{"id":54352,"date":"2019-02-14T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=54352"},"modified":"2019-02-15T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:43:12","slug":"partnerships-south-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/partnerships-south-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU abroad: President Cheng works to grow partnerships south of the border"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAU President Rita Cheng<\/strong> led a delegation of university leadership to partner institution Center for Technical and Higher Education University (CETYS) in Mexicali, Mexico, earlier this month to further develop programming and collaborative initiatives between the two institutions.<\/p>\n

University leadership and staff from various departments across the Flagstaff campus and NAU-Yuma joined the presidential delegation, including: David Schultz<\/strong>, vice president for research; Daniel Palm<\/strong>, associate vice president for global initiatives and executive director for the Center for International Education; Michael Sabath<\/strong>, campus executive officer for NAU-Yuma; Diane Stearns<\/strong>, interim dean of the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences; Kevin Trainor<\/strong>, associate dean of the W.A. Franke College of Business; Tom Cheng<\/strong>, executive-in-residence; Alex Steenstra<\/strong>, chair of business department at NAU-Yuma; and Kristin Allen<\/strong>, program manager for Latin American Initiatives.\"Group<\/a><\/p>\n

CETYS President Fernando Le\u00f3n Garc\u00eda opened the meeting and welcomed the group to CETYS\u2019s Center for Excellence in Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (CECE), emphasizing the importance of international collaboration among institutions of higher education to create global opportunities that prepare students to participate in the social, cultural and economic improvement in multiple countries throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Following conversation surrounding campus internationalization and collaboration in areas of engineering and business, the group visited CETYS\u2019s new Center for Innovation and Design (CEID). Inaugurated in January 2018, the CEID houses CETYS\u2019s engineering learning community and aims to provide solutions for continuous improvement and stimulate innovation and growth across industry and business. While there, first-year robotics students shared projects in areas of transportation (autonomous vehicles) and conservation (hydroponics) with the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreating and building relationships with institutions of higher education abroad creates opportunity,\u201d Cheng said. \u201cI look forward to working closely with Dr. Garc\u00eda and seeing how this partnership can benefit our students here at NAU and in Mexicali.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cheng and Schultz tour Honeywell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The group also had the opportunity to tour Honeywell\u2019s aerospace testing lab while in Mexicali, a unique location that houses a wind tunnel to support the 777X platform by Boeing and enables continued development of Honeywell\u2019s engineering capacities. CETYS fosters strong relationships between corporations and industry throughout Mexicali, which in turn has provided NAU\u2019s faculty-led programs with access to important site visits such as Honeywell, Kenworth and SkyWorks over the last few years.<\/p>\n

While NAU and CETYS have seen both student and faculty short-term exchange in international business, this visit aims to further the partnership to include collaborative research and investigation in strategic areas such as logistics, renewable energies and water management, as well the establishment of a bilateral student exchange, dual-degree programming and cross-border leadership training opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAU President Rita Cheng led a delegation of university leadership to partner institution Center for Technical and Higher Education University (CETYS) in Mexicali, Mexico, earlier this month to further develop programming and collaborative initiatives between the two institutions. University leadership and staff from various departments across the Flagstaff campus and NAU-Yuma joined the presidential delegation,…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":54353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}