Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Richard F. Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Faculty Development

academic unit focused on local and regional sustainability in support of WPI’s interdisciplinary degree requirement, the Interactive Qualifying Project. Rick also oversees WPI’s Global Perspective Program, a worldwide network of 35 Project Centers to which more than 700 students per year travel to address problems for local agencies and organizations under faculty supervision. Rick’s teaching and research interests include service and experiential learning, engineering design and appropriate technology, and internationalizing engineering education. He has developed and advised hundreds of student research projects in the Americas, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe. Rick has published over 55 peer-reviewed or

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University

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Faculty Development

achievement test at the end of the academic year includedgrammar, writing, and an oral lecture presentation in English. Out of the 50 faculty, 37persevered through the whole program and showed significant improvement in Englishproficiency. Information about this program spread around the university by word of mouth,and many more faculty members showed interest for the academic year 2012-13 with anenrollment of 170 faculty (out of 150 planned) and 15 study groups. After one semester, theprogram has achieved 100% retention with all members still attending the courses.This paper describes the program created at Kazan National Research TechnologicalUniversity to improve the English language skills of their faculty and will focus on analyzingthe academic

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Dirk Schaefer P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology

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Invited - Faculty Development

– foundations of teachingand learning. Tier 2: Scholarship – educational research and scholarly work in the field. Tier 3:Practice and Portfolio – reflective teaching portfolio development and peer mentoring.Tier 1 Content: Foundations of Teaching and Learning - Putting theory into practiceAreas of focus for this level of faculty development should include:  Learning styles/Learning processes.  Learning theory.  Course and curriculum design.  Constructive Alignment.  Active learning (student engagement).  Assessment and Evaluation.  Teaching with Technology.Tier 2 Content: Scholarship:In this level participants become engaged in a largely self-directed process of developing,documenting, and exploring their own ‘mental model’ of

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lynette Frances Johns-Boast, Australian National University

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Invited - Curriculum Development

institutionsoffer their stakeholders 1 as it both determines and drives outcomes. Despite this, the most notableoutcome of a “review of the literature on curriculum in higher education in the UK, the USA andAustralia … [is that there] is the dearth of writing on the subject” 2. That literature which doesaddress higher education curricula assumes a common understanding of the term curriculum andtargets curriculum related issues such as ‘inclusive curriculum’, ‘learner-centered curriculum’,internationalization of the curriculum or it focuses on the design of individual courses – that is,single units of study 2.Accepting that an important aspect of our role as academics is “not to impart knowledge, but todesign learning environments that support knowledge

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Patrick D Ulrich, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Chad D Vecitis; Jason Dyett, Harvard University, DRCLAS; Monica F A Porto, USP

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Student Development

withinternational peers. It is increasingly important for engineering students to develop a globalprofessional perspective during their training, and an international educational experience is anexceptional way to allow students to gain an understanding of engineering within the context ofanother culture. This paper describes the fourth edition of the annual SEAS/Poli-USPCollaborative Field Course, a joint program of Harvard's School of Engineering and AppliedSciences (SEAS), the Escola Politécnica of the Universidade de São Paulo (Poli-USP), andHarvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). This innovativecourse, which brought together 13 students from Harvard and 15 students from USP, was held inBrazil in January 2013 and focused

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Robyne Bowering, Monash University

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Invited - Student Development

communication, as a two-way process, is paramount to anengineer’s success. Yet the emphasis on developing communication skills in manyengineering courses is limited to the one-way delivery of discipline-specific informationthrough technical writing and the occasional oral presentation, supported by text and imageson a screen. Oral communication in the broadest context is a learnable skill.[5] Despite this,studies from around the world reveal that it is the competency most frequently reported as Page 21.46.2being deficient in the engineering workplace. [6-8, 10]Oral communication, like many skills identified by employers as insufficiently developed

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mohammad Kamal Hossain, Tuskegee University; Stacy Benjamin, Northwestern University; Kwanju Kim, Hongik University; Manuel Löwer, RWTH Aachen University; Pradosh K. Ray, Tuskegee University

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Faculty Development

learned how to collaboratewith their peers from a different cultural environment residing in different time zones.IntroductionUniversities have the responsibility to educate their engineering students in such a way that theyare able to provide effective and responsible solutions to human-social-environmental needs asan individual as well as a member of a team after graduation with a BS degree in engineering.Engineering capstone design projects are typically taught by forming a team of several studentsfrom the same discipline. However, it is not enough to make them competent workers in today’sglobal market or to act as a better workforce. Universities need to prepare students to be able towork in a diversified environment so that they can interact

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University; Victor A Atiemo-Obeng, The Dow Chemical Company (Retired)

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ASEE International Forum

- gineering, Boston University since 2009. He is been an International Associate, National Institute of Science and Technology for Mineral Resources, Water, and Biodiversity, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil (INCT Acqua; since 2009. He writes a blog on AqueouSolutions (http://www.aqueousol.blogspot.com). Sample postings include the following: If You Educate a Girl, Page 21.16.1 Part IX, Aug. 8, 2011. Minerals as Materials, Materials as Minerals, Part 2, Feb. 1, 2010. Conversations about Mineral Industry Education: Prof. Richard Amankwah of UMaT, Ghana, July 13, 2009. Materials

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart, University of Rhode Island; Erin Papa, University of Rhode Island

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Invited - Student Development

-level managers to deliver superior multilingual performance inspoken communication, reading and writing. “Our information exchange consists of business exchange, technology, laws, policies, and regulations. We, often times, work in global teams and interface with foreign customers and/or distributors to try to build new markets in areas where we think our products will thrive. We also have people in the field monitoring the political climate in many countries in order to help with our primary goals and objectives, especially, on issues surrounding privatization. This amount of foreign exchange on a daily basis requires that all of our upper-level employees have multilingual capabilities.”All MNCs agreed

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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ASEE International Forum

of potential variables to study. It aims to highlight the step in the diagrammodeling the “real” situation or pseudo-concrete (Text of the exercise) to a graph / qualitativerepresentation of the evolution of the amount of interest.Part II: Idenitification of the Mix Mathematical Model in its analytical representation (DE).Through the writing of the activity, the students are guided in the theoretical explanation of thetank model (chart-> DE). What is mainly discussed is the way in which the concentrationchanges over time according to the law of conservation of matter. In this step, based on themodeling diagram, the student goes from the Pseudo Concrete Model (statement) to the physicalmodel (diagram tank) and / or the "virtual physical