Latin
American and Caribbean
Consortium of Engineering Institutions
LACCEI
The Fourth Latin American and Caribbean Conference
JUNE
21 - 23, 2006
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Hosted
by:
University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez
Universidad del Turabo
LACCEI
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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document .doc - 4,457 kb)
3rd
Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering
and Technology
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June
8-10, 2005
Cartagena, Colombia
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Hotel
Caribe
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
June 8 -10, 2005
Hotel
Reservations:
Ms. Belinda Cueto Sarmiento
ventas2@hotelcaribe.com
Room
Rates:
One person per room/per night
272,000 Colombian pesos
Two person
per room/per night
454,200 Colombian pesos
The
room rate includes hotel taxes, breakfast, lunch, and
dinner
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Initial
Meeting in Miami February 2002
Although a conceptualized LACCEI was well received by the officials of various
Latin American and Caribbean institutions, it needed strong planning to build
a unique and leading organization of its kind. The Steering Committee was given
the task of bringing together interested institutions to discuss goals, plans
and the underlying mission of LACCEI including the ways in which it would operate.
Dr. Ismael Pagan Trinidad from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez and
Dr. Sushil Gupta from Florida International University co-chaired the Steering
Committee. The committee scheduled the first meeting to be held in Puerto Rico
and interested institutions were invited to participate in forming the consortium.
Planning Meeting in Puerto Rico June 2002
The meeting in Puerto Rico was hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Campus and the Universidad del Turabo. At this meeting, goals and objectives
of the organization were discussed and plans to create a constitution and bylaws
were finalized.
Steering Committee Meeting in Dominican Republic January 2003
A meeting was hosted by the Universidad Tecnologica de Santiago (UTESA) in
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic to work on the scope and details
of the first Gerneral Conference.
First Conference
January 2003 proved to be paramount to LACCEI. It was during this time that
all interested institutions were invited to participate in the first general
conference of the consortium. The conference took place in Santiago in the
Dominican Republic and was hosted by Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago
(UTESA). In attendance at the conference were over one hundred faculty, administrators
and students including many rectors and deans from several universities throughout
Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States. The conference laid the
groundwork for LACCEI. It was at this conference that the constitution and
bylaws as prepared by Dr. Eduardo Sagredo from UTESA and Dr. Sushil Gupta from
FIU were approved. The goals and objectives of LACCEI became clear during this
conference, but LACCEI couldn't reach its full potential without strong leadership
and conference attendees proceeded to form the Executive Board. Florida International
University's College of Engineering Dean Vish Prasad made history when he became
the first president of the consortium. The founding Board of Directors convened
at the end of this conference.
Board
Meets in Monterrey July 2003
LACCEI held their second board meeting, hosted by the Instituto Tecnológico
de Monterrey, on August 7-8 2003, in Monterrey, Mexico. At this meeting, the
Vice Presidents reviewed the action plan for each committee and agreed to meet
a second time in Bogotá, Colombia. They also discussed fundraising for
scholarships and the theme and organization for the second conference. They
agreed that awards should be given to outstanding engineering institutions.
In
addition the LACCEI Board voted to bestow the first LACCEI Meritorious
University medal upon the Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Colombia.
This institution was selected for the award for their homologation
of courses with an ABET accredited LACCEI institution.
