Abstract
Problem statement: Due to the climatic changes and the ecological variations of the biosphere, global natural resources including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biodiversities, genetic resources and energy, radiation, electric charge and magnetism, must be safeguarded for the benefit of present and future generations through careful planning and management as appropriate. Approach: The main points of the International Council of Environmental Engineering Education (ICEEE) are to enhance services to its members, work with educational and research institutions to improve environmental engineering education and technology and promote the undergraduate university degree (B.Sc.), graduate higher degree (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. development, facilitate productive cooperation among industry, academy and government, enhance the participation and success of under-represented groups in the environmental engineering education enterprise, promote the value of the engineering profession, unify the environmental engineering education programs throughout the World Countries and exchange the environmental engineering education professionalism among international institutions. Results: Based on the above mentioned concepts, the Obuda University, Rejto Sandor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Protection Engineering (Budapest, Hungary), the Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Kosice, Slovakia), Uzhhorod National University, Faculty of Chemistry at the (Uzhhorod, Ukraine), Polytechnic Engineering College of Subotica and the UNESCO Chair in Water Resources-Sudan (UNESCO-CWR) agreed to establish an international organization dealing with environmental engineering education management. Conclusion: The dynamic development of our professional reforms and combined with effective use of scientific potentials agreed to improve the standards of environmental engineering education. Our institutions are agreed to fund and serve as the premier multidisciplinary council for individuals and organizations committed to promote all aspects of environmental engineering and engineering technology education. This study about ICEEE defines several of the basic components of the environmental engineering and engineering technology professions and the educational processes needed to produce qualified environmental engineers for the future.
Highlights
The relationship between humans and the environment is becoming more complex, giving rise to a new environmental aspects
There has been a remarkable proliferation of inter(multi)disciplinary environmental studies and environmental sciences programs in American and Canadian colleges and universities (Vincent and Focht, 2009; Auer, 2010)
Smith and Biswas (2002) stated that during the past 50 years major changes have occurred in the profession of environmental engineering
Summary
The relationship between humans and the environment is becoming more complex, giving rise to a new environmental aspects. Today environmental engineering includes all aspects of the water environment plus air quality management, solid waste management, contaminated site remediation, impact assessment, risk assessment and the more. All of these components of the profession require knowledgeable, creative thinking building on the fundamentals of engineering and applied science, basic sciences, law and communications. In our extensive experience researching, teaching about and coping with environmental problems we have encountered a variety of different approaches to interdisciplinarity (Karlquist, 1999; Metzger and Zare, 1999; Hansson, 1999; Balsiger, 2004; Lele, 2005; Fiore, 2008). We have found only one approach, that offers the full array of concepts and tools needed for integrative crossdisciplinary research, encompassing concept of environmental sustainability. communication and problem solving
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