Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Dianne J DeTurris, California Polytechnic State University; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Lily Hsu Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Fred W DePiero, California Polytechnic State University; Zoe Wood Wood; Alana Christine Snelling

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Curriculum and Lab Development

Page 20.8.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Comparative Assessment of Scaled Global Engineering Initiatives ABSTRACTAccreditation is an important aspect of contemporary engineering education and globalizationimpacts what is being taught and assessed. The ABET EC-2000 criteria that currently guideengineering accreditation program review processes include both “hard” skills (e.g., “an abilityto apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering”) and “professional” or “soft”skills. In the area of soft skills, attention to “global competence” has proliferated in highereducation since the 1990s – including definitions, assessment criteria, and proposed

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mona Azarbayjani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Curriculum and Lab Development

joint studio have been well worth the difficulties ofdelivering it. Students gain a fresh perspective on the design process as well as an appreciationof the purview of allied professionals. It also gives them an opportunity to gain confidence intheir knowledge by frequently being in a teaching role as they interpret aspects of theirdiscipline to their peers. Students are able to cross pollinate presentation techniques andcommunication strategies that are typical of their profession. As the students enter theworkforce, the experience of working in teams and the soft skills learned in the design studioadd significantly to their marketable skills.The prior experience that the Civil Engineering and Architecture departments had withmultidisciplinary

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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St. Louis andthe Emory University Hopital in Atlanta. Internationally, Singapore’s manufacturers, companies,and hospitals ranging form five hundred to eighteen hundred beds have been involved. There waslimited experience with organizations in Canada, France, India and Germany.Based on personal experience with co-op program in six countries over several years, the value ofthe co-op programs in providing experiential learning has been observed. The effectiveness of theco-op modules were assessed based on personal interviews with the students after the internshipusing the following parameters: exposure to real life problems, acquisition of generic skills,improvements in soft skills, bridging the gap from classroom to workplace, student

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Mercedes Echevarria, International Engineering Program, University of Rhode Island; Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island

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student working at the same company has extremely strong programmingskills and prefers hands-on projects, which led the company to choose him as the ideal candidateto assist them with a variety of tasks relating to information technology and quality management.Both students also have ample opportunity to develop equally important soft skills, likeinterpersonal, professional and intercultural communication, as they participate regularly inmeetings and presentations with not only their Chilean colleagues and clients, but also withsuppliers and manufacturers from around the world.Each intern has a supervisor and mentor within the company, as well as an academic mentorfrom URI. The credit and grading structure for the internships is all handled