International Federation of Engineering Education Societies IFEES

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International Federation of Engineering Education
Societies IFEES

• Overview
• November 12, 2007

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Motivation

• How can education in Science and Technology help
  to reduce poverty, to boost socio-economic
  development and to take the right decisions for a
  sustainable and environmentally compatible
  development ?
• Claudio Borri
• President of IFEES

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IFEES By-Laws

• The aim of IFEES is to promote engineering
  education globally, to enhance its quality by
  bringing together members from engineering
  education societies around the world to share
  teaching methods, curriculum plans, and every
  other aspect of educating engineers, and to
  include those organizations from developing
  countries.
• Issues that IFEES will address include
• upcoming trends/teaching trends in engineering
  technology
• sharing of best practices in engineering
  education
• international collaboration and multiple
  stakeholders interaction
• shortages (and surpluses) in the professional
  fields of engineering
• curriculum challenges faced by each
  region/country
• challenges faced by engineering graduates
  educated in a country different from their
  country of employment
• encouragement of continuing engineering education
  
• The Federation will work in close cooperation
  with national and regional organizations from
  around the globe.

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IFEES is bornOctober 9th 2006in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
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Who can belong to IFEES?

• Engineering Education Organizations (EEOs)
• national and international membership
  organizations having a broad base of engineering
  faculty and/or engineering education institutions
  as members, and whose main goal is the
  improvement and support of engineering education.
• Special Interest Organizations
• organizations which actively promote engineering
  education in a more limited manner than EEOs,
  either focusing on specific topics (e.g.
  engineering ethics, engineering
  discipline-specific organizations) or carrying
  out specific activities (e.g. meetings) or
  without a broad membership base or engineering
  student organizations
• Industrial Organizations
• organizations and companies with an expressed
  interest in the promotion and/or provision of
  engineering education and training for their
  staff
• Professional Engineering Organizations
• other than EEOs, to include regional federations
  and foundations
• Government Entities
• open to governmental and quasi-governmental
  organizations which support and/or are interested
  in engineering education and training.

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Current members
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Strategic Plan Overview
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Preamble

• The founding President of IFEES, Claudio Borri,
  opened the First IFEES General Assembly on
  October 9, 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by
  challenging its members to try to answer the
  question
• How can education in Science and Technology help
  to reduce poverty, to boost socio-economic
  development and to make the right decisions for a
  sustainable and environmentally compatible
  development?
• This question became the cornerstone of this
  first strategic plan and helped delineate the
  core values of IFEES

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Core Values

• Promoting engineering education excellence
  globally
• Supporting IFEES member excellence
• Caring about our communities and our environment
• Promoting culture of community building and
  strong collaboration among members and other
  appropriate stake holders
• Fostering cultural awareness and diversity among
  its stakeholders
• Cultivating integrity, honesty, work ethics, and
  social responsibility in the engineering
  profession
• Promoting capacity building and contributing to
  the socio-economic development of lesser
  developed communities
• Acting with integrity, transparency and respect
  in dealing with members and non-members

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Preamble

• IFEES will work in close cooperation with
  national regional organizations from around the
  globe to influence public policy at the local,
  national and international levels in support of
  engineering education, while striving for
  operational excellence (including IFEES
  sustainability) and development of its members.

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Strategic Plan Overview approved by IFEES Gen
Assembly, October 1, 2007 in Istanbul
Action Areas
Area 1 Engineering Education Infrastructure
Mission Provide a global network to leverage
the collective resources of members in fulfilling
their individual missions by identifying,
discussing and advancing common objectives of the
EE community.
Vision To foster and enhance the capabilities of
an active global community of stakeholders
empowered to advance engineering education (EE)
worldwide.
Area 2 RD and Entrepreneurship
Area 3 Student Attraction and Success
Area 4 Lifelong Learning
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Initiatives and projects
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Indo-US Collaboration on Engineering Education

• Leaders of engineering education, engineering
  businesses from India and the US, government
  representatives and World Bank colleagues plan
  for collaboration in four strategic areas through
  a Faculty Institute
• Research Development
• Curriculum Technology Enhanced Delivery
• Innovation Entrepreneurship
• Quality and Accreditation Processes
• Industry Participation
• Forums
• June 3-5 in Mysore, India
• September 29-31, 2007 in Washington, DC
• Financial support received to continue
  collaboration

www.iucee.org
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Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC)

• Why
• With the backdrop of globalization and rapid
  technological advancements, there is heightened
  expectation on engineering colleges to help
  respective economies to grow and sustain
  societies.
• What
• An international forum to discuss the varied
  challenges and opportunities faced by engineering
  colleges around the world and to network and
  forge collaborations among the colleges.
• Who
• Chair Dr. Seeram Ramakrishna, Dean National
  University of Singapore and IFEES Vice President
• When
• Executive Committee being formed and will meet
  May 2008 in Paris

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IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit Sept
30th Istanbul, Turkey

• Theme Moving from Concept to Action
• Co-located with ASEEs Global Colloquium amd the
  Turkish Engineering Deans Council
• Speakers
• Bruno LaPorte, World Bank Institute
• Van der Vliet Upton, European Commission
• Giuliano Augusti, Former SEFI President, EUR-ACE
  Project Coordinator, and ENAEE President
• Yuri Petrovich Pokholkov, President of Russian
  Association of Engineering Education
• Hasan Mandal, Chair of MDK, Turkish Engineering
  Deans Council
• Seeram Ramakrishna, Dean of Engineering, National
  University of Singapore
• Student leaders and corporate representatives

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Engineering Student Forum

• The integration of students into IFEES work is
  seen as a critical strategic component in IFEES.
• Nearly 100 student representatives from around
  the world participated and presented in First
  IFEES Summit held in Istanbul Oct-01-07
• Omer Hantal, president of the Board of European
  Students of Technology (BEST), was elected to the
  IFEES executive committee for the 2007-2009 term.
• Student Forum Topics
• Research into student learning
• The interface between education and labor market
• Research (science) engineers or managerial
  (project) engineers?
• Common TopicThe knowledge, skills and
  competences of the "global" engineer

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IFEES catalyzes creation of SPEED Oct-03-07 in
Istanbul

• Student Platform for Engineering Education
  Development (SPEED)
• Newly-formed global student organization
• Mission
• To collect and evaluate information and resources
  regarding engineering education. We do this in
  the context of the increasingly accelerated rates
  of globalization and change, and the resulting
  implications towards constructing a more
  tolerant, balanced, inclusive, and sustainable
  world.
• How?
• Providing feedback on educative models, that
  directly affect us students at end of our
  education.
• Informing the academic, industrial and global
  organizations and governments about student
  perspectives on engineering education.

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2nd IFEES SummitCape Town, South Africa

• Sunday, October 19th 2008
• Co-located with ASEEs Global Engineering
  Education Colloquium
• More information at
• www.ifees.net
• www.asee.org

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Award Winning Engineering Curricula for a
Globalized World Planning Grant Proposal for
Workshops and World Tour

• The US National Academy of Engineering Bernard M.
  Gordon Prize
• Inaugurated in 2001, the intent of the Gordon
  Prize is to recognize new modalities and
  experiments in education that develop effective
  engineering leaders. The focus is on innovations
  such as curricular design, teaching methods, and
  technology-enabled learning that strengthen
  students' capabilities and desire to grow into
  leadership roles.
• Goals
• Leverage the experience of the innovators
  recognized by the National Academy of
  Engineerings Bernard M. Gordon Prize to develop
  a plan for global impact and dissemination.
• We will gather information on engineering
  educational models that have produced documented
  results and examine how these models could be
  transported to other environments on a global
  scale.
• Strategy
• An interactive planning team will be assembled
  that will have at its core the recipients of the
  Gordon Prize. International partners will be
  added as the process develops.
• Proposal submitted to NSF EERC and other possible
  funding resources.

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Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
Proposal

• A US NSFs bold five-year initiative to create
  revolutionary science and engineering research
  outcomes made possible by innovations and
  advances in computational thinking.
• Collectively, CDI research outcomes are expected
  to produce paradigm shifts in our understanding
  of a wide range of science and engineering
  phenomena and socio-technical innovations that
  create new wealth and enhance the national
  quality of life. 
• Three thematic areas  
• From Data to Knowledge enhancing human cognition
  and generating new knowledge from a wealth of
  heterogeneous digital data
• Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and
  Social Systems deriving fundamental insights on
  systems comprising multiple interacting elements
   and
• Building Virtual Organizations enhancing
  discovery and innovation by bringing people and
  resources together across institutional,
  geographical and cultural boundaries. 
• ASEE and IFEES to partner with Duke University
  other engineering schools and HP to help build
  virtual organizations (students and faculty
  around the world) as test beds for engaging in
  engineering design

http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm

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Ideas on the pipeline

• Promote globally recognized Engineering Education
  Accreditation
• Lead Iring Wasser (AIIIN)
• Create an Institute for Global Engineering
  Education Innovation and Reform engaging all
  stakeholders
• Leaders Hulas King (Siemens), Maria Larrondo
  (LACCEI)
• Promote student mobility worldwide
• Lead Pamela Ruiz (IAESTES)
• Promote integration of research experiences
  across the engineering education pipeline
  (undergraduate to post-graduate)

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Ideas on the pipeline

• Increase visibility and appeal of engineering as
  a profession
• Improve retention Increase participation of women
  and underrepresented populations
• Promote alliances of innovation networks for
  student mobility
• Promote Dual or Joint Degrees
• Promote entrepreneurship technology transfer
  Promote excellence through creation/enhancement
  of PhD programs

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Ideas on the pipeline

• Promote continuing education opportunities for
  engineers
• Facilitate academic-industry-government interface
  for engineering education
• Develop and promote continuing and sustainable
  engineering education in developing countries
• Develop/enhance e-learning

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Questions

• How do I find out more about IFEES?
• Go to the IFEES website www.ifees.net
• Contact IFEES Secretariat Hans Hoyer, PhD at
  h.hoyer_at_asee.org
• How do I join IFEES?
• Download application form at IFEES website and
  follow instructions provided
• What kind of initiatives does IFEES sponsor?
• Member organizations proposals (at least 2
  members) that advance engineering education and
  are aligned with IFEES four strategic areas
• Does IFEES provide support?
• No, but IFEES members may have information about
  possible funding sources for national, regional
  and international initiatives

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IFEESCatalyzing initiatives for engineering
education excellence worldwide
www.ifees.net