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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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AC 2008-1230: GLOBALIZATION: A NEW FRONTIER FOR CAPSTONECOURSESGregg Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg Warnick came to Brigham Young University (BYU) in May 2006 as the External Relations Coordinator for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He actively works to recruit approximately thirty industrially-sponsored projects each year for the Engineering and Technology capstone course. He is currently working to increase international project opportunities for students and faculty. He is also the internship coordinator and helps students develop and improve their resumes and interviewing skills and to help identify potential job opportunities. In addition, he is responsible for

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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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its 18 year old capstone senior designprojects. The advantages of international experiences for engineering students are welldocumented: • Students have the opportunity to partner with local or international organizations. • Students get exposed to international design codes and standards. • Students get to experience the global working environment.These are just a few of the benefits associated with international projects. However gettinginvolved in foreign projects is not without its problems: • Students face challenges associated with distance (e.g., site visits). • Students have to deal with the different cultural and educational environments. • Students experience difficulty obtaining

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Educating Graduates in Engineering for a Flat World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado at Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Environmental Engineering (EVEN). These students take the course duringtheir senior year. The course is also taken by Civil Engineering (CVEN) students who select toemphasize environment and water, either as their capstone design course or as a technicalelective. The course also is co-taught with a graduate section. Graduate students taking thecourse are earning an MS or PhD in Civil Engineering with an environmental emphasis. Most ofthe students either lacked a BS degree in engineering or were enrolled in the Engineering forDeveloping Communities (EDC) emphasis. Demographics of the students enrolled in the courseare summarized in Table 3.In fall 2006, the course included 3 projects. All of the projects served real clients and wereservice-learning

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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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generated by cooking fires in developing countries. Furthermore, theonce abundant resource is becoming scarce, so that in many cases women must travel largedistances on foot to gather the wood they need, an effort that occupies much of their day. Onesolution is to change fuels and cook with gelled ethanol created from locally available biomass.This is the purpose of the gelled ethanol production unit which was being built by 13 students inthe Capstone design sequence in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering TechnologyDepartment on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University, and which will be describedin this paper.For this project, ASU has partnered with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science andTechnology in Kumasi, Ghana and with

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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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the softwareengineering curriculum. This analysis particularly includes examining: • Team projects • Senior student capstone project reports and Master’s degree thesis • Curriculum for software engineering • Student end of course surveyCurriculum Review, Interview, Observations, Evaluation, and Survey StudiesAlthough this study mainly relies on quantity data analysis from observation, evaluationand survey, it is still feasible to review existing curriculum, interview Chinese instructorsfor their valuable personal experience and observe a sample of student’s project workfirst. Personal experience is always easy to obtain and results could be directly used togather findings. Interviewing Chinese instructors to obtain their personal

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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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culture via aLearning project that connects technology with the abroad society. There has also been growing interest in programs such as Engineers Without Borders, which provide service learning via humanitarian projectsInternational Design/Capstone International experiences are integrated with departmental seniorProjects design/capstone programs. In this model groups of students are assigned projects that have international content.Research Abroad Students travel to an abroad laboratory and conduct research under the guidance of a faculty member or post

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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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initial group of students had already completed their“required” technical writing course. We are planning further assessment of the writing gains atthe end of the two-course sequence. Finally, when we consider the writing they will be doing inthe second of the proposed two-course sequence, students who complete those two courses willhave experienced more effective writing instruction than they would have in technical writing, ifwe define "effective writing instruction" as focus on and preparation for the kinds of writingstudents will do in their professional careers.Second Course: Technical EntrepreneurshipTechnology Entrepreneurship is a capstone, experiential learning course that is deliberatelycross-disciplinary and project-oriented. Its

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Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Alex Friess; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

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. Collaborative research projects in the Americas i. Thesis and dissertations ii. Industry and government driven research projects3. Multinational Projects a. Capstone and design projects (course and student competition related) b. Service learning projects i. Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)7 ii. Engineering Without Borders (EWB)8 iii. Engineering for a Sustainable World (ESW)9Any initiative independent of its size and nature should be evaluated to obtain information,assess its impact and identify opportunities for improvement. In analyzing the global educationinitiatives described in the above, it is found an ample variety of programs and tasks that havebeen

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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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safety, etc.5. Networking‚ Basic Level: data communication, network topology, analysis and design, information security, algorithms, encryption, bus architectures, wireless, etc.The discussion strongly suggests that there shall be an obligatory capstone team project to bringtogether the knowledge and skills acquired during the course of studies.The consortium of four universities discussed the institutions’ curricula, which are dedicated topreparation of specialists to work in similar RSIC domains. The discussion exhibited significantdifferences (Table 2). The undergraduate programs could be completed between six and eightsemesters. The number of weeks in semesters ranged from 13 to 16. The number of hours/weekranged from 18 to 30 (considering

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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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Table 1in order to provide ideas for other faculty members and students.Table 1. Courses with S-L projects for the VE programYr Course Cr Course Title Faculty Activities # S-L # of students studentsSo 16.208 3 Basic EE Lab II Alan Rux LED analysis for headlamp design for 36 36 Peru Page 13.1385.8Sr 16.499 3 EE Capstone II John Duffy Transfer of emails and files via 3 3

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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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study-abroad experience. However, we stillhave 70% of our engineering students who do not have a study-abroad experience.A few universities have used foreign internships and research projects to give their engineeringstudents global exposure. Some of these programs are connected with academic course workeither before or after the work/research activity. Georgia Tech has been a leader in this area, andin 2005 developed the International Plan. This program is aimed at developing a deeper globalcompetency and includes four main components: 1) foreign language competency, 2) globally-focused courses, 3) an oversea experience of at least six months, and 4) a capstone course.8Purdue University and several foreign universities have developed the GEARE

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Javier Paez Saavedra; Lina Margarita Prada Angarita

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summer courses; increasingknowledge of others cultures through exchange programs, lectures, special lectures and othermulti-cultural activities.The Universidad del Norte has a special interest in achieving international accreditation2 withone of the agencies of the US. For this reason it has advanced the respective contacts and theinternal preparation. Particularly in the Engineering College, the strategy of internationalizationgoes back to 1993, when seeking to have international projection, the college looked for theABET accreditation (Substantially equivalent that was offered to the programs of engineeringout of the US) which was achieved in 1996, and it was renewed in 1999. Unfortunately, thetravel warning for Colombia mentioned by the

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International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Boyer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Aldo Morales, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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University at Harrisburg. Page 13.16.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Color Image Merging Algorithm Using MATLAB Eric Boyer and Aldo Morales Electrical Engineering Program Penn State Harrisburg Middletown, PA 17057Abstract:Students in the Electrical Engineering program at Penn State Harrisburg have manyopportunities to apply their acquired knowledge through hands-on course projects andlaboratory experiences in electronics, digital and image processing, VLSI, power andother courses, in addition to their capstone

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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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grasping of the young, well-educated, andflexible engineering students of both genders. Since “business as usual” doesn’t work anymore,the curricula are kept current and up-to-date. Topics such as mechatronics, bioinformatics arecovered to meet the competition and challenges posed by outsourcing and globalization. Theimportance of soft skills, such as project management skills, IT, and good communication skillsin addition to the basic sciences, engineering sciences and in-depth skills in a specificengineering discipline has been realized and implemented in the curricula. In this paper, thecontemporary curricula in EE at Indian Universities will be investigated and compared to pre-outsourcing curricula. The merits of these curricula and areas for

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International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suleiman Ashur, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne; Khaled El-Sawy, United Arab Emirates University; Essam Zaneldin, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

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include Curriculum Assessment, Exit Exam, and Capstone Course. Theindirect tools include Internship Advisor Survey, Industrial Advisory Board Survey, StudentsExit Interview, Alumni Survey, and Employer Survey. The objective of this paper is to present indetails the framework developed for the curriculum assessment. Figure 1: CE Program Outcome Assessment Framework Page 13.41.4Table 1: Relationship between Program Outcomes and Program Educational Objectives CE Program CE Program Educational Objectives