Luiz Carlos Scavarda-do-Carmo is the Director for Development Projects of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and former Dean of its School of Sciences and Technology. He received the electrical engineering degree, the MSc. and the Ph.D. degrees in physics from PUC-Rio in 1967, 1970 and 1976, respectively. He is also Full Professor in the Physics Department of PUC-Rio, a visiting scholar of the Politecnico of Bari and the University of Roma III, and was a visiting scholar of the Russian Science Academy. He published more than 40 papers in the area of condensed matter physics and chaired the 1998 International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE) held in Rio de Janeiro.
Vaclav Roubicek steps
down as Rector of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava in 2003 and remains as
Vice Rector for International Affairs. In 2002, he was elected to a Senate seat
in the Czech Government. A specialist in mining and mineral resources research,
he is the author of numerous papers and text books, and co-editor of the 2002
iNEER Special Volume: Engineering Education and Research – 2001: A Chronicle
of Worldwide Innovations. A co-founder of iNEER and member of its Board
since inception in 2000, he was General Chair of ICEE-1999.
Che-Ho Wei has been Chairman, National Science Council (NSC) since 2001. He was Vice President at National Chiao Tung University. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Chiao Tung University, and the Ph.D. from University of Washington, Seattle. Wei has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Research Award in 1990 and 1996 from NSC, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the iNEER Achievement Award. He was co-chair of ICEE-2000 and chairman of the iNEER Board from 2001-2003.