Standing Committee on Energy
Engineer Mario Wiegers, Vice-President of WFEO Standing Committee on Energy, and its President, Engineer Jorge Spitalnik, from Brazil, discussed about the active participation of this Committee to continue with the analysis of the topics dealt with in the Conference of Kuwait in ENGINEERING 2010 – ARGENTINA.

Standing Committee on Engineering and the Environment
Engineer Conrado Bauer participated in the meeting of the aforementioned Committee. It was proposed to create a Task Force for Agriculture and Food, taking into account the innovations of the rural development for sustainable development, which would be led by Engineer Sandra Fernández. The proposal was accepted and must be confirmed by the WFEO Executive Council after the reception of the proposal in writing. It was also informed that Engineer Julio García Velasco will become a member of the Committee; this will be confirmed in writing as well.

Standing Committee on Education and Training
The President of Chapter Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD), which is organized in conjunction with the 8th World Congress on Engineering Education, in charge of WFEO Standing Committee on Education and Training, participated in the meeting of WFEO Committee which was held in Kuwait and put under the consideration of its members the advances in the organization of the Congress 2010 in Buenos Aires, the integration of the proposed topics, the appointment of juries, and the expected participation. On his part, the Vice-President of the Chapter, Engineer Daniel Morano, communicated the Standing Committee the purpose of the Argentine Government, expressed through its President, of backing up the realization of the Congress and the interest of supporting from the government those activities that ensure the continuity of the Committee in the area of engineering education. Engineer Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, member of the organizing committee of the chapter and Dean of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, completed the description with information about the development of activities, relations between the academic sector and corporations, and the participation of the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, as key-note speaker.  

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