Paper ID #8374AAEE Plenary - Engineering Education: A National Integrated ApproachMs. Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland Lyn Brodie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests include engineering education, Problem Based Learning, assessment and the first year experience. She is a board and founding member of the USQ Teaching Academy and Director of the Faculty Engineering Education Research Group. Lyn was the academic team leader for the teaching team which successfully designed a strand of PBL courses for the faculty
Paper ID #8389WFEO Co-Plenary - Engineering Programs in Lebanese Universities: Arethey meeting the challenges of the 21st century?Ing. Abdul Menhem Alameddine P.E., Abdul Menhem Alameddine is the Vice President of the World Federation of Engineering Organiza- tions (WFEO) and the Chairman of the Committee on Education in Engineering in the World Federa- tion (CEIE). He is a lecturer at the department of Computer Engineering at the University of Balamand – Tripoli, Lebanon. He was the Past President of the Order of Engineers and Architects in Tripoli – Lebanon, Vice President for the Federation of Lebanese Engineers and a
Paper ID #8388WFEO Co-Plenary - Preparing the Global Engineer. Engineering Education:Global Development and ProfessionalismMarwan T. Abdelhamid, World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) Eng. Marwan ABDELHAMID is a Civil Engineer graduated from Belgrade University and was on duty as such. He is the General Secretary of the General Union of Palestinian Engineers (GUPE) in Palestine and President Elect of WFEO. He has been devoted to the WFEO for more than 36 years as a member of the Executive Council as well as Vice President. He attended all the WFEO General Assemblies and was awarded three times for outstanding
Paper ID #8381IGIP Co-Plenary - Present and Future Challenges in Engineering Educationand the Strategies of IGIPProf. Michael E. Auer, International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) Since 1995 Dr.-Ing. Dr.sc. Dr. h.c. Michael E. Auer is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Sys- tems Engineering Dept. of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Villach, Austria and has also teaching positions at the Universities of Klagenfurt (Austria), Amman (Jordan), Brasov (Romania) and Patras (Greece). He is a senior member of IEEE, author or co-author of more than 170 publications and leading member of numerous
Paper ID #8259IGIP Co-Plenary - Public-Private Partnership in Professional Education: Ex-perience of the Research UniversityProf. Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University Prof. Vasiliy Ivanov is a first vice-rector at Kazan National Research Technological University and a di- rector of Institute of Additional Professional Education, Kazan, Russia. In 1972 he graduated cum laude from Kazan Chemical Technological Institute (now Kazan National Research Technological University). He received his PhD in Sciences there in 1986. In 1989 Vasiliy Ivanov became professor of General Chemical Technology