As of 9/30/2007

**Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)**

*FY 2007 U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program*

*-- New Awards by Award Number --*

**P116M070001**

# Title: Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Film

**U.S. Lead**: Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)

**U.S. Partner(s):** New York University (New York, New York);
University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)

**Brazil Lead**: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis,
Brazil

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo
Horizonte, Brazil); Universidade do Estado da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Literature and Film Studies

**Project Description:** Building on the student and faculty exchanges
of a previous four-year FIPSE grant, we have secured two new university
partners (University of California, Los Angeles and Universidade do
Estado da Bahia) in a new two-year program on the topic of
\"Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Film.\" We
plan to send ten more American students to study in Brazil and two
faculty members to offer mini-courses. The Project Co-Directors of the
grant will also travel to Brazil for organizational and planning
meetings to expand the ongoing exchanges, as well as to lecture there.
In addition, we intend, both from Wayne State and the other American
universities, to send to the Brazilian universities with whom we have
agreements other students without FIPSE stipends and to receive
additional Brazilian students in return.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Renata Wasserman, Professor of English, Wayne
State University, 5057 Woodward Ave., Suite 9201.1, Detroit, MI 48202;
Tel: 313-577-8627; Fax: 313-577-8618; E-mail: <aa0902@wayne.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact:** Anelise Corseuil, Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina, Campus Trindade, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
88040-900, Tel: 55-48-233-1236; E-mail: <corseuil@cce.ufsc.br>

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**P116M070003**

**Title: Business Education in the Age of Globalization and Technology**

**U.S. Lead:** Bentley College (Waltham, Massachusetts)

**U.S. Partner(s)**: University of Texas-Pan American (Edinburg, Texas)

**Brazil Lead:** Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Universidade Federal do Parana (Parana, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Business Education

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**Project Description**: This four-year consortium program builds on
extensive prior collaboration among its partners: Bentley College,
Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Parana, and the
University of Texas-Pan American. We will leverage and expand already
existing joint activities to enhance multinational and cross-cultural
business education. Our proposed program focuses on management of
technology, including information technology, with results in three
primary areas: (1) a common business curriculum working toward dual
degree and joint masters programs; (2) twenty academic year student
exchanges, short-term intensive courses, and summer programs; and (3)
community/enterprise outreach, including workshops, internships, and
networking with local business and trade associations. Our institutional
leaders are active program participants, enhancing program integration
and outreach. Bentley is committing substantial funds and will work to
sustain the project beyond the grant period.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Nader Asgary, Associate Provost for International
Relations, Bentley College, AGC 161, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA
05452; Tel: 781-891-2784; Fax: 781-891-2478; E-mail:
<nasgary@bentley.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact:** Isak Kruglianskas, Universidade de São
Paulo, Cidade Universitaria, Av. Prof. Lucian Gualberto, 908, São Paulo,
Brazil, 05508-900; Tel: 55-11-3818-4034; Fax: 55-11-3818-4034; E-mail:
<ikruglia@usp.br>

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# P116M070005

# Title: Understanding Poverty, Displacement, and the Environment Across Continents: Towards Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, Values-Based Curriculum 

**U.S. Lead:** Fairfield University (Fairfield, Connecticut)

**U.S. Partner(s):** University of La Verne (La Verne, California)

**Brazil Lead:** Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (Campos do
Goytacazes, Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s):** Universidade do Vale do Rios dos Sinos (São
Leopoldo, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Interdisciplinary Curriculum 

**Project Description**: Poverty, and the inequality that causes it, are
the most serious challenges facing global society. An estimated 78
percent of the world's population lives under conditions of poverty
today. This consortium will investigate three global institutions that
contribute to entrenched poverty even as they seek to alleviate it.
Working from the strengths of our partner institutions, we will focus on
(1) the regimes addressing the phenomenon of immigration, regimes that
in seeking to alleviate the desperate situation of migrants and refugees
only too often entrench the poor in their poverty; (2) the institutional
causes of both environmental degradation and the depletion of natural
resources, as attempts to provide for basic human needs often end in
undermining the basis of life itself; and (3) the legal and economic
institutions of land acquisition and tenure, given that access to and
ownership of land can be the key to providing for families in the
present and saving for their future.

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**U.S. Lead Contact:** Dina Franceschi, Associate Professor of
Economics, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Rd, Fairfield, CT
06824-5195; Tel: 203-254-4000 x2850; Fax: 203-254-4074; E-mail:
<dfranceschi@mail.fairfield.edu>\
    

**Brazil Lead Contact:** Marcos Pedlowski, Universidade Estadual do
Norte Fluminense, Av. Alberto Lamego 2000, Parque California, Campos do
Goytacazes, Brazil 28.013-602; Tel: 22-2726-1583; Fax: 22-2726-1685;
E-mail: <pedlowma@uenf.br>

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**P116M070006**

**Title: U.S.- Brazil Engineering Education Consortium on Renewable
Energy**

**U.S. Lead:** North Dakota State University (Fargo, North Dakota)

**Partner(s):** Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan)

**Brazil Lead:** Universidade Federal do Pará (Belém, Brazil)

**Partner(s):** Universidade Federal do Campinas (Campinas, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Energy and Environmental Policy

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**Project Description**: This project addresses the most significant
question to face the two largest economic engines in the northern and
southern parts of the Western Hemisphere - Brazil and the United
States - as the functional context to address reforms in engineering
education. The consortium will use consideration of renewable and
alternative energy opportunities as the focus for upper-level review and
reform of the engineering curriculums for electrical, mechanical, and
computer disciplines and for electrical engineering technology. The
partner institutions will use the exchange of students and faculty to
study questions of credit equivalents, shared curriculum, distance
education, and professional practice. If necessary, new educational
methods and pathways will be proposed to the accrediting agencies in
both countries.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Ivan T. Lima Jr., Assistant Professor, North
Dakota State University, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, 1735 Research Park Dr., P.O. Box 5756, NDSU Station, Fargo,
ND 28105-5756; Tel: 701-231-6728; Fax: 701-231-8677; E-mail:
<Ivan.Lima@ndsu.edu>

**Brazil Lead Contact:** João C. Costa, Universidade Federal do Pará,
Centro Tecnológico, DEEC, Rua Augusto Correa, s/n, Belém, Pará, Brazil
66075-900; Tel: 91-3201-7740; Fax: 91-3201-7740; E-mail: <jweil@ufpa.br>

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# P116M070007

# Title: Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development: The Central Role of the United States and Brazil 

**U.S. Lead:** Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Virginia)

**U.S. Partner(s)**: University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)

**Brazil Lead**: Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Amazonas, Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Energy and Environmental Policy

**Project Description:** Energy choices over the next several decades
will determine the future of the planet and human society. This project
looks at these choices and how best to inform the decisions that must be
made. We have chosen a variety of activities to pursue our goals,
including student exchange, curricular development, internships,
faculty-mentored student research, collaborative faculty research,
university/industry partnerships, and the creation of informational
resources for both academic and practitioner use.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** James Randall Kahn, PhD, Professor of Economics,
Washington and Lee University, Environmental Studies, 204 W. Washington
St., Lexington, VA 24450; Tel: 540-458-8036; Fax: 540-458-4007; E-mail:
<KahnJ@wlu.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact:** Alexandre Rivas, Av. Gal. Rodrigo Otávio,
3000, Campus Universitario, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil 69000-000; Tel:
92-3647-4063; Fax: 92-3647-4062; E-mail: <alexandre.rivas@pq.cnpq.br>

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**P116M070010**

# Title: Training Industrial Engineers in Cognitive Engineering Approaches to Manage High Risk, Complex Systems

**U.S. Lead:** University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)

**U.S. Partner(s)**: Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)

**Brazil Lead:** Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto
Alegre, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Forestry

**Project Description:** This project exchange 42 students over the next
two years. Each student will spend five months abroad and work in
bilateral year-long project teams with one of our industrial partners in
addition to taking courses in both Brazil and the United States. We will
host three international human factors workshops in order to spread the
word about cognitive ergonomics in Brazil and either to add more
institutions to our consortium or to encourage the creation of similar
consortiums managed by others. Finally, we will contribute to the
literature on international engineering education through publications
in peer-reviewed journals, particularly focusing on our unique exchange
format and dissemination of a scoring methodology for evaluating
international engineering education experiences on three criteria:
foreign language competency, global competency, and mitigation of
student barriers to participation.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Stephanie A.E. Guerlain, Associate Professor of
Engineering, University of Virginia, 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box
400747, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4747; Tel: 434-924-4438; Fax:
434-982-2972; E-mail: <sag3c@virginia.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact**: José Gomes, Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, Engenharia Industrial, Av. Brig. Trompowsky, s/n- Pradio do CT,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tel: 552-125-9831; Fax: 552-125-9831; E-mail:
<joseorlando@nce.ufrj.br>

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## P116M070011

# Title: Forest Ecosystem Services: A Curriculum in an Emerging Field

**U.S. Lead:** University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)

**U.S. Partner(s)**: University of Georgia (Athens Georgia)

**Brazil Lead:** Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Viçosa, Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s):** Universidade Federal do Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Ecosystem Services 

**Project Description:** This is a study abroad program that addresses
the mechanisms and economic valuation of forest ecosystem services. It
represents a new curriculum that will be introduced into six
universities (three U.S. and three Brazilian) and that will train 64
students with an appreciation for, and competency in, this emerging
topic. The foundation course is an intercontinental, team-taught,
distance-delivered discipline entitled Forest and Soil Ecosystem
Services. This course will be developed in the first year and taught in
the fall semester of each year. All students are required to take this
course before or during their study abroad, then round out their course
work with pre-approved, existing courses in Brazil and the United
States. A minimum of six credits abroad and six credits at the home
institution are required to complete the curriculum. The topic,
ecosystem services, is an emerging field with an estimated annual value
of \$33 trillion that is now being applied to forest ecosystem
management and conservation.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Nicholas Brian Comerford, University of Florida,
Professor of Agriculture, 2169 McCarty Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-0290;
Tel: 352-392-1951; Fax: 352-392-3902; E-mail: <nbc@ufl.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact**: Nairam Barros, Universidade Federal de
Viçosa, Departamento do Solos, Viçosa, Brazil 36570-000; Tel.:
31-3899-1048; Fax: 31-3899-2630; E-mail: <nfbarros@ufv.edu>

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**P116M070015**

# Title: U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortium Program in Microelectronics

**U.S. Lead:** Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)

**U.S. Partner(s)**: University of Buffalo, SUNY (Buffalo, New York);
Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa); Texas A&M University (College
Station, Texas)

**Brazil Lead:** Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis,
Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto
Alegre, Brazil); Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal,
Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Technology Education

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**Project Description:** Four U.S. universities and three Brazilian
universities are collaborating on microelectronics education.
Microelectronics is a subject area that has received a special emphasis
in the Northern Hemisphere, and no current FIPSE program is focused on
this field. The Southern Hemisphere is an appropriate place to seek
expansion of industrial, research, and educational resources and
personnel for this field. Tapping of talent in this region and economic
development in Brazil make this an appropriate area of collaboration.
The four U.S. universities are some of the largest in the country, and
bring together long-standing strengths in device physics (Arizona State
University and University of Buffalo), very-large-scale integration
(VLSI) design (Iowa State University), and analog and mixed signal
design (Texas A&M University).

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Stephen M. Phillips, Chair of Electrical
Engineering Department, Arizona State University, 1711 S. Rural Rd., Box
875706, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706; Tel: 480-965-6410; Fax: 480-965-3837;
E-mail: <Stephen.Phillips@asu.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact:** Márcio Cherem Schneider, Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina, Engenharia Elétrica, Campus Universatario-
Trindade CEP, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil 88040-900; Tel: 048-3721-9320;
Fax: 048-3234-4069; E-mail: <marcio@eel.ufsc.br>

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**P116M070016**

# Title: U.S.-Brazil Partnership in Sustainability and Innovative Design

**U.S. Lead**: University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

**U.S.** **Partner(s)**: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre
Haute, Indiana)

**Brazil Lead**: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas, Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Vitória,
Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Sustainability and Innovative Design 

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**Project Description:** This partnership will address sustainability
and innovative design. Student teams will work first in the United
States and then in Brazil over two semesters addressing an important
sustainable design problem as part of their coursework. Internships with
industry and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will enable students
to spend additional time in the host country. The initial focus will be
on engineering and architecture with business students added later. A
Certificate Program in Sustainable Design for the Developing World will
be created across the consortium partners. All U.S. students will have
at least 10 credits of Brazilian Portuguese as well as intensive
Portuguese. The program will involve 28 U.S. and 18 Brazilian students.
Including the annual meeting, the consortium will meet twice per year,
once each in the United States and Brazil.

**U.S. Lead Contact**: Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh,
Department of Engineering, 323 Benedum Hall, 3900 O'Hara St.,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260; Tel: 412-624-9815; Fax: 412-624-9831; E-mail:
<shuman@engr.pitt.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact:** Leandro Palermo, Jr., Universidade Estadual
de Campinas, Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Av. Albert Einstein, no. 951,
Campinas, SP Brazil 13083-852; Tel: 55-19-3788-2300; Fax:
55-27-3788-2411; E-mail: <doris@fec.unicamp.br>

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**P116M07017**

# Title: The Development of a Global Engineering Certification Program

**U.S. Lead**: North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina)

**U.S. Partner(s)**: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(Blacksburg, Virginia); North Carolina A&T State University (Greensboro,
North Carolina)

**Brazil Lead**: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
(Curitiba, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Engineer Education 

**Project Description:** The project has the following objectives: (1)
establish an institutionally based engineering exchange program; (2)
establish a Global Engineering Certificate awarded by the hosting
university to foreign students; 3) establish an International
Engineering Certificate awarded by the U.S. university to U.S.
engineering students; and 4) establish Engineering Equivalency between
the engineering programs in the United States and those in Brazil. To
achieve these objectives we will establish an engineering exchange
program and engineering equivalency between three engineering schools in
the United States and three engineering schools in Brazil. Students will
take equivalent engineering courses at the foreign university and not
significantly extend their degree completion time. U.S. students will
take their engineering courses in Portuguese while in Brazil. Students
who successfully complete the exchange program will receive formal
certification.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Robert E. Young, Professor of Industrial
Engineering, North Carolina State University, Department of Industrial &
Systems Engineering, Campus Box 7906, Raleigh, NC 27695-7906; Tel:
919-515-7201; Fax: 919-515-5281; E-mail: <young@ncsu.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact:** Erickson Alemdra, Escola Politécnica da
UFRJ, Centro de Universitaria, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CEP 21949-900; Tel: 55-21-2562-7064; E-mail: <almendra@metalmat.ufrj.br>

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**P116M07019**

# Title: Obesity Dilemma: A Cross-Cultural Ecologically-Based Model

**U.S. Lead**: Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw, Georgia)

**U.S. Partner(s)**: California State University, Long Beach (Long
Beach, California)

**Brazil Lead**: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis,
Brazil)

**Brazil Partner(s)**: Universidade de Pernambucco (Recife, Brazil)

##### Subject Areas: Health and Ecology 

**Project Description:** Despite efforts to curb the rising obesity
epidemic, it continues to be a significant preventable cause of death in
the United States. As countries such as Brazil have become more
industrialized, the obesity rates have started to climb to levels
similar to those in the United States decades ago. Preventing obesity
has been a challenging problem, necessitating the need to reexamine
paradigms for prevention programs. A growing body of evidence suggests
that ecological (environmental) influences are strong contributing
factors, i.e., obesity has become a normal response to an abnormal
environment. The primary purpose of this consortium is to employ a
cross-cultural ecologically based model for training health
professionals to address the obesity dilemma. The specific goals are the
following: (1) expand the understanding of the etiology of obesity; 2)
infuse these cross-cultural lifestyle/environmental comparative
perspectives into the curriculum; and (3) develop/implement
country-specific teaching modules that address public policy.

**U.S. Lead Contact:** Mitchell Collins, Chair, Health, Physical
Education and Sport Science, Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain
Rd., MS #0202, Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591; Tel: 770-423-6216; Fax:
770-423-6561; E-mail: <mcollins@kennesaw.edu>

**Brazilian Lead Contact:** Markus V. Nahas, Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina, Campus Universitario - Trindade, Florianópolis, Santa
Catarina, Brazil 88040-900; Tel: 011-55-48-3721-7089; Fax:
011-55-48-3331-9927; E-mail: <markus@cds.ufsc.br>