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Dr. Issa,BCN professor, attended the 2014 meeting of the Pan American Union of Engineering Societies (UPADI) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Aug. 11-16. At the meeting he was nominated by the American Society of Civil Engineers and elected as Vice-President for the North American region of UPADI. UPADI’s members represent over four million engineers in the Americas.
As a member of the Education Committee, Dr. Issa helped organize and participated in a one-day workshop entitled “Invention, Discovery, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Transforming Technological Education.” As Vice-President of the UPADI Technical Council, Dr. Issa also chaired sections of the meetings of the UPADI Technical Council. He is the UPADI representative to the Organization of American States(OAS) Working Group 2 Ministerial Committee on competitiveness, innovation and technology in the Americas approved by the Ministers of Science and Technology of the Americas in support of the Panama Plan of Action 2012-2016.
During the meetings, Dr. Issa used his Spanish language skills to help negotiate the signing of a mutual cooperation agreement between the ASCE and the Bolivian Engineering Society.