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LACCEI – Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions

1. LACCEI – Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. 12 universities founded LACCEI is 2003 Universities that want to collaborate with LAC region 160+ universities from the Americas and Europe are part of the consortium in 2013

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LACCEI – Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions

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  1. 1 VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14-15 November 2013

  2. LACCEI – Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions • 12 universities founded LACCEI is 2003 • Universities that want to collaborate with LAC region • 160+ universities from the Americas and Europe are part of the consortium in 2013 • Since 2005, part of the OAS Engineering for the Americas and the Ministerial Action Plans, and currently participating in Working Group 2: Human resources training & education • Host annually the OAS Engineering for the Americas Encuentro • Annually present progress on the OAS EftA – LACCEI initiatives

  3. LACCEI = International Collaboration

  4. OAS EftA – LACCEI Advancing Engineering Program Accreditation • Ongoing since 2006 • Par Amigos initiative • Identifying experts in engineering program accreditation • Developed and gave workshops (English and Spanish) to train universities seeking accreditation for the 1st time • 2nd Forum of Accrediting Agencies of the Americas • To bring together accrediting agencies in the Americas to discuss challenges and move towards mutual recognition, and more signatories of the ALAI Accord and the Washington Accord • Next steps: • Accreditation workshops in Guatemala and Ecuador • 3rd Accrediting Agency Forum in 2014 in Ecuador

  5. OAS EftA-LACCEI Women in STEM initiative(STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) 2010 OAS proclaimed the Year of The Inter-American Women Evaluate successes and challenges in the defense of women’s human rights and gender . equity and equality, and create awareness regarding gender issues. 2009 UN Study: 46% of STEM researchers in LAC are female, and Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela have achieved gender parity Source: Women and Girls in Science and Technology: increasing opportunities in Education, Research and Employment, E M. Rathberger, UN, 2009 “The low representation of women in science and engineering is a major hindrance to global capacity building in science and technology” Women for Science. An Advisory Report, InterAcademy Council, 2006 % Women in Brazil in STEM Research Groups (2000-2008) • % Women in U.S. Engineering Degree Programs(1998,2008) Source: Larrondo Petrie, Beltran Martinez, LACCEI 2010 Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)

  6. OAS EftA - LACCEI Women in STEM initiative Progress: • Women in STEM Forum, partly funded by NSF • New Champions Next steps: • Identify 24 researchers in STEM gender research in the Americas • Write proposal to design a hemispheric study Renetta Tull, PhD Assoc. Vice Provost, UMBC, US Beatriz Zayas Riveras, PhD Assoc. Prof., UMET , PR Bevlee Watford, PhD Director of Center of Diversity, Virginia Tech Chair Diversity Committee, ASEE

  7. OAS EftA – LACCEI Engineering Education for Disaster Recovery Initiative • Launched in 2012 led by 3 Haitian Deans http://www.laccei.org/index.php/events/past-events/laccei-conference-2012/haiti-initiative Jasmin Preval Université Lumière of Haiti Hérissé Guirand, PhD Université dÉtat d´Haiti Evenson Calixte, PhD Université Quisqueya

  8. OAS EftA – LACCEI Engineering Education for Disaster Recovery Initiative • Requested: • Redesign of curriculum, labs, degrees to support the rebuilding of Haiti and disaster recovery, find professors to teach STEM courses • Earthquake Engineering – University of Buffalo • Access and support for software on Cloud • Research collaborations in area of disaster prevention and recovery. • Progress: • Found travel grants to develop the three Deans • Found collaborators African Ministers Forum - Dec 9-11 MOOCs MOOLs Credits, Double Degrees Hamadou Saliah-Hassane PhD Université d´Quebec, CA Yacob Astatke, PhD Morgan State U., US Tarek Chehidi, PhD African Development Bank

  9. International Certifications – exploring use of MOOCs, MOOLs, SPOCs, Clouds, & Collaboration Communities • IGIP International Engineering Pedagogist • Updating curriculum content, methodologies and technology to offer in the Americas • IGLU University Management and Leadership • IGLU Institute has approached LACCEI to develop a specialization for academic Engineering leaders. • Collaboration Community • > 10,000 in the database, designing specialized search engine for searching for academic or research collaborators

  10. New initiatives under development – Model for national scale STEM teacher trainer and outreach • Colombia • Develop a national infrastructure for pedagogy research and training centers • For Engineering Faculty Pedagogical Development • For STEM High School Teacher Pedagogical Development • Research • NSF Planning Grant awarded - NSF grant under development • Ecuador • Mobile Science and Technology Museum • Ioannis Miaoulis, President and Director of Boston Museum of Science gave keynote 2013, meeting December 20

  11. Annual LACCEI Conference – Faculty and Student Development • 2003 LACCEI Conference, Santiago, Dominican Republic • 2004 LACCEI Conference, Miami, Florida, USA • 2005 LACCEI Conference,Cartagena, Colombia • 2006 LACCEI Conference, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico • 2007 LACCEI Conference,Tampico, Mexico • 2008 LACCEI Conference, Tegucigalpa, Honduras • 2009 LACCEI Conference, San Cristobal, Venezuela • 2010 LACCEI Conference, Medellin, Colombia • 2012 LACCEI Conference, Panama City, Panama • 2013 LACCEI Conference, Cancun, Mexico • 2014 LACCEI Conference, Guayaquil, Ecuador < cost, multilingual, multiconference,initiatives launched refereed, ISBN, indexed, archived, invited to LACCEI Journal Hemispheric and Global Student Research Competitions and Student Leadership Training

  12. Support other OAS EftA initiatives • Engineering Education for Competitiveness • Hemispheric Curricular surveys and pedagogical observatories cemters • Prospectus Delphi surveys done at the annual conference • Website support for online participation Jhon Wilder Zartha Sossa, PhD Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, CO

  13. Recommendations • Invest in the Plan of Action of Panama, especially with seed funds for the initiatives and for follow-up of Engineering for the Americas (EftA) projects • Encourage the national and regional engineering program accreditation agencies to sign ALAI and Washington accords for hemispheric and global mutual recognition. • Support initiative led by the Deans of Haiti to establish engineering programs that support disaster recovery • Fund fellowships (such as the U.S. Jeffersonian and AAAS Fellowships) and Centers to provide expertise and support to the Ministers Vision 2025 and to the Engineering for the Americas initiatives

  14. Gracias, Merci, Obrigado, Thank You LACCEI Board of Directors 160+ Universities www.LACCEI.orginfo@LACCEI.orgSkype: LACCEI

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