click to edit master title style click to edit master subtitle style 1 laccei latin american and...

Click to edit Master title style

Click to edit Master subtitle style

1

LACCEI Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions

Maria Mercedes Larrondo Petrie, PhDAssociate Dean of International AffairsCollege of Engineering & Computer [email protected]

FAU Lunch and Learn, 6 November 20131 1

Maria Mercedes Larrondo Petrie, PhDAssociate Dean of International AffairsCollege of Engineering & Computer [email protected]

Globalizing FAU on 0 budget

FAU Lunch and Learn, 6 November 2013

LACCEI

Introduction

Benefits

Impact

Initiatives and Upcoming Grant Proposals

Future Plans


Introduction

The world economy is constantly and rapidly changing and creating new world challenges

There is an urgent call for a change in paradigm in engineering education to create the Global Engineer, in particular the Engineer for the Americas. Organization of American States’ Engineering for the Americas (EftA) The National Academies

The Engineering of 2020 (2004) Educating the Engineer of 2020 (2005) Rising Above the Gathering Storm (2006)

Engineers, technology and innovation are key elements for sustained economic development in both developed and emerging economies* *Source Lueny Morell, Global Colloquim 2007


Grand Challenges for EngineeringNational Academy of Engineering


Big Questions

What is the Educational Innovation and experiences needed to produce engineers that can be competitive in the global market, that impact economic and social development, and address the Grand Challenges?

How can we scale up initiatives effectively to a regional or national level?


Opportunities in the Latin America

Increasing efforts to develop accreditation initiatives in different countries or regions in Latin America

Government programs and mandates for graduate degrees increased funds and pool of potential students and professors seeking PhDs.

Easier to recruit students and professors in Latin America and the Caribbean – South Florida is a gateway

Increased awareness of importance of internationalization of academic programs in this hemisphere.

Extensive quantity of technical and natural resources available in the region which are sub-utilized.

Well established international programs and offices in many institutions in the region.

New U.S. programs to fund international collaborattive research


LACCEI

Idea originated at Florida International University 2002 at a gathering of Deans and Rectors during Engineering Week Gala

12 university founded LACCEI is 2003

Monterrey, Mexico


LACCEI

1st headquartered at FIU in 2007 headquarters moved to FAU In 2013,160+ universities in the Americas and

Europe are part of the consortium Initiatives are part

of OAS action plan

and done in collaboration

with other entities


LACCEI = International Collaboration


LACCEI - Example

Since 2005 been part of OAS Ministers of Science and Technology Plan of Action Charged with Engineering Education Innovation for

Engineering for the Americas Hemispheric Engineering Education Initiatives pass

through LACCEI Voice of Civil Society at the OAS COMCYT for past 6

years – will present next week in DC

Invited to meet with African Ministers in Dec.9 in Tunisia to propose collaborative initiatives am seeking funding to participate


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiative

2010 The Inter-American Year of Women (OAS) An opportunity to evaluate successes and challenges

in the defense of women’s human rights and gender equity and equality, and create awareness regarding gender issues.

“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


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiativeUS data

In the US, women make up about half of the total workforce and receive half of the degrees in certain scientific fields, yet they represent only about 20% of the nation’s scientific and technical workers (US-NA, 2007). (Beyond Bias and Barriers, National Academies of Science, 2006)

Percentage of STEM PhD degrees awarded to Women

Source: National Science Foundation (2006). Survey of Earned Doctorates, 1974-2004, Arlington, VA.


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiativeUS Data

Ten-year Comparison of Undergraduate Women Enrolled in Engineering Disciplines in the U.S 1998 - 2008

0

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

1998 2008

Women

All


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiativeUS data

% Women in Engineering Degree Programs in 1998 and 2008 (Summarized NSF data in Larrondo Petrie, Beltran Martinez, LACCEI 2010)

Degree % Women 1998

%Women 2008

% Change 1998-2008

BS 19.73% 17.53% -2.19%

MS 20.11% 21.60% 1.49%

PhD 17.50% 22.12% 4.62%

Total 19.61% 18.63% -0.98%


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiativeBRAZIL data

CNPq Census of Research Groups % of CNPq Census of Research Groups % of Women Researchers and Women Women Researchers and Women Group Leaders (2008)Group Leaders (2008)

Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)Alice Abreu (2010)

CNPq Census of Research GroupsCNPq Census of Research Groups

Researchers by Sex (%) – 1995-2008Researchers by Sex (%) – 1995-2008

Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions Gender Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)

Scientific AreasScientific Areas % of % of WomenWomen

% % Women Women Group Group

LeadersLeaders

Engineering and Engineering and Computer SciencesComputer Sciences

27.3127.31 21.9021.90

Exact Sciences and Exact Sciences and Earth SciencesEarth Sciences

33.7333.73 28.2128.21

Agrarian SciencesAgrarian Sciences 37.8637.86 32.2932.29

Applied Social SciencesApplied Social Sciences 47.6947.69 44.2044.20

Biological SciencesBiological Sciences 53.2953.29 51.2651.26

Health SciencesHealth Sciences 59.2759.27 55.4455.44

Human SciencesHuman Sciences 60.4060.40 56.3756.37

Arts and LinguisticsArts and Linguistics 66.4666.46 66.4966.49

TOTALTOTAL 48.8948.89 44.5244.52


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiativeBRAZIL data

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008

PhD 49.1 51.8 52.8 54.4 55.1

MSc 52.2 55.1 55.7 56.7 57.7

Undergraduates 58.2 58.1 57.4 58.5 59.5

Total 54.1 55.7 56.0 57.3 58.2

CNPq Census of Research GroupsPercentage of Women Students in Research Groups by Level 2000-2008

Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)Alice Abreu (2010)


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiativeEquity in LAC in STEM research?

Other countries in the Latin America and Caribbean

% of women enrolled in technological careers:-Chile: 15% (2007)

- Costa Rica: 20% (2004)

According to a 2009 UN study, 46% of STEM researchers in LAC are female, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela

have achieved gender parity. (Women and Girls in Science and Technology:

increasing opportunities in Educatiomn, Research and Employment, Eva M. Rathberger, UN, 2009)


OAS-LACCEI Women in STEM initiative

Next steps Identify 24 researchers in STEM gender research

in the Americas, and write proposal to gather them to design a hemispheric study to produce data that can be compared

Work with the researchers and the OAS Ministers of Science and Technology to gather the data

Analyze and publish Follow up grants proposal to understand the

differences and disseminate best practices


Engineering Education for Disaster Recovery Initiative

Launched in 2012 led by 3 Haitian Deanshttp://www.laccei.org/index.php/events/past-events/laccei-conference-2012/haiti-initiative



Requested: Redesign of curriculum and degrees to support the

rebuilding of Haiti and disaster recovery Earthquake Engineering – University of Buffalo

Design of laboratories Access and support for software on Cloud Professors to teach STEM courses or online courses in

any language Research collaborations in area of disaster prevention

and recovery. (Haitian National Labs)



Strategy: Grants (World Bank?) Virtual/Remote Labs (MOOLs) and private MOOCs (SPOCs), and Cloud

Collaborators: LACCEI: experts, infrastructure, double degrees,

research Canada provide Virtual/Remote Labs in French France and RCI provide MOOC in French, credits Haiti & Francophone Africa – partner in grant proposals

Next step: Invited to meet with African Ministers Dec 9 in Tunisia to

propose, but must find seed funding for travel.


International Certifications via MOOCs, MOOLs, SPOCs

IGIP International Engineering Pedagogist International certification has been given for 40 years

but curriculum content, methodologies and technology need to be updated

IGLU University Management and Leadership IGLU Institute has approached LACCEI to develop a

specialization for academic Engineering leaders.

Colaboration Community > 10,000 in the database, designing specialized

search engine for searching for academic or research collaborators


LACCEI

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 Student Research Competition – go to Global (recruit) ~500 participants, opportunities for organizing Symposia


LACCEI – Examples of conf. legacy

LACCEI 2011 - Colombia Develop a national infrastructure for pedagogy research

and training centers (linked to FAU as the hub) For Engineering Faculty Pedagogical Development For STEM High School Teacher Pedagogical Development NSF solicited LACCEI and awarded planning grant (Obama –

Colombia agreement) to design a high scale NSF grant under development

Guatemala wants to fund the model proposed

LACCEI 2014 – Ecuador Mobile Science and Technology Museum

Ioannis Miaoulis, President and Director of Boston Museum of Science gave keynote 2013 and is coming to meet in Dec.


Other initiatives

Increasing Internationally Accredited Engineering degree programs in LAC region

Engineering Student Leadership and globalization Hemispheric and Global Research Competition Global leadership training

Engineering Education for Competitiveness Hemispheric Curricular surveys and pedagogical

observatories cemters


LACCEI Benefits for FAU

Extremely high International visibility for FAU Increase international rankings and name recognition Increase graduate recruitment of students

Will be named OAS Center of Engineering for the Americas Plan to leverage Ministers to include FAU as a preferred

school for government fellowships

Opportunities for participating in grant proposals NSF awarded unsolicited planning grant European Union Africa


LACCEI Benefits for FAU

LACCEI Scholarships - $15,000+ a year tuition reduction without costing tuition waivers Eligibility

any citizen of Latin America or Caribbean (except Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands)

Graduate or Undergraduate, Any major. Currently the following colleges are offering:

Engineering and Computer Science Science Business Design and Inquiry

Requires small $250 per semester scholarship from the department or college from E&G funds

Promoted through LACCEI and its conference


Conclusions (1 of 2)

Latin America and the Caribbean have understood the importance of engineering and technology as a driving force for economic growth.

This is a region thirsty for knowledge, and development; it is also a region with opportunities and valuable human resources.

It is important that the academia, industry and government join and align efforts for educating world-class engineers

This is a multidisciplinary effort

LACCEI provides high benefit and opportunities to FAU at little or no cost


Gracias, Merci, Obrigado, Thank You

LACCEI Board of Directors

160+ Universities

www.LACCEI.org [email protected] Skype: LACCEI

click to edit master title style click to edit master subtitle style 1 laccei latin american and...

Documents