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University of Rhode Island

 


Building Strategic Partnerships for

Global Education

Thursday, November 6

  1:00 5:00 PM

Getting Started Workshop

6:00 – 7:00 PM

Reception and Conference Opening

7:00 9:00 PM

Dinner & Keynote Address

Subra Suresh

Dean of the School of Engineering

& Ford Professor of Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Friday, November 7

 

8:30 – 10:00 AM

Plenary I: Partnerships with Industry

Chair: Laurie Burger, Pentair, Inc.

 

10:30 AM – Noon

Plenary II: Partnerships with the Public Sector 

Chair: Eckhard Groll, Purdue University

 

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Luncheon & Keynote Address

Gary Downey  (presentation)

Professor of Science & Technology Studies

Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Engineering Education

Virginia Tech

   

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Plenary III: Partnerships with Universities Abroad

 

 

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Grand Information Fair

Program Displays and Poster Sessions

Saturday, November 8

Concurrent Working Sessions:  Each session will run twice, enabling each participant to participate in two Working Sessions.

 
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Working Session
 
10:30 AM – Noon
Working Session
   

Building partnerships in/with:

Session A - The European Union (presentation)

Facilitator: Matthias Afting, Deutsche Bahn AG

Session B - China

Facilitator: Sean Gilbert, MIT

Session C - India

Facilitator: Deepti Nijhawan, MIT

Session D - Latin America

Facilitators: Kevin Huggins, West Point &

María-Fernanda González Rojas , ITESM International Liaison Office Boston

Session E - The Middle East (presentation)

Facilitators: Lee Blank, Texas A & M and Patti Urbina, Texas A & M

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Lunch & Student Presentations
   
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Plenary IV:  Service Learning Partnerships

  • James R. Mihelcic, Director, Master's International Peace Corps Program in Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida
  • Malcolm Daniels, Interim Dean, School of Engineering, The University of Dayton
  • Chelita Pate, Study Abroad Coordinator, Brigham Young University
   
   3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

Plenary V: Summary and Discussion of NSF Summit Meeting

Report on the NSF Summit which took place before the Colloquium. Critique by Colloquium participants of the Summit and associated Declaration.

  • E. Dan Hirleman, Head - School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
  • John Grandin, Director, International Engineering Program, University of Rhode Island

 

   
Sunday, November 9
   
8:30 AM – Noon
Post-Conference Workshop
 

 

      

The 11th Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education:

         

 

 

 
     

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The International Engineering Program is a dual-degree program combining a B.A. in German, French and/or Spanish with a B.S. in one of the engineering disciplines.  IEP students study language and culture each semester along with their engineering curriculum. In the fourth year of the five-year program, they then go abroad as interns with engineering based firms in Europe or Latin America, and also as exchange students with one of our partner universities