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09/02/10
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Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Giuliano Augusti

Prof. Dr. Giuliano Augusti, President of European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education

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.). In parallel with his teaching and scientific research activities, G. Augusti has acquired over the years a vast experience in the field of recognition and accreditation of engineering education at the national and European level, and has published and edited a number of papers and reports on the subject. 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”.

 

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