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Edward Godfrey Ochieng, Liverpool John Moores University; Andrew David Price, Lougyhborough University; Ximing Ruan Ruan, University of the West of England

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Paper ID #8257Global Engineer: A Springboard for the Next DecadeDr. Edward Godfrey Ochieng, Liverpool John Moores University Senior Lecturer in project management. Edward’s research is focussed on construction project manage- ment. He has presented at national and international conferences, such as Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM), Australian Universities Building Educators Association (AUBEA), CIB World Congress, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and International World of Construction Project Management where he has shared his knowledge on ’Project Complexity, Project

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Amos G Winter V, MIT; Robert James Stoner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles H Fine, MIT Sloan School of Management

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. Page 21.63.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Tata Center for Technology and Design at MITAbstractThis paper describes the Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT, a new program aimedat creating high-impact, sustainable, and scalable technical solutions in developing and emergingmarkets through the rigorous application of applied engineering science and systems thinking.The program is funded by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and is based at MIT. The Center matchesstudents and faculty to projects in India and offers training to enable them to create viable andappropriate solutions. Tata Center projects serve as the basis for graduate thesis work to addresscompelling social

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Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

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Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Experiences in Cross-Teaching within a Distance Education Environment C. N. Thai1, Y. Kuo2 & P. Yen2 1 University of Georgia, College of Engineering, Athens GA 30602-4435 E-mail: thai@engr.uga.edu - Web site: http://www.engr.uga.edu/~mvteachr 2 National Taiwan University, Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering Department, Taipei, Taiwan. E-mail: ykuo@ntu.edu.tw - Web site: http://bime.ntu.edu.twAbstractA project-based course in Robotics was created to serve as an elective for engineering students atthe University of Georgia (UGA) and

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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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engineeringstudents to travel and to participate in service projects centered on international development.The club grew rapidly in membership and established relationships with a university in Peru aswell as an Andean community near Cuzco, Peru. This community has twice been the destinationof ISC students during summer trips. Although student interest in the program has been highbecause of its social, adventure and altruistic components, undertaking it as a university entityrequires justification from a student development standpoint. There are many venues throughwhich young travelers might make overseas excursions and engage in community service,however, students participating through a university would be expected to develop knowledgeand skills in the

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Meiliu Lu, California State University at Sacramento

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users of these learning tools have participated in such unique experience of technical communication with their peers. Data analytics is playing a significant role in science and engineering education in this digital information era. Data warehouses provide online analytical processing tools for the interactive analysis of multidimensional data of various granularities. The objective of this project is to develop a web-based interactive courseware to help students or beginning data warehouse designers in learning data warehousing. Developers of this project include Computer Science international graduate students from India. The targeted primary users are students of a computer science course called Data Warehousing and Data Mining. Other

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame

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Electrical Engineering in 1980 and the Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Gennert is interested in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Scientific Databases, and Programming Languages, with ongoing projects in biomedical image process- ing, robotics, and stereo and motion vision. He is author or co-author of over 100 papers. He is a member of Sigma Xi, NDIA Robotics Division, and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Robotics Cluster, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM.Prof. Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame Gretar Tryggvason is the Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Notre Dame. He

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Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Research Technological University

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and professional educational level and quality to up-to-date business requirementshas been revealed. There is a long-felt need of complex modernization of ProfessionalEducation System.Concept of Long-term Socio – Economic Development of the Russian Federation for thePeriod up to year 2020 determines important goals of Educational System developmentincluding establishing of world-class Research and Education Centers that integrate advancedresearches and educational programs and meet the staff and research challenges of nationalinnovation projects. Other important goals are establishing of national qualification structureadjusted for potential requirements of innovation-driven advanced economic growth andoccupational mobility, reforming of

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Muhammad H Rashid, University of West Florida

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, the graduates would be known locally or nationally orinternationally for their accomplishments as project engineers, project managers, designengineers, graduate or post-graduate work, business owners, consultants, recognitions forprofessional certification and registration, for serving on engineering and local communities, etc.4.0 Accreditation Criteria and Process of Outcome-Based EducationThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) [2] is the responsibleaccreditation agency in the United Sates and sets the accreditation criteria. There are similarprofessional agencies in Australia [3], Canada [4], Malaysia [5], United Kingdom [6], and alsoother countries. The OBE requirements for all of these engineering accrediting

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Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology / Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC); Tim L Ferris, University of South Australia; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Engineering boards. Massood Towhidnejad is senior member of IEEE. Page 21.56.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Organizing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE) for International RelevanceIntroductionThe Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) project1was initiated in 2009 by a university partnership under the Systems Engineering Research Center(SERC). The objective of the BKCASE project was to create two products for free use by theinternational systems engineering (SE) community: (1) a Systems

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Scott Grenquist, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Roger G. Hadgraft, RMIT University

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Paper ID #8241Are Australian and American Engineering Education Programs the Same?The Similarities and Differences between Australian and American Engineer-ing Accreditation ProceduresDr. Scott Grenquist, Wentworth Institute of Technology Scott Grenquist is currently performing Sabbatical Research in interdisciplinary, project-based-learning techniques at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and The University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is also concurrently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Scott received his doctorate

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Jung-Uk Lim, Arkansas Tech University

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supplement to traditional lectures. This paper introduces such advanced powersystem visualization techniques as animation, 3-D display, contouring of power flows and mapdata projections. Those techniques were applied in the power system course (ELEG 3163) of theelectrical engineering department at Arkansas Tech University. Students’ outcomes andevaluation of this class supported the learning effectiveness of this course.IntroductionTraditionally calculations for in-class power system analysis have been done by hand,engineering calculators and/or text-based programming software. Since late 1990s, severalteaching approaches for power system analysis using power system simulation software havebeen developed and some simulators have been utilized in new

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Keith W Buffinton, Bucknell University; Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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. Another example that gave students an opportunity to examine opposite sides ofone particular engineering project occurred on our way to visit the Three Gorge Dam. Studentshad heard mostly negative stories about the impact of the dam project on the lives of theresidents in the area, although the students were aware of the benefit the dam is having on powergeneration and green energy. However when actually visiting the dam, the tour guide told acompletely different story. The tour guide said people of his age in the area were very happywith the project because the dam project stimulated the local economy by bringing in many jobsthat were unthinkable before the project. While both sides are correct from their ownperspectives, the sharply contrasting

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

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academia. The achievement of the HPAccredited Technical Associate (ATA) certifications validates the acquisition of real-worldskills and prepares students for employment in small and medium business environments.Through the comprehensive study program, students in engineering and IT programs can takefour semester long courses (Connected Devices Solutions; Network Solutions; Server and Page 21.58.3Storage Solutions; and Cloud Solutions), hands-on labs with real-life projects, take practicetests and complete certification exams to earn HP ATA certifications. Universities can

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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engineers and theirservices they provide across borders. New scientific and engineering discovery are pushingthe boundary of engineering applications, particularly in complex systems andinterdisciplinary engineered solutions. This scenario presents many new challenges forengineering organizations in that one project for new autonomous gold mine may start withpreliminary design in London (UK) with German-trained engineers, then developed furtherwith detailed design in Houston (Texas) with a mix of US and Brazilian-trained engineers,and followed by design validation and verification in Singapore with a mix of British andAsian-trained engineers, and project managed by Australasian-trained engineers during theconstruction phases in Laos, all within

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

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Paper ID #8256Challenges and opportunities in developing STEM curricula for tertiary in-stitutions in Africa: Materials Science and Engineering at AUST-AbujaProf. Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, has been a Penn State faculty member for the last thirty-six years. Prior to this he spent one and a half years as a research metallurgist and project leader with AMAX Extractive Metallurgy Lab (Golden, CO) working on a variety of industrial research projects in hydrometallurgy. Osseo-Asare

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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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engineers from different cultures• Cross cultural communication (intercultural communication skills; strategies; comparative analysis)• Problem solving involving scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines being applied to non-US centered problems (not just problem solving; it’s why we need the engineers; understanding of cross cultural similarities and differences in practice; ability to adapt to a project to local circumstances)• World view (understanding impacts of global connectedness)• International professionalism (ability to articulate global engineering practices in general and how their career as a future engineer impacts engineering practices globally)• Curiosity• Self-cultural awareness (aware of one’s own cultural perspective

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William Robinson, Stevens Institute of Technology; Michael Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology

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demonstratedthe potential for accelerating experience by using live simulations of realistic, complex, systemdesign projects. Engineers at different levels of experience, who have been immersed in thesesimulations, have demonstrated insights usually associated with time on the job. This raises thepossibility that useful experience might be acquired at dramatically reduced time, cost and risk.We have designed and conducted multiple simulations to expose students to the complexity,confusion, and decision-making and leadership challenges encountered in complex system designand development projects. These interrelated simulations have included: Design Simulations,Leadership Simulations, Customer Simulations, and Peer Review Simulations.The simulations

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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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Dhabi, UAE, where he also teaches interdisciplinary, project-based introductory design courses. Page 21.32.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Infusing Engineering Practice into the Core to Meet the Needs of a Knowledge-Based Economy Abstract A number of Middle Eastern countries are experiencing extraordinary rates of growth and development. Concurrently, they have been placing an increasing focus on building sustainable, knowledge-based economies. To function in such economies

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Alina Yurievna Khramova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasil Yurievich Khramov; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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the Russian studentssent to study abroad are from these main universities; and they also accept around 50% ofinternational students. University administration is sure that international projects, cooperation, partnershipand mobility programs greatly contribute the increase if graduates’ competiveness: theymaster foreign languages, can work in various companies, continue their education andacquire PhDs in western universities. Academic mobility programs form a growing-point fora university. Such programs change all the university activity and life: infrastructure, library,rules and regulations, etc. Academic mobility programs promote upgrading qualification ofhigher-education teaching personnel and administrative staff, modernization of

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Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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collegiate experienceBriefly discussed, the background of this departmental educational project 27started in August2008 in our Institution. The main purpose was to re-design the DE course, implemented in ourinstitution. It was a collegiate work of the faculty members of the Academy of DifferentailEquations.The early findings demonstrated that there were several educational proposals claiming theurgent need to reformulate the way DE was taught. They also emphasized the DE object as a toolto model various phenomena. 21,23,28 We also observed a varied use of technology such as OpenEducational Ressources (OER) and specialized software such as Mathematica and Maple toteach certain topics in DE. As a result and with the active participation of the faculty

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students with: opportunities to work and interact with teams of differentexpertise and nationalities, explicit instruction and courses on communication skills,understanding of the system level thinking (organization level), and explicit teaching on skillsrelated to engineering projects such as problem solving, resolving conflicts, time management,idea creation and presentation to different audience levels. Page 21.65.5Thusly, the automotive engineering curriculum established its course offerings in three levels, asdepicted in figure 2; level 1 covers the core-engineering courses mandatory for all the students inthe program, the next level