Free
Join the ICE membership manager for Europe, Romanian ICE members and AECOM professionals to explore the value of ICE membership and professional qualification, gain insights into professional development and leadership, and discover how ICE together with global employers can help shape your future career.
The discussion will explore how ICE membership and professional qualification can support professional recognition, expand career opportunities, strengthen technical and leadership skills, and connect engineers with a worldwide network of industry professionals.
Participants will gain insight into the value of ICE membership, including routes to professional qualification (EngTech MICE, IEng MICE and CEng MICE), leadership development opportunities and access to a global community of civil engineers. Speakers will also discuss how international organisations operating in Romania, including AECOM, can support engineers in achieving their professional goals and advancing their careers.
The event will include presentations from speakers, followed by an interactive discussion and question-and-answer session, providing attendees with the opportunity to learn more about membership pathways, professional development and career opportunities within the civil engineering sector.
The event is open to everyone with an interest in the subject. We especially look forward to welcoming ICE members and hope they will take the opportunity to bring along colleagues and fellow professionals to broaden the discussion and networking opportunities.
Welcome from AECOM Romania
Opening remarks from the ICE membership manager for Europe
Introduction to ICE and the benefits of membership
Overview of membership grades, professional development opportunities, and support available to engineers at different career stages
Member perspectives: Professional journeys and the value of ICE membership
Presentations from Romanian ICE members and engineers with connections to Romania, sharing their experiences of membership, career development, leadership opportunities, and professional recognition
Professional qualification and career development in a global engineering environment
Discussion on professional qualification pathways, and how engineers working for international organisations can benefit from ICE membership and professional qualification and a global professional network
Panel discussion and audience Q&A
An interactive session with speakers, providing attendees with the opportunity to ask questions about membership, professional qualification and development, and career progression
Closing remarks and networking
Institution of Civil Engineers
membership manager
Donna is the Membership Manager, and also covers the MDO role in the East and South East of Scotland. Donna works full-time, and will also respond to any membership queries by email or phone from members in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
AECOM Enterprise Capabilities Romania
managing director
A highly accomplished business and engineering executive, Nicolae Bidiga is a chartered civil engineer with more than three decades of international leadership experience in the infrastructure and consulting sectors.
As managing director of AECOM Enterprise Capabilities Romania, he has successfully transformed and expanded the business, leading significant growth while strengthening operational performance and delivery capability.
His career spans executive leadership, large-scale programme delivery, engineering consultancy, digital innovation, and organisational transformation, with extensive experience across global transportation and infrastructure markets. Nicolae is known for combining strategic vision, technical excellence and people leadership to build resilient organisations, foster talent, and deliver exceptional outcomes for clients worldwide.
AECOM
associate director - bridges & structures
Ionut Paunescu is a chartered bridge engineer and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers with extensive experience delivering complex bridge projects across the UK and internationally.
He leads AECOM’s Bridges & Structures team in Cambridge, specialising in bridge design, complex structural analysis and finite element modelling, and the assessment and management of highway and railway bridges. Under his leadership, the team developed innovative approaches to the management of existing assets, including mass concrete arches, post-tensioned concrete bridges, and steel-concrete composite bridges.
He also heads AECOM’s UK TechEx Practice Group for Bridges, collaborating with global specialists to advance technical excellence and innovation.
regional representative
Marian is a Chartered Civil Engineer from the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK with 27 years of experience (including almost 6 years in the UK) in delivering multidisciplinary design schemes as project manager, technical lead and specialist discipline lead in structural/bridges engineering within railways and highways working environment. He has been responsible for delivering on large schemes for Network Rail, Crossrail, East West Rail.
Marian has also a good experience of working within global centres business environment on both perspectives: as region office project delivery working directly with the global resource centres, being based in the UK, but also procure, manage, and deliver work as global design centre lead located in Romania, while operating in close collaboration with the other design centres. Marian worked for significant players on the global infrastructure building market as Atkins SNC Lavalin, ARCADIS and now for AECOM.
In the domain of Bridge and Structural engineering Marian has wide range of experience in design, analysis and detailing of various bridges (RC, PSC, Steel and Steel-Composite), flyovers, underpasses, viaducts and allied civil works for infrastructure projects in the UK, Belgium, North Iraq and Romania. He has through knowledge in bridge strengthening design, bridge assessments in accordance with NR and DMRB Standards, British and Eurocodes.
Current role with AECOM is Rail Civils Linear Lead in EC Romania.
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