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OAS Engineering for the Americas LACCEI initiatives aligned with the
Plan of Action of Panama
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Maria Mercedes Larrondo Petrie, PhD
LACCEI Executive Director
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Professor of Computer Engineering
Florida Atlantic University [email protected]
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LACCEI – Latin American and Caribbean
Consortium of Engineering Institutions
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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
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Host annually the OAS Engineering for the Americas Encuentro
Annually present progress on the OAS EftA – LACCEI initiatives
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LACCEI = International Collaboration
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OAS EftA – LACCEI Advancing
Engineering Program Accreditation
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Ongoing since 2006
Par Amigos initiative
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2nd Forum of Accrediting Agencies of the Americas
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Identifying experts in engineering program accreditation
Developed and gave workshops (English and Spanish) to train
universities seeking accreditation for the 1st time
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:
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Accreditation workshops in Guatemala and Ecuador
 3rd Accrediting Agency Forum in 2014 in Ecuador
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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.
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% Women in U.S. Engineering
Degree Programs (1998,2008)
Degree
BS
MS
PhD
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% Women in Brazil in STEM
Research Groups (2000-2008)
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2002
2004
2006
2008
49.1
51.8
52.8
54.4
55.1
52.2 55.1
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55.7
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% Women
1998
%Women
2008
% Change
1998-2008
19.73%
17.53%
-2.19%
20.11%
21.60%
1.49%
17.50%
22.12%
4.62%
BS
58.2
19.61%
18.63%
-0.98%
Total
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Source: Larrondo Petrie, Beltran Martinez, LACCEI 2010
PhD
MSc
Source: Strategies and Successes in Getting Women and Gender Considerations included
in Brazil Scientific Institutions and Policies, Alice Abreu (2010)
2009 UN Study: 46% of STEM researchers in LAC are female, and
Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela have achieved gender parity
Source: Women and Girls in Science and Technology: increasing opportunities in Education, Research and Employment, E M. Rathberger, UN, 2009
“The low representation of women in science and engineering is a major hindrance to global
capacity building in science and technology”
Women for Science. An Advisory Report, InterAcademy Council, 2006
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OAS EftA - LACCEI
Women in STEM initiative
Progress:
 Women in STEM Forum, partly funded by NSF
 New Champions
Renetta Tull, PhD
Assoc. Vice Provost,
UMBC, US
Next steps:
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Beatriz Zayas Riveras, PhD
Bevlee Watford, PhD
Assoc. Prof.,
Director of Center of Diversity,
UMET , PR
Virginia Tech
Chair Diversity Committee, ASEE
Identify 24 researchers in STEM gender research in the
Americas
Write proposal to design a hemispheric study
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OAS EftA – LACCEI
Engineering Education for
Disaster Recovery Initiative
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Launched in 2012 led by 3 Haitian Deans
http://www.laccei.org/index.php/events/past-events/laccei-conference-2012/haiti-initiative
Evenson Calixte, PhD
Université Quisqueya
Jasmin Preval
Hérissé Guirand, PhD
Université dÉtat d´Haiti Université Lumière of Haiti
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OAS EftA – LACCEI
Engineering Education for
Disaster Recovery Initiative
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Requested:
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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:
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MOOLs
Found travel grants to develop the three Deans
Found collaborators
MOOCs
African Ministers
Forum - Dec 9-11
Credits,
Double
Hamadou Saliah-Hassane PhD Yacob Astatke, PhD
Tarek Chehidi, PhD
Degrees
Université d´Quebec, CA
Morgan State U., US
African Development
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Bank
International Certifications – exploring
use of MOOCs, MOOLs, SPOCs,
Clouds, & Collaboration Communities
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IGIP International Engineering Pedagogist
 Updating
curriculum content, methodologies and
technology to offer in the Americas
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IGLU University Management and Leadership
 IGLU
Institute has approached LACCEI to develop a
specialization for academic Engineering leaders.
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Collaboration Community
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10,000 in the database, designing specialized search
engine for searching for academic or research
collaborators
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New initiatives under development –
Model for national scale STEM
teacher trainer and outreach
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Colombia
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a national infrastructure for pedagogy research
and training centers
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For Engineering Faculty Pedagogical Development
For STEM High School Teacher Pedagogical Development
Research
NSF Planning Grant awarded - NSF grant under
development
Ecuador
 Mobile
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Science and Technology Museum
Ioannis Miaoulis, President and Director of Boston Museum of
Science gave keynote 2013, meeting December 20
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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
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Support other OAS EftA initiatives
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Engineering Education for Competitiveness
 Hemispheric
Curricular surveys and pedagogical
observatories cemters
 Prospectus Delphi surveys done at the annual
conference
 Website support for online participation
Jhon Wilder Zartha Sossa, PhD
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, CO
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Recommendations
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Invest in the Plan of Action of Panama, especially with
seed funds for the initiatives and for follow-up of
Engineering for the Americas (EftA) projects
Encourage the national and regional engineering
program accreditation agencies to sign ALAI and
Washington accords for hemispheric and global mutual
recognition.
Support initiative led by the Deans of Haiti to establish
engineering programs that support disaster recovery
Fund fellowships (such as the U.S. Jeffersonian and
AAAS Fellowships) and Centers to provide expertise and
support to the Ministers Vision 2025 and to the
Engineering for the Americas initiatives
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Gracias, Merci, Obrigado, Thank You
LACCEI Board of Directors
160+ Universities
www.LACCEI.org
[email protected]
Skype: LACCEI
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