Every two years, Full Members of the Academy are convened to an Ordinary Plenary Session (SPO). There, work plans are discussed, program compliance is monitored and balance sheets, budgets and the President's Report are approved.
Until the end of 2012, when the Twelfth Anniversary of its Foundation was celebrated, seven Ordinary Plenary Sessions were held.
In the following years, the Academy will continue to invigorate its activity, with an increasing participation of Academics in its Biennial Plenary Sessions. This was the case of the last Biennial Meeting in Mexico City, where a comprehensive program was developed with Policy Forum, International Gala Dinner, Solemn Ceremony for the Entry of New Academics, Posthumous Tribute to Deceased Academics and Ordinary and Extraordinary Meetings with a large attendance and participation of members from 16 countries.
The Academy's Programming of Policy Forums began in the first years of its life and aims to present, study and discuss current issues of importance for engineering and for the countries of the Americas and to establish, through its results and Statements, lines of action that mean policies suitable to be implemented by the Academy, UPADI and its Member Organizations and also by various professional, academic, governmental and multinational institutions.
Focus Sessions are meetings open to the free participation of all Academics and Elected Candidates in which topics scheduled or not are discussed, to improve the activities of the Academy and the fulfillment of its Mission, through a critical analysis of strengths and weaknesses, and the orientation of future activities is also analyzed based on the study of new scenarios to define planning, strategies and work programs.
In Focus Sessions, no resolutions or recommendations are adopted. A Rapporteur brings together the most significant coincidences that are transferred to the Board of Directors for analysis and implementation.
The Academy celebrated its First Decade with meetings in Buenos Aires. This marked a successful cycle of consolidation and expansion. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 21 and 22, 2010, the Academy celebrated its 10th Anniversary, which was celebrated on August 24 of that year. The traditional Ordinary Plenary Session, the Policy Forum on “Thinking Engineering”, which at that time had the Academics themselves as protagonists, and an emotional Ceremony for the Incorporation of New Full Members and Associates, left an indelible memory in all the participants.
In Buenos Aires, the Academy honored its main promoter and Founder, who was also its first President for ten years, Prof. Ing. Miguel Ángel Yadarola, granting him the distinction of being the First Emeritus Member. Thanks to the continuous and selfless work of an important group of Members, Holders and Associates, the Academy has managed to build a reputation of excellence based on studies, debates and the adoption of policies for engineering and for the countries of the Americas.
From the Academy, we will continue to summon engineers from the Americas, to lead the challenges posed by a globalized world, aware that we wield a valuable source of power called “knowledge”. The richest product of thinking man.
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