Committee on Education and Professional Development (EPD) [Committee ’s own website]

Major goals of IAHR, founded in 1935, were to stimulate and promote basic and applied research in hydraulics and hydraulic engineering, and to provide a forum for the international community of hydraulic engineers.
Today it is an association of several thousand individual members of all continents. We need to fill the gap between fluid research and the practice of hydraulic engineering emphasising the importance of application-oriented research and much larger-scale of involvement of practising engineers in the activities of IAHR.
The Committee on Education and Professional Development was formed in 1995 based on the work of a Task Group headed by Prof. Helmut Kobus for several years. The activity of the Committee is aimed at enhancing technology transfer in several aspects.
Education is the classical sense of transferring knowledge to the next generation. The dialogue between practising engineers and researchers also needs to be intensified to fill the existing gap. Continuing education for engineers aims at brushing up their professional skills to cope with new developments in technology or professional practices.

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The main targets of the EPD Committee concern regional and world wide activities promoting education and professional development. Regional activities are important to initiate and coordinate regional activities and to link them to world wide activities. Actual important activities of EPD are the Media Library, the Engineering Graduate School Environment Water (EGW), the IAHR student chapters and the preparation of education-related technical sessions and seminars for the upcoming IAHR Congresses.

MEDIA LIBRARY

This very valuable and huge resource for education and professional development contains different kinds of multimedia material (photos, videos, e-books, software, ...).
For more information about the multimedia library, click here.

Engineering Graduate School Environment Water (EGW)

Engineering Graduate School Environment Water (EGW) EGW is a network of several international institutions offering further education courses on a high academic level on water and environment related fields. The courses are directed to graduate students, postgraduates and professionals. For academic recognition, the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) is applied and an appropriate quality control is developing. For the next years, a focus will be on the extension of EGW by other 'high quality courses'. This will be carried out by linking EGW to other international further education programs. More information about EGW click here.

Student Chapters

The recently founded student chapters are an organisation for PhD and graduate students offering a platform and a 'home' for students of the hydraulic community. They are carrying out different water-related activities, projects and educational programmes. By such means, the students should be brought into contact with profession in practise and research already in an early stage of their education and, thus, they should be additionally motivated. Prof. Godwin is responsible for the student chapters.Technical Sessions / Seminars for the IAHR Congresses In order to strengthen the role of education within IAHR and to make it more visible, EPD suggests different kinds of education-related technical sessions or seminars for the upcoming IAHR Congresses. In this activity the attempt is included to stronger integrate students, young scientists and the student chapters into work of IAHR.
More information about the Student Chapters click here.

Technical Sessions/Seminars for the IAHR Congresses

In order to strengthen the role of education within IAHR and to make it more visible, EPD suggests different kinds of education-related technical sessions or seminars for the upcoming IAHR Congresses. In this activity the attempt is included to stronger integrate students, young scientists and the student chapters into work of IAHR.

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Leadership Team

Chair

Prof. Michele Mossa Full Professor of Hydraulics Technical University of Bari D.I.A.S.S. c/o Via E. Orabona, 4 70125 Bari ITALY Phone + 39 080 596 3289 Fax: + 39 080 2209969 / + 39 080 596 3414 e-mail: m.mossa@poliba.it website: http://www.michelemossa.it

Vice Chair

Dr.  Ioana Popescu Senior Lecturer in Hydroinformatics The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Westvest 7 2611 AX Delft The Netherlands Phone: +31 15 2151895 e-mail: i.popescu@unesco-ihe.org

Past Chair

Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Hinkelmann TU Berlin-Institut fuer Bauingenieurwesen Fachgebiet Wasserwirtschaft Chair of Water Resources Management and Modeling of Hydrosystems Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, Sekr. TIB1-B14, 13355 Berlin GERMANY Phone/Fax + 49 (0)30 314 72307|72430 e-mail: reinhard.hinkelmann@wahyd.tu-berlin.de website: http://www.wahyd.tu-berlin.de/epd

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• Minutes 2009 Vancouver Committee meeting
• Education of Hydraulic Engineers
• Minutes Venice Committee meeting 2007
• IAHR Section EPD / EGW Meeting in Seoul, Korea, September 2005

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• IAHR Media Library

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