. Students should be able to relateand apply what they learn in classroom into real world application. Initiatives shouldtherefore be focused on reducing the gap between classroom and real working environment.This has prompted us to re-examine and rethink our pedagogical procedures because itinvolves more than just transmitting knowledge to our students but also about transformingand extending knowledge. Our understanding of the educational process, and of learningitself, has also changed. We no longer believe that learning is the passive corollary ofteaching, or that students should simply absorb material presented in lectures and textbooks.We believe student learning experience should produce both educational and developmentaloutcomes.This paper
, andintegration of national, regional and hemispheric systems. Job Creation: To engage with Industry to create an ongoing real world experience for students,stimulate employment through internships and coops, and drive a sustained Industry / Academiainteraction around producing appropriate outcomes.TRANSLATIONEftA’s purpose is to promote economic and social development through quality engineering education forinnovation and hemispheric collaboration in job creation is concentrated on education. Efta’s purpose istranslated into action through an Advisory Committee and the following organizations: Latin AmericanConsortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), Pan American Federation of Engineering Societies(UAPDI) and Pan American Academy of Engineering