@tu-servicegmbh.de.
The abstract submission date is September 17, 2007. Please
limit your abstract to one-page (A4 paper size), and include
the title of the presentation, a listing of all the authors
and co-authors, and their contact information, including email
address. Please email this abstract to Dr. Jorg Steinbach
at VP1@tu-berlin.de.
Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their papers
on November 12, 2007, and the submission deadline for complete
papers is February 4, 2007.
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about SEFI »
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Deans' Conference »
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NEWS
June 2007
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June 2007
IFEES members met with Dr.
A.P.J. Adbul Kalam, President of India, on June 6, 2007,
to brief him on the recommendations from the Action Planning
Forum of the Indo
US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE),
of which IFEES was a co-sponsor. The Action Planning Forum,
which took place on the campus of Infosys
in Mysore, India, was the first meeting of IUCEE. A follow-up
meeting will take place in Washington, DC in August 2007.
From left to right front row
Dr. V. Varadarajan, 21st Century Endowed Chair in Nano and
Bio Techologies and Medicine, Univ of Arkansas
Dr. Kalpana Jain, Vice President, Vaughn College of Aeronautics
and Technology, New York
Dr. Krishna Athreya, Director, Engineering Leadership Program,
Iowa State University
Dr. A.P.J. Adbul Kalam, President of India
Mr. Mihir Ravel, Technology Executive and Entrepreneur, Texas
Dr. Barbara Olds, Associate Vice President, Colorado School
of Mines
Dr. Ashok Saxena, Dean of Engineering, University of Arkansas
Dr. R. Natarajan, Chairman, Board of Education IT Standards,
Bangalore and Former Chairman, All India Council for Technical
Education
From left to right behind row;
Dr. Kurt Larsen, Senior Officer, Program on Knowledge for
Development, World Bank Institute, Washington DC
Dr. Paul Peercy, Dean of Engineering, University of Wisconsin
and Chair, Engineering Deans Council, ASEE
Dr. Krishna Vedula, Professor and Dean Emeritus, University
of Massachusetts Lowell
Dr. Jack Lohmann, Vice Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Hans Jürgen Hoyer, Director for International Programs
and Strategy, American Society for Eng Education; Deputy Secretary
General of IFEES
Dr. James Melsa, President, American Society for Engineering
Education and Dean Emeritus, Iowa State University
Mr. Xavier Fouger, Director, PLM Academy, Dassault Systemes
Learning, France
Mr. Ray Almgren, Vice President, National Instruments, Texas
Dr. Frank Huband, Executive Director, American Society for
Engineering Education; Secretary General of IFEES
Mr. Spencer Potter, International Programs and Public Policy
Associate, American Society for Eng Education; IFEES
Learn
More about Dr. A.P.J. Adbul Kalam, President of India »
Learn more about
IUCEE »
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about Infosys »
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June 2007
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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May 2007
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May 2007
IFEES Strategic Planning Continues
Several IFEES members from across the world met in Puerto
Rico from April 15 to 18 at the American
Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
annual Engineering
Deans Institute (EDI).
Seeram Ramakrishna of ASEAN
(Association
of Southeast Asian Nations) Engineering Deans Steering
Committee; Javier Paez of ASIBEI
(Ibero-American
Association of Institutes of Engineering Education), and
Vice President of IFEES; Krishna Vedula of the American
Society for Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI);
Lueny Morell of the IFEES Executive Committee; Xavier Fouger
of Dassault Systemes;
and the IFEES Secretariat met to further the IFEES strategic
planning process. Maria Larronda Petrie, IFEES Executive Committee
member and Gerardo Ferrando, representing the International
Association for Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE),
joined by phone. Discussions were held with leaders of the
EDI regarding the concept of creating a Global Deans Council,
an important dimension of the IFEES strategic plan. Seeram
Ramakrishna has agreed to lead this global initiative.
The IFEES strategic planning process will continue at the
ASEE Annual Conference in Hawaii on June 24-27 and at
the SEFI/IGIP
joint conference in Mischkolz, Hungary on July 1 to 4.
The committee aims to complete the IFEES strategic plan by
the 2007 meeting of the IFEES General Assembly on October
1, 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey.
The first annual IFEES
Global Summit on Engineering Education will take place
on September 30, 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey, in conjunction
with the ASEE
Global Colloquium on Engineering Education. The program
committee for the Summit is co-chaired by Maria Petrie and
Federico Flueckinger and the host of this meeting will be
the Turkish Deans Council, represented by Professor Ali Kaylan.
It is expected that the Turkish Deans Council will officially
join IFEES before the Summit commences.
The program for the meeting is nearly complete and invitations
have been sent to selected speakers. Student representatives
are fully engaged in the planning of the IFEES Summit and
will also present papers.
Learn more
about ASEE »
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more about EDI »
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more about ASEAN »
Learn more
about ASEI »
Learn more about
Dassault Systems »
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about IACEE »
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about ASEE
Annual Conference »
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more about SEFI/IGIP
joint conference »
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more about IFEES
Global Summit on Engineering Education »
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more about ASEE
Global Colloquium on Engineering Education »
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April 2007
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April 2007
ISTE/India Facilitates Recent Visit to India for IFEES Members and Staff
Krishna Vedula of IFEES member organization ASEI
(American Society
for Engineers of Indian Origin), and Hans Jürgen
Hoyer of ASEE
returned from a trip to India, where they visited the site
of the first India/U.S. Collaborative on Engineering Education.
This meeting will bring together engineering educators from
India and the U.S. to discuss ways to improve engineering
and technical education throughout the Indian Subcontinent
and the US. The meeting will take place this June in Mysore,
India, and will be complemented by a follow-up meeting in
Washington, DC at the National Academy of Engineering in August
2007. The representatives of the international delegation
including Xavier Fouger of Dassault
Systems who is also an IFEES member, ASEE president-elect
Jim Melsa, Executive Committee member of IFEES, Frank Huband
and Hans Jürgen Hoyer will be part of that delegation
and will visit high level Indian government officials as well
as other leaders of the Indian industry and academic community.
Professor Vedula is the Dean Emeritus and Professor of Engineering
at the University
of Massachusetts, Lowell and the intellectual leader of
the ASEE-supported IUCEE,
the Indo-US
Collaboration for Engineering Education. While in India,
he and Hans Jürgen Hoyer made contact with IFEES vice
president N.R. Shetty, of the Indian
Society of Technical Education, visited the cutting-edge
professional training campuses of INFOSYS
Technologies in both Bangalore and Mysore as well as the
leadership at the Indian
Institute of Science.
Learn more
about ASEI »
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about ASEE »
Learn more about
Dassault Systems »
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Society of Technical Education »
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March 2007
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March 2007
IFEES President Attending Meetings Worldwide
IFEES President Claudio Borri will be attending the Iberian
American Association of Engineering Education Institutions
(ASIBEI)
conference to be held in Columbia this April. Javier Páez
Saavedra, President of ASIBEI, currently sits on the IFEES
executive committee and is leading the IFEES strategic planning
committee. ASIBEI, an IFEES member, is a group of deans from
12 countries in Latin America and the Iberian peninsula. Learn more
about ASIBEI »
President Borri will also be attending the annual meeting
of the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST).
BEST is a cutting-edge organization of European Engineering
Students and is an IFEES member. Learn
more about BEST ».
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February 2007
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February 2007
IFEES Representatives Meet With World Bank
Various IFEES and member society ASEE
representatives participated in a fruitful discussion with
outgoing head of the World Bank Institute (WBI)
Frannie Léautier in January, resulting in plans to sign
a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two parties.
Though the MOU will actually be made between ASEE and the
World Bank Institute, IFEES is mentioned as a critical strategic
entity. We are hopeful that a similar partnership will emerge
between IFEES and the World Bank in the coming years. Learn
more about ASEE » | Learn
more about WBI »
We are also pleased to announce that several World Bank representatives
will be present at the September 30th annual IFEES meeting
in Istanbul, Turkey.
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October 2006
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October 2006
IFEES Signs Multilateral Agreement
On the 12 of October 2007, IFEES joined six other multinational
organizations to sign the Engineering Collaboration Agreement
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The document formed a partnership
to work toward the following goals:
- to promote the professional educational and research
development of world class engineers,
- to enhance engineering education and to support engineering
academia under global quality assurance and program accreditation
processes,
- to promote and develop continuing education programs,
extension services, and lifelong learning activities to
support lifelong productivity enhancement to strenthen enterprise
competitiveness,
- to work toward meeting world demand for global engineers
committed to solving problems of society,
- to build bridges for networking and resource sharing between
industry, professionals, governments, academia and the civil
society to meet the challenges for developing global engineers
to impact worldwide economic development,
- to promote sustainability values and proactive actions
on behald of forthcoming generations,
- to envision and carry out collaborative efforts and activities
for the benefit of all,
- to help enhance social, political and professional equity,
justice and welfare and provide opportunities for those
underrepresented in the global engineering community,
- to promote job creation and alleviate poverty,
- to jointly seek funding to support all activities related
to engineering, and
- to broadly disseminate woldwide this agreement and attract
other interested partners into this partnership.
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October 2006
IFEES Inauguration and First Elections Held in Rio
Representatives of 31 organizations in 10 countries gathered
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 9, 2006 to elect the
first IFEES Executive Board and officers. The elected leadership
team includes a president plus an executive board of 11 individuals,
including vice presidents representing four geographic regions
of the globe: Americas, Africa/Middle East, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.
Claudio Borri was elected IFEES president. Mervyn Jones, Qing
Lei, James Melsa, Lueny Morell, and Nitte Shetty were elected
as executive board members for the next two years. Kwang Sun
Kim, Norbert Kraker, Maria Larrondo-Petrie, Sipho Madonsela,
Yuri Pokholkov, and Javier Paez Saavedra were elected as executive
board members for the next year. Learn
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