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IACES YEARBOOK 2008

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PREFACE

Hello IACES, dear professors, sponsors and supporters,

The magazine you hold in your hand will give you a short impression about what is recently going on in our students’ network. It contains reports about the big ac-tivities, that took place last year and points out the pre-sent status including a prospect of the upcoming ex-changes this year. It may serve for spreading the spirit to students, presenting IACES for potential coopera-tion or just to share and retain the nice memories.

The last year provided some very nice events for our members. There were not as many as the year before, but bigger ones took place in April in Slovenia and in June in Germany. But also in Istanbul and Timisoara the history of IACES got updated. Next to those events, IACES is above all based on our Local Committees (LC’s) situated in more than 50 faculties in Europe and further. Our LC’s being active, the stories of the actual and former members and the passing on of the IACES spirit during meetings at the faculties as well as during the events build the cornerstones of our association.

I am very satisfi ed with the recent development and happy to see many young, motivated and enthusias-tic students following and being involved in the current happenings. Also many students are interested in IA-CES or in becoming a member. The simple answer is:

take part! Every experience, knowledge and friend-ship we gather during our stay at local or international events last longer than our studies. So we ourselves are a part of the international network of (future) civil engineers and architects, we all are IACES.

Actually, the IACES year 2008 already started in Ja-nuary with the Exchange in Cairo. After that success we are all heading towards the MTM at InterCES’08 in Istanbul that starts in a week. There is much more ahead, and I hope to see many of you joining the other Exchanges 2008 in Belgrade (June), Skopje (August), Eskisehir (October) and Wuppertal (December)!

On behalf of all organizing and participating students I would like to thank the universities, companies and institutions that shared the spirit and supported our events. To all of us I wish good luck in our studies and to the organizing LC’s a lot of success in the upco-ming events.

I personally want to thank all the GB members since the Future Talk 2003 in Madrid for the good work. I’m happy and proud to say, that our work is leading IACES into a busy and hopefully successful future and that there is another new generation anticipating the IACES crafts in the future.

Yours cordially,

Steffen KisselerPresident of the General Board


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Content

Preface 3

"InterCES" Event in Bled (Slovenia), April 2007 8-9

"G4CE" Exchange in Wuppertal, Karlsruhe,Darmstadt, Berlin (Germany), June 2007 10-12

"Bosphorus" Exchange in Istanbul (Turkey),August 2007 14-15

"ACCESS‘07" in Timisoara (Romania),December 2007 16-17

The IACES General Board 2008 18-19

Little IACES ABC 20

The IACES Spirit 22

The IACES Hymn 22

IACES yearbook 2008

Volume: 3500

IACES General Board: Steffen Kisseler,Tuba Gürbüz, Marko Mili , Matjaž Šauta,Frederic Evers

Contact: IACES - International Association of Civil Engineering Studentsc/o Bergische Universität WuppertalPauluskirchstr. 742285 Wuppertal, [email protected]

Editors: Matjaž Šauta, Frederic Evers,Steffen Kisseler, Tuba Gürbüz, Philip Liebhold,Joost Roorda

Authors: see articles

Layout/Set:Kisseler Medienproduktion, www.ulla.kisseler.de

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SLOVENIA APRIL 2007, INTERCES EVENT IN BLED

A wonderful week, a lot of people and some awesome construction sites

We arrived on April 16th at the Hotel in Bled, Slovenia, after driving half way through Germany and passing Austria. All participants of the InterCES met outside in the sun to get a warm welcome from the organisers and the dean of the faculty for civil and geodetic en-gineering Ljubiljana, followed by a presentation of the different countries and universities participating.

Nations like France, Serbia, Turkey and also Mexico were taking part in this event. In total there were round about three hundred people from more than 10 diffe-rent countries. All afternoon we had the chance to get to know people. That was easy, because we all stayed in one hotel, full of young, open minded students, who are all heading forward to reach the same goal of be-coming architect or civil engineer. One was able to see the nearby lake out of our hotel rooms; it was a really pretty view.

The following days’ programme started early with breakfast and different tours, that you had to assign yourself to the evening before. I was lucky one day to go on a tour to the construction site of the chain of hy-dro-electric power plants on the Sava River. After arri-ving at the construction site, we were given some basic information about the project by the project manager and we got a closer look and information while taking a tour. To see the development of the construction site, we got back into the bus to go a few kilometres up the

river and see a hydro power plant which was fi nished shortly before.

During the vine- tasting at a vineyard in the after-noon we were able not only to learn something about construction sites in Slovenia, but also about their country and culture. On our way home to the hotel, we included some sightseeing and stopped by a beauti-ful castle.

After arriving back at the hotel, we were able to listen to different lectures. We had the chance to get to know not only the Slovene culture and country, but also the different cultures of the other participants during the get together party at night in the hotel lobby, while liste-ning and dancing to music and talking to other people.

Another day I went on a tour to visit a construction site by the construction company Vegrad. On the way there, which was almost half way through the coun-try, I used the chance to take a look out of the win-dow and watch the beautiful countryside. I was really impressed. As soon as we arrived, we were invited to have lunch and afterwards, we visited the construction site of the coming wellness park in the city of Laško. Our guide was a young lady about our age who was studying civil engineering as well. The highlight of the construction site was the gigantic movable roof, which will be able to be opened in the summer.

We also visited an asphalt and concrete base of the company CMCelje. This was a computer controlled base, where we were shortly introduced to mixing as-phalt, and we also saw the controlling of the product, as well as the materials used and the fi nished asphalt

LAŠKO THERMAL SPA RESORT

In Slovenia, during the InterCES congress, we saw the construction of a large glass dome-roof as a part of the Laško thermal spa resort, constructed by Vegrad. The dome can be opened when the weather is warm and clo-sed in the cold.

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which was then brought to the construction site by trucks. Again we had the chance to deepen our the-oretical knowledge, while listening to lectures back at the hotel.

Thursday was a so called “Market Place”, where the sponsoring companies of the congress introduced themselves to the students. We also had some free time, that we could spend exploring the region with the castle on the hill, just spending time with people you met during the exchange, or swimming and relaxing on the lake.

Last night we enjoyed the Gala Dinner and the fi nal party. The country, where the next INTERCES 2008 will take place was announced during the farewell pro-cedure. This was to be Turkey, Istanbul.

After all, I enjoyed a wonderful week, I met a lot of peo-ple with the same interest in civil engineering, I got to know different cultures and I visited some awesome construction sites. It was a great experience that I wouldn’t want to miss.

Meike Lüth,LC Wuppertal (Germany)


G4CE EXCHANGE IN WUPPERTAL, KARLSRUHE,

DARMSTADT AND BERLIN, GERMANY JUNE 2007

I felt like I knew everyone for many years

G4CE (“Germany For Civil Engineers”) was my fi rst ex-change, so I was very excited. Although I heard and read lots of things about IACES exchanges, there were lots of questions in my mind. The fi rst part of the ex-change was in Wuppertal. While we were waiting for Steffen at the train station, we ate delicious “Berliner Ballen”. At the beginning of the day I was exhausted, but during the day I didn’t feel tired because of the ni-ce atmosphere. People from LC Wuppertal and also the participants from other countries were so friendly. I didn’t feel like I was foreign, on the contrary, I felt like I knew everyone for many years.

Me and my friends (from LC Istanbul-ITU and Eskise-hir) arrived to Wuppertal on Thursday morning, so as soon as we arrived we right away went to a lecture at the the Schwebebahn Workshops, the maintaining fa-cilities of the up-side down railway, suspended over the river Wupper by steel girders.

After the welcoming speech by Prof. Huber (dean of the department of Civil Engineering at the Ber-gische Universität), a technical lecture and the visit to the workshops, we had another technical visit to the

Barmenia construction site. At the end of the day we had a fantastic dinner at the Wuppertaler Brauhaus. We sat around the former swimming pool that is now a brewery and drunk own brewed beer at the “Kluse Station” in Wuppertaler Brauhaus. You might have guessed that the place used to be a swimming pool and the tables were named after the Schwebebahn’s stations. But you wouldn’t have guessed that the Bu-tan-Club, where we went dancing afterwards, used to be a gas – storage facility.

Next day was one of the most enjoyable days in my life. After breakfast we went driving excavators, which was a very strange experience for us, but not as much as riding the Segway afterwards. Although the weather was rainy the whole day, we had lots of fun. It was

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already our last day in Wuppertal, so in the wake of dri-ving experiments, in the evening there was “Wuppertal Farewell Party” at the mensa of the faculty.

The second part of the exchange started on Satur-day, in Karlsruhe. We went there by cars, so our jour-ney was comfortable and pleasant. It was so strange that renting cars was cheaper than traveling by train in Germany. When we arrived, people from LC Karlsruhe welcomed us with big bags that contained everything (Sport Billy bags). Then we went to Mensa Moltke at the University of Karlsruhe designed by Jurgen Ma-yer H. It was a quite interesting building designed in a shape of a mouth, and inside, our guide declared that the seats were, and I quote: ‘‘hard and soft at the same time’’.

There was an “UStA Sommerfest” at the University of Karlsruhe, so in the evening we went to some concerts and beer. On Sunday we had a guided tour through Karlsruhe with our pretty (old) guide. We had a nice trip with a little historical steam-train and I will never forget the conductor who was shouting at the station, some sort of German humor I suspect. At the end of the day we had a grill party and we played a funny game named Psycho, where poor Frederic had to guess our group-illness.

After a lecture marathon in the morning and a visit to some laboratories of the University of Karlsruhe we headed towards another technical visit. That lead us to one of the world leaders in construction of tunnel boring machines (Herrenknecht). The way back was already the way to the third part of the exchange: Darmstadt.

We slept on foldable beds that they called “beds for ci-vil engineers” and we had to assemble them by oursel-ves. That and the group showers were an unforgettable

FRANKFURTHOCHVIER: CONSTRUCTING “TOP-DOWN“ IN CO-

VER BUILDING METHOD

On the construction site for “FrankfurtHochVier” we could experience that construction method very directly.

The cover building method is a building procedure for the production of tunnels and excavations. From the area upper edge a sheet pile wall, slotted wall or a dril-ling pile diaphragm are constructed. Steal-encased drilling stakes may also provide braces. Then on the walls and supports a cover is being concreted. This cover is manufactured mostly directly on the soil or a sand layer, without lower formwork. The planarity of the cover is ensured e.g. by a concrete seam and a PE foil. Afterwards the soil under the cover can be dug. Since the excavation takes place under the cover, one of the advantages of that method is the fact that the area above is useable relatively fast again for traffi c or building the same time in two directions: “top-down”. Further advantages are the bracing by the cover (i.e. horizontal earth loads, which affect the slotted wall or drilling pile diaphragm, do not have to be taken up by temporary anchorages and become directly introduced to the cover) and the fact that form work scaffold for the cover plate are not necessary.


experience for all of us. Heinerfest, which is a famous festival in Darmstadt, was very amusing. Next day we visited the Technical University of Darmstadt including a welcoming lecture, a short tour and lunch there. Af-terwards it was nice to see a Passive House: We went to an architect’s home and he gave us some informa-tion about the main properties of his house, built after that guideline and using just a fraction of the energy that a normal house would use.

Another extraordinary architectural building we visited was the “Waldspirale” (the Hundertwasser-House of Darmstadt). I felt like I was in a cartoon in that colorful building. Completing that part we went to Frankfurt. Af-ter visiting the construction site of the enormous Luft-hansa hangars we went to “FrankfurtHochVier” (now “PalaisQuartier”) construction site, and tried to grasp how they could start building at ground level and build the foundations and at the same time construct abo-ve ground (the so called top-down-method). The Ger-mans once again managed to turn something upside down.

The last part of the exchange was in Berlin. Arriving early in the morning from Frankfurt and having a very short night we fi rst went to a construction site managed by PERI (“Zehlendorfer Welle”) and were kindly invited

for lunch by that company. Then we had two lectures at the Technical University of Berlin. The visit to the huge material laboratory was really good.

We also visited Berlin’s new main station, which is now Europe‘s largest two-level railway station and situated near by the government district. That and an excursion the the construction site of Anschütz Arena we expe-rienced after a lecture from BG Bau. We also had gui-ded sightseeing tour. That included the in my opinion most impressive monument, the memorial of the Holo-caust designed by architect Peter Eisenman.

Of course, in Berlin we also went to some clubs to en-joy our free time. I think the Soda-Club was the most enjoyable place. It was like a labyrinth and one could listen to different kinds of music by changing the halls. It is a fact that the best party was the Farewell-Par-ty, where all each LC was obliged to sing a traditional song.

I had an unforgettable time in Germany! All IACES members were very friendly and helpful and I learned that in Germany you should go nowhere without an umbrella and you should always look a person in the eyes when you say Prost!

Tuba Gürbüz,LC Istanbul-ITU (Turkey)

BERLIN HAUPTBAHNHOF

Berlin Hauptbahnhof, or Berlin Central Station, is the main railway station in Berlin. It began full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is now Europe‘s largest two-level railway station. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof near the government district of Germany‘s capital. Having a new Central Station is part of the transportation con-cept that started to be developed right after reunifi ca-tion in 1989. From 1987 to 1998 it was Berlin Ostbahn-hof named „Berlin Hauptbahnhof“. The upper level of the new station has six tracks; eight are on the lower level. There is no rail connection between the upper and lower level track in the station area. 1,800 trains call at the station per day and the daily number of pas-sengers is estimated to be at 350,000.

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“BOSPHORUS EXCHANGE” IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY

AUGUST 2007

An unforgettable time in the beautiful city of Istanbul

As a new member of IACES, I was very excited to par-ticipate in my fi rst Exchange. Me and my friends from LC Skopje arrived in the center of Istanbul on Sunday morning. As soon as everybody arrived we went to a restaurant to eat a delicious meal called “Lahmacun”. Everybody was very friendly and we were talking like we all knew each other for a long time. In the evening we went to a very interesting bar on the roof of a buil-ding that had a very nice view of Istanbul. We sat under the stars, drinking beer, getting to know each other.

Monday was the fi rst offi cial day of the exchange, so in the morning we went to the Istanbul Technical Univer-sity (ITU), where the dean, Prof. dr. Mehmet Ali Tasde-mir, held a welcome speech. Later we learned about the ITU and we also had a lecture about earthquake

THE MARMARAY (MARMARA RAIL)

The project includes a 13.6 km Bosphorus crossing and the upgrade of 63 km of suburban train lines to create a 76.3 km high capacity line between Gebze and Halkalı. The Bosphorus (Istanbul Strait) will be crossed by a 1.4 km earthquake-proof immersed tube (currently the world‘s deepest immersed tube tunnel), assembled from 11 sections, each as long as 440 feet and weighing up to 18,000 tons. The sections will be placed 56 meters below sea level, under 180 feet of water and 15 feet of earth. This tube will be accessed by bored tunnels from Kazlıçe me on the European side and Ayrılıkçe me on the Asian side of Istanbul. For the arising metro lines, 39 new underground stations will be built.

Construction of the Marmaray project started in May 2004. Its completion, expected to occur in 2012, is projected to increase the fraction of trips in Istanbul made by rail transport from 3.6% to 27.7%. If this takes place, Istanbul‘s rail transport fraction will be third largest in the world, after Tokyo (60%) and New York City (31%).

The project is currently two years behind schedule, largely due to the excavation of a Byzantine archaeological fi nd on the proposed site of the European tunnel terminal. Each day the tunnel‘s progress is delayed is estima-ted to cost $1 million in revenue, yet Turkey cannot afford to destroy the site. For now the archaeological dig is taking prominence, but how the Turkish government handles the situation in the years to come is really what is in question.

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engineering. That included an interesting experiment about the infl uence of waves on the shoreline. A grill party with sitting on big pillows, drinking beer, liste-ning to interesting music and dancing rounded that fi rst day.

The second day was a historical tour day. We visited many interesting historical places and buildings such as the Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, Obelisk, Blue Mos-que etc. For me, the most interesting building by its beauty and grandiosity was Hagia Sophia (“Big So-phia”). That one and a smaller mosque were primarily Christian churches but got converted into a mosque during the Ottoman Empire. After a rest having a de-licious “ka harlı pide” we went to the Istanbul Archeo-logy Museum, which holds some of the greatest trea-sures of the World’s history. In the evening we went to Tophane to a Nargile bar where we smoked from that traditional Turkish sort of a water pipe.

On Wednesday we went to the most interesting pro-ject, the Marmaray Immersed Tube Tunnel Project. We visited two construction sites and had a very good pre-sentation. We went to the tunnel and we could see up close the tunnel boring machine. The other construc-tion site was Tuzla. There we could see the making of the parts of the tunnel that will be put into the water and connect the two coasts of Istanbul, the European and the Asian. Unfortunately the Japanese company wouldn’t reveal their secrets of welding and checking the seams, presumably done by ultrasound, so we had to settle for climbing on one of the parts in making and we learned about the technique used to control the lo-cation of the cracks. Plastic tubes were inserted into the steel construction in order to weaken it so that if any cracks were to appear they would appear there and they would easily fi ll them with epoxy. In the eve-ning a nice looking belly dancer gathered a fairly large amount of money from the boys on a Fasil traditional night at the Taksim square.

On Thursday we had a meeting and a press confe-rence with the municipality of Kumburgaz’s mayor.

Bringing the good news of further events coming to that municipality we experienced the hospitality of Ma-yors during the whole day at the swimming pool or later on at dinner.

On Friday morning we went to the Kadikoy-Kartal Me-tro Project managed by Yapi Merkezi. We went to the construction site where the tunnel under the Bospho-rus started to descend. It was so exciting because it was 35 meters deep in the ground and the boring took place. The noise was excruciating! After lunch we hea-ded to the construction site managed by Geoteknik, which was an interesting visit as well. We danced the night away at a club in Taksim square.

The last day we saw a construction site of A ao lucalled “My World Project”. It’s a big residential area that is designed in a very modern way with tall buil-dings and pools and its own security. They proudly showed us the biggest apartment they had, and we were very impressed. Until we asked for the price! We spent the evening on a boat sailing along the Bospho-rus all night long and enjoyed the last moments of our visit to Istanbul. We listened to music and danced on the deck. Finally at the end of the night all LC’s sang their songs and gave the gifts to our hosts as gratitude for the great organisation of this exchange. That was very interesting and funny. On Sunday we packed our bags, said our goodbyes and one by one left the ho-stel and headed home, carrying with us the memories of the unforgettable time we spent in the beautiful city of Istanbul.

Zoran Todosovski,LC Skopje (Macedonia)


ACCESS‘07 IN TIMOSOARA, ROMANIA DECEMBER 2007

I can‘t remember the last time when I had so much fun

After twelve long hours in the train and one stop in Bel-grade, where merry groups from Belgrade and Skopje joined us, we came from Zagreb to Timisoara. As soon as we arrived we had to hurry up to the welcome party where the organisers greeted seven different nations:

Romanian, Serbian, German, Slovenian, Macedonian, Turkish and Croatian. We knew there are seven great days ahead of us. As far as I could see in that late hour, Timisoara wasn‘t that much different from my home-town, Zagreb. I guess that is because both cities are also called „Little Vienna“.

Timisoara belonged for a very long time to the Habs-burg Empire and the entire city center consists of buil-dings built in the Kaiser era, which reminds one very much of the old Vienna. The old city consists of historic city quarters with several historic squares and proms (Cetate, Iosefi n, Elisabetin, Fabric). Numerous bars, clubs and restaurants have opened in the old center in the old Baroque square.

On our fi rst day of the congress, we had a lecture about Architecture and history of Romania so we were well prepared for the sightseeing. I remembered the most interesting buildings for example the Timi oaraOrthodox Cathedral, Timi oara State Theater, Roman Catholic Cathedral (The Dome), Millennium Church, and the Huniade Castle. Beside that lecture, we had more during the congress: The Bridges on Euro Bills, Metalic structures and the Bucharest Tower Center.

At lunchtime, we had our fi rst touch with Romanian cu-isine. It‘s been greatly infl uenced by Balkan cuisine, but also includes infl uences from other cuisines, such as the German, Serbian, and Hungarian, so again, it wasn’t very strange to me. Wine is the one main drink and has a tradition of over two millenniums. Romania is currently the world‘s 9th largest wine producer, so that’s why the organisators took us to wine tasting and dinner at Recas vineyards in the afternoon on the fi rst day of the congress.

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Every evening there were parties at Base 2, the place that was reserved only for the congress participants. There we could get to know each other better and al-so have great fun. Romanian boys and girls obviously know how to party. As technical excursion we visited the construction site of a grain silo at Vinga. It was a concrete tower silo, 40 meters high. We climbed all the way to the top which was on the 17th fl oor.

As the fi nal trip we had an excursion to Baile Felix, the happy bath resort, where we explored balmy hot water pools or the forests. It‘s a thermal spa resort in Transyl-vania and they are among the most commonly known and the best thermal spas in the country. The next day was not quite so relaxing because we the actual con-gress meetings including IACES elections and working groups. The new General Board of IACES was elected and also we discussed the main problems of the LCs.

In the evening we had a little gathering in one of the rooms. I really didn‘t think it‘s possible for about 40 people to fi t in one room. That evening was one of the most interesting evenings of the congress because we played some, I presume, traditional IACES games.

The next day we went back to Timisoara. We had to pack for our departure on the next day and also do some last-minute shopping for some souvenirs. So fi -nally, the last evening we had the Traditional Roma-nian Dinner with traditional IACES farewell party. The most interesting part of this evening was the „shing a shong“ part. My LC members and I argued for a few days about which song will we sing. All I can say is - we aren‘t exactly Eurosong material. Everybody sang their traditional songs, but in my opinion the best were Steffen and Matjaz, the only participants from Germa-ny and Slovenia. They were brave enough to sing by themselves. It was the funniest evening of the whole congress, probably because of the singing part.

This was my fi rst exchange and I must say I can‘t remember the last time when I had so much fun. The boys and girls from Timisoara really did their best. So after a great time in the last evening, we had to go back to the hotel. We had to pack our last things and have at least some rest for the trip the next day, because we had a long way back home ahead of us.

Iva Popovi ,LC Zagreb (Croatia)

TIMI OARA – A CITY WITH MANY INFLUENCES IN HISTORY,

CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURE

The fi rst record of the city of Timisoara, built on the site of an ancient Roman fortress called Castrum Regi-um Themes, dates back to 1212. Over the years, Timi-soara, the largest city in western Romania, has been infl uenced by many cultures. The Romans used it as an important crossroads fortress until the Tatars de-stroyed it in the 13th century. Conquered by Turkish armies in 1552, Timisoara remained under their protec-tion until 1718 when the region of Banat came under Austrian rule for two centuries. Timisoara later became a vital medieval commercial and manufacturing town. Turks, Austrians, Germans and Serbs all left their mark and their infl uence can be seen in neighborhoods throughout the city even today. Seeing the shape and the structure of the city including the street and district names, you can guess the long history from an ancient fortress to a modern city.

Timi oara also became the fi rst city in Europe to have electric public lighting on the 12th of November 1884, (four years after New York City). A tram hauled by hor-ses also came into service around this period. Mean-while, in 1869 Timi oara was also the fi rst city in the Kingdom of Hungary to have an ambulance station.


The IACES General Board 2008

...has been elected during the ACCESS in Timisoara in December 2007. As you might remember the Future Talk in Madrid in 2003, we discussed the necessity of the offi cial structure for the IACES network. The result was the so called “new generation” characterizing the shape of IACES during the last years. The most impor-tant part – beside the network itself – became the Ex-changes with everything that belong to them: lectures, technical visits, meeting people and cultures, getting to

know many motivated and interested colleagues and companies from all over the world, having fun and ma-king friends. Helping out in realizing as well as coordi-nating those Exchanges is one of our tasks this year. And many more achievements we want to carry on and develop. I.e. this reader you are holding in your hands right now. Other projects are the cooperation with other (student) organizations, enlarging and strengthening the network, working together with as many students as possible on a high level. We give our best for ano-ther successful IACES year!

PRESIDENT STEFFEN KISSELER

Local Committee Wuppertal, GermanyBergische Universität Wuppertal, CivilEngineering / Management, 6th year

WHY IACES?

Often proclaimed: IACES causes addiction. And ho-nestly, once you took part in IACES, not only your radi-us of knowledge but also your circle of friends is being enlarged. Meeting old friends and fi nding new ones in an academic, cultural and friendly atmosphere has be-come an important part of my studies – and beyond.

WHY GENERAL BOARD?

Since I worked in good teams during the last years, I want to retire in a way that makes it possible for the following generation to carry on the work. I am happy that there is big potential and a lot excitement for our common ideas. So that will be defi nitely my last year as GB member that I nevertheless want to complete with the same enthusiasm like the ones before.

1ST VICE PRESIDENT TUBA GÜRBÜZ

Local Committee Istanbul, TurkeyIstanbul Technical University, Faculty of CivilEngineering 3th year, Faculty of Architecture 3th year

WHY IACES?

IACES is the best place where you can feel and under-stand the meaning of being a team and huge family. With IACES I improved my knowledge of engineering, other cultures and societies. Furthermore I earned new angels to the life with my new friends.

WHY GENERAL BOARD?

I have a deep desire to make something more for IA-CES and a passion to share my experience and ex-pand it by IACES with a real team.

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2ND VICE PRESIDENT MARKO MILI

Local Committee Belgrade, SerbiaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering/Construction, 4th year

WHY IACES?

Because this is the best way get to know colleagues from the whole world whit their culture and experience in civil engineering through the good fun. IACES is one more school that every civil engineering student should participate in, because there you can learn many things that will help you tomorrow in your professional life.

WHY GENERAL BOARD?

Wish for more dedicating and involvement lead me to GB. Satisfaction when you do something that will help whole IACES to grow, is the best way to give some-thing back to IACES and to leave something behind, like so many people before me.

TREASURER FREDERIC EVERS

Local Committee Karlsruhe, GermanyUniversität Karlsruhe (TH), Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Cultural Studies, 4th year

WHY IACES?

It is the perfect mixture IACES is providing for in-terested students: acquiring practical knowledge, buil-ding up networks, taking over responsibility, getting to know the world and learning something about yourself by having intercultural experiences.

WHY GENERAL BOARD?

The most important work within IACES is done by the LC’s locally. However the General Board coordinates and provides the framework for all the activities taking place over the year. Therefore getting involved with the General Board means spreading and sustaining the great idea of IACES as an international network.

SECRETARY MATJAŽ ŠAUTA

Local Committee Ljubljana, SloveniaUniversity of Ljubljana, Hydrology and Municipal Engi-neering, 5th year

WHY IACES?

Because it provided me with a whole new -fi rst hand- perspective to everything I knew, and by getting to know other cultures I also learned a lot about my own.

WHY GENERAL BOARD?

Because I got so much from Iaces I just had to give something back.


Little IACES ABC

IF YOU WANT TO BECOME A MEMBER OF IACES…

…the simple answer would be: Take part and be IACES. Of course there are different situations that ha-ve to be assumed. If there is no Local Committee at your faculty yet, you are invited to participate in IACES events anyway.

The network is based on both the Local Committees organizing local or international activities and the stu-dents taking part in them. Once you have participated in an event, you can establish a Local Committee with its own structure and form and have meetings and events at your faculty. The main aspect for the interna-tional network is that you stay available to receive and spread information, to participate yourself or even to organize an international event at your faculty, which can have different shapes and sizes.

LOCAL EVENTS…

…and fun events can be excursions, ceremonies or sport events. They can serve to attract new members, inform them about other (international) happenings and keep your own members attracted to the idea.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES…

…are organized by very active LC’s (Local Commit-tees). There are four to six big exchanges recently ta-king place during a year. On such weeks, the organi-zing group welcomes from 5 to 50 students from all over the world in its city. It’s good to have a topic of the exchange to make it more interesting, thus attracting more people.

The programme should contain an academic and a cultural part. The academic part is provided by lec-tures and technical visits. It may point out a specifi c or current civil engineering/architectural topic or project of the city, region or country. The cultural part should

contain the experience of the local peculiarities, tou-rist aspects and – of course – time to share the expe-rience, for parties and getting to know each other.

ALL THAT SHOULD BE REALIZED WITH…

…the help and sponsorship of the university, institu-tions and companies that in return get the chance to present themselves to an international group of future civil engineers and architects – the decision makers of tomorrow. When contacting sponsors, bare in mind that you have a lot to offer them! Normally, civil en-gineering companies should be interested in contacts of skilled people and international promotion of their company. They get to contact a very specifi c target au-dience of internationally oriented students that will like-ly stay active internationally. Just the appearance of their logo on IACES activities should guarantee that people will remember their company once they are em-ployed in major fi rms. Don’t limit yourselves to only civil engineering companies. Try contacting other fi rms as well, like mobile communications providers etc.

Respecting the IACES regulations for such events, it will enable a lot of students from many different coun-tries to join those activities. The regulations regu-late the limit and graduation for the participation fee. They also contain useful topics that help the organi-zing LC not to forget anything during the preparations beforehand.

THE IACES TRADITIONS…

…are an important part of the events. So if you are currently organizing or planning to organize some-thing, don’t forget traditions like singing songs or the farewell procedure. Participating in one, don’t forget to bring a traditional song to present it on the last night’s farewell party, bring some little gifts for the hosting LC and be tolerant and awake during your stay at another place of the world.

IACES YEARBOOK 2008

Bergische Universität

University of WuppertalBergische Universität

University of Wuppertal

International Office

Phone: +49 202 439 2181Fax: +49 202 439 3856

Email:

www.hsw-international.de

[email protected]

International Office

Phone: +49 202 439 2181Fax: +49 202 439 3856

Email:

www.hsw-international.de

[email protected]

Department of Civil Engineering

Pauluskirchstr. 742285 WuppertalGERMANY

www.bauing.uni-wuppertal.de

Department of Civil Engineering

Pauluskirchstr. 742285 WuppertalGERMANY

www.bauing.uni-wuppertal.de www.uni-wuppertal.dewww.uni-wuppertal.de

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The IACES Hymn

Melody from the fourth movement of Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 9, the incorporating part of the Ode an die Freude ("Ode to Joy"), a poem by Friedrich Schiller.

THE IACES SPIRIT

It all began as adventurous back-packers (now IACES Alumnis) started to travel around...

...to meet other civil engineering students. In Septem-ber 1989 civil engineering students from various Euro-pean countries came together in Delft. The aim was to discuss the possibilities of improving contacts between civil engineering students throughout Europe. The fi nal result was the establishment of the International Asso-ciation of Civil Engineering Students (IACES).

With the years, the activities evolved into professional courses, congresses, exchanges and fun weeks. And yet there is always the possibility to just take a bag, hop on the train and go and visit your friends all over Europe. At this moment, IACES has grown into a well functioning organization, present at civil engineering faculties through whole Europe (and outside) in the form of Local Committees (LC’s) and Contact Persons (CP’s). What keeps our association and all of its local structures alive is the spirit of IACES.

This is the passion for fi nding new friends, searching for adventure, learning about and understanding diffe-rent cultures, taking professional education to a new, modern international level. The structure of IACES consists of all independent Local Committees together, with their own members. To coordinate all activities a little and to establish contacts with ‘new’ faculties and companies a General Board (GB) is on the head of IACES. They also answer the general questions about the association (sent to [email protected]) in the case so-meone is interested in IACES and there is no LC pre-sent in his or her city yet.

Most of the IACES activities include a ‘serious’ part of lectures about a certain topic, that highlights the details and technical features of the projects which are to be visited. In this way you, as a participant, get a good overview of the way of education in the country where the activity is held.

The evening program is at least as interesting as the daily program and gives a good insight in the student-life of the visited LC. By experience can be learned that exchange students (studying one year abroad) were often inspired by an IACES activity fi rst!

arranged by Steffen Kisseler

IACES YEARBOOK 2008

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