CIE Centennial Celebration

To celebrate CIE 100th Anniversary, the CIE Centennial Celebration & Joint Annual Convention took place on June 3, 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan. This monumental event was honored by the presence of President Ying-Jeou Ma, with more than 1,000 participants from Taiwan and abroad. It marked the largest-ever gathering among all of the annual conventions in Taiwan.

• The Virtual Museum of Taiwan Infrastructure
• Online Poll to Vote for the 100 Greatest Infrastructure (please refer to the Attachment for the Top 10)
• "Beauty of Infrastructure" Photo Contest
• Articles Solicitation Contest on "Engineering Sustainability"
• CIE Centennial Documentary Films Exhibition
• Publication of CIE Centennial Special Issue
• CIE Centennial Celebration & Annual Convention
• Chinese Institute of Engineers/Centennial Conference

CIE Awards

CIE bestows the Awards on the distinguished engineers and engineering students. The assortment of major awards includes:

• Engineering Medal
• Outstanding Engineering Professors
• Outstanding Engineer Award
• Excellent Young Engineers Award
• Engineering Paper Award
• Excellence in Engineering Projects Award
• Excellence in Industrial-Academic Cooperation Award

Other Major Activities:

• Organizing conferences, seminars and workshops on engineering themes.
• Advancing engineering education and training.
• Building "Think Tank" and engineering platform.
• Publishing CIE journals and newsletters.
• Coordinating with associated engineering societies in different disciplines.
• Commending technical papers.
• Collecting up-to-date information in engineering field.
• Representing the professional interests of Taiwanese engineers in international organizations and forums.
• Establishing collaborative relationship with counterpart institutions in international arena.

International Engagement:

CIE has joined some major international engineering organizations and forums to established close relationship with engineering institutions all over the world and, to build routes advancing the quality of engineering practice internationally.

• Becoming a founding National Member to the World Federation of Engineering Organization (WFEO) in 1968.
• Becoming a Member Economy to APEC Engineer in 2005.
• Becoming a Member Economy to Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP) in 2008.
• Becoming a Member Economy to the Engineers Mobility Forum (EMF) in 2009.
• Signing MOU or agreements of cooperation with Australia, UK, Malaysia and Korea , as tabulated below, in order to facilitate reciprocal recognition of professional qualifications with those engineering authorities, as well as to promote engineers exchange.

Country	Counterpart	Date of Signin	MOU/ Agreement
Australia	The Institute of Engineers, Australia	May 10, 1993	Agreement of Co-operation and Affiliation between the Chinese Institute of Engineers, ROC and the Institution of Engineers, Australia
UK	The University of Salford	Nov 15, 2005	Memorandum of Understanding between Chinese Institute of Engineers, ROC and the University of Salford, UK
Malaysia	The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia	Dec 18, 2007	Memorandum of Understanding between the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia and the Chinese Institute of Engineers
		Oct 2, 2009	Agreement of Co-operation and Recognition between the Chinese Institute of Engineers and the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
Korea	Korean Professional Engineers Association	Jun 17, 2011	Agreement of Co-operation between the CIE and KPEA

Recent Activities:

• Hosting the 2011 IEAM (International Engineering Alliance Meeting) in conjunction with the Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET) in Taipei, Taiwan from June 13 to 17, 2011, attended by 120 more delegates of the engineering organizations from 25 countries worldwide.
• Hosting the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP) Mid-term Convention on June 2, 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan and that brought together 20 more delegates from 9 Southeast Asia and the Pacific countries.
• Organizing eight member delegates to attend the 2011 WFEO convention in Geneva from Sept 3^rd to Sept 9^th 2011.