The International Engineering Education Forum on Future-oriented Engineering Education and Engineering Capacity Building was held at the Reception Hall of Main Building, Tsinghua University. Guests exchanged their ideas surrounding “Opportunities and Challenges Facing Engineering Education in the Context of Globalization”, “New Reforms in Engineering Education”, “Engineering Education and Sustainable Development”, “Global Engineering Capacity Building”, “Theories and Practices for Cultivation of Engineering Talents”, among other issues. The Forum was graced by the presence of some 160 attendees (experts & scholars, managers, students & teachers) representing a wide range of backgrounds worldwide,

The “Training Program for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development” organized by IKCEST offers its Workshop on the “Introduction to brain machine interface” on June 5th.

The ICEE was set up upon approval in the 38th Session of the UNESCO General Conference taking place in November 2015, following joint application by the CAE and Tsinghua University. The Governing Board & Advisory Board of the International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) under the auspices of UNESCO held the first meeting. The members of the ICEE Governing Board & Advisory Board, consisting of experts, scholars, and big names from fields in relation to engineering education, represent a wide range of backgrounds. The meeting deliberated on the Articles of Association, strategic planning, as well as other matters concerning the ICEE, and listened to the work report since its inception.

June.1st to June.3rd, the IKCEST Training Program for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development was started in Xinjiang University, hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) under the Auspices of UNESCO, undertaken by Xi'an Jiaotong University and Xinjiang University.

The workshop was held from 15-18 May 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This third workshop on Big Data by IKCEST and the first in Malaysia was jointly organised by IKCEST and ISTIC within the scope of the workshop in Hangzhou which took place in 2015 and 2016. The Kuala Lumpur training workshop was in collaboration with MIMOS and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and with the support of Zhejiang University, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Tongji University. Director of ISTIC Dato’ Dr. Sharifah Maimunah Syed Zin FASc., and Executive Deputy Director of IKCEST Mr. Song Dexiong gave welcome speeches during the opening of the workshop.

The International Symposium on Integrated Governance of Large-scale Disaster and Economic Risks, held on 13-14 May 2017 in Qianhai, Shenzhen, China. This symposium was co-sponsored by 1) Beijing Normal University, 2) Qianhai Shenzhen-Hongkong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen and 3) Global Risk Forum, GRF-Davos. A declaration called Qianhai Consensus was delivered after the symposium.

An unusually severe ice-snow disaster covered a wide range of southern China in early 2008, which caused significant loss to subtropical forest resources in China and seriously threatened to the stability of forest ecosystem. Rapidly and accurately delineating the forest damage is of great importance for preventing this disaster occurs again and forest resource management.

The 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Cancun, Mexico on 22-26 May. It was the first time the most important international forum dedicated to the disaster risk reduction agenda has been staged outside Geneva. The Global Platform made the first opportunity for the international community to review global progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Nearly 6,000 participants are expected, including policy makers and disaster risk managers.

On May 5, 2017 task launch meeting for the “Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System” of the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) under the Auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), was held its in Beijing, China