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NSF-LACCEI Workshop

This proposal is to support the NSF-LACCEI Workshop on the Global Engineering Education Challenge for the Americas, to be held in Tampico, Mexico May 29 – June 1, 2007, co-located with the Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology. These workshops will be cosponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), Universidad Valle del Bravo, and Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, and the Organization of American States. The aim of the workshops is to provide an enduring mechanism to promote education, research and best practices in forming world-class engineers for the Americas. Participants in these events will include scholars, graduate and undergraduate students from U.S., Mexico, and other Latin America and Caribbean countries. This proposal will support 20 participants from the U.S., including junior and senior researchers, undergraduate, and graduate students for each workshop. Women and underrepresented groups will be encouraged to participate. Funding for non-U.S. participants will be sought from the NSF-equivalent in Latin America and the Caribbean, and from industry, such as Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. Intellectual merit: The Engineering for the Americas Symposium’s Final Report urges the academic sector to develop a change in paradigm to educate the Engineer of the 21st Century, and in particular to focus on this Hemisphere. This urgent call is coming from all sectors, and clearly requires defining and facilitating experiences that would result in the Global Engineer. The European Union has defined and facilitated multi-national educational experiences important to capacity development in their area, but this has not been done for this hemisphere. This brings political, economic and cultural challenges that must be explored and resolved. Therefore, this workshop will bring together scholars, professionals from the private industry, representatives from government agencies, and students from the countries of the Americas to exchange ideas and experiences, explore research opportunities, develop international collaboration, and share resources with the ultimate goal of educating world class engineers for the Americas. Broad impact: This workshop is expected to have a significant impact on educators and students in this hemisphere, especially in establishing a community interested in working together to educate the engineer for the Americas. The participating faculty and students will define the experiences that could be implemented in their environment, and interact with other faculty, students and researchers from different countries in this hemisphere to form partnerships to carry out the experience in collaboration with other partners. The workshop will impact more than the participants as the paradigms developed and reports on experiences will be disseminated through workshop proceedings archived at the LACCEI website, student poster presentations and papers authored by collaborating teams presented at LACCEI conference, and papers authored by the PIs summarizing results, which will be published in engineering education conference proceedings. Besides, the participants will implement their proposed global engineering education experiences in their institutions, thus affecting even more students and faculty.

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Project Description

Title of workshop NSF – LACCEI WORKSHOP ON

THE GLOBAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION CHALLENGE FOR THE AMERICAS

Workshop goals, objectives and outcomes The aim of the workshop is to explore paradigms for building capacity in global engineering for the Americas. In particular, the goal is to provide an enduring mechanism to promote education, research and practice in global engineering design, innovation, and entrepreneurship for the formation of engineers in the Americas. The objectives of the workshop are to: 1. Define and disseminate global experiences and skills that industry and governments

are seeking in the global engineer, especially tuned to practice across the Western Hemisphere.

2. Recognize the importance of accreditation as a key factor for improving overall engineering education, and for facilitating the mobility of faculty and students in the region.

3. Disseminate best practices in global engineering educational experiences in the Americas.

4. Facilitate opportunities for faculty and students who are seeking global engineering experiences in the Americas, and form collaborating teams.

5. Provide an international forum for the collaborating teams to present their challenges, resolutions, and results, and provide opportunities to improve and enhance the global engineering educational experiences available in the Americas.

6. Follow and document the experiences of the collaborating teams formed in the workshop.

By the end of the workshop, the participants should be able to: 1. Describe the engineering design process, determine its importance in the

engineering curriculum, and apply the concept as a technique to provide open-ended problem-solving skills to challenges in the Americas.

2. Recognize the importance of international experience in the formation of engineers and provide opportunities incorporating multinational design projects in the curriculum and promoting mobility of faculty and students in the Americas.

3. Explain, differentiate and apply different techniques to enhance creativity and encourage innovation in engineering, and be aware of the challenges in applying them in different regions in a global setting.

4. Formulate and discuss the relationship between engineering design, innovation, product or system development, and entrepreneurship, and distinguish the role of education and research in the formation of the entrepreneurial engineers.

5. Recognize the important role of technology advances in the social development and economic growth of the nations.

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6. Develop and support international networks, collaborations, and research initiatives among institutions, faculty and students for promoting engineering design, innovation and entrepreneurship in the engineering institutions of the Americas.

7. Identify free or economical technology that will enable communications and collaboration with multinational team members

8. Identify a multinational project involving the Americas in which they will participate, and report on their experiences.

The PIs will publish the workshop materials as part of the workshop proceedings that

will be archived online, and will submit papers documenting the workshop results for publication in refereed international conference proceedings (ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE Global Consortium, INEER’s ICEE, ASIBEI Encuentro, and LACCEI Annual Conference). Statement of Need

The Engineering for the Americas (EFTA) initiative is an academic, industrial and government grass roots effort that has evolved over the past five years. Its aim is to enhance engineering and technology education in the Western Hemisphere, and to strive for mutual recognition of engineering graduates across national boundaries and cross-border trade agreements, facilitating the flow of work and human resources throughout the hemisphere to optimal locations for distributed economic development [1]. The IV Summit of the Americas recognized the importance of the initiative and the Organization of American States (OAS), Engineering for the Americas (EFTA), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) organized the Engineering for the Americas Symposium [2] at the end of last year in Lima, Peru. The Symposium focused on the needs of the productive sector for engineering graduates and capacity building; quality assurance in engineering education; and national planning for financing of upgrades to engineering education. The Final Report [2] calls for educational reforms at the regional level that include the needs of the productive sector and preparing new engineers with attributes certified by transparent accreditation systems, which will further professional mobility, investments levels, and therefore economic development. The Final Report [2] urges the academic sector to boost its collaboration with industry to develop a change in paradigm to educate the engineers of the 21st Century, which they describe as world class engineers, leaders, visionaries, and entrepreneurs, committed to the social environment and with a clear sense of the common good; an engineer who helps to create himself/herself, not look for work but create it.

In 2004 the National Academies published The Engineer of 2020 [3], followed in

2005 by Educating the Engineer of 2020 [4] in 2005. The National Academies was asked by representatives of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to formulate strategies policymakers could propose so the U.S. can successfully compete, prosper, and secure the global community of the 21st century. The resulting report, Rising above the Gathering Storm [5] was published in 2006.

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In June 2006, the American Society of Engineering Education International Division [6] met and expressed concern that Educating the Global Engineer was not a strategy presented in the National Academies report Rising above the Gathering Storm, and will be organizing sessions at the next ASEE annual conference on this topic.

This urgent call for a change in paradigm in engineering education to create the

Global Engineer, and in particular the Engineer for the Americas, is coming from all sectors, and clearly requires defining and facilitating experiences that would result in the Global Engineer. This workshop would gather faculty and students who have experiences or desire for experiences in this area, and experts with successful multi-national engineering education projects in this hemisphere to create collaborating teams that will explore different facets of this topic. A planned workshop for 2008 will focus on examining the results of the experiences and producing paradigms and best practices. Intellectual Merit

As stated in the previous section, the members of the ASEE International Division [6] have expressed concern that defining what educational experiences are needed to produce a Global Engineer was not included in the National Academies Rising above the Gathering Storm strategies. The Engineering for the Americas Symposium’s Final Report [2] urges the academic sector to develop a change in paradigm to educate the Engineer of the 21st Century, and in particular to focus on this Hemisphere. The European Union has defined and facilitated multi-national educational experiences important to capacity development in their area, but this has not been done for this Hemisphere. This brings political, economic and cultural challenges that must be explored and resolved. Therefore, this workshop will bring together scholars, professionals from the private industry, representatives from government agencies, and students from the countries of the Americas to exchange ideas and experiences, explore research opportunities, develop international collaboration, and share resources with the ultimate goal of educating world class engineers for the Americas.

Broader Impact

In the workshop, presentations will be made of successful educational experiences involving multiple countries in the Americas; the participating faculty and students will define the experiences that could be implemented in their environment, and interact with other faculty, students and researchers from different countries in this Hemisphere to form partnerships to carry out the experience in collaboration with other partners. It is expected that the teams will report on the results of their implementations at next year’s LACCEI conference. The paradigms developed and reports on experiences will be disseminated through workshop proceedings archived at the LACCEI website, student poster presentations and papers authored by collaborating teams presented at LACCEI conference, and papers authored by the PIs summarizing results published in engineering education conference proceedings (such as ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE Global Consortium, INEER’s ICEE Conference, ASIBEI Encuentro, and LACCEI Conference).

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This international workshop is designed with the goal of promoting the participation of undergraduate and graduate students and junior faculty, especially from under-represented groups, in international collaborative research and experiences. The workshop participants will also participate and interact with faculty and researchers attending the LACCEI conference who are actively seeking collaboration, and other workshop participants from outside of the U.S. who will be funded through other means.

The workshop will impact more than the participants, as the materials will be

disseminated in published online proceedings on the LACCEI web site, and distributed to all LACCEI Institutional Members. The participants will implement their proposed global engineering education experiences at their institutions, thus affecting more students and faculty. The multi-national collaborations with other institutions in this Hemisphere will expand the impact beyond the U.S. The PIs plan to present and publish the proposed plans resulting from the workshop and the results of the collaborations in international forums, such as LACCEI International Conference, ICEE International Conference, ASEE Global Colloquium, ASEE Conference, and ASIBEI Encuentro. PIs and co-organizers

PI: Asst. Prof. Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University – Delaware County, PA

Co-PI: Prof. Maria Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University, FL

Co-PI: Assoc. Prof. Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University – University Park, PA

Expertise of organizers and division of responsibilities

This workshop will be co-sponsored by the academia represented by the Latin American and the Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) [7] and will be co-located with the 2007 LACCEI Annual Conference, which will be held in Tampico, Mexico May 29 to June 1, 2007. In particular the LACCEI Institutional Members from Mexico that are hosting the 2007 conference, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and the Universidad Valle del Bravo, will be involved with local arrangements of the workshop and recruiting participation from Latin American and Caribbean.

Dr. Ivan Esparragoza (PI), an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State

University, is experienced in conducting global engineering design projects with universities in Latin America and the Caribbean, and serving on the organizing committee of the LACCEI conferences. He serves on the LACCEI board as a Regional Vice President (USA). In this capacity he introduced a multinational engineering design project initiative in 2004, which has grown from 18 teams from three institutions in three different countries (USA, Brazil and Colombia), to more than 100 students from nine different universities in six different countries (USA, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Honduras

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and Dominican Republic). Students who participated began presenting their designs in the 2006 LACCEI Conference Student Poster session, which Dr. Esparragoza co-organized. His successes in this area have been published in international conferences [8, 9, 10, 11]. He will be responsible for leading and coordinating the effort for the content of the workshop sessions, chairing and expanding the organizing committee, inviting presenters and coordinating the local logistics with Mexican host institutions, co-editing the workshop proceeding, and doing the follow-up and evaluation of the workshop.

Dr. Maria Larrondo-Petrie (Co-PI), is a Professor and Associate Dean of Academic

and International Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, at Florida Atlantic University, a compressive public university. The College of Engineering offers undergraduate through doctoral programs in six engineering disciplines. Dr. Larrondo-Petrie is the Executive Vice President and Vice President of Research of LACCEI. She previously served as organizing co-chair of two successful NSF and IEEE funded international workshops (each attended by 200 international and U.S. participants from industry and academia) and co-edited the proceedings [12, 13] which have at least 40 citations. She has also served in the capacity of Conference Chair, Technical Co-Chair, Proceedings Chair, and Organizing Chair of past LACCEI conferences, and organized the 2006 LACCEI Pre-Conference Workshop: Engineering Accreditation and Program Recognition for Latin American and the Caribbean, which was co-sponsored by the Organization of American States (OAS) and attended by 50 participants, and resulted in “The Turabo Declaration”. Dr. Larrondo-Petrie will serve as co-chair of the organizing committee and will be responsible for creating the web site for the conference, contacting additional potential sponsoring/funding partners (e.g., Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, IBM, OAS, ASIBEI, the NSF-equivalents in Latin America and the Caribbean), disseminating the advertisements of the workshop through the LACCEI database, co-editing the proceeding and archiving it on the LACCEI web site, and leading the writing of papers disseminating the results of the workshop.

Dr. Dhushy Sathianathan (Co-PI) is the head of Penn State’s School of Engineering

Design, Technology, and Professional Programs. The School offers and coordinates a wide range of engineering and engineering technology programs throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Some of the programs relevant to this proposal are Engineering Design (ED), Engineering Leadership Development (ELDM), and Engineering Entrepreneurship (E-SHIP). The ED program is based on the concept of integrated engineering design: the integration of the ideas, disciplines, people, and resources within engineering and beyond that are necessary to achieve optimal design solutions for products, systems, processes, and services. Strengths of the ED are the award winning first-year course, design methods, systems design, design cognition (decision making), global design with partners around the world, innovative design, service engineering, and client-based design project experiences. The ELDM program is an interdisciplinary minor designed for students who wish to supplement their major field of study with knowledge of leadership concepts, principles, practices, and techniques. The minor was developed as a result of strong industry, recruiter, and alumni support for training, educating, and developing engineers who are also capable

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leaders and managers. The E-SHIP program delivers a dynamic, truly multi-disciplinary minor that inspires and prepares undergraduate students to be world-class technology business innovators. Each student in the program develops or improves their entrepreneurial mindset, improving their leadership skills, tolerance for ambiguity, self-efficacy, communications skills, creativity, and teamwork. The full resource of these programs will be available to support the workshop proposed in this proposal. Dr. Dhushy Sathianathan along with the directors of Entrepreneurship and Leadership programs, Ms. Liz Kisenwether and Dr. Richard Schuhman, will lead these efforts. Dr. Sathianathan will be primarily responsible for coordinating workshop content and materials, running sessions, and serving as the U.S. Participant Coordinator.

The Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions is co-

sponsoring the workshop. LACCEI will disseminate the Call for Participation to its database, run the registration, and provide a link through its web site (http://www.laccei.org) for workshop announcement, management and archive the publication and materials. They have also offered to incorporate special workshop related sessions (tutorial, panel and Student Poster session). It will also ask its Partner Society Members (ASEE, ASIBEI, IFEES, ANFEI, ACOFI) to put a link on their website to the workshop web site. Workshop Description Motivation The establishment of new regional economic alliances beyond the frontiers of a single nation has required that engineers be prepared to work in an economy that is now best seen as essentially international in nature. Almost all major corporations now operate globally, and engineers are being challenged to design and develop, in a timely manner, new products that will impact a global market [8]. Due to this tendency, future engineers will be facing the new worldwide market where the barriers of the corporate world are disappearing. The global engineer must understand and accept diversity, be able to work in multi-national corporations, be able to work in multi-cultural teams, be able to propose solutions to problems impacting a wider and more diverse population, be able to communicate and socialize with people from different cultures, be able to use the technology to exchange ideas, solve problems and present solutions [9]. On the other hand, there is an increasing perception of the need for graduates of engineering to be creative thinkers and innovators from industry and professional associates [14]. Additionally, it is evident that technology is a predominant force in transforming underdeveloped regions into prosperous and high tech areas [15]. The transformation of Silicon Valley can be cited as an example, as well as the technological revolution experienced by many Asian countries such as Singapore, China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan where the investment and development in technology has transformed the economy and lifestyle of those countries. Finally, in recent years, fostering entrepreneurship has become a topic of the highest priority in public policy throughout most industrial countries. This trend can be attributed to the growing awareness that new firms are a driving force of economic growth and job creation [16]. As a result, the

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engineering entrepreneurship has became popular in many academic institutions due to the necessity of training the student to combine the technical knowledge with the business background for product conceptualization, innovation and design, technical feasibility analysis, and market research and analysis [17].

Fig. 1 It is evident that there exists a common ground where the engineering design, the international experience, the creativity and innovation, and the engineering entrepreneurship melt together as fundamental foundations for the technology progress necessary for economic development as depicted in Fig. 1. New financial models, where free trade agreements are being established in different regions, demand the formation of engineers with solid technical formation capable of working in cross-disciplinary and multinational teams. The new engineers for the Americas should be aware of the global nature of their profession, be versatile, creative and effective

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leaders to make the individual nations competitive and the new economic blocks sustainable and strong. This has been recognized in many developed countries and a great effort is being made to provide that formation for the new generation of engineers. Technology development is obtained mainly by investing in education and research to recruit and prepare the future engineers for discovering and implementing new advances in science and engineering. However, it has been observed that while universities in developed countries are teaching global design, engineering entrepreneurship, and forming alliances and consortiums to establish international collaborations, most of the educational institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean are behind in this type of initiative, with practically no engineering design and entrepreneurship courses, and few international projects. This lack of formation of Latin American and Caribbean engineers in the critical issues affecting the global market makes it difficult to generate a technology revolution in these countries, placing the whole region at a disadvantage compared to other regions. Therefore, recognizing the importance of technology in the progress of underdeveloped regions, and understanding the role of the future engineers in the advancement of technology, it is suggested to offer the proposed workshop as a forum for exchanging best practices, creating networks for international engineering educational experiences involving the Americas (research project collaboration, design projects collaboration, entrepreneurial project collaboration, and international internships) and sharing resources for promoting engineering design, innovation and entrepreneurship in the engineering institutions of the Americas. The topics suggested for the workshop are: • Leadership • Engineering Design and Global Design Projects • Service Learning in Engineering: International Opportunities • Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering • Engineering Education Accreditation in the Americas • Engineering for the Americas (EftA) Initiative • International Collaborative Research and Service Projects History of collaborative efforts among participants In 2002 a group of leading administrators, including presidents, deans and faculty of 12 universities from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Florida, U.S.A. met to explore different ways for the advancement of engineering education, research and practice in Latin America and the Caribbean. As a result of several meetings, it became clear that it was important to create an organization that could be used as a vehicle for advancement of engineering disciplines. Thus, the group decided to form the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI). LACCEI, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization headquartered at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

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The mission of LACCEI is to be the leading organization of Latin American and Caribbean Engineering Institutions that will bring innovations in engineering education and research, and emerge as a major force in this hemisphere to foster partnerships among academia, industry, government and private organizations for the benefit of the society and the nations.

The goals and objectives of LACCEI include the following:

Cooperation and partnerships among member institutions in the areas of engineering education, research, and technology advancement with emphasis on: • Faculty and student exchange • New and/or higher level academic programs • Dual/joint degree and certificate programs • Distance, continuing and e-education • Laboratory development and sharing of resources • Curriculum development, course equivalency and accreditation support • Faculty development including higher degrees • Industry internship, cooperative programs and career development • Joint training and research programs, and solicitation of funds • Development, commercialization and transfer of technology • Dissemination of scholarly achievements and other accomplishments by member

institutions.

This organization has served as vehicle for initial contacts and exploring ideas. Since 2003, LACCEI organizes an annual conference to integrate the Americas and papers are accepted in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French as an effort to include all the nations of this hemisphere. Its first conference was in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. In the 2nd LACCEI conference in 2004 Miami, Florida, a group of professors from the U.S., Colombia and Brazil started discussing the necessity of collaboration in the area of design through multinational design projects. In the 3rd LACCEI conference in 2005 Cartagena, Colombia a first work was presented regarding the importance of Global Design projects in the Engineering Curriculum in institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean [8]. In that year, the first international collaboration between institutional members of LACCEI took place. Initially, 18 teams from four different campuses, from three institutions in three different countries (U.S., Brazil and Colombia) participated in the first experience. By 2006, more than 100 students from nine different universities in six countries (U.S., Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Honduras, and Dominican Republic) have participated in the global design projects. Even though this initiative has had relative success, it is extremely important to have a forum to exchange ideas, discuss the best practices, define future directions in the international collaboration, establish the research agenda, and provide basic instruction to many professors with none or very limited training on this initiative. Besides that, there is a group of new instructors interested in entering the network for active participation that will require appropriate knowledge in this field. It is also important to create a web page devoted to this topic for dissemination of ideas, as a continuing forum of discussion, and for reliable technological tools for ongoing communication and collaboration. These initial experiences and the increasing obligation of properly educating the future

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engineers of the Americas have created the necessity of developing the proposed workshop. Organization of the Workshop

This workshop will be co-sponsored by the academia represented by LACCEI and the Division of Science and Technology of the Organization of American States (OAS). Universidad Valle del Bravo and Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey will host the meeting in Tampico, Mexico. Funds to fund the Latin American and Caribbean participants will be sought from the NSF-equivalents in those countries (see supporting letters from LACCEI institutions who have committed to seek funds in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and the Dominican Republic), and from private industry (see supporting letter from Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft has also expressed interest in assisting). Organizing Committee:

In addition to the Co-PIs, an organizing committee is being formed to distribute and

coordinate the effort: Chair:

Ivan Esparragoza, Penn State Delaware County, PA, USA Co-Chair:

Maria Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA North American Coordinators:

Dhushy Sathianathan, The Pennsylvania State University – University Park, PA, USA

Gustavo Roig, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA Deborah Wolfe, Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, Canada

Mexico (host country) Coordinators: Maria de Lourdes García, Universidad Valle del Bravo, Tampico, MX Rodolfo Castelló, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Tampico, MX Latin America and Caribbean Coordinators: Javier Páez, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, CO (ASIBEI, ACOFI) Clement Sankat, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago (CARICOM) Industry Coordinators: Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corp., San Juan, Puerto Rico Rafael Perez Colon, John Spencer, Jaime Puente, Microsoft, Washington, DC Government Agency Coordinator: Gala Redington, Organization of American States, Washington, DC Francis Aviles, CICY, Yucatan, Mexico

The Chair and Co-Chair will work with Industry Coordinators to develop in detail and finalize the content of the workshop to incorporate the perspective of what industry wants in a Global Engineer, particularly to work in the Americas. Additionally the Chair will be responsible for creating the material to be distributed, running the workshop and conducting an evaluation of the workshop. He will be in charge of all financial aspects of the conference. The Co-Chair will focus on communications with participants,

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academia, industry and government; and post-workshop publishing of materials for distribution on the web, and, together with the Chair, submitting papers for publication of results in international conference and journals.

The North America Coordinators, Latin American and Caribbean Coordinators and

Outside of the Americas Coordinators will concentrate on identifying leaders in Global Engineering Education to assist in providing the speakers, content and examples successful projects.

The Mexican Coordinators will be primarily responsible for the local arrangements

and determining the cultural, academic and industry tours. The Industry Coordinators and Government Coordinators will provide strategies of

funding the non-US participants; as well as assisting in gathering the industry perspective on the desired experiences and skills a Global Engineer for the Americas should have.

LACCEI will disseminate the Call for Participation to its database, run the

registration, and provide a link through its web site (http://www.laccei.org ) for workshop announcements and management, and archive the publication and materials. They have also offered to incorporate special workshop related sessions (tutorial, panel and Student Poster session). It will also ask its Partner Society Members (ASEE, ASIBEI, IFEES, ANFEI, and ACOFI) put a link on their website to the workshop. Location, Dates and Method of Invitation:

The workshop will be held in Tampico, Mexico May 29 – June 1, 2007 co-located with the 5th LACCEI Conference on Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology. The proposed workshop is directed to researchers, instructors, students and administrators interested in the formation of the engineer for the Americas. Therefore, the participants will come from academic institutions, and industry located primarily in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. If this proposal is approved, U.S. participants will be funded by this grant. Funds are being sought from industry and NSF-equivalents to host the non-U.S. participants.

The workshop will be announced on the web page of LACCEI and an electronic

invitation will be send to all the institutions members of the consortium. Additionally, the workshop will be also announced in all the flyers, bulk mail, and all the other means used to promote the LACCEI conference. Due to the nature of the LACCEI organization, underrepresented minorities will be encouraged to participate. The workshop will be open to all participants, but the program will be limited to the first fifty people registered via the electronic web page that will be designed for this purpose.

In 2007 up to 20 U.S. scholars, graduate and undergraduate students will be

supported with funds obtained from this proposal. The researchers, students and speakers from Mexico will be sponsored by the local organizing universities. All other

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participants will be funded by their home institutions although an attempt is being made to obtain funds from other agencies and the private industry to support the participation of scholars and students from institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Structure of the Workshop:

The meeting will consist of plenary, tutorials, poster and interactive sessions. Each

session will have a moderator; the plenary sessions will have one or two invited speakers and at the end of each session there will be time for open discussion and exchange of ideas. The tutorial sessions will be designed to provide in-depth instructions in the workshop topics. During the poster session students and researchers participating will present design and/or entrepreneurship projects for case discussions, networking, and for fostering collaboration. The last session will be an interactive session where the participants will be divided into small groups with common interests to exchange ideas and propose future directions. This final session will be also devoted to planning a listing of collaborative initiatives organized around the emergent issues of the meeting. The final conclusions from each group will be summarized during the conclusion gathering, recollected as memories of the meeting, and published on a web page for future reference. Additionally, a technical tour will be part of the program. During this tour students will visit labs and facilities of the campuses of the host universities (Universidad Valle del Bravo, and Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Tampico, Mexico).

Students will have the opportunity to participate in the technical program and

exhibits of LACCEI conference, some sessions will be especially designed to complement and expand on the topics of the conference. This will be an excellent opportunity for them to identify research topics, meet professors, mentors, and students from other countries, and explore educational and professional opportunities abroad, as well as seek ideas and connections for their collaborative experience.

The organizers will work with the scholars to organize the content and guide the

process of the activities during the meeting. The agenda for 2007 will unfold as follows (titles are tentative, pending more extended discussions with the senior scholars):

Day one: LACCEI Pre-Conference Workshop Session

8:15 – 8:45 AM Welcome and Introductions 8:45 – 10:15 AM Plenary: Leadership 10:15 – 10:30 AM Break 10:30 – 12:00 AM Plenary: Global Engineering Design 12:00 – 1:30 PM Networking lunch 1:30 – 3:00 PM Plenary: Creativity and Innovation in Engineering 3:00 – 3:15 PM Break 3:15 – 4:00 PM Plenary: Engineering Entrepreneurship 4:00 – 5:00 PM Plenary: Research and International Collaboration Opportunities 5:00 – 6:00 PM Break

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6:00 – 9:00 PM Networking Dinner Day two: Concurrent with LACCEI Conference

9:00 – 9:30 AM Conference Opening 9:30 – 10:30 AM Plenary: Engineer for the Americas (EftA) Initiative 10:30 – 10: 45 AM Break 10:45 – 12:15 PM Tutorial: Global Design Projects in the Curriculum 12:15 – 1:45 PM Networking lunch 1:45 – 2:45 PM Plenary: Entrepreneurial Engineer for the Americas 2:45 – 3:00 PM Break 3:00 – 5:00 PM Technical Tour – Visit to local Universities 5:00 – 6:30 PM Free time 6:30 – 9:00 PM Networking dinner

Day three: Concurrent with LACCEI Conference

9:00 – 10:00 AM Plenary: Invited Speaker 10:00 – 10: 15 AM Break 10:15 – 12:00 AM Tutorial: Engineering Entrepreneurship in the Curriculum 12:00 – 1:30 PM Networking lunch 1:30 – 2:30 PM Plenary: Invited Speaker 2:30 – 2:45 PM Break 2:45 – 5:00 PM Poster session 5:00 – 6:30 PM Free time 6:30 – 9:00 PM Networking dinner

Day four: Concurrent with LACCEI Conference

8:00 – 10:00 AM Interactive session: Working groups • Global Design Projects • Entrepreneurship Projects • Research Projects

10:00 – 11:00 AM Organization of Collaborative Teams 11:00 – 12:00 PM Conclusions and Plan for Going Forward: Report at LACCEI

Closing Panel 12:00 – 1:00 PM Networking lunch and Closure

Final Assessment and Future Directions

A survey will be distributed among the participants at the end of the workshop with the idea of collecting information about the content, pace, and quality of the workshop. The survey will be used also to identify areas of interest for research and collaboration beyond those discussed in the regular meetings.

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For 2008, there is a follow-up planned workshop with a similar format. However, the topics will be revised and modified in consultation with the senior scholars. The follow-up workshop will be designed to give the participants an opportunity to work together to present lessons learned, propose best practices based on their experiences, interact with industry to help define what experiences and skills are needed for a Global Engineer for the Americas, and formulate new projects with enhanced experiences.

The workshop is the first step of an ongoing process to support all the initiatives for

the formation of the engineer for the Americas. This program will serve as a platform for the generation of ideas for global design projects and research activities, for networking, and for improvement in engineering education. The long term vision is to establish the Center for Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship for the Americas (C-IDEAS) with the support of academia, private industry and the government.

All the presentations and the results of the conclusions will be posted on a LACCEI

web page that will be designed for this program. A technological solution will be established to continue the discussion via on-line means. Additionally, the conclusions will be taken to the Executive Board of LACCEI and to the EFTA committee for further recommendations and implementation. Some practical recommendations will be suggested for immediate application in the engineering curriculum that should have a direct impact in the formation of future engineers in the Americas. Participants The following individuals will be invited to participate (junior scholars are underlined). Again, NSF funds are sought only for those residing in the United States as indicated by an asterisk:

U.S Participants: *Manuel Bermudez, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science and

Engineering, University of Florida, U.S. Michel Borgeron, Chief Division of Science and Technology, Organization of

American States, U.S. (Will provide own funding) *Richard Devon, Professor Engineering Design Program, Penn State – University

Park, U.S. *Ivan E. Esparragoza, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Penn State Delaware

County, U.S. *Jorge Gonzalez, Professor Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara University, U.S. *Juan Hinestroza, Assistant Professor College of Human Ecology, Cornell

University, U.S. *Liz Kinsenwether, Director of Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, Penn State –

University Park, U.S. *Maria Larrondo-Petrie, Associate Dean for Academic and International Affairs,

Florida Atlantic University, U.S. *Marybeth Lima, Assistant Professor, Louisiana University, US

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*Oscar Ortiz, Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering, LeTourneau University, U.S.

*Dhushy Sathianathan, Head of School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs, Penn State – University, U.S.

International Participants: (to be funded through other means) Mauricio Aguilar, Nucleus of Studies and Projects in Technological Education,

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Narciso Arméstar, Director of Industrial Engineering, Universidad Peruana de

Ciencias Aplicadas, Peru Darwin Alvarez, Instructor of Engineering, Universidad Católica de Santa Maria,

Peru Rodolfo Castello, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico Ma. Lourdes Garcia, Chancellor Universidad Valle Del Bravo Campus Tampico,

Mexico Delmar Gutierrez, Director of Basic Sciences of Engineering, Universidad Autonóma

de Occidente, Colombia Noel Leon, Director Program of Automobile Design, Instituto Tecnológico de

Monterrey, Mexico Alfredo Marin, Instructor of Engineering Graphics, University of Technology, Jamaica Heriberto Maury, Professor of Engineering, Universidad Del Norte, Colombia Lueny Morell, Director of University Relations for Latin America, Hewlett Packard,

Puerto Rico Jared Ocampo, Instructor of Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica

Centroamericana, Honduras Cecilia Paredes, Vice-Dean of Engineering, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral,

Ecuador Yirvin Rivera, Coordinator of Engineering, Universidad APEC, Dominican Republic Santos Navarro, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Universidad APEC, Dominican

Republic Carlos Rodriguez, Professor of Production Engineering, Universidad EAFIT,

Colombia Manuel J. Serafin, Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering, Unexpo, Venezuela Additionally, NSF funds are sought to support the participation of up to 10 students

from the U.S. who will be invited in consultation with participating scholars with whom the students should be involved in projects related to or of interest to the themes of the meeting. Funds from other sources will support the involvement of students from the Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Committee on Capacity Building Report to the National Academies, 2005. http://www7.nationalacademies.org/guirr/1Jones.ppt#256,1,INTERNATIONAL

S&T INITIATIVES FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT [2] Final Report, Engineering for the Americas Symposium: Capacity Building for Job

Creation and Hemispheric Competitiveness, Lima, Peru, 29 November – 2 December 2005. http://www.oest.oas.org/engineering/espanol/documentos/Informe_Final_ENG.pdf

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[5] Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, National Academies Press, Washington, DC, Pre-Publication Version February 2006.

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Meeting Minutes, ASEE Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 19 June 2006. [7] Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, LACCEI http://www.laccei.org [8] Esparragoza, I.E. and Devon, R. 2005, Developing the global design curriculum in

Latin America and the Caribbean through multi-national projects. Proceedings of the 3rd Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology, 8-10 June 2005, Cartagena, Colombia.

[9] Esparragoza, I.E., 2005, International experience for freshman engineering students through multi-national global design projects, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE-2005, 25-29 July 2005, Gliwice, Poland, Vol. 2, 479-483.

[10] Esparragoza, I.E., Gutierrez, D., Aguilar, M., Maury, H., Penagos, J.W., Alvarez, D.W., and Ocampo, J.R., 2006, Building international collaboration experiences among LACCEI institutions through global design projects, Proceedings of the 4th International Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology, LACCEI-2006 21-23 June 2006, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

[11] Esparragoza, I.E., and Devon, R. F., 2006, Engineering design education in the Americas: Perception vs. curriculum commitment, International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE-2006, 23-28 July 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

[12] France, R.B. and Larrondo-Petrie M.M. (eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Industrial Strength Formal Specification Techniques, WIFT'98, Boca Raton,

Florida, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1998.

[13] France R.B., Gerhart, S. and Larrondo-Petrie, M.M (eds.), Proc.IEEE Workshop on Industrial Strength Formal Specification Techniques, WIFT'95, Boca Raton, FL, USA, April 5-8, 1995, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1995.

[14] http://www.ijee.dit.ie/forum/forum1home.html [15] Lécuyer, C. 2001. Technology and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/ [16] Franke, N and Luthje, C. 2003. Patterns and Factors Impacting Entrepreneurial

Propensity of Students. WU-WITH-Conference of the research focal point "Entrepreneurship and innovation management" Edition 54/03, Sep. 26, 2003.

[17] Sathianathan, D. 2002. The Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship: An Evolving Facility to Support Curricular Innovations. Proceedings 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Nov. 6-9, 2002, Boston, MA. F4F13-F4F19

Ivan E. Esparragoza The Pennsylvania State University – Delaware County

25 Yearsley Mill Road, Media, PA 19063 Office: (610) 892 1420 Fax: (610) 892 1490

E-mail: [email protected] PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

Universidad Del Norte, Mechanical Engineering, BS., 1987 Florida International University, Mechanical Engineering, MS., 1993 Florida International University, Mechanical Engineering, PhD., 1998

APPOINTMENTS: 2001 – Present Assistant Professor of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University 1998 – 2001 Visiting Assistant Profesor, Florida International University 1996 – 1998 Instructor, Florida International University 1993 – 1998 Research Assistant, Florida International University 1989 – 1991 Superintendent, Aserradero Covadonga S.A. 1988 Lecturer, Universidad Del Norte

PUBLICATIONS: Related Publications • Esparragoza, I.E., and Devon, R.F., 2006. Engineering design education in the

Americas: Perception vs. curriculum commitment. Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE2006), July 23-28, 2006. T4E-1 – T4E-7.

• Esparragoza, I.E., Gutierrez, D., Aguilar, M., Maury, H., Penagos, J.W., Alvarez. D.W., and Ocampo, J.R., 2006. Building international collaboration experiences among LACCEI institutions through global design projects. 4th International Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCEI 2006), June 21-23, 2006, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

• Esparragoza, I.E., 2005. International experience for freshman engineering students through multi-national global design projects, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE-2005, 25-29 July 2005, Gliwice, Poland, Vol. 2, 479-483.

• Esparragoza, I.E. and Devon, R., 2005. Developing the global design curriculum in Latin America and the Caribbean through multi-national projects. Proceedings of the 3rd Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCEI 2005), 8-10 June 2005, Cartagena, Colombia

• Azemi, A., and Esparragoza, I.E., 2005. Problem-based collaborative projects in and between freshman and sophomore engineering courses. Proceedings of IMECE 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 5-11 November 2005, Orlando, FL. IMECE2005-81693.

Other Publications: • Esparragoza, I.E., 2005. Plastic stresses at the tip of a crack impinging perpendicularly

the interface of two different elastic-plastic materials, International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 2, 207-216.

• Esparragoza, I.E., 2005. The anti-plane shear problem of debonding of two solids made of power law hardening materials, International Journal of Fracture, 131, 289-296.

• Esparragoza, I.E, Aziz, A.H., Damle, A.S., 2003. Temperature distribution along a fiber embedded in a matrix under steady state conditions, Composites Part B: Engineering, 34, 429-436.

• Esparragoza, I. E., 2000. Plastic stresses at the interface crack tip between two different elastic-plastic bonded solids, J. Adhesion Sci. Technology, Vol. 14, No. 13, 1627-1638.

• Cherepanov, G. P., and Esparragoza, I. E., 1995. The problem of pullout, Materials Science and Engineering, A203, 332-342.

FUNDED PROJECTS (2004) Study of the perturbed region close to the interface of a single fiber embedded in a

matrix. Funded by the Commonwealth College at Penn State University. (2003) Stationary target position estimation (using a CCD camera) with applications to

sensorless robot. Funded by the Commonwealth College at Penn State University. (2001) Temperature distribution and thermal stresses analysis of a fiber embedded in a

matrix. Funded by the Commonwealth College at Penn State University.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES: Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI)

2006 – Present: Associate Editor, Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Engineering Education

2006 – Present: Technical Chair, 5th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCEI 2007)

2006 – Present: Vice-President for Distance, Continuing, and e-Education 2004 – Present: Member Organizing Committee LACCEI Conferences (3rd, 4th, and 5th) 2004 – 2006: Vice-President for Region I (North America)

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2006 – Present: Elected Officer Member at Large, Division of Minorities in Engineering

International Network for Engineering Education and Research (iNEER) 2005 – 2006: Reviewer for Innovations 2006 – World Innovations in Engineering

Education and Research 2005 – 2006: Member of International Steering Committee for the International

Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE 2006

COLLABORATORS: Asad Azemi - Penn State University, Genady Cherepanov – Academy of Science, Richard Devon - Penn State University, Cesar Levy - Florida International University, Maria Larrondo-Petrie – Florida Atlantic University, Heriberto Maury – Universidad Del Norte (Colombia), Mauricio Aguilar – Universidade Federal Juiz de For a (Brazil), Delmar Gutierrez - Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Colombia), José Penagos - Corporación Universitaria de La Costa (Colombia), Jared Campo - Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (Honduras), Darwin Alvarez - Universidad Católica de Santa Maria (Perú), Carlos Rodriguez - Universidad EAFIT (Colombia).

MARIA M. LARRONDO PETRIE, PhD Florida Atlantic University

777 Glades Road, SE-308, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 Office: 561 297-3899, FAX: 561 297-1111

http://www.cse.fau.edu/~maria Email: [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION Institution Major Degree Year Barry University, Miami, FL Mathematics BS 1973 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Computer Science MCS 1986 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Computer Engineering PhD 1992

APPOINTMENTS 1985- Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA 2003- Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering - Academic & International Affairs 2002-2003 Associate Professor & Associate Dean of Engineering, Academic & International Affairs 1998-2002 Tenured Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, College of Engineering 1992-1998 Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, College of Engineering 1985-1992 Instructor of Computer Science, College of Business 1993 U. IberoAmericana, México. Vis. Lecturer, Informática, Awarded: Medallón San Ignacio 1983 Broward Community College, FL Adjunct Instructor, Computer Science 1981 Lynn University, FL Adjunct Instructor, Mathematics 1973-1992 Palm Beach County Public School District, FL High School Teacher (Computer Dept. Chair, Dir. Math, Science, Eng. & Hi-Tech Magnet)

PUBLICATIONS: over 130 refereed publications with 109 external citations. Selected pedagogical publications: [1] M. M. Larrondo Petrie, “An Engineering Education Capability Maturity Model,” invited paper to

appear in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference Global Colloquium, ASEE’06, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 9-12 October 2006.

[2] M. M. Larrondo Petrie, “MIND Links 2006: Resources to Motivate Minorities to Study and Stay in Engineering,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, ASEE’06, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 19-21 June 2006.

[3] M. M. Larrondo Petrie, “International Recognition of Engineering Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean”, in Memorias del V Encuentro Iberoamericano de Instituciones de Enseñanza de la Ingeniería, Morelia, México, 4-7 December 2005, ASIBEI, 2005.

[4] M. M. Larrondo Petrie, “A Model for Assessment of Engineering Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Strategy to Significantly Increase Hispanics in the Engineering Workforce and Graduate Programs,” in Proc. Hispanics in Engineering National Conference, 26-29 October 2004, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2004.

[5] M. M. Larrondo Petrie, “Towards an Engineering Education Capability Maturity Model,” invited paper in Proceedings of the 3rd American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) International Colloquium on Engineering Education, Beijing, China, 4-10 September 2004.

[6] K. K. Stevens, S. M. Schlossberg and M. M. Larrondo Petrie, “Students to Engineering Practice,” in Proc.American Society for Engineering Education Conference, ASEE’2004”, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20-24 June 2004.

[7] M. K. Hamza, B. Alhalabi, S. Hsu, M. M. Larrondo-Petrie, and D. M. Marcovitz, "Remote Labs: The next high-tech step beyond simulation for distance education," in Journal of Computers in the Schools, 19(3/4), The Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY, 2002, pp. 171-190.

[8] M. M. Larrondo-Petrie, R. B. France, and J-M. Bruel, "Introducing Formal Specification Techniques into the Undergraduate Software Engineering Curriculum," in Proceedings of Exploring Formal Methods in the Computer Science Curriculum Workshop, New York, July 24-26, 1996. Citation: 1

[9] G. S. Owen, M. M. Larrondo-Petrie and C. Laxer, “Computer Graphics Curriculum: Time for Change?,” Computer Graphics, 28 (3), August 1994, ACM, 183-185. Citations: 6

[10] R. B. France, S. Gerhart and M. M. Larrondo-Petrie (eds.), Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Industrial Strength Formal Specification Techniques, WIFT ’95, Boca Raton, FL, USA, April 5-8, 1995, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1995. Funded by NSF and IEEE. Citations: 36

[11] M. M. Larrondo-Petrie, E. Gudes, H. Song and E. B. Fernandez, "Security policies in object oriented databases" in Database Security II: Status and Prospects, D. Spooner and C.E. Landwehr, eds., North-Holland Press, (1990), 257-268. Citations: 5

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Selected Research Grant/Contract Activities Have led sponsored research as FAU faculty totaling $2,400,000 since fiscal year 1994. Grants within last 5 years appear below. 2004-2006 Defense Information Security Agency. Role: Co-Principal Investigator, $251,400 Secure Web Services in the Wireless Environment. 2004-2008 National Science Foundation. Role: Co-Principal Investigator, $396,000. An Industry-Academic Partnership for Students in STEM Disciplines. 2003-2006 State of Florida Governor’s Grant. Role: Principal Investigator, $84,622. Engineering Scholars Program, summer enhancement for mathematically gifted 10-12 graders. 2003-2004 Broward County. Role: Principal Investigator, $20,602 Broward County Department of Environmental Operations. Engineering internships for

underrepresented minorities 1999-2001 Internet Protection Resources. Role: Principal Consultant Consultant to new start-up corporation. Designed and implemented new secure credit-card

web payment prototype (using UML, HTML, Java and RSA SecurIDs), Security Master Plan.

Leadership Activities Organization of American States (OAS) 2005-2006 Invited Panelist, Engineering for the Americas Symposium, Lima, Peru, 19-20 October 2005.

Organizer, OAS-LACCEI co-sponsored Latin American & Caribbean Engineering Program Recognition Workshop, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 18 June 2006.

Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) 2002-2003 Elected Vice President of Founding Board and Appointed Co-Chair of International

Research Collaboration 2003-2006 Elected Vice President of Research. Member of Board of Directors, Program Co-Chair

LACCEI’03 &’04. Program Chair LACCEI’05, Technical Co-Chair LACCEI 06. 2005-2006 Appointed Executive Vice President, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2003-2007 Elected, Member-At-Large, on the Board of Minorities in Engineering Division, ASEE 2005-2007 Elected, Secretary-Treasurer, on the Board International Division, ASEE International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) 2005-2006 Appointed LACCEI and Upsilon Pi Epsilon Liaison to IFEES Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) 1994-1999 Appointed Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Science Curriculum Committee Published 1 journal and 2 proceeding papers, organized panel attended by 5,000 educators. 1994-1999 Appointed Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee International Workshop for Industrializing Formal Specification Techniques (WIFT), 1995,1997 Co-PI, NSF-IEEE-funded workshop. Co-editor procs 2 pub. by IEEE, received 40+ citations. Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society for the Computing Sciences (UPE) 1993-1999 Elected to International Executive Council. Elected International President, 1996-1997. Palm Beach County School Board 2003-2004 Appointed Chair, Advisory Council for Engineering & Info. Technology Academies 1980-2004 Curriculum Writer. Authored 5 Curriculum Guides adopted District-wide as standard in

Mathematics, Gifted, and Computer Science. Trained in Cooperative Learning, Learning Styles, and Teaching in International Baccaulareate Programs.

Florida Atlantic University 1998-2004 Center for Advanced Development for Educational Technology Co-developed Remote Lab

for viewing, controlling, and reporting via the web live science and engineering experiments.

COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS within past 5 years

Collaborators and Co-Editors: B. Alhalabi, A. Bretan, N. Delessy-Gassant A. E. Escobar, E. B. Fernandez, M. K. Hamza, S. Hsu, T. Sorgente, S. Schlossberg, N. Seliya, K.Stevens, Y. Yong – FAU., Peter Breuer – U. Carlos III, M. Hinchey - NASA, S. Lostal - South Florida Water Management District.

Graduate and PostGraduate Advisors: Eduardo B. Fernandez – FAU, Neal Coulter – U.North Florida

Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor: A. E. Escobar, Q. Huang, K. Jin, S. Lostal, I. Portnoy, G. Raghavan, M. Sadicoff, M. Saksena, M. Shroff, L. Thampi, H. K. Vijanagaram.

DHUSHY SATHIANATHAN EDUCATION Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (December 1991) M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (August 1986) B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University (May 1984) APPOINTMENTS Department Head (2004 – present)

School of Engineering Design, Technology, & Professional Programs (SEDTAPP), Penn State. The School offers minors in Engineering Entrepreneurship, Engineering Leadership, and introductory design courses to 1,800 students entering the engineering majors. The School also provides leadership to 8 Associate Degree programs in Engineering Technology (Architectural, Biomedical, Electrical, Materials, Mechanical, Nano-Manufacturing, Telecommunications, and Surveying) and Baccalaureate Degrees in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology and Surveying. The Division has 66 faculty appointments and 50% are tenure appointments. All degree programs are ABET accredited or in the process of accreditation.

Interim Head, School of Engineering Design, Technology, & Professional Programs (2002-04) Director, The Center for Engineering Design & Entrepreneurship, Penn State (July 2001 – June

2003) Interim Director, Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, Penn State (January – May 2001) Welliver Faculty Fellow, The Boeing Company, Space Communication System, CA (Summer

2001) Division Chair of Engineering Design, Penn State (July 1998 – June 2002) Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Penn State (July 1997) Assistant Professor of Engineering Design, Penn State (August 1991 – June 1997) PUBLICATIONS (Selected Educational/Pedagogical) * Doctoral students supervised by candidate Bjorklund*, S. A., Parente*, J. M., and Sathianathan, D. “Effects of Faculty Interaction and

Feedback on Gains in Student Skills.” Journal of Engineering Educati, April 2004, Wise, J. C., Sathianathan, D., and Colledge, T. “Student Assessment of Faculty Performance: An

Alternate Approach.” Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings 2002. (Nominated as top 10 paper in the conference)

Sathianathan, D., S. Tavener, K. Voss, S. Armentrout, P. Yaeger*, and R. Marra. 1999. Using Applied Engineering Problems in Calculus Classes to Promote Learning in Context and Teamwork. Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. CD-publication #1292.

Silva*, K., and Sathianathan, S. 1999. Strategies for Enhancing Articulation to Satisfy ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. CD-publication #1020.

Sathianathan, D. 1997. Faculty Collaboration and Course Coordination in Geographically Dispersed Campuses. Frontiers in Education. CD-publication, Session T1D.

PUBLICATIONS (Selected Technical) Yaeger*, P., F. Costanza, G. Gary, R. Marra, and D. Sathianathan. 1999. Interactive Dynamics:

Effects of Student-Centered Activities. Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. CD-publication #1290.

Engel, R. S., M. A. Winstock, J. P. Campbell, and D. Sathianathan. 1996. Pipe Flow Simulation Software: A Team Approach to Solve an Engineering Education Problem. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, v.7, n.2, pp. 65-77.

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Devon, R., R. Engel, R. J. Foster, D. Sathianathan, and G. Turner. 1994. The Effect of Solid Modeling Software on 3-D Visualization Skills. The Engineering Design Graphics Journal, v.58, n.2, pp.4-11.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Dr. Sathianathan is the Head of the School which delivers 2 Baccalaureate Degree Programs and 8 Associate Degree Programs in Engineering Technology at 12 campus locations of the Penn State system. The School has approximately 66 full-time faculty distributed at 12 sites, 50% of them being tenure-track appointments.

In the mid 1990’s, Dr. Sathianathan led a multi-campus initiative to develop a first-year design curriculum to enhance retention of engineering students in the College; it was implemented at 19 Penn State campuses. This effort developed an infrastructure to support active, collaborative, and industry supported project-based learning initiatives. The competency-based curriculum implementation was a multi-year effort supported by approximately $2 million from NSF-ECSEL, AT&T, and the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Sathianathan was involved in a multi-institution effort to recruit, retain, and enhance pathways to engineering for underrepresented minorities in engineering. Dr. Sathianathan was one of three Co-PIs for the NSF funded ECSEL (Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education & Leadership) coalition (NSF Grant#634066D), which involved 7 leading institutions within the US (MIT, U of Maryland, CCNY, U of Morgan, Howard U, U of Washington, and Penn State). This was a $15 million initiative funded for a period of 5 years. Dr. Sathianathan provided leadership in developing over 20 different outreach and retention programs. These programs were targeted at middle-school and high-school students, secondary school teachers, and orientation programs for entering first-year students. Many of these programs are currently run through the Multi-Cultural Engineering Programs and Women in Engineering Programs at the various institutions involved in the coalition. Well over 70% of the projects initiated by the ECSEL coalition are institutionalized with internal and external sources of funding. These initiatives also involved working with the College of Education, Community Colleges, and industry partners at the various coalition institutions. Much of the challenge was building sustainable long-term programs with measurable outcomes. COLLABORATORS (Graduate Thesis Committees at Penn State)

Jun Yang Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (10/2002 to present) Matthew Frank Ph.D. in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering (12/2000 to graduation

7/2003) Basil Nanayakkara Ph.D. in Mathematics (9/1998 to present) Byungsoo Kim Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (9/1995 to graduation 12/2002) Chittin Tangthieng Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (11/1999 to graduation in 5/2002) Patty Yaeger Ph.D. in Higher Education (6/1998 to graduation in 5/2002) Kathleen Silva Ph.D. in Higher Education (2/1999 to graduation in 5/2000)

(Funded Projects & Publications at Penn State) John Parente Ph.D. in Higher Education (1997-2002) Stephanie Bjorklund Ph.D. in Higher Education (1997-2002)

(Ph.D Thesis Advisor) Dr. John Cimbala Penn State University

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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR / PROJECT DIRECTOR AWARD NO.

A. SENIOR PERSONNEL: PI/PD, Co-PI’s, Faculty and Other Senior Associates (List each separately with title, A.7. show number in brackets) CAL ACAD SUMR

$ $1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6. ( ) OTHERS (LIST INDIVIDUALLY ON BUDGET JUSTIFICATION PAGE)

7. ( ) TOTAL SENIOR PERSONNEL (1 - 6)

B. OTHER PERSONNEL (SHOW NUMBERS IN BRACKETS)

1. ( ) POST DOCTORAL ASSOCIATES

2. ( ) OTHER PROFESSIONALS (TECHNICIAN, PROGRAMMER, ETC.)

3. ( ) GRADUATE STUDENTS

4. ( ) UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

5. ( ) SECRETARIAL - CLERICAL (IF CHARGED DIRECTLY)

6. ( ) OTHER

TOTAL SALARIES AND WAGES (A + B)

C. FRINGE BENEFITS (IF CHARGED AS DIRECT COSTS)

TOTAL SALARIES, WAGES AND FRINGE BENEFITS (A + B + C)

D. EQUIPMENT (LIST ITEM AND DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR EACH ITEM EXCEEDING $5,000.)

TOTAL EQUIPMENT

E. TRAVEL 1. DOMESTIC (INCL. CANADA, MEXICO AND U.S. POSSESSIONS)

2. FOREIGN

F. PARTICIPANT SUPPORT COSTS

1. STIPENDS $

2. TRAVEL

3. SUBSISTENCE

4. OTHER

TOTAL NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS ( ) TOTAL PARTICIPANT COSTS

G. OTHER DIRECT COSTS

1. MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES

2. PUBLICATION COSTS/DOCUMENTATION/DISSEMINATION

3. CONSULTANT SERVICES

4. COMPUTER SERVICES

5. SUBAWARDS

6. OTHER

TOTAL OTHER DIRECT COSTS

H. TOTAL DIRECT COSTS (A THROUGH G)

I. INDIRECT COSTS (F&A)(SPECIFY RATE AND BASE)

TOTAL INDIRECT COSTS (F&A)

J. TOTAL DIRECT AND INDIRECT COSTS (H + I)

K. RESIDUAL FUNDS (IF FOR FURTHER SUPPORT OF CURRENT PROJECTS SEE GPG II.C.6.j.)

L. AMOUNT OF THIS REQUEST (J) OR (J MINUS K) $ $

M. COST SHARING PROPOSED LEVEL $ AGREED LEVEL IF DIFFERENT $

PI/PD NAME FOR NSF USE ONLYINDIRECT COST RATE VERIFICATION

ORG. REP. NAME*

*ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES REQUIRED FOR REVISED BUDGET

Cumulative

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Pennsylvania State Univ University Park

Ivan

Ivan

Ivan

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Esparragoza

Esparragoza

Esparragoza - PI 0.00 0.00 0.00 0Maria M Larrondo-Petrie - Co-PI 0.00 0.00 0.00 0Dhushy Sathianathan - Co-PI 0.00 0.00 0.00 0

0.00 0.00 0.00 03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0

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JoAnn Parsons

Budget Justification Travel: Support is requested for the PI, co-PIs and four additional senior scholars, three junior scholars and 10 students (mix of graduate and undergraduate) to attend the NSF-LACCEI Workshop on Global Engineering Education Challenge for the Americas during the Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology. The workshop will be offered May 29 to June 1, 2007 in Tampico, Mexico. The travel is broken down as follows: Airfare

• Co-PIs’ airfare estimated from airport of origin—Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pa., and Miami: $2,700 total

• Senior investigators, average of $900 per person: total, $3,600; average of $780 per person,

• Junior investigators, average of $900 per person: total, $2,700; average of $780 per person

• Students: average of $900 per person: total, $9,000; average of $780 per person

Lodging, meals and incidental expenses—estimates are based on Penn State’s recommended per diem for these geographical areas.

• Co-PIs, total of six nights: $660 per person, for a total of $1,980 • Senior and Junior Investigators: total of five nights at $550 per person for a total

of $3,850 • Students, with students sharing hotel rooms, two to a room: $390 per person for

a total of $3,900 Indirect Costs—Administrative costs are calculated at 10 percent of direct costs, as allowed by the program guidelines.

Current and Pending Support(See GPG Section II.C.2.h for guidance on information to include on this form.)

The following information should be provided for each investigator and other senior personnel. Failure to provide this information may delay consideration of this proposal.

Investigator:Other agencies (including NSF) to which this proposal has been/will be submitted.

Support: Current Pending Submission Planned in Near Future *Transfer of Support

Project/Proposal Title:

Source of Support:Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:Location of Project:Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Sumr:












Source of Support:Total Award Amount: $ Total Award Period Covered:Location of Project:Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project. Cal: Acad: Summ:

*If this project has previously been funded by another agency, please list and furnish information for immediately preceding funding period.

USE ADDITIONAL SHEETS AS NECESSARYPage G-

Ivan Esparragoza

LACCEI Workshop on Global Engineering Education Challengefor the Americas

National Science Foundation30,503 03/01/07 - 02/29/08

Tampico, Mexico0.00 0.00 1.00

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Maria Larrondo-Petrie




Secure Web Services in Wireless Networks

Defense Information Security Agency (DISA)251,401 09/01/04 - 12/31/06

Florida Atlantic University0.60 0.00 0.00

An Industry Academic Partnership Model for ImprovedRetention, Accelerated Degree



Engineering Scholars Program

Florida Governor’s Summer Program25,000 04/15/06 - 09/30/06


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Facilities and Resources

Development Phase The PI and Co-PI have the following facilities and resources available for the

development of the project:

- Office space - Computer - E-mail - Web communication system - Microsoft Office - Scanner - Copier - Phone - Library - Web space for the workshop Delivery phase

The workshop will be held in Tampico, Mexico (2007) co-located with the Latin America and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology. The institutions hosting the conferences will co-sponsor the workshops and they will provide support, facilities and technical equipment for the meetings as follows:

- Physical location for the workshops (meeting rooms) - One laptop computer - One projector - One screen - One copier (to reproduce material for the workshop as needed) - Transportation for technical tours - One local coordinator responsible for local logistic (liaison between the organizers and

the local hosts) LACCEI will provide assistance in: - Managing registrations - Distributing publications and materials related to the workshop

TECNOLÓGICODE MONTERREY

September 13,2006Dr. Ivan E. EsparragozaAssistant Professor of EngineeringThe Pennsylvania State University25 Yearsley MilI RoadMedia, PA 19063

Dear Dr. Esparragoza:

This letter is regarding the proposed US-LACCEI Workshop on Global Engineering EducationChallenge for the Americas to be held in Tampico, Mexico, May 29 to June 1, 2007. Aftercareful consideration by our institution and the Universidad Valle del Bravo, I am pleased toendorse this outstanding initiative.

The integration of our countries and the mutual help in forming the engineer for the Americas areurgently needed. Your proposed workshop is an excellent platform to start exchanging ideas,developing collaboration, and sharing resources for the benefit of our students, institutions andfinally our countries. Both institutions, ITESM campus Chihuahua and Universidad Valle delBravo, as part of their commitment to serve our student population and to provide professionaldevelopment opportunities to our facu1tyand staff for the benefit of our community, are reallyinterested in participating in this programoHence, I am accepting your invitation to co-sponsorthis project. Our institutions will provide logistic and technical support to the meeting, willorganize a technical visit to our facilities, and will purse grant funds with CONACYT to supportthe participation of instructors, researchers, speakers, and students from Mexico in this initiative.

I am most gratified that our institutions will be co-sponsoring this event and I extend my fullestendorsement to the workshop you are proposing. I look forward having the opportunity to workwith you and the organizing committee to make a successful event which will serve as a startingpoint for collaboration among the engineering institutions in the formation of the engineer for theAmericas.

Sincerely,

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Dean of the School of EngineeringInstituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyCampus Chihuahua

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CAMPUS CHIHUAHUAH. Colegio Militar 4700, Col. Nombre de Dios

31300, Chihuahua, Chih., MéxicoTel. 526144395000

Hewlett-Packard Company Highway 110 North – Km 5.1 Building 2 (HR) PO Box 4048 Aguadilla, PR 00605 www.hp.com

Lueny Morell University Relations Latin America HP Labs Voice: 787-819-7418 Fax: 787-805-5442 or 787-819-6287 [email protected]

September 13, 2006 Dr. Ivan E. Esparragoza Assistant Professor of Engineering The Pennsylvania State University 25 Yearsley Mill Road Media, PA 19063

Dear Dr. Esparragoza: Dr. Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho, Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and LACCEI President has sent me a copy of your proposal for the NSF-LACCEI Workshop on Global Engineering Education Challenge for the Americas. I have read it and I am pleased to endorse it. As you know, Hewlett Packard supports research and education initiatives around the world, through its University Relations corporate function. In the region I manage, Latin America, during the last 4 years, we have helped organized and in cases, sponsored, similar activities such as the ones you propose. Topics range from engineering education innovation and reform, accreditation and quality assurance, Learning Factory – bridging the gap between how we teach and the practice of engineering, and engineering education and economic development. In addition, Hewlett-Packard is one of the founders and strong supporters of the Engineering for the Americas initiative in partnership with the OAS, other corporate sponsors and thought leaders in the academia and the engineering accreditation bodies in the Hemisphere. The workshops you describe ware key in developing the human capacity, especially in engineering, the Latin America region needs to strengthen its role in the global economy. They can promote faculty and student exchanges; research and collaborative project opportunities; university-industry-government partnerships; dual/joint certificate programs; distance-learning opportunities; and, especially, development, commercialization, and transfer of technology. I offer you full endorsement of your proposed workshop and my personal commitment to work with you and the organizing committee in the furthering of our mutual goals. Cordially, Lueny Morell Director, University Relations Latin America

Organlzacl6n de los Estados AmericanosOrganlza~lo dos Estados AmerlcanosOrganisation de. Etats americainsOrganization of American States

SEDIIDDIIDSTI019/06September 15,2006

Dear Dr. Esparragoza:

I would like to extend my full endorsement to the proposed NSF-LACCEI Workshop onGlobal Engineering Education ChaHcnge for the Americas.

I consider that the proposed workshop is an excellent venue to promote, establish,consolidate, and stimulate the education of world-class engineers for the Americas, which isaligned with the OAS objectives.

Our department is working with the organizing committee, and with LACCEI, promotingthe workshop and the LACCEI conference among the OAS member countries.

I wish you every success in obtaining funds and organizing the proposed worksho:

Dr. Ivan E. EsparragozaAssistant Professor of EngineeringThe Pennsylvania State University25 Yearsley Mill RoadMedia, PA 19063

Organization of American States17th Street & Constitution Ave. NW.

Washington, DC 20006-4499

International Programs Cover Page Addendum

Country #1: MexicoCountry #2: HondurasCountry #3: Colombia

Proposal Category: Planning Visit or Workshop (W)

Foreign Counterpart Investigator/Organizer/Host #1:Name: Castello, Rodolfo Department: Dean School of EngineeringInstitution: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyAddress: Colegio Militar 4700

Col. Nombre de Dios,Chihuahua, Mexico.

Phone: 6144395089Fax: 6144395090Email: [email protected]

Foreign Counterpart Investigator/Organizer/Host #2:Name: Garcia-Guerrero, Maria L.Department: ChancellorInstitution: Universidad Valle Del Bravo - TampicoAddress: Prolongación Calle Diez No. 106

Col. G. Díaz Ordaz,Tampico, Mexico.


Foreign Counterpart Investigator/Organizer/Host #3:Name: Zelaya, Luis Department: CEOInstitution: Universidad Tecnológica CentroamericanaAddress: Campus Tegucigalpa

Zona Jacaleapa,Tegucigalpa, Honduras.


For Planning Visit or Joint Seminar or Workshop:Location

City: TampicoCountry: Mexico

Start Date: 05/29/07End Date: 06/01/07

Demographics(people that will be supported by this project):

Number of senior U.S. scientists and engineers (excluding those within 66 years of their Ph.D. and graduate and undergraduate students):

Number of U.S. scientists within 6 years of the Ph.D.(including the PI 4and/or Co-PI if applicable):

Number of U.S. graduate students: 4

Number of U.S. undergraduate students: 6

Number of foreign scientists and engineers (including post-docs, graduateand undergraduate students) associated with the foreign institution. Includeonly those who will be supported under this NSF proposal. Do not countforeign participants who will be supported by non-NSF funds: 0

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