Ford grant recipient aids education in Peru
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KU engineering professor Fred Kurata has recently returned from Lima, Peru, where he was sent for a year and a half by the Ford Foundation as part of their program to improve engineering at National Engineering University of Peru.
About the program's value, he said, "The Ford Foundation sends six to eight young instructors from KU and other U.S. universities to Latin America each year. Although these do some good, the greatest effect on improving Latin American education will come from the fellowship programs in which Latin American students are trained in the U.S.'
Ford Foundation grants usually run for two years, but Kurata, with his command of Spanish gained from childhood visits to
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his brother and father in Mexico, could omit the six months usually required to learn the language.
HIS KNOWLEDGE of Mexico also eliminated any "cultural shock" of encountering Latin American customs and language.
On the contrary, Kurata said, jokingly, "I think I'm experiencing a reverse cultural shock. The return to my duties at KU has been more shocking than my entire trip to Peru."
He now is resuming his research on low temperature thermodynamics.
The political situation has a great effect on the Peruvian approach to education, he said.
FOR EXAMPLE, "Peruvian students have one-third of the votes on anything regarding the university," he said. "Since the students always vote as a bloc, they have much to say about curriculum, staff and budget."
Office hours are very short as compared with those in the U.S. Staff members in Peru go to work at 8 a.m. as they do at U.S. universities, but in Peru offices close at 2 p.m. during the school year and at 1 p.m. during the summer.
He felt that Latin Americans trained here would be more useful than Americans sent to Latin America, because "these people are committed to teach two years after returning to their respective countries. They do much more good than American instructors sent to a strange country."
Kurata served as educational adviser to the departments of sanitation engineering, industrial engineering, and petroleum engineering. He taught courses in chemical engineering and was thesis adviser for some of the university's graduate students.
DURING HIS 18-month stay in Lima, Kurata published two articles: one in "Petroleum Engineering Review," the other in "Industrial Engineering Review" dealing with new methods for treating natural gas and new concepts of fugacity.
Due to the lack of research facilities in Lima, Kurata did not engage in his studies of helium and low temperature research on thermodynamic and transport properties of fluid systems, for which he is well-known.
Prof. Kurata has been invited by officials at National Engineering University to return to visit the University of Lima again. He intends to make a short visit within a year.
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