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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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among U.S.-based andglobal institutions, development of U.S.-based consortia, curriculum integration, coursematching, and scholarship funding, as well as a robust faculty-led program.Cooperative agreementsCooperative agreements or memoranda of understanding (MOU) are an effective way for U.S.-based and international institutions with mutual internationalization missions and goals to brokerrelationships that advance the individual and collective vision of all signatories. MOUs that tendto work and are productive in the long run are characterized by up front, explicitly negotiatedneeds and strong bilateral support from individual parties. Some items that are typically includedin internationalization agreements are scholarly exchanges, of both

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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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Diversity, International Forum

scenarios that can be possibly used to teach with for labs usingPELARS technology, methods and equipment. We investigated UCV teachers’ perspectives abouttheir current practice of laboratory sessions and their ideas about how to integrate PELARStechnologies in their teaching practice. The data collection was done in an informal focus groupinterview setting and was audio recorded. Workshops are video and audio recorded and interviewsare audio recorded for future references.Student workshops were planned as follows: - Introduction to PELARS project-Presentation - Research consent forms - Introduction to visual programming platform - Presentation of educational scenarios - Introduction to brainstorming - Brainstorming about the

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

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

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Diversity, International Forum

profession. The challenge for many engineering education programs ishow to include this global dimension in the curriculum. The most common and traditionalapproach is study abroad programs, however, a limited number of students can afford themdue to financial and other reasons. Thus, universities try to find other opportunities for the so-called ‘internationalization at home’3 e.g. cross-cultural communication trainings2. Acomparative analysis of the engineering curricula at the US and Russian leading researchuniversities shows that only few of them succeed in developing a global mindset of theirgraduates. This process requires a new generation of faculty who are globally engagedthemselves13.An approach described in our previous paper16 focuses of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

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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Diversity, International Forum

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The STEM Loop: Undergraduate Engineering Students Create a STEM Children’s BookAbstractThis paper documents an innovative project in which undergraduate mechanical engineeringstudents created and produced a children's book about combustion engines. Funded through agrant provided by Texas A&M University at Qatar, students researched, designed, and wrote achildren's book intended to promote interest in STEM fields. The book, written in both Englishand Arabic, will be used in Qatari public schools and in the Texas A&M University at Qatar’sSTEM Outreach Program. The interdisciplinary project was co-led by a mechanical engineeringprofessor and an