Building research communities and collaborative networks in Latin America and the Caribbean: LACCEI vision and initiatives

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Esparragoza, Ivan ^a   Petrie, Maria M Larrondo ^b,c,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

^c Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution (LACCEI)   (United States)

^d International Federation of Engineering Education (IFEES)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

CAPACITY BUILDING; COLLABORATIVE NETWORK; EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONS; ENGINEERING INSTITUTIONS; GLOBAL ENGINEERS; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 85029078318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. "Knowledge for development." The World Bank Institute, 1998. www.worldbank.org/eca/knowledgeeconomvreference
2. In Search of Global Engineering Excellence: Educating the next generation of engineers for the global workplace. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Tsinghua University, China; Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; University of Tokyo, Japan; Continental AG, Germany, 2007. http://www.global-engineering-excellence.org
3. th Annual American Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exposition (ASEE2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 24-27 June 2007.
4. Final Report, Engineering for the Americas Symposium: Capacity building for job creation and hemispheric competitiveness, Lima, Peru, 29 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2005. http://www.oest.oas.org/engineering/espanol/documentos/Informe Final ENG.pdf
5. 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, Cartagena, Colombia, 8-10 June 2005.
6. Ion, W.J., Woldenhouse, A., Juster, N., Grierson, H., and Stone, A. 2004. Educating the Global Designer", in Perspectives from Europe and Asia on Engineering Design and Manufacture, Jiang, Y.X.T., and Juster, N., Eds., Kluwer, 2004, pp. 225-336.
7. Pollar, J.D., Devon, R., McKay, A., and Bilen, S.G. 2002. Teaching Design Through International Collaborations", Proceedings Int. Conference on Engineering Education, Manchester, England, August 18-21, 2002.
8. Devon, R., Sathianathan, D., Saintive, D., Nowe, M., and Lessene, J. 1998. Alliance by Design: International Student Design Teams, Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Session 2544, Seattle, WA, June 28-July 1, 1998.
9. National Science Foundation Grant NSF04-035-OISE-0715273: Global Engineering Education Challenge for the Americas. Investigators: Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University, USA; and Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University, USA; 2007.
10. Proceedings of the LACCEI-NSF Workshop on the Global Engineering Education Challenge for the Americas, I. E. Esparragoza, M. M. Larrondo Petrie, D. Sathianathan (eds.), Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), 29 May 2007. http://www.engr.de.psu.edu/Ivan/NSFWorkshop.pdf
11. Esparragoza, I. E., Larrondo-Petrie, M. M., Sathianathan, D. "Global Engineering Education in the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities Developing Assessment Tools for International Experiences in Engineering Education,"
12. Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education, http://www.iucee.org/
13. LA Grid Latin American Grid Projects. http://www.latinamericangrid.org/ projects.php
14. th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), 29 May to 1 June 2007.
15. Red Cartagena de Ingenieria. http://carthagene.enim.fr/spip.php? rubrique11&lang=es
16. The Socrates-Erasmus Programme. http://www.erasmus.ac.uk/index.html