Engineering: issues, challenges and opportunities for development ...

APPENDICESous career in higher education in the United States includedfaculty member at MIT, department chair at Ohio State University,Dean of Engineering at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, academic Vice President at Boston University andPresident at University of Delaware. Dr Jones primary interestsare international higher education and human capacity buildingthrough engineering education.Paul JowittProfessor Paul Jowitt is Professor of Civil Engineering Systemsat Heriot-Watt University and Director of the Scottish Instituteof Sustainable Technology – a joint venture between the internationalconsultancy MWH and Heriot-Watt. He is Presidentof the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and was Senior VicePresident of ICE with particular responsibility for InternationalDevelopment Policy. Paul has a strong interest in the combinationof systems engineering and sustainability, has taught andworked at higher education institutions in Scotland, Englandand New Zealand and his research and consultancy experienceencompasses water resources, risk management, sustainabilitystrategies and applications for industry, government and otherorganizations. He is a former member of the Board of ScottishWater and established their Sustainable Development AdvisoryGroup. He is a Trustee of Engineers Against Poverty andEditor-in-chief of the International Journal Civil Engineeringand Environmental Systems.Jan KaczmarekProfessor Dr Ing Jan Kaczmarek has a long and distinguishedcareer and was the founding father of research and teachingon metals and materials processing at the University of Cracowand in Poland. He has been President of the Polish Committeeon Science, Minister of Science, Higher Education and Technology,Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences, memberof the Polish Academy of Engineering, and Rector of CracowUniversity of Technology.Marlene KangaDr Marlene Kanga, B Tech, MSc, FIEAust, CPEng, is a ChemicalEngineer specializing in Risk Engineering, a Chartered ProfessionalEngineer and Fellow of Engineers Australia. She is aNational Vice President of Engineers Australia, Chair of theNational Committee for Women in Engineering and Directorof iOmniscient Pty Ltd - a leading developer and provider ofa comprehensive suite of intelligent video-analytic software,featuring patented technology for security camera-based surveillancesystems.Anette KolmosDr Anette Kolmos is Professor in Engineering Education andProblem Based Learning, and Chairholder for UNESCO Chairin Problem Based Learning in Engineering Education at AalborgUniversity. Dr Kolmos has a PhD in “Gender, Technologyand Education” and over the last 20 years has conductedresearch in change to PBL curriculum, development of transferableskills and faculty development. She holds the Chair of theSEFI working group on Engineering Education Research and isPresident of SEFI in 2010-11. Dr Kolmos is associate editor forEuropean Journal of Engineering Education and has served asassociate editor for Journal of Engineering Education. She haspublished more than 140 articles in various journals.Sam KundishoraSam Kundishora is an electronics, information and communicationstechnology engineer and co-founder and Director of Globalinfrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC) in Zimbabwe.He is President of the African Engineers Forum, Vice Chairman ofthe Standing Committee on Information and Communication ofthe World Federation of Engineering Organizations, a memberof the World Council of Civil Engineer’s Executive Council, andPermanent Secretary for the Zimbabwe Ministry of Informationand Communication Technology. He was Vice President of theFederation of African Organisations of Engineers and a formerPresident of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers, and hasworked extensively in academia and industry.Andrew LambAndrew Lamb has a degree in engineering from the Universityof Cambridge and became the Chief Executive of EWB-UKin December 2008 after being awarded a World of Differencegrant from the Vodafone Foundation. Andrew became interestedin engineering and international development followinga talk in 2002 at a fledging student club called Engineers WithoutBorders, and got involved in fundraising. After graduating,Andrew worked with the University of Cambridge Office forCommunity Affairs and co-founded the Humanitarian Centre.He worked for more than three years with disaster relief organizationRedR, including working at their office in Nairobi. He isthe technical editor of the UNESCO Engineering Report and aVisiting Lecturer for the Engineering and Technology Board.Allyson LawlessAllyson Lawless is a civil and structural engineer, Fellow of theInstitute of Structural Engineering (UK) and Managing Director,Allyson Lawless and Associates Pty Ltd. Exposed to therealities of South Africa, Allyson has made a real connectionbetween civil engineering and the people that she serves, workinghard to bridge the challenges presented by existing gaps. In2000 she was the first woman to be appointed President of theSA Institution of Civil Engineering in the then almost 100 yearhistory of SAICE. Since then it has been her drive to make a differencefrom the highest levels in government to communitiesin need of infrastructure. She worked at addressing imbalancesin the civil engineering profession and in 2005 published thebook Numbers and Needs in local government: Civil engineering– the critical profession for service delivery – a wake up callto address the capacity crisis in SA civil engineering that hasbecome a national reference guide on skills development.381