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International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Jerry Gintz, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Kornecki, ERAU; Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Wojciech Grega, AGH; Jean-Marc Thririet, LAG; Miroslav Sveda, BUT

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Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering), EU Tempus Academic Expert (expert list EAC 73/02) (http://aq.ia.agh.edu.pl/Aquarium/EN/staff/wgr.html)Jean-Marc Thririet, LAG Professor in Université Joseph Fourier – Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble (LAG UMR 5528 CNRS-INPG-UJF) since September 2005; previously an Associate Professor in Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 – Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN UMR 7039 CNRS-UHP-INPL); networked control systems, distributed systems, dependability; teaching activities deal mainly with communication networks and automatic control; the coordinator of the EIE-Surveyor Thematic Network (www.eie-surveyor.org ) from

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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extent of agreement or disagreement with thestatements on a five-point Likert Scaling (1 = Disagree and 5 = Agree). Participant’sperception from a qualitative perspective was converted and represented on the scaling.The sum and average numbers calculated from raw data are also used in this study togather findings. This information in Table 1 provides a baseline of characteristics ofChinese software engineering students as they are going through their academic program. Comparisons between Chinese Engineering U.S. Chinese Students and U.S. Engineering Students Students Students Classroom Participation and Discussion 4.5 3.0 Self-Motivated and Individual

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Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prashanth Jayaraman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Garrett Bradley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Odis Griffin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; John Dooley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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University Dr. John Dooley is the Vice President for Outreach and International Affairs at Virginia Tech and directs all international activities at the university. Page 13.533.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Enhancement of International Activities in a Large Engineering CurriculumAbstractAbout one thousand three hundred students enter Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering as afreshman each year. These engineering freshmen complete a 1-year long general engineering(GE) program, conducted by the Department of Engineering Education (EngE), beforetransferring into

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Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Jordan, Baylor University; Glenn Blalock, Baylor University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Anne Grinols, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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on the projects, each one at hislevel of knowledge and ability. This would be harder to do if it was done for academic credit.On the other hand, if done for academic credit, perhaps we could do projects of larger scope. Weare currently evaluating how we might add academic credit to some of the projects while stillpreserving the freedom we have by doing them as an extracurricular activity.These projects are an outgrowth of a student created service organization. This group promotesengineering service projects in other countries. It is loosely patterned after Engineers WithoutBorders from whom we have learned a great deal.For a project to be successful, there are some things that need to be done before the project canbe implemented. They are:1

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Patrick Favier, IUT Bethune, France; David Jouglet, IUT Bethune, France

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a global, economic, environmental, and societalcontext (criterion 3 of ABET).The engineering and engineering technology graduates of The US educational institutions Page 13.91.2must be prepared to work in multicultural teams in multinational corporations, some ofthe education preparation they need will come from international collaborativeexperiences that develop abilities and familiarity with information technology, teamwork, international collaboration, and design methodologies in a global environment [1].International engineering design collaboration can occur in several different forms. It canrange from a parallel design program in which students

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Richard Hayes, Dublin Institute of Technology; Robert Herrick, Purdue University; Heinz Schmidt-Walter, Hochschule Darmstadt; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University; Eugeue Coyle, Dublin Institute of Technology; Robert Simpson, Dublin Institute of Technology

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, Transatlantic Collaboration Between Four Engineering, Design and Technology Institutions1.0 OverviewThis paper describes the goals and progress made in Year 1 of a 4-year project (December ’07 toNovember ’11) entitled the DETECT Exchange Mobility project. The project is one of twofunded by the European Commissions/US Department of Education under the EU-Commission’sAtlantis “Excellence in Mobility” Action 2007.The project is funded to promote translational exchanges between four leading Engineering,Design and Technology Education institutions namely; The Pennsylvania State University, USA,Purdue University, USA, the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland and the HochschuleDarmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany.The overall

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilka Balk, University of Kentucky; G. Lineberry, University of Kentucky

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still struggle with the education of globally competent engineers, someuniversities more so than others. The University of Kentucky is located in one of the states thatis considered to lag behind when it comes to primary, secondary and tertiary education. Thus,for a University in a state that has trouble preparing students for College, the challenge toeducate students for the global marketplace seems even more daunting than elsewhere.The University of Kentucky is the largest higher education institution in the state, currently withabout 27,000 students. Over 80 percent of the student population is “in-state.”1 However, as of2006, the state had the lowest percentage of Bachelor’s or higher degrees in the nation, with 20.2percent of the

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Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Mowry, University of St. Thomas-St. Paul

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HealthDevelopment (DTHD). Additional information regarding this development can be found at theDTHD web site.1 Active planning for the hospital began in late 2005. The projected cost andtimeline of the hospital is approximately 3 million dollars over a period of 5 years respectively.The majority of this cost is associated with the building materials and power systems. Laborcosts are typically not excessive in Tanzania. To minimize expenditures, the goal is to outfit theDCMC hospital with relatively new equipment obtained from equipment upgrades as they occurat sister hospitals. The Dodoma location of the DCMC hospital is somewhat remote from themain hydro-power generation locations (northern Tanzania) and existing transmission lines in

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; John Harb, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University; Chelita Pate, Brigham Young University

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havereshaped the roles and skills needed for engineers in the 21st-century.1 The changes that aretransforming engineering and technology include the ability to communicate in real timeanywhere in the world, the prominence of international markets, the development of globalproduct supply chains, the shift to offshore manufacturing, the scale and reach of multi-nationalcorporations, and the emergence of highly skilled engineering workforces around the world.As one example of these changes, consider the development of the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner.”This plane represents the most successful introduction of a commercial jetliner for Boeing, withover 700 orders received from customers in 32 countries. Fig. 1 shows where parts of this planewill be manufactured

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmen Villa, Texas A&M; Jennifer Sandlin, Arizona State University

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by thestudents as influencing and helping to shape the engineering environment. However, in thisenvironment students were able to find sources of support and strategies that helped them remainin their majors such as: a strong desire to succeed; perceived academic ability and support fromtheir families, peers, institutions, and -most importantly- their professors. Finally, the fact thatthe female students will finish their programs gives them a sense of pride and satisfaction that isshared by their families, peers, and faculty.Review of the LiteratureOver the last decades, scholars have been studying the scarcity of women in science andengineering, and have begun to examine reasons for this shortage.1 In recent years, the

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University - Wilkes-Barre

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contend with. The local conditionsare therefore being highlighted in a curriculum to ensure that the engineers, technologistsand technicians have adequate training to operate, service, and where possible, modifythe equipment to suit local conditions.References[1] http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts[2] “Ministry to Promote ICT in Schools” www.ghanaweb.com, Friday, December 21, 2007.[3] “Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide,” National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), October 2000.[4] Sarnoff, Alvin P., “Closing the Digital Divide”, ASEE Prism magazine, April 2001, pp. 17 – 21.[5] “Digital Gap Has Generated New Social Inequalities” www.ghanaweb.com, Friday, November 17

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard McGinnis, Bucknell University; Alexandra Coleman, Bucknell University; Jacqueline Denning, Bucknell University; Joseph Smith, Bucknell University

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-09 activities will be included in thepresentation at the Annual Meeting in June.BackgroundThere is no question that today’s engineering student must be prepared to work in a globaleconomy. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires thatengineering programs provide “the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context.”1 The National Academy ofEngineering’s report on educating the “Engineer of 2020” includes similar guidance.2 TomFriedman’s recent popular book, The World is Flat, describes in detail the globalization of theworld’s economies and repeatedly shouts the need for understanding this phenomenon.3 Animportant part of our university’s strategic plan

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Frempong, State University of New York

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Successful Space Launches, and Existing and Planned Transoceanic Fiber Cables. This paper is based on a book that I wrote about three years ago published by www.XanEdu.edu (ISBN# 1-59399-033-0). Page 13.21.2

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Jewell, Union College

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eligible a student must maintain at least a 2.5 grade pointaverage. There are also some eligible students who cannot go abroad for a term because of sportscommitments or personal situations. For those students, there are other ways of satisfying thegeneral education requirements for international experience, including taking modern languagecourses, or taking classes in one of the cultural diversity tracks, such as East Asian Studies,offered at Union. Table 1 shows the way Union engineering graduates have satisfied the internationalexperience requirements. Union is on the trimester system, so the word term is used instead ofsemester. A term abroad is any one of the 19 programs offered through Union’s InternationalPrograms Office. With one

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Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lauren Alexander, IAESTE United States; Cheryl Matherly, University of Tulsa; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

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” programs. Currently over 100 students participate in the program each summer. This spring they will spend two weeks inBrazil, Chile, China (see Figure 1), or Germany; a fifth site will be added for 200911. The Plus3Program received the Institute for International Education’s Heiskell Award for innovation instudy abroad in 2005.INNOVATE: A Conference on Globalization, Technology, and LeadershipOne of the initial programs adopted by the IAESTE United States consortium has been theannual INNOVATE conference for undergraduate and graduate technical students that examinesthe relationship between technology, globalization, and leadership in

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Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Valerie Fuchs, Michigan Technological University

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positiveimpact in the lives of the world's most under-served, while becoming leaders in their chosen fields.D80 ProgramsD80 encourages grass-roots development of companion programs by faculty, staff, and students.There are currently six programs affiliated in the Center: 1. Engineers Without Borders 2. Aqua Terra Tech Enterprise 3. International Sustainable Development Engineering Certificate 4. International Senior Design 5. International Sustainable Development Engineering Research Experiences 6. Peace Corps Master’s InternationalEngineers Without Borders (EWB) at University X is one of 160 university chapters in the States. Ourchapter started in early 2005 and has rapidly grown, much like EWB-USA. EWB-University X’sstudent

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Educating Graduates in Engineering for a Flat World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Mariasingam, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Thomas Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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." Page 13.794.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 1 Internationalization of Engineering EducationAbstractProviding global skills to engineering graduates is an urgent need. This paper points out thatefforts to internationalize engineering curriculum through add-on courses like study abroadprograms are not enough because, even if they are effective, they still serve fewer than 20percent of the graduates. The paper proposes a way to provide global competencies to allengineering graduates by partially reforming the engineering curriculum. The need for globalcompetencies in engineering graduates and the reasons for the

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Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Nations, 1.8million people die because of diarrhea per year and 88% of these cases are related to theingestion of contaminated water, lack of sanitation and bad hygiene practice (UNDP,2006) 22. One-fourth of the world is without grid electricity (IEA, 2006)13, about one-halfis living on less than $2 a day (World Bank, 2004; CIA, 2004)24,1, and one-sixth living onless than $1 a day and barely surviving (Sachs, 2005; World Bank, 2004)15, 24. Thebottom 40% of the world’s population has 0.6% of total global household wealth, whilethe top 1% has 40% of the world’s household wealth, with official exchange rates as abasis of comparison (Davies, Sandström, Shorrocks, & Wolff, 2007)2.From an engineering student’s perspective, such statistics can

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sergio Felicelli, Mississippi State University; John Berry, Mississippi State University; Rafael Cuesta, CIDAUT, Spain; Rogelio Luck, Mississippi State University; Ratessiea Lett, Mississippi State University

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for directguidance and supervision of the student’s daily work.The student’s work at CIDAUT will include the following tasks: 1. Receive a brief overview of the experimental and computational facilities available at CIDAUT. Become familiar with local policies, regulations and safety procedures. Obtain necessary ID tags, keys, computer access and software licenses. 2. Plan and execute with technical assistance, the casting of a small vertical plate of thickness not more than 10mm. The plate would be cast in a sand mold. The mold would be vertically parted and multiple bottom gated. A DISA sand casting system Page 13.189.4

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Knud Holm Hansen, Copenhagen University College of Engineering

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(second foreignlanguage) before enrollment.Export engineering is sometimes also named global business engineering.Bridgwood et al.1 give a detailed description of Danish engineering education, while Woolstonand Dickey2 present the Danish educational system in general. Krogh3 explains the differentaspects of internationalisation of CUCE.Objectives of the study programQuotation from the curriculum:“The purpose of the program for a degree in export engineering is to qualify students to carry outnational and international business functions in which they will:1. Convert and combine technical and commercial research and scientific, technical, and commercial knowledge into practical applications in development projects by resolving technical and/or

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregg Warnick, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University; Robert Todd, Brigham Young University; Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

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sells in the United States. • Foreign-owned firms operating in the United State employ more than 5 million workers, approximately one in ten manufacturing jobs. • Internet users worldwide have increased dramatically in the last decade. It is estimated that 143 million Americans used the Internet in 2001, up from just 20 million six years earlier. During that same six-year period the percentage of the population using the Internet rose from 7 percent to 51 percent in the United States, 6 percent to 60 percent in Norway, and less than 1 percent to 41 percent in Korea. • Direct foreign investments in the United States have increased from $141 billion in 1990 to $895 billion in 2001, an increase

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Clauss, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; Mark Reuber, Grove City College; Stacy Birmingham, Grove City College; Vincent DiStasi, Grove City College

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Program expects students to study a year at a foreign institute9. TheUniversity of Rhode Island along with Technische Universitat Braunschweig has a dual degreeprogram where engineering students receive an engineering degree as well as a foreign languagedegree10. The program typically takes five years to complete. Virginia Tech engineeringstudents can receive a dual degree from either Technische Universitat Darmstadt or the RoyalInstitute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)1. Students spend their senior year at the foreignfacility, then earning them a degree from this site as well as Virginia Tech.Still another consideration is that international experience does not have to be limited toacademics. Students can obtain work experience through foreign

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology; James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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include: (1) problem-basedlearning (of the civil engineering design process), (2) communication proficiency, (3) team-workskills, and (4) project management orientation. The year-long experience contains many keyelements and deliverables to achieve these learning objectives. The design process experience iscultivated through problem identification, development and assessment of alternative solutions,data collection, engineering design, and cost estimation. Team-work and project managementskills are developed through rotating group assignments. Written communication skills comefrom the three deliverables required of each group: the proposal, progress report, and final report.Faculty assessment of these written reports is demanding and thorough

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Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rajeswari Sundararajan, College of Technology - Purdue University; Daniel Dangelo, Intel; kishore N.K., IIT Karagpur; Haritha Mogilisetti, Intel; Sundhasarath Somasundaram, Valliammai College of Engineering; umadevi S., highways; Robert Nowlin, retired

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of engineering graduates to thedeveloped nations like the USA and Australia for the past two decades. All this was possible,thanks to the engineering education of India. The engineering education in India is offered bypremiere institutions, such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs, ranking 50 in the worldand #1 in India) at 7 cities, as well as by other institutions, such as the University of Madras(Anna University) and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). The essence of Indian engineeringeducation is strong math, science, and engineering basics, problem-solving and analytical skills.Not all Indian universities have fully equipped labs or the latest equipment. However, this ismore than compensated by the hard work and quick

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Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Gash, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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leader development institutions in Afghanistan” to produce graduates that “willset the highest standards of professionalism throughout a lifetime of service to Afghanistan.”1 Two hundred years ago the founders of another nation, one also ravaged by war andstruggling to create a national government and identity, identified the need for a national militaryacademy. Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were among those who setthe conditions for the United States Congress in 1802 to authorize a military academy at WestPoint, New York2. The United States Military Academy would go on to become the first schoolof engineering in the English-speaking world. West Point graduates would prove critical toAmerican growth and expansion

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International Division Poster Session / Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education / International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

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seven models for teaching embedded topics in universities and collegesworldwide: 1. Offering courses mostly on software (Real-Time Systems) in CS and SE undergraduate programs. 2. Offering courses in CE and EE undergraduate programs which emphasizes the hardware aspects of embedded systems. 3. Graduate programs in Embedded Systems Design 4. Designing an Embedded Systems Engineering track in computer science department 5. Continuing education and training programs for the industry engineers 6. Offering an undergraduate degree in Embedded Software Engineering 7. Offering an undergraduate degree in Embedded Systems EngineeringEmbedded Systems Education in the United StatesIt is predicted that most of the future computing

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Educating Graduates in Engineering for a Flat World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University

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instilling a sense of civic responsibility. Involved faculty membersdeclare service-learning to be a “valuable pedagogical tool”1 that is synergistic andcomplementary to abstract theories taught in the classroom. By engineering solutions to practicalproblems with real-world constraints, students construct the necessary scaffolding to achieve adeeper understanding of classroom concepts. While the academic advantages are recognizableand numerous, they do not comprise students’ motivation for being involved. The truly uniqueand engaging quality of a service-learning project is the potential for each eye-openingexperience to engender personal growth within the student. The challenge herein lies in thevalidation of this transition.This paper presents an

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University

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/affordability of computer and communication technologies during thepast decade has had major effects on our everyday life, especially in the rapid growth and usageof the Internet. Online learning offers the prospect of direct delivery of learning to existinglearners and to groups traditionally excluded by personal circumstances from institutionallearning 1-5. In this regard, it has affected the traditional distance-learning format bytransforming it from a static videotape delivery to a more dynamic format by adding/substitutingthe web as the delivery media. It should be pointed out that although many teachers are attractedby the scope that the medium has to offer, there are still many questions that have not been fullyanswered. Among these are: How

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; David Gute, Tufts University; John Durant, Tufts University

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in engineering education, the NAE claims that the Engineer of 2020 willneed to possess specific attributes, such as “strong analytical skills” and “practical ingenuity.” Page 13.542.3The third “indispensable quality for engineering” is creativity, which, “given the growing scopeof the challenges ahead and the complexity and diversity of the technologies of the 21st century,will only grow in importance”1. The second phase of NAE’s report focuses on adaptingengineering education to prepare the Engineer of 2020. According to the report, the curriculummust shift from teaching available knowledge to assisting students in skill development