INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

The paper describesthe experience of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to host annual conferences and international forums where representatives of different countries of the world participate. The paper gives a comparative analysis of engineering education problems and their solutions in different countries and prospects for using the most successful international experience in Russia.Global innovative development is impossible without training competitive engineers who can create and implement groundbreaking technologies. Despite the fact that engineering education development is a national priority, it is impossible to avoid its internationalization. A number of international nonBprofit nonBgovernmental engineering education organizations aim at unitingthe faculty and administrators of engineering universities and the representativesof industry in order to develop joint solutions and improve thequality of engineering education worldBwide. The most popular of these organizations are Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpädagogik IGIP, Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI), Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and etc.ASEE is one of the organizations implementing global scale activities. For over 120 years the society has hosted annual conferences to gather over 3,000 participants from the USA and other countries. The initiative of the last three years is the International Forum under the umbrella of these conferences. The Forum is the platform for international engineering education organizations to hold the plenary sessions where they can presentthe current state of engineering education in their countries, share their views and discuss their problems. Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI) and Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) participated in the 2014 International Forum as partner societies and presented their views on engineering education ...