International Federation of Engineering Education Societies IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit
and Assembly

Boğaziçi University-South Campus, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
September 30 - October 1, 2007
Sunday - September 30, 2007
Sessions/Topic Speaker Time
Buses leave from Conrad Hilton Hotel  8:00am
Registration & Refreshment - Boğaziçi University 8:30
Session A (Albert Long Hall - Assembly Hall -
Boğaziçi University-South Campus)
Setting the Stage - Global Challenges and Opportunities Facing Engineering Education
Moderator: María M. Larrondo Petrie, IFEES Executive Committee & Summit Co-Chair, Executive Vice President of Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI)
Welcome Kadri Ozcaldiran 9:00
Dean, Boğaziçi University Engineering
 
Welcome Hasan Mandal 9:05
Chair, Turkish Engineering Deans Council (MDK)
 
IFEES Vision and Strategic Plan Claudio Borri 9:10
President, International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)
President, European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
Professor, University of Florence, Italy
 
Pillars of the Knowledge Based Economy – The Role of Engineering Education Bruno LaPorte

9:40
Manager of Human Development and Knowledge for Development Group,
World Bank Institute
 
The World Wide Dimension of EU Higher Education and Research Upton Van der Vliet 10:10
European Commission
 
Coffee Break 10:40
Session B (Albert Long Hall - Assembly Hall -
Boğaziçi University-South Campus)
Quality and Program Recognition
Moderator: Federico Flueckiger, IFEES Summit Co-Chair, Past President of IGIP (International Society for Engineering Education)
EUR-ACE:An Accreditation System of Engineering Education in a Pan-European Context  Giuliano Augusti 11:10
Coordinator of EUR-ACE IMPLEMENTATION Project, President of European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE), Former SEFI President, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
   
Perspective on the Washington Accord Gloria Rogers 11:40
Director of Research and Assessment
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET, Inc.), USA
 
     
Lunch (Kennedy Lodge - Gardens)

Luncheon Speaker
Introduced by: Lueny Morell, IFEES Executive Committee, Director of Latin American University Relations, Hewlett Packard Company
12:10 - 14:00 
The Future Engineer - Industry Requirements to Engineering Education Institutions M.P. Ravindra
Sr. Vice President of Education and Research, Infosys, India
Session C (Vedat Yerlici Conference Center -
Top Floor - Engineering Building)
Industry and Private Sector Panel
Industry and the Private Sector Panel Discussion:  Cooperation Between Academics and Industry Moderator:
Lueny Morell
Director of Latin American University Relations,
Hewlett-Packard Company
14:00
Panelists:
Xavier Fouger
Director of Learning and PLM Academy, Dassault Systèmes, France
 
Maria Rimini-Döring
Corporate Research and Advance Engineering
Human-Machine Interaction
Robert Bosch GmbH
 
M.P. Ravindra
Sr. Vice President of Education and Research, Infosys, India
 
Session D (Vedat Yerlici Conference Center -
Top Floor - Engineering Building -
Boğaziçi University-South Campus)
Global Strategies Addressing Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: María M. Larrondo Petrie, IFEES Executive Committee and Summit Co-Chair, Executive VP of LACCEI
Global Engineering Deans Council -Benchmarking Best Practices Worldwide Seeram Ramakrishna  15:00
Dean of Engineering,
National University of Singapore
 
Building, Maintaining and Expanding Student Participation Worldwide in IFEES Andrej Bulat and Nicolò Wojewoda 15:30
BEST/SPEED – European and Global Student Organizations
Break 16:00
Session E (Vedat Yerlici Conference Center -
Top Floor - Engineering Building
Boğaziçi University-South Campus)
The Future of IFEES
Moderator: Federico Flueckiger, IFEES Summit Co-Chair, Past President of IGIP
Challenges Facing Engineering Education in Africa: The Role of the African Engineering Education Association Funso Falade  16:15
President of African Engineering Education Association (AEEA)
 
European Engineering Qualifications in The Global Arena Guy Haug 16:45
Expert on European/international higher education
 
Engineering Education Accross the Continents / Cultures Yuri Petrovich Pokholkov 17:15
President
Russian Association of Engineering Education
Session report - Summary and Outcomes María M. Larrondo Petrie  17:45 – 17:55
IFEES Executive Committee & Summit Co-Chair, Executive Vice President of LACCEI
 
Federico Flueckiger
IFEES Summit Co-Chair and
Past President of IGIP
 
Closing Remarks Ali Kaylan  17:55 – 18:00
Co-Chair of IFEES Summit  and
ASEE Global Colloquium
 
Buses pick up Spouses and Guest from Conrad Hilton Hotel  18:00
IFEES Cocktail and Dinner
(Boğaziçi University South Campus - Alumni Club)
18:30 - 21:00
(For IFEES Summit Registered Attendees & their Guests)

Dinner Speaker
Moderator:
Claudio Borri, IFEES President
Introduced by:
Hamdi Ataoglu, General Manager,Arup Turkey
 
 
What's Next?  The future isn't what it used to be. Chris Luebkeman  
Director of Arup Foresight and Innovation  
Buses depart Boğaziçi University for Conrad Hilton  21:00
Monday - October 1, 2007
ASEE Global Colloquium Registration Open 7:00 - 17:00
Buses depart Conrad Hilton Hotel Lobby for Boğaziçi University  8:00
Buses depart Conrad Hilton Hotel Lobby for Boğaziçi University  12:00
IFEES Business Meetings
Kriton Curi Seminar Hall - Boğaziçi University - South Campus
IFEES General Assembly 13:00 - 16:00
IFEES Executive Committee Meeting 16:00 - 17:30
Buses depart Boğaziçi University for Conrad Hilton  17:30