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OAS Engineering for the Americas - LACCEI initiatives aligned with the
Plan of Action of Panama Maria Mercedes Larrondo Petrie, PhDLACCEI Executive DirectorAssociate Dean of International AffairsProfessor of Computer EngineeringFlorida Atlantic University [email protected]
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14-15 November 20131
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
LACCEI – Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions
12 universities founded LACCEI is 2003 Universities that want to collaborate with LAC region 160+ universities from the Americas and Europe are part of
the consortium in 2013 Since 2005, part of the OAS Engineering for the Americas
and the Ministerial Action Plans, and currently participating in Working Group 2: Human resources training & education Host annually the OAS Engineering for the Americas Encuentro Annually present progress on the OAS EftA – LACCEI initiatives
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
LACCEI = International Collaboration
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
OAS EftA – LACCEI Advancing Engineering Program Accreditation
Ongoing since 2006 Par Amigos initiative
Identifying experts in engineering program accreditation Developed and gave workshops (English and Spanish) to train
universities seeking accreditation for the 1st time
2nd Forum of Accrediting Agencies of the Americas To bring together accrediting agencies in the Americas to discuss
challenges and move towards mutual recognition, and more signatories of the ALAI Accord and the Washington Accord
Next steps: Accreditation workshops in Guatemala and Ecuador 3rd Accrediting Agency Forum in 2014 in Ecuador
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
OAS EftA-LACCEI Women in STEM initiative(STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
2010 OAS proclaimed the Year of The Inter-American Women Evaluate successes and challenges in the defense of women’s human rights and gender . equity and equality, and create awareness regarding gender issues.
% Women in U.S. Engineering
Degree Programs (1998,2008)
Source: Larrondo Petrie, Beltran Martinez, LACCEI 2010
2009 UN Study: 46% of STEM researchers in LAC are female, andArgentina, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela have achieved gender paritySource: Women and Girls in Science and Technology: increasing opportunities in Education, Research and Employment, E M. Rathberger, UN, 2009
“The low representation of women in science and engineering is a major hindrance to global capacity building in science and technology”
Women for Science. An Advisory Report, InterAcademy Council, 2006
% Women in Brazil in STEM Research Groups (2000-2008)
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%
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
BS 58.2 58.1 57.4 58.5 59.5Total 54.1 55.7 56.0 57.3 58.2
Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Considerations included Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Considerations included in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
OAS EftA - LACCEI Women in STEM initiative
Progress: Women in STEM Forum, partly funded by NSF
New Champions
Next steps: Identify 24 researchers in STEM gender research in the
Americas Write proposal to design a hemispheric study
Renetta Tull, PhDAssoc. Vice Provost,
UMBC, US
Beatriz Zayas Riveras, PhDAssoc. Prof., UMET , PR
Bevlee Watford, PhDDirector of Center of Diversity,
Virginia TechChair Diversity Committee, ASEE
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
OAS EftA – LACCEI 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
Evenson Calixte, PhDUniversité Quisqueya
Hérissé Guirand, PhDUniversité dÉtat d´Haiti
Jasmin PrevalUniversité Lumière of Haiti
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
OAS EftA – LACCEI Engineering Education for Disaster Recovery Initiative
Requested: Redesign of curriculum, labs, degrees to support the rebuilding of
Haiti and disaster recovery, find professors to teach STEM courses Earthquake Engineering – University of Buffalo
Access and support for software on Cloud Research collaborations in area of disaster prevention and recovery.
Progress: Found travel grants to develop the three Deans Found collaborators
Hamadou Saliah-Hassane PhDUniversité d´Quebec, CA
MOOLs MOOCs
African Ministers Forum - Dec 9-11
Credits, Double Degrees
Tarek Chehidi, PhDAfrican Development
Bank
Yacob Astatke, PhDMorgan State U., US
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
International Certifications – exploring use of MOOCs, MOOLs, SPOCs, Clouds, & Collaboration Communities
IGIP International Engineering Pedagogist Updating curriculum content, methodologies and
technology to offer in the Americas
IGLU University Management and Leadership IGLU Institute has approached LACCEI to develop a
specialization for academic Engineering leaders.
Collaboration Community > 10,000 in the database, designing specialized search
engine for searching for academic or research collaborators
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
New initiatives under development – Model for national scale STEM teacher trainer and outreach
Colombia Develop a national infrastructure for pedagogy research
and training centers For Engineering Faculty Pedagogical Development For STEM High School Teacher Pedagogical Development Research NSF Planning Grant awarded - NSF grant under
development
Ecuador Mobile Science and Technology Museum
Ioannis Miaoulis, President and Director of Boston Museum of Science gave keynote 2013, meeting December 20
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
Annual LACCEI Conference – Faculty and Student Development
2003 LACCEI Conference, Santiago, Dominican Republic 2004 LACCEI Conference, Miami, Florida, USA 2005 LACCEI Conference,Cartagena, Colombia 2006 LACCEI Conference, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 2007 LACCEI Conference,Tampico, Mexico 2008 LACCEI Conference, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2009 LACCEI Conference, San Cristobal, Venezuela 2010 LACCEI Conference, Medellin, Colombia 2012 LACCEI Conference, Panama City, Panama 2013 LACCEI Conference, Cancun, Mexico 2014 LACCEI Conference, Guayaquil, Ecuador < cost, multilingual, multiconference,initiatives launched refereed, ISBN, indexed, archived, invited to LACCEI Journal Hemispheric and Global Student Research Competitions and Student Leadership Training
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
Support other OAS EftA initiatives
Engineering Education for Competitiveness Hemispheric Curricular surveys and pedagogical
observatories cemters Prospectus Delphi surveys done at the annual
conference Website support for online participation
Jhon Wilder Zartha Sossa, PhDUniversidad Pontificia Bolivariana, CO
VIII OAS COMCYT, Washington DC, 14 - 15 November 2013
Recommendations
1. Invest in the Plan of Action of Panama, especially with seed funds for the initiatives and for follow-up of Engineering for the Americas (EftA) projects
2. Encourage the national and regional engineering program accreditation agencies to sign ALAI and Washington accords for hemispheric and global mutual recognition.
3. Support initiative led by the Deans of Haiti to establish engineering programs that support disaster recovery
4. Fund fellowships (such as the U.S. Jeffersonian and AAAS Fellowships) and Centers to provide expertise and support to the Ministers Vision 2025 and to the Engineering for the Americas initiatives
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Gracias, Merci, Obrigado, Thank You
LACCEI Board of Directors
160+ Universities
www.LACCEI.org [email protected] Skype: LACCEI
