THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN CIVIL ENGINEERING FACULTIES
with the participation of Civil Engineering faculties from non-European countries
AECEF

5^th AECEF Symposium on
Civil Engineering in the Next Decade (ASCEND)
Strategies for Education, Research, Innovation and Practice

Espoo, Finland                                    June 15-17, 2005

Organised by AECEF Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CONTENTS:

• European Universities and Institutes of Higher Education on the Threshold of the 21st Century by Professor Jiří Witzany, Rector of Czech Technical University in Prague, AECEF President

• Civil Engineer Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century

• Harmonisation of European Construction Codes and Regulation by Professor Josef Machacek, Czech Technical University in Prague, AECEF Board member, Machacek@fsv.cvut.cz

• ENGINEERING QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION ON FATIGUE DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES by Ye Zhou, Ph.D., Research Engineer, AMEC Dynamic Structures, Ltd., Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada and Siegfried F. Stiemer, Dr.-Ing. ( Ph.D.), Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

• AECEF new members

• SOCRATES-ERASMUS Thematic Network EUCEET II Activities in the first year, following the General Assembly in Athens, and in the second year (1 October 2003 - 30 September 2004) by Professor Iacint Manoliu, Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Romania, Chairman of the EUCEET II Management Committee, AECEF Board member