“We are extremely pleased to welcome you to Cape Town, South Africa, for the 2022 World Engineering Education Forum and The Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF&GEDC) to be held from 28 November to 01 December 2022 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). We invite professors, academics, engineering educators, industry leaders, researchers, students and governmental organizations to attend and participate in this conference. This will give us all an opportunity to share our experiences, vision, strategy, research, products, technology and also network with engineering thought leaders from across the world. Each year, IFEES holds the World Engineering Education Forum in different locations around the world. On even years, the conference is jointly convened with the Global Engineering Deans Council Conference.
-General Conference Chair, Prof Sunil Maharaj
This is the largest global gathering in engineering education and includes participation from a large number of stakeholders – Engineering educators, leaders, students, industry, governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, among others – who share and build fruitful and long-term collaborations during the event. The South African Society for Engineering Education (SASEE), as a member of IFEES, is co-hosting this event with the University of Pretoria, in conjunction with the South African Engineering Deans’ Forum. WEEF/GEDC provide a strong platform for interaction and consultation with international delegates for the sharing of interests and expertise, and we look forward to welcoming back our returning supporters and providing opportunities for new partners. We look forward to working with you and thank you in advance for your important support of the congress. We plan to have an exciting line-up at the Conference.”
Adapting to Global Disruption:
Meeting the challenge with integrative, holistic, and sustainable engineering.
For years the WEEF & GEDC conferences have been invaluable forums where educators, students, engineers and industry representatives have gathered to prepare for a future of global disruption. The past two years have accelerated the global reality as the Covid-19 pandemic has firmly planted us in a state of global disruption. We are no longer preparing: we are here, in the midst of disruption, coming together to reflect on our contexts. The themes of the 2022 WEEF & GEDC conference, collocated with the AEEA 2022 conference, can be represented by these questions:
- How have we adapted to global disruption?
- How do we create stable environments that are less vulnerable, more
- resilient to global disruption?
- How do we meet this challenge of global disruption that is bound to be
- the status quo for the foreseeable future?
If we approach these challenges in an integrative (multidisciplinary, interinstitutional, cross-cultural, inclusive, diverse, trusting and ethical) manner, we will create holistic learning and engineering environments (that meet the cognitive, affective and systemic needs of society, students, academia and industry) which will create sustainable (safer, peaceful and cohesive planet) solutions for our future.
Join us in mapping out our Integrative, Holistic and Sustainable future together!
