Engineering Education Challenges for Latin America …Source: Andrés Oppenheimer, Basta de Historias, 2010 “Las universidades (en la región) se han convertido en vacas sagradas…
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Professional skills of the 21st century technology leadersMobability — ability to work in large groups; talent for organizing & collaborating with many people simultaneously
Influency — ability to be persuasive in multiple social contexts & media spaces; understanding that each context & space requires a different persuasive strategy & technique
Protovation – fearless innovation in rapid, iterative circles
Emergensight — ability to prepare for & handle surprising results & complexity
Cooperation Radar — the ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task
…..Adapted from Dr. Bob Johansen, President and CEO of the Institute for the Future
57% of students in the social sciences, 16% in engineering3 psychology students for each engineering student
Together with Africa, LA is the region with less investment in R&D2% of the world’s investment (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile)
Asia/Pacific region amounts to 28%; Europe, 30%, US, 39%
All of LA & Caribbean countries invest LESS than South Korea
South Korea: 7500 patents; Brazil: 100
Why these low numbers?R&D is mainly conducted in universities, disconnected with the market needs
Obsession with past history
Politics
Long vacations
Arrogance?
…
Latin America
Source: Andrés Oppenheimer, Basta de Historias, 2010
“Las universidades (en la región) se han convertido en vacassagradas… cuando deben ser pilar fundamental para preparar a los países para tener los conocimientos y habilidades para competir en un mercado mundial”
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“Partnership between industry and university has become even more important in the global marketplace… Engineers will have to…acquire the ability to communicate as they work in the demanding international marketplace… corporations are hoping to depend more and more on government and university…”
~Norman Augustine, CEO of Lockheed
Diagrams courtesy of Allen Soyster, National Science Foundation
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AMERICAS• 46 university collaborations in the Americas• Guadalajara Advanced Prototyping Center • 29 projects with HP Brazil R&D• DARPA, DOE, US Army, MPO external funding• NSF Post-Docs support • UC Discovery awards
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Lausanne, Switzerland• Technical University of Bari, Italy• University of Konstanz, Germany• Bilkent University, Turkey• Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
Israel• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China• The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology• Tsinghua University, China• University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• University of California, Davis• University of California, Santa Cruz• University of Southern California• University of Utah• Arizona State University• Rice University• Texas A&M University• University of Arizona• University of Florida• University of Missouri, St Louis• University of Texas at Arlington• Brown University
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ASEE-NSF Industry Research Fellows457 potential fellows interested47companies (23 states) posted 160 research positions26 companies hosted 40 fellows, 120 posted positions not filledOf the 40, 38 completed the fellowship. Of these, 32 ended up with jobs: 27 were hired permanently by their host companies; two had their Fellowships extended by their host companies; and three were hired elsewhere.
29 publications,16 patent filings, 3 patent disclosures, 2 patents, 1 invention disclosure, 1 provisional patent, 1 international patent filing, and 1 record of invention.
NSF expanded the program to the Graduate Research Fellows recipients Other nations following (e.g., Brazil, Singapore)
“I know this will sound funny, but I’ve been surprised that I’ve enjoyed it so much! I began my PhD program thinking I wanted to be a professor because I really enjoyed teaching, but I wasn’t 100% sure about the research part of it. But the research environment here has been really fun to work in – both from a professional and a social standpoint – and that’s changed my perspective on research and my thoughts about what I might want to do and who I might want to work with in the future.”
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“The corporate post-doc has been a great experience for me after almost 10 years in academia. It has allowed me to take the concepts and tools I learned in classes and as a student researcher and apply them to cutting edge research with a focus on how it can be included in groundbreaking technology. This will serve me well in the future whether I continue in corporate research or return to academia to teach engineers how to solve problems outside of the classroom.”
Steven Barcelo, HP Labs NSF-ASEE PostDoc
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The world’s future lies in the hands of the engineering students in our universities today, the vast majority of whom will NOT become professors or scientific researchers…
Final words…We need to evolve and adapt to survive. We need to think in the greater good rather than individual needs. We need to collaborate and share ideas and resources. And we need to do this fast and boldly, taking calculated risks… Otherwise, we will become irrelevant!
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