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Summary and Objectives:

The Juarez-Lincoln-Marti (JLM) International Education Project ESPANOL (which, for its education goals could have also been named Sierra-Dewey-Luz Caballero ) is completely dedicated to providing five international education programs enhancing faculty development opportunities and exchanges. The first consists in finding scholarships for faculty, students and staff; the second consists in developping, statistics, technology infusion and classroom administration workshops ; the third consists in donating educational materials (textbooks and SW) to Iberoamerican universities, especially small, public and provincial institutions that really need them. The fourth consists in publishing an electronic quarterly bulletin, with educational news. Finally, the JLM Projec has traditionally provided solidarity functions (donation of clothes, children toys and school materials) to the local population of the places where we work.

NUEVO/NEW: LISTA DE DONACIONES DE LIBROS/BOOK DONATION LIST

The JLM Project has advertised for book donations in the Amstat News, the monthly magazine of the American Statistical Association. A number of colleague statisticians have generously offered to Donate books to Latin American Institutions. The complete list of donors and the material they are offering is included in the attached Book Donors List .

Philosophy and Goals

The Juarez-Lincoln-Marti Project feels great pride for its long history of providing professional and academic development in Iberoamerica. It strives to build a better US-Ibero American understanding and to help forge stronger working relations between the Ibero American and North American higher education academic and research communities, as well as between its peoples.

The JLM Project also strives to promote and to help develop Ibero American International Professionals that may help consolidate such stronger links between peoples of different nations and cultures, especially within our own Region.

The reasons for all these efforts are described in a series of Spanish and English language newspaper articles, written during our frequent stages abroad, and published in journals of the US, Mexico and Spain.

Project Origins

The Juarez-Lincoln-Marti Project was created in 1994, as the SUNY-Mexico Exchange Project. Under this first name it functioned between 1994 and 1998 when its Director, Dr. Jorge Luis Romeu, took early retirement from SUNY. After 1998, the Juarez-Lincoln-Marti Project adopted its more appropriate present name, created this Web Page, found new sources of funding to support its scholarship programs, as well as for starting new programs in education, and Published a Periodic Educational Electronic Bulletin .

Faculty Scholarships and Textbook Donation Programs

Since its inception in 1994, the Project established contacts with many Mexican universities and research centers, travelled to Mexico carrying scores of donated mathematics and science textbooks, software and other teaching materials, sent by mail scores of textbooks to universities in Latin America and Spain, maintained two email information lists, sending monthly bulletins for Academics and researchers, and found full scholarships that have brought 18 Mexican faculty to participate in several SUNY/FACT Conferences for Instructional Technology (CIT). You can read the Abstract of one of our CIT Panels, presented by the Juarez Project Scholars that attended one of these Conferences .

Faculty Development Program

In the Spring of 2000, JLM Project Director obtained a Grant from the US Department of State, to deliver a faculty development workshop at Universidad de las Americas, UDLA, Puebla, in Mexico. With the proceeds of this grant, the Juarez-Lincoln-Marti Project taught two other workshops on Technology in Education and launched a new program to provide additional faculty development workshops to other Iberoamerican public and provincial institutions. In 2001, the Project Director was accepted into the Fulbright Senior Speaker Specialist Program, through which he has given longer workshops and courses (four and six weeks) in universities in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. With the proceeds of these grants, the Project has partially underwritten courses and workshops in other institutions.

The Project has offered courses in the following areas: (1) new technology Infusion and its Applications ; (2) pedagogical and methodological innovations in mathematics and science education ; (3) Simulation modeling, as educational , or (4) simulation as an Operations Research analysis tool; (4) reliability modeling and analysis ; (5) design of experiments DOE ; (6) deterministic and/or stochastic Operations Research methods ; (7) probability and statistics ; (8) industrial statistics applications ; (9) industrial quality and productivity engineering and (10) organization of academic statistical consulting institutions . The way these workshops and courses are taught and their objectives are discussed in ISI-2001 . The teaching experiences of the Project Director are summarized in a Paper presented at Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Ver, MX, (in Spanish) during an Education Colloquium ; (11) Workshop on Course Evaluation Strategies presented at ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador (in Spanish) Rubrics, and (12) Data Analysis using Minitab statistical software.

The above courses are based in the 30 years of teaching, research, consulting and practical experiences of the Project Director, and his extensive writings in applied industrial statistics.

Solidarity

Teaching in different provincial cities, we confirmed the needs of some of the local population. The JLM Project then included additional activities such as the collection of toys, clothes and school materials for Latin American children, among LaFayette High School students and others in our Headquarters in Syracuse NY. As a result, the JLM Project has provided clothing after the Puebla earthquate in 2000 and Veracruz floodings of 2002; toys clothes and school supplies for children with AIDS in the Dominican Republic, as well as for Quechua children in Ecuador, and for Children in the Guerrero Sierra, in Mexico, among other places.

Project International Scope

The Juarez Lincoln Marti Project concentrates mainly, but not exclusively on Mexico. The Project Director has been involved in many International Education activities and with several working groups in Iberoamerica. Starting in 1995, Romeu taught, various workshops on the use of statistics and simulation software, learning groups, technology infusion and contextual projects in statistical education, at two campuses of the University of Galicia and two of the University of the Basque Country. In addition, other Iberoamerican countries have been served by the Project: Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador.

In 1997, the Project started another faculty development program at the Romulo Gallegos University, UNERG , in the Orinoco plains, Venezuela, where he developed an innovative faculty apprenticeship model. The UNERG project was sponsored by Fundayacucho, the Venezuelan government educational agency, as well as by the World Bank.

Projects in Cyberspace

The Project has also worked on international education via the Internet. With a group of four American and Latin American educators, he participated in the complete development of an Operations Research masters level curriculum for the Universidad del Comahue, in Neuquen, Argentina. Through the Juarez Lincoln Marti Project and the Internet, Romeu strives to continue his international education work in Spain, Venezuela, Argentina and other countries.

Dissemination

Educational and environmental research information is periodically circulated via bulletins sent through our two email lists. For examples of the types of information and opportunities disseminated every month, in the technology and educational fields etc. Our information is also stored on pages: one , two , three , four , five , six and seven . Ecological issues are the main objective of the EPA and the Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC) . Ecological research information is periodically emailed to our members, too. Both lists are free and open to the public. If you are interested in joining -or would like to be dropped from it- just send us an email (see the last paragraph).

About the Project Director

Dr. Jorge Luis Romeu, the Juarez-Lincoln-Marti Project Director, is a Research Professor with the Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department (MAE), Syracuse University, and a statistical consultant . Romeu, a SUNY Associate Professor Emeritus, took early retirement in December of 1988. He taught mathematics, statistics and computer courses at SUNY Cortland, where he was a Member of the Graduate Faculty . For his teaching, he obtained multiple awards and honors. His research interests are in applied statistics and in international education . Romeu holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Syracuse University (1990) and a "Licenciado en Matematicas" degree from the University of Havana, Cuba (1973).

Papers in the Internet:

Romeu has lectured frequently abroad, publishing widely in the internet about international science and on topics dealing with the uses and infusion of technology in science/mathematics education and with course administration. He has also organized several CIT panels on international education and has written, published and presented papers and research proposals on different aspects of technology infusion assessment and administration of courses as well as on the efforts in international education activities in science, business and engineering.

Contacting Us:

If you want to send us a message or a comment, or you have an idea on how to enhance this project, or to help us continue our international education work, please send us an: email .

You can also write to us at: P. O. Box 6134, Syracuse, NY 13217 or FAX us at (315) 443-9099.

A Farewell Poem (in Spanish).

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