Richard Miller is Jerome C. Hunsaker Visiting Professor or Aerospace Systems at MIT, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and President Emeritus at Olin College of Engineering, where he served for 21 years as the first president. As Olin’s first employee, he led the development of all aspects of the academic, administrative, student life, financial, and physical facilities of the College. Previously, he served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Iowa and Associate Dean of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He has contributed internationally to innovation in higher education, and led efforts in the US at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and National Science Foundation to advance engineering research and education. One of the three founders of the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program, he has served as an advisor to the engineering schools at Harvard, Stanford, the US Military Academy at West Point, and others. With a background in applied mechanics, he worked for 15 years as a senior consultant at Astro Aerospace Corporation on the design of very large deployable space structures (Heliogyro, SOLARES, others). With joint appointments in Civil Engineering, he has also contributed to research on novel approaches to protecting buildings from strong ground motion during earthquakes.

Hans Jürgen Hoyer

Secretary General of the International Federation for Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)

Executive Secretary of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC)

Prof. Hans Jürgen Hoyer serves as the Executive Secretary of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) and the Secretary General of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). Additionally, Dr. Hoyer is a Resident Scholar in Global Engineering at the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University, Global Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland BC, and co-founder of the Indo-Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE). Dr. Hoyer initially became involved with IFEES and the GEDC when he served as the Director of InternatSional Programs and Strategy for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He is co-founder and advisor of the African, Asian and Latin American Engineering Deans Councils; works closely with over fifty engineering education societies globally and enjoys a close partnership with the World Bank in regards to their activities in Africa; with UNESCO where he serves on their Advisory Council; and also the OAS. He also works in close partnerships with over 10 international, multi-national corporations including Airbus; Siemens; Dessault Systemes; National Instruments; Mathworks; Quanser; Liaison; Granta; Phoenix.

Jian LIN

Professor, Tsinghua University

Director of Academic Committee

Director of the Division of Educational Policy and Management

Director of the Division of Engineering Education

Prof. LIN is the director of Academic Committee of Institute of Education, director of the Division of Educational Policy and Management, Director of the Division of Engineering Education at Tsinghua University. His research interests cover Higher Education Administration, Higher Engineering Education, Organizational Strategy Management, Payment and Performance Management.

Jie SONG

Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of College of Engineering, Peking University

Prof. SONG got her Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, and she was on a joint Ph.D. program from the School of Industrial and System Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She was a postdoc in University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is now an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of College of Engineering, Peking University.

Dongsheng WEN

Dean of the School of General Engineering/ International Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science, Beihang University

Head of the "Air and Space Multiscale Mechanics and Thermodynamics Intelligence Program Base", Ministry of Science and Technology

Prof. Dongsheng WEN got his Ph.D. from University of Oxford. He is the dean of the School of General Engineering/International Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science, Beihang University, head of the "Air and Space Multiscale Mechanics and Thermodynamics Intelligence Program Base", Ministry of Science and Technology, head of the Overseas International Cooperation Program of the Natural Science Foundation of China, winner of European Research Council Consolidate Grant (2014), fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Institute of Nanotechnology (FION). He is also the editor-in-Chief of Advances in Aerodynamics, Associate Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering and Advances in Aeronautical Engineering. His research fields vary from Aerospace Thermophysics, including Hypersonic Thermo-mechanical coupling and thermal management, efficient anti-ice technology, Multi-scale simulation, Nanofluids, Nanofuels and new energy unmanned aerial vehicles, etc.

Ulrich Teichler

Professor emeritus at the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER), Kassel University, Germany

Ulrich Teichler is Professor emeritus at the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER), Kassel University, Germany. Ulrich did Qualitative Social Research and Quantitative Social Research. Major themes of his research were higher education and the world of work, higher education systems in comparative perspective, internationality of higher and the academic profession. After having been active in research projects for more than 40 years, he continues to be involved in advisory activities for institutions, projects and doctoral candidates.

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