Volume 30 Number 18
International Engineering Consortium
A $209,000 federal grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) was recently awarded to aid in the formation of a consortium between California State University, Chico and North Dakota State University; the University of Manitoba; the University of Saskatchewan; the University of Zacatecas, Mexico; and the University of Yucatan, Mexico.
The grant funds a project to prepare engineering students for the international business climate fostered by the North American Free Trade Agreement.CSU, Chico and its five partners will use the funds to develop and deliver courses via the Internet. Following the classroom experience, there will be an exchange of engineering students among the three countries.
Project director on the Chico campus is Roy Crosbie, Electrical and Computer Engineering. The NDSU project director, Orlando Baiocchi, is a former chair of Electrical Engineering at CSU, Chico who moved to Fargo North Dakota, in 1997 to be chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NDSU. -- KM
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