IFEES & the GEDC

Global AttributesHans J. Hoyer, Ph.D.

Secretary General

International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), ifees.net

Executive Secretary

Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), GEDCouncil.org

ICTIEE’19 International Conference on Transformations in Engineering EducationJanuary 7 & 8, 2019

Malla Reddy Engineering College, India

The new aspects in Engineering Education • A new technological fundament of Learning

(not only in Engineering)

• A new learners’ generation that grew up

with the Internet and is online at any time

• The increasing area of engineering

• Exponential acceleration of the developments in

technology

• The changing focus of engineering

• An enormous need for high qualified engineering

graduates globally

25 years: Internet The first website at CERN -

and in the world - was

dedicated to the World Wide

Web project itself and was

hosted on Berners-Lee's

NeXT computer in 1993.

20 years: Google

1998 - 2018

The Changing Landscape of Higher Education

Objectives: From acquiring new “knowledge” to develop new and relevant “competencies” and build individual “identities”

Methods: From “classroom” based teaching to “context-aware” personalized learning

Assessment: From “life-long” degrees and certifications to “on-demand” and “in-context” accreditation of qualifications

Demetrios Sampson

Sustainable Development Goals

Challenging Elements ofModern Education (1)

• The impact of globalization on all areas of human life.

• Exponential acceleration of the developments in

technology as well as of the global markets, and

necessity of flexibility and agility.

• Enormous (and accelerated) growth of the area of

engineering.

New Engineering Disciplines

• Software Engineering

• Information Engineering

• Data Engineering

• Medical Engineering

• Neuro Engineering

• Genetic Engineering

• Climate Engineering

• Management Engineering

• Social Requirement Engineering

• Systems Engineering as integrating discipline !New tasks within traditional engineering:

• Online Engineering

• Remote Engineering

• Virtual Engineering

• Re-Engineering

• Reverse Engineering

Challenging Elements ofModern Education (2)

• Requirements of a sustainable and circular

economy

• The focus of Engineering shifting from more technical

subjects to the subjects directed to Information Technologies

and the daily life of mankind

• Increasing complexity of technical systems, which are more

and more connected with non-technical systems

Challenging Elements ofModern Education (3)

• A new technological fundament of learning, the so-called

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

• A new student generation that is online at any time and expects to

be more active

• The enormous number of high

qualified engineering graduates

needed globally

How are students doing today ?

Dramatic shift in the way they experience the world.

– They have not experienced life without mobile phones

– They have not experienced life without the Internet

– They communicate via social media more than in-person

– They do not want to memorize anything

– They like to get help online for their homework

– They like to seek help from their friends and colleagues

From Alaa Ashmawy

How are students doing today? Significant shift in their attention span and learning habits.

– Their attention span is noticeably dropping– They do not like to take notes on paper– They carry smart phones, not notebooks, pencils, and

calculators– Instead of daydreaming in class, they text, chat and

browse – They take snapshots of the board– They demand PowerPoint slides of the course material– They communicate electronically more than in-person

From Alaa Ashmawy

New Engineers and Engineering Colleges

From Seeram Ramakrishna (NUS)

The problems

A New Paradigm in Engineering Education

• Fundamental education in Math and Science

• Inquiry based Engineering Education (project and

problem based)

• Including entrepreneurship, Critical Thinking,

Business Management in the curricula

• Teach the students how to learn

• Pay attention to Ethics and Sustainability in Global

Contexts

• Taking into account the latest

findings in Engineering Pedagogy

ATTRIBUTES OF A GLOBAL ENGINEER

▪ Engineers need to be acquainted with cultures for an adequate design of product and services for global markets.

▪ Preeminence in technological innovation requires leadership in all aspects of engineering: engineering research to bridge scientific discovery and practical applications

▪ Engaging into intercultural dialogue and interdisciplinary research enables them to critically analyze competitiveness and long-term productivity growth

▪ Global perspective gives engineers an understanding of different cultures’ values, traditions and makes them more effective businesspeople.

▪ Engineers have to use the limited natural resources of the world to satisfy ever increasing human demands.

ATTRIBUTES OF A GLOBAL ENGINEER

Attributes

Cultural Sensitivity

Global mobility

Open-minded & ability to

adapt

Ability to behave ethically across

culturesSocial responsibility

Research & analytical thinking

Adoption of new

technology

Entrepreneurship

Revolutionizing Engineering Diversity

Expanded conception of diversity

• Women

• Racial and ethnic minorities

• LGBTQ+

• Low Income and First Generation to

College

• Students with disabilities

A systematic approach to building

inclusion

Shorter-Gooden, p. 451A multidimensional framework

Institutional

CommitmentAccess &

Success

Inclusive

Pedagogy

Affirming

Climate

• “A net gain. The World Economic Forum, in its Future of Jobs Report 2018, found that most large companies in its survey expect workplace roles to change as more tasks become automated. But these same companies expect a net gain in human labor. “Extrapolating from these trends for the global (non-agricultural) workforce employed by large firms … 75 million jobs may be displaced by the above trends, while 133 million additional new roles may emerge concurrently,” Mr. Wladawsky-Berger writes.

• Where is the growth? Areas of growth include data analysts and scientists, AI and machine learning specialists, software and application developers, big data specialists, IT services, process automation, information security analysts, robotics engineers, and e-commerce and social media specialists, he says. Sales and marketing professionals, organization development specialists, innovation professionals, user experience and human-machine designers, and people and culture specialists, will be in demand, too. At risk: mid-level managerial and administrative jobs that are highly repetitive and lend themselves to automation.”

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Mission

Vision

IFEES works to increase cooperation and mutual trust among engineering education

stakeholders from across the globe. Our aim is to join forces and work towards

shared objectives, accomplishing goals that are beyond our individual reach.

We are the collective voice and change agent for achieving relevance, excellence,

equity, access and diversity in engineering education worldwide.

Some of our IFEES Members

Workshop Topics Include:

• Curriculum development and

innovation

• Strategy, metrics, and accreditation

• Innovative teaching and learning

• New technologies and pedagogies

Who We Are:

• Global leadership training institute

• Faculty development to transform EE

• Choose workshop, tailor to local needs

Contact Information:

• IIDEA: Educating the Ideal Engineering Professor

• IFEES.net/IIDEA

• Secretariat: IFEES (Hans J Hoyer)

International Initiative for Developing Engineering

Academics (IIDEA)

Capacity Building at Tsinghua University

• J u l y 1 3 - 1 4 , 2 0 1 8 → 7 t h y e a r o f c a p a c i t y b u i l d i n g w o r k s h o p s a t Ts i n g h u a U n i v e r s i t y ( C h i n a )• F a c i l i t a t o r s a n n u a l l y c o m e f r o m A f r i c a , A s i a E u r o p e , N o r t h A m e r i c a a n d L a t i n A m e r i c a a n d

s h a r e b e s t p r a c t i c e s ; U N E S C O h a s a l s o f a c i l i t a t e d w o r k s h o p s • To p i c s r a n g e f r o m a u t h e n t i c l e a r n i n g , t o t r a i n i n g f o r p r o f e s s i o n a l c o m p e t e n c y, s i t u a t e d

l e a r n i n g s t r a t e g i e s a n d m o r e• W o r k s h o p s e r i e s e a c h y e a r a r e t a i l o r e d t o t h e n e e d s a n d g o a l s o f t h e l o c a l u n i v e r s i t y →

g l o b a l l y c o m p e t e n t , l o c a l l y r e l e v a n t

M i s s i o n : T h r o u g h e n g i n e e r i n g e d u c a t i o n i n i t i a t i v e s a n dc o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h a c a d e m i a , i n d u s t r y, s o c i e t y a n dg o v e r n m e n t , S P E E D i s c o m m i t t e d t o i m p r o v i n g t h ef u t u r e o f e n g i n e e r i n g e d u c a t i o n w h i l s t e m b r a c i n g t h ec o n s i d e r a b l e e n g i n e e r i n g c h a l l e n g e s b e i n g f a c e d i n t h e2 1 s t c e n t u r y.

Vi s i o n : S P E E D s t r i v e s t o e m p o w e r s t u d e n t s t o b e c o m e

a f a c t o r o f c h a n g e i n E E b y p r o v i d i n g t h e m w i t h t h e

s k i l l s , k n o w l e d g e , a n d r e s o u r c e s n e c e s s a r y t o b e c o m e a

g l o b a l e n g i n e e r a n d s h o w t h e m h o w t h e y c a n t h i n k

g l o b a l l y a n d a c t l o c a l l y.

ENGAGING ENGINEERING STUDENTS

S t u d e n t P l a t f o r m f o r

E n g i n e e r i n g E d u c a t i o n

w o r l d s p e e d . o r g @ S P E E D O r g @ S P E E D I n t e r n a t i o n a l

O t h e r S t u d e n t

M e m b e r s

Mission

Vision

To serve as a global network of engineering deans, and to leverage on the

collective strengths, for the advancement of engineering education and

research

To enhance the capabilities of engineering deans to transform schools in support

of societies in a global economy

GEDC STRATEGIC PLAN

Membersh ip growth and s t ra tegy and f inanc ia l s tab i l i ty

1 Mobi l i ty : g lobal exc hange of programs, s tudent s , and facu l ty

In ter- in s t i t u t iona l Researc h co l laborat ions

Academia- Indus t ry in terac t ions

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Visión: aumentar las capacidades de losdecanos de ingeniería para transformar lasfacultades en apoyo de las sociedad en unaeconomía global.

Misión: Servir como una plataforma globalde decanos de ingeniería, y aprovechar lasfortalezas colectivas a modo de promover laeducación en ingeniería y la investigación.40+

Countries

500+Network

GEDC OVERVIEW

THE AIRBUS GEDC DIVERSITY AWARD FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

A global award for projects that inspire students from all profiles and backgrounds to study and succeed in engineering.

Australia

2014 AwarMarita Cheng, d

Recipient

Fadi Aloul, UAE

2015 Award Recipient

Yacob Astatke, USA & Ethiopia, 2016 Award Recipient

Taiwo Tejumola, BIRDS Satellite Project, Japan2017 Winning Project

Formal Partnership with GEDC since 2012

UNESCOPatronage in 2017

LinkedIn Group for diversity discussions

Award is open to projects teams working in an engineering school or faculty (not students)

= www.company.airbus.com/diversityaward

SaviaLab diversity initiative,Chile

2018 Winning Project

FURTHER COLLABORATIONS

M o U s P a r t n e r s h i p

IFEES AND GEDC CORPORATE PARTNERS

Peace Eng ineer ing

Prosperity Sustainability Social Equality

Cultural Diversity Quality Innovation & Entrepreneurship

oOrganized by the GEDC and hosted by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

o GEDC's first stand-alone conference in Latin America

GEDC 2019 Santiago, ChileOctober 20-23, 2019

WEEF 2019 Chennai, IndiaNovember 11 – 17, 2019

o Organized by IFEES, the Education Promotion Society of India, the Indo-

Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education, and the Vellore

Institute of Technology

o The tentative theme is Transforming Engineering Education through

Disruptive Technologies in the Industry 4.0 Era.

Thank you for

your attentionH a n s J . H o y e r, P h . D .

S e c r e t a r y G e n e r a lI n t e r n a t i o n a l F e d e r a t i o n o f

E n g i n e e r i n g E d u c a t i o n S o c i e t i e s ( I F E E S ) , i f e e s . n e t

E x e c u t i v e S e c r e t a r yG l o b a l E n g i n e e r i n g D e a n s

C o u n c i l ( G E D C ) , G E D C o u n c i l . o r g

G e o r g e M a s o n U n i v e r s i t y