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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

thesematerials. It is primarily a call to consider how students engage in their college experience,and to search for proper tools that can be deployed to stimulate learning.In moving forward, there are numerous tools available to select from, including the modelspredicated on cooperation; i.e., working together to accomplish shared goals. Withincooperative activities, individuals seek outcomes that are beneficial to them and also benefitall other group members. (2, 3) Cooperative learning researchers and practitioners have shownthat positive peer relations are essential to success in college. The positive interpersonalrelationships promoted through cooperative learning are regarded by most as crucial totoday’s learning communities. They increase the

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Cooperative and Project-based Global Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karim Altaii, James Madison University; Shannon N. Conley, James Madison University ; Samy El-Tawab, James Madison University

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Diversity

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International

”FRIEND”: A Cyber-Physical System for Traffic Flow Related Information aggrEgatioN and Dissemination. In 2009, he was awarded a prize for Excellence in Scholarship at The College of William and Mary’s 8th An- nual Graduate Research Symposium. He has more than 20 publications including journal/conference papers, book chapters, and posters. He also serves as a reviewer in several journals and conferences. http://educ.jmu.edu/˜eltawass/ c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Methodology and Experience of Facilitating International Capstone Projects for Multidisciplinary Fields: Costa Rica Internet of Things (IoT) Case StudyIntroductionThis paper

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Global and Intercultural Competency

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria Claudia Alves , Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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designed to provide global competency to students so that claimsabout the success of educational practices might be evaluated [1] in [11]. This study contributesto the body of knowledge on how to and what prepares engineering students to be ready for theglobal job market and society they will face once they graduate by understanding how studentscome to appreciate cultural differences to interact effectively with different others in the contextof a global engineering course. This research supports the lifelong learning concept and ways todevelop the five competencies rated most important by the industry, which includes appreciatingand respecting cultural differences, collaborating and working on a multicultural team, using