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Keynote 1: "Universities in the European Higher Education Area: Challenges and Oportunities".
Prof. Dr. Guy Haug, Expert of European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Advisor to the UPV, Brussels, Belgium.
Prof. Guy Haug is a European expert in higher education systems, and university assessment and development. He is one of the founding fathers of the European Higher Education Area thanks to his key role in the creation of an agenda for university modernisation as part of the Lisbon Strategy, and in the shaping and starting up of the Bologna process to remodel the converging curricula and methodologies at European universities.
He has a wealth of experience in university management (the internationally renowned French Grande Ecole of management), in cooperation with international organisations (the EC for the design and start-up of the Erasmus and Tempus programmes, OECD, World Bank, UNESCO), and in university networks in Europe (especially in engineering and management) and the Americas (USA, Latin America). He is member of or advisor to a number of quality assessment and accreditation agencies and has taken part in conferences around the world relating to the EHEA.
He has a degree in law (Strasbourg), a PhD in Political Sciences (Tübingen), an honorary degree from HETAC (Dublin), and an MBA (Ottawa).
Keynote 2: "Innovation in Engineering Education".
Prof. Dr. Erik de Graaf, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands. Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Engineering Education. SEFI Vice-president (2005-2008).
Erik de Graaff (1951) graduated at the University of Amsterdam in 1978, majoring in the psychology of work and organisation. From 1979 till 1990 he has been involved in the development of the Problem Based curricula of medicine and health sciences at the University of Limburg in Maastricht. In 1990 Dr. de Graaff was asked to join TU Delft in order to support the process of educational innovation at the Faculty of Architecture. In 1994 he was appointed associate professor in the field of educational innovation at the department of didactics in the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy, a position which has shifted to the faculty of Technology Policy and Management.
Dr de Graaff has been a visiting research professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1995 and a guest professor at Aalborg University in Denmark since 1999. The collaboration with Aalborg University in Denmark resulted in an appointment as extraordinary professor (adjungeret professor) in September 2007.
Dr de Graaff has contributed to the promotion of knowledge and understanding of higher engineering education through publications and through participation in professional organisations like SEFI and IGIP. In 2006 Dr de Graaff was appointed as associate editor of the European Journal of Engineering Education. Since January 2008 he is Editor-in-Chief of the EJEE.
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Keynote 3: "EUR-ACE: the European approach to the accreditation of Quality Engineering Education".
Prof. Dr. Giuliano Augusti, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy. President of European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE).
Prof. Giuliano Augusti, President of ENAEE (2006-2012), former coordinator of the EUR-ACE and EUR-ACE IMPLEMENTATION Projects, now coordinator of EUR-ACE SPREAD (2008-2010) and member of the Management Committee of the Academic Network EUGENE (2009-2012) is a Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics in the Università "La Sapienza", Roma. He has published more than 250 research articles on several aspects of his discipline (stability, plasticity, dynamics, earthquake and wind engineering, probabilistic approaches, risk analysis, etc.).
He was a member of the SEFI Administrative Council for many years and President in 1987/88; since several years he sits also in the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE). In 1994 Prof. Augusti chaired an EC Task Force in charge of investigating possible synergies between recognition of qualifications for academic and professional purposes: the report of this Task Force lead to an EC Recommendation issued in December 1994.
Prof. Augusti has been active with continuity in European Thematic Networks on Engineering Education (H3E, 1997-99; E4, 2000-04; TREE, 2004-08) and participates now in the new Academic Network EUGENE (European and Global Engineering Education, 2009-12). In the TREE Network, he has been the promoter of Line A “Tuning” and Leader of the Special Interest Group A5 “Accreditation of EE in Europe”. In EUGENE, he is leading Line C “Improve trans-national mobility of engineering students, graduates and professionals”.
Since 2004, besides coordinating the quoted EC-supported “EUR-ACE” (EURopean ACcredited Engineer) (2004-2006), EUR-ACE IMPLEMENTATION (2006-2008) and EUR-ACE SPREAD (2008-2010) projects, he has been active in several analogous EC-supported projects, like “PRO-EAST: promotion and implementation of the EUR-ACE Standards in Russia” (2006-2007), “LEPAC: Creation of a Lebanese Engineering Accreditation Commission” (2006-2008).
In May 2009 he participated in the experts’ meeting that prepared the “Tuning-AHELO Conceptual Framework of Expected/Desired Learning Outcomes in Engineering”; at present (February 2010) he is a member of the Engineering Expert Group of the AHELO Feasibility Study.
Prof. Augusti holds a Ph.D. and a Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK and a Dr-Ing.h.c. from Ruhr University, DE; is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences. In September 2004, he was awarded by SEFI the “Leonardo da Vinci” Medal for “his outstanding contributions to European Higher Engineering Education and Research”.
