Title: EuroCase Meeting on Engineering Education
1EuroCase Meeting on Engineering Education
- European Society of Engineers and Industrialists
2About SEII
- SEII is a platform for European Industrialists,
Engineers and governments where engineers debate,
discuss and shape the future of European
Industry. - SEIIs mission is to be a catalyst for the
building a strong European Industrial base by
fostering innovation and development of engineers
for a secure future for the next generations.
3Realities of Today
- China, Brazil and India are industrial
powerhouses - Europes Industrial powerbase is in continuous
decline with no niche technological powerbase in
development - World wide competitiveness depends on engineers
750 000 engineers are needed in Europe (Lisbon
agenda theoretical estimate )?
Far-reaching reforms are needed for Europe to
sustain its advanced society and rethink the
model
4The Need for Leadership
- Individuals who combine scientific technical
expertise with the courage to back their own
judgement and make commitments. Some examples? - Norman Borlaug, creator of the first Green
Revolution Louis Pasteur Rudolf Diesel the
Solvay family - Inventor-innovators, like Swanson (venture
capitalist) and Boyer (biochemist), creating
Genentech in 1976, today a 40-billion-dollar
market cap
Far-reaching reforms are needed for Europe to
sustain its advanced society and rethink the
model
5Transforming Knowledge into Economic Value
- Improvement of education - Industry/Academia
partnership-Socrates Erasmus Tree project - Post graduate - Leadership education towards
entrepreneur skills and to take risk - Life long learning
A European Lisbon Agenda Platform bringing
together the representative bodies for engineers,
Industrialists, Financiers.Economists and
Academics, is urgently needed to dialog with the
European Commission and the European Parliament
to close the macro micro gap in order to produce
a realistic action plan
6The Need to Change Attitudes
- The gap between rhetoric the Lisbon objective
and practice unscientific over-regulation - Misrepresentation of the precautionary
principle always saying NO is also a
high-risk strategy, which stops learning, doesnt
eliminate uncertainty it should be dynamic,
responsive to knowledge and experience - Environment Ministers seduced by NGOs, listening
only to what they want to hear, ignoring science
e.g. great environmental benefits of modern
biotech, for pest control, biodiversity
(low-till / no-till agriculture)
A European Lisbon Agenda Platform is urgently
needed to dialog with European Indusry UNICE ,
SEFI. FEANI ,Eurochambres, ETUC , EUPME,
European Commission, European Parliament all
stakeholders.)?
7SEIIs Educational Role
- SEIIs selected educational activities fill in
valuable missing organisational competencies - SEII conferences, lunch meetings and panels to
disseminate technological developments - EIIL with leadership development targeted
specifically to engineers - www.eiil.net
- BMC with a portfolio of Project Management
programmes - www.bmc-online.com
- ABUCO with value added marketing
- www.abuco-consult.com
Our focus is for European companies to be
sustainable through continuous multicultural
personal development
8Contacting SEII
- SEII
- Rue dEgmont 11
- 1000 Brussels
- Belgium
- Tel
- E-Mail info_at_seii.org