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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Libanos Redda, SPEED; Fabian Reichl, SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development); Agustin Ferrario, National Technological University, Resistencia Faculty, Argentina; Rohit Kandakatla, SPEED; Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Student Platform for Engineering Education Development

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university ”Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier´ıa Julio Garavito” in Bogota, Colombia. A year later I did an internship on micro hydro power in rural regions of Central America in Le´on, Nicaragua, 2015, which is part of the area I am focussing on in my studies. I served as Relations Officer 2013-2014, International Chair 2014-2015 and Vice President for Member Relations 2015-2016 at SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Develpoment). I am now aspiring my graduation as B.Sc. in July, 2016 and after that a Master of Science in the area of water ressource management and environment.Mr. Agustin Ferrario, National Technological University, Resistencia Faculty, Argentina Chemical Engineering student in the National

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Saud A Ghani, Qatar University

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ElBialy, Waled Mukahal, Saud GhaniIntroductionEngineering is a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) offering toyoung students the equipment, skills and knowledge to evaluate evidence, make sense ofinformation and solve problems [1]. Therefore the ability to solve problems creatively has beenidentified as one of the imperative competencies for graduating students. The need to engagemore female students to study STEM subjects is a worldwide concern and was also highlightedby US President Barak Obama [2]. By providing knowledge platforms, regardless genderdifferentiations, helps scientific society to broadness its achievements and consequently improvethe industry outcomes. Gender discriminations in educational and

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute; Mary Ragnhild Hilja Hatakka, Petroleum Institute

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primary instrument used in this first phase of the study was Schraw, Dunkle, andBendixen’s (2002) Epistemic Belief Inventory (EBI) [3]. The instrument is in the form of aquestionnaire and it was administered to 39 female students in their freshman and sophomoreyears in an engineering college in the Arabian Gulf. The results showed that there was very littlevariation between the two levels of students, indicating that the issue of developing students’epistemic beliefs needs to be addressed more thoroughly. This could be done possibly in theintroductory engineering courses or as curriculum infused in other Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses.Keywords—epitemic beliefs; inventory; engineering students; female; Arabian

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Dorian A. Cojocaru, University of Craiova; Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen; Daniel Spikol, Malmö University

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. He has published more than 10 books, more than 200 papers in various scientific journals and international conference proceedings and he coordinated more than 15 research national and international programs.Prof. Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen Anna Friesel is Professor at the Section for Electrical Technology, DTU Diplom - Technical University of Denmark, Campus Ballerup. She is also the president of the EAEEIE - European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, which is a European non-profit organization, with members from nearly seventy European Universities, most of them teaching in the area of Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE). Anna Friesel is a member of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Julia Ziyatdinova; Artem Bezrukov; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Petr Osipov

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graduated from Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU) in 2007. His major program was Chemical Engineering. He has also a minor degree in Translation for Profes- sional Communication. Artem Berukov received his PhD in chemistry at the same university in 2010. His is the head of Protocol Office at International Affairs and an associate professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry at KNRTU. His activity areas include internationalization of higher education, colab- oration with universities and research organizations in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Artem Bezrukov is the author and co-author of over 50 publications including papers in peer-reviewed journals, proceeding of international conferences

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Leslie Seawright, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Ibrahim Hassan P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Ali Darwish Alashar, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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english professor. Students gained valuable transferable skills while workingon this project including creative thinking, audience awareness, teamwork, technical writing,visual design, and communication. The authors of this paper, who include the students thatworked on the project, aim to promote and encourage the idea of undergraduate students activelyengaging and creating STEM programs and initiatives for K-12.IntroductionThe idea of STEM education has been around since the early 1900’s. Originally called, SMET(science, mathematics, engineering, and technology), educators focused on instructing studentsin skills that would benefit their future societies[1]. The idea of enriching these fields by creatingstudents well versed in them quickly

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, The Ohio State University; Royel Montel Johnson, Center for Higher Education Enterprise

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larger federally-funded research study designedby the lead author (Strayhorn) as part of a five-year CAREER grant from theU.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The objectives of the larger studywere to understand students’ pathways to and through science, technology,engineering and math (STEM) fields with a principal focus on ethnic minoritymales. Although the larger study is comprised of national data, surveys,interviews, and observations, this work-in-progress paper is based on surveyand interview data only.Sample The survey sample was comprised of 1,150 students majoring inengineering or a related subfield at a NSSE-participating institution. Sixty-four(64%) percent of the sample were women and over 57% were Black/African-American or

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo; Darryl N Williams, Tufts University; Rovani Sigamoney, UNESCO

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Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) for the 12 institutions in the University System of Maryland, and Co-PI Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate at UMBC. Dr. Tull has worked with thousands of students from Alaska to Puerto Rico, and in Latin America through graduate school preparation workshops that have been sponsored by AGEP, The National GEM Consortium, National Society of Black Engineers, Society for Hispanic Pro- fessional Engineers, Society for the Advancement of Chicano, and Native American Scientists, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the Alliance/Merck Ciencia Hispanic Scholars Program. She has presented workshops on graduate school

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Monica Gray P.E., Lincoln University; Constance Loretta Lundy

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of the ESP curriculum, springsemester of the sophomore year, was made to mirror spring semester of the first year at UWI-St.Augustine to facilitate future semester-length student exchanges. An aspirational goal of thisprogram is that each engineering student will have at least one study abroad experience beforegraduation.References1. United States Census Bureau. QuickFacts United States. U.S. Department of Commerce; 2015.2. American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Going the distance: best practices and strategies for retaining engineering, engineering technology and computing students. Washington, D.C.; 2012.3. National Science Foundation (NSF). Science and engineering degress by race/ethnicity of recipients