First Global Engineering Deans Council Conference

Date: Monday, October 18th 2010
Theme: Leverage Collective Capability to Innovate the Future
Chairs: Hasan Mandal (hmandal at anadolu.edu.tr), Paul Peercy (peercy at engr.wisc.edu), and Eng Soon Chan (engdean at nus.edu.sg)

REGISTRATION:

Online: To register for the World Engineering Education Forum as a Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) Participant, please click here!

Fax: Please download the Advanced Registration forms and fax to +1 (202) 265-8504. You must include a copy of a Purchase Order (PO) or a check with your faxed registration. To download the Advanced Registration form to register as a Global Engineering Deans Council participant, please click here!  Along with this form please send Mas Tadesse (m.tadesse@asee.org) verification of your position (business card) for completion of your registration.

Mail: Please include the Advanced Registration Form and a check to:

ASEE/Global Colloquium 2010
ASEE-C
P.O. Box 71224
Philadelphia, PA 19176-6224

Along with this form please send Mas Tadesse (m.tadesse@asee.org) verification of your position (business card) for completion of your registration.

Three forms of payment will be accepted for Advanced Registration:

1. Credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express)**

2. Purchase Order (Purchase orders must be paid by the close of Advanced Registration. A copy of the P.O. must be submitted with any faxed or mailed registration. All Purchase Orders must be paid by September 8, 2010. )**

3. Check(Checks should be made payable to ASEE Seminar & Convention Corporation. A copy of the check must be submitted with any faxed registration. Checks must be mailed with a copy of the individual registration to the following address: ASEE Global Colloquium 2010, P.O. Box 71224, Philadelphia, PA 19176-6224)**

**Funds must be in US Dollars and drawn from a US Bank

Please note: ASEE does not accept wire transfers for registration payment.

Description: We are part of a rapidly changing, increasingly high tech, global community and need to educate students to succeed in that environment. The challenge we face as engineering educators is to provide our students with an ever deeper scientific and engineering education in their chosen technical area while also providing them a much broader interdisciplinary and cultural education than in the past. Engineering as where ‘science meets society’; engineers use advances in scientific understanding to meet the needs of society and improve the quality of life for people in whatever country or culture they practice. Over the past couple of decades, our scientific understanding has become so profound, and our scientific and engineering tools so powerful, that engineers are able to address problems they would not have dreamed of trying to address a few years ago. The boundaries between engineering sub-disciplines and between science and engineering have disappeared, and the boundaries between engineering, biology, and health care are fading. As a result, engineering education must be much more interdisciplinary than it was in the past.

We must educate ‘global engineers’ –engineers that are globally competent and locally relevant. We must also instill a passion for life-long learning in our students to prepare them for a world in which knowledge is increasing is accelerating rate. We must also prepare engineers to address some challenging issues, from energy, environmental sustainability, food supply, health care and disease, clean water, to security, among others. Although these challenges will not be solved by engineers alone, engineers must play an important role in their solution.

The technical knowledge of tomorrow’s engineer must be supplemented with the skills to develop an ‘adaptive engineering leader’ capable of addressing multiple challenges in an ever-changing world. The Global Engineering Deans/Rectors Council (GEDC) has embraced the responsibility to enhance the effectiveness of leaders of engineering institutions of higher education worldwide through a global network that leverages the collective capabilities and resources for the advancement of engineering education and research. This conference will provide an opportunity for GEDC members to develop a vision and mission for the GEDC, discuss recent approaches to educating ‘the global engineer,’ and engage in a dialog that can catalyze and sustain the partnership among the GEDC members.

Grand Challenges for Engineering: Sessions on Innovation and Leadership in Energy and Water Sustainability

By Invitation Only.  Organized by GEDC, IFEES and Industry Representatives

Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 3:30 – 7:00 PM

The purpose of this event is to assemble engineering deans, engineering education association leaders, and enterprises to discuss solutions and innovations related to global energy and water sustainability. Companies that have a research or business interest in these issues, leading researchers, and government agencies from the Asia Pacific region and around the world are invited to discuss successful approaches, partnerships and experiences in addressing these engineering grand challenges. Participants will have an opportunity to develop ideas and enhance collaborations between industry, government and universities.