San Cristóbal, Venezuela June 2-5, 2009 7 th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology WE1-1 Seventh LACCEI Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCEI’2009) “Energy and Technology for the Americas: Education, Innovation, Technology and Practice” June 2-5, 2009, San Cristóbal, Venezuela. Outcomes of Implementing IUCEE Effective Teaching Methods in India: Can the IUCEE model be applied to Latin America and the Caribbean? Bhushan H. Trivedi, PhD Gujarat Law Society Institute of Computer Technology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, bhtrivedi@yahoo.com María M. Larrondo Petrie, PhD Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, petrie@fau.edu ABSTRACT The Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) initiative is focused on preparing the next generation of engineering faculty in India and the United States, and dramatically increasing the number of collaborations in research and teaching to better prepare engineers for the global economy. After two years of planning, IUCEE implemented its first Faculty Leadership Institute in India for a six week period during the summer of 2008. Almost 600 Indian faculty participated in 23 week-long Train-the-Trainer workshops led by US faculty members and corporate representatives, generally taking a workshop on effective teaching techniques and another covering best practices teaching within their engineering disciplines; all agreed to give regional seminars on the subjects learned. This paper relates the experiences of one of the Indian faculty participants applying strategies learned in the IUCEE Faculty Leadership Institute to his own courses and to regional seminars to train other faculty. The results are positive and efforts are underway to adapt the IUCEE model to other countries, including Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper concludes by examining how the IUCEE model could be adapted for Latin America. Keywords: Engineering Faculty Training, Higher Education Leadership, IUCEE, India, Latin America 1. INTRODUCTION The Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) [1] initiative was started in 2007, with the assistance of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the International Federation of Engineering Education (IFEES). The IUCEE vision is to improve the quality and global relevance of Engineering Education in India and in the United States by fostering collaborations. IUCEE aims to identify, promote, catalyze, add value to assist in the scale up and multiplication of promising practices for collaboration in • Research and Development • Curriculum and Technology Enhanced Delivery • Innovation and Entrepreneurship • Quality and Accreditation Processes • Industry Participation With this purpose under the leadership of Dr. Krishna Vedula, a Faculty Leadership Institute was developed jointly by US and Indian academic leaders. The Institute consisted of 23 one week “Train-the-Trainer” workshops on effective teaching techniques, and discipline-based courses took place at the InfoSys Technologies’ Global Education Center in Mysore, India. The workshops where led by US experts known for their pedagogical skills. The Indian participants typically enrolled in a teaching methodology workshop and a discipline-based workshop, and had agreed to lead regional workshop throughout India. IUCEE agreed to pair the Indian participants to US mentors.