The International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) has become reality.

On October 9, during the 5th Annual ASEE Colloquium on Engineering Education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the inaugural and founding meeting of IFEES took place. About 35 representatives from worldwide engineering education societies were represented at the meeting where the President and the executive Committee for the first term (2-years mandate) were elected.
SEFI President, Prof. Claudio Borri, was elected President of IFEES for the period 2007/2009. This recognition is received with great pride and value to SEFI now being in head of this global organization, which will no doubt be of significant importance to the development of engineering education worldwide.

The aim of IFEES is to promote engineering education globally and to enhance its quality by bringing together members from engineering education societies around the world to share teaching methods, curriculum plans, and every other aspect of educating engineers, to include those organizations from developing countries.
Information technology and global communications have drastically altered the engineering field, making such collaborations, cultural understanding and mutual learning a real value to the engineering education community.

For more information please go to www.ifees.net .

President of IFEES 2007/2009
C. Borri, President of SEFI

The executive committee
J. Melsa, President elect, ASEE, USA
M. Jones, President of IACEE, Imp. College, UK
L. Morell, HP (Puerto Rico & USA)
N. Ramananda Shetty, President, Indian Society for Technical Education, India
Q. Lei, Secr. General, Chinese Society for Engineering Education, China
Sun Kim, South Korea
N. Kraker, President of IGIP, Austria
S. Madonsela, President, South African Council of Engineers, South Africa
Y. Pocholkov, Rector of TPU & President of Russian Association for Engineering Education, Russia
J. Paez, President of ASIBEI, Colombia
M. Lorrando-Petrie, Representative of LACCEI, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, Boca Raton, USA