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Virtual Forum on Young Engineers
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1. Status of Engineers
  • public recognition and respect
  • public accountability and sustainable development
  • monetary reward (status symbol?)
  • chartered/registered status (important?)
  • helping the poor in under-developed countries

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2. Job prospects for young engineers
  • suitable positions for training of young
    engineers
  • decline of construction industry (in Hong Kong)
  • Infrastructural projects launched by government
    (important but not enough)

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3. International job opportunities
  • globalization and standardization enabling
    engineers to work internationally
  • engineering students getting international
    experience by having summer internship in
    overseas countries
  • work permit and visa problems
  • encouragement of mobility of engineers throughout
    the world
  • APEC Engineer Registry successful example

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4. Young Engineers working inChina Mainland
  • fast economic growth of China providing
    opportunities for Hong Kong (and overseas)
    engineers to work in Mainland (although highly
    competitive)
  • young engineers from Hong Kong and overseas
    better in English and more convenient to travel
    overseas
  • better opportunity of employment in companies
    owned or jointly owned by Hong Kong and/or
    overseas investors

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5. Necessary attributes
  • analytical skills, creative as well as critical
    thinking skills
  • self-learning and life-long learning
  • team spirit
  • common sense
  • language, presentation and communication skills
  • professional competence and IT skills
  • international vision and outlook
  • interdisciplinary knowledge
  • management skills
  • positive thinking
  • awareness of and adaptability to a changing world

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6. Young Engineers International (Networked Group
of Worlds Young Engineers)
  • Young Engineers of Australia a very successful
    experience
  • Proposal of setting up an International Young
    Engineers Group to complete the network between
    young engineers worldwide
  • WFEO to act as the umbrella organisation

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Virtual Forum onEngineering Education
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1. Scope of Education
  • depth and breadth
  • development of innovative skills to identify and
    solve engineering problems

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2. Expectations of fresh graduates
  • communication skills, problem-solving skills,
    ability to think out of the box (pl refer to
    attributes of engineers)
  • adoption of student-centred learning, self
    learning
  • practical application of knowledge
  • all-round development with independent thinking
    and creative perceptions
  • ethics awareness and commitment to serve the
    community

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3. Co-operative education
  • best to have co-opt education
  • sandwich and/or summer internship
  • integration of theory with practice

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4. Professional engineering institutions and
students
  • link should be reinforced
  • professional bodies can help in providing
    informal/extra-curricular education to students

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Virtual Forum on Accreditation
  • mutual recognition of qualifications
  • some engineering institutions drawing a line
    between engineering IT programmes (e.g. Computing
    Engineering) and non-engineering IT programmes
  • accreditation affected by changing technology and
    society needs

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  • The EUR-ACE Project
  • for the Accreditation of European Engineering
    Programmes and Graduates

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  • This project has been developed and is presented
    under the auspices of the European Standing
    Observatory for the Engineering Profession and
    Education (ESOEPE)

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  • EUR-ACE intends to propose a framework for
    setting up a European system for accreditation of
    Engineering education at the First Cycle and
    Second Cycle level
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