from ISSMGE Bulletin: Volume 7 Issue 6 (pp. 9-11)
NEWS ON RECENT CONFERENCE
The 5th international Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference – iYGEC 2013
Yu-Jun Cui
Chair of the Organizing Committee of 5th iYGEC
The fifth international Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference – iYGEC 2013 was held on 31st of August and 1st of September, 2013, at Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech (ENPC) under the auspices of the French Society for Soil Mechanics (CFMS) and the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The Organising Committee was composed of: Yu-Jun Cui (Chair), Fabrice Emeriault (Co-chair), Séverine Beaunier, Fahd Cuira, Siavash Ghabezloo, Jean-Michel Pereira, Hugo Ravel, Michael Reboul and Anh Minh Tang. The contribution of the following volunteer PhD students was greatly appreciated: Rawaz Muhammed, Trong Vinh Duong, Hamza Menaceur, Sadok Feia, Linh Quyen Dao, Simona Saba, Jean-François Bruchon and Radja Elandaloussi.
The iYGEC conference series aims at bringing together young people who may be studying for a PhD or Msc or at the early stage of their career in industry or academia, and enables them to communicate with each other and to share their experience in their academic and professional activities. Traditionally, the participants are selected by their respective ISSMGE Member Societies – i.e., two nominees per Member Society. For this fifth edition of iYGEC, in order to further promote the exchanges, the participation was extended to all young geotechnical engineers. This was done without losing the iYGEC’s tradition: thus, a mixed format was adopted with nominees and non-nominees.
Fig. 1. Participation of countries by continent
In total 164 young engineers participated in the event, with a distribution as 60% nominees and 40% non-nominees, 55% academia and 45% practitioners, and 70% men and 30% women. 57 countries were represented with a repartition by continent shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is the picture of all the participants.
Fig. 2. Picture of all the participants
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