Last Thursday, 21, the Dean of Texas Tech University and representatives of the international internship program came to Curitiba to establish new connections and strengthen collaboration with Lactec Institutes.

Co-create. This is one of the most used words in Brazilian Experience’s daily routine and reflects our belief that together we work better to change the world. This is the reason why we do cultural exchange programs through professional internships in Brazil

Not only we create bridges between people, bult also between institutions. On the last February 21st, Albert Sacco, Dean of Texas Tech University, and George Spoth, Executive Associate Dean of International Programs Whitacre College of Engineering, came to Curitiba to institutional visits guided by Brazilian Experience’s team.

Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University, located on Lubbokk, Texas, is a public research university. It’s structure counts with more than 60 research centers, 13 colleges and offers courses in more than 150 study areas. To guarantee a better formation of their students, it’s obligatory for their graduation students to have an international experience. For the forth year, Brazilian Experience receives the students from Whitacre College of Engineering for professional internships in Brazil.

Visitation

Albert Sacco and George Spoth visited industries located in Curitiba, as Grupo Boticário, Aker Solutions and Volvo. The aim of the visit was to narrow relationships in order to the companies open internships vacancies for Texas Tech students.

The program also included a visit to Fiep and a lunch meeting with Lactec’s President, Luiz Vianna, that visited TTU on the February 8th of this year. In the ocasion, he affirmed he would like to receive more engineerin interns from the institution. Senai and Lactec are partner institutions of Brazilian Experience, hosting our exchange students for opportunities of change and learning.

“Our desire is to expand the program, not only sending students, but also developing research projects that are beneficial to Lactec and Texas Tech”, said Albert Sacco on the visit. For him, both organizations have the same objective: clean and sustainable energy.