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Plenary Sessions Plenary session 1
- Engineering For a Humanitarian World, Monday 11:00-12:30 (
Know more… ) Kamel
Ayadis Luiz Carlos
Scavarda do Carmo Xila Liu Mr. Kamel Ayadi is a member of the Tunisian Chamber
of Senate and former Secretary of State in the Tunisian government from 2004
to 2006 and President of the Tunisian National Authority of Regulation of Telecommunications
from 2001 to 2004. He became President of the World Federation of Engineering
Organisations in 2005, and since 1999, Vice President of the World Federation
of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and President of WFEO Committee on Information
and Communication. He is a member of the Strategy Council of the United
Nations Global Alliance for ICT Development, of the United Nations Task Force
for Science and Innovation, honorary member of the World Innovation Forum, of
the WSIS Civil Society Bureau and corresponding member of the Pan American
Academy of Engineering. Kamel Ayadi was formerly Head of the International
Cooperation Department at the Waste Water Department (ONAS) and Director of Technical
Cooperation at ONAS, President and Secretary-General of the Tunisian Order of
Engineers. Prof. Luiz Carlos Scavarda do Carmo, Professor of
Physics and Vice-President of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro, is member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering, of the
Technology Advisory Board of the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio
de Janeiro and Associate Editor of the Magazine on Engineering Education of the Brazilian
Society for Engineering Education. Also he is consultant of the Organization
of the American States (OAS) to the Development of the “Engineer for the
Americas” program, of the National Confederation of Industries and of the
FIRJAN for Engineering Education, and an “ad-hoc” consultant of CNPq, FINEP, FAPESP and
FAPERJ (Brazilian agencies). Prof. Xila Liu, Chair Professor of Civil Engineering
Department at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) and Professor of Civil
Engineering Department at Tsinghua University in Beijing (TU), Vice-Chairman
of China Committee for the World Federation of Engineering Organizations
WFEO-CHINA, Member (China Delegate) of both the Committee on Education and
Training and the Committee on Capacity Building of WFEO, Executive Member of
Board of Directors of China Civil Engineering Society (CCES), Chairman of
International Cooperation & Exchange Committee of CCES, Chairman of
Engineering Reliability Committee of CCES, Fellow of the Institution of
Structural Engineers (IStructE), Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
(ICE), and Fellow of the Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering
(IABSE). Plenary session 2
- Engineering at the Cross-Roads of Professions and Cultures, Tuesday 8:30-10:30 ( Know more… ) George
Stephanopoulos Marçal
Grilo Nigel
Cross Prof. Nigel Cross is professor of Design Studies in
the Department of Design and Innovation at the UK’s Open University. He has
academic and practical backgrounds in architecture and industrial design. He
has been engaged in design research and design education since the
nineteen-sixties, and has conducted research in computer-aided design, design
methodology and design epistemology. He has published widely in these topics.
His current principal research interest is in design cognition, analysing the
cognitive activities and abilities of designers. He has received several
honours and awards, namely 2005 Lifetime achievement award of the Design
Research Society, first President of the International Association of
Societies of Design Research and President of the Design Research Society. It
must be referred his valuable role as editor of the journal Design Studies. Dr. Eduardo Marçal Grilo is member of the Board of
Trustees of the Gulbenkian Foundation, a Portuguese private institution with
an outstanding intervention in Education, Science, Health and Fine Arts. Dr.
Grilo holds a Master’s Degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology-
University of London and a PhD. from the Instituto Superior Técnico-
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Consultant for the World Bank in the area of
Education, Director General for Higher Education, President of the National
Council for Education and Minister of Education of Portugal, he belongs
presently to the Board of the United Nations University, to the International
Commission of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and to the
ERASMUS MUNDUS Selection Board. He has published several papers concerning
materials engineering, education and aid for development. Prof. George Stephanopoulos got his Diploma from the
National University of Athens, M.E. from McMaster University and Ph.D. at the
University of Florida, all in Chemical Engineering. Assistant, Associate and
Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota,
National Technical University of Athens and MIT, he is currently the MIT
Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering. He has been Chief
Technology Officer and Member of the Board of the Mitsubishi Chemical
Corporation, in Tokyo. Awarded with several academic and scientific awards,
including the Honorary Doctor of Science degree from McMaster University and
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA). He is the author of
more than 200 papers, several books, keynote lectures and a number of US
patents, and has supervised almost 40 Ph.D. students. Plenary session 3
- Quality, Accreditation and Engineering Education For a New Generation, Thursday 8:30-10:30 ( Know more… ) António
Salgado de Barros Giuliano
Augusti Oleg Boev Prof. Giuliano Augusti, President of ENAEE and
Coordinator of the EUR-ACE IMPLEMENTATION Project, is a Full Professor of
Solid and Structural Mechanics in the Università “La Sapienza”, Roma. He was
a member of the SEFI Administrative Council for many years and President in
1987/88, and for many years he sits in the Editorial Board of EJEE.
Coordinator of the EC-supported “EUR-ACE” (EURopean ACcredited Engineer)
project, in the period 2004-2006, at the present he is active in three
follow-up projects: “EUR-ACE Implementation”, “PRO-EAST: promotion and implementation of the
EUR-ACE Standards in Russia” and “LEPAC: Creation of a Lebanese Engineering
Accreditation Commission”. In September 2004, Prof. Augusti was awarded the SEFI
“Leonardo da Vinci” Medal for “his outstanding contributions to European
Higher Engineering Education and Research”. Prof. Oleg Boev, deputy vice-rector on international
cooperation, is a professor of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia.
Candidate of Science (1983) and Doctor of Science (1996) in Physics. Since
2001 Dr. Boev chaired the Criteria and Policy Committee of the Accreditation
Centre, RAEE and is a member of the RAEE Accreditation Board. He is active in
the EC-supported projects aimed to the development and implementation of
European system of accreditation for engineering education: “EUR-ACE”
(EURopean ACcredited Engineer) project (2004-2006) and “PRO-EAST: promotion
and implementation of the EUR-ACE Standards in Russia”. Dr. Boev is a member
of the ENAEE Label Committee. Eng. António Salgado de Barros, a Senior Member of
the Portuguese Order of Engineers (OE), obtained a Mechanical Engineering
Degree from Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa. After working as
Specialised Engineer at the Physics and Engineering Laboratory of Nuclear
Energy and as Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, he held Engineering and
Management duties at the Setenave shipyards and at the Quimigal factories, as
Director of the Design Department and Consultant on Quality and Enterprise Organisation.
Collaborating closely with OE since 1994, he is currently the Manager of the
Qualification Office of OE in charge of the accreditation of CPD programmes.
In this capacity, he has visited more than 220 Engineering Schools, published
two books and more than thirty papers on Accreditation, and delivered more
than sixty invited lectures. Plenary session 4
- The Future of Computing – Utility Computing and The Impact On Engineering
Education, Friday
10:30-11:30 ( Know more… ) Michel
Benard Dr. Michel Benard is Director for
Technology Programs, University Relations for Hewlett-Packard Company. He graduated and received his PhD in
Digital Image Processing from the École Nationale Supérieure des
Telecommunications in Paris in 1983. Then he had R&D positions at IBM and
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology before joining the sales force
of Apollo Computer in 1987. Michel joined HP from Apollo Computer in 1989. He was HP Major
Account Manager for High-Energy-Physics in Europe from 1990 to 1996. Then he
joined the External Research Program of HP Laboratories in 1997 (to become HP
University Relations in 2001) where he worked on several programs in Computer
Systems, High-speed Networking and Digital Photography. His team is responsible
for developing and strengthening HP technology programs with universities and
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