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Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Internationalization Activities in Latin America
2012 GEDC Conference
Latin American Chapter
August 20-21, 2012
ITESM – Monterrey, Mexico
Dr. Ramiro Jordán
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Agenda
Act locally think globally
Outreach and Recruitment; student success
Industry Advisory Board
Innovation-Plaza: from High School to Industry
Senior Design - Entrepreneurship - Global Student Design Challenges
Partners: IFEES, SPEED, ISTEC, Quanser, National Instruments, Xilinx, Silterra, Huawei, nanoPROFESSOR, Hispano Chamber of Commerce, Individuals. Local Industry, …
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Agenda
International Activities
Double Degree Graduate Programs
Students Exchanges: undergraduate and graduate
4+1 and 2+2 Programs
Courses in Spanish, Portuguese
Instituto Cervantes
On-line courses: Coursera, edX, Opencast-Matterhorn
Looking for Partners
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Outreach and Recruitment
Reduce the stay of students by one semester
Savings per student per semester is $8k
Backing of State Legislature, Governor, Regents, UNM administration, community in general
UNM and APS agreement
Beginning in the Fall semester, high school students can now enroll and take first year ECE courses
several students have been identified at APS-CEC
numbers pending from charter schools
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Outreach and Recruitment
Example: Nickolas J. Sewell
Has already Calculus I and II; Physicist I and II; ECE 131
Currently planning on taking ECE 231 and ECE 238L, ECON and English
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Industry Advisory Board
New Members
Deborah Stokes – HUAWEI
Igor Alvarado – National Instruments
Tom Lee – Quanser
Dean Hart – nanoPROFESSOR
Pankaj Gadani – Silterra
Kamil Agi – K&A Wireless
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Innovation-Plaza
Improve recruitment and retention
Provide experiential learning to students
Enhance interdisciplinary collaboration among engineering departments and others
Outreach into the high schools
Improve retention at UNM
From high schools to R&D and Industry - Entrepreneurship
On-line capability; Coursera, edX, OPENCAST-Matterhorn, Moodle, others
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Innovation-Plaza
International component; student exchanges, R&D, projects
Innovative content development – undergraduate and graduate students
Key partners
Quanser, National Instruments, Mathworks, Xilinx,
Silterra, Huawei, NanoProfessor, K&A Wireless, others
Hispano Chamber of Commerce, ISTEC, IFEES, GSDC
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Innovation-Plaza
REQUEST: We need your students to help by developing demos/experiments, content! Eliminate the mystery of Math, Physics and Chemistry.
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Senior Design – Entrepreneurship - GSDC
Attract more local industry
Research teams sponsored by industry; total industry financing
IP belongs to sponsor Students cannot sign NDAs or IP agreements
Academic advisors
Team leaders
Work products, fresh ideas, long-term recruitment
Sponsor Handbook, Rev. C
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GIP + GSDC
Senior Design + GSDC Apps development for people with learning
disabilities; ex. Autism
Second Place in High-Tech Business Plan Contest
Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories
Second stage incubation in Bay Area through ISTEC-STEED Program
Global Innovation-Plaza + GSDC
To be discussed at ISTEC GA and WEEF under the ISTEC-STEED Program
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International Activities
The goals are to establish and further collaborations in: 1) Undergraduate and graduate student exchanges
2) Create Graduate Double Degree Programs (MS and PhD)
3) Create Undergraduate Double Degree Programs (BS)
4) Joint R&D basic and applied
5) Entrepreneurship/leadership building and economic development
Create/enhance technology parks
Incubation and acceleration of spinoffs
Access to capital
Protection, licensing of Intellectual Property
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International Activities
The goals are to establish and further collaborations in: 6) Joint fund raising
7) Joint curricula development and certificate programs
8) Develop presence in international forums and influence in policy making
9) Create/enhance university-government-industry-society partnerships
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International Activities
The collaborations model builds on the experience of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department and the School of Engineering (SOE) in projects with Ibero-American counterparts. The collaborations take advantage of the successful non-for-profit, U.S. 501 (c) (3), spinoff of UNM, the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC, Inc. www.istec.org). ISTEC has been working in STEM Education, R&D, Entrepreneurial (social and business) activities, and the Culture of Quality in the Ibero-American region for the past 21 years.
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Obstacles in 1990 ...
Lack of current information for planning and developing technology
Lack of expertise in the use of information
Lack of international cooperation in developing the critical mass needed for projects and joint efforts
Lack of interaction and confidence among universities, industries, governments and multilateral organizations
Lack of availability of technology for social, cultural , and economic development
Lack of entrepreneurship to bring technology and intellectual property to the market place
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International Activities
Agreements with HEC – Pakistan
100 Graduate Scholarships
Agreements with CAPES – Brazil
Science Without Borders – 101k students in STEM
Agreements with CONACYT – MEXICO
10/20/30 Scholarships
Students Exchanges: undergraduate and graduate
Double Graduate Degree Graduate Programs
UNICAMP, USP, PUCRIO, PUCRS, ITESM, IPN, UAO, UDFJC, UDG, UPB, PUCP, AMRITA, others
Entrepreneurship: network of Tech-Parks
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International Activities
4+1 Program: 5 years BS in other countries. 4 years of BS at home institution + 1 year at UNM.
Get BS from home institution and a MS from UNM.
UNM 2 + 2 Program: 2 years in Spanish while learning English, last 2 years in English and get a BS from UNM
Courses in Spanish, Portuguese – Instituto Cervantes
On-line courses: Coursera, edX, Opencast-Matterhorn – Virtual Campi – ISTEC-Media
Accreditation/certification: ISTEC-GRANA
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www.ece.unm.edu www.istec.org
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