AECEF NEWSLETTER 2/1996

CONTENTS:

• Synopsis of the Papers of the First AECEF International Symposium "Education for Civil and Environmental Engineering and Surveying", by Professor Ralph M. Francis

• The AECEF Board Meeting, by Dr.J.Vaska

• The Second International Symposium of the Association of European Civil Engineering Faculties

• The Training of Civil Engineers and Architects in the Five New German Lńnder Before and After Reunification, by Heinrich Rothert

• Errata

• Increase in Civil Engineering Innovativity, by Wilfried B. Krńtzig

The AECEF Board Meeting

Dr.J.Vaska,
AECEF Secretary-General

The Fourth Meeting of the AECEF Board was held at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in May 22 - 23, 1993.

The Meeting was chaired by Professor Jiri Witzany, the AECEF President. Professors B.I.G. Barr, R.M. Francis, J.M.P.F. Lemos and P.Vainiunas, the AECEF Board members, and Dr.J. Vaska, AECEF Secretary-General, were present at the Meeting. Professor Soren A.Hansen and Professor Manfred Federau of the Civil Engineering Department, The Engineering College of Odense and Professor J.Machacek, Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU Prague, also attended the Meeting.

The AECEF Board was kindly invited to Thessaloniki for the Meeting by Professor Pericles Latinopoulos, Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, who actively participated in the both Meeting Sessions. The warm welcome and hospitality of the host Institution were highly appreciated.

The Agenda of the Meeting included:

• Report of the AECEF Secretariat - the main activities of the Secretariat since the First AECEF General Assembly, Prague 1995;
• Preparation of the Second AECEF International Symposium äQuality in Education that will be held at the Engineering College of Odense, Denmark, in May 1997;
• Preparation of changes to the AECEF Statutes - the guidelines of changes to the AECEF Statutes, that arose from discussion at the First AECEF General Assembly, were discussed at the Meeting. A draft of changes will be circulated to the AECEF members for their consideration by the end of 1996;
• Activity of the AECEF Working Committees.

A short visit to the Faculties of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and Istanbul Technical University, Turkey was organised after the Board Meeting with the aim to inform these institutions about goals of the Association and membership at the AECEF.

The Second International Symposium
of the Association of European Civil Engineering Faculties

The AECEF Board

The Second AECEF International Symposium will be held at the Department of the Civil Engineering, The Engineering College of Odense, Denmark in May 5-8, 1997.

The Symposium will cover three topics :

1. On Quality in Civil Engineering Education
2. On Assessment of Civil Engineering Education
3. On the Impact of Trainee Service on Qualifications of Civil Engineering Bachelors

The agenda of these themes will be based on three white papers - one on each theme - that will be circulated together with the final announcement (January 1997), and on a subsequent discussion at Symposium workshops.

Papers submitted by participants are also most welcome. They should, however, be brief and each bound up with one of the white papers. All papers submitted with the registration fee will be published as a part of the Symposium Proceedings and will be distributed at the opening of the Symposium.

The Symposium will be held in the premises of The Engineering College of Odense, Denmark; the arrangements will also include a one-day technical visit to the Great Belt Bridge project.

The Second General Assembly of the AECEF will be held at the time of the Symposium.

All correspondence concerning the Symposium should be addresses to the chairman of the Organising Committee :

Errata

An error was found in the paper Curricula and Study Plan Analysis by Prof.J.Witzany and Dr.I.Vavra published in the AECEF Newsletter 1/1996. A corrected pie diagram to the Table 5 is given bellow. We are very sorry for this mistake.

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