U.S. Engineers Explore Ways To Rebuild Iraqi Profession 7/28/2003
The U.S. engineering community is reaching out to its Iraqi counterparts, offering assistance in a variety of areas, including professional practice, technical aid and education.
Representatives from more than a dozen U.S. engineering societies, the Army Corps of Engineers, White House, State Dept. and the U.S. Agency for International Development held a video teleconference July 16 with members of the Iraqi Engineers Union. The meeting was "the first formal direct contact between the IEU and the international engineering community since before 1990," according to Daniel Hitchings, a U.S. advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Housing and Construction, in Baghdad, who organized the meeting.