profession • Promoting capacity building and contributing to the socio-economic development of lesser developed communities • Acting with integrity, transparency and respect in dealing with members and non- membersThe IFEES Assembly approved the Strategic Plan4, which determined that • IFEES will work in close cooperation with national regional organizations from around the globe to influence public policy at the local, national and international levels in support of engineering education, while striving for operational excellence (including IFEES sustainability) and development of its members. • The IFEES Vision is to foster and enhance the capabilities of an active global community of stakeholders
education tools andcurricula to be created. The results of this study communicate the value of such internationalexperiences and motivate the integration of these skills into domestic curricula. Further analysiscan be found at www.publish.illinois.edu/engineeringabroad.IntroductionInternational engineering experiences enhance the traditional engineering curriculum byimmersing students in an unfamiliar environment where the opportunity to learn is rich. Due tothe complex and often transformative nature of these experiences, such learning can bechallenging to quantify and qualify. However, qualitative data from students who have theseexperiences offer valuable insight into the impact of such learning opportunities. This studylooks at students who
students would use the learning from the intercultural assignments to work better inthe binational teams and therefore be more effective in the project.One working hypothesis for the class was that the combination of these components wouldincrease students’ intercultural maturity and make them engineers who are better prepared for theglobal market. An important aspect of this course is that it is integrated into the engineeringcurriculum. A common issue with global competency courses is that they add extra courses tothe students’ curriculum. Therefore, demanding additional time and effort from the students whowish to develop those global competency skills. The ENGR410 course is part of the engineeringdegree plan counting as a technical elective
Paper ID #13565Learning from Senior-Level Engineering & Business Development Profes-sionals to Create Globally Competent Engineers via On- and Off-CampusActivitiesDr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jane Lehr is Chair of the Women’s & Gender Studies Department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo. She is also an Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies, Director of the Science, Technology & Society Minor Programs, and Faculty Director of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minor- ity and Underrepresented Student Participation in STEM Program at Cal Poly. She
Paper ID #34344Measuring the Impact of a Study Abroad Program on Engineering Students’Global PerspectiveMr. Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education and an M.S. student in Indus- trial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech (VT). Tahsin holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and has worked as a manufacturing professional at a Fortune 500 company. As an Engineering Education researcher, he is interested in enhancing professional competencies for engi- neering workforce development in academia
Paper ID #9157Development of a Faculty Led Education Abroad Program and the LessonsLearnedDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Acharya joined RMU in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. With US Airways, Acharya was responsible for creating a conceptual design for a Data Warehouse which would integrate the different data servers the company used. With i2 Technologies he led the work on i2’s Data Mining product ”Knowledge Discover Framework” and at CEERD (Thailand) he was the product manager of three energy software products (MEDEE-S/ENV, EFOM/ENV and DBA-VOID) which were/are used in
environments.”“To this end, we call on engineering educators, engineering administrators, and engineeringpolicy leaders to take deliberate and immediate steps to integrate global education into theengineering curriculum to impact all students, recognizing global competency as one of thehighest priorities for their graduates.”6.2 Looking Back Ten YearsAlthough the Newport Declaration received some publicity (it was published, for example, in theASEE Prism magazine), the impression of the authors is that it did not get a lot of attention.Nevertheless, by at least some measures, the response of engineering programs has beensignificant. According to the Institute of International Education, study abroad participation byengineering students has more than
for Education and Learning (PREL - an American not-for-profit), Save the Children USA, the local Mindanao Business Association, and the Philippine Department of Education, alongside Philippine universities, came together to develop and jointly implement the Assistance for the Comprehensive Educational Development of Mindanao (ASCEND-Mindanao) Project. The goal of this “ASCEND-Mindanao” private-public initiative was to increase learning opportunities for children and youth in some of the poorest municipalities and provinces in Mindanao—the southernmost island in the Republic of the Philippines. In particular, the project sought to enhance the curriculum and instructional materials for English, Math, and
different levels of cultural awareness and appreciation amongparticipants.These results also point to new opportunities for further research. Particularly, this studyrepresents a significant step towards developing and testing an integrated assessment model forglobal engineering programs that brings together measures of readiness assessment, orientationtoward diversity, and global engineering competency.1. IntroductionFor more than a decade, a growing roster of influential stakeholders have argued that globalcompetency is imperative for a new generation of “global engineers” who must be ready topractice in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and rapidly changing world.1,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 Yet asnoted in many of these same commentaries and reports
, solar heatgain coefficient, visible light transmittance, and U-value.As part of a NSF International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) project a team ofgraduate and undergraduate students at a major U.S. university worked with L&T’s designengineers at the Center for Excellence and Futuristic Design (CEFD) in conducting all thenecessary calculations to determine the annual cooling loads for each of the glass-frame-shadingcombinations. The goal was to tabulate all the necessary values and calculations into an Excelspread sheet and then develop a simple interface –using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) –for L&T’s architects. The program accesses a hidden database that allows the architects tosimply select their desired values for
Page 26.874.5as “an at-home effort to initiate students on the path to global competency in ways that fit theirstandard curricula.”23 According to the authors, integrated class experience often involves suchactivities as introductory education in the language, customs, history, and government in thecountry under study and sometimes provides a substitute for international travel throughelectronic interactions.In addition to program types outlined above, scholars outline various program components.Grandin and Maher define seven parameters by which programmatic components may vary.20These parameters are as follows: Short-term vs. long-term; English-language vs. Non-Englishlanguage; degree of cultural exposure/immersion; degree of curricular
Paper ID #12902Impact of International Collaborative Engineering Education upon the Epis-temological Development of Chinese Engineering StudentsMiss Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Qunqun Liu is a graduate student at the Graduate School of Education in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She obtained a B.S. in public administration from China Agricultural University. Her current interest focuses on the cognitive development of engineering graduate and undergraduate students, the assessment of teaching and learning in graduate education.Dr. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Assistant Professor
sinc rea sin glydependent on foreign-born engineering talent. When this is coupled with the growingoutsourcing of industrial R&D, American engineering faces a challenging situation.IV. Preparing the Global EngineerFostering the skills required for global competence will be challenging in an already tightengineering curriculum, engineering programs worldwide have responded to the task ofeducating students for a global workplace and international networks of knowledge in differentways. The team found a variety of beneficial practices:•I ncr eas ings tud
inclassroom.To facilitate peer-to-peer interactions beyond the weekly class time, the iPodia technicalplatform also integrates three key additions to the mutually connected classrooms located indifferent places of the globe:(a) Learning Management System: In addition to gaining the synchronized “face-to-face time” with each other inside the classroom, students can review class archives and remain in constant communication with each in an un-synchronized manner via the Learning Management System (LMS). Figure 3 illustrates an iPodia course website built upon the Page 24.827.4 LMS of the Blackboard System.(b) Small Group Synergy: While working on
past several decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of engineerspossessing important professional skills, including global readiness or awareness. In 2004, theNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) described the Engineer of 2020 as being proficient in“interdisciplinary teams [with] globally diverse team members” (p. 55).1 As the NAE stated,“While certain basics of engineering will not change, the global economy and the way engineerswill work will reflect an ongoing evolution that began to gain momentum a decade ago.” (p. 4).Engineering graduates will be called to solve increasingly global problems and to work in teamsthat contain members who are either from international locations or are globally distributed.Across the
are excited to share their stories. The Ambassador Club is designed toincrease interest in the College of Engineering’s signature program, the Rising SophomoreAbroad Program, as well as other international opportunities available at Virginia Tech.Ambassadors speak to interested college and high school students about their experiences abroadand future international travel plans. The Ambassadors lend a hand at orientation events,information fairs, panel discussions and other functions that highlight international programs forstudents. The students provide an integral networking and marketing service that goes beyondthe scope of what the International Programs Office would otherwise be able to provide.Garnering input from students can enrich the
the University of Texas at Austin for her Ph.D. work in Higher Educational Administration; Northern Arizona University for her M.A. in Curriculum and Assessment and Arizona State University for her B.A. in Secondary Education: Communications.Alan Jacobs, Quanser As a member of ASEE since 1994, Alan Jacobs has served the Society in numerous leadership roles. He founded the ASEE Corporate Member Council (CMC) Special Interest Group on International Engineer- ing Education and currently serves as co-chair of that SIG. Alan is presently serving his second terms on the ASEE CMC Executive Committee and the ASEE Projects Board. He also serves on the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education Advisory Board and was a
/selected and analyzed by the team members. The nextparagraphs describe the principle support frame details.Figure 1 also showed a component design example of Front Framing Support in the steeringsystem. The front framing support was designed in an effort to create maximum rigidity for theforces incurred by spring and turning functions. There were three areas of concern that couldpotentially affect the integrity of the member. The first one was the compressive force of thespring acting upwards on the center of the support. The second area of concern was due to lateralforces that may be put on the support due to turning or any shift from side to side that is mayencounter. The last area of concern was stresses that may be formed from impacts caused
bachelor studies such different subjects as Ultrasonic, Electromagnetic, Optical,Thermal, and other Methods of Testing during four years. In order to form necessary systemof knowledge and skills (see Fig. 2), connect fundamental and applied knowledge, we bringinto the curriculum a series of integrated subjects (see Appendix A). For example, they areNDT Systems, Microcontrollers in NDT Systems, Scanner Designing for NDT Systems, andothers. The content of these subjects helps students to find common features of the differenttesting methods compare and determine preference and disadvantage each of them, and findthe most appropriate field for application.In order to form students’ creative thinking we apply following system. The first-yearstudents get
paradigm of engineering curriculum towards a more well-roundededucation. The commonality among these three documents is improving students’ problemsolving techniques. The future will inevitably bring unanticipated crises; engineers will need toidentify the problems and collaboratively formulate innovative, feasible solutions. This researchhypothesizes that service-learning can serve as a mechanism that will allow students to developthe necessary problem solving skills. To investigate this hypothesis, an education assessmentinstrument is employed to examine whether students who have participated in service-learningprojects have stronger analytical, practical, and creative abilities than students who have onlybeen exposed to the conventional
Capstone Design Manual. A tentative table of contents is as follows:0. Introduction to the Manual: An ASEE 2004 National Conference paper, describing the effortof internationalizing the capstone design course.*1. Introduction to Capstone Design: This lecture describes the conceptual difference betweendesign analysis and synthesis, the process approach and system integration approach to teachingand learning mechanical design, and the expectation and outcome of the course.2. Design team organization and dynamics: Design team can be organized by personality andtemperament, or by random drawing. Team members play different roles in a synergetic way toproduce the successful design.*3. Collecting information for design and protecting intellectual
eligible for an EngineeringPathways Fellowship.To retain the Fellowship from year to year, students had to have high academic standards,actively participate in program, and make clear progress towards a degree in engineering.Students were required to maintain a college average GPA of ≥2.7, and complete courses fortheir major consistent with the standard curriculum. Students who failed to meet these criteriawould be given an additional semester of aid on a provisional basis. In these cases, intensivecounseling would be provided. Active participation in program events was critical to generalsuccess of the program. In cases where students did not actively participate in at least 75% ofscheduled activities, they were counseled that they were