{"id":14692,"date":"2017-06-01T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/?p=14692"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:11:53","slug":"wfeo-presence-at-the-international-engineering-education-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-presence-at-the-international-engineering-education-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"WFEO presence at the International Engineering Education Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017_IFEEF_banner.png\" alt=\"WFEO President and Vice Presidents attended International Engineering Education Forum\" title=\"WFEO President and Vice Presidents attended International Engineering Education Forum\" width=\"664\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16152\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <b>International Engineering Education Forum on the Construction of Engineering Education and Engineering Capacity for the Future<\/b>, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.cae.cn\/cae\/html\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAE<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsinghua.edu.cn\/publish\/newthuen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tsinghua University<\/a> and the International Centre for Engineering Education (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/media-services\/single-view\/news\/unveiling_of_international_centre_for_engineering_education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICEE<\/a>) of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNESCO<\/a> was held in Tsinghua University, China, on 22nd and 23rd May.<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jorge Spitalnik<\/a>, Vice Presidents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_engineering-for-innovative-technologies-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gong Ke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_capacity_building_president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yashin Brijmohan<\/a> attended the opening ceremony and made speeches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jorge_ieef.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jorge_ieef.png\" alt=\"WFEO President Jorge Spitalnik\" title=\"WFEO President Jorge Spitalnik\" width=\"664\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:15px; margin-left:10px; font-size:90%;\">\nWFEO President Jorge Spitalnik\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the opening ceremony, President Jorge Spitalnik pointed out that engineers should consider the social background and maintain a  critical thinking ability, while implementing their professional duties. He stated that <i>&#8220;An excellent engineer must follow certain ethical standards, with sufficient engineering knowledge and professional certification of his\/her professional abilities. These activities require the entire project certification or the joint efforts of relevant departments in the country in order to ensure the qualifications of engineering experts, to achieve a unified and high quality standard while engineers work at the world scale, and to be recognized by international organizations&#8221;<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:200%; border-left: solid 2px #616161; padding-left:20px;line-height:normal;\">\n<b>&#8220;Engineers should consider the social background and maintain a critical thinking ability, while implementing their professional duties&#8221;.<\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align: right;\">\n<b>President Jorge Spitalnik<\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gong Ke, Vice president of WFEO and Chair of WFEO Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_engineering-for-innovative-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WFEO-CEIT<\/a>), presented a keynote speech entitled <b>\u201cSustainability: Challenges for Engineering Capacity Building\u201d<\/b>. On 22nd May, at the meeting of the Executive Board and Advisory Board of ICEE, Gong Ke was appointed member of the Advisory Board of the Centre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gong_ieef.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gong_ieef.png\" alt=\"Gong Ke, Vice president of WFEO and Chair of WFEO-CEIT\" title=\"Gong Ke, Vice president of WFEO and Chair of WFEO-CEIT\" width=\"664\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:15px; margin-left:10px; font-size:90%;\">\nGong Ke, Vice president of WFEO and Chair of WFEO-CEIT\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the Seminar entitled <b>&#8220;Engineering capacity building for sustainable development&#8221;<\/b>, Yashin Brijmohan, Vice President of WFEO and Chair of WFEO Committee on Engineering Capacity Building (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_capacity_building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WFEO-CECB<\/a>) delivered a keynote speech on <b>&#8220;Global Engineering Capacity Building&#8221;<\/b>, where he explained the meaning of engineering capacity and pointed out its construction path.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/yashin_ieef.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/yashin_ieef.png\" alt=\"Yashin Brijmohan, Vice president of WFEO and Chair of WFEO-CECB\" title=\"Yashin Brijmohan, Vice president of WFEO and Chair of WFEO-CECB\" width=\"664\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:15px; margin-left:10px; font-size:90%;\">\nYashin Brijmohan, Vice president of WFEO and Chair of WFEO-CECB\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The International Center for Engineering Education, jointly host by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Tsinghua University, was established by UNESCO in November 2015, and officially inaugurated in June 2016. The Center aims to link engineering education in developed and developing countries, to promote cross-country, cross-cutting and cross-cultural exchanges in the fields of personnel training, technological innovation and industrial development, to help developing countries to cultivate engineering and technology talents, to promote global improvement of the engineering education quality, and to promote the fair development of education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>For more information:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Committee on Engineering Capacity Building (WFEO-CECB) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_capacity_building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies (WFEO-CEIT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/stc_engineering-for-innovative-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Chinese Academy of Engineering <a href=\"https:\/\/en.cae.cn\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Tsinghua University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsinghua.edu.cn\/publish\/newthuen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe International Engineering Education Forum on the Construction of Engineering Education and Engineering Capacity for the Future, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Tsinghua University and the International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) of UNESCO was held in Tsinghua University, China, on 22nd and 23rd May.<br \/>\nPresident Jorge Spitalnik, Vice Presidents Gong Ke and Yashin Brijmohan attended the opening ceremony and made speeches.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nWFEO President Jorge Spitalnik<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAt the opening ceremony, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[159,96,160,90,95,92],"class_list":["post-14692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-report","tag-accreditation","tag-goal-4","tag-stc-engineering-capacity-building","tag-stc-innovative-technologies","tag-sdgs","tag-unesco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WFEO presence at the International Engineering Education Forum - WFEO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-presence-at-the-international-engineering-education-forum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WFEO presence at the International Engineering Education Forum - WFEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; The International Engineering Education Forum on the Construction of Engineering Education and Engineering Capacity for the Future, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Tsinghua University and the International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) of UNESCO was held in Tsinghua University, China, on 22nd and 23rd May. 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