Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería
Academia Pan-Americana de Engenharia
Pan American Academy of Engineering
In force as from December 1º, 2008
TITLE I CREATION, LINKS AND LOCATION
TITLE II OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES
Article 5 The objectives and purposes of the Academy are :
5.1 To acknowledge within the American Continent, the outstanding contributions made by distinguished personalities in engineering towards the progress of the profession in all its fields of activity, awarding the categories of Member, Associate Member or Honorary Member, and Member Emeritus.
5.2 To constitute and maintain an international environment of hierarchy, propitious for the presentation, study and discussion of the progress of knowledge in engineering and technology, and for the diffusion of the achievements and results of the activities of engineers in benefit of humanity. To identify and opportunely analyze all problems related to the profession, that help towards the scientific and technological progress of engineering as part of the economic and socio-cultural development of countries.
5.3 To establish links for cooperation and exchange programs with other Academies or Societies of Academies of engineering, technology or sciences, be they national, regional or international tending towards the achievement of higher efficiency in the common objectives.
5.4 To cooperate and interact with Professional Societies, Institutions of Higher Education, Universities, Research and Development Centers and the Productive Sector with proposals that help towards the improvement of initial and continuous education of engineers and postgraduate formation; that also stimulates training and perfecting of professors for the exercise of their aptitudes that will allow them to develop the professional personality, creativity and innovation of future engineers.
5.5 To create consciousness among engineers of the need to maintain a continuous process of professional excellence and high standards of ethics, motivated permanently towards the search of excellency in the practice of engineering as a way of contributing more effectively towards the progress and welfare of society.
5.6 To organize, promote or sponsor by itself or in accordance with UPADI, or with other organizations of engineers and with technical, scientific and educational institutions, Conferences , Seminars, Forums, Congresses or other types of meetings to be held at international, regional or national levels, aimed at the analysis of subjects that require concrete and uptdated solutions and that contribute towards the progress of engineering and its representative institutions in the Continent.
5.7 Endeavor that the Academy and its working groups coordinate their activities of a similar nature with the Technical Committees of UPADI, maintaining with them a mutual exchange and cooperation that will prevent any situation of overlapping or conflicts.
TITLE III POWERS
TITLE IV MEMBERS. CONDITIONS
TITLE V DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF THE MEMBERS
TITLE VI NOMINATION, ELECTION AND TERMINATION OF THE CATEGORY OF THE MEMBER.
TITLE VII WORKING, INFORMATION AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS
TITLE VIII MEETINGS OF THE ACADEMY
TITLE IX BOARD OF DIRECTORS
TITLE X FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE AUTHORITES OF THE ACADEMY
TITLE XI ELECTION COMMITTEE
TITLE XII ADVISORY BOARD
TITLE XIII AUDITING COMMITTEE
TITLE XIV ASSETS
TITLE XV MODIFICATIONS TO THE BY-LAWS
TITLE XVI DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION
TITLE XVII OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
By Laws approved by the International Board of UPADI in San José, Costa Rica, 1996
Modified by the Plenary Extraordinary Session of the Academy – Mexico 2004
Modified by the Plenary Extraordinary Session of the Academy, Brasilia , Brazil . December 2008
