DATE:
April 23, 2003
TO:
New Members of iNEER Community
FROM:
iNEER Chair and Secretary-General
Dear Colleague:
We are both privileged and pleased to write to you for the first time and to
invite you to become acquainted with iNEER and its unique programs, and
participate in its activities. iNEER, the International Network for Engineering
Education and Research, is a recently formed worldwide networking,
professional, volunteer organization focused on promoting advancement in
engineering education and research through international cooperation.
From time to time, we will be sending you e-mails relating
to items of possible interest dealing with international cooperation and invite
you to participate. In the near future,
we will be sending you information concerning ICEE-2003 to be held in Valencia,
Spain, from July 21-25, 2003. Now in its 10th edition, the annual ICEE
conference is the largest international conference of its kind and is typically
attended by educators, ranging from young faculty to heads of institutions,
from more than 40 countries. iNEER is the principal sponsor of the ICEE
Conferences, and this year Prof. Justo Nieto, Rector of the Polytechnic
University of Valencia, Spain and his associates at UPV will be the hosts of
ICEE-2003. We welcome you to participate and hope some of you will join us
there.
We will also send you information on best practices, and new opportunities, for
research cooperation across international boundaries. Annually, we publish a
unique, peer-reviewed, archival iNEER Special Volume that chronicles worldwide
innovations in engineering education and research, and we will send you
information concerning the availability of the 2002 volume, an update on
publication of the 2003 volume, and information on submitting manuscripts to
the 2004 volume.
Meanwhile, for your review and comment, we are forwarding the following
information.
To get to know us better, please browse through our website at: http://www.ineer.org;
in particular, please visit the "Welcome Memorandum" posted at: http://www.ineer.org/AboutUs/WelcomeFromSecretary.htm.
For information on ICEE-2002, including a pictorial glance
at some of the scenes, please visit: http://www.ineer.org/Events/ICEE2002Info/Welcome.htm.
To view the texts of some of the announcements sent to the iNEER community by
e-mail concerning opportunities for international cooperation, please click on
the items of interest at:
http://www.ineer.org/Announcements/Welcome.htm.
The "iNEER Report for 2001-2002" has been posted at: http://www.ineer.org/iNEERInfo/2002iNEERReporttoiNEERCommunity1-30-03.htm.
It gives a sense of the iNEER activities for the past years.
We would like to hear from you, and if you like to continue hearing from us and
be a member of the iNEER community, which will cost you nothing, there is
nothing that you need to do. If you do not wish to hear from us, you need only
to reply to this e-mail with the word "DECLINE" on the subject line.
We seek your support for the cause and ideal of mutual progress through
international cooperation.
Thank you and welcome!
Sincerely,
Vaclav Roubicek, Ph.D., Rector (1997-2003)
Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Chair, iNEER Board
e-mail: ineer@ineer.org
Win Aung, Ph.D., P.E., Dr.h.c.
iNEER Secretary-General
e-mail: ineer@ineer.org