Registration of Participants

Welcoming Remarks:

• Alice Abreu, Director, Office of Education, Science and Technology, Organization of American States (OAS)

• Ronalth Iván Ochaeta Argueta, Director, National Office, Organization of American States (OAS), Peru

• Albert Angulo, Regional Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), United States

• Benjamín Marticorena, President, National Council of Science and Technology (CONCYTEC), Peru

WORLD PERSPECTIVE

Speaker:

• Ulises Pabón, Executive Vice President, Quality for Business Success Inc.

Coffee Break

KEY NOTE SESSION

Chair:

• Russel Jones, President, WFEO Standing Committee on Capacity Building

Speaker:  

• Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations Worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Company, United States - "Engineering for Capacity Building & Economic Development"

Respondents:

• Jorge Vélez-Arocho, Chancellor, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), Puerto Rico

• Clement Sankat, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, University of West Indies (UWI), Trinidad & Tobago - "Building A National Innovation System for Trinidad & Tobago - A Vision 2020 Perspective"

Video Projection

Speaker:  

• William Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering, United States

FIRST PLENARY SESSION

Needs of the Productive Sector Re Engineering Graduates and Capacity Building

Speaker:

• Sailesh Chutani, Director, External Research and Programs, Microsoft, United States - "Role of Education and Information Technology in a Knowledge Economy"

Rapporteur:

• Marcos Formiga, Special Adviser to the President, National Confederation of Industry, Brazil

Panelists:

• Jorge Barata, Director, Odebrecht Peru, Peru - "Necesidades del Sector Productivo Referente a los Egresados en Ingeniería y el Fomento de la Capacidad"

• José Miguel Morales, President, National Confederation of Private Entrepreneurial Institutions (CONFIEP), Peru - Document

• Oscar Arrieta Estrada, General Director, Normalización y Certificación Electrónica (NYCE), Mexico

BREAK OUT SESSIONS (Coffee Available)

Group I: Trade, Economic and Productive Sector

Speaker:

• Jorge Yutronic, Director of the FONDEF Program, National Commission of Scientific and Technologic Research (CONICYT), Chile - "Chilean Science, Technology and Innovation System: Cooperation Opportunities"

Rapporteur: 

• Keith Eischeid, Country Manager for Andean and Caribbean Regions, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), United States

Panelists: 

• Alberto Pfeifer, General Executive Coordinator, Consejo Empresario de America Latina (CEAL), Brazil - PowerPoint Presentation

• Juana Kuramoto, Associate Researcher, Analysis Group for Development (GRADE), Peru

• Antonio Villalobos, Information Technology Director, CEMEX, Mexico - "Engineering for the Americas: Engineers Competences and Skills: Needs from the Productive Sector Perspective: Information Technology Domain"

• Igor Alvarado, District Sales Manager, National Instruments Andean & Caribbean, National Instruments

Additional Presentation:

• PowerPoint presentations provided by Ramiro Jordan, Executive Director of the Ibero-American Science & Education Consortium (ISTEC) - PowerPoint 1 |  PowerPoint 2 

Group II: Education, Research Development and Innovation Sector

Speaker:

• K.D. Sirvastava, Provost, University of Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - Presentación

Rapporteur:

• Mario R. Nieto Lovo, Dean of School of Engineering and Architecture, University of El Salvador, El Salvador

Panelists: 

• Rafael Perez Colón, Multilateral Institutions Relations for Latin America & Caribbean, Microsoft, United States

• Rodrigo Varela Villegas, General Director, Centro de Desarrollo del Espíritu Empresarial, Colombia - "La Educación, la Universidad y la Cultura Empresarial"

• Armando Valim, Group Manager, Academic Marketing, National Instruments

Group III: Professional Associations

Speaker:

• Geoffrey Abdullah, President, Association of Professional Engineers of Trinidad & Tobago (APETT), Trinidad & Tobago - "The Role of Professional Associations in Promoting Hemispheric Competitiveness: Trinidad & Tobago Perspective"

Rapporteur:

• Enrique Alvarez, Executive Committee Vice-President, Quality and Accreditation Institute for Engineering and Technology Careers (ICACIT), Peru

Panelists: 

• Colin Smith, President, Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE), Canada - "Accreditation and Regulation: Essential Steps on the Road to Professional Engineering"

• Freddy Bolaños, Accreditation Commission, Escuela Federal de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, Costa Rica - "Tratados de Libre Comercio y Acreditación de Programas"

• Claudio Dall’Acqua, President, Pan American Federation of Engineering Societies (UPADI), Brazil - "Why Engineering for the Americas?"

Group IV: Government and Finance Sectors

Speaker:

• Sandoval Carneiro, Former President, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil - "Distintos Análisis de la Evolución del Postgrado y del Grado en Brasil, con Enfásis en las Ingenierías"

Rapporteur: 

• Eduardo Ismodes, Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University, Peru

Panelists: 

• María Elena Fernández, President, Fundación Instituto de Ingeniería (FII), Venezuela- "La Orientación en Ciencia y Tecnología en Venezuela"

• Javier Piqué, Dean, Consejo Departamental de Lima, Colegio de Ingenieros, Peru

CONSOLIDATION AND CONCLUSION SESSION

Chair:

• Lueny Morell, Director, University Relations for Latin America, Hewlett-Packard Company, United States

• Dan Marcek, Deputy Director, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard Company, United States

Rapporteurs:

• Marcos Formiga

• Keith Eischeid

• Mario R. Nieto Lovo

• Enrique Alvarez

• Eduardo Ismodes

SECOND PLENARY SESSION

Building Quality into Engineering Education to Compete in a Flat World

Speaker:

• Tim Anderson, Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, University of Florida (UFL), United States - "The Human Resource: Ensuring a Quality Engineering Workforce for the Americas"

Rapporteur:

• Robert Kersten, Pan American Academy of Engineering, United States

Panelists: 

• Luiz Scavarda, Administrative Vice President, Pontificial Catholic University (PUC-RIO), Brazil - "Engineering for the Americas: an OAS Initiative / Building Quality into Engineering Education to Compete in a Flat World"

• Roger Díaz de Cossío, Coordinator for the Systems of the Subdirector of Electromechanics of the Engineering Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico - "Mejorar a los Ingenieros"

• Alain Gauthier, Dean of Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia - "Mejorando la calidad de la educación en ingeniería para competir en un mundo plano: Una visión desde Colombia"

• Jorge Alva, President of the Civil Engineers Chapter, Departmental Council of Lima, Colegio de Ingenieros del Peru, Peru

Session I:

Quality Assurance in Engineering Education Around the World and Implications for the Western Hemisphere

Speaker:

• Eric Norris, Member of the International Committee, Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE), Canada - "Accreditation - Quality Assurance in Engineering Education - Challenges"

Panelist:

• Jerry R. Yeargan, Distinguished Professor and Head of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas and 2001-2002 President of ABET, United States - "Quality Assurance in Engineering Education Around the World and Implications for the Western Hemisphere"

11:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.

Session II:
Engineering Education Quality Assurance Experiences of the Western Hemisphere:
Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Speaker:

• Kathryn Aberle, Associate Executive Director, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), United States - "Western Hemisphere Partnership"

Panelists: 

• Canada-Costa Rica: Substantial Equivalency and Development of an Accreditation System, Ross Peters, Vice Chair, Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB)

• Engineering Change: Bringing Outcomes Assessment into an Engineering Quality Assurance System, Dick Seagrave, President, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), United States

• Challenges in Starting a Quality Assurance System for Engineering Education, Enrique Alvarez, Executive Committee Vice President, Quality and Accreditation Institute for Engineering and Technology Careers (ICACIT), Peru

• Sustaining a Growing Accreditation System, Teófilo Ramos, Vice President for Institutional Research, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico

BREAK OUT SESSIONS (Coffee available)

Group I: Southern Cone Countries

Speaker:

• Osvaldo Micheloud, President, Engineering Education Committee, Argentinean Deans Association, Argentina - "The Argentine's Accreditation System and The New Strategic Plan to Upgrade Academic Programs"

Rapporteur:

• Nabil Esmail, Dean of Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada

Panelists: 

• Ismael Piedra Cueva, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de la República, Uruguay - "Aseguramiento de la Calidad de Educación en Ingeniería"

• Antonio MacDowell Figueiredo, Coordination of Post Graduate Programs in Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ), Brazil - "Quality Assurance in Engineering Postgraduate Programs in Brazil"

• Mario Gómez Mejía, Executive Director, National Association of Faculties and Schools of Engineering (ASIBEI), Mexico - "Asociación Iberoamericana de Instituciones de Enseñanza de la Ingeniería"

Group II:  Central American Countries

Speaker:

• Knut Walter Franklin, President, Accreditation Commission for Higher Education Quality, El Salvador - "El Sistema de Acreditación en El Salvador: Experiencia, lecciones, proyecciones"

Rapporteur: 

• Aldo José Urbina Villalta, Rector, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Nicaragua

Panelists: 

• Daniel Hernández, Coordinator for Capacity Building Department, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, Costa Rica - "Acreditación de Programas de Ingeniería en Costa Rica"

• Juan Manuel Muñoz, Coordinator of the Institutional Program of University Autoevaluation and Accreditation, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Nicaragua - "Avances del Proyecto: Sistema Nicaraguense de Evaluación y Acreditación de la Educación Terciaria" (Word Doc | PowerPoint)

• Francisco Estuardo Ruiz Cruz, President, Colegio de Ingenieros, Guatemala - "Ingeniería para las Américas: Colegio de Ingenieros de Guatemala"

Group III: Caribbean Countries

Speaker:

• Gosett Oliver, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Jamaica - "Some Issues Relating to the Commonwealth Caribbean Engineering Professional Associations"

Rapporteur:

• Ramón Vásquez, Dean of Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM), Puerto Rico

Panelists: 

• Hollis Charles, Representative, Caribbean Council of Science and Technology, Trinidad & Tobago - (Power Point Presentation)

•  Aaron Lewis, Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Belize, Belize

• Indhira de Jesus, Dean of Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Dominican Republic

Group IV: Andean Countries
Speaker:

• José Valdez Calle, President, Instituto para la Calidad de la Acreditación de las Carreras de Ingeniería y Tecnología (ICACIT), Perú - (PowerPoint Presentation  |  Document)

Rapporteur:

• Deborah Wolfe, Director, Education, Outreach and Research, Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE), Canada

Panelists:

• Vladimir Mendizábal, Pan American Academy of Engineering, Bolivia - (Document)

• Moisés Tacle, Rector, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador

• Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) - "The role of LACCEI"

CONSOLIDATION AND CONCLUSION SESSION

Chair:

• Jerry Yeargan, Distinguished Professor and Head of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas and 2001-2002 President of ABET, United States

Rapporteurs:

• Robert Kersten (PowerPoint Presentation)

• Nabil Esmail

• Aldo José Urbina Villalta

• Ramón Vásquez

• Deborah Wolfe

FOURTH PLENARY SESSION

Capacity Building

Speaker:

• Russel Jones, President, WFEO Standing Committee on Capacity Building - "Capacity Building"

FIFTH PLENARY SESSION

Country Planning, Financing of Upgrades to Engineering Education, Partnerships

9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.

Session I: Financing the Country Plans

Speaker:

• Christof Kuechemann, Director, IDB Country Office, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Rapporteur:

• Nicolas Osorno, Director of Entrepreneurial Innovation, Nicaraguan Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Nicaragua

Panelists: 

• Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations Worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Company, United States

• Rafael Perez Colón, Multilateral Institutions Relations for Latin America & Caribbean, Microsoft, United States

• Odilon Antonio Marcuzzo do Canto, President, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Brazil -  "FINEP - Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos: Agência Brasileira de Inovação"

Session II: Country Planning

Speaker:

• Alice Abreu, Director, Office of Education, Science and Technology, Organization of American States (OAS) - "Defining Inter-American Strategies for Innovation and Development in the XXI Century: Elements from the political dialogue at the OAS"

Rapporteur:

• Vladimir Yackovlev, Vice President, National Academy of Engineering, Venezuela

Panelists:  

• Benjamín Marticorena, President, National Council of Science and Technology (CONCYTEC), Peru

BREAK OUT SESSIONS

Group I: Trade, Economic and Productive Sector

Speaker:

• Keith Eischeid, Country Manager for Andean and Caribbean Regions, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), United States

Rapporteur: 

• Angela Uller, Director, Coordination of Post Graduate Programs in Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ), Brazil

Panelists: 

• Héctor Nava Jaimes, General Director, National Center of Metrology (CENAM), Mexico - "La Metrología en la Formación de Ingenieros"

• Lueny Morell & John Lamancusa, Director of University Relations for Latin America, Hewlett-Packard Company, United States / Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, United States - "Bridging the Ga[ Between the way we teach and the practice of engineering" - (Power Point  |  Video)

• Fernando Jaimes, Director for Science and Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - "Curricular Plans for The Digital Age at the Monterrey Institute of Technology" (Power Point Presentation  |  Word Document)

Group II: Education, Research Development and Innovation Sector

Speaker:

• Edgar Sánchez Sinencio, TI/J. Kilby Chair Professor, Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States - (Power Point Presentation)

Rapporteur:

• Luiz Paulo Brandão, Ex Dean of Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil

Panelists: 

• Edwin Durán Zurita, Principal Adviser for University Development, Universidad Privada Boliviana, Bolivia

• Jaime Puente, Manager, External Research and Programs for Latin America, Microsoft, United States - "Engineering Education and Capacity Building"

• José Antonio Chang, Rector, Universidad San Martín de Porres, Peru

• Carlos Galdeano, Coordinator for the Engineering and Technologies Areas of CENEVAL, CENEVAL, México. - (PowerPoint Presentation)

Group III: Professional Associations

Speaker:

• Julio Rivera Feijóo, Dean, Colegio de Ingenieros, Peru - "Rol de las Asociaciones Profesionales"

Rapporteur:

• Catherine Didion, Former AWIS Executive Director, Vice President of the Didion Group, United States

Panelists:

• Cyro Laurenza, Chairman of the Technical Committee, Pan American Federation of Engineering Societies (UPADI), Brazil - "Transdiciplinary: The necessary Transdiciplinary for Capacity Building Engineering"

• Hollis Charles, Former President, Board of Engineers of Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago

Group IV: Government and Finance Sectors

Speaker:

• Luis Alberto Lima Mora, President, National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), Paraguay - (PowerPoint Presentation)

Rapporteur: 

• Susana Vegas Chiyón, Dean of Engineering, Universidad de Piura, Peru

Panelist: 

• Oscar Gambetta, Adviser to the Secretary of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, SECYT, Argentina - "Hacia un Nuevo Paradigma"

Lunch (provided) - NATIONAL LEVEL PLANNING

(Suggested that participants gather by country or region to foster dialogue)

CONSOLIDATION AND CONCLUSION SESSION

Chair:

• Saúl Hahn, Chief of Division of Science and Technology, Office of Education, Science and Technology, Organization of American States (OAS)

Rapporteurs:

• Nicolás Osorno

• Vladimir Yackovlev

• Angela Uller - (PowerPoint Presentation)

• Luiz Paulo Brandão - (PowerPoint Presentation)

• Catherine Didion

• Susana Vegas Chiyón

CLOSING SESSION / NEXT STEPS

Chair:

• Saúl Hahn, Chief of Division of Science and Technology, Office of Education, Science and Technology, Organization of American States (OAS)

• Russel Jones, President, WFEO Standing Committee on Capacity Building (PowerPoint Presentation)

Speakers: 

• Alice Abreu, Director , Office of Education, Science and Technology, OAS – “Programs Needed”

• Jorge Velez-Arocho, Chancellor, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM)          –

  “Studies Needed”