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It is time to commit ourselves with the
English language, because within
science and engineering is a must.
A short remembering on our short history. In 1991, just
when Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y
Tecnología started operations, we agree with
University of Tennessee on building
academic collaboration, starting from knowing each other institutions,
allowing visiting academic programs for UTK faculties, as well as for
some of our faculties.
One of the most relevant activity was a UTK Headquarter
visit in 1998 of the Chancellor Dr. William T.
Snyder and four the Deans; Dean of
the Graduate School, Dr. C. W. Minkel, Dean of Engineering, Dr. Jerry
Stonecking, Dean of Veterinary Medicine Dr. Michael Shires and the
Associate Dean of Agriculture Dr. G. Schneider. The name
Tennessee was given at that time to the
main building of the University.
Many activities had happened since then. This section,
within our web site, has the objective of opening a communication
environment to challenger our students into the English as we did it
five years ago when we introduced the English language over 8 semesters
in the curricula.
Let us describe the most two near relevant events that
has occurred within the relations with University of Tennessee:
● First, during August 2009,
Dr. Mongi A. Abidi, Director of “Imaging, Robot and Intelligent Systems”
Laboratory, visited us for a week and teaches a curse:
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“Robotic and Artificial
Intelligence” and deliver two conferences
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“3-D
Image Processing” and
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“Robot
Vision and Sensing” .
The students had the opportunity to chat with
Dr. Abidi with an “empanada”
and refreshments.
An important agreement of collaboration has established
with Dr. Abidi, of course the results will
depend on the students English proficiency, so the challenger is “your
commitment” to learn English.
To start with, let me introduce you to the document
“Basics Agreement of Collaboration”. To
be easier for your understanding, this only time, we provided with the
written translation as well.
Basics Agreement of
Collaboration
Between Dr. Raúl Smith,
College of Engineering at
Universidad Iberoamericana
de Ciencia y Tecnología
and
Dr. Mongi A. Abidi, Imaging,
Robotics, and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
The Dean of the College of Engineering Dr. Raúl Smith and Dr. Mongi
Abidi, of IRIS,
discussed basics development for the
Engineering College within Electronic, Robotics,
Automation, and Imaging.
Dr.
Mongi Abidi has agreed to provide support in the following areas.
First priority:
a.
Review of the
Civil Electronic Engineering Curriculum for
accreditation.
b.
Review of the educational
methodologies in order to introduce teaching or research enhancements
through thesis projects during the last year of the program.
c. Organize
the teaching of special topics courses in English
by engineering faculty, within the last year program of
Civil Electronic Engineering and Civil Computer
Engineering.
Second priority:
d.
Assist undergraduate
students by providing information on the requirements of coursework,
English tests, and technical tests required
to apply for graduate programs.
e.
Assist students with
adequate English proficiency to secure
training or learning opportunities that can be accepted as requirement
for graduation at Universidad Iberoamericana de
Ciencias y Tecnología .
f.
Assist students who have
completed the six-year program in Civil Electronic
Engineer to apply to Ph.D. Programs .
g.
Assist in the development
of joint research programs involving students and faculty at
Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y
Tecnología.
Santiago, August 14, 2009
Holman Ortiz L.
Raúl Smith F.
Mongi A. Abidi
Head Elect & Comp School Dean College Eng.
Director of IRIS Lab.
Acuerdos Básicos de Colaboración
entre
Dr. Raúl Smith, Facultad de Ingeniería de la
Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y
Tecnología
y
Dr. Mongi S. Abidi, Imaging,
Robotics, and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) of
University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
El Decano de la
Facultad de Ingeniería Dr. Raúl Smith y el Dr. Mongi Abidi, Director del
Laboratorio IRIS,
discutieron desarrollos para la Facultad de Ingeniería en Electrónica,
Robótica, Automatización e Imágenes.
El Dr. Mongi Abidi acordó proporcionar soporte en las siguientes áreas.
Primera prioridad:
a.
Revisión de la
Malla Curricular y Programas de Asignatura de la
Carrera de Ingeniería Civil Electrónica para fines de
acreditación.
b.
Revisión de las metodologías
educacionales para introducir mejoramientos en la enseñanza y en la
investigación, a través de proyectos de tesis se cierren en el último
año del programa.
c.
Organizar la enseñanza de
“cursos en tópicos especiales” dictados en Inglés, dentro del último año
del programa de Ingeniería Civil Electrónica e
Ingeniería Civil en Computación e Informática.
Segunda prioridad:
d.
Asistir a estudiantes de
programas de pregrado suministrándoles la información necesaria en los
requerimientos de los trabajos de curso, en las exigencias de test en
inglés y técnicos, considerados en los programas de graduados.
e.
Asistir a alumnos, que posean
una adecuada destreza en Inglés, en
asegurarles “entrenamiento u oportunidades de aprendizaje” que puedan
ser aceptados como requerimientos de graduación en la
Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y
Tecnología.
f.
Asistir a alumnos, que hayan
completado el programa de Ingeniería Civil
Electrónica en seis años, en postular directamente al Programa de Ph. D.
en la Universidad de Tennessee.
g.
Asistir en el desarrollo de
programas de investigaciones conjuntas, que involucre a estudiantes y a
académicos de la Universidad Iberoamericana de
Ciencias y Tecnología.
Santiago, Agosto 14 de 2009.
Holman Ortiz L.
Raúl Smith F.
Mongi A. Abidi
Head Elect & Comp School Dean College Eng.
Director of IRIS Lab.
●Second,
during August, Dr. Michael Davidson, Director of Food
Science and Technology Department of the University of Tennessee and Dr.
Federico M. Harte, Assistance Professor of Protein Polymer, visited us
for a week and teaches three curses in:
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Listeria
Monocytogenes; Characterization and Control.
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Reology
of Fermented Dairy Products
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Methods
for identifying, analyzing and applying natural microbials to foods
The students had the opportunity to chat
with both faculties eating an
“empanada” and refreshments.
An important agreement of collaboration has established
with Dr. Davidson, of course the results
will depend on the students English proficiency,
so the challenger again, is “your commitment”
to learn English.
Let me introduce the document
“Basics Agreement of Collaboration” in
English and in Spanish as well.
Basics
Agreement of Collaboration
Between
Dr. Raúl Smith, Dean College of Engineering at
Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología
and
Dr. P.
Michael Davidson, Professor of Food Microbiology and Head Department of
Food Science and Technology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Dean of the
College of Engineering Dr. Raúl Smith and Dr. P. Michael Davidson,
discussed basics development for the Engineering
College within the area of Food Science Technology and Food Engineering
Dr. P. Michael
Davidson has agreed to provide support in the following areas.
First priority:
h.
Review of the Food Engineering curriculum for accreditation
(Chilean Government), and advise of the
Engineering Biotechnology curriculum and
of the Engineering Environmental
curriculum.
Review of the educational
methodologies in order to introduce teaching or research enhancements,
improve English proficiency,
and can be accepted as requirement for
graduation at Universidad Iberoamericana .
j. Organize
the teaching of special topics courses in English
by UTK food science faculty, within the last year program of
Food Engineering Curriculum (3 weeks in
Chile) or for workshops through Universidad
Iberoamericana.
Second priority:
k. Assist
undergraduate students by providing information on the requirements of
coursework, English tests (Toefl or
equivalent), and technical tests required to apply for graduate
programs.
l. Assist
students who have completed the five-year program in
Food Engineering curriculum to apply to
Graduate Programs .
m.
Assist in the development
of joint research programs involving students and faculty at
Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y
Tecnología.
Santiago, October 15, 2009
Hugo Torti
I.
Raúl Smith F.
P. Michael Davidson
Head Food
Eng. School
Dean College Eng.
Head Food
Science & Tech.Dep
Acuerdos Básicos de Colaboración
entre
Dr.
Raúl Smith, Decano Facultad de Ingeniería de la
Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y Tecnología
y
Dr. P. Michael Davidson, Director del Departamento
Food Science & Technology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
El Decano de la
Facultad de Ingeniería Dr. Raúl Smith y el Dr. P. Michael Davidson,
Director del Departamento de Food Science & Technology,
discutieron desarrollos para la Facultad de Ingeniería en las áreas de
Food Science & Technology y Food Engineering.
El Dr. P. Michael
Davidson acordó proporcionar soporte en las siguientes áreas.
Primera prioridad:
h.
Revisión de la Malla
Curricular y Programas de Asignatura de la Carrera de Ingeniería en
Alimentos para fines de acreditación y colaborar en la revisión
de la malla curricular de las carreras de Ingeniería en
Biotecnología y de Ingeniería Medioambiental.
i.
Revisión de las metodologías educacionales
para introducir mejoramientos en la enseñanza y en la investigación,
mejore el idioma inglés, través de proyectos de tesis que sean
requeridos en la Universidad Iberoamericana.
j.
Organizar la enseñanza de
“cursos en tópicos especiales” dictados en
Inglés, o workshops, (por 3 semanas) dentro del último año del programa
de Ingeniería en Alimentos.
Segunda prioridad:
k. Asistir
a estudiantes de programas de pregrado suministrándoles la información
necesaria en los requerimientos de los trabajos de curso, en las
exigencias de Test en Inglés (Toefl o
equivalente) y técnicos, considerados en los programas de graduados.
l. Asistir
a alumnos, que hayan completado el programa de Ingeniería en Alimentos
de cinco años, en postular directamente al
Programa de Graduados en la Universidad de Tennessee.
m.
Asistir en el desarrollo de programas de
investigaciones conjuntas, que involucre a estudiantes y a académicos de
la Universidad Iberoamericana de Ciencias y
Tecnología.
Santiago, Octubre 15 de 2009.
Hugo Torti
I.
Raúl Smith F.
P. Michael Davidson
Head Food
Eng. School
Dean College Eng.
Head Food
Science & Tech.Dep
We encourage you all engineering
students, to write short news or comments or your academic experiences
related with the English language, within de English courses, or within
your attendance to English seminars, conferences or courses.
We claim that this
“Engineering
News” section, in the Web Engineering Site, will introduce
yourselves to interact , little by little in the language, don’t be
afraid in making mistakes, be afraid in doing nothing.
Dean Smith
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