17 September 2010
ASIBEI's
Declaración de Belo Horizonte
Please visit ASIBEI's (Asociación Iberoamerican de Instituciones de Enseñanza de la Ingeniería) website for news on its recent Declaración de Belo Horizonte (in Spanish only): http://www.asibei.org/boletin/julio/
Founding Meeting of Society of Engineering Education in South Africa
 In August 2010, Sarah Rajala participated in the founding meeting of the Society of Engineering Education in South Africa (SEESA) and present an overview on the future of engineering education globally. The meeting was a great success and attended by about 65 individuals from throughout South Africa. The founding members approved a set of by-laws and elected the initial set of officers and executive committee. The founding president is Dr. Jenni Case, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town. SEESA membership in IFEES will be sponsored by ECSA for at least the next five years.
During the trip, Rajala visited the University of Johannesburg and met with a group of engineering faculty. Dr. Kim Battle, Special Assistant to the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, coordinated the visit. She also met with a group of engineering education faculty at the University of Cape Town. Her visit to UCT was coordinated by Dr. Jenni Case.
CNI Hosts Workshop on Technology & Innovation in Sao Paulo, Brazil
The National Confederation of Industry (CNI) of in Brazil partnered with a selected group of engineering education leaders (rectors, engineering deans, faculty and professional associations) and high level government officials from Ministries of Education and S&T to hold a workshop titled "Technology and Innovation: Engineering for the XXI Century", in São Paulo on August 22nd - 26th, 2010.
Held at the CNI Headquarters in Sao Paulo, the workshop focused on discussing the challenges and actions required to educate the global professional engineer for a new engineering for sustainability paradigm in the American Continent, especially in Brazil.
The opening ceremony was led by the Director of the Euvaldo Lodi Institute(IEL),the Presidents of FIESP, CIESP and the Presidents of the entities which established the iNOVA Engenharia program in Brazil. Joining distinguished Brazilian colleagues, IFEES President Lueny Morell (HP Labs), John Lamancusa (Penn State University - USA), Wonjong JOO (Seoul Tech - South Korea), Jochen Litterst (University of Braunschweig - Germany) and Erik de Graaff (University of Aalborg - Denmark) shared ideas on how the engineering education process can be an innovative short cut to social and economic development, creating benchmarks for problem based learning, bridging the gap between industry and university, developing learning environments with industry collaboration, and brainstorming characteristics of a "modern university." A session on "Mobilizing Entrepreneurship by Innovation" was led by Dr. Carlos Brito Cruz, Director of FAPESP with several industry representatives.
Participants worked in teams to discuss ideas and started drafting plans to realize those ideas.
 
L: Executive CAN Director addresses workshop attendees.
R: International speakers (Erik De Graaf, Wonjong Joo, John Lamancusa and Jochen Litterst
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