from ISSMGE Bulletin: Volume 3 Issue 3 September 2009 (p.4)
excerpt from Message from the President
By Professor Pedro Sêco e Pinto
ISSMGE should prepare the young geotechnical engineers to face the real needs of society and the new challenges. So it is important to help them to develop independent thinking and decision making skills trough practice, to reduce the gap between theory and practice, to help them explore their intuition and teach them the importance of engineering judgement.
From a balance of the Young Geotechnical Engineers Regional Conferences organised in Africa (2), in Asia (6), Australasia (8), in Europe (19) and in South America (3) it was recognised the great interest for the education of young geotechnical engineers.
The list of the recent Regional Young Geotechnical Conferences is the following:
2007 Tunis – Tunisie 2 th AYGEC
2008 Bangalore – India 6 th AYGEC
2008 Wellington – Australasia 8 th AYGEC
2008 Gyor – Hungary 19 th EYGEC
2009 Cordoba – Argentina 3rd SAYGEC
I was invited to deliver lectures and also messages for the occasion of Opening Ceremonies and Closing Ceremonies of 2th AYGEC (Tunis, 2006), 6th AYGEC (Bangalore, 2008), 17th EYGEC (Zagreb, 2006), 18th EYGEC (Ancona, 2007), 19th EYGEC (Gyor, 2008) and 3rd SAYGEC (Cordoba, 2009),
The President has interacted with the Chairperson of 4 IYGEC Dr. Fatma Baligh mainly to discuss the letter of invitation, the conference programme and the instructions for the authors.
By e.mail 26 November 2008 the invitations were sent by the Organising Committee to all ISSMGE Member Societies. A CAC meeting of 4IYGEC took place in Alexandria on 26 February 2009. Intensive interaction has continued between myself and the Chairperson of 4 IYGEC to discuss several technical and administrative issues.
I would like to transmit the young geotechnical engineers the following message from Kahlii Gibran, The Prophet
“The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and
run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be
revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or
sounding line”.
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