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Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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situation exists for womenin underrepresented groups across all ranks in computer and information science. This meansthat the numbers of women professors in engineering from underrepresented groups are so smallin the U.S. (less than 1%), that most of them can be readily identified [1]. Increasing therepresentation of women and diversifying the field of engineering has become a nationalimperative, which is closely aligned to the United States’s ability to maintain its globalcompetitive edge [2], [3]. Initiatives that facilitate women’s access to mentoring relationshipsand research networks have proven successful in providing women engineers with the academiccapital necessary for career advancement [4]. Research demonstrates the direct

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Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, ​ Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics National Zoological Park

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develop solutions for real-worldissues. Despite involvement of some graduate students in international research, there remainsubsets of graduate students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups who have neitherbeen encouraged nor invited to participate in international projects. The Council of GraduateSchools’ 2013 publication, “Graduate Education for Global Career Pathways,” included papersthat encouraged graduate students to participate in global conferences as means to engage, andserves as the premise for our strategy to broaden participation of URM graduate students ininternational projects.1 The Graduate School at UMBC and the National Science Foundation’sPROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Nicolas Couto Giffoni dos Santos, SIUC Leadership Development Program; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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1 2provided a conclusion that soft skills, of which leadership is among them, are more important toan engineer's career than the core technical subjects that the students were required to take at MIT. Likewise, in a business context, leadership skills are considered a top critical factor for acompany's success. According to the survey Job Outlook 2015 (2014, NACE)5, when employerswere asked which attributes they look for on a candidate’s resume, the largest group of respondents(77.8 percent) chose leadership. Also a survey conducted by the Deloitte University Press (2014)6shows the critical need for leadership: executives “viewed

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Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

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attributes at each stage of an engineer’s development (upon completionof high school/secondary school; university; early-career professional), the importance andproficiency levels of each attribute varied, as follows:The most important/proficient attributes for the secondary school graduate are:1. Demonstrates an understanding of engineering, science, and mathematics fundamentals2. Maintains a positive self-image and possesses positive self- confidenceFor individuals at this stage, the need to have sound preparation in the disciplinary fundamentalsis needed for successful transition to and success in university-level engineering educationprograms. Furthermore, student retention and success in most first-year university engineering

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Ben Groenewald; Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama, Huntsville

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Space workforce, or ALLIES. Initially, the ALLIESpartnership was centered within engineering design classes at CPUT and UAH. Engineeringdesign tools and methodologies were shared as well as the establishment of a focus upon thedesign and development of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) toolscreated by the CPUT and UAH engineering students. The STEM tools are intended to providekindergarten-through-grade-twelve (K-12) students, both in the United Sates (US) and SouthAfrica, an intuitive, hands-on learning experience in order to encourage the younger students topursue a STEM education and, ultimately, a STEM career. During the design process, theengineering design students visit the K-12 schools in order to incorporate the

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Ronald J Hugo, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan P.Eng., University of Calgary; Jian Zhang; Xiaodong Niu, Shantou University

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Department of Mechatronics Engineering in Shan- tou University in China. He obtained his Ph.D. in department of Mecahnical Engineering in National University of Singapore in 2004. His earlier academic career includes:2008˜2011, Associate Professor of Doshisha University and, 2006˜2008, Visiting Researcher of Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. in Japan, His majors are computaional and exeperimental fluid mechanics, particularly on lattice Boltizmann method and magnetic fluids. Page 19.16.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Evolution of a Chinese-Canadian

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Monica Gray P.E., The Lincoln University - College of Science & Technology; Constance Loretta Lundy

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in a real situation or problem that needs tobe addressed and solved,…”.Mourtos8 offered the following link between the learning framework and Student Outcome 3(i)"a recognition of the need for (affective - organization), and an ability to engage in lifelonglearning (cognitive - analysis)". Thus, the potential lifelong learner must at some point in theiracademic career develop value for information that pertains his or her discipline and has a strongenough sense of self-efficacy to be intrinsically motivation to independently learn.Concomitantly, in exploring his or her discipline, the student will face new, ill-defined andchallenging tasks which require concerted, systematic and extended efforts in order to succeedand subsequently graduate

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Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University; Meghan M. Alexander, Texas A&M University; Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucatan Government Ministry of Education; Martha Elena Ortega, CANIETI

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program in 2015.Ms. Meghan M. Alexander, Texas A&M University Meghan M. Alexander is the assistant director for Engineering International Programs at Texas A&M University. She has an M.Ed. in Counseling and over 15 years experience in international education and partnerships.Mr. Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucatan Government Ministry of Education A graduate of the Masters in Government and Public Policy by te Universidad Aut´onoma de Yucat´an (UADY) , workink since 2 years ago as Head of the Department of Planning and Strategic Projects at the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education of the Yucatan Government in Mexico . Throughout his career he has worked in entrepreneurial activities