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13th Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education

Keynote Speakers

 

 

 

United States Senator Jack Reed - Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

David Dooley

President

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

Michael K. J. Milligan
Executive Director

ABET, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featured Speakers

 

 

Sabeen Altaf
Program Officer, Science and Technology Programs
US Student Programs
Institute of International Education

 

 

 

Sigrid Berka

Executive Director, IEP

Director of German and Chinese IEP

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Jan Helge Bøhn

Director, Virginia Tech Computer Aided Design Laboratory
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Virginia Tech

 

 

 

Thomas Boving

Professor of Geosciences

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Sue Bray

Executive Director

New Vistas Consulting

 

 

 

David Brown

Former Chief Operating Officer

NSNOW

 

 

 

Laurie Burger

Chief Marketing Officer

Extrusion Technology, Inc.

 

 

 

Michael T. Byrnes

President

Middle Kingdom Advisors

 

 

 

 

Yating Chang

Assistant Director

Global Professional Practice

Purdue University

 

 

 

Ellen Crocker

Senior Lecturer and Coordinator for German

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Duleep C. Deosthale

Manipal Education

Manipal University, India

 

 

 

David Dolev

Program Coordinator MIT-Israel, MISTI 2.0
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)

 

 

 

 

Megan Mercedes Echevarria

Associate Professor and Director Spanish IEP

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Lars O. Erickson

Associate Professor and Director French IEP

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

Mohammad Faghri

Professor

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

Kurt Fendt

Executive Director of MIT's HyperStudio - Lab for Digital Humanities

Research Director in Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program (CMS)

MIT

 

 

 

Sebastian Fohrbeck

Director

DAAD New York

 

 

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Lester A. Gerhardt

Senior Advisor to the President at IIE

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

 

 

 

Sean Gilbert

Managing Director of the MIT-China Program (MISTI)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Graham Harrison

Program Officer

Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE)

National Science Foundation

 

 

Wayne Wenchao He

Associate Professor of Chinese

Director, Chinese Language Flagship Partner Program

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

Nathan Henceroth
LCP Program Coordinator
Iowa State University

 

 

 

Michael Hefter

Dean, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt/Main

 

 

 

Otto Iancu

Vice President

German-French University

 

 

 

Eva Krampe

Coordinator for Quality Management and Study Programs

University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt/Main

 

 

 

Charles M. Krousgrill

Acting Director of Office of Professional Practice

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Purdue University

 

 

 

 

Ed McDermott

Senior Program Manager for The Language Flagship
National Security Education Program (NSEP)

 

 

 

 

Michael F. Metcalf
Associate Provost for International Affairs
The University of Mississippi

 

 

 

Laura Montgomery

Executive Director

RWTH Aachen University - Liaison Office USA/Canada

 

 

 

Carolyn Kelly Ottman

Assosiate Professor

Milwaukee School of Engineering, Rader School of Business

 

 

 

 

Frank Owen

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

California Polytechnic State University

 

 

 

Alan Parkinson

Professor and Dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Brigham Young University

 

 

 

Debbie Pearson

Assistant Director, Cooperative Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

 

April Julich Perez

Assistant Director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)

Managing Director of the MIT-France Program.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Diane Rover

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Iowa State

 

 

 

 

 

Erin Schenck

Coordinator of German Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

Stephan Scholl

Professor of Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering

Technische Universität Braunschweig

 

 

 

Yi Shen

Post-doctoral Researcher

Purdue University

 

 

Scott Thiel

Vice President of Engineering and Development

Williams Controls, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

Richard F. Vaz
Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

 

 

                              Max Vögler

                              Director of North American Office

                              German Research Foundation (DFG)

 

 

Walter von Reinhart

Associate Professor

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

Steven Williams

Director of Electrical Engineering

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Milwaukee School of Engineering

 

 

 

 

Wen Xiong

Assistant Professor of Chinese

Associate Director, Chinese Language Flagship Program
Associate Director, Chinese IEP

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Moderators / Introductions

 

Mufit Akinc

Professor in Charge of International Engagement

College of Engineering

Iowa State University

 

 

Winifred Brownell

Dean of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Communication Studies

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Donald DeHayes

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

Gayle Elliott

Responsible for UC's International Co-op Program

Associate Professor, Division of Professional Practice

University of Cincinnati

 

 

John Grandin

Professor and Director Emeritus, International Engineering Program

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

 

Mercedes Rivero-Hudec

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

Norbert Hedderich

Chair of German Department

Professor of German

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Doris Kirchner

Professor of German

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Mark Rectanus

Professor of German and Chair
Department of World Languages and Cultures

Iowa State University

 

 

 

Raymond Wright

Dean of Engineering

The University of Rhode Island

 

 

 

Helene Zimmer-Loew

Executive Director

American Association of Teachers of German

 

 

 

 

Alumni Speakers

 

Emily Kinser

SRDC Competitive Analysis Team
IBM Microelectronics Division

University of Cincinnati Alum

 

 

 

 

Abhinav Krishna

Purdue University Alum

 

 

 

 

Eric Sargent

BMW Group

The University of Rhode Island Alum

 

 

 

 

Carrie Vidal

General Cable

University of Cincinnati Alum

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew Zimmerman

FarSounder Inc.,

University of Rhode Island Alum

 

 

 

 

 

Student Speakers

 

 

Christopher Cooper

Mechanical Engineering Student

University of Cincinnati

 

 

 

 

David Prater

Iowa State University Alum

 

 

 

 

Matt Deschner

Mechanical Engineering Major

Global Engineering Studies and Mandarin Chinese Minors

Purdue University

 

 

 

 

Alex Reeb

Grad Student, Virginia Tech

The University of Rhode Island Alum