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June 2007

IFEES Members Meet with President of India20 June 2007

IFEES Members Meet with President of India

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

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