Please note that this meeting between the IESC members was held in Sept. 2021 online due to the pandemic. Normally, the Fifth Symposium would have been held in person this year, but had to be postponed. Instead, the members met online to discuss pressing consortium issues ahead of the symposium proper, which hopefully will be held some time in 2022.

IESC ONLINE MEETING (SEPTEMBER 27-28, 2021)

Day One

9/27/2021

Attendees:

UCL	Professor Nick Tyler
KTH	Professor Leif Kari
Toronto	Professor William Cluett
Cornell	Professor Chris Xu, Ms. Megan Whitman
OU	Professor Genta Kawahara, Professor Shigeo Wada, Professor Shigenobu Ogata, Yuki Urakawa

Day Two

9/28/2021

Attendees:

UC Berkeley	Professor Junqiao Wu
UQ	Professor Chien Ming Wang, Professor Aleksandar Rakic
Auckland	Professor Piaras Kelly
NUS	Professor Erik Birgersson, Director Anjam Khursheed, Deputy Director (he was the former director) Van Kan Jeroen, Deputy Director Yit Li Ling, Manager Joshua Ong, Executive
OU	Professor Genta Kawahara, Professor Shigeo Wada, Professor Shigenobu Ogata, Professor Saori Obayashi, Yuki Urakawa

AGENDA ITEMS

1. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOU)
2. Proposal for a Virtual Online Lecture Series (MOOC)
3. The Fifth IESC Meeting (in-person?)

1. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOU)

     Overall, the IESC members agreed that the MOU should be an agreement on spiritual collaboration in Engineering Science.

2. Proposal for a Virtual Online Lecture Series (MOOC)

     Consortium web page:
     Should be used as a forum for sharing ideas / to advertise the consortium's activities
     e.g. online educational content

     Pilot (preliminary) MOOC:
     To be launched during the IESC symposium in 2022 (proposal)

3. The Fifth International Engineering Science Consortium Meeting

     Proposed venue: UCL (London)
     Aim for June or September 2022
     Proposed theme: THE ROLE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE IN A POST-PANDEMIC FUTURE