about ICE

ICE stands for Institution of civil engineering The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) exists to promote and progress civil engineering. ICE's professionally qualified grades of membership are internationally recognized and highly valued. Attainment of these is widely viewed as a significant personal achievement and a benchmark of a technician's or engineer's competences and professional standing.
Professor lin shaopei (a professor in school of naval architecture, ocean and civil engineering in sjtu and he is the only Chinese engineer giving speech in the 2005 annual meeting in Finland) give us an inspiring speech about the bottlenecks china will meet in next few years when Chinese construction company set for large projects in mideast and south America
I was shocked by some facts :
Not a single university graduate in China meets the international standards of registered engineer.
All large buildings in Shanghai are designed by foreign company
Chinese civil engineers are not competitive enough
We just design and build, but there is a lot more to consider
Not many students cared about the speech and some fell asleep

There is a huge difference between traditional civil engineering and environmental engineering which I study now. They are closely related to people’s life sustainable devolopment of the world and both require considerable time to study. Engineers should not only know architecture but also policy art and so on.
Definitely our school of environmental science and engineering should be under the school of civil engineering, maybe environmental problems are more attractive to students, and civil engineering is dull and means dealing with all kinds of equipments in a high building or under the ground. But environmental and traditional civil engineering are both boring for us students at the beginning though the former sounds nicer.
You need to know almost everything. Though they set for two different purposes but ultimately they seem to seek the same aim: to make life easier, healthier
But in so great an education system，nothing will improve. We need to improve it to attract more students to study it instead of scaring them away. Language skill is also needed in this field; almost all prominent engineers improve by learning from others ,we can learn from foreign counterparts since less than 10% engineers in china can be called engineers（said by professor lin）
And learn to be cultivated since you can’t see someone sending text messages with a mobile phone in international meeting(he meant me for I was answering some questions from LEO)