and prevention.Simultaneously, business and industry are increasingly seeking graduates withappropriate background and training in this emerging and lucrative field of biomedicalengineering and technology. The United States Labor Department supports this area ofconcentration by forecasting a job growth of 31.4 percent through 2010, double the ratefor all other jobs combined. The aging U. S. population as well as the increase demandfor improved medical devices and systems, are contributing to this increase in demand.Women will be motivated so that the stagnant or even decreasing 20 percent level ofenrollment in engineering and technology fields nationwide may be lifted byunderstanding that the careers in this area are exciting, rewarding
distance learning and help to change passive delivery toa more active and flexible delivery methodology. It is also a very effective means for deliveringquality distance-workshops and collaborative research-projects where participants are not fromthe same geographical area. References 1. Amirian, S., “Pedagogy &Video conferencing: A Review of Recent Literature,” First NJEDge.NET Conference, 2003. 2. Owen, R. and Bosede A., “Return on Investment in Traditional Versus Distributed Learning,” 10th Annual Distance Education Conference, 2003. 3. Kriger, T. J., “A Virtual Revolution: Trends in the Expansion of Distance Education,” American Federation of Teachers, May 2001. 4. Patcha, A. and G. Scales
by supervisors and chosen by students, while many projects were integrated into thecommunity making them service learning challenges. Furthermore, most projects were funded byindustry partners and thus, the University incurred little or no research costs. Anecdotal feedbackfrom students indicated that most were inspired in their project selection by a particular pre-requisite course (and/or associated faculty member). Usually, students demonstrated a strongaptitude in the research discipline of their project indicating that they perform better in topicswith which they enjoy. We are unsure how students chose their team mate(s) as some of thegroup members had very different aptitudes, work styles and attitudes. We speculated thatstudents
to best fulfill the assignment’s outcomes within the given timeframe, while teaching students about the writing process and self-help strategies. It is also wellcited in the literature that since the 1980’s, US undergraduate writing centers have been serving agrowing population of ESL graduate students, which is the case at UI as well.77 This isproblematic because most peer tutors are undergraduates trained to meet undergraduate writingneeds and so graduate students who visit writing centers may not receive the kind of targetedassistance they need. In this study, GA’s generally rated a graduate writing center’seffectiveness in addressing the identified challenges lower than faculty did. Although notspecifically mentioned, perhaps GA’s who
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were willing to continue applying concept mapping approach into other subjects even though the beginning works were sort of hard for them. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The work reported here was supported by grants from NSC-95-2516-S-276-008-MY3, the National Science Council in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the principle investigator was Dr. Kuo-Hung Tseng. The authors also greatly appreciate the kind assistance of Dr. Page 14.1091.6 Wang-Long Li, Wen-Ping, Vicky and all those who made this paper possible
, formality, saving face, directness, the meaning of “yes”, non-verbal cues, etc. To avoid misunderstandings or outright communication breakdowns, the substantial influence of culture on how people communicate should be understood.3. Are familiar with the history, government and economic systems of several target countries. Explanation: This dimension refers to understanding important elements of the context of a society. For example, how is understanding the aggressive market economy of present day China enhanced by knowing about the cultural revolution of the 1960’s and 70’s? As students visit factories in China owned by Taiwanese companies, how is their appreciation of this situation deepened by knowing the history of China and
classes taught by the aforementionedfaculty are small size, seldom exceeding 35 students per class. The lecture format dominates theseen. Students listen, take notes, and are allowed to ask questions at the end of the lecture orduring office hours. There seem to be less interest (by most of the faculty interviewed) in theprocess by which the course content is delivered during the lecture period, and more of a concernwhether the rate of delivery would allow the instructor to finish the course on time. The viewsexpressed by the faculty and the impression(s) arrived at by the author, leads one to believe thatit is highly unlikely that new more effective teaching-learning strategies would be deployed anytime soon, unless drastic measures are
on Education, Washington DC, 2008. 4) William C. Symonds et al, “Colleges: The Newest U.S. Export”, Business Week, 9 February 2004. 5) Philip G. Stack, “Venturing Abroad: Delivering U.S. Degrees through Overseas Branch Campuses and Programs”, Planning for Higher Education, 36(3): 81–82, 2008. 6) Line Verbick, “The International Branch Campus: Models and Trends”, International Higher Education, Number 46, Winter2007, p14-15. 7) Grant McBurnie and Christopher Ziguras, “The International Branch Campus”, http://www.iienetwork.org/page/84656/, 2008. 8) Burton Bollag, “America’s Hot New Export: Higher Education”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 February 2006. 9) Lawrence S. Bacow, “Planning a Branch Campus
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and Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. She received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico and a M.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering in from the University of Michigan. She also holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Toro-Ramos has been in academic administration for over sixteen years. Her research interests include engineering education, broadening the participation in higher education and transformation of institutions of higher education.Barbara Chaparro, Wichita State University Barbara S. Chaparro has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from
ownediron mines in Minnesota, coal mines in West Virginia, and rubber plantations in Brazil inhis attempt to control the entire supply chain. This model was followed by other largemanufacturers such as General Motors and process industries such as Standard Oil. So Page 14.147.2powerful was this model that through the 1960’s their sheer size and integration fendedoff competition since challenging such behemoths was considered too expensive for anysingle company. The amount of capital required to compete was widely accepted as arelatively insurmountable “barrier to entry” thus ensuring monopolies and oligopoliesespecially in the auto industry.3 From the 1920s
numbers, a budget plan is generated by faculty supervisor(s) for the trip.Over the summer months, students must submit a formal application that includes letters ofrecommendation from faculty. After review by the College, students’ applications are the basisfor deciding eligibility. Students are informed of their acceptance to the program prior to theirreturn to campus in the fall. A deposit from accepted students has a mid-September deadline,allowing the College and Jacobs University to plan in greater detail. The size of the groupdictates whether one or two faculty will supervise the program. It is generally acknowledged byfaculty supervisors and study abroad administrators that twenty to twenty-five students is themaximum group size
the Plus3 program is to encourage students to continue to study foreignlanguage(s) after completing the Plus3 program. The results indicate that 22% of the engineering studentsand 56% of the business students continued foreign language study after participation in the Plus3 program,with Spanish being the most common language studied. The difference is statistically significant [X2(1, N =101) = 10.00, p < 0.002], with more business students studying foreign languages after Plus3.International activitiesStill another goal of the Plus3 program is to get students interested in participating in international activitiesboth during college and after graduation. As shown in Table 2 above, 68% of the CBA students and 59% ofthe SSOE students became
tools necessary to evaluate the particular program and course educationalobjectives. Although currently there are no uniform guidelines to assess the individual studyabroad programs by ABET, each of the participating Universities have developed their ownassessment and evaluation tools necessary to justify their study abroad programs. Theintention of this paper is to discuss the assessment and evaluation tools developed jointly bythe author in consultation with faculty at the host institution(s).Description of ME Study Abroad Experiences for Kettering University studentsStudents who are eligible to study in one of the partner universities in Germany are asked totake a maximum of sixteen credits, normally encompassing three ME and/or Technical
British educational system. Courses are offered for the entire academic year.Typically, there are some homework but no exams until the last week of classes. The final examis comprehensive and covered all the year’s material. It accounted for 100 % of the students ‘overall course grade.A new curriculum introduced in the late 1970’s was patterned after US universities. It was basedon a semester academic year system. Courses are offered every semester. Grades are based oncontinuous cumulative evaluation using homework, quizzes, midterm exams and a final exam.The first set of students were admitted in 1975 to use the second BSEEE curriculum which had
course, which has to focus on developing numeric and symbolicreasoning skills, and students select from a list of approved General Studies courses.Development of the Mathematics Assessment Plan consisted of three major parts: determiningUDLAP’s expectations; determining timing, identifying cohort(s), and assigning responsibilities;and interpreting and sharing results to enhance general education effectiveness.Particular competencies (and expected outcomes) for the Mathematics courses were definedfollowing SUNY at Geneseo as follows: Symbolization (ability to convert a problem into asetting using symbolic terminology), Relationships (ability to connect quantities and findrelationships among symbolic quantities), Formulation (ability to construct
preparation, 15 minutes for the dialogues, 10 minutes for the reflection phase)Material MTA New York City Subway map(s)10 General Routines overhead transparency (with instructions for students) Useful Words and Phrases overhead transparencyType of Activity prepared partner dialogueLanguage Focus present simple for general routines words and phrases for commuting describing daily activitiesGroup Size pairsLevel lower intermediateSkills reading, speaking, listeningPreparation The teacher distributes MTA York City Subway maps or photocopies a section for each student and produces the General
Conference & Exposition Proceedings, paper AC 2008-2314, 2008.[10] M. Clauss, B. Allison, M. Reuber, S. Birmingham, V. DiStasi, “A Successful Model for Engineers Stuying Abroad: A Foreign Study Center with Concurrent Instruction,” ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, paper AC 2008-1743, 2008.[11] M. Mariasingam, T. Smith, S. Courter, “Internationalization of Engineering Education,” ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, paper AC 2008-1144, 2008.[12] International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Retrieved on August 2008 from http://www.ifees.net/[13] G. L. Downey, et al., “The Globally Competent Engineer: Working Effectively with People Who Define Problems Differently
6REFERENCESABET, 2007. Criteria for Evaluating Engineering Programs. www.abet.org. 21 pp.Atman, C. and S. Sheppard, 2008. Describing the Engineering Student Learning ExperienceBased on Center for Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) Findings. Presented at2008 Conference, American Society for Engineering Education. Pittsburgh, PA. June, 2008.Bolen, M.C., ed., 2007. A Guide to Outcomes Assessment in Education Abroad. The Forum onEducation Abroad. 238 pp.Council on Competitiveness, 2008. The Skills Imperative. Compete 2.0, Council onCompetitiveness. 40 pp.LeCompte, M.D. and J.J. Schensul, 1999. Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research.AltaMira Press. 220 pp.NAE, 2008. Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding
advance of internet technologytools developed in the1990’s has made it possible to access a facility or laboratory at distance.For example, some universities have changed traditional laboratory to the virtual one that take Page 14.97.2place in a traditional laboratory where some students can use the local lab workbenches andothers can perform the experiments remotely 2-3. Also, an internet accessed robotic system canradically enlarge the number of students that can participate in practical robotics projects and itimproves the quality of the learning environment provided by educators for these topics 4.Another example of an online laboratory course
Engineering, Integrated Product and Process Development, and Supplier Sourcing7. IT Governance Institute -COBIT v.48. Baig M., Bisharat, S. A & Maqsood, A maturity model for quality improvement In higher education.9. Holland, C.P., Light, B. A stage maturity model for enterprise resource planning systems use, 200110. Fisher, D.M,, The business process maturity model: A practical approach for identifying. opportunities foroptimization, BP Trends, 200411. Marshall, S. & Mitchell, G. (2004), Applying SPICE to e-learning: an e-learning maturity model?12. Lutteroth C., Luxton-Reilly A., Dobbie G., Hamer J.A maturity model for computing education, 2007.13. Neuhauser, C., A maturity model: Does it provide a path for online course design? The Journal
. Page 14.268.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Baja SAE Competitions: Meeting and Interacting with International Students – Experiences of Student and University ParticipantsAbstractIn today's global economy, engineers must collaborate with their international colleagues.11Study Abroad is an excellent preparation for this collaboration. Unfortunately, less than 3% ofUnited States (U.S.) engineering students take advantage of such programs.1 Baja SAEcompetitions may be a good alternative for students to achieve exposure to the culture of theirinternational peers.Baja SAE student competitions were started in the 1970’s in the U.S. and involve the design,analysis, and
Falade (AEEA) and Duncan Fraser (AEEA) ̇ Strengthening AEEA ̇ Connecting its local industry and government ̇ Identify and connect with funding agencies within and outside region ̇ Results of governments in provisioning of infrastructure and the enabling environment for industry-academia to work ̇ Making the curriculum relevant to industry needGroup 3. Americas– led by Maria Larrondo Petrie (LACCEI, UPE), Ramiro Jordan (ISTEC) and Jose CarlosQuadrado (ASIBEI) ̇ Conduct an IFEES Americas Regional Summit ̇ Collaborators: Signers of the Rio 2005 Engineering Education Collaboration for the Americas (IFEES, ASIBEI, OAS, LACCEI, ISTEC, ASEE, EftA) ̇ Goal – influence decision makers in S&T ̇ Themes
University9 NeKole Varnado, President, IT Enginuity, Inc., Virginia8 Andy Ward, Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University Africa5 Abdulkarim S. Ahmed, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria4 David Alcock, Consultant, Khanyisa Projects, South Africa4 Richard Dladla, Zahke Agricultural College, South Africa3 Harriet Eliufoo, School of Construction Economics & Management, ARDHI University, Tanzania6 Trevor Gaunt, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa1 Lammeck Kajubi, Makerere University, Uganda8 Simon Lorentz, School of Bioresources, Engineering and Environmental
; Advanced 6ManagementCore 1 Capstone Project Year 2 - Summer Year 4 - SummerSystems Eng and Internship (required) Professional Licensing Course; Exams (optional) Page 14.346.11Example BS Degree and Course Contributions to AEPC OutcomesThe seven core and six advanced Mechanical Science and Engineering courses developedusing the AEPC outcomes and generic degree plan are listed in Table 5 for purposes ofillustration. The knowledge base(s) addressed by each course are also shown in the table. TheAEPC members considered the contribution to outcomes
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, Canada, 2002.6. Hargrove, J. B., “Development and Implementation of Mechatronics Education at Kettering University”, Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri 2000.7. Anwar, S., Favier, P., Jouglet, D., “ A PROJECT-BASED international COLLABORATION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION”, Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, 2008. Page 14.50.11
to develop a variety of pedagogical models and options; a UH professor will supervise the activities of the visiting HU professor. 3. Assist develop course(s) for HU, particularly in an electronic/computer-based classroom or for the distance-learning environment. One point of emphasis is the development of future shared projects between UH and HU students. 4. Observation, study, and practice of administrative and management skills, including ongoing faculty and curriculum development and revision. 5. Skill acquisition and practice for managing and completing the assessment process. 6. Academic advising.In addition to classroom observation, the senior faculty member assists and/or co-teach a classwith a UH