faculty leading the course. For example, in the most recentversion of the course taught in Norway and Sweden, the objectives were: 1. Develop an understanding of how sustainable engineering can be applied to solve modern problems related to energy supply, residential construction, and transportation. 2. Understand the limitations of technology and how today’s engineering solutions can become tomorrow’s societal problems; 3. Develop an historic perspective on the development of Scandinavia; 4. Understand how traditions, customs, and culture impact engineering projects; 5. Understand how projects in one country can be affected by policies, laws, and customs of other countries
project involving a decision-making/strategic performance problem (students had to identify dietary deficiencies of differentpeople and generate proposals for improving their health) was implemented.MethodologyThe course Introduction to Food Engineering is offered to students in their first semester of theFood Engineering Licenciatura (BS) at UDLAP. The studied course was conducted in twoweekly sessions of 75 minutes each during fall 2011 and 2012 semester in which eight (6women) and five students (4 women) were enrolled, respectively. One weekly session wasdedicated to reviewing theoretical basics of the discipline at introductory level, such as theconcepts of food quality, food safety, food spoilage and stability, food preservation, food
facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use
and partnerships.Mr. Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucat´an Ministry of Education Camara-Poot is Head of Planning and Strategic Projects at the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education, Government of the State of Yucat´an. For six years he has worked in the field of higher education, first with projects within universities, and then with the government, to develop programs and policies at the state level. He seeks to boost the development of human capital in the region and increase the knowledge of science and technology. He has been part of teams that are working on ways to increase opportunities for young Yucat´an and Mexican students to have international experiences, ranging from short stays to
example of such attempts is a research project in Finland which is “aimed at developing andimplementing a new structure for engineering education (EE) and for EE institutions.” 4 Indescribing the project. Lehto 4 says, The new EE model developed in Finland is based on the definition of the competence requirements for the modern engineer working in the global environment. These requirements can be summarized as the capability to do efficient engineering work (in a selected engineering field) by using modern concrete and abstract tools within the global economical, environmental, legal, and human constraints. This level of professional competence can only be achieved through a life-long process of learning and
materials that bring real-world issues into classrooms. He has won awards for research and teaching excellence from the Society for Information Management, NEEDS, Decision Sciences Institute, American Society for Engineering Education, American Society for Mechanical Engineering, International Network for Engineering Education & Research, and the Project Management Institute. He is the editor-in-chief of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and the managing editor of the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research. He can be contacted at sankacs@auburn.edu. Page 22.833.1
Geneva, working on the West Area Neutrino Facility and North Area 48. Since then Jo˜ao has held several positions in teaching and management in higher ed- ucation at institutions across the UK, Middle East, Africa and Asia. At Leeds Becket University, Jo˜ao specialised in teaching Mobile and Fixed Networking Technologies and introduced compendium-based teaching practices and led the design and implementation of the first Mobile and Distributed Computer Networks postgraduate course in UK. Jo˜ao authored and managed a European Social Fund Project in Women in Engineering contributing to widening participation and inclusion of women engineers, developed and ran world-class innovative aca- demic practice methods in
parents.At the ASEE-2001 conference, many papers were presented on study abroad programs.Pathmomvanich and Najafi7 discussed the general benefits of such study abroad programs. Chenand Simmons8 in their paper discussed the issues concerning their proposed study abroadprogram between Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Alexandria University inEgypt. Their collaboration was funded by USAID. Upadhyaya and Kerlin9 described the cyber-linked collaboration in their senior course on Introduction to Maintenance Engineering with twouniversities abroad: one in France and the other in Brazil. A set of guidelines was developed inorder to successfully carry out the senior projects. Finally, they have discussed the challenges ofcyber-linked projects
founding editor of ASEE’s Advances in Engineering Education and served as a Senior Associate Editor and an Editorial Review Board member for the Journal of Engineering Education. He has been principle or co-principle investigator on over twenty-five sponsored research projects from the National Science Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), Health and Human Services and the Department of Transportation. He was the Academic Dean for the Spring 2002 “Semester at Sea” voyage and is an ASEE Fellow. Page 13.795.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008
accreditation process,3research on stakeholders within the engineering education system.42.1.2. Research on Policy of Quality AssuranceQuality Assurance in Engineering Education is a systematic project, which requires theengineering departments to develop active and effective policy to advance. In the UnitedStates, the vast majority of colleges and universities have formed quality assurance“pyramid” structure including university, college and department, developed mechanisms,systems and political initiatives of promoting the educational quality assurance at the level ofcollege and department. However, the policy-making space of quality assurance inengineering education at the level of college and department is not as big as the level ofuniversity
Louisiana State University. For the past seven years, she has directed a study abroad program specifically designed for engineering stu- dents. She received her bachelor’s degree in engineering technology and master’s degree in industrial engineering.Adrienne Steele, Louisiana State University Adrienne Steele has over 18 years experience in STEM education. Currently, Adrienne works at Louisiana State University, managing all aspects of the STEP project that consists of a large-scale peer mentoring program in the College of Engineering. Previously, she founded and coordinated the Scope-On-A-Rope Outreach Program (SOAR) in the Department of Biological Sciences, where she worked for 10 years. Prior to her positions at
M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Associate Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Ms. Mayra S. Artiles
inMechanical Engineering, the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, anda Global Engineering Cultures and Practice Learning Community for first-year students. Manyof these programs incorporate elements of a “wrap-around” approach to education abroad. Aspart of GEARE, for example, Purdue created 1-credit courses for before, during, and after travel.The reentry portion of this sequence, recently designed by Brent Jesiek, draws together studentsfrom GEARE, who have just returned from abroad, and other students pursuing the Minor inGlobal Engineering, who may have gone abroad a year or more before the course.15 This varietyof students made it difficult to emphasize the psychological exercises and support that helpstudents deal with the
this debate include the attractiveness of the career forprospective students, the retention of those students who enter the program, the diversity ofstudents in the program, and then the degree of fit between program outcomes and the needsof the workplace. Within this debate it is generally assumed that the curriculum is the arenain potential need of reform [3]–[5]. Curriculum reform deliberations tend to operate at arelatively high level, with a central tension between “theory” (engineering and basic sciencecontent) and “practice” (professional skills, often in project type context) [6].A relatively recent focus for global curriculum discussions has been the spread of outcomes-based criteria for accreditation through the mechanism of the
Head of the Accreditation Taskforce of LACCEI. She also represents the SINAES in the technical committee for the development of procedures and criteria for the accreditation of Engineering degrees and has experience in researching on Accreditation for higher education in engineering degrees. She has also developed professional activities in project management for environmental and renewable energy sources projects, and she participated in implementation processes for system integration (quality, environment and occupational risks).Jaime Salazar Contreras, Ibero-American Association of Engineering Education (ASIBEI) Jaime Salazar Contreras is Executive Secretary of ASIBEI (the
Soil Mechanics III 3 Comp App of Civil Engg 1 Semester 9 General CE Elective*: Project All Track Courses 15 Construction Engineering 3 Irrigation & Drainage 3 Design of Structures 4 Foundation Engineering 3 Elective Course I 3
developing countries to engage effectively in the global economy; direct foreign investment, international trade, mobility of engineers, and the flow of work to countries with cost effective talent will result. • Indigenous science and technology capacity is needed to insure that international aid funds are utilized effectively and efficiently – for initial project implementation, for long-term operation and maintenance, and for the development of capacity to do future projects. And a sufficient pool of engineers can enable a developing country to address the UN’s Millennium Development Goals effectively, including poverty reduction, safe water and sanitation, etc
Leadership within the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University (BYU). The center provides oversight for leadership development and inter- national activities within the college and he works actively with students, faculty and staff to promote and develop increased capabilities in global agility and leadership. His research and teaching interests in- clude developing global agility, globalization, leadership, project management, ethics, and manufacturing processes. Gregg has lived in numerous locations within the USA and Europe and has worked in many places including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Prior to joining BYU, Gregg worked for Becton Dickinson, a
summer courses; increasingknowledge of others cultures through exchange programs, lectures, special lectures and othermulti-cultural activities.The Universidad del Norte has a special interest in achieving international accreditation2 withone of the agencies of the US. For this reason it has advanced the respective contacts and theinternal preparation. Particularly in the Engineering College, the strategy of internationalizationgoes back to 1993, when seeking to have international projection, the college looked for theABET accreditation (Substantially equivalent that was offered to the programs of engineeringout of the US) which was achieved in 1996, and it was renewed in 1999. Unfortunately, thetravel warning for Colombia mentioned by the
second model consists of all of the topics covered by a single professor who is expert in theprime technology and has limited knowledge of the enabling topics. This situation is not optimal Page 12.1443.3as it is very rare to have a single person who is well versed in all of the necessary topics. Often,the result is incomplete information and training being passed on to the student.The INTEnD ModelThe INTEnD model integrates knowledge from the enabling disciplines into the key discipline.This integration of courses can be local or distance/virtual. We utilize industry-drivencollaborative projects to provide the focus of learning.The core discipline
AC 2010-388: STUDY ABROAD TO SEE THE WORLD AND BECOME A BETTERENGINEERKimberly Talley, Datum Engineers, Inc. KIMBERLY G. TALLEY, Ph.D. is a Graduate Engineer at Datum Engineers, Inc. where she works on new building design and historic preservation projects. She earned her Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Texas at Austin where her research focus was on the assessment and rehabilitation of deteriorated concrete. She received two B.S. degrees from North Carolina State University and her M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin. Contact: kimt@datumengineers.comCatherine Hovell, University of Texas, Austin CATHERINE G. HOVELL is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her
life? Forsome it is the internship that will provide the student the taste of what is to be an engineer. InCivil Engineer, the best way is also the internship at the building site if the choice of the student Page 12.954.8is to make constructions. The building site is the place where the student will get in touch withthe worker who will make the hard work. It is when the future engineer has the impact ofdifferent cultures in the working environment. It is may be one of the most valuable experiencefor those that will be involved in projects of building house, buildings, bridges or power plants. Itcan provide the students the dimension of
from Virginia Tech is serving as the principal ethnographer forthe initiative. The project has received IRB approval.Conference ScheduleThe past and future international engineering education meetings in which sessions have beenheld or are planned, including the session chairs and speakers, are the following.1 _ 1st SEFI-IGIP 4 Joint Annual Conference, 1-4 July 2007, Miskolc, Hungary Session Chairs: Jack R. Lohmann, Editor, JEE; Jean Michel, Editor, EJEE Speakers: Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech, USA; Erik de Graaff, Delft University of Tech- nology, The Netherlands; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University, USA; Anette Kolmos, Aalborg University, Denmark2 _ 6th Global Colloquium on Engineering Education 5 , 1-4 October 2007
URI case, the NSF is supportingeducational and research initiatives in collaboration with URI’s partners in Germany. Buildingon the existing relationship with the Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU-BS) in the areaof microfluidic technology and its Dual Degree Master’s Program, this new project will developresearch opportunities from the undergraduate through the graduate level, culminating in aproposed new Dual Degree Doctorate Program.The NSF funding will support several graduate students in the coming five years, all of whomwill be spending part of their programs in Braunschweig. The project’s technical goals arefocused on two applications: 1. The design of a system to detect the early response to pathogeninfection using a microfluidic
of Reservoir Engineering; Responsible of con-ducting research for reservoir engineering projects, multiphase flow, well testing, in situ stress measure-ments, SCA, hydraulic fracturing and other assigned research programs. In addition, as a group directorhave been responsible for all management and administrative duties, budgeting, and marketing of theservices, codes and products.Standard oil Co. (Sohio Petroleum Company), San Francisco, California, 1983-85; Senior ReservoirEngineer; Performed various tasks related to Lisburne reservoir project; reservoir simulation (3 phaseflow), budgeting, proposal review and recommendation, fund authorizations (AFE) and supporting doc-uments, computer usage forecasting, equipment purchase/lease
becausethey value that life style and they fully understand climate change issues.Unfortunately, the U.S., as a whole, is not moving in the same directions as Germany. However,some cities in the U.S. are actively pursuing sustainable agendas. Portland, Oregon leads the listfor the most sustainable city in the U.S. with half of its energy coming from renewable sources[9]. Other U.S. cities are leading the way with large scale recycling and composting programs.San Francisco, eliminates 80% of the city’s waste through its recycling and composting program.In addition, the city has approximately 700 LEED-certified building projects [9]. In order to havea greater and long-lasting impact, sustainability issues need to be addressed at the national, state,and
. just communicate, just um, have a little bit problem.”Making Experiences of interactions and “In engineering especially, it is soFriends relationships with U.S students. hard to get close with people because you start talking to them and the subject just does not get any deeper.”Working in Academic experiences in “I was in high school we write ourTeams collaborating with U.S. peers in group paper by our own, and when I go here projects
Pennsylvania State University. He teaches traditional surveying and mapping courses as well as introductory and advanced courses in Geographic Information Systems, Photogrammtetry , and Remote Sensing His previous work experiences include surveying activities in Africa, England, South America and the Caribbean. He has also worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat of Great Britain, where he served as technical advisor to the government of the Commonwealth of Dominica on infrastructure development. He also consulted for the World Bank on various projects in Peru and Tanzania. Dr. Derby is an active member of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and since 2005 he has served on the
in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education. Page 24.572.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Experiences and perceptions of international and domestic students in the first two years of
about curricular and extracurricular practices that can enhanceengineering global preparedness. This paper provides an overview of the research endeavor thataddresses these two literature gaps.Study Objectives and HypothesesThis project is currently being conducted by a multidisciplinary team from four universities andhas four objectives: 1. Develop with experts an operational model of international experiences specific to engineering education; establish constructs of international education and learning outcomes, develop a framework, and match these constructs with appropriate assessment instruments. 2. Conduct a mixed-methods experiment among the four collaborating schools using a triangulation study employing two