2021 World Engineering Education Forum / Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF/GEDC)

GENERAL CO‐CHAIRS

• Edmundo Tovar, UPM, Spain
• Hans Jürgen Hoyer, IFEES, GEDC, USA
• Manuel Castro, UNED, Spain

PROGRAM CO‐CHAIRS

• Mª Joao Monteiro, President, ISEP, Portugal
• Paloma Diaz, Dean Engineering School, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Carlos Delgado Kloos, Coordinator, eMadrid Network & Vice President, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Sunil Maharaj, WEEF/GEDC 2020 and 2022, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Şirin Tekinay, GEDC Chair, University of Sharjah, UAE

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO‐CHAIRS

• Gustavo R. Alves, ISEP & SPEE, Portugal
• Pablo Fajardo, ViceDean of Engineering School, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Arcelina Marques, ISEP, Portugal
• Helen Inglis, WEEF/GEDC 2020 and 2022, University of Pretoria, South Africa

HONOR COMMITTEE

• Şirin Tekinay, GEDC Chair, University of Sharjah
• Alaa Ashmawy, IFEES President, Egypt, Co-Chair
• Ricardo Mairal Uson, Rector, EADTU, UNED, Spain
• Guillermo Cisneros Pérez, Rector, UPM, Spain
• Juan Romo, Rector Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Héctor Rubén Paz, Rector, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Argentina
• Shiyi Chen, GEDC, PRC
• Satish Udpa, GEDC, USA
• Guillermo Oliveto, GEDC LATAM Chair
• Michael K.J. Milligan, Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer, ABET, USA
• Michael E. Auer, IAOE Founding President & CEO, IFEES, Austria
• Susan K. Land, IEEE President, USA
• Stephen Welby, IEEE Executive Director, USA
• Antonio Luque Estepa, IEEE Region 8 Director, Spain
• Soma Chakrabarti, ANSYS Granta, President, IACEE, IFEES, UK
• Mario Chauca, General Chair International Institute of Innovation and Technology, IFEES, Peru
• You Zheng, Chinese Society for Engineering Education, Vice President of Tsinghua University, IFEES, PRC
• Tuncay Döğeroğlu, Eskişehir Teknik University, GEDC, Turkey
• Cesar Parga, OAS, USA
• Javier Soriano, President of the Spanish Council of Deans of Informatics Engineering - CODDI, Dean ETS de Ingenieros Informáticos, UPM
• Fernando Suárez, President Spanish General Council of Informatics Engineering – CCII, Spain
• Joaquín González Casal, Dean of the Madrid Professional College Computer Engineers, Spain
• Enrique Amezua, President of CDII, Spain
• José Milán, President, Grupo Pacifico Meetings & Events, Spain
• Jaime Alberto Leal Afanador, President, AIESAD, Colombia
• Roberto Carlos Hincapié Reyes, President, ACOFI, IFEES, Colombia
• Luis Alberto González Araujo, Director Ejecutivo, ACOFI, IFEES, Colombia
• Mihoko Kumamoto, Director, UNITAR, IFEES, GEDC, Japan
• Debbie Blaine, President, SASEE, IFEES, South Africa
• Vanderli Fava de Oliveira, President, ABENGE, IFEES, Brazil
• Jaime Salazar Contreras, Executive Secretary, ASIBEI, IFEES, Colombia
• José Basterra, President, CONFEDI, IFEES, Argentina
• Gudrun Kammasch, SSEE/IPW, IFEES, Germany
• George Ubachs, Managing Director, EADTU, Belgium
• Torunn Gjelsvik, Secretary General, ICDE, Norway
• Abul K.M. Azad, GOLC President, Austria
• Nevena Mileva, Pro-Rector, Dean, FPT, Bulgaria
• Saurabh Sinha, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Internationalisation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY AND SCIENTIFIC BOARD

• Rosa M. Martin Aranda, Research, Knowledge Transfer and Scientific Divulgation Vicerector, UNED
• Laura Alba Juez, Internationalization Vicerector, UNED
• Jesus Gonzalez Boticario, Digitalization and Innovation, UNED
• Julio Lumbreras Martin, Academic Strategy and Internationalization Vicerrector, UPM, Spain
• Francisco Javier Jiménez Leube, Communications and Institutional Relationships Vicerrector UPM, Spain
• Asunción de María Gómez Pérez, Research, Innovation and Doctorate Vicerrector, UPM, Spain
• Victor Gomez Frias, EELISA Rector Delegate, UPM, Spain
• Jose Miguel Atienza Riera, Academic Transition and Internationalization Rector Delegate, UPM, Spain
• Stephen M. Phillips, IEEE Vice President, Educational Activities, USA
• Jamie Moesch, IEEE Educational Activities Director, IFEES, USA
• Russ Meier, MSoE & IEEE, USA
• Jim Sluss, University of Oklahoma & IEEE, USA
• Rafael Jiménez Castañeda, Prof. Electrical Engineering, Vice Rector, Cádiz University
• Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, Vice-Rector for Studies, Quality and Accreditation, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
• Ali Ashrafi Zadeh, ISEE, IFEES, Iran
• Jean-Pierre Auffret, George Mason University, IFEES, USA
• Carlos Arturo Lozano Moncada, ACOFI, IFEES, Colombia
• José Juan Calvín, Universidad de Cádiz. Spain
• Babak Basheti, NYIT, USA
• Manel Martínez Ramón, University of of New Mexico, USA
• María Teresa Garibay, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Surveying, National University of Rosario, Argentina
• María Isabel Pozzo, Director Center of Studies of Spanish as a Foreign Language (CELE), Humanities & Arts Faculty, National University of Rosario, Researcher IRICE (CONICET-UNR), Argentina
• Ramiro Jordan, University of New Mexico, IFEES, WEEF/GEDC 2018 and 2020, USA
• Uriel Cukierman, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
• Eleonore Lickl, IGIP’s Executive Committee, IFEES, Austria
• Gloria Kim, Korean Society for Engineering Education, IFEES, USA
• Luis Manuel Sánchez Ruiz, SEFI BoD member, IFEES, Spain
• Khairiyah Mohd Yusof, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia
• Susan Oh, Muckr AI, South Korea
• Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University, USA
• Sushma Kulkarni, Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, India
• Theo Andrew, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
• Ariela Sofer, George Mason University, Academic Director of INCOSE, IFEES, USA
• Manel Martínez‐Ramón, Professor and Endowed Chair of King Felipe VI, University of New Mexico, USA
• Sarah Zappe, Director of Assessment and Instructional Support, Pennsylvania University, USA
• Aruquia Barbosa Matos Peixoto, CEFET/RJ, Editor of the Special Issue Women, Diversity and Equity of the IEEE-RITA, Brazil and Chair of the Special Session IDEE (inclusion and Diversity in Engineering Education) of the IEEE EDUCON, Brazil
• Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania University, USA
• Abul K.M. Azad, GOLC, Austria
• Francisco J. Azcondo, Dean of the School of Industrial and Telecommunication Engineering. University of Cantabria, Spain
• Inmaculada Plaza, Director of the EUPT – University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Oscar Martinez Bonastre, IEEE Spain Section Chair & Spanish Chapter Chair, IEEE Education Society, Spain
• Pedro Fonseca, Chair, Portugal Chapter Chair, IEEE Education Society, Portugal
• Pedro Plaza Merino, President of the IEEE Student Branch in UNED
• Juan D. Aguilar Peña, President of the Spanish Association of Technology, Teaching and Learning of Electronics (TAEE)
• Ken Ball, GEDC, George Mason University, USA
• Zhenghe Xu, GEDC, SUSTech, PRC
• Sushma Kulkarni; GEDC, RIT India
• Manivannan Kaliappan, GEDC, India
• Elizabeth Croft, GEDC, Australia
• Funso Falade, IFEES, GEDC, Nigeria
• Christian Bolu, GEDC, Nigeria
• Adagbonyin Obiazi, GEDC, Nigeria
• Kristina Ropella, GEDC, USA
• Keith J Bowman, GEDC, USA
• Cristina Amon, GEDC, Canada
• Sarah Rajala, GEDC, USA
• Natacha DePaola, GEDC, USA
• Juan Carlos de la Llera, GEDC, PUC, Chile
• Tagwa Musa, GEDC, Sudan
• Hamadou Saliah-Hassane; TELUQ, IEEE Education Society, Canada and Niger
• Francisco.Javier Segovia Pérez, EIT, Montegancedo Campus Rector Delegate UPM, Spain
• John Mitchell, EIC of IEEE ToE, UK
• Mark Lee, EIC of IEEE TLT, Australia and USA
• Johann M. Marquez-Barja, University of Antwerp/IMEC, Belgium
• Bill Williams, REEN, IFEES, Portugal
• Francisco García Peñalvo, USAL, Spain
• Julieta Noguez, ITESM, Mexico
• Eduardo Mecías, ITESM, Mexico
• Juarez Bento da Silva, Brazil
• Clara Viegas, Portugal
• Yaseen Taha Mustafa, University of Zakho, Iraq
• John Heywood, Trinity College, UK 

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY AND INDUSTRY BOARD

• Michael Fors, Boeing, USA
• Marc Fry, ANSYS, UK
• Soma Chakrabart, ANSYS, IACEE, UK
• Paul Gilbert, Quanser, Canada
• Dora Smith, Siemens, USA
• Armin Veitl, Altair, Germany
• Klaus Hengsbach, Phoenix, Germany
• Dave Wilson, National Instruments, USA
• Mitrankur Majumdar, Infosys
• Danny Lin, Huawei, PRC
• P.J. Boardman, Mathworks, USA
• Xavier FOUGER, Dassault Systèmes, France
• Jean-Brice Dumont, Airbus, France
• Ron Hyman, LiaisonEDU, USA
• Michael E. Auer, CTI, IAOE, IFEES, Austria
• Nihat Bayiz, Arçelik, Turkey
• Pablo Orduña, Labsland, Spain & USA
• Kalyan Ram, Electrono Solutions, India

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY AND STUDENTS BOARD

• Yashin Brijmohan, WEEF 2020
• Aniek van Kersen, WEEF 2020
• Azeez Mohideen Mohamed Nazeer, WEEF 2020
• Felipe Gomez Gallo, IFEES, SPEED President
• Kelvin Kiprono, SPEED VP Africa
• Laura Restrepo Alameda, SPEED VP Strategic Development
• Maria Laura Polo, SPEED VP Educational Content
• Nor Azlinda Azmi, WEEF 2020
• Raheel Pathan, SPEED VP Members Relation
• Radhika Gautam Gunaji, SPEED VP Administration
• Sanket Dhadke, WEEF 2020
• Ximena Velandia, SPEED VP Latin America
• Johannes Spaas, President BEST, WEEF 2020
• Mina Mitrovic, Treasurer BEST
• Daniel Ansia Dibuja, Past Secretary BEST, WEEF 2020
• Alex Julius, ESW, USA
• Alen Amini, ESW, USA
• Elisa Barney Smith, IEEE MGA Students Activity Committee Chair, USA
• George Papadimitriou, IEEE Region 8 Student Representative, Greece
• Maciej Borówka, IEEE Region 8 Chair Student Activities, Poland
• Efthymia Arvaniti, IEEE Region 8 Past-Chair Student Activities, Austria
• Ángela Martínez, IEEE Region 8 Student Activities Committee member, Spain
• Ron Jensen, IEEE HKN President, USA
• Ed A. Rezek, IEEE HKN Past President, USA
• Karen Panetta, IEEE HKN Past President, USA
• Nancy Ostin, IEEE HKN Director, USA
• Lorena Garcia, IEEE HKN Region 7 to 10 Governor, Colombia
• Sandro Sartoni, IEEE HKN Student Governor, Italy
• Katelyn Brinker, IEEE HKN Past Student Governor, USA

LOCAL COMMITTEE

• Clara Pérez, UNED, Spain
• Francisco Mur, UNED, Spain
• Gabriel Díaz, UNED, Spain
• Sergio Martín, UNED, Spain
• Elio Sancristóbal, UNED, Spain
• Rosario Gil, UNED, Spain
• Blanca Quintana, UNED, Spain
• Félix García Loro, UNED, Spain
• Roberto Hernández, UNED, Spain
• Miguel Rodríguez Artacho, UNED, Spain
• Rafael Pastor, UNED, Spain
• Antonio Robles, UNED, Spain
• Llanos Tobarra, UNED, Spain
• Elena Ruiz, UNED, Spain
• Germán Carro, UNED La Coruña, Spain
• Pedro Plaza, UNED, Spain
• Antonio Menacho, UNED, Spain
• Manuel Blázquez, UNED, Spain
• Alejandro Macho, UNED, Spain
• Pablo Baizán, UNED, Spain
• Bernardo Tabuenca, UPM, Spain
• Rosa Cabedo, UPM, Spain
• Juan Jose Morillas, UPM, Spain
• Jesús Fraile‐Ardanuy, UPM, Spain
• Pedro Muñoz, UC3M, Spain
• Ruth Cobos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Pilar Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Ángel Velázquez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, Spain
• Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Oscar Martínez Bonastre, UMH, Spain
• Carina González, Universidad de La Laguna & Universidad Oberta de Cataluña, Spain
• Martín Llamas Nistal, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
• Manuel Caeiro, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
• Manuel Gericota, ISEP, Portugal
• André Fidalgo, ISEP, Portugal
• Aliki Pappas, IFEES, GEDC, USA
• Salma Wahba, IFEES, GEDC, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Alicia García Holgado, USAL, Spain
• Natércia Lima, ISEP, Portugal
• Shannon Chance, UCL, UK
• Inês Direito, UCL, UK
• Diana Mesquita, University of Minho, Portugal
• Maria Cristina Costa-Lobo, IESFafe, Portugal
• Carlos Felgueiras, ISEP, Portugal
• Dominik May, UGA, USA
• Simone Bilessimo, UFSC, Brazil
• Razwan Najimaldeen, UOD, Iraq