Twyman, C. A., & Knight, D. B. (2016, June), Determining Student Learning Across a Range of Experiences During a Study Abroad Module  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26708

\bibitem{asee_peer_26708}
  Twyman, C. A., \& Knight, D. B. (2016, June), \emph{Determining Student Learning Across a Range of Experiences During a Study Abroad Module}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.26708

Catherine A. Twyman and David B. Knight.  "Determining Student Learning Across a Range of Experiences During a Study Abroad Module".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://peer.asee.org/26708 Internet.  19 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_26708}
  Catherine A. Twyman and David B. Knight.
  "Determining Student Learning Across a Range of Experiences During a Study Abroad Module".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://peer.asee.org/26708 Internet.  19 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - There is increasing demand and a critical need in the workforce for engineers who are trained to work in globally distributed teams and prepared to solve ill-structured problems that diffuse across national boundaries. To meet those workforce demands and needs, [University] offers a program which integrates an on-campus, semester-long experience with a two week international experience in a course for freshmen engineering students. This study focuses on understanding the range of learning experiences that occurred during the two week international module.
Throughout the two weeks students traveled through four countries in Europe engaging in local culture and customs during visits with engineering businesses and universities. These visits, intentionally selected by the program director to align with course learning objectives, can be categorized as engineering focused (i.e., visiting companies), academic (i.e., visiting universities), and cultural (i.e., visiting a range of sites while emphasizing relationships with engineering). In this study we explore how students’ learning experiences varied across those different kinds of visits.  
Participants (n=36) were required to maintain a daily journal of their activities, thoughts, and what they learned for the two week experience. Five prompts were also given to the students at intermittent times during the two weeks, which consisted of questions about observed cultural differences and how those differences relate to their engineering career. All journals and prompt responses were analyzed using thematic coding to identify the range of learning that occurred within each kind of visit. Results can inform leaders of similar short-term international experiences of engineering students as they make learning-centered decisions about how to best plan and balance program itineraries.

AU  - Catherine A. Twyman
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CY  - New Orleans, Louisiana
DA  - 2016/06/26
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TI  - Determining Student Learning Across a Range of Experiences During a Study Abroad Module
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