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Factors Influencing Curriculum Development: International Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Zhi Fang, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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K. Lewin, who has put forward group dynamics based on histheory of psychodynamics in the 1940s, perceives that group is not formed based on physicalapproximation or simple similarity of the members, but on the fact that a group ofinterdependent people gather together [1]. According to the theory, a person's behavior (B) isthe result of internal demand (P) and external environment (E), which can be expressed byB=f (P, E). [2] Meanwhile, he introduced the concepts of group cohesion, pressure andstandard within a group, leadership and performance, individual motivation and group goals,and group structure. [3]2. Research methodIn recent years, with the popularization of group dynamics in China, Chinese academiccommunity has carried out multiple

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Factors Influencing Curriculum Development: International Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Johnny Crayd Woods Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Maia Greene-Havas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Abram Diaz-Strandberg, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Sophia Vicente, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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-structuredinterviews with 10 international students from the general engineering department in a singleuniversity in the South of the U.S. Our results account for the patterns that emerged from thedata including socio-cultural adaptability, making friends, working in teams, and orientationstructuration.Keywords: International Students, First-Year, Social Interaction, Sociocultural TheoryIntroductionAcademic migration is on the rise and involves students migrating to foreign countries in searchof education. According to Contreras-Aquirre and Gonzalez [1], students are becoming morewilling to move, travel, and pursue a degree in a foreign country. The Institute for InternationalEducation [2] infographics portray that the United States (U.S.), Canada

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Factors Influencing Curriculum Development: International Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ashish Agrawal, University of Cape Town; Johnson Carroll, University of Johannesburg; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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also institutional lines in the course structures, credit requirements, and contact hours.These differences determine how soon students start forming an affinity to their disciplineand how much they can explore other academic and extra-curricular interests. We expect thatthe findings will highlight the potential impact of different curricular features on the studentswho experience them, and provide engineering educators and program coordinators withinformed choices to design curricula to better address their needs.1. IntroductionEngineering education is an important area for debate in many countries, given the importantroles that engineers play in national economic competitiveness, security and socialadvancement [1], [2]. Central issues in

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; Keith Radley, Sheffield Hallam University

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Teaching and Learning (CETLs)1.The creation of 74 CETLs was a result of a national bidding process. The CETL initiative hastwo main aims: to reward excellent teaching practice, and to further invest in that practice sothat CETLs funding delivers substantial benefits to students, teachers and institutions.Funding of CETLs totals £315 million over five years from 2005-06 to 2009-10. Each CETLreceives recurrent funding, ranging from £200,000 to £500,000 per annum for five years, anda capital sum ranging from £0.8 million to £2 million. This initiative represents HEFCE'slargest ever single funding initiative in teaching and learning.The Centre for Promoting Learner Autonomy (CPLA) at Sheffield Hallam University looksto the future and the knowledge

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International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University; David Watkins, Michigan Technological University; Brian Barkdoll, Michigan Technological University; Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University

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engineering (orother) services. In this way, the student’s research efforts in this program will be sociallyrelevant and useful at the community level, and will foster knowledge transfer from thedeveloping world to the industrialized world. It will also increase students’ understandingof appropriate technology, engineering equality, and social justice. This paper willpresent the program design, student participation, and lessons learned to date.2. Program DesignThe four main goals of this CBL experience are: (1) to provide engineering studentsexperience working on diverse teams, (2) to produce engineers with a better sense of thesocietal and global interconnections of engineering works, (3) to enhance the real-worldproblem-solving and research

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

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International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ian Robinson, Edge Hill University; Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; John Rowe, Sheffield Hallam University

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, to manage the developmentand implementation of new technologies, coupled with the ability to appreciate and take cost/benefit account of the financial, social and political implications of decisions taken’ 1.In short, engineering graduates were required to be business-minded for the first time.By 1988, the Engineering Council was becoming more outspoken, observing that ‘educationfor working life rather than first job should...be the aim’. The engineer in industry must be‘an authority on technology, a leader of others, a communicator’ and engineering coursesmust ‘improve working habits’ 5. The council was itself beginning to warm to the theme ofintervention in the undergraduate curriculum, and would indeed be funding and influencing

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Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bethany Jones, United Arab Emirates University

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interest to the general public.Engineering educators have special need to be familiar with the vocabulary of internationaldevelopment for several reasons. 1) The skills and competencies they possess, teach and practiceare among the most valuable to countries trying to respond to critical events and improve theirlot. 2) The emphasis on preparation of engineers for international practice has made overseasprojects such as those associated with Engineers Without Borders attractive as a component ofthe undergraduate curriculum. 3) Making it possible for engineering students to indulge in bothinternational travel and community service increases the attractiveness of engineering as a major.But the world of development is increasingly specialized, complex

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Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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, most of us acquire the same knowledge, but, except for a stint as teachingassistants, we receive almost no training in how to impart it to students. Fortunately, there is nowa well developed science of human learning that has been very explicit in the ways in whichstudents should learn, and how teachers should teach (1, 2). Further, they address different learningstyles (3, 4), focus more explicitly on communication, team, and leadership skills (5, 6), and stresson educating students for life by helping them to learn how to learn. (5, 7)“Skilful engineering teachers” are those who are committed to the profession, and, at the sametime do possess knowledge in three domains: engineering knowledge (i.e., their maindisciplinary expertise and its

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bahman Motlagh, University of Central Florida; Michele Shahir-Motlagh, Harcourt School Publishers; Alireza Rahrooh, University of Central Florida

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how outcome will be assessedCourse delivery project, on the other hand, involves project planning and project monitoring2. Page 12.414.3In order to utilize project management techniques in delivering courses we took the followingsteps: 1. Identify objectives and desired outcomes for every course. 2. List all topics that need to be covered within a course. 3. Consider each topic as a task and identify all activities that need to be completed such as lectures, posting assignments or projects. 4. Define all assignments or projects elements clearly such as research activities, deliverables, due dates

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Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University

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global distributed team, learn the value of different ideasfrom different cultures, gain knowledge of design opportunities in other countries and becomeskilled at how to use collaborative tool effectively.IntroductionThe growing integration of economies and societies around the world, better known asglobalization, has been one of the most hotly-debated topics in international economics over thepast few years.1 Its advantages and disadvantages have been discussed in many forums and bothsides, in favor of and against globalization, have presented clear and strong ideas. Beyond theeconomic point of view, this international integration has multiple implications in the interactionbetween the different constituents. Understanding globalization means

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bernd Widdig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jack Lohmann, Georgia Institute of Technology

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ngfour recommendations:1. Global competence needs to become a key qualification of engineering graduates.Gl oba lpr epa rat ionmus tmovebe yond“ add-on”pr ogr ams ;knowledge of the fundamentals anddynamics of globalization as well as opportunities to be immersed in study, work, or researchabroad are key elements that should be integrated into engineering programs. Universities shouldmake international preparation a pr ior it yint

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Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Micheal Dreznes, International Road Federation; James Ekberg, University of Florida

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Page 12.1464.3its population) and the respective road network for a country for a given year is presented inTable 1 2, 3 and Figures 1 through 6 2, 3, showing a direct relationship between the kilometers ofroads and the GNI per capita of high-, medium- and low-income countries (2000-2004). Allinformation referring to GNI was referenced from the World Bank and the International RoadFederation provided the majority of road network data.Table 1. GNI per capita and Road Network 2000-2004 (High Income, Middle Income, Low Income, separated by adashed line) A B C D E F G H I J K L 1

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Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Scott, The Petroleum Institute; Jamal Ahmad, The Petroleum Institute

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solvingcommunity and global engineering problems.The following outcomes, along with their relationship to ABET criteria, are listed below.At the end of STEPS II students should be able to demonstrate the following:1. Demonstrate competency in oral and written technical communication (g).2. Demonstrate understanding of the principles of project management (d).3. Demonstrate effective teamwork (d).4. Demonstrate ability to gather, analyze, and interpret data. (b)5. Apply engineering design process to solve an open ended project (b,c,e).6. Apply appropriate engineering practices to solve engineering problems (a,c)7. Demonstrate competency in graphics applications (k).8. Demonstrate awareness of professional ethics and codes of conduct (f)9

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Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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overall economic Page 12.619.2development for countries and regions. In the well developed countries, the role of theengineer is well understood and utilized. In much of the developing world, however, the -1-available pool of engineering talent is typically below critical mass – and economicdevelopment and even important basic societal needs that rely on engineering – such asclean water supply and sanitation – lack the technical talent to address them.Technical capacity building efforts aim at developing a sufficient pool of well educatedand certified engineering graduates in developing countries to effect

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Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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(dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated and supported by the university administration. What isnecessary to create a change, is for the department or college, to have a comprehensive andintegrated set of components: clearly articulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learnabout new pedagogies, and an equitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies of engagement.The theme advocated here is that student involvement is an essential aspect of meaningfullearning. Also, engaging students in learning is principally the responsibility of the instructor,who should

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International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Ferro, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Naoki Osawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Richard Stamper, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Wayne Sanders, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology; Taketo Yamakawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Tetsuro Furukawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

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fourto six students at each university, and instructors help facilitate international collaboration.The paper discusses methods and challenges for conducting an international engineering designcourse. Experiences in project selection, communication format, language, software andassessment are summarized. The paper offers ideas for future improvements in each of theseareas.IntroductionBefore starting the collaboration, discussions were held to determine the optimal method forcarrying out the project. Options included:Option 1: Students from different institutions gather at one location and form teams.Each team selects a project and design activities are practiced and presented throughout theacademic term,Option 2: Students from

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Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT), the Masdar Institute of Science and technology (MIST) is anindependent, not-for-profit, research-driven institution focused on science andtechnology. MIST will educate a workforce that will be prepared to compete in globalmarkets and participate in research and development with an emphasis on alliances withglobal corporations and entrepreneurial opportunities. MIT is assisting the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in four integralareas: (1) joint collaborative research; (2) development of degree programs; (3) outreachthat encourages industrial participation in research and development activities of MIST;and (4) support for capacity-building at MIST in terms of its organization

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Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Creese, West Virginia University; M. Adithan, Vellore Institue of Technology

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Vellore.Finally in 1984, the State Education Minister informed him that private Engineering Collegeswere to be permitted in Tamil Nadu. He obtained help from Professor N. Lalitha to draft aproject proposal for establishing Vellore Engineering College under the aegis of the North ArcotEducational and Charitable Trust. The college was approved in September 1984 and 150 acresof land was designated for the college which belonged to the state government. In September of1985 the government land was given to the trust and the first building was started. VelloreEngineering College moved to its present location in 1985 and now VIT University has 300acres of land with newly constructed facilities as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Aerial View of VIT University

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University

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the necessity of training the student to combine thetechnical knowledge with the business background for product conceptualization, innovation anddesign, technical feasibility analysis, and market research and analysis12.It is evident that there exists a common ground where the engineering design, the internationalexperience, the creativity and innovation, and the engineering entrepreneurship melt together asfundamental foundations for the technology progress necessary for economic development asdepicted in Fig. 1. Figure 1. Model of IDEAL (Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship, And Leadership) education integrated with a global perspective

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Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinay Kumar Domal, University of Western AustraliaUWA; James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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confidently challenge the assumption that engineering education can beindependent of context because the technical content is universal, we need further research tounderstand how to set new objectives.Engineering Practice ResearchRecently published research has provided a foundation for this study based on 70 extensiveinterviews and field observations of engineers in several countries30-32. The frameworkconsists of 85 different aspects of engineering practice grouped as follows: 1. Managing self and personal career development 2. Coordination, working with other people 3. Engineering processes, project and operations management 4. Financial processes 5. Procurement, buying products or services 6. Human resource development, training

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California

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summers in nations abroad.Acknowledgment I would like to thank Gloria Hayes for her suggestions in improving this paperand for her careful editing.Bibliographic Information[1] J. J. Duderstadt, “Engineering for a Changing World – A Roadmap to the Future of EngineeringPractice, Research, and Education,” The Millenium Project, The University of Michigan Report, 2008.[2] W. G. Clough (Chair), “The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century,” NationalAcademy of Engineering, Washington DC, National Press, 2004.[3] W. G. Clough (Chair), “Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the NewCentury,” National Academy of Engineering, Washington DC, National Press, 2005.[4] Continental AG, “In Search of Global

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byoung-Kyu Dan, Korea University; Seung-Won Jung, Korea University; Junh-Yung Kim, Korea University; Tae-Shick Wang, Korea University; Aldo Morales, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Sung-Jea Ko, Korea University

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. Page 13.1037.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Research Collaboration between Korea University and Penn State for the Development of an Advanced Video CODEC Byoungkyu Dan1, Seungwon Jung1, Junhyung Kim1, Taeshick Wang1, Aldo Morales2 and Sung-Jea Ko1 1 2 Department of Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering Program, Korea University Pennsylvania State University Seoul, Korea Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaAbstractIn this work, we would like to highlight an international collaboration between KoreaUniversity, one of the premier

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Engineering Accreditation Around the World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Gisela Coto Quintana; Jaime Salazar, Ibero-American Association of Engineering Education (ASIBEI); Jorge Ignacio Velez Munera, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, ACOFI

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, we examine the state of national engineering accreditation systems andengineering program degree recognition and accreditation in the LAC region.State of Accreditation and Program Recognition in Latin America and the CaribbeanDegree recognition begins with an internationally-recognized national accrediting agency. Manycountries in Latin American and the Caribbean may not have accrediting agencies for highereducation, or may have not taken the necessary steps to get international recognition for theiraccrediting agencies.Most of the systems of accreditation of Latin America and the Caribbean are of general natureconsequently they are not specialized for areas of knowledge such Engineering. Table 1 listsengineering program accrediting agencies

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Case Studies & Engineering Education Around The Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Floyd Wilkes, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

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AC 2008-545: A COMPARISON OF IMPLEMENTING A SINGLE PROBLEM INRELATIONAL, OBJECT-RELATIONAL AND OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASESYSTEMSFloyd Wilkes, Utah Valley State CollegeReza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College Page 13.20.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Comparison of Implementing a Single Problem in Relational, Object-Relational and Object-Oriented Database SystemsABSTRACTSeveral database textbooks were studied to determine how extensively the three database models Relational, Object-Relational and Object-Oriented were been covered [1]. From this study it was determined that some database textbooks either do not

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World / International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Dennis Jet, University of Florida; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College

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include diversity in admittingBlacks, Hispanic, International students and Other Minorities (BHIOM). According tothe National Science Foundation data only a fraction of the black students who earn adoctorate degree is hired as a university professor. Blacks make up 3 percent of the legalfield, 4 percent of college faculty and 5.2 percent of entertainers, writers, andprofessional athletes in the U.S.1 According to Raspberry, the home of the average whitekindergartener has 93 books and the average black child has less than half as many.2Recognizing these facts, it is essential for every IHE to allocate a portion of theirresources in the form of scholarships and fellowships in admitting BHIOM in theirinstitutions. This paper presents a model that

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Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adnan Zahed; Abdullah Bafail; Reda Abdulaal; Ali Al-Bahi

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13.996.1linguistic and cultural barriers are evaluated.IntroductionFor a long time, engineering institutions in the United States adopted the evaluation criteria ofthe Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) as a well established process toensure the quality of their engineering programs. Seventy years after its establishment, ABETcurrently accredits some 2,700 programs at over 550 colleges and universities nationwide.In a major shift influenced by pressures from industry and global competition, ABET introducedthe Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000)1, which addressed the effectiveness of engineeringeducation programs by focusing on assessment and evaluation process that assures theachievement of educational objectives and outcomes. Since it

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Global Engineering Education Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Alex Friess; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

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addressing this need.The development of the assessment process and tools for international collaborative engineeringeducation projects requires the identification of Global Competencies4 that the internationalnature of the initiative specifically targets.According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) in its handbook for project evaluation5,there are two fundamental reasons for evaluation of projects: 1) obtain information on whethergoals are being met and on how different aspects of a project are working and are essential to acontinuous improvement process, and 2) evaluations frequently provide new insights or newinformation that was not anticipated called “unanticipated consequences” of a program which areamong the most useful outcomes of the

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Stanton, United States Military Academy; Eugene Ressler, United States Military Academy

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Dependencies Organizational Maturity Technical Knowledge Start Figure 1 Axes with synchronizing tasks Third, an assessment of the organizational maturity prevents overextending a single axis.As new technologies are added to the environment, the benefits and rules of use need to beexplained to all parties so that they understand the effects and impact on their role in theenterprise. It is a

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Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Stanton, United States Military Academy

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. Although their work addresses IT infrastructure ina different, non-education specific context, Brewer et al stressed the requirement for developingperspective so heavily that they incorporated social scientists into their research to study theregion6. Establishing perspective requires understanding the capabilities of the faculty, thephysical resource limitations of the institution, and the academic capabilities of entering students.Each of these areas is addressed in turn.Faculty Effective teachers are essential in any educational setting; “the faculty is the heart of anyeducational program”1. To be effective, teachers must have a deep understanding of the subjectmatter and the ability to convey it to the student population. Developing