Sigrid Berka
Professor of German
Executive Director, International Engineering Program
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Dr. Berka is responsible for building academic programs with exchange partners abroad, internship placements for IEP’s dual degree students, corporate relations, and fundraising for the IEP. Bi-annually the IEP organizes the Colloquium on International Engineering Education.
Karina Lammert
DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor/Lecturer of German
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Dr. Lammert is a Lecturer of German and DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor. Before coming to URI in the fall of 2018, she worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and a Postgraduate Research Fellow at Paderborn University in Germany, conducting research on regional variation in the German language, Low German, and multilingualism as well as teaching German language and linguistics.
As a German native with educational and professional experience in both Germany and the US, she is excited about teaching German language and culture at URI and promoting international exchange as a Visiting Professor through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Shawna Rambur
Senior Lecturer of German
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Shawna Rambur has instructed beginner to intermediate German courses at URI since 2014. She completed her Master’s degree in German at the University of Wisconsin where she started her teaching career. Her studies focused on pedagogy, history of the German language, and German literature. She is currently continuing her doctoral studies in education and motivation in foreign language.
Her goal is to share her passion for the German language and culture with her students, help develop any students with the “not a language person” label into multilingual global citizens, and show them how much fun they can have learning new languages and exploring new cultures.
Melissa Schenck
IEP Coordinator
Melissa Schenck serves as the International Engineering Program Coordinator at the University of Rhode Island. In this role, Melissa organizes the IEP’s recruitment and retention efforts, engages with IEP community through social media, and works with program directors and student ambassadors to plan and host events.
