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Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Esmaeily, Kansas State University; Anil Pahwa, Kansas State University; J Thompson, Kansas State University; Donald Watts, Kansas State University

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in this paper are the result of a three-year partnershipbetween Kansas State University and Kabul University, as the first phase of a potentially 10 yearproject, funded by the World Bank; as well as the familiarity of a couple of the authors of thispaper with the cultural, social and economical facts in the region due to their much longerperiods of living in the region. The partnership started by an assessment trip to Kabul by a groupof administrators and faculty members from three major engineering departments, colleges ofArchitecture and Planning and Department of Modern Languages at KSU, on November 2006.Technical issues and the progress in rebuilding Kabul University Engineering Program areaddressed in another paper. This paper

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Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mazen Hasna, Qatar University; Abdelmagid Hamouda, Qatar University; Boualem Boashash, Qatar University

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AC 2010-827: PREPARING AND EDUCATING THE QATARI ENGINEER OF 2030Mazen Hasna, Qatar UniversityAbdelmagid Hamouda, Qatar UniversityBoualem Boashash, Qatar University Page 15.973.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Preparing and Educating the Arab Qatari Engineer of 2030AbstractThis paper addresses the issue of adapting Engineering Education to a changing situation inQatar, a small country that is part of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council. It presents theframework for a national project planned to take place in the State of Qatar during the 2010/11academic year.Over the past few years, several professional organizations started reviewing the issue

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Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Tront, Virginia Tech; Jeanna Stewart, Virginia Tech; Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech

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Engineering at Virginia Tech. Jeanna provides support to several initiatives within the College including the International Programs Faculty Committee, International Programs Alumni Planning Board, Student Engineers’ Abroad Council (SEAC), International Internship Program and the International Programs Ambassador Club.Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech Dr. Glenda R. Scales serves as both Associate Dean for International Programs and Information Technology and Director of the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP) in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. As Director of CGEP, Dr. Scales manages a state-wide distance learning program that has a long history – over 25 years

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University

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received from each attendee with an oral interview, and exit surveyhas been collected to measure the success of the supplementary project and continuouslyimprove the workshop if it is held in the upcoming years. This paper will report the organizationof this workshop, and its over-all planning and findings.BackgroundRapid Prototyping (RP) is an almost twenty year old additive manufacturing (AM) technologyand it is one of the emerging technologies to keep the USA competitive in a global market.Speed, accuracy and flexibility are the characteristics of RP and are hallmarks of successful,profitable manufacturing. In today’s global market the window for meeting market dates isshrinking. Likewise companies cannot afford to make mistakes when they are

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati; Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati

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an assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and a MS degree in Manufacturing Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in 2003. Her academic interests include CAD/CAM, manufacturing engineering technology, process planning, control and automation, robotics, engineering education and research, and manufacturing applications in the dental field. Page 15.621.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Global and

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Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shi-Jer Lou, National PingTung University of Science and Techno; Shun-Yuan Chuang, National Kaohsiung Normal University; Hsiang-jen Meng, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology; Ron Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of Technology; Chi-Cheng Chang, National Taipei University of Technology

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learn knowledge andskills from complicated issues and the planned tasks. Laffey defined that PBL placesdemands on learners and instructors that challenge the traditional practices and supportstructures of schools. Learning from doing complex, challenging, and authenticprojects requires resourcefulness and planning, new forms of knowledgerepresentation in school, expanded mechanisms for collaboration and communication,and support for reflection and authentic assessment6. PBL incorporates the content ofdifferent subjects7, 8, and allows the students to pose the questions and investigatevarious issues in real situations. Since PBL involves the teaching materials of differentsubjects, students would be able to absorb knowledge completely. Also, the

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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comprehensivecourse framework. The modifications to existing software engineering project managementcourse contents are made mainly to develop student’s communication skills. Another task is toconduct an experiment on feasibility of integrating communication training into the projectmanagement course. The research develops a plan to test whether or not the new methods andactivities are effective to develop Chinese student’s soft skills in general and particularlyimprove their practical communication skills in the course. Students are required to go through avariety of new team activities and complete newly designed team oriented project assignmentswith the new focus on developing student’s communication skills. Throughout the course studentsurvey and other

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International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Colledge, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Zhao, Pennsylvania State University

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who can afford to bemobile and those students in the host country who interact with them. Rising travel costs and riskmanagement issues further hinder the growth of such opportunities, especially to developingcountries in Africa and Asia. We cannot expect everyone to participate in these programs, orexpect them to do so more than once. Universities are seeking creative ways of bringing theseexperiences back to the classroom through faculty initiatives, smart use of technologies, globalvirtual teams, and others. The challenge is to find ways to internationalize the curriculum for all Page 15.522.2students in a planned and systematic way without

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Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Baker, The University of Vermont; John Merrill, The Ohio State University; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

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failure can have long-lasting repercussions. Manycommunities have low levels of literacy, adding additional complexity on top of technicalcommunication issues when planning international projects.Participatory research involves local partners in the design, implementation and evaluation ofresearch projects. It fundamentally seeks to change “the alignment of power within the researchprocess2. Participatory action research (PAR) is defined as investigations that focus on “theinformation and analytical needs of society’s most economically, politically, and sociallymarginalized groups and communities, and pursues research on issues determined by leaders ofthese group11.” PAR should develop and maintain relationships that build social equity

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juila Thompson, Purdue University; Brent Jesiek, Purdue University

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of students in thispopulation, though the actual numbers of students and detailed results were not published.Georgia Tech has created a degree designation called the International Plan (IP) that preparesstudents for a global work environment. The university is collecting large amounts of relevantevaluation data, including to examine the intercultural development of students in the programbased on various demographic and other variables. To date, the school has reported IDI datafrom 3,781 incoming students.5 In their baseline results, they found that intercultural sensitivitywas generally higher among women as compared to men. In addition, intercultural sensitivitywas notably higher among men who opted to enter the International Plan, but for

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Martina Trucco, Hewlett-Packard; Rich Friedrich, Hewlett Packard

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required to develop a comprehensive work plan and training program for each of the research fellows under their guidance. Work plans must address the research goals and expected outcomes of the proposed research, and address how the research fellows will be provided with on-the-job hard and soft skills training to be prepared for the shifting industry mix in science and innovation. Semi-annual progress reports will be required of both the research fellow and the corporate mentors. Mentor reports are to be submitted to ASEE and should include a report on the interactions with the research fellows, address their assessment of the progress of the research plan, list the publications and presentations in process, and address how they

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Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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Dhabi.Abu DhabiThe rulers of Abu Dhabi Emirate, largest of the seven bodies that comprise the UnitedArab Emirates, have established an aggressive plan for diversification of the currentlyheavily oil-based economy6. The vision for Abu Dhabi, currently being implemented,included: ≠ Premium education for human capacity building ≠ Research and development, leading to innovation ≠ Commercialization of R&D results ≠ Creation of a sustainable knowledge-based economyElements of implementation of this vision include the creation of new educationalinstitutions, investment in and acquisition of companies that are bringing diversetechnological economic activities to Abu Dhabi, and the development of researchactivities

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Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Colleen O'Holleran, Engineers Without Borders-USA; Cathy Leslie, Engineers Without Borders

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here. Most did share one common design feature: service threaded through thecurriculum, especially one experience early (first-year) and one in the last year (capstonedesign). Most plans had general education plans that supported the service, by preparing studentsfor broader thinking and interaction with communities.The second of the Summit offered solutions to some of the major costs for LTS in engineering,most notably the financial resources needed to make this happen. In light of EWB’s presence atso many campuses, much engineering service to date partners with international communities --this is an ongoing financial challenge at most institutions, and expanding similar activity to more(all) engineering students would not be possible

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent Jesiek, Purdue University; Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila Thompson, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

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the identified areas. Thesurvey instrument is unique in that it presents students with a realistic global engineeringscenario, and then prompts them to pick the specific abilities and qualities they think would bemost essential for completing the described assignment. The list of 15 attributes presented torespondents is focused on the professional and global dimensions of engineering practice, and isbased on relevant attributes from Purdue University’s Engineer of 2020 initiative. In addition topresenting aggregate results from the survey, we use demographic data to discuss somesimilarities and differences across different sub-populations. We conclude with a discussion ofongoing and future work, including similar surveys planned for faculty

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Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Gisela Coto Quintana, SINAES; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Oscar Harasic, Organization of American States; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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) and ECUK(United Kingdom) were represented at the workshop. The perspectives of engineering deans and chairs were also presented and ANFEI(Mexico), ASIBEI(Iberoamerica), ACOFI(Columbia), and CONFINI(Perú- Industrial Engineers) were represented at the workshop. The workshop included four round tables to develop an action plan for Latin America and the Caribbean. There were over 40 participants at the workshop representing 13 countries. The cost of the workshop was $5000. Part of the workshop was funded by the University of Turabo and funding for travel for the OAS speaker was provided by OAS- EftA. Outcomes

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Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Ricardo Mejia, Universidad EAFIT; Carlos Rodriguez, Universidad EAFIT

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operatingmode in recent years for the product development industries with the aim of optimizing designcycles, improving quality and reducing design and production time in bringing new products intothe global market3.The process of integration of economies and societies as well as the rapid advances intechnology are constantly changing the world’s business environment. Outsourcing, in-sourcingand off-shoring design and manufacturing operations are very common practices nowadays formany industries, making the international collaboration not only a common but also a necessaryactivity4. This global collaborative approach requires permanent communication among themembers of the product development team for project planning and execution, and for

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz, University of Hartford; MirGhulam BarizHosaini, Herat University in Western Afghanistan; Alnajjar Hisham, University of Hartford

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Higher Education, IslamicRepublic of Afghanistan, and is funded through a grant from the World Bank. At the outset, itwas decided to provide technical assistance to six Afghan universities for the development oftheir strategic plans. Following the World Bank procedures, Request for Expression of Interest(REOIs) were published for academic partnerships in key areas identified for partnership by theAfghan universities: Engineering, English as a Second Language, Computer Science,Economics/Management and Natural Sciences.A block grant of $500,000 was disbursed to each university (based on block grant criteria) tokick off disbursements and maintain momentum. Initially, there was no response on REOIs andthe project was unable to move because the

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International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Evans, Bucknell University; Jablonski Erin, Bucknell University; Buffinton Keith, Bucknell University; Richard McGinnis, Bucknell University

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) Knowledge of contemporary issues.To meet the educational outcomes, the programs were planned thematically around issues inTransportation and Environment in the UK; Water Resources in Argentina; Energy Production,Utilization, and Policy in Switzerland, Germany and France; and Energy and Sustainability inNorway and Sweden. For example, in the most recent program, students heard a series ofpresentations on topics such as innovative energy generation and carbon sequestration andtraveled on field trips to sites such as waste-to-energy, hydroelectric, and nuclear power plants.The students were in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Trondheim, Bergan and Oslo as the three-weekprogram progressed. Assessment was based upon required class and field trip attendance, a

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Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shih Kuang Hou, National Taiwan Normal University; Ching-Ho Huang, Nangang Vocational High School; Jin-Fu Chen, NTNU

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chosen as the research subjects. Considering the representativeness ofthe samples, the purposive stratified random sampling method was used to initially divide theresearch subjects in three categories of 2005 WorldSkills Competition, 2007 WorldSkillsCompetition and 2008 National Skills Competition. Sampling was then made according to thesix groups of actual number of participants classified in the WorldSkills Competition, and arandom sampling survey was then carried out to the subjects to do a questionnaire survey. Shownin Table 1 is the research sample plan and sampling conditions.Table 1. The research sample plan and sampling conditions Group Social & Manufacturing Total

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Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gabor Bojar, Graphisoft

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the different cultural environments.As an illustrative example about country-specific variations of a software product, let’s see the floor plandimensioning feature of Graphisoft’s architectural design software, ArchiCAD®. The software was initially soldin Italy and France, where dimensioning floor plans with centimeter precision (i.e. two decimal digits in metricsystem) was perfectly appropriate: Page 15.622.2 12.26 0.95German architects, however, require more precision in their design, we therefore set the display of dimensions inthe first German version of ArchiCAD

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

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implies several aspects such as the: qualityof classrooms, labs, libraries, communication systems etc; students ' services, qualification ofhuman resources; pedagogical scientific quality, credibility as a good institution. Good programshave good motivated teachers in addition to modern installations and dynamic planning. TheFaculty of any Institution of Education is one of the most important element, which provides ornot its qualification of excellence [02].In order to fulfill a lack of engineering educators for high education for engineering andtechnological fields in the country COPEC - Council of Researches in Education and Scienceseducation team has designed a new program in graduation level: the Port Engineering Program.The goal is to

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen McNally, Purdue University

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as it is similar to our college structure with comparable departments,research and teaching activities. The trip consisted of a half day poster presentations, a group dinner anda full day of research seminars. Faculty from each institute presented their posters in an informalenvironment to allow for discussions of research interests. Formal research presentations were alsoprovided by faculty of each institute. These were provided in two simultaneous tracks during the dayarranged by areas of interest. A follow up workshop is planned for the Spring 2010 time frame in whichthe DIT faculty will visit Purdue University. Germany – The CoT at Purdue University has an ongoing Atlantis Grant to provide variousinternational activities to

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Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Olaleye, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Emmanuel Abiodun, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Joseph Olusina, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Francis Derby, Pennsylvania State University-Lehman

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, the department was able to arrive at aunanimous decision on this name at a departmental meeting held on 15th January 1998. Thename Surveying and Geoinformatics portrays a discipline that deals with acquisition, analysis,storage, distribution, management and application of spatially-referenced data. However, the Page 15.33.7name Surveying and Geoinformatics has not actually defined the programme in its entirety. Theneed for planning, modelling and analysis of geospatial systems is very crucial to meet the dailychallenges of human beings in their environment.A New Geomatics Engineering Curriculum for Training the Surveyor in NigeriaA review

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

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and explore how each affects an engineering student (both international and domestic)during their graduate education.Exploring the Engineering Graduate Student ExperienceThe following sections detail the four main bodies of literature surrounding international andgraduate education which include: graduate student identity development, enculturation intolearning communities, socialization experiences and future career plans. These are not allinclusive, but represent a wide range of literature which was used to model that graduate studentexperience.Graduate Student Identity DevelopmentEngineering as a profession, like medicine or law, is endowed with a set of professionalknowledge and associated skills that are accepted as a requirement of each

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Hien Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University

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educationalexperiences that will increase their global awareness, cultural understanding, and culturalsensitivity. For many universities, requiring all students to work or study internationally is notan option due to the high financial cost. Therefore, other methods must be used to engagestudents in international experiences without requiring international travel.In order to inform planning related to non-travel based international experiences, data wascollected from 435 first-year engineering students from all campuses of Penn State University.Survey questions asked students about their perceptions of global awareness, including a self-assessment of their current awareness, their desire to improve their global awareness, and howthey anticipated improving

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Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, Montegancedo; Nelson Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo

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coursesconsideration evaluation should be carefully planned in the OCW course design process. The syllabus of OCW course must be seen in relation to the basic knowledge acquired by participant about the teaching-learning process and the use of educational resources. The learning objectives have been stated clearly and with measurable outcomes. The course content and assessment methods are designed to measure the stated learning objectives. Learning activities and assessments are clearly connected with

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Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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provide guidance, help in seeding the new culture, and in developing emerging professionals; ≠ Initiation and maintenance of regular well-planned interaction with industry; and to seek industries’ input, assistance, and feed back; ≠ An engineering “up-front” approach, where engineering is the intellectual centerpiece of the curriculum and to be used from the beginning, i.e., not simply be the traditional introductory and/or survey type course offered as an independent exercise during the first year; ≠ An integration of basic math and science onto themselves, but most importantly, intertwining the theory to serve engineering principles and engineering

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Scholar Program Proposal/Develop Courses and Materials/Collaborations and Accredatation Systems for Global Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Shumway, Brigham Young University; SClaudina Vargas, Complex Systems Optimization Lab; Geoff Wright; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University

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acollaborative multidisciplinary network of university faculty from USA, college students,teachers, and principles.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. We begin with a review of the conditions ofthe education system in Ytabo and the DR, considering challenges and difficulties that must beovercome to effectively advance engineering and technology education in public K-12classrooms. Next, we describe the components of the emergent MACILE model for Ytabo.Following, we present an analysis of the evolution of the summer program over the pilot phase.Next, we discuss efforts beyond the pilot phase, focusing on the joint collaboration betweenCOSOLA and TEE. Finally, we present future plans for the collaborative efforts.Challenges to Engineering

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Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Ogai Ahmadi, Kabul University

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 introduction will have a major effect on education system. As the learning resources such as fully stacked  libraries  and  fully  equipped  computer  laboratories  are  rare  in  the  country,  careful planning is required to prioritize the introduction of ICT into the mainstream education including  Page 15.1251.3higher education.While  the  world  has  changed  dramatically  in  the  past  few  decades  and  will  continue  to  do  so with  an  accelerating  pace,  the  learning  environment,  i.e.  the  classroom  has  not  changed  but  it will change in the near future. The education system in Afghanistan must follow its international

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Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Adithan, Vellore Institue of Technology; Robert Creese, West Virginia University

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Quality has remained a hallmark of all the academic activities undertaken by VITUniversity since its inception. With meticulous planning and unceasing efforts, VelloreEngineering College obtained ISO 9002 Certification from DNV (Det Norske Veritas), TheNetherlands in 1999. Vellore Engineering College was the first private engineering college in thecountry to get this coveted honor, which requires continued maintenance of stringent quality,efficiency and a high standard of academic excellence. This certification paved the way forsubsequent quality assessments and accreditations by national and international agencies later.Table 1 indicates the major assessments and accreditations obtained by VIT since 1998. VITwas declared as a Deemed University