Ángel Martín Peccis
Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos
Colombia
BA in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain, and currently pursuing a Masters in Political Science and Democratic Leadership with the Institute of European Studies.
Leads the Comprehensive Educational Program Afro-descendants in Colombia, from the lines of Quality and Relevance, Education for All Prevention Life Dropout, Governance and Institutional Strengthening, whose main field of action is the Colombian Pacific, but will soon begin to be implemented in Central America.
Since 2005, he has so far conducted six initiatives around Literacy, Basic Primary Education and Training for Work, benefiting more than 50,000 people, all vulnerable, the Pacific coast of Colombia. It materialized shares with SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje de Colombia) so that, once the cycle completed literacy. Likewise, and jointly with the Colombia Ministry of Education officially announced the initiation and implementation of the Institute for Development and Educational Innovation in Early Childhood and Teacher Education, composed of renowned experts. Art education, entrepreneurship and the formation of community mothers are other initiatives have also been successfully developed under its responsibility and leadership.
Aryanne Quintal
Organización de Estados Americanos
United States
Is the Project Coordinator of the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (OAS-ARTCA), a joint project of the Section of Competitiveness, Innovation and Technology of the Organization of American States (OAS); the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the University of Illinois; the Latin American Corporation of Advanced Networks (RedCLARA) and the Costa Rica – USA Foundation for Cooperation (CRUSA). The OAS-ARTCA initiative seeks to promote effective multilateral collaboration between government agencies of education, science, and technology; academia; and the private sector in the interest of the region’s social and economic growth. In her current position, Ms. Quintal is responsible for the planning, budgeting and forecasting of the OAS-ARTCA project, as well as for its outreach and expansion strategy, which includes the design, implementation and evaluation of training activities, seminars and international conferences. Ms. Quintal also provides technical support to a number of hemispheric high-level dialogues, including the Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities of Science and Technology of the Americas; the Inter-American Committee on Science and Technology; and the Americas Competitiveness Forum, the largest annual regional forum on innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development. Ms. Quintal holds a Master’s degree in international relations, foreign policy, cooperation and development from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), as well as a Bachelor’s degree in political communication from UQAM and a Certificate in Journalism from the University of Montreal.
Camilo Younes
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
Camilo Younes received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering, the M.Sc. degree in high-voltage engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, in 1999, 2002, and 2006. He received the B.S. degree in law from Universidad de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia, in 2014. He is a Titular Time Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computing, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He is currently the Dean of the Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Manizales Campus, Manizales, Colombia. His research interests include lightning protection, electromagnetic compatibility, and energy policy and regulation.
David Luna Sánchez
Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones
Colombia
David Luna Sánchez, is a lawyer from Universidad del Rosario. He is a specialist in Administrative Law and has Masters in Government and Public Policies from Universidad del Externado in Colombia and from Columbia University from the United States. He has been president for the environmental organization Globe, “Capítulo Colombia.” Professor of various universities and author of the book, Starting Point: Nine Proposals for the Governance of Bogotá.
He began his public career as a leader of the community action board in the neighborhood. In 1997, he was elected Mayor of Chapinero. Then he was Councilman of Bogotá for two terms and was elected twice as the best city Councilman for the program Bogotá, Cómo Vamos. In 2006, he was elected into Congress with the highest votes in the country. During his term in Congress, he was chosen as the best House of Representatives of Colombia. In 2011, he ran for Mayor of Bogotá.
He has been an associate consultant in socio-political issues. He is currently Minister of ICT, contributing to building a better country, complementing its strategic vision published with private sector experience.
José Carlos Quadrado
Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Porto
Portugal
He has a BSc in Energy and Power Systems, a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation and Industrial Electronics from ISEL, a MSc and a Doctor degree in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Lisbon Technical University. He also holds the Habilitation degree in Electrical Engineering from Beira Interior University.
Being a member of several engineering societies and engineering education societies in several continents, including: The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, SICE (Japan); the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE (USA), where he is the national CIS Chapter chair; and the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, WSEAS (Greece), where he belongs to the board of directors.
He holds over 100 international publications (including journals and chapters of books), several patents and some international technical prizes and scholarships, and also holds the position of editor and editor-in-chief in some journals. He has also developed several international engineering projects in the fields of renewable energy, fuel cells, electrical vehicles and intelligent control.
José Roberto Castilho Piqueira
Universidad de Sao Paulo
Brazil
Ingeniero Eléctrico de la Facultad de Ingeniería de São Carlos, Universidad de San Pablo. Maestría en Ingeniería Eléctrica de la misma institución, Doctor en Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Escuela Politécnica de la Universidad de Sao Paulo. En la actualidad es Profesor y Director de la Escuela Politécnica de la Universidad de Sao Paulo. Tiene 101 artículos indexados en la colección principal de la Web of Science, dirigido 23 maestrías, 24 doctorados y supervisado 9 posdoctorados. Participa en el cuerpo editorial de la revista de Control, Automatización y Sistemas Eléctricos (Springer). Es Presidente de la Junta Directiva del Instituto de Investigaciones Energéticas y Nucleares (IPEN) y un miembro efectivo de la Academia Nacional de Ingeniería. Cuenta con experiencia en las áreas de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Biomédica, con énfasis en la teoría general de los circuitos eléctricos, que actúa sobre los siguientes temas: dinámica, tenedor, el tiempo, el caos y modelos matemáticos.
Josep Miquel Piqué
La Salle Technova Barcelona
Spain
Telecommunications Engineer from La Salle-URL; MBA of University Ramon Llull and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California-Berkeley. His long professional experience in university management has aimed at promoting graduate programs Technology Transfer Centers, University Incubators and Parks Scientific and Technological Innovation, and has promoted the creation of different organizations taking hybrid management model University-Industry- Public administration. The center line of activity is the promotion of knowledge-based economy and society to consolidate knowledge cities in Smart Cities.
Marcos Rubinstein
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland
Switzerland
Marcos Rubinstein was born in San Cristobal, Venezuela, in 1960. He received the B.S. degree in electronics from the Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, in 1982 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. He worked in Hybrid Circuit manufacturing technology at the Venezuelan Engineering Research Institute, Caracas. In 1992, he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he worked in the fields of lightning physics, lightning electromagnetics, and lightning location systems in close cooperation with the former Swiss PTT.
In 1995, he joined Swisscom (formerly Swiss PTT), where he was involved in research in the fields of electromagnetic compatibility, numerical electromagnetics, and biological effects of electromagnetic radiation. In 2001, he joined the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland. He is the author or co-author of over 70 scientific publications in reviewed journals and international conferences. Prof. Rubinstein is the recipient of the best Master’s Thesis award from the University of Florida and co-recipient of NASA’s recognition for innovative technological work.
Michael K.J. Milligan
ABET
United States
Michael K. J. Milligan is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of ABET, the global accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology.
Under his leadership, the organization has increased its geographical reach and diversity, now representing 35 member societies and accredited programs in 29 countries. Prior to joining ABET in 2009, Milligan held various leadership positions in the government and in academia. He also served 24 years as a career U.S. Air Force officer.
Milligan has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.S from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and a B.S. from Michigan State University – all in electrical engineering. He also earned an M.B.A. from Western New England College, Springfield, MA, is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Colorado and Maryland, and a Certified Association Executive (CAE).
Natacha DePaola
Illinois Institute of Technology
United States
DePaola received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in 1984, and a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1987. She completed her Ph.D. degree in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (1991) and Postdoctoral training at Columbia University (1992). DePaola received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), is a Frontiers Alumna of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Dean DePaola’s research investigates the role of physical mechanisms on cellular behavior, emphasizing its importance in the understanding of human disease, the development of new therapies, and the engineering of functional tissues. She is committed to excellence in technology-focused education with emphasis on entrepreneurial and ethical practice of engineering towards the generation of innovative sustainable solutions of global impact. Dean DePaola is AIMBE Fellow; a member of the GEDC Executive Committee and 2016 Elections Committee; and AAAS, ASCB, ASEE, ASME, BMES, Sigma XI, SWE and Tau Beta Pi member.
Thomas Perry
American Society Mechanical Engineering
United States
With over 30 years of experience in industry, academic and professional society communities, Thomas Perry, P.E. is currently the Director of Education for ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), headquartered in New York, NY.
He is responsible for ASME’s worldwide activities in undergraduate degree program accreditation and curriculum advancement, ME/MET department leadership development via leadership summits and workshops; ASME EdResearch projects in practice-oriented curricula and diversity/inclusion strategy in ME/MET education and workforce development programs; and precollege engineering education curriculum and teacher development.
Mr. Perry joined ASME in 1991 as Director of Professional Development after serving as Deputy Executive Director for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in Washington, DC. He holds an AAS and BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Penn State, a MEd in Physics and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio.
