If ambitious plans outlined here last month come to fruition, several of the world's leading universities could soon be collaborating on engineering-design projects and research activities, exchanging students and professors, and pooling their expertise to work more closely with industry.
At a two-day conference at Columbia University, deans and other leading faculty members from Ivy League engineering schools and their counterparts from elite institutions in Brazil, China, and India gathered to discuss the formation of a new alliance called CIBI.
Feniosky Peña-Mora, the dean of Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, is one of the driving forces behind the fledgling group. "There are already a lot of networks of universities," he acknowledges, adding that many of those groups unite diverse institutions with very different institutional profiles. The new alliance would instead be based on "universities that have similar missions and share key characteristics," he says.
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Author: Aisha Labi
