Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Gash, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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International

Engineers for a Nation For the government of Afghanistan to succeed it must be able to protect its people,provide basic services, and enforce the rule of law. A large part of this burden lies with theANA. Trained and equipped by the coalition deployed under the leadership of the United StatesCentral Command’s Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A) andworking with partner nations largely from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), theANA currently numbers fifty-seven thousand soldiers and is growing daily. In an effort toprovide a corps of professional officers to this growing force, in 2005 the Afghan governmentestablished a military academy envisioned to become “the crown jewel of university leveleducational and

Conference Session

Engineering Accreditation Around the World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Gisela Coto Quintana; Jaime Salazar, Ibero-American Association of Engineering Education (ASIBEI); Jorge Ignacio Velez Munera, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, ACOFI

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International

AC 2008-511: ADVANCING STRATEGIES FOR ENGINEERINGACCREDITATION IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANMaria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, is a Professor of Computer Engineering and the Associate Dean of Academic and International Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. She is Executive Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI). In ASEE she is on the boards of the Minorities in Engineering Division and the Women in Engineering Division, and the Web Master and past Secretary Treasurer of the International Division. She is Vice