📯 WCCE at CONFEA's Brazilian Engineering and Agronomy Week
CONFEA, the Brazilian Council of Engineering and Agronomy, extended an invitation to WCCE’s President Jorge E. Abramian, to participate in the 77th Official Engineering and Agronomy Week “Technology, sustainability, and Social Responsibility” . Conducted in Portuguese, this hybrid event (Face-to-face and online), will cover topics such as natural disasters, education, innovation, mobility, and others releveant to the engineering profession. You can consult further information in the following here.
📯 Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan
"The WCCE’s Continental Representative for Africa Eng. Dr. Aishatu Aliyu Umar, Nigeria's representative to WCCE, gave a distinguished lecture about “Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan: The Pathway to Future Low-Carbon Energy System”. Dr. Aishatu is a restless engineer that has recently inaugurated the continental representation office, putting this facility at the service of the promotion of the Civil Engineering profession as well as the WCCE objectives".
African Continental Office
📯 Open call for member organizations to host WCCE’s next General Assemblies
WCCE’s Executive Committee agreed to open an open call for member organizations to host WCCE’s next General Assemblies (2022, 2023, and 2024). Expressions of interest are to be submitted from the Presidency of the host member organization to WCCE’s Secretariat including at least the following details:
- Host city and access details (Distance to the nearby international airport).
- Proposed dates
- Potential concurrent events with WCCE’s GA.
- Contact to request any expanded information on the proposal.
- Any other information that may be considered relevant to evaluate the proposal.
Expressions of interest should be submitted in writing to Secretariat
We remain at your disposal for any clarification through WCCE Secretariat
📯 WCCE's Submission candidacy calls' outcome
💡 Current challenges of Civil Engineering
International engineering forum discussions always turn around a certain number of topics that slowly change over time based on drivers that sometimes are external to the profession. The question is how far are the current topics of discussion from the feeling of the practitioners. WCCE prepared and conducted a survey among civil engineers of the world to learn about their perceptions about some issues that affect the profession. The 14 questions included in the survey covered education, professional practice, ethics, and the importance of global issues (SDGs). In total, 120 answers were received from 30 countries (5 continents) giving an interesting global coverage. The number of participants in each country varied widely. For this reason, the answers were grouped by country and averaged to be able to work with 30 representative answers instead of 120. This procedure proved that the global results do not differ that much from the nationally averaged results, although it certainly flattened the extreme values.
📰 Echoes of the 16th General Assembly of WCCE
WCCE’s 16th General Assembly of the World Council of Civil Engineers was held virtually on January 25th, 2022. 9 organizations from its corresponding countries attended the General Assembly in which Argentinian Engineer Mr Jorge Abramian succeeded Mr. Carlos Mineiro Aires as WCCE President for the period 2022-2024.
The General Assembly showcased the activity of WCCE's Standing Committee since the last General Assembly showing how WCCE was able to overcome the circumstances created by COVID-19 through new initiatives and member's collaboration.
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