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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
meeting of IGIP. |
