July 25, 2006
Condado Plaza Hotel and
Resort
iNEER Secretariat
Report
The Leadership Council of iNEER has been formed by the iNEER Board to enable and promote the sharing of information and the establishment of cooperative exchanges by leaders of engineering education and research. The Council is charged with planning and executing programs and activities so as to provide a platform for networking among leaders of universities and colleges, and senior representatives of industry and government from around the world. The iNEER Board’s Charge to the Council is appended to the end of this report.
The organization meeting of the Council was convened as a part of ICEE-2006 on Tuesday, July 25, from 10 AM – 12 Noon under the leadership of Interim Co-Chairs Professor David Chang, Chancellor of Polytechnic University of New York, and Prof. Wojciech Zielinski, Rector of Silesian University of Technology. At the invitation of David Chang, Win Aung, Secretary-General of iNEER, explained the rationale to the formation of the Council by the iNEER Board, and its charge to the Council. He reiterated the Board’s vision to see the Council evolve into a platform that enables the sharing of information and the establishment of cooperative exchanges by leaders of engineering education and research. He outlined the specific charge to the Council, namely, to plan and execute programs and activities so as to provide a platform for networking among leaders of universities and colleges, and senior representatives of industry and government from around the world. He thanked the Interim Co-Chairs Professor David Chang and Professor Wojciech Zielinski, Rector of Silesian University of Technology for their leadership in moving forward the establishment of the Council. He then called for election of permanent co-chairs, and those in attendance unanimously voted to elect the two Interim Co-Chairs to serve two-year, renewal terms as Co-Chairs. At the start of the meeting, the two co-chairs were elected to serve two-year, renewal terms as Co-Chairs.
Professor Chang then outlined his vision for the Council, emphasizing his interest to see the Council develop a set of realistic, achievable action items for the next few years. He then opened the floor for discussion. In the ensuing discussion, one of the topics that attracted the interest of those in attendance was the development of a “cyberinfrastructure for global engineering education.” There is a potential here for tie-in with related ongoing work sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company.
It was agreed by those in attendance that an action plan
should be developed prior to the next iNEER conference, ICEE-2007, in
Council meeting minutes are being developed by the co-chairs with the cooperation of the Secretary-General.
The following attended the meeting:
Wayne Johnson,
Lueny Morell,
Hewlett-Packard,
Angelo Perna, New Jersey Institute
of
David Chang, Polytechnic
Wojciech Zielinski,
Maria Graca
Rasteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Shan-Hwei Ou,
Che-Ho Wei,
William Begell, Begell House Publishing, Inc.,
James Uhomoibhi,
Uriel Cukierman,
National Technical
Jorge
Velez-Arocho, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Ramon Vasquez,
University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Tomas Cermak, VSB – Technical
Karl Stevens,
Kwang-Sun
Darsh T. Wasan,
Illinois Institute of
Sam Hsu,
Jan Bujnak,
Ryszard
Tadeusiewicz,
An-Bang Wang,
Joel Bloom, New Jersey Institute
of
Win Aung, International Network
for Engineering Education and
iNEER Leadership Council - Charge