: declarations (the level of intentions to globalize university’s activities in the forms of concepts, strategies and internationalization programs); reconnaissance (seeking optimal internationalization ways and approaches specific for a university); organization (creation of a sustainable internationalization environment where all globalization initiatives are supported by faculty and students); productivity (the level at which internationalization is integrated into any aspect of a university’ life. Page 26.823.5This classification reflects the “ideal” (optimal) internationalization pathway. Each level can
reflect both sophomores and seniors each year. As seen, 193 students have beengraduated as of May 2018. Our information indicates that some of these graduates wereengaged in graduate studies, but the majority found prestigious positions in the field ofindustrial engineering in Turkey and a few in the USA.Table1. Dual-diploma enrollment and graduation statistics at SIUE 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total Enrolled at 4 19 38 43 69 58 64 61 63 45 57 521 SIUE Graduated 4 19 30 24 31 31 27 27 193A comprehensive description of this program, covering topics such as curriculum, newstudent
engineering aside from:‘developmentally appropriate’ recommendations9 and the need to move beyond ‘plan and do’constructions and contests by the inclusion of reflection after activities21;8. there are high participation rates for ethnic minorities but not females22; and9. engineering take-up tends to be explained by home and cultural background23 – arising duringthe life-course rather than via a ‘linear’ school-dominated progression24.Finally, very few evaluations of school-based engineering education have the rigor ofcontrol/comparisons and often focus on numbers attending rather than impact on course/careerchoice25. From the above studies, we can surmise there is little understanding of opportunities,support and effective pedagogy associated with
of key historicalevents and discusses how a range of political, social, and economic conditions likely influencedthe formation of a new engineering education system during this period. This paper reports onthree main research themes: 1) How were engineers trained immediately prior to the formation ofa modern engineering education system in China? 2) What were the driving forces that initiatedthe reformation of the engineering education system? and 3) How was a Westernizedengineering education system fused with a long tradition of Confucian-dominated education?The paper concludes with some reflections about how the legacy of this transformation lives onin the contemporary context of Chinese engineering and engineering
checklists in both projectmanagement and interpersonal communication. Lessons learned from student projectmanagement case studies and team activities reinforce student’s learning outcomes that well-managed communication is crucial to complete quality projects on time and within budget.Student team activities further reflect the importance of interpersonal communication that notonly covers the usual technical perspective but also include administrative/managerial,environmental, social, political, economic, and financial perspectives. Page 15.758.5The innovative approach to case studies and team activities represents the first attempt toresearch and
". Several researchers observed deficiencies inthe performance of students in the various activities of PBL, referring to self-directed learningskills and metacognitive knowledge12,13,14. Therefore, strengthening metacognitive skills andreflection in students is essential in such innovative learning environments to help them to adoptstrategies and reasoning processes that enable them to define, plan and self-monitor theirthinking and learning style. In this sense, metacognitive and reflective skills of students betterrely on social learning environments13. Social interaction promotes the development of cognitivestructures of individuals, when individuals reconcile the differences between their own ideas andthe ideas of others, and when they ask
the work we do with the local communities (see companion paper at thismeeting ASEE 2012). In far too many cases humanitarian service projects have resulted in littleproductive change, because of a short sighted vision not integrated with the community. 16 Thesetruths speak both to the project based learning activities in the curriculum and the developmentof the curriculum itself.The National Academy of Engineering supports this claim through the findings of their report onEngineering in the new century (The Engineer of 2020) – the alumni magazine for the Universityof Michigan reflected beautifully on this report: “Engineers in 2020 must…understand the worldand the problems people have living in it…good engineers don’t solve problems in
) internship atthe site working for the partner NGO. One challenge for Stanford, and undoubtedly others, isthe burden of proof for meeting design requirements of the program to the satisfaction ofaccreditation requirements with service learning projects.Educational Goals can mislead aid. What is the priority? Putting the customer need first can bethe educational objective – reflecting real world customer driven design. Conflict betweeneducational goals of the learning experience and goals of serving a community was identified asa major factor in the failure of previous service learning projects. 4 This team also identified the Page 25.434.8tendency
Key Findings-to-DateThe survey yielded 1,027 “usable case” respondents reflecting the following demographicprofile: 70% English; 30% non-English; responses received from all languages except French 80% Male; 20% Female 50% between ages of 40-60; balance over other age ranges 46% Academicians; 40% Practitioners; 10% Students; balance preferred not to answer Aerospace (17%); Computer Science (13%); and Electrical/Computer (13%) are largest Engineering Discipline response categories 64% reported having graduate-level Engineering degreeTop Attributes by Role, Importance, and ProficiencyEarly-Career Professionals: Importance and Proficiency Attributes by Importance Attributes by
understanding of different cultures and respect for diversity andcommunication. There are differences in the focus of the courses, general or more specific, moreor less practical and etc. There is no recipe, an equation that can be applied to all the Institutionsto ensure the expected results, precisely because there is a great diversity in addition to theincreasingly rapid changes that happen and more embodiments by scientific and technologicaldevelopment. This paper has the goal to instigate the reflection on the formation of engineeringteachers in present challenging academic community.Keywords: Mobility, program design; motivation; global formation; skills.1. IntroductionNo matter the field of expertise civil, electronic, chemical, environmental it
industry, the participants and the other non-profit organizations in the host countries.Although the focus of HONET predominately remained optical Internet and associated information& communication and enabling technologies, a special theme was added each year to reflect thecurrent state of technology and its applications. During the past seven years of organizing andholding these symposia and associated workshops over two thousand attendees consisting offaculty, engineers, students, delegates from different countries and CEOs of Internationalbusinesses have participated in this knowledge sharing experience and were motivated forinternational collaboration. These symposia were attended by the nationals of Australia, Britain,Canada, China
be useful to understand the Page 22.353.10existing learning pathways that students are prone to employ (e.g., Auditory). It is likely that cultural influences shape students’ preferred learning styles in regions beyond theMiddle East and the United States, and thus the results of this study can be used to support theidea that where instructor and student come from different cultural environments, there may bethe need to reflect on differences in preferred learning styles and the proportion of students invarious learning style categories, and how to best respond to these differences in order toenhance student learning.Bibliography1. Fleming
. 3B. Why Learn About International OBE and OBA Experiences & Best Practices?The aim of this work is to present a synthesis of the experiences of an international set of authorsand sharing of the global best practices in the field related to accreditation and assessment. In thispaper, we present a global international perspective on OBE accreditation standards, practices,and attitudes. Apart from listing our observations, we also point out where relevant availableguidelines and best practices that have been reported earlier in literature.We find through our survey that there is a lot of diversity in the global OBE accreditation andassessment practices but also some unifying trends. The diversity reflects the fact that eachuniversity is
definition wasextensive and was reflected in the summer bridge, FISE House, faculty mentoring over fouryears, the week spent with Habitat for Humanity, and the month-long Peru trip. The details ofthis initiative is explained below.International Educational Experience: PeruThe research to determine if the study abroad parameter is a significant factor in achieving high-percentage rates (> 90%) in graduation is limited [12, 25]. Surprisingly, this parameter is rarelyapplied to underrepresented students who are less likely to travel abroad [11, 12]. Most of thePathways Fellows who participated in this project had not traveled abroad before, and 8 out of 10indicated that funding was a critical determinant of whether they would have traveled or not
reflected upon while abroad;• researching and discussing aspects of Florence to be explored and studied as students of engineering;• learning practical information about the program (housing, classroom logistics, packing, health and safety guidelines, cultural norms, and program policies and procedures while abroad);• learning specific information related to class schedules and content;• discussing how to integrate the study abroad experience into academic majors and career goals.During this pre-departure course, students are required to view William Whyte’s documentary,The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces4, and read John Stilgoe’s Outside Lies Magic: RegainingHistory and Awareness in Everyday Places5. These two works address
participation in study abroad for STEM students is not due to lack of interest orintent. The literature indicates no statistically significant difference in intentions betweenstudents in arts and humanities majors and students in business, education, or science,technology, engineering, and math [8]. It appears that the question of most engineering andtechnology students is not whether or not they would like to study abroad, but rather whether ornot they feel able to study abroad with all the demands on their academic time.Engineering programs throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world follow very stringentcurriculum designs, with courses sequenced fairly inflexibly in most graduation plans. Theserequirements reflect accreditation standards (e.g
theamount of information available can be overwhelming to any young instructor, the path forwardis traversable with the advice and assistance of experienced academics and colleagues, availableto help with the journey.I. Emulate a Role Model: At their very start, young engineering faculty begin to remember the Page 12.1119.6teachers they have had throughout their journey as students; and if their memories do not failthem, they sketch out the dominant positive characteristics of those they wish to emulate, andattempt to follow their way of teaching as they recall from their students days. Following thefootsteps of their role model is often reflected
,” Christina Neidert emphasizes thatthe integrated course offerings make an additional learning outcome possible as a result of beingimmersed in a research group while simultaneously reflecting on the cultural values of the hostcountry. Thus learning takes place which goes far beyond just gaining technical and linguisticproficiency. To illustrate this point, Neidert summarizes the added value of an integratedcurricular design which benefits URI students studying in Braunschweig; her statement can beread as a synopsis of what has been discussed in the international engineering educationcommunity as getting exposed to different “engineering cultures.”25The third of the best practices Neidert lists at the end of her article is the “Focus on
all the questions are more than 4. The results are favorable andindicate that the LITEE Workshops were acceptable to the participants and were perceived tobe beneficial. We used SPSS 10.0 to do principal analysis. Through factor analysis, in the RotatedComponent Matrix as the Table 2 shows, there are 3 Components that are abbreviated Ci(i=1, 2, 3). C1 includes 29 VARs that are VAR 8-36, which can be called “Expectations toMIS” because from the meanings of these questions they reflect the expectations to MIS andhope to improve the skills from the learning of MIS; C2 includes 4 VARs that are VAR 2, 3,5, 6, which can be called “Attitude to MIS ” for the four questions show the perception oflearners about learning MIS and imply the difficulty
engineering design process in addition to listing them.At any rate, these observations can help improve the curriculum design process and theclassroom process to improve internalization or better learning.Perception of learning vs. results. The results show that students' perception about how muchthey learned do not always align with the picture emerging from their responses about theirunderstanding of concepts. However, their perceptions are correct because they reflect theirexperience. For example, most, students in Groups 1 and 2 learned about maglev transportationsystems for the first time this summer. For them this was a great learning experience. Thus,while their responses to specific questions showed they had difficulties grasping the
offer professional development which shares and reflects on these strategies. These challenges that international students often face are important because mostacademic failures can be traced back to the first year of transition for an international student[13]. Additionally, all of these challenges can make it more difficult for students to feel a senseof belonging on campus, and this is important because this supports students' engagement andmotivation in their studies [10, 14]. While most universities offer some support to students, many large universities have onespecific international organization or center that is meant to meet the needs of all internationalstudents. These large centers focus on the broader student
);• regular dialogue with the Board of Directors; and• diversity booth at Annual Conference & Exhibition (sponsored by industry).This time period included some struggles to get critical momentum going, although perseveranceprevailed until the committee reached a critical mass of members. Much of this progress was theimpact of Bevlee Watford’s role as a charismatic and direct-speaking leader. Processes becamemore institutionalized, which helped set ASEE precedents to move from good ideas, to actionand implementation, to institutionalization and sustainability. A reflection on this period isprovided in the Spring 2014 Diversity Committee newsletter by J.P. Mohsen, ASEE formerPresident [14].3.3. 2013-2014 (Chairs: Teri Reed & Adrienne Minerick
reported for eachsubscale19 (see below). There are different reports about the acceptable values of alpha, rangingfrom 0.70 to 0.9520.Theory of Cultural Development is based on the work of Robert Kegan21 who argued that aspeople grow they are engaged in meaning making. People rely on their thinking, feeling, andrelating with others in forming their life journey. King and Magolda have refined these domainsin describing students in their social-cultural development during their college years, and call thisdevelopmental view “intercultural maturity6,22. The subscales in the GPI that reflect the theory ofcultural development are: Cognitive – Knowing (α = .66); Intrapersonal – Identity (α = .74); and Interpersonal – Social
multinational projects in an introductoryengineering design course. This paper reports the preliminary findings from a survey based onthe Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) given to students before starting their participation inthe multinational projects. The data collected provides information in five constructs which are:interest/enjoyment, perceived competence, pressure/tension, perceived choice, andvalue/usefulness. These constructs provide a perception about students’ interests, belief, andfeelings about the international project that reflect their level of motivation and confidence tocarry on the tasks. The data is evaluated and considered in the development of the learningmodule to be incorporated before the project in the same course in the
and Jerusalem.3.2 Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and TechnologyThe Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU currently has an enrollment of4000 students in five engineering and five technology programs. The college awardsapproximately 600 B.S., 100 M.S. and 20 Ph.D. degrees in a year. These degree totals reflect thedirection of the Board of Trustees that BYU remain predominantly an undergraduate institution.About half of the graduates go on to graduate school.The current college administration began to serve in May of 2005. It was natural that we tooksome time to identify strategic directions we felt would help prepare our students for success inthe 21st century and increase the visibility of the college.Concurrent with
done by observing the group and theirinteractions. After observation, the team advisor brings the group together and opens a structuredfeedback session including self-reflection, peer-reflection, and final feedback of the teamadvisor. Periodically throughout the day, the team advisors continue to have these conversationswith the group to keep increasing their awareness of their interactions with each other andincreasing their team, communication, and social skills in order to increase their success as agroup in solving their complex design task. To summarize, the students are given behavior-based Page 26.154.6training in team competencies in
the coding and analysis of the focusgroup and interview. More specifically, instances where students made a statement reflective of aglobal competency attribute (‘engineering ethics’, ‘engineering cultures’, or ‘regulations andstandards’) were coded as such, and each instance was further analyzed to identify how theattribute was exhibited. It should be noted that this study is limited by being an examination of asingle case. However, the scope of this study is that of a preliminary study, with the aim ofbeginning to characterize student experiences and identifying the potential affordances andbarriers of similar global service learning projects. The results of this preliminary study will beused to inform a larger study examining a variety of
. (ABET 3b, 3e) • Reflection: Critically reflect utilizing multiple forms of communication (oral presentation, poster presentation and formal report writing) (ABET 3e, 3g) • Communication: Communicate ideas/concepts to audiences in multiple cultures. (ABET 3g, 3h) • Collaboration: Effectively collaborate in multidisciplinary teams of students, faculty, staff, and outside constituents (ABET 3d)During a typical course, there can be quite a bit of interaction between students with differentcultural and social backgrounds. However, these interactions are set in the context of anacademic location (in this case, Cambridge, MA or Hong Kong). Very few of the engineeringstudents at Harvard and Hong
the distance students, it was attributed to the fact that “every team member is a full-timeworking professorial”, as a result, “everyone pulled their own weight and contributed equally”.On the other hand, in the rest of locally distributed teams where distance students were mixedtogether, multiple distance students had reflected that their voices tend to be “easily missed if notneglected”, because “the online facet has many conveniences, but my physical presence isabsolutely lacking and it is therefore very difficult to influence any of the group's decisions”.And more than one distance students suggested that they need to work more diligent and behavemore proactively than the other on campus students.No significant difference was identified
statement development) Creative thinkers properties (pressure, Identify the problem: Access to water at the volume, temperature) center in problem scoping session Thoughtful team light properties Using the problem statement develop the workers (radiation, reflection, solution process to translate written refraction, insolation), statement into solution model electricity basics, Design (Design process methodology) (current, voltage, resistance), solar Apply design process to generate ideas, geometry (daylight model, analyze predict and build the time), solar panel solution product, characteristics