Paper ID #7017Seven Years of Success in Implementation of a 3 + 1 Transfer Program in En-gineering Technology Between Universities in China and the Unites StatesProf. Scott I. Segalewitz, University of Dayton Scott Segalewitz, P.E. is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton (UD). He also serves as Director of Industrial and Technical Relations for the University of Dayton China Institute in Suzhou, China where he is responsible for establishing corporate training programs for US partner companies in the Suzhou Industrial Park, and for developing opportunities for UD students to
Paper ID #6175The Teaching and Evaluation of Technology and Engineering Concepts to Do-minican Junior High and High School StudentsDr. Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University Dr. Geoffrey A. Wright is an assistant Professor of Technology and Engineering Education in the College of Engineering at Brigham Young University.Prof. Ron Terry, Brigham Young University Ron is a Professor of Technology and Engineering Education at Brigham Young University. His scholar- ship centers on pedagogy, student learning, and engineering ethics and has presented/published numerous articles in engineering education.Dr. Steven L Shumway
Paper ID #5689Water Filters in Ghana: An Exploration of the Technology and Educationthat is Required for Sustainable Development at the Base of the EconomicPyramidDr. John Paul Farris, Grand Valley State University John Farris is currently a professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). He earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees at Lehigh University and his Doctorate at the University of Rhode Island. His professional experience includes designing engines for Caterpillar in Peoria and designing laparoscopic instruments for Portlyn Corporation in New Hampshire
2006-2396: EXCHANGE FACULTY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONALCOLLABORATIONSDonal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology Page 11.611.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Exchange Faculty Perspectives on International CollaborationsIntroductionThe College of Technology at Purdue University in the United States of America and the Facultyof Engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in Ireland have pioneered facultyexchange during 2005 as one important lynchpin of their overall collaborative programme. Theauthors, explicitly supported by their respective faculty and School/Department leadership teams
AC 2010-684: WHO WANTS TO STUDY ENGINEERING IN AUSTRALIA?MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF IDENTITY, ATTRACTIVENESS, AND OFMARKETING.Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology Page 15.1374.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 WHO WANTS TO STUDY ENGINEERING IN AUSTRALIA: MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF IDENTITY, ATTRACTIVENESS, AND OF MARKETINGAbstractThe reluctance of senior secondary students, and more importantly females, to chooseengineering as a preferred course of study in higher education combined with relatively highattrition rates in engineering schools at Australian universities can be traced to twofundamental sources. These relate to
Paper ID #5856Overview on the ”Tokyo Institute of Technology International Research Op-portunities Program (TiROP)” - Season One: 2012Prof. Jeffrey S. Cross, Tokyo Institute of Technology Jeffrey S. Cross received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in 1992. He has worked at a corporate research lab, government lab, and in academia for 20 years in or near Tokyo and speaks Japanese. He presently serves on numerous international program committees at Tokyo Institute of Technology involving student research exchanges and chairs the steering committee of the Asia Oceania Top University League on
and Comparative Studies at Michigan Technological University. His primary research interests are in Latin American Cultural Studies and the relations between science, technology, and literature. His teaching and research interests also include intercultural communication, linguistics, critical theory, and social philosophy.Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University Linda Phillips, P.E. is Lecturer of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University and Director of the International Senior Design program that allows undergraduates to combine the engineering capstone design course with field construction in a developing country. Ms. Phillips brings over 20
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Forming Collaborative Links between Turkey and US: International Workshop on Rapid TechnologiesAbstractAs part of a current NSF-CCLI (Course-Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement) grant project,an extra supplementary grant was given in late 2008 to organize an international workshop onRapid Technologies. This workshop was held in late September 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. Overseventy academicians and researchers got together and presented the current trends in rapidmanufacturing research, education and industry. In this two-day event, educational and technicalpapers were presented from American, European and Turkish scholars. Reflections of the firstand second day have been
initiatives worldwide in support of HPL research and technology areas and former director of HPL University Relations for Latin America and the Caribbean in charge of building research and education collaborations with universities throughout the region. Before joining HP, Lueny was full professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez (UPRM) where she held positions at the Campus and UPR system level, including director of Campus Research Center. Recipient of the 2006 US National Academy of Engineering Bernard M. Gordon award, her work in curriculum, research, accreditation and economic development activities has been published in more than 60 papers, book chapters
AC 2007-1579: PREPARING SWEDISH MECHATRONICS ENGINEERINGSTUDENTS FOR A GLOBAL INDUSTRYMartin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Page 12.1181.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Preparing Swedish Mechatronics Engineering Students for a Global IndustryAbstractThe subject of mechatronics is defined to be cross-disciplinary, based on the concept of synergyand synergistic use of knowledge and skills in underlying subjects. To master the subject means,according to the analysis in this article, to be skilled in applying the subject rather than havingvast knowledge. The mechatronics engineers therefore tend to work as an
Paper ID #25865Global Engineering and Language Attitudes in the U.S.: A QuandaryDr. Jorge Porcel, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. Jorge Porcel is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received his Masters and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (PA) in Hispanic Linguistics. Research interests: sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. Teachings interests: Spanish phonetics and phonology, Spanish Linguistics, and Hispanic culture and civilization. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Global
Paper ID #10082Creating an International Profile of a Degree Program in Mechanical Engi-neeringDr. Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Martin Edin Grimheden is an associate professor in Mechatronics at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and head of the Mechatronics and Embedded Control Systems Division. Martin Edin Grimheden is also Program Director of the KTH Degree Program in Mechanical Engineering. Page 24.331.1 c American Society for Engineering
2006-1290: QUASI INTERACTIVE VIDEO: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TOTHE DELIVERY OF LABORATORY CLASSESPeter Burton, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Peter C. M. Burton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT. He has also taught extensively and worked in the microelectronics industry in the United States. A background and strong interest in video production, coupled with an appreciation of difficulties faced by some first year tertiary students has been the impetus for this current work.Sanjay Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Sanjay Kumar is a Research Associate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His background is in
AC 2009-690: BAJA SAE COMPETITIONS: MEETING AND INTERACTINGWITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS – EXPERIENCES OF STUDENT ANDUNIVERSITY PARTICIPANTSDavid Hallbach, Rochester Institute of Technology David W. Hallbach, Rochester Institute of Technology David Hallbach is a Fifth year Mechanical Engineering Technology student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been an active member of the University's Baja SAE program, having held several leadership roles including team manager. He is currently working on several projects pertaining to manufacturing processes for which he is striving to obtain several patents. He is a recipient of the RIT Scholarship Award for his excellence in
AC 2007-2335: ACADEMIC CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN EUROPEKevin Kelly, Dublin Institute of TechnologyMichael Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology Dr Mike Murphy is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. Page 12.160.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Academic Change in Higher EducationAbstractThis paper analyses academic change in higher education internationally but mainlyin Europe. It examines one College in Ireland as it faces major change and examineswhether best practice change that has been successful elsewhere might be
Paper ID #24542SRobot ProjectMr. Phuong Ngoc Binh Do, Saigon Institute of Technology -I got my Bachelor Degree in Mecha-tronics from Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam. -I got my Master degree in Project Management (MBA) from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. -I got 1 year experience in the Semi-conductor industry (Design for Test). -I got 1 year experience in construction industry as project manager assistant. -I got 2 years experience in project management for CST industries (USA) (Steel industry) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Running head: SROBOT-STEM
AC 2009-218: CHANGING UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE; A CASE STUDY FROMIRELANDKevin Kelly, Dublin Institute of Technology Page 14.317.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Implementing Change in Universities in Europe; A Case Study from IrelandIntroductionThis paper sets out to examine aspects of research recently undertaken in a highereducation institute (HEI) in Ireland. The research examined how stakeholders at alllevels in an engineering college in this HEI thought it should change in a rapidly anddramatically changing external environment. It was an exploratory case studyundertaken over three years between 2006 – 2008. It used
AC 2009-57: IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTERNATIONALMULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONSORTIUMAurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University Dr. Aurenice Oliveira is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, since 2007. She received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, in 1995, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2005. Dr. Oliveira has taught several
AC 2008-432: ENGINEERING EDUCATION EXCELLENCE: START-UP TONUMBER ONERobert Creese, West Virginia University Robert C. Creese is Professor of Industrial Engineering in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He obtained his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University(1963), The University of California-Berkeley(1964), and The Pennsylvania State University(1972). He is a life member of ASEE, AACE-International and AFS as well as a member of ASM, AWS, AIST, ISPA, SCEA and SME.M. Adithan, Vellore Institue of Technology Dr. M. Adithan is Dean
Paper ID #25261Transversal Competency Level of Engineering Graduates Dictated by Euro-pean IndustryMariana Leandro Cruz, Delft University of Technology Mariana Leandro Cruz received the BSc and MSc degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the Instituto Superior T´ecnico, University of Lisbon. She is currently developing the PhD in engineering education at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in the Netherlands. Her research interests include engineering education, competencies, competency measurement, and course develop- ment.Dr. Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Delft University of Technology
AC 2011-194: THE PRACTICE AND THOUGHTS ABOUT ACCREDITA-TION OF MINERALS PROCESSING ENGINEERING PROGRAMYuemin Zhao, China University of Mining and TechnologyYOUJUN TAO, China University of Mining & Technology You-jun TAO , Ph.D., Professor. Head of department of mineral processing engineering. He now teaches at the School of chemical Engineering of China University of Mining and Technology, and he research on fine coal de-ash and desulfurization technology for many years. He gives lectures on ”Process Simulation and Optimization”, ”Database and Application”, ”Clean Coal Technology” and other undergraduate and graduate courses
activities in Europe, Asia and Africa. Dr. Friess’ research background includes laser diagnostics, composite materials and performance optimization, and he has been active as consultant and design engineer working on a variety of projects. Current research interests focus on engineering education, sports engineering and sustainability and energy efficiency.Dr. Muhieddin Amer, RIT-Dubai Dr. Amer is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1999. Before joining RIT, he worked for Nortel Networks in Dallas, where he held several technical leadership posi- tions in wireless network engineering
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 12.1143.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates
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 12.1144.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates
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 12.1145.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Panel Session – International Division “Educating Graduates
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
Paper ID #11381Cross-Cultural Communication Training for Future Engineers - a model de-veloped at the Kazan National Research Technological University to preparestudents for mobility programs and the global market placeDr. Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Kazan National Research Technological University Inna M. Gorodetskaya is associate professor at the Department of Engineering Education and Psychology of the Kazan National Research Technological University (Russia). She has PhD in Social Psychology and also works as a Head of minor degree program in Psychology at the university. Scientific interests: motivation, value system
2006-10: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN ENGINEERING DESIGNBETWEEN STUDENTS FROM JAPAN, SINGAPORE, AND UNITED STATESMasakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Education: 1969, Doctor of Engineering, Naval Architecture, Ozaka University. Professional experience: 1999-present, Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology. 1966-1999, Hitachi Zosen Corporation.Wayne Sanders, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology Education: 1975, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University. Professional Experience: 1980-present, Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. 1974-1980, Assistant Professor, Lamar University.Kazuya Takamata, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Education: 1998
Paper ID #24540The Impact of the EWB Design Summit on the Professional Social Responsi-bility Attitudes of ParticipantsDr. Scott Daniel, Swinburne University of Technology Dr Scott Daniel is a STEM education and international development specialist. A former high school mathematics and science teacher, he recently completed his PhD, and is now working as a Research Fellow in Engineering Education at the Engineering Practice Academy at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He has worked in 10 countries on 5 continents, and as a consultant and facilitator with UNESCO, Australian Volunteers International, Engineers
AC 2011-898: CURRICULUM GLOBALIZATION: INTERNATIONAL EX-CHANGES BETWEEN AMERICAN AND CHINESE UNIVERSITIESBob Lahidji, Eastern Michigan University Bob Lahidji Ph.D, is Professor and The Director of the School of Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan University. His primary interest and expertise are in the areas of manufacturing process and CNC/CAM. Dr. Lahidji has been involved with the auto industry manufacturing firms as a consultant in the areas of improving manufacturing processes and productivity. He has written numerous articles and is the co-author of the textbook ”Maximize SURFCAM”.Walter Tucker, School of Engineering Technology, Eastern Michigan University Walter Tucker, Ph.D., holds the rank of full