Conference Session

IFEES: The Globalization of Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Claudio Borri, Universita' di Firenze; Sarah Rajala, Mississippi State University; Bruno Laporte, World Bank; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie; Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Jose Carlos Quadrado; Adriana Garboan, Politechnica University of Bucharest; Duncan Fraser, University of Cape Town; Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

ASEE Global Programs

approach was needed. The desire was to create aworldwide network of engineering educators and engineering education stakeholders that couldattempt to answer such formidable basic questions and drastically raise the horizon of target andambitions: i.e., to pass from the day by day engineering education issues and problems 2 to the“actual impact” on the worldwide development and socioeconomic growth. IFEES was bornwith the vision to contribute significantly to changing the world (within the context of its missionand competences), i.e. to the extent that engineering education can contribute to these changes.With this in mind, IFEES is developing partnerships with major organizations worldwide dealingwith social development and education. A primary