Eng. Lueny Morell was chosen to receive the 2009-2010 LACCEI Academic Merit Medal for her leadership and global impact on engineering curriculum innovation and fostering industry-university partnerships in support of economic development.  A licensed professional chemical engineer and ABET evaluator, she is on the Strategy and Innovation Office. Before joining HP in 2002, her 24 year career at the University of Puerto Rico brought advances in multidisciplinary curriculum innovation funded by NASA and US National Science Foundation and recognized through  many awards, including the prestigious 2006 US National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon award for the creation of the Learning Factory, an environment where multidisciplinary student teams develop engineering leadership skills by working with industry to solve real-world problems.  She is currently President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies, and Vice Chair for Job Creation on the Advisory Board of the Engineering of the Americas initiative, two organizations that she helped create.