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July 2008
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.
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June 2008
4th African Regional
Conference on Engineering Education
IFEES member the African Engineering
Education Association (AEEA) held its 4th African Regional
Conference on Engineering Education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
between 22nd and 25th April, 2008.
The theme of the conference was ‘Capacity Building
in Engineering for Sustainable Development. There were 111
participants from 15 countries from Africa and beyond. Twenty-nine
papers were presented, including a paper titled ‘Engineering
Education Societies becoming Global: The Emerging Experience
of International Federation of Engineering Education Societies
which was authored by eleven (11) members of IFEES.
More information on the event is available
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May 2008
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.
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February 2008
SEFI's 36th Annual Conference
IFEES Member SEFI
will be hosting the organization's 36th Annual Conference
from July 2-5, 2008, in Aalborg, Denmark. The conference theme
is Quality Assessment, Employability and Innovation—Celebrating
SEFI's 35 Anniversary.
We encourage everyone to consider attending. Please
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February 2008
Registration and Information for the Founding Global
Engineering Deans Council (GEDC)
Executive Committee Meeting - By
Invitation Only
One of the strategic initiatives of the International Federation
of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) is the creation
of a worldwide forum for the engineering deans called the
Global Engineering Deans
Council (GEDC). The
GEDC idea was first mooted during the IFEES meeting at Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil on October 9, 2006. The IFEES executive
board decided to go forward with the GEDC concept at its September
30, 2007 meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.
On May 8-9, 2008, the Global Engineering Deans Council will
hold its first Executive Committee meeting in Paris, France.
Co-hosted by Dassault Systemes and Hewlett Packard, the event
will convene engineering deans from across the world who have
been invited to join the Executive Committee of the Global
Engineering Deans Council.
To register and for more
information about the event, please go here. Please note
that this event is by invitation
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January 2008
SEFI 2nd Deans' Conference: Special Challenges in
Engineering Education
IFEES member society SEFI will be holding its 2nd Deans'
Conference on February 24-26 in Berlin, Germany. The focus
of the forum will be the discussion and exchange of best practices
for dealing with the challenges in adopting the Bologna Process.
Learn
more about the event here.
On February 26, SEFI will be hosting an IFEES Session at
this meeting. The Session will focus on (a) how engineering
education bolsters economic development and (b) engineering
education sustainability. The meeting will especially highlight
IFEES Vice President Seeram Ramakrishna’s work in setting
up the IFEES Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC). The
first meeting of the GEDC Executive Committee will take place
in May 8-9, 2008, in Paris, France.
Funso Falade, representative from IFEES member society the
African Engineering Education Association, and co-host of
the Second IFEES Summit, to take place in Cape Town, South
Africa, on October 19-20, 2008, will join the meeting and
give a presentation on the 2008 IFEES Summit. We are pleased
to announce that Nicolo Wojewoda will also join us, representing
the student component of the ASEE Global Colloquium, collocated
with the IFEES Summit in Cape Town.
Those IFEES Executive Committee members who are present in
Berlin will convene an official IFEES Executive Committee
meeting, with IFEES President Claudio Borri presiding.
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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:
1,102KB)
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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.
For further information, please visit http://www.eswusa.org/conference. |
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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. |
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August 2007
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...
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July 2007
The second annual ASEE Global Student Forum on Engineering
Education will take place on October 1, 2007 in Istanbul,
Turkey, in collaboration with the ASEE Global Colloquium on
Engineering Education and the IFEES Global Summit on Engineering
Education. Approximately 100 students from across the world
are expected to attend a full-day, multi-faceted dialogue
on the state of engineering education across the globe...
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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.
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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
In close partnership with IFEES Vice-President N.R. Shetty
of ISTE/India,
IFEES member organization ASEE
will be co-sponsoring a meeting on the 270-acre Infosys
Mysore Campus to discuss collaborative possibilities in engineering
education between India and the U.S. The meeting, entitled
the Indo-U.S.
Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE)
Forum, will take place June 3 to 5. An international delegation
will be attending the forum, and they will subsequently travel
to New Delhi to meet with the President of India and various
high-ranking governmental officials...
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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 »
Learn more
about ASEE »
Learn more about
Dassault Systems »
Learn
more about Indian Society of Technical Education »
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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.
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
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
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.
Learn More about IFEES »
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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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