Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería
Academia Pan-Americana de Engenharia
Pan American Academy of Engineering
Solemn Ceremony of Incorporation of New Members in the
"Palacio de la Mineria" México, 2004.
Activities 2004
During the year the activity of the Pan American Academy of Engineering concentrated on two fundamental aspects: 1) the process of selection of new academicians and their incorporation as charter and corresponding members and 2) the preparation of the
Forum on International Practice of Engineers
that was held on September 23, 2004 at the Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico, Mexico D.F.
At this Forum the following personalities expounded developing several themes that brought up many opinions that enriched the final debate.
OPENING SESSION
Eng. Miguel Angel Yadarola (Argentina) President of the Pan American Academy of Engineering (API).
The Forums of the Academy: Policy Instrument for the Engineering of the Continent.
Eng. Raul Gonzalez Apaolaza (México) President of the Union Mexicana de Asociaciones de Ingenieros. President of the UPADI 2004 Convention. Member of API.
Role of Engineering in the dawn of the new Century.
Dr. Francisco Jose Sanchez Sesma (Mexico) President of the Academia de Ingeniería de México. Member of API.
Welcome address for a meeting without frontiers.
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Vladimir Yackovlev (Venezuela) President Forum Program Committee. Member of API. Nature of the Forum - Terms of Reference.
INVITED SPEAKERS AND THEMES EXPOSED
In order of presentation.
• Dr. Yee-Cheong Lee (Malaysia). President World Federation of Engineering Organizations WFEO. Member API. THEME: Engineers, Engineering and the Millennium Development Goals.
• Patrick J. Natale, P.E. (U.S.A.) Executive Director of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE read the theme written by Patricia D. Galloway who had to leave urgently. THEME: The Mission of the Engineer in Globalization.
• Dr. Jose Medem Sanjuan (Spain) Past President of WFEO and FEANI (Member API). THEME: The European Engineer of FEANI. EurIng.
• Eng. Fernando Ocampo Canabal (México) President Council for Accreditation of Engineering Education - CACEI. THEME: Crossborder engineering services through NAFTA.
• Darrel Danyluk, P.E. (Canada). President. Canadian Council of Professional Engineers. CCPE. THEME: The Washington Accord. The Engineers Mobility Forum EMF.
• Marie Lemay (Canada). Chief Executive Officer CCPE. THEME: The Canadian Experience with the Register for the APEC Engineer.
• Eng. Ernesto G. Bendinger (Argentina) Member Pan American Academy of Engineering (API). THEME: Progress achieved in the Mercosur - Argentina.
• Eng. Wilson Lang (Brazil). President of the Federal Council of Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy (Member API). THEME: Progress achieved in the Mercosur. Brazil.
• Eng. Maria T. Pino Rodriguez (Paraguay). Coordinator in the Committee of Engineering and Architecture of the Mercosur (CIAM). THEME: Progress achieved in the Mercosur. Paraguay.
• Eng. Mario A. Guzmán Urbina (El Salvador). Member Pan American Academy of Engineering (API). THEME: The professional practice of engineering in Central America under the Free Trade ad Services Agreements.
• Eng. Carlos Vera Quintana (Ecuador). Advisor to the Government of Ecuador for the Free Trade Agreeement of the Americas. ALCA. THEME: Characteristics of mobility in the ALCA.
• Dr. Luiz C. Scavarda do Carmo (Brazil). Vice Rector of the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro. Member API. THEME: The Engineer of the Americas. A project for continental mobility.
• Eng. Jean Michel (France). Past Vice President of WFEO. THEME: The recognition of actual competence of engineers and the register of competences development during the professional career. EuroRecord. Impact of the Bologna Declaration and the European Space in Higher Education in the mobility of engineers.
• Eng. Oscar Vega Roldan (México). President of the Pan American Federation of Consulting Engineering Associations (FEPAC). THEME: Mobility of Engineering Services from the point of view of Consulting Firms.
• Eng. Gabriel A. Ibarra Elorriaga (México). Member of the Economic Consulting Council of México D.F. representing the ICA group. THEME: The international experience of a Construction Company. Importance of professional engineering services.
• Eng. Jean Michel (France). Past President FEANI. Member of the Information and Communication Committee of WFEO. THEME: International mobility of engineers in the Context of the New Information Society.
• Dr. Bobby E. Price P.E.F. NSPE (U.S.A.) President of National Society of Professional Engineers NSPE. THEME: Global issues in Engineering Impact on Outsourcing of Engineering Services.
REPORTERSHIP
Its important function is that of summarizing the presentations, extracting the main conclusions and submitting them to the consideration of the participants in the Forum. These contribute to the enrichment of the final text of the Mexico Declaration.
Contributing to this task were:
Eng. Vladimir Yackovlev (Venezuela) - Member API
Dr. Osvaldo Micheloud (Argentina) - Member API
Eng. María Teresa Pino Rodríguez (Paraguay) - National Coordinator CIAM - Paraguay.
México Declaration (See Declarations)
Documents available submitted at the Forum on International Practice of Engineers.
Yadarola, Medem, Yee-Cheong Lee, Bendinger.
WORDS OF THE PRESIDENT AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE FORUM
INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE OF ENGINEERS
Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico, Mexico DF, September 23, 2004
Distinguished authorities of Mexico. Distinguished international and Pan American authorities. Colleague Academicians, engineers of the Continent and the world
The excellent result of our summons inviting to discuss in this Forum a theme of pressing world actuality as is the "International Practice of Engineers" allows to have today, here in Mexico, relevant representatives of the pan american and international engineering.
Which is the summoning strength that has allowed our young Pan American Academy of Engineering to gather so many talents with experience on international mobility of professional services, experts in the systems in force at present and the agreements that are still under discussion?
I think I have the answer when I express that in this Forum, as in the two previous ones summoned by the Academy, the presence of a resounding, motivating spirit is present, leaving aside sterile discussions and concentrating its attention in the analysis of "policies" and sensible proposals, useful for the public operation of organized engineering. Policies that will help to broaden the basis of action of our profession showing vocation and sensitivity, while agreeing upon programs of beneficial projects for the progress of the nations of America and the world.
As policy makers, our Academy and all the engineering organizations should continue to analyze and debate important matters as is this of the Forum in which legitimate desires of the professional engineers, of its representative societies and of governments are expressed,
The object of this meeting will be fulfilled if we achieve recommendations, suggestions and also warnings to those responsible of discussing and implementing bilateral, multilateral or global mobility agreements because they should reflect, in a balanced manner and with equity, the interests of all the signatories on a mutually advantageous basis.
I am fully convinced that each of the Speakers, is in a position to offer us a straightforward vision of each of the mobility agreements in force and of those that are on the way of concretion. They can show us relevant aspects, some positive, others negative helping us to contemplate them with criteria, because they all have lights and shadows .
Agreements that are the result of coincidences of National Organizations that represent the engineering profession. Others that are the result of commitments of Governments as are the Free Trade Agreements that include services in general and in particular engineering and construction services.
All these Agreements and Treaties should constitute a manner of broadening the sovereignty of each country, gather in homogeneous regions, as has happened in Europe or in the APEC economies in Asia Pacific, the NAFTA in North America or as the MERCOSUR is doing, the destiny of which is taking shape broadened to all the Latin American area making different juridical regimes compatible with supranational community institutions. What is important, is that in these regions, different origins, identities and cultures are kept latent avoiding corrosive hegemonic subordinations.
Friends:
I am convinced that the engineers and our professional organizations are playing an fundamental role in this process of bringing together nations by means of agreements that involve the crossbordering of our profession, that our Continent and the world need to reach Bolivar's utopia: "As centuries pass, we may perhaps find, one nation covering the universe".
May God help us to achieve it together, on a not far away day.
Retrospective Analysis of the Montevideo and Mexico Forums
The Forums of Montevideo on "Accreditation in the Regional Context" (9-10 October, 2003) and Mexico "International Practice of Engineers" (23-24 September, 2004) were an enormous effort of organization and simultaneously an excellent way of projecting the Academy as an Institution capable of summoning the most representative personalities of engineering of the Americas and the world.
These Forums showed that our young Academy fulfills its Vision and its Objectives proposing through the Declarations that arise from these Meetings, policies for the engineering of the Continent, with concrete proposals addressed to Engineering Organizations, Universities and Governments, besides the Academy, to be implemented.
The Academy especially acknowledges Hewlett Packard for the important financial support received for both Forums that allowed fundamentally the participation of prestigious speakers from outside the Continent.
