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International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akbar Eslami, Elizabeth City State University; Mehran Elahi, Elizabeth City State University

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Tech. His research interests are in Composite materials and control. Page 11.360.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Conversion of an Obsolete Manually Operated Universal Testing Machine into a Hydraulic Hot-Press with Communications CapabilityIntroductionThe improvement of outdated laboratory equipment is a useful and often overlooked resourcethat has several advantages. One obvious advantage is that it saves money by adding newcapability and reducing capital expense for newer equipment. Another advantage is the honing ofskills by the people who make the improvements. Yet a third

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International Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott I. Segalewitz, University of Dayton

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students, 68 full-timefaculty, and over 100,000sf of laboratory space. The School has undergraduate programs inChemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Technology (electronic &Computer, Global Manufacturing Systems, Industrial, and Mechanical), and graduateengineering programs in Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Materials, and MechanicalEngineering as well as graduate programs in Electro-Optics, Engineering Management, andManagement Science.The University of Dayton China InstituteThe University of Dayton China Institute was established in August, 2012 in Suzhou, China.During the first several months, UDCI worked to design

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Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work covers the topics of Optical Data Links, Integrated Circuit Technology, RF semiconductor components, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 12.1142.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mean-Shang Chen, Central Michigan University; Albert Peng, Central Michgian University; Yanjia Sun, Central Michigan University

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the same textbooks, standards,expectations, and grading policy as those regularly used at CMU. SIT and CMU facultymembers work together to provide laboratory and other assistance for courses.The SIT-CMU Joint Program is considered as a feeder program for CMU in the U.S. instead of aCMU branch campus in China1,2. All participating students are eligible to transfer to CMU ifthey have successfully completed the first two years at SIT and meet the minimum GPArequirement. However, most students have decided not to transfer due to a mismatch in theGeneral Education requirement of the two curricula. This issue of General Education must beworked out for the transfer process to be successful. As a result, most participating students willreceive a

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Engineering Education in Africa, Asia and the Mid-East Region

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Tim Katz, University of Brighton

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Polytechnic Institute was founded with the technical assistance from the USSR in1963. The Polytechnic had eleven degree awarding departments and the curriculum of allthe departments were developed using models from Polytechnics that existed in theUSSR at that time. Furthermore, the laboratory equipment to support the curriculum wasalso based on the technology in the USSR at the time. The curriculum was developedover three decades ago and has not been updated in the light of new technologicaldevelopment around the world.Since then, the beautiful campus of KPU has reverted to a wilderness and the buildingshave been severely damaged due to neglect and war damage. Furthermore, some of theacademics have been killed or forced to leave the country and those

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xia Wang, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Michael A. Latcha, Oakland University; Li Jia, Beijing Jiaotong University; Zhuqian Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University

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project related and the other was lifeexperience in China.Other activities were also arranged to improve students’ understanding of fuel cell technologyand enhance their research ability. These activities include:1) Visited Green Energy Company in Beijing: This is one of the largest fuel cell manufacturers inChina.2) Visited Research Laboratories at University of Science and Technology Beijing and ShanghaiJiaotong University3) Gave a seminar on life in US universities at Beijing Aeronautic and Astronautic University.4) Presented in conference and research symposium in China: Two IRES participants presentedtheir findings in two different events: one is the Competition for Research Presentation by YoungInvestigators at North China Electric Power

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Innovative Learning, Comparative Learning Analysis, and Lessons Learned

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz, University of Hartford; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford; Azizurahman Azimi, Herat University

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joint projects at this time.With the establishment of the campus wide fiber optic program funded by NATO NIG programat Herat University in the near future, such joint projects will be undertaken.Computers have been placed in the library for access to digital library resources such asengineering and academic research databases through the e-Quality alliance (funded by USAID).This resource is available at this time on a limited basis and once the fiber optics network isoperational, they will be used more widely by students and faculty.Laboratory facilities at HU include: • Soil laboratory • Asphalt laboratory • Concrete and metals laboratory • Surveying laboratory • Hydraulics laboratory • Computer laboratoriesUH assisted HU in

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz, University of Hartford; MirGhulam BarizHosaini, Herat University in Western Afghanistan; Alnajjar Hisham, University of Hartford

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Hartford, Connecticut, USA,and Herat University (HU) in Herat City, Afghanistan was initiated in August 2007 to developand implement a modern program to strengthen and modernize engineering education at HU.The program includes a number of activities such as curriculum review and revision, facultydevelopment, and laboratory upgrading.Under the partnership, junior HU faculty members, who currently have only a bachelor’s degree,applied to enroll in the master’s degree program at the UH and are working toward obtainingtheir master’s degree. Earning this graduate degree will enable Herat faculty to be better teachersas well as better prepared to implement curriculum revisions. More qualified faculty also willattract better students and will provide the

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Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Esmaeily, Kansas State University; Anil Pahwa, Kansas State University; J Thompson, Kansas State University; Donald Watts, Kansas State University

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Kabul wherethe curriculum included engineering, geology, mineral, oil and gas exploitation, roads andindustrial construction, hydroelectric networks and city planning. Later, Balkh University (1986),Herat University (1988), and Kandahar University (1991) were established. In the mid-1990s,institutions were opened in Baghlan, Takhar and Bamiyan. Most higher education institutionswere still functioning in 1996, albeit in severely damaged physical facilities, with next to notextbooks, libraries or laboratories, and hampered by under-qualified staff. The Taliban excludedwomen from universities in areas under their control6.Due to the lack of technical facilities in the country, the development of Technical VocationalEducation was slow compared to

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International Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow

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for their equivalent degree programs where theprogramme aims are equivalent to program educational objectives (equivalent to ABET Criterion2) and the intended learning outcomes are similar to student outcomes (equivalent to ABETCriterion 3)6.There are several major differences in the courses required for graduation at the University of Page 26.153.3Glasgow and other universities in the United Kingdom as compared to in the United States. First,there are no required liberal arts courses. Lectures may touch on issues related to proper formatsand writing styles for laboratory report and technical paper, examples of such documents maybe

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International STEM Education: International Division Technical Session 6

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University

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local towns people (students) attend the school where on the weekends he sends trucks into themountains to pick up students who have no or little access to education so they can attend school.The school taught basic subject material but lacked skilled trades training.This was an eye-opening moment for what opportunities will these students have to live and thrivein the year 2030 and beyond. Armed with this information SKY ventured out to make a differencein the training needs of the kids in this community. SKY launched a project that would convertand recycle shipping containers into skilled trades laboratories (Figure 1). Recruiting threeAlabama schools, SKY committed to supplying the community of Belfate, Honduras with fourcontainer classrooms

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Hamidullah Waizy, Kabul Polytechnic University

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constraints and administrative procedures, the updated curricula areyet to be implemented. GIZ also helped to provide relatively comprehensive lab facilities andequipment in the past one and a half years for the faculty of Geology and Mines though againdue to some security challenges and constraints, summarized below, we are still waiting for theinstallation and inauguration of this laboratory.Moreover, some other MoUs helped KPU to equip the laboratory of other engineering faculties.For example the KPU and Slovak University of Technology MoU resulted in the equipping andmodernised the laboratory of the faculty of Chemical Engineering in KPU. Beside these,laboratories in different disciplines, e.g. department of Organic Substances Technology

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Martina Trucco, Hewlett-Packard; Rich Friedrich, Hewlett Packard

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AC 2010-2419: DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF TECHNOLOGYLEADERS IN CHALLENGING TIMES: THE US NSF-ASEE INDUSTRYRESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAMLueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Lueny Morell, M.S., P.E., is Program Manager in the Strategy and Innovation Office staff of Hewlett Packard Laboratories (HPL) in Palo Alto, California. She is responsible for facilitating external research collaborations for HPL and lead initiatives focused on R&D talent development, collaborating with external partners (government entities and other corporate labs) to pursue strategies and initiatives of benefit to the research community. In the past, she was in charge of developing engineering/science curriculum innovation

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Engineering Education in Africa, Asia and the Mid-East Region

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Nyarsuk, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College

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students with GPA of 3.83.Admission RequirementsAdmission at UF is based on the student’s high school GPA, Scholastic Aptitude Test 1 (SAT1) and the American Collegiate Test (ACT). International students are required to have a highschool degree in an English speaking country or provide TOEFL results4.The minimum requirements for qualification into the program are5: 1. Graduation from a regionally accredited or state-approved secondary school or the equivalent General Education Degree (G.E.D.). 2. Fifteen academic units, including 4 years of English, 3 years of math, 3 years of natural sciences (two with laboratories), 3 years of social sciences, and 2 sequential years of a foreign language. 3. A cumulative C average in the

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International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wenlung Li, National Taipei University of Technology; Jhy-Cherng Tsai, National Chung-Hsing University, TAIWAN; Wei-Chung Wang, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Cheng-Kuo Sung, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Jennie Wu, Ministry of Education, TAIWAN

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the most important, comprehensive andfundamental technologies for industries. Major achievements of the program includeestablishment of the expertise laboratories, the educational resource integration and outcomessharing, the e-education, the hands-on project competitions and the community service. Inaddition, the program also encourages the communities to organize the academy-industryalliances (AIA). During year 2001 to 2004, ten educational alliances, directed by the educationalresource centers (ERC), were formed in the past four years with more than 78 academic and 25industrial partners participated. Moreover, about 54 expertise laboratories are establishedtogether with accompanying courses and lecture materials. The outcomes and

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International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vasili Zhurakovskiy, Russian Association of Engineering Universities; Aleksey Nesterov, Russian Association of Engineering Universities

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300universities will participate in the 2nd stage of competition in March 2007 and not less than40 universities will be selected out of the competitors to receive the governmental support fortheir innovative programs.Possibilities provided to participating universitiesUniversities may use the grant funds in accordance with the tasks they have to resolve, but inaverage 65-75% of the funding is used to purchase the most modern laboratory equipmentand computer technique, 20-25% is used to obtain or work out special software and methodicprovision and 5-10% is used for raising of the faculty skill level, including support ofinternational mobility.Improvement of methodological, material and staff potential is used by universities to resolvea complex of

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Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila D. Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Daniel Hirleman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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optimization. He worked as a production control engineer in Taiwan, and has taught laboratory classes in manufacturing engineering and freshmen engi- neering in the U.S. He earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Industrial Engineering from National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and Purdue University (U.S.A). His ultimate career goal is to help cul- tivate world-class engineering graduates that can compete globally, as well as collaborate with the best engineers across different cultures.Ms. Juila D Thompson, Purdue University, West LafayetteYi Shen, Purdue University Yi Shen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Studies from the University of

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International Engineering Education Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Junyi Ying, Shanghai Guanghua College (High School); Cyrus Safai, Salt Lake Community College; Junior Onyeagba, University of Utah; Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community College; David Richardson, Salt Lake Community College; Peter Joseph Iles, Salt Lake Community College; Rajan P. Kochambilli, Salt Lake Community College

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. Food and its availability is of major concern in various regions of the world,especially in the underdeveloped communities. Furthermore if the water is used downstream forfarming, there might be additional concerns. This also impacts the quality and life of aquaticcreatures (especially fish) and wildlife. The water samples are taken at various locations of theriver. They are then shipped to the college in the USA. The laboratory experiments are performedto analyze each sample at this college. The laboratory results are analyzed and conclusions aredrawn based on the data from the lab experiments.Introduction:Five total sites were considered, three sets of samples were obtained from the Shanghai tributaryof the Yangtze River from each of the

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Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Gash, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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including Iraq and Afghanistan. During the summer of 2007 he served as a member of the implementation team at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan.Christopher Conley, United States Military Academy Chris Conley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. He earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (1978), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (1980, 1983). He has served as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Case Studies and Engineering Education Around the Globe / International Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anatoliy Protasov, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”

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professional skills. Page 14.1245.7It is known that any system of education consists of two aspects connected to each other:theoretical lectures and practical training. Future engineers use laboratory equipment for theirtraining. That is why our system of creative thinking forming combines student operation onreal devices with computer simulation. This principle is a base of student laboratory trainingfor following subjects: Electronics, Microprocessors, and Signal Processing. Working withsystem “device- computer”, students have possibility not only to see confirmation of knownlaws and rules, but to implement research their models, change parameters, and

Conference Session

Technical Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Maria Diakoumi MEng, Ph.D, FHEA, CEng MCIHT, University of Brighton; Hamidullah Waizy

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education in AfghanistanModern education in Afghanistan has started at a very slow pace in early 1900s. However,the development of education in the country has made significant progress between 1960sand 1970s [1]. Understandably, the quality of education in SET subjects has not been verystrong due to the lack of suitably qualified academics and sufficient learning resources suchas laboratories, libraries and relevant industries. The establishment of SET education atuniversity level in the country was initially facilitated by foreign nations such as USA,Germany and then the former USSR. For instance, USA and Germany provided assistance tothe faculties of Engineering and Science at Kabul University while the Afghan governmentestablished Kabul

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Direk Lavansiri, Chulalongkorn University; Boonchai Sowanwanichakul, Chulalongkorn University; Manoj Lohatepanont, Chulalongkorn University

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is, the degreesoffered by Thai Cyber University will be students’s second (or later) degrees. The program isdesigned in this fashion in recognition of our inability to provide fundamental laboratory courses,such as Physics or Chemistry. Students will have had taken these classes in conventional system Page 11.526.9prior to enrolling with Thai Cyber University.The learning in the program will be monitored through a learning management system to ensurequality of the education. Group discussions will be held through the internet webboard. Someprograms of study will employ local tutors, who can help students and act as contact pointsbetween

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Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

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communication technologies to the delivery ofcourse content and materials. Engineering schools can develop synergistic and complementarypartnerships with engineering programs in developing countries. Three of their partnerships aredescribed below.In 2002 Purdue University, Kabul University, Kabul Polytechnic and Kabul EducationUniversity were awarded a grant to establish a rapid training program at the universities in Kabulin order to generate an immediate flow of skilled workers and trainers into Afghanistan’srebuilding effort, with a focus on agriculture, education, engineering, and technology. Thepartners targeted their efforts on training in the use of distance learning (DL), and establishingfour DL laboratories at three universities in Kabul. Four

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Implementing Transfer, Exchange, Research Programs and Professional Development; in Asia and Far East

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott I. Segalewitz, University of Dayton

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7000m2 (75,000sf) of laboratory space.The University of Dayton (UD) 3 was founded by the Society of Mary (the Marianists) in 1850.It has evolved from a boarding school for boys into a top-tier national, private university and oneof the 10 best Catholic universities in the nation. The University of Dayton has over 7300 full-time undergraduate students, over 3000 graduate students, and 508 full-time faculty.The University of Dayton School of Engineering has 1827 undergraduate students, 68 full-timefaculty, and over 100,000sf of laboratory space. The School has undergraduate programs inChemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Technology

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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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Ulas Toros, University of Florida; George Younis, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

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high school Grade Point Average (GPA), ScholasticAptitude Test 1 (SAT 1) and the American Collegiate Test (ACT). International students arerequired to have either been educated in an English speaking country or provide results ofTOEFL test.The minimum requirements for qualification into the program are2: • Graduation from a regionally accredited or state-approved secondary school or the equivalent (G.E.D., etc.). • Fifteen academic units, including 4 years of English, 3 years of math, 3 years of natural sciences (two with laboratories), 3 years of social sciences, and 2 sequential years of a foreign language. • A cumulative C average in the academic core, as computed by the university, at all institutions

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Cooperative and Project-based Global Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David W. Gatchell Ph.D., Northwestern University; Akinniyi Adediran Osuntoki Ph.D., University of Lagos; Akinwale Oladotun Coker P.E., University of Ibadan; Matthew R. Glucksberg, Northwestern University; Tania Douglas, University of Cape Town; Kara M. Palamountain

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Development Project, Water Sanitation and Hygiene Project(WASH) as well as internationally-funded projects such as those of UNICEF, UNDP, UK Aid, US National Institutes of Health, WHO, World Bank etc. Professor Coker has presented papers in many international conferences in Africa, America, Asia and Europe since 1995 till date.Dr. Matthew R. Glucksberg, Northwestern University Matthew R. Glucksberg is a professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. His tech- nical expertise is in tissue mechanics, microcirculation, and optical instrumentation. His laboratory has developed image-based instrumentation to measure pressure and flow in the circulation of the eye, in- struments to measure the response of

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International Division Technical Session 7

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Gopalkrishna H. Joshi, KLE Technological University; Ashok S. Shettar, KLE Technological University

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. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2015..12. Brogan DS, McDonald WM, Lohani VK, and Dymond RL, 2016. Development and Classroom Implementation of an Environmental Data Creation and Sharing Tool. Advances in Engineering Education, In Press.13. McDonald WM, Brogan DS, Lohani VK, and Dymond RL, 2015. Assessing Cognitive Development and Motivation with the Online Watershed Learning System (OWLS). ASEE 122nd Annual Conference & Exposition, June 14 – 17, 2015, Seattle, WA.14. Ma J and Nickerson JV, 2006. Hands-on, simulated, and remote laboratories: A comparative literature review. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 38(3), 7. doi:10.1145/1132960.1132961.15. Balamuralithara B and Woods PC, 2009. Virtual laboratories in

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INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Ruth Rodríguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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ahigher level of learning than that of students in traditional classes. Meyers and Jones2 argued thatactive learning encourages students to participate in activities that promote cognitive Page 23.133.2modification or acquisition of knowledge. This paper presents a classroom in which learning isactive every day, technology is used in the service of teaching, and the teacher is a guide thatfacilitates student learning. Figure 1. The ACE classroom combines research, curricular design, teaching strategies and laboratory in the same environment.The design of the ACE classroom is based on research initiated by Robert

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International Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Zheping Xie, Tsinghua University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University; Fujun Jin

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1938, when the Japanesearmy occupied Tsinghua campus, EAA faculty and students retreated with the entire university tosouthwest China (Kunming), yet most of the laboratory equipment was left behind. When theDepartment of EEA returned to Tsinghua campus in 1946, the Electrical Engineering Buildingremained intact, yet no laboratory equipment was preserved.An option in Aeronautical Engineering was started by Professors S.C. Wang and K.L. Feng, whilethe origin of aeronautical engineering can be traced to Theodore von Kármán’s first visit toTsinghua in 1929, during which he made an unsuccessful pitch of the importance of aviationengineering to Tsinghua leadership. In 1932, aeronautical engineering was introduced to TsinghuaUniversity as a part of

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International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Borrelli, McMaster University; Susan Masten, McMaster University

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chemistry, physics, and math courses use a traditional model of professor-ledlecture-based courses, the three engineering courses take a different approach where the majorityof classroom time is spent in undergraduate student-led tutorials and laboratories. In theEngineering Computing and Professionalism and Ethics courses, students spend one hour perweek in professor-led lectures. In Engineering Graphics, each week the students attend twohours of lectures taught by a professor. In Engineering Computing and Engineering Graphics,students spend five hours per week actively engaged in tutorials (i.e., recitations) andlaboratories. In Engineering Professionalism and Ethics, active learning principles are used inthe two-hour tutorials that the students