"Water Environment and Water Ecology"

Today, the availability of water for drinking and other uses is a critical issue in many areas of the world. In a situation where global water shortages, serious water pollution, and environment deterioration are still very prominent, overcoming the crisis in water, preserving and water environment, providing access to clean water have been posing one of the greatest engineering challenges in the century for a healthy, sustainable future for the planet. Scientists and researchers have been endeavoring to seek widespread, long-term, practical, ecologically sound solutions and strategies to improve water availability, reduce water use, develop water projects, meeting the water supply and quality needs, and enhance water environment and water ecosystem. 

We sincerely invite you to Panel A1 "Water Environment and Water Ecology" of IFEE 2020, listening to the enlightening presentations by distinguished scholars and discussing how to play the important role of Environmental Engineering Education in sustainable development!

Panel Chair：

YU Gang （Professor and Chair of Academic Committee of School of Environment, Tsinghua University）

Panel Speakers:

Glen T. DAIGGER (Member of NAE; Foreign Member of CAE; Professor of Engineering Practice at University of Michigan)

(20:10-20:30)

WU Fengchang (Member of CAE; Deputy Chief Engineer, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences)

(20:30-20:50)

YU Gang (Professor and Chair of Academic Committee of School of Environment, Tsinghua University)

(20:50-21:10)

QIN Xiaopei (Vice President, Danaher Water Quality & GM, Hach China）

(21:10-21:30)

Ramin FARNOOD (Vice Dean, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, University of Toronto)

(21:30-21:50)

Discussion:(21:50-22:30)

About the Organizer

School of Environment (SOE)

School of Environment (SOE), Tsinghua University originated from the Department of Civil Engineering founded in 1928. Under the leadership of Mr. TAO Baokai, the foAunder of environmental engineering discipline in China, successive generations of SOE people have been endeavoring to develop SOE to be a nationally and internationally recognized institution for high-end talent cultivation and cutting-edge scientific research. SOE is placed No. 9 by the QS World University Subject Rankings 2020. 

SOE aims to establish a future-oriented environmental discipline system, nurture interdisciplinary and innovative talents, create a sound academic atmosphere of free exploration, improve interdisciplinary integration and innovation ability, and generate brand-new, internationally influential knowledge, technologies and methods, thus helping solve regional and global environmental problems, and rank SOE among the top environmental institutions across the globe.

Ecological civilization has been a major challenge for sustainable development at current stage. China has launched a battle for blue sky, clear water and clean soil. Looking forward, SOE will shoulder its responsibility and march forward firmly.

"Climate Change and Blue Sky Action"

Climate change and ecological civilization has been a fundamental issue for sustainable development of nearly all the countries in the world. Greenhouse species emissions and air pollution caused by PM2.5 and ozone are big global challenges. The "blue sky" action plan launched in 2018 by Chinese government, which calls explicitly for large reductions in total emissions of major pollutants in coordination with reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases, has made remarkable progresses and changes. Scientists and engineers in the world are actively responding to climate change and promote the construction of a beautiful earth with blue sky, green land, and clean water.

We sincerely invite you to Panel A2 "Climate Change and Blue Sky Action" of IFEE 2020, listening to the enlightening presentations by distinguished scholars and discussing how to play the important role of Environmental Engineering Education in sustainable development!

Panel Chair:

WANG Can（Chair, Department of Environmental Planning and Management, School of Environment, Tsinghua University）

Panel Speakers:

Alaa ASHMAWY (President, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies; Member, the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Deans Council)

(20:10-20:30)

HAO Jiming (Member of CAE; Foreign Member of NAE; Professor at School of Environment, Tsinghua University)

(20:30-20:50)

Anette KOLMOS (Director, Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Science & Sustainability)

(20:50-21:10)

LI Zheng (Executive Vice President, the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development; Director, the Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy, Tsinghua University)

(21:10-21:30)

Norman FORTENBERRY (Executive Director, the American Society for Engineering Education)

(21:30-21:50)

Ishwar K. PURI (Dean, the Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada; Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow)

(21:50-22:10)

Discussion(22:10-23:00)

About the Organizer​

School of Environment (SOE), Tsinghua University originated from the Department of Civil Engineering founded in 1928. Under the leadership of Mr. TAO Baokai, the founder of environmental engineering discipline in China, successive generations of SOE people have been endeavoring to develop SOE to be a nationally and internationally recognized institution for high-end talent cultivation and cutting-edge scientific research. SOE is placed No. 9 by the QS World University Subject Rankings 2020. 

SOE aims to establish a future-oriented environmental discipline system, nurture interdisciplinary and innovative talents, create a sound academic atmosphere of free exploration, improve interdisciplinary integration and innovation ability, and generate brand-new, internationally influential knowledge, technologies and methods, thus helping solve regional and global environmental problems, and rank SOE among the top environmental institutions across the globe.

Ecological civilization has been a major challenge for sustainable development at current stage. China has launched a battle for blue sky, clear water and clean soil. Looking forward, SOE will shoulder its responsibility and march forward firmly.

"Sustainable Technologies and Global Engagement"

The global economy is facing unprecedented challenges and profound changes. It is imperative to reshape the global engagement for promoting sustainable development. Societies from all countries should uphold the vision of a community sharing a same future for mankind and further strengthen the cooperation in international development. 

Defending multilateralism, initiating new international cooperation, jointly protecting the global public health system, safeguarding human life and health, and valuing the concept of sustainable development, should become the global consensus. It is important to take the advantage of the functions by governments, markets and international organizations in processes responding to the crisis, to increase the investment to developments related to people's livelihood, and to strengthen the international cooperation in technical exchanges and professional training in various fields. However, how to combine technological upgrade with cross-professional, cross-field and cross-industry collaborative has become an important issue. In order to facing this challenge, there is an urgent demand for high-level engineers and technicians, which poses a huge challenge to the global engineering education.

As part of the effort to promote the concept, we are organizing the forum "Sustainable Technologies and Global Engagement" and inviting well-known scholars and leaders in the field of engineering education to participate, introducing new sustainable technologies, sharing their thoughts about future engineering education, and discussing how to strengthen the cooperation in the field of engineering education, with an aim to benefit the world with a joint effort in sustainable development.

Host by:

Zheng Ouyang (Professor and Chairman, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University) 

(20:00-20:10)

Panel Speakers:

Kenneth T V GRATTAN (OBE FREng, Royal Academy of Engineering-George Daniels Professor of Scientific Instrumentation, City, University of London)

(20:10-20:30)

Bhawani Shankar CHOWDHRY (Former Dean, Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan)

(20:30-20:50)

Ahmed AL-SHAMMA’A (Dean, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, UAE)

(20:50-21:10)

Elfed LEWIS (Director, Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre of University of Limerick (Ireland) )

(21:10-21:30)

Andy Augousti (Founding Director of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Professor of Applied Physics and Instrumentation, Kingston University)

(21:30-21:50)

Pablo OTERO (Head, the Oceanic Engineering Research Institute of the University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain) (21:50-22:10)

LIU Jian (Prof and Dean of School of Instrumentation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

(22:10-22:30)

Discussion (22:30-23:00)

About the Organizer​

Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University

Founded in 1932, the Department of Precision Instrument of Tsinghua University is one of the engineering departments with the longest history in China. The Department has two divisions, the instrument science and technology and optical engineering, both highly regarded nationwide. It has a state key laboratory and multiple research centers, which constitute an advanced platform for interdisciplinary training and innovative scientific research.

China Instrument and Control Society (CIS)