Its not too late!!! The deadline for application submission has been extended. Please visit SPEED website to apply!
http://www.worldspeed.org/ Reagards, Yadav http://profiles.tigweb.org/yadavyadu2004 On 7/29/09, Yadav Bhattarai <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED) in > cooperation with American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will > gather 100 student leaders in Budapest, Hungary October 9th-15th, 2009 for > the Global Student Forum (GSF) on Engineering Education to discuss this > years's conference theme “Ensuring Equitable and Diverse Global > Representation with Engineering Education”. > > The GSF event is part of 8th ASEE Global Colloquium, which will draw > academics, representatives from government, industry and non-profit > organizations, and increasingly students from around the world to discuss > issues pertinent to engineering education. With your help, we will bring > student perspectives to this important global dialogue. > > Through this one-week event, students will be a part of an international > experience, submerged in the atmosphere of cross-cultural communication and > creative thinking. Participants will take part in workshops aimed at > providing them with tools to find innovative solutions with a global > perspective and apply them in their local communities. They will get a > chance to learn about already existing student projects, get involved > and/or > start their own regional and global initiatives with the aim of maximizing > the student voice within the engineering education community. > > > The overall vision for the GSF is two-fold: to positively impact our > student > participants current position as budding global engineers eager to affect > change within the engineering education and local communities; and to show > the professional stakeholders that students are a much larger piece of this > puzzle then they are currently given credit for and are entitled to a voice > within the global engineering education dialogue. > > Program: > > “Ensuring Equitable and Diverse Global Representation within Engineering > Education” > > As engineering further develops into a global enterprise all regions of the > world must produce competent engineers in sufficient numbers in order to > provide for their well-being and representation in the global engineering > market. However, not all regions and countries are equally represented or > have sufficient numbers of engineers to match demand. Unequal > representation > manifests itself on a local level as well. Whether its tribal students in > India, immigrants and women in Europe, or African-Americans in the United > States certain demographics are not participating in engineering in the > same > numbers as their peers. Through reaching out to groups who normally are > underrepresented, issues with demand, workforce diversity and other > problems > can be addressed. As a global network of engineering students passionate to > affect local change SPEED is perfectly positioned to address this issue. > The > program will be structured to parallel and compliment the theme of the ASEE > Global Colloquium, “Cultures, Markets and Regulations: Shaping Global > Engineering Education”. > > The 6th Global Student Forum will investigate and look to positively impact > underrepresented populations within engineering education on a global and > local level. The program will address such questions as: > > Are there cultural implications to why certain populations do not pursue > engineering or are they based on social hierarchy or perhaps the > industry/markets in which a country can impact? > > Does a lack of international standards prevent some engineers from > operating > on a global level? > > Does level of participation reflect social status or a country's/region's > development? > > The benefits of a diverse engineering force have been illustrated, but what > kind of new trends can we introduce into the existing conventional > education > systems in order to help increasing the numbers of those who are > underrepresented. > > > Application deadline:15 August 2009.Apply Now !! > > Contacts > > For questions on the global student forum. > David Delaine: [email protected] > > For donations & Sponsorship questions. > Nicolo Wojewoda: [email protected] > > > Web: http://worldspeed.org > > > > Warm Regards > Yadav Bhattarai > > T: +977-9841453923 > W: http://worldspeed.org > E:[email protected] > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
