August 16, 2021
Professor Khairiyah Yusof
UTM, Malaysia
Khairiyah Mohd Yusof is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Director of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Centre for Engineering Education (CEE), which promotes scholarly and evidence-based practices in engineering education. She is currently the President for the Society of Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM). Khairiyah is passionate about implementing and promoting meaningful learning in higher education, especially in engineering. She has been invited to speak and conduct workshops throughout Malaysia and in various countries in Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. Her interest led her to take a scholarly path to deepen her knowledge, improve her practice and widen the impact through engineering education research, focusing on innovative teaching and learning practices, faculty development, curriculum design and Engineering Education for Sustainable Development. For her contribution in engineering education, she received several global awards, including the 2018 Duncan Fraser IFEES Global Engineering Education Award, the 2017 Student Platform on Engineering Education (SPEED) Mentorship Award and the 2015 Frank Morton Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Global Award for Chemical Engineering Education Excellence.
Professor Gopalkrishna H. Joshi
KLE Technological University, Hubballi, India
Gopalkrishna Joshi is Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Director of Centre for Engineering Education Research at KLE Technological University, Hubballi (India). He also holds the position of Dean (Curriculum Innovation & Program Assessment) in his University. His areas of research interest include data engineering and engineering education. Dr.Joshi is involved in practice and research in outcome based education. He is currently involved in supervision of 05 PhDs and published around 30 publications. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET). He has involved himself in design and conduct of a number of faculty development programs and has trained more than 3000 faculty members on practice of outcome based education. Dr. Joshi is member of professional bodies including Institution of Engineers (India), Association of Computing Machinery, Indian Society for Technical Education, and American Society for Engineering Education.
Professor Jian Lin
Tsinghua University, China
Professor Jian Lin is Deputy Director of the Center for Engineering Education (CEE), Tsinghua University. The mission of the CEE is serving Tsinghua University and State, including participating in policy-making, the design and implementation of reform programs, and providing the suggestion and advice in engineering education, etc. He is the chief expert of the expert group for the China’s “National Plan for Educating and Training Outstanding Engineers (PETOE)” , and a core member of the expert group of China’s Ministry of Education (MoE) for “New Engineering Disciplines’ Construction”.
Professor Lin got a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1982 and a master’s degree in system engineering and management in 1988 in China, and received his PhD in management science in1993 from Lancaster University, UK. He has been a professor since 1997 and had been the Executive Dean of Management School of Beihang University (1996-1998) and the President of Wuyi University (1998-2007).
As a nationally recognized leading expert in engineering education, Professor Lin has become the most cited author in his field in the past 10 years in China. He has also been rated by a related authority as the most innovative and influential author in higher education in China.
Dr. José Ismael Peña-Reyes
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Professor at Engineering Faculty in Universidad Nacional de Colombia. President of French Colombian Association of research.
Education: Engineering in Systems and Computing. Master in Education (Colombia), Master in Philosophy of science (Colombia), Master in Management and Information Technology (Switzerland), Master in Management of Information systems (France). Ph.D. in Management Science (University of Grenoble, France), thesis Suma Cum Lauden.
Professor of Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 1992. In this University was: Director of Information Technology, Director of Systems and Industrial Engineering Department, Academic Director of Systems and Industrial Engineering, and Dean for three times of Engineering Faculty.
Currently, he is the director or The Sustainable Engineering Program that seeks to transform all management and academic practices, seeking a transition to a more sustainable faculty.
Further, he is the director of the Special Admission Program to the Sumapaz Region. Sumapaz is a rural zone of Bogota, located three hours from Bogota, the Colombian capital. The population lives in poverty conditions. And was a conflict zone during the war period with the guerrillas.
In this program, students from rural schools of Sumapaz are admitted to the National University. The students do the two first years of the university program in Sumapaz. They work completely in PBL with real problems and projects in the region. In the third year, they go to the National University campus in Bogota to integrate the last three years in traditional education.
