AC 2012-3292: DEVELOPING MODEL FOR CROSS-CULTURAL SER-VICE LEARNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIESDr. Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College Kurt DeGoede Associate Professor of engineering and physics, Elizabethtown College. DeGoede is cur- rently working on developing a collaborative study abroad program in West Africa built around a design course based in service engineering. Many of these projects include work with renewable energy systems. His research interests are in the areas of biomechanics and the modeling of dynamic systems. Current projects include collaborative work with faculty and students in occupational therapy and an orthopedic hand surgeon, developing clinical instruments for conducting therapy and
associated maintenance.Unfortunately reliable sources of electrical power are typically unavailable in developingcountries. Consequently there are several significant obstacles, such as funding and power,which must be addressed in order to build and sustain a modern hospital in a developing country.A business model was developed which is expected to provide the means and the necessarycapital for powering and sustaining a modern hospital in some of the developing countriesbeyond their initial launch phase, which is typically supported through philanthropy and generalhumanitarian aid. The pilot hospital project, which is proceeding with the approval of theTanzanian government, is part of the Dodoma Christian Medical Center (DCMC; seewww.dthd.org) and
variety of information and communication technologies were utilized tosupport team collaborations. The main course components included: weekly lectures, teamproject, individual research paper, and cross-cultural exercise. More specifically, a total of 20lectures were offered on a biweekly basis (twice a week), which included 5 special guestlectures delivered by experts who specialize on different GCE topics (i.e., cyber security,sustainable manufacturing, personalized learning, bioenergy, etc.). The class was divided into6 globally distributed project teams to identify a GCE, analyse relevant needs, and propose afuture solution. Students from the same university were tasked to work together to produce amini-movie to present their observations of
years of project and company management experience to her professional practice-type classes. Page 12.1155.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Pilot Collaboration and Program Development: Engineering Senior Design and Spanish for Cross- Disciplinary LiteracyIntroductionModern language scholars have begun in recent years to challenge educators to developa framework for language that, as noted by Heidi Byrnes in the Association ofDepartments of Foreign Language Bulletin, “intimately relates knowing [the language]to diverse ways of knowing” (Byrnes, 11). [1
has worked at the University of Glasgow specialising in teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes. Anna is interested in academic development, particularly related to writing skills and graduate attributes. She has developed a keen interest in e-learning and how technologies can be used to enhance learning and teaching processes. Her special areas of interest include: effective online course and activity design, building online communities and multimodal approaches to writing and assessment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Investigating EAST (English for Academic Study Tele-collaboration) A UK- Palestine English Language Project for Engineering and Science
AC 2008-1190: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR THE STUDY OFDEFECTS IN CASTINGSSergio Felicelli, Mississippi State UniversityJohn Berry, Mississippi State UniversityRafael Cuesta, CIDAUT, SpainRogelio Luck, Mississippi State UniversityRatessiea Lett, Mississippi State University Page 13.189.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 An International Collaboration for the Study of Defects in CastingsAbstractThis work describes an international collaboration project that has been established betweenMississippi State University (MSU) and the CIDAUT Foundation in Spain. The project will befunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the International
students1, 2. Most of the online education or hybridcourse offering had been at the master’s and certificate level. Limited activity has been noted atthe Ph.D. and pre-engineering level 3, 4 this case study had been directed towards the freshmenengineering design course. In this paper authors would discuss how they used the hybridprogram to work on one of the sub goals set by the institution.The course that is chosen for the hybrid program is the freshmen engineering design course.Since many engineering educators have recognized project based learning, service learning, andfreshmen engineering projects have lasting impact on students learning compared to thetraditional classroom set up. In this paper authors would discuss about the project based
Paper ID #27704Middle School STEM Teachers’ Understandings of Computational Thinking:ACase Study of Brazil and the USAMrs. Cristina Diordieva, Texas Tech University Cristina Diordieva is the Project Coordinator for the World MOON Project, and at the same time, she is a doctoral candidate majoring in Educational and Instructional Technology and minoring in Bilingual Education programs in the College of Education at Texas Tech University. She earned a BA majoring in French and minoring in Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University. She is highly interested conducting research within
a start-up academic institute, how SCUPI, learning from excellentmakerspaces world-wide, launched innovative maker education activities based on theexisting resources and characteristics of Chinese students. These activities include: 1. Regulartechnical lectures for training makers 2. Hands-on projects based on engineering courses 3.Supporting students in STEM competitions; 4. Involved in feature events and outreachactivities of SCUPI 5. Guiding students to take part in academic research 6. Establishment ofan online maker sharing community. As a result, SCUPI has initially created a dynamicmaker education system based on this small-scale makerspace, which provides guidance tobrainstorming, CAD model simulation, prototype manufacturing and
was around $3300.00. Theresults of the project are reported here. Page 11.360.2This case study presents the importance of reconfiguring, reengineering of an outdated, seldomused, material testing frame into more applicable laboratory equipment. This type oftransformation trend is based on existing equipment and can be useful in educational institutions,such as those in many third-world countries that do not have the budget or resources to purchaseand or maintain new off the shelf laboratory equipments. This budgetary restraint is an ongoingchallenge especially for many of the third-world countries which are to transfer theiragricultural-based
classes in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics Departments at Michigan Tech, North Dakota State University, and at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Dr. Oliveira current research interests include optical fiber communication systems, Monte Carlo simulations, digital signal processing, wireless communications, and engineering education. She has authored or co-authored 13 archival journal publications and 27 conference contributions. From 2007-2011 Dr. Oliveira is serving as the Michigan Tech project director of the U.S.-Brazil Engineering Education Consortium on Renewable Energy that is funded by FIPSE from the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Oliveira is an ABET evaluator
Paper ID #32395Lessons Learned Developing and Running a Virtual, Faculty-Led,International Program on Sustainable Energy in BrazilDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engi- neering. In 2011, she joined Northeastern as a teaching professor in the First Year Engineering program. As part of the First Year Engineering faculty she focusing on curriculum innovations and implementing educational lessons and engineering design projects on sustainability. In 2017, she moved full time into the Chemical Engineering department
] in Australia, there wereserious issues regarding the low motivation students had to interact with academics, which had an impact ontheir morale. Furthermore, student/staff ratios were very high; hence there was no capacity for any effort fromthe academics. Some academics felt that undergraduates were unmotivated and that there was no value toengaging with them outside the classroom environment. In order to find ways to address these problems, andprovide students with a space to develop sense of belonging and engage with their peers through a co-curricularexperience, the School of Civil Engineering in 2015 developed the Icarus program. Icarus is a voluntary,project-based, research program where students engage with peers in small projects
. For theengineering technology students, a more direct connection between the engineeringprofession and issues of importance in the global community was desired. To accomplishthis, a critical thinking assignment and guest speaker were used. For the critical thinkingassignment, students had to research and write about an engineering project that improvesthe quality of life for a given population. These were chosen from a series of web sitearticles highlighting humanitarian engineering projects, development initiatives, andsustainability projects in third world countries. To provide a more personal andinteractive aspect, guest speakers from a nearby university gave a presentation on theirEngineers Without Boarders (EWB) student chapter and their
AC 2009-2496: INTERNATIONALIZING TOMORROW’S RESEARCHERS –STRATEGIES AND EXPERIENCES FROM THE PARTNERSHIP FOREDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN MEMBRANE NANOTECHNOLOGIESThomas Voice, Michigan State University Thomas C. Voice is Professor and Director of the Environmental Engineering Program at Michigan State University, and Co-Director of the PERMEANT project described in this presentation. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental chemistry and environmental systems and processes. His research interests focus on the fate and transport of contaminants in environmental systems, environmental health, and physical-chemical processes and technologies. Much of this work has a significant
Without BordersPresent in a growing number of campuses nationally (90% growth rate in 2005 hasresulted in 100 university chapters at present), Engineers Without Borders is a non-profitgroup which focuses on international engineering service projects, mainly in developingnations. Operationally, the key advantage of a student chapter is being able to leveragethe information network provided from the reputation of the organization. Understandingthe nuances of finding, funding, building and maintaining projects in developing countiesis possible through interactions with existing chapters, attending EWB nationalconferences, and using EWB website resources. These are not minor challenges.Programmatic advantages of having an EWB chapter serve as one key
3 President of Computer Graphics Center 4 President of Pedagogic Council of University of MinhoAbstractTechnical skill is associated with understanding and proficiency in a particular type of activity,especially those that are involved in methods, processes and procedures. As an example, one cantake the training of the engineer, who - mostly - is focused moreover, on calculations,simulations and projects, characterizing it as an individual, above all, objective. Since the humanability can be understood as the ability of individuals to interact with others to form similar onethat respects his fellow and nature this individual is aware of his/her own attitudes, opinions
engineering program at UniversidadTecnològica Boliviana in La Paz.The program commenced with a campus-wide solicitation of participation. While thisprogram is designed to draw students from two existing sustainable developmentprograms, the undergraduate program was only recently approved by the University; Page 12.375.2hence for this first year, all undergraduates could apply. Six students were notified inmid-December, and had until mid-January to accept the offer.The American student teams and one faculty member will reside in Bolivia for all of June2007. Before then, teams and projects will be developed. To aid in the first, monthlymeetings will be used
Environment and Sustainability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering Together Sustainable Communities: Sustainability Engineering in ActionAbstractIn the summer of 2015, a group of students and faculty from the University of Texas at El Pasoand Carnegie Mellon University travelled to the city of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, tojoin a group of students and faculty from CETYS Universidad, a local prominent university inMexico. The objective of the combined group was to learn about Sustainability Engineering andapply this knowledge to local community based projects. This paper is a recount of theexperiences from this faculty-led study abroad
home or abroad), and one major project inthe 6th semester. To round off the program, business and management subjects (including bothhard and soft skills) and English as a second language should be included. The result was achallenging engineering curriculum, designed to produce graduates with a high degree ofemployability and thus satisfy the market’s need for highly-qualified engineering personnel.The response from industry was very good from the start, with the majority of graduates makinga seamless transition into engineering positions in internationally renowned companies, many ofthem based in Austria. This confirmed that the ‘recipe’ itself was a good one, and that theprogram was succeeding in what it had set out to do. However, like all
, decision-making,communications skills, and graphical demonstration.The authors wanted to know what our Arab engineering students knew about sustainability.What were their perceptions about their responsibilities as engineers in the 21st century? Didthey care? What’s being done to foster awareness in this part of the world? Shouldenvironmental sustainability and global stewardship be at the core of our engineering designprogram? How could we introduce our students to humanitarian engineering? The answers tothese questions along with data collected over two semesters are discussed in this paper.The Fall 2006 STEPS II project involved the development of a Plastics Recycling Plan for thePetroleum Institute, with applications locally and globally. The
American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Developing Industry Partnerships for Student Engagement in ChinaAbstractThe University of Dayton (UD) opened a campus in Suzhou, China in August 2012. One of theobjectives of the University of Dayton China Institute (UDCI) is to develop partnerships withindustry that will both benefit the companies and provide rich educational experiences forstudents studying in China.Partnerships between UDCI and companies in China are multifaceted, and varied among thecompanies. The standard Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) essentially says that bothUDCI and the partner company will endeavor to form collaborations for such items as studentrecruiting, research, innovation center projects, continuing education
- mentation of internationalization at the university level, especially in respect to embedded mobility and integrative program design. He has previously also worked as educational developer at KTH Dept. of Engineering education, and led a range of projects related to internationalization and language learning.Dr. Isabel Ortiz Marcos, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid Isabel Ortiz Marcos is a mechanical engineer and holds Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Universi- dad Polit´ecnica de Madrid. She is Associate Professor of Engineering Projects at this University. She has a Master in Total Quality Management (1995 SGS-UPM). She has been certificated as Project Man- ager Professional (PMP) by PMI since 2006. She is a member
technology Ph D M.E., 1956, Carnegie Institute of Technology Page 22.33.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Linking Cultures: An Industrial Project-Based Design Course for U.S. and Chinese Students in ChinaBackground Globalization of the engineering enterprise has not only impacted its practice but also theeducation of its practitioners in ways previously unimagined. Virtually every engineeringprogram in the country has implemented new activities and programmatic changes to assistgraduates develop the skills, knowledge and experience to function
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Providing International Experience through Studying Abroad for Engineering Technology StudentsIn 2004 we began an investigation to provide international experience for engineeringtechnology students at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) thatwas currently not available. The original plan was to have a small group of students go toKuala Lumpur, Malaysia for six weeks to study with Malaysian students in a projectorientated course. This was planned for the summer of 2005. The project was actuallycompleted for the first time during 2006, and repeated again in 2007. A group of fourstudents from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
AC 2010-827: PREPARING AND EDUCATING THE QATARI ENGINEER OF 2030Mazen Hasna, Qatar UniversityAbdelmagid Hamouda, Qatar UniversityBoualem Boashash, Qatar University Page 15.973.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Preparing and Educating the Arab Qatari Engineer of 2030AbstractThis paper addresses the issue of adapting Engineering Education to a changing situation inQatar, a small country that is part of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council. It presents theframework for a national project planned to take place in the State of Qatar during the 2010/11academic year.Over the past few years, several professional organizations started reviewing the issue
North Carolina State University. He was educated at the University of Illinois, receiving a BS in general engineering in 1980, an SM in civil engineering (empha- sis in construction engineering and project management) from MIT in 1982, and a PhD in civil engineer- ing (emphasis in construction engineering and project management) from the University of Texas-Austin in 1988. He has conducted research and has published in the areas of construction project success, ad- vanced information technologies, and multi-cultural workforce development. Dr. Jaselskis has served as a program director for the National Science Foundation. He is a registered professional engineer and has memberships in several organizations [American
paramount for U.S. engineers and researchers to develop the skills and backgroundnecessary to effectively work, communicate and innovate on an international scale and to be ableto collaborate on complex engineering and research projects with colleagues and collaboratorsacross the world. Countries such as China and India, by virtue of their size, are graduating everincreasing numbers of engineers and scientists each year and are making great strides inscientific research. The effects of the globalization of science, engineering and manufacturinghave been particularly felt in rust-belt states such as Michigan and Ohio where the loss of marketshare by the big three U.S. automakers has resulted in large job losses and a migration of agrowing number of
size of the world and significantly reduce the technical difficulties and complexitiesassociated with forming international project teams. Consequently, companies in many industriesnow face a need to cooperate and work with people from other cultures and value systems inorder to remain competitive.Although many of the physical challenges related to globalization have been overcome, socialchallenges including communication and cultural, economic, and political differences remain.The skills required to deal with such challenges have generally been overlooked by traditionalengineering education, which has focused primarily on teaching the technical skills necessary forstudents to be successful engineers. Communication, leadership, teamwork, and
Paper ID #6991Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Acquired through Engineering Student Ex-periences AbroadKeilin Tarum Deahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Keilin Deahl is a graduate student in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her undergraduate degree in General Engineering at Illinois with a concentration in Sustainable Development. Deahl is interested in international experiences in engineering and how to better integrate project-based learning into the engineering classroom.Eileen Walz, University of Illinois Eileen Walz is