Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Christie Ritter, The University of Colorado at Boulder; Alan Rolf Mickelson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jared Leventhal, University of Colorado at Boulder; David Espinoza, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Student Development

needs and desires might not be fully understood from the perspective ofan American engineer. The lowest level of agreement for NapoNet program outcomes is for the impact onunderstanding engineering in a global sense. One student commented, “The NapoNet project islocalized to one district within Peru, and it is difficult to see how the project impacts the peoplethat live outside of this sphere very much.” This comment points to an area for improvement inthe NapoNet curriculum about increasing student understanding of engineering in a globalcontext. Students could be assigned readings and case studies to augment the mostly appliednature of the project. One note of caution for interpreting the student surveys results is the smallsize (n = 9

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Eck Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Harvey Charles, Northern Arizona University

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Student Development

to these new imperatives byexploring a variety of more intensive international training programs. For instance, Iowa StateUniversity’s Language and Cultures for the Professions initiative [11] encourages students toincorporate specialized language study and cross-cultural coursework into their studies, as wellas providing help in finding internships abroad. Similarly, the GEARE program at Purdue [12],[13] offers engineering majors the opportunity to integrate introductory language study, asemester of study plus summer internship abroad into a four-year curriculum. The InternationalPlan at Georgia Tech [14] offers students a range of options for internationalizing their studies,requiring a combination of globally-focused coursework, basic

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kimberly Lau, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley; Sara L. Beckman, Haas School of Business

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Student Development

). Among the students, we have undergraduate and graduate populationsfrom engineering, business administration, and other disciplines within the sciences andhumanities.The undergraduate student data were collected at three universities: 1. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST): from students taking a freshman-level course focused on the fundamentals of conceptual design and critical thinking [24]. 2. Anonymous U.S. University: from the entire entering class of 2015 to a new Integrated Design Program (IDP). 3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB): from students enrolled in an upper-level course focused on the engineering design process and conceptual design of products.The graduate student data