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Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre; Ayano OHSAKI P.E.

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Student Development

Paper ID #11009Project Based Learning (PBL) - Across Disciplines and Across CulturesDr. Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre Page 20.32.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Project Based Learning (PBL) - Across Disciplines and Across CulturesAbstractThere is a critical requirement for today’s engineering education to transcend the barriers ofglobal cultures and universal disciplines. The paper presents an experiment where the essentialswere packaged in a joint Indo

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University; Mats Daniels, Uppsala University; Åsa Sofia Cajander

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  and  I  want  to  make  use  of  what  I  learned  in  this  project.”An  interesting  comment  from  a  leader  in  the  capstone  project  in  year  five  at  the  final  presentation  was  that  he  believed  that  his  competence  to  act  as  a  leader  for  a  group  of  fifteen  students  from  several  different  cultures  during  the  full  time  semester  long  project  had  to  a  substantial  amount  been  due  to  his  experiences  in  the  Runestone  and  the  IT  in  Society  courses.  The  setting  was  quite  different,  but  he  said  that  he  felt  better  equipped  and  had  greater  confidence  regarding  dealing  with  issues  coming  up,  especially  having  a  greater  awareness  of  culture  being  a  source  for

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Track 3 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre; Gautam Akiwate, University of California, San Diego; Ayano OHSAKI P.E., nnovation Center for Engineering Education, Tottori University

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skills. Students learn communication skills, project management skills, analysis, etc. by working on design assignments and projects in this program. More than 400 students are studying in this program. She is writing a textbook and developing an assessment system for this program. She is pursuing her doctoral research in Computer Supported Collaboration Leaning (CSCL) and the Flipped Classroom for the Engineering Design. Prior to this, she also has over 5 years of experiences as a Production Engineer. She designed a jig, production processes and production systems for on-vehicle unit systems. She received the Master of Engineering degree in Information Technology from Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan, in 2009

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Track 3 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Junichiro Kono, Rice University; Shane M Curtis, University of Tulsa

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Student Development

selected the NanoJapan: International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NanoJapanIREU) and the RQI Research Experiences for Undergraduates (RQI REU) programs for comparisonbecause both programs are funded by the NSF, headquartered at Rice University, recruit participantsfrom universities nationwide via a competitive selection process, enable students to participate incutting-edge research in fields related to nanoscale and atomic-scale systems, phenomena, anddevices, and require participants to present topical research posters on their summer projects at asummer research colloquium as a capstone experience. Page 20.42.4The NanoJapan