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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel Pando P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Michael Adam Hoff, UNC Charlotte

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compared with responsesfrom the faculty leaders.Background on engineering student service and international education The professional practice of engineering has been changed by emergent 21st centurychallenges, which include a globalizing workforce, newly evolving disciplines and increasinglycomplex, multidisciplinary problems. This environment tests the traditional skill set provided bycollegiate engineering programs, which predominantly focus on developing technical abilities instudents. Professional development and “soft skills” are expected to be acquired throughinternships or co-ops or picked up on the job. Two other activities that might develop the softskills are service learning and study abroad, both of which are less frequently

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Reception & Poster Session

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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the professional development stream, the workplace becomes the classroom, and theclassroom becomes the workplace. The former is where work-integrated and informallearning are recognised and captured for articulation; the latter is where the research-basedlearning is part of the company’s innovation or R&D program. These scenarios will be ableto build-on in practice the necessary “soft-skills” but also develop rigour in “intelligence”.Under the personal development stream, there is a case for self-directed but collaborativepeer-driven learning in a philanthropic environment where there is a melting pot of diverseprofiles of participants but also of the recipients of the charitable work. The learning in thesephilanthropic environments will

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Lucia Howard

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. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. New York: Sage. 104-137.38. Del Vitto, C. (2008) Cross-cultural ‘soft skills’ and the global engineer: Corporate best practices and trainer methodologies, Online Journal for Global Engineering Education, 3(1) 1-9.39. Lowell, L., Salzman, H., Bernstein H., & Henderson. E. (2009). Steady as She Goes? Three Generations of Students through the Science and Engineering Pipeline, Annual Meetings of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C.40. National Science Foundation, Chapter 2: “Higher Education in Science and Engineering,” Science and Engineering Indicators, 2010; accessed Dec. 24, 2010, http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/c2/c2s2.htm#s4-1