Preparing Engineers for Global Challenges: Engaging with Chile through the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Initiative | Zendy

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Preparing Engineers for Global Challenges: Engaging with Chile through the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Initiative

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Megan Mercedes Echevarría,

Sigrid Berka

Publication year - 2020

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--17193

Subject(s) - internship , prosperity , latin americans , coursework , political science , inclusion (mineral) , capstone , public relations , sociology , pedagogy , social science , law , algorithm , computer science

Dr. Sigrid Berka is the Executive Director of the International Engineering Program (IEP) at the University of Rhode Island, and also the Director of the German and the Chinese IEP, responsible for building academic programs with exchange partners abroad, internship placements for IEP’s dual degree students, corporate relations and fundraising for the IEP. Bi-annually, the IEP organizes the Colloquium on International Engineering Education. Under Sigrid’s leadership, the IEP received NAFSA’s Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award for innovative campus internationalization (2011), and the Andrew Heiskell Award for an innovative study abroad program (2012) by the Institute for International Education. She was Co-PI

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