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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Sergey M Avdoshin, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Valery V. Shilov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation; Sergey A. Silantiev

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and international competitions.5. Work perspectives.Graduates of the SE program work as the developers and software architects, software qualitymanagers in industrial companies, research centers and governmental agencies.Philosophically, the aim of the program leading to the Bachelor of Software Engineeringdegree is to provide students with a strong theoretical and practical background in computersoftware along with the engineering analysis, design and implementation skills.In 2014, Higher School of Economics modified its educational standards on the bachelordegree level. The main purpose of the reform was to improve the quality of education bydecreasing the number of courses students take simultaneously (4 to 5 + foreign language)and

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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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evaluates programmatic inter- ventions designed to recruit, retain and advance diverse faculty at UMBC. Dr. Reed also routinely dis- seminates best practices learned from UMBC’s diversity initiatives at national and international venues. Dr. Reed is on the advisory board for the Mid-Atlantic Higher Education Recruitment Consortium.Dr. Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Renetta Garrison Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Professional Development & Post- doctoral Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC: An Honors University in Mary- land), where she is the Co-PI and Founding Director for the National Science Foundation’s PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Wes Stone, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, Western Carolina University; Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University

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theircurricula, and this travel course can be a technical elective. The other program does not include atechnical elective in its existing curriculum, so this travel course does not count as a majorcourse, but can still count towards the total credits for graduation.To answer the third question, it was agreed that the travel course should be an elective in thePBL course sequence, and a project would be an essential component. The PBL course sequenceranges from freshman seminar to senior capstone projects, and gradually deepens the students’knowledge to carry out practical projects, and prepares our students to succeed in their capstoneprojects as well as engineering jobs in industry after graduation. This travel course aims atincorporating the global

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Douglas Moore Schutz, Tokyo University of Science; Dante Dionne, Korean Air; Yong-Young Kim P.E., Konkuk University

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from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis focusing on digital electronics design. Doug was one of 40 Ph.D. students selected globally to present his research at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Doctoral Consortium in Shanghai, China. His research has been nominated Best Paper at the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), and his work has been published three times in publications of the Japan Society of Information and Management (JSIM). He was recently selected to teach a one week intensive course to graduate students at the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Prior to academia, Doug worked as an IT manager and consultant in the electric

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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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Diversity, International Forum

small proportion of students majoring inhigh-demand fields such as engineering. The National Science Foundation(NSF) reports that 39% of URMs "plan to major" in science and engineeringfields as freshman, but less than half of these earn an undergraduateengineering degree; rates are startlingly lower for Blacks and Hispanics.One way to increase retention and graduation rates in engineering for allstudents is to enhance their overall skills and readiness for engineering-related work by way of cooperative education (i.e., co-op) and internships1that offer students "real-life, hands on" experience in their major subject. TheCenter for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University identifies suchexperiences as a "high-impact practice" that likely

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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

analytics (data-mining and reasoning) of practice-based andexperiential STEM. This data is used to create analytics support tools for teachers, learners andadministrators, providing frameworks for evidence-based curriculum design and learning systems.The PELARS project creates behavioral recording inputs, proving a new learning analytic that isscalable in application, and bridge qualitative and quantitative methods through reasoning andfeedback from input data. The project serves to better understand learners' knowledge in physicalactivities in laboratory and workshop environments, as well as informal learning scenarios.PELARS traces and helps assess learner progress through technology enhancement, in novel waysbuilding upon current research. The

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kari L. Clase, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lauren Ann Terruso, Purdue University

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to medicines for Africa and developing nations, and to advance discovery in manufacturing technology, quality of medicines, and rare disease research. This mission is accomplished through innovative knowledge-based programs in STEM areas with an emphasis on interdisciplinary col- laboration. Dr. Clase teaches multiple courses covering topics in biotechnology, bioinformatics, biolog- ical design and drug discovery to engineers, scientists and technologists. Her currently funded projects include collaborators from multiple disciplines and an impact that spans K-12 to graduate education.Mrs. Lauren Ann Terruso, Purdue University Lauren Terruso is the Operations Manager of the Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jeongkyu Lee, University of Bridgeport; Sarosh H Patel, University of Bridgeport; Brian Lim, University of Bridgeport; Roger Dianlei Geng PhD, Wuhan University of Science and Technology; Zhigang Jiang, Wuhan University of Science and Technology

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one of the most international universities in US with the 15% ofinternational undergraduate student body by the Best Colleges – US News and World Report[11]. With UB’s focused international characteristics, the University also has been incollaboration with various higher education institutions in different countries, for a variety ofcollaborative programs including exchange of faculty for instruction, research, lectures andestablishing collaborative academic programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees. Overthe course of a few years UB very successfully established and implemented collaborativedegree awarding programs with Chinese universities of high academic ranking. One goodexample of such a collaborative program is the US-WUST 2+2

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Vitaliy Popov, 1. University of San Diego. 2. The Global STEM Education Center; Larisa K. Schelkin, Global STEM Education Center, Inc.; Russell Faux, DSRA

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Paper ID #17540Preparing globally competent and competitive STEM workforce of the 21stcentury in the Global STEM Classroom RDr. Vitaliy Popov, 1. University of San Diego. 2. The Global STEM Education Center Vitaliy Popov is a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar at the Mobile Technology Learning Center, University of San Diego, USA. In addition, Dr. Popov is a consultant at the Global STEM Education Center. For his PhD dissertation, he designed and implemented studies in which over 500 students from more than 55 countries worked together with the help of online collaborative technologies. As a postdoc he is currently conducting a

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Paul John Ackerman Jr P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Tim Moore P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Tyler Adam Brickles

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water filtration, thus improving overall health conditions within communities and greatly enhancing experiential learning in the field. Preliminary research suggests that our designs have reduced community infant mortality rates by more than 40%, saving the lives of more than 4,000 children worldwide. This clearly emphasizes engineering service and the need for sustainable infrastructure projects that produce positive results without negatively impacting future generations.Mr. Tyler Adam Brickles, Tyler is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. While at VMI Tyler conducted research on the implementation of off grid sanitation