International Workshop on Engeering Education for Sustainable Development

Background:
Engineering figures human-being’s modern lives, but also brings serious challenges to human-being’s living environment. If we say that the world’s sustainable development is at the hands of engineers, then, engineering education for sustainable development is of irreplaceable importance at present.
Being one part of the United Nations Project “Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2015)”, the international workshop on “Engineering Education for Sustainable Development” is going to be held by UNESCO, China National Commission for UNESCO and Tsinghua University in Beijing in the year of 2006. The workshop aims to discuss new requirements to engineering education brought by sustainable development, engineering education’s new challenges and strategies. The participants include domestic and foreign scholars, school managers, pedagogical researchers and engineering personnel.
The workshop will be held in Beijing from 31st October to 2nd November, 2006.

Issues and format of the workshop:
The workshop is focused on new requirements to engineering education brought by sustainable development, approaches, contradictions and strategies for integrating sustainable development principles into varieties engineering branches, the practices of engineering education reform guided by sustainable development, international cooperation in engineering education for sustainable development.

The workshop will include plenary sessions and parallel sessions with panel discussions on the following five special fields.
1. Civil/Environmental engineering education for sustainable development
2. Chemical/Material engineering education for sustainable development
3. Information and Intelligent engineering education for sustainable development
4. Electrical engineering education for sustainable development
5. Energy engineering education for sustainable development

Scholars and officials from countries around the world will be invited to give keynote address.

The workshop will also arrange special communications between participants with students from Tsinghua University.

The workshop language is English.

Keynote Speeches at the plenary sessions:
1．Resource productivity could become the melody of technological progress. What does that imply for engineering education?
Prof. Ernst von Weizsacker, Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB Santa Barbara, USA
2．To Be Determined
Lester R. Brown, Director of the Earth Policy Institute, USA
3．Capability building for sustainable development
Russel C. Jones, World Federation of Engineering Organizations
4．Education for Strategic Environmental Management and Sustainable Technology Solutions
Prof. Emile H. Ishida, Tohoku University, Japan
5．Strategic Integration of SD into Engineering Education: A North-South Collaboration
Professor Dr. Anthony Shun Fung Chiu, De La Salle University - Manila
6．Impacts of Environmental Ethics on Engineering Education
Prof. Yi Qian, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

Panelists for panel discussions:
1. Civil/Environmental engineering education for sustainable development
Prof. Xila Liu, Shanghai Jiaotong University (Facilitator)
Prof. W.F. Chen, Member of USA Academy of Engineering, Hawaii University
Mr. Hisham Shihaby, World Federation of Engineering Organization
Prof. Takashi Mino, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Yi Jiang, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tsinghua University
Prof. Hongying Hu, Tsinghua University

2. Chemical/Material engineering education for sustainable development
Prof. Yong Jin, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tsinghua University (Facilitator)
Prof. Yinlun Huang, Wayne State University
Prof. Jakob de Swaan Arons, Delft University of Technology, Royal Dutch Chair Professor, of Tsinghua University
Prof. Duan Weng, Tsinghua University
Asso. Prof. Xiaotao Bi, University of British Columbia
Prof. Bing Zhu, Tsinghua University

3. Information and Intelligent engineering education for sustainable development
Prof. Yixin Zhong, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Facilitator)
Kamel Ayadi, President of World Federation of Engineering Organization
Tony Marjoram, World Federation of Engineering Organization
Mr. Qiheng Hu, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice Chair of China Association for Science and Technology
Mr. Gaofeng Zhu, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice president of Chinese Academy of Engineering
4. Electrical engineering education for sustainable development
Prof. Qixun Yang, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, North China Electric Power University (Facilitator)
Dr Loi Lei LAI，City University London, UK
To Be Determined
5. Energy engineering education for sustainable development
Prof. Weidou Ni, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tsinghua University (Facilitator)
To Be Determined

Agenda:
Date Time Content
October 30 Registration, welcome banquet
October 31 Morning Opening ceremony, keynote speeches
Afternoon Keynote speeches and Communication with students(students’ reports, free discussions and comments)

November 1 Morning Panel discussions
Afternoon Panel summary
Workshop summary and closing ceremony
November 2
Sightseeing

Venue: Beijing, China

The workshop is free of registration fee. Accommodation will be arranged by the secretariat at participants' own expenses.
Participants of developing countries can apply for workshop funds provided by UNESCO.

Submission of paper's abstract or full text (English) is welcome. The workshop will make abstract corpus and CD, and proceeding.

Organizing Committee:
Director:
GU Binglin（President of Tsinghua University, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering）
Executive Director:
QIAN Yi（Professor of Tsinghua University, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering）

Vice Director:
AYADI Kamel （President of World Federation of Engineering Organization）
CHENG Donghong（Executive Secretary, China Association for Science and Technology）
DU Xiangwan（Vice President of China Academy of Engineering）
TIAN Xiaogang（Secretary General of China Commission for UNESCO）
WANG Jinsong（Vice President of Tsinghua University）

Members:
CHEN Jining（DESE, Tsinghua University）
GINSZTLER János （World Federation of Engineering Organizations）
HAO Jiming（DESE, Tsinghua University）
HE Kebin (Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, Tsinghua University)
JIN Yong (Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers)
JONES Russel C. （World Federation of Engineering Organizations）
KANG Jincheng（Chinese Academy of Engineering）
LIU Xila （World Federation of Engineering Organizations-CHINA）
MARJORAM Tony （UNESCO）
NI Weidou （Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University）
SHIHABY Hisham（World Federation of Engineering Organizations）
WANG Hongtao（DESE, Tsinghua University）
YANG Qixun（Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering）
ZHONG Yixin （World Federation of Engineering Organizations-CHINA）
ZHU Jinning（China Association of Science and Technology）

Working Committee:
Secretary General:
HU Hongying（DESE, Tsinghua University）
Member:
CHENG Yi（Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University）
LIANG Peng（DESE, Tsinghua University）
SHI Lei（DESE, Tsinghua University）
WANG Weining（ACO，Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications）
XI Jingying（DESE, Tsinghua University）
ZENG Rong（Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University）
ZHANG Bo（Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University）
ZHAO Xiaoning（Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University）


Secretariat:
Ms. AN Xin
Address: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R.China
Tel: +86-10-62785685
Fax: +86-10-62785687
E-mail: anxin@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Posted on May 31, 2006