DATE:             December 23, 2002

TO:                  Members, iNEER Community

 

Dear Friends,

 

As the year 2002 draws to a close, we write to wish you the best of the Holiday Season. 

 

We also write to thank you for your support during the past year through your papers and e-mails, and attendance at ICEE-2002.  

 

The past year was a busy and productive one for iNEER.  The Retreat held in Taipei in February helped lay the ground work for a number of new directions.  The iNEER Board voted to incorporate iNEER as a non-profit organization.  After discussion and review over a 9-month period, the iNEER By-Laws were adopted by the iNEER Board in November 2002.  iNEER and ICEE-ISC collaborated with UMIST in the planning and implementation of ICEE-2002. 

 

With personal visits and through e-mails, we expanded our outreach and networking to the worldwide engineering education and research community.  Our membership now numbers more than 6,800 in about 100 countries. 

 

The iNEER/SEU International Engineering Education Partnership Workshop was convened in Nanjing, China, in June. 

 

The first iNEER Special Volume, an archival publication giving a voice to the iNEER community, entitled “Engineering Education and Research – 2001: A Chronicle of Worldwide Innovations”, was published in August.  The second volume is scheduled for publication in July, 2003.

 

We also initiated an iNEER regional workshops series.  Each workshop will be interspersed between two successive ICEE.  The first such workshop will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil in March, 2003.  It is called: Ibero-American Summit on Engineering Education: A Regional Conference of the iNEER Network.

 

During the past year, we posted on the iNEER website http://www.ineer.org 37 items of interest to international cooperation.  To enable easy access, a list of these items together with their hyperlinks, has been compiled and posted at:

http://www.ineer.org/AboutUs/ITEMPOSTEDDURING2002.htm

 

iNEER is an open organization aimed at promoting international cooperation in engineering education and research.  We are grateful for your continued support through active participation. 

 

We look forward to seeing you in the near future.

 

Sincerely,

 

iNEER Board and ICEE-ISC

 

Che-Ho Wei

Chair

Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

 

Vaclav Roubicek

Chair-Elect

Ostrava, Czech Republic

 

Win Aung

Secretary-General

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Potomac, Maryland, USA