worked for nine years in the manufacturing and service industry as an Industrial Engineer prior to her academic career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding competencies transfer during internships in undergraduate industrial engineering students: a case study at the [blinded]IntroductionDespite engineering programs designing curriculum with the goal of preparing students forindustry demands, there is still a disconnection between industry expectations of the workforceand the preparation of engineering graduates [1-3]. One way to prepare engineering students tomeet industry expectations is by involving them in real world experiences where they cantransfer some of the knowledge
helped students explore what it might be like to work on aglobal engineering team. Students were placed in small groups, and each person was assigned acountry from a different region of the world (e.g., one team had members assigned Egypt, SouthKorea, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and Indonesia). The students assumed therole of managers of an international team of engineers from their assigned countries and had todetermine how to lead the team effectively. In the first part of the project, each group identifiedquestions they could ask to learn about the cultural and business practices in their countries.Each student then located and communicated with an engineer from their assigned country todiscuss those questions. Students wrote
backgrounds. It is hoped that these students will then rise to the highesteducational standards, pursue studies and careers in mathematics, science, and engineering fields, andmake a difference in the world by creating opportunities to further advance science and technology intheir countries and communities and to promote sustainable development.This collaboration initiated in 2009, following a request from the Director of COSOLA. In the summer of2009, two members of the faculty of TEE, Dr. Ron Terry and Dr. Steve Shumway, visited the DR andspent three days training the teachers and observing the conditions. They presented several classes intechnology and engineering to teachers and students. Despite language limitations, their work
experiences can meaningfully influence students’ globalcompetence [5], but few studies have explored how components of the experience may influencelearning. This study compares two NSF-sponsored international research experiences forstudents (IRES) programs that send students to two different countries to identify differences inlearning outcomes between the program participants. This work represents a collaborative effortamong faculty members and graduate students from three engineering departments with the goalof creating research opportunities for students at various international sites using research-basededucational practices. By understanding how context influences students’ learning opportunities,faculty developing such programs may select
require students toconsider multiple factors and to integrate information from various sources. Thus, cases, invarious forms, are one solution to the widening discrepancy between traditional classroomteaching and what really takes place in the real world (9). They give students experience withsituations and challenges they do not usually come across during traditional classroom activities.In any of their form, thoughtfully planned and well prepared cases provide: • Relevance. Cases depict real situations at a particular location and point in time. As such, they provide an insight into the decision-making process. Students see the relevance of the case to their future careers. • Motivation. Cases can provide incentives for
AC 2009-1282: INTERNATIONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN CHINA FORENGINEERING STUDENTS AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITYXia Wang, Oakland University XIA WANG (wang@oakland.edu) is an assistant professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with an emphasis on fuel cell technology. She is the faculty coordinator of the 2008 OU SECS trip to China.Gary Barber, Oakland University GARY BARBER (barber@oakland.edu) is the chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Oakland University. His research and teaching interests lie in the area of tribology. He is the co-faculty coordinator of the
regarding the significant difference in tuition fees between US andEuropean private universities. A modest beginning or pilot program, however, would most likelyserve as an appropriate first step.Students have expressed a desire for a choice of at least two possible faculty-led study abroadprograms. Indeed, two smaller groups would probably be a better experience for Americanstudents abroad. In this regard, Lafayette College is continuing to explore possibilities foralternate study abroad sites. As mentioned earlier in this paper, this is not a problem that is easilysolved. In addition, the desire on the part of Lafayette would be to offer choices that wouldenroll a roughly equal numbers of students. An effort is underway to diversify the
. Under the supervision of three BYU faculty members, theuniversity students developed the curriculum during spring term and then presented the materialduring summer term. The Dominican Republic students were assessed as to their learning andsatisfaction with the instruction. The university students were assessed as to the effect that thestudy abroad had on their teacher development.This paper contains a report of the curriculum development, the study abroad activities, and asummary of the assessment results of both the Dominican Republic and BYU students.Curriculum DevelopmentOverview. From the university perspective, the major purposes for initiating a study abroadopportunity for the BYU students was to provide pre-service teachers an
responsibilities include engagement of both students and faculty members at Purdue University to embrace global engineering mindsets and practice. During the first 2 years at Purdue University, she drove a 2X increase in the number of engineering major participating in both short-term and long-term overseas study. At her current position as the assistant director of the Purdue Office of Professional Program, Chang expands her expertise area to concentrate on developing global professional and research internships for students in the Engineering, Technology and Business disciplines. In 2010, she became the Program Director of International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE), a NSF funded program that sent 58 U.S
experiences to help their graduates excel in their future workenvironment” [1]. Despite this need, only few students are able to or willing to have a studyabroad experience. The 2013 Open Doors report from the Institute for International Educationshows that nationally only 3.9% of engineering students studied abroad during theirundergraduate career [2]. In addition, despite the growing awareness of the benefits of studyabroad by students, the challenges preventing students from studying abroad are numerous andcomplex [2]. According to the IIE Generation Study Abroad White Paper Series, the primarychallenges for many U.S. students can be grouped into to three overarching categories: cost,curriculum and culture [2] .This paper contributes to the body
Page 23.398.7intern, research, and teaching experiences and also prepares participants for these opportunitieswith courses in the language and culture of their host country. Currently, active programs existfor more than twenty countries, continents, or regions.The undergraduate students included in our study had an international experience in Spain,Israel, Chile, Korea, Mexico, China, Italy, or Germany. Although the faculty members often hadrepeated international experiences, indicative of well-established and/or higher levels of globalcompetence, many of the students had less extensive experiences ranging from one month to oneyear. However, gathering data from all three groups supported recommendations by developersof previous assessments of
campus.Education in an international institution, laboratory or industry, studying /working alongsideglobal teams of scientists, engineers, industrialists, fellow students, transforms “an engineer” into“a global engineer.”Through the years, students have voiced how international projects havedeveloped their global skill sets and how they “grew as engineers.” In Chile, a University ofIllinois Civil Engineering student as early as 1993 with team members from Centro de AsistenciaTecnica (CAT) made a trip to an open pit copper mine in Copiapo. He was working alongsideChileans pouring concrete cylinders and conducting slump tests and at the same timeexperiencing a joint venture between Bektel and the Chilean government. To him, it was a lessonin life that
Page 13.1265.3examines the academic and professional quality of faculty and support staff, adequacy oflaboratories, libraries, equipment and computer facilities, and the quality of the students’ work.A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the curriculum content is performed to ensure that itmeets the minimum criteria. Finally, the team reports its findings to the CEAB which then makesan accreditation decision. It may grant (or extend) accreditation of a program for a period of upto six years or it may deny accreditation altogether.Preparation for an accreditation visit centres on the completion of the questionnaire. Thequestionnaire serves as a means for collecting data on the institution and its engineeringprogram(s) and gives the
memberships and interactions in social groups. 28, 29 Socialidentity forms as a process of self-categorization. 30 Through this process of categorization,individuals evaluate their readiness and fit to a group and assess the group’s openness to theirmembership. 31 In adopting the identity of a group, the individual’s personal identity recedes tothe background and identity as a member of the group takes over, including adopting the norms,beliefs, and values of the group. 31 In the case of engineering students, the process of adoptingthe identity of an engineer is under development and thus affected by students’ experiences(curricular and co-curricular, formal and informal) and their perceptions of those experiences.Social identity can be defined as
Coordinator for the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab in the De- partment of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Johnny is also a Graduate/Teaching Assistant to the Grad School Certificate Program - Preparing the Future Professoriate. He has a Master in Educational Foundations and Management and a Bachelor in Sociology. His research interests include STEM edu- cation (policy and foreign-born students and workforce), migration and immigration issues in education; international higher education/international students; and quality assurance in higher education.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor in
”, “care” and “knowledge of subject matter” show up almost on everyone’slist of the qualities of a good teacher; but it is becoming increasingly clear that effective teachersdo possess some basic understanding of the learning process (i.e., they are able to make theconnections between what students already know and what we want them to learn).(11)In the Arab Gulf States, young faculty (recent graduates with PhDs) who decide to get intoteaching, and embark on it with hardly any prior preparation or training, except perhaps whenthey served as TA’s in a couple of classes (when they were graduate students), have faced somedisappointments. They have found themselves, often, unable to cope, and many have begun toview teaching as an unpleasant “chore
. Stephanie G. Adams is the Department Head and Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She previously served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Fac- ulty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She received her
summer internship. The course content wasdesigned to enhance the participating students’ awareness of global and societal issues impactingand impacted by engineering decisions. Since that time, the course has been delivered 12 moretimes by a total of 17 different faculty members to over 280 students with five different engineeringmajors who traveled to a total of 13 different countries.Bibliography1. Eydgahi, H. Y., “Higher Education: The Need for an International Education,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.2. Machotka, M., and Spodek, S. “Study Abroad: Preparing Engineering Students for Success in the Global Economy,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
students who are already in Russian and American institutions.Possibilities and requirements for the education of high school students who would soonbecome adults and employees are explored and it was found that the individuals with highintercultural sensitivity and comfortable in global interactions were in high demand in theinternational labor market and can succeed in any kind of global business 2. Social and cultural Intercultural personality National Identity competencesAdolescence is the most favorable period for the development of an intercultural personalityand the global mind-set for a multicultural environment. Defining the place in the society is avery important factor that indicates personality development: I
Page 22.1129.13faculty themselves experienced during their course of study.“I am also in a learning process in the MIT-Portugal Program, in this new engineering approach ofbringing together economic aspects, management, etc.”“Probably after they finished their curricular part, and I have no doubts, the students are better preparedfor issued of management than most of the teachers that are teaching them.”The findings underline that the program has a enormous impact on these junior faculty. Theyreport an observed “boost” in career opportunities, a drastic expansion of their scientificnetwork, and important new inputs in their research. Conversely, young faculty seem to be moreeager to explore and exploit the range of opportunities offered
important role. Severalstudents, particularly those who came to the university from out of state, reported that the offerof financial assistance swayed their decision to come to the university, and stated that they wouldprobably not be here otherwise. All of the students involved but one, who is now a Biologymajor, stayed within the College of Engineering (or in an engineering major housed in anothercollege) for the duration of their undergraduate careers. Students stated that by attending PreF(the first-year summer bridge), they became members of a strong-knit cohort consisting of thePathways fellows and other students. They felt that PreF and this community were major factorsin their retention in STEM majors and at the university. The Pathways
Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) Lab. In 2011 he founded Bhutanese-Nepali Christian Media Ministries, which utilizes online media to address needs in Christian ministries for people in these language groups. Prior to June 2010, he was a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire, where he earned his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering.Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K. Lohani is a Professor of Engineering Education and also serves as the faculty director of education and global initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is founding director of an interdisciplinary
get to know each other as well as the programfaculty who will be traveling and working with them in Italy. This course prepares students totake part in an integrated learning and living experience in Florence that is focused on thequestion of engineering leadership and problem solving in a global context. In addition toreceiving orientation to the specific engineering goals of the program, students explore andclarify broad academic and personal expectations and goals prior to departure. Program facultyand staff from UD’s Center for International Programs work with students towards:• knowing their fellow students, and creating an integrated learning and living community;• setting personal and collective goals that will be acted and
specifically civil engineersTwelve of the 17 students were engineering majors and nearly all students expressed a strongintent to pursue an engineering career after graduation (4.29 and 4.12 scores on pre- and post-surveys). Furthermore, a majority (9 of 17) students were Civil Engineering majors. This mayindicate that the course was perceived as a civil engineering course (perhaps based on the courseidentifier code: CEE 409, and the published syllabus). One non-civil engineering majorexpressed frustration with engineering content, “I understand it's an engineering class, but thelength of time spent at San Clemente and Baths of Caracalla talking about cracks in wall. I'm notan engineer so I'll need to get over it.” However, comments from the non
- nois. She completed her undergraduate degree in General Engineering at Illinois with a concentration in Sustainable Development. Keilin is interested in international experiences in engineering and how to better integrate project-based learning into the engineering classroom.Dr. Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Russell Korte is an Assistant Professor in Human Resource Development and a Fellow with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research investigates how engineering students navigate their educational experiences and how engineer- ing graduates transition into the workplace. He is especially interested in the
Development and Applied Economics (CDAE). As a department, commitment totransdisciplinary research has been an institutional goal and has been explored in both domesticand international settings in which faculty in the department have been involved5. A secondelement within the department has been a common interest among faculty to community-basedaction research. Community-based research is defined as “a partnership between students,faculty, and community members who collaboratively engage in research with the purpose ofsolving a pressing community problem or effecting social change.”14 The challenges of actionresearch have been a driving factor encouraging faculty within the department to seek outpartnerships outside of their home disciplines. The
AGEP’s mission to increase the numbers of diverse faculty in STEM led to the intersected goal/challenge to Include Diverse Science and Engineering Faculty: The Multipliers. This provided an opportunity to intersect SDG 4: Quality Education, SDG 5: Gender Equity, GC1: Advance Personalized Learning, and GC 14: Engineers the Tools of Scientific Discovery. ● The LSAMP undergraduate and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate programs goal/challenge to Engage Students in SPEED’s International Team Projects led to immersion experiences in different countries and interaction with the international Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED). The students worked on projects that tackled clean water in
, limitations in language were mitigatedby creating project groups with students from both institutions, from multidisciplinarybackgrounds, and from undergraduate and graduate students, where the groups could leveragethe strengths of their respective group members.Starting Early on ProjectsTraditionally, studying abroad is seen as an option explored by students in the arts andhumanities and oftentimes, studies abroad offices may not be prepared for programs that takeengineering students abroad 4. Therefore, it is imperative to start early on the project, so that anychallenges faced due to the lack of engineering study abroad programs can be met on time.Furthermore, “engineering programs often do not have advisors who are knowledgeable aboutstudy abroad
, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and IWCMC.Dr. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University Abd-Elhamid M. Taha is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering At Alfaisal University. His research spans radio resource management, Internet of Things (IoT) services, and modeling in networked cyber-physical systems. Abd-Elhamid is a senior member of the IEEE, and a recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Early Career Researcher Award as well as several awards at Alfaisal University for distinction in teaching and research.Prof. Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Sunway University KoK-Lim Alvin Yau received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Petronas
supply thecomprehensive understanding swiftly transforming field demands. It is a full-time PhD programthat lasts two years, offering classes conducted on an undergraduate-type schedule.It has a curriculum that addresses the time-crunch problem by integrating professional practicesinto the technical curriculum — that is, professional practices are contextualized in engineeringin ways that reinforce and strengthen students’ understanding and their ability to apply thatunderstanding to address engineering problems. Throughout their graduate program, studentswork to master the engineering body of knowledge and simultaneously become skillfulcommunicators, ethical decision makers, team leaders, creative thinkers and problem solvers.Today, engineers