Developing an Engineering Faculty Development Model for the Americas: The LACCEI Approach
Ángela M. Guzmán H.
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Developing an Engineering Faculty Development Model for the Americas: The LACCEI Approach | ||
| Published in: | Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology | |
| Date of Conference: | August 3-5, 2011 | |
| Location of Conference: | Medellin, Colombia | |
| Authors: | Maria M. Larrondo Petrie Ángela M. Guzmán H. | |
| Refereed Paper: | #323 | |
Abstract | ||
| Globally there has been an urgent call to academia from all sectors to change the paradigm for educating engineers in order to produce the Engineer of 2020, the engineer capable of addressing the Millennium Challenges and practice in a global economy. Together with this urgent call to educate the Engineer of 2020, comes the more urgent need to re-tool the Engineering faculty to enable them to meet these challenges. Engineering faculty development has been the focus of many collaborative efforts. This paper examines the models that are being used globally, and proposes a model to be used by the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) in addressing the needs for engineering faculty development in the Americas, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. | ||