LUENY MORELL

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR – VICE DEAN

InnovaHiEd – School of General Engineering at Beihang University (China)

ueny Morell, MS, PE, Ing.Paed.IGIP is Founder & Director of InnovaHiEd, and Vice Dean of the School of General Engineering at Beihang University in China. With a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico and Stanford University, Lueny is passionate about STEAM education and innovation as pillars to develop talent to better serve society.

After successful careers at HP Labs and the University of Puerto Rico, she has catalyzed the creation of two new schools of engineering: one in Silicon Valley, USA and one in Beijing, China, and currently offers capacity building and certification programs in engineering (and other STEAM areas) education and innovation as principal foundation to support regional and national economic development efforts.

She is member of several professional societies and international boards and has received various awards for her work, including the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering Gordon Prize for innovations in engineering education in 2006. Recognized as one of the Engineering Education Pioneers in the US in 2014, Lueny is author of Essentials to Innovate Engineering & Related Disciplines as well as many papers.

She maintains two blogs on topics associated with innovation and engineering education and her consulting/mentoring activities: