Dr. Amer Ali said: “This is a renewal of the original partnership agreement which I developed in 2016 between London South Bank University (LSBU) and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), one year after I created the major professional development scheme for LSBU civil engineering students in 2015, which I have been coordinating and teaching since then. The partnership is very important for promoting the professional development of our staff and students and to ensure that our students graduate with the highest achievable knowledge and skills to develop safe and sustainable projects. It is a growing and expanding partnership, and one of its success indicators is the increasing number of our student membership of the ICE which has reached 90% and continues to grow”.

The LSBU-ICE academic-professional partnership agreement is one of four similar partnerships that Dr. Ali developed and signed with the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE), the Chartered Institution of Highways and Tran

Dr. Amer Ali said: “The Partnership between London South Bank University (LSBU) and the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) is a culmination of the extensive and deep collaboration between the two institutions which I started when I joined LSBU in 2011. It is important for promoting the professional development of staff and students and to equip our students with the highest achievable knowledge and skills. To give an example of the level of collaboration, I was honoured to invite and welcome three presidents of the IHE (Mr. Steve Spender, Mr. Richard Hayes, and Mr. Martin Polland) to visit LSBU and talk to our transport and civil engineering students on a number of occasions. I am the Vice Chair of the IHE Greater London Branch which I re-launched with a colleague from the industry, Mr. Luke Meechan, the current chair”.

This LSBU-IHE academic-professional partnership agreement is one of four similar partnerships that Dr Ali developed and signed with the Institution of Civil Engineers

Dr. Amer Ali said: “This partnership, which is a formal certification and recognition of the continuing and growing collaboration between LSBU and PWI, strengthens and supports the mission of both LSBU and PWI to ensure that graduate engineers have the best academic and professional qualifications they need to be competent and skilful in their engineering career”. This academic-professional partnership agreement is one of four similar partnerships that Dr Ali developed and signed with the ICE, CIHT, IHE and PWI. Dr Ali who is specialised in highway and transportation engineering has developed and taught various transport courses and modules including railways, highways and traffic engineering, in addition to coordinating and teaching a major professional development scheme for LSBU civil engineering students which he created in 2015. “These are within my mission and capacity as a Fellow of the above four PEIs, a Lead Reviewer for the CEng/IEng professional qualifications, and a member