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Cultural Issues in Engineering: International Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Donna M. Ebenstein, Bucknell University; L. Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Deborah L. Sills, Bucknell University; Craig Beal, Bucknell University; Amal Kabalan, Bucknell University

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may also develop anassessment tool to survey alumni and non-alumni of the program post-graduation. These tools canbe used to see if the program affected career paths, international activities, and leadership roles.References[1] Mazzurco Andrea, Jesiek Brent K., and Godwin Allison, “Development of Global Engineering Competency Scale: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis,” J. Civ. Eng. Educ., vol. 146, no. 2, p. 04019003, Apr. 2020, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.2643- 9115.0000006.[2] G. L. Downey et al., “The Globally Competent Engineer: Working Effectively with People Who Define Problems Differently,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 107–122, 2006, doi: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2006.tb00883.x.[3] M. J. Bennett, “Defining

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International Division Technical Session 8

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, NMIMS University; Ashok Ranade, EE Collaborative

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required to initiate start-ups but also to succeed incorporate careers. Today‟s corporate houses value engineers spotting opportunities forbusinesses, making decisions with a sense of personal, innate ownership and accountability,developing efficient and effective solutions and delivering value to customers. From thatperspective, development of entrepreneurial competencies has broader appeal and requirements.AcknowledgmentWe thank all the successful entrepreneurs who participated in the survey and the experts Mr.Ashok Saraf, Mr. Raju Goteti, Mr. Snehal Shah, Mr Abhay Joshi, and Mr Ashish Belagali whohelped synthesize entrepreneurial competencies. We also thank Mr. Abhay Joshi and anonymousreviewers who, with their insightful comments, helped us

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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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Paper ID #23871A Preliminary Phosphate Study of Selected Sites Along the Shanghai Tribu-tary of the Yangtze River; Undergraduate International Student’s FreshmanProject in an Interconnected World (Student Poster-Paper)Mr. Junyi Ying, Shanghai Junyi Ying (Eric), a senior high school student in Shanghai, China, spent two weeks actively engaged in a research project involving the colorimetric analysis of phosphates in designated locations along the Shanghai tributary of the Yangtze River. Ying is a student at Shanghai Guanghua College. He is an excellent student seeking to pursue a career in chemistry at a major US University

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Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Lin, North Dakota State University; Frank Peloubet, North Dakota State University; Huizhen Wang, Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Yajun Zhang, Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture

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. Students commented that paving technology used in China appeared farbehind, road quality was not as good, and there was poor road maintenance especially in ruralareas.Summary of Course OutcomesThis course was originally initiated from the interest of students and was designed to addressinternational education, cultural diversity, current issues relevant to civil engineering trainingand career. Although study abroad programs are common in some of the education programs inthe U.S., it was the first time such a course was offered to NDSU civil engineering students. TheInternational Engineering Field Experience course received very favorable reviews by thedepartment and ABET as a positive effort to address international perspectives in the

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International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward Chandler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jens Thiedke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

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opportunity and a significant risk. The opportunity is to do the work in another major industrial country and the risk is that the impact of a bad grade is a major career blow. Hence, it is critical for the MSOE faculty to have a keen understanding of the academic requirements of the project.• Support issues – With time, issues arose that demonstrated that students cannot be forgotten and need some support just like the students back home. Two examples – one relatively simple and another requiring a longer period of time to resolve: Page 12.926.6 o Because MSOE students seldom have the German language skills to read

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilka Balk, University of Kentucky; G. Lineberry, University of Kentucky

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students respond) rated the tour very positively. They agreed or stronglyagreed that study abroad was important to their professional as well as their personaldevelopment. All students believe that the study abroad program will help them search for theirfirst job after graduation and that it will enhance lifelong career opportunities. All but onestudent felt that they had gained self-reliance and independence. Eight respondents also feltassured in their engineering skills and all but two felt that the experience better equipped them to“solve real-work problems in a broader global societal context”. No students disagreed orstrongly disagreed with any of the “engineering outcomes” questions, and there were only fiveneutral responses out of the 48

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Engineering Accreditation Around the World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Wolfe, Engineers Canada; Phil Alexander, University of Windsor

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-specialization in curricula, provide sufficient freedom to accommodate innovative educational development, allow adaptation to different regional factors and permit an appropriate expression of the institution’s individual qualities and ideals.• reflect the need for the engineer to be adaptive, creative, resourceful and responsive to changes in society, technology and career demands.• ensure that students are made aware of the role and responsibilities of the professional engineer in society and the impact that engineering in all its forms makes on the environmental, economic, social and cultural aspects of society.• reflect the need for the professional engineer to function as an effective member of a team, able to communicate

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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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level of competence during professional career, because engineeringknowledge becomes old very soon. Therefore, it makes sense to develop and stimulate thecognitive interest of students, form the skills, and use necessary information independently.The third is a contradiction between the principles of knowledge unity and dividingknowledge into fundamental and special. This problem is directly connected with formingprofessional competence of the future specialists. On the one hand, students have to knowfundamental subjects perfectly in order to become proficient. On the other hand, deepeninginto fundamental knowledge shifts the accent of student preparation and reduces time forstudying special subjects which are the basis of professional

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International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences; Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety

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Research New Graduation Program: The Manufacturing Engineering(ME) Program. It has been specially designed in order to fulfill the lack of formation ofdedicated professionals to work hard with the goal of promoting the development ofManufacturing and Management researches. The program fits the necessities of professionalsand enterprises interested in the improvement of career and quality performance. It is a flexibleprogram that is developed in according to the needs for the accomplishment of the main goal ofthe group. It is important to point out that it has also hands on study totally developed in teams,which is not easy but necessary. No doubt that it is the most difficult part of the program, towork in teams, but as much as possible the groups

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Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Voice, Michigan State University; Volodymyr Tarabara, Michigan State University; Mark Wiesner, Duke University; Merlin Bruening, Michigan State University

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Program Objectives, we have developed several additional objectivesspecific to our project. • Enable international opportunities for career growth and collaborative research • Evaluate water treatment alternatives across a range of economic, geographic, climate and water composition contexts • Advance applications of nanotechology to membrane science and water treatment • Investigate potential for membrane applications in developing economiesA group of international partners were invited to participate in the project by identifyinginternationally prominent groups who brought specific expertise complimentary to thecapabilities of the U.S. team. For example, a group in Toulouse, France was well known fortheir ability to produce

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Technical-Capacity Building & Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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AC 2009-199: CHASING THE POT OF GOLDRussel Jones, World Expertise LLC Russel Jones is Advisor to the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He previously served as founding president of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the UAE. His career in higher education in the United States included faculty member at MIT, department chair at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware. Page 14.318.1© American Society for

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Engineering Education in India, Central and Eastern Asia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Creese, West Virginia University; M. Adithan, Vellore Institue of Technology

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Degree inEconomics in 1959 and was the first in his family to graduate from college. He then obtained anMA Degree in Economics from Loyola College in 1961 and a Bachelor of Law Degree in 1963from the University of Madras. He enjoyed his education and participated in debates in bothEnglish and Tamil throughout his college career. He is an eloquent speaker both in Tamil andEnglish, even now. He practiced law for three years, but he was very much interested in politics and waselected to parliament in 1967. He served for ten years and visited many countries as a Memberof Parliament. He later won an election to the state legislature for 1980-84 in Tamil Nadu andthis was when the goal of starting a university began. He worked with Prof. N

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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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shown inappendix 1. The course description for these subjects in the curriculum does not exist andthe teaching material has been based on old notes that were translated from Russian tolocal languages, i.e. Pashto and Dari over thirty years ago. Furthermore, the curriculum isnot supported by any experimental work because of the lack of proper laboratory andequipment. This archaic curriculum is not compatible with the needs of the nation or thestudents’ career development. It has very limited or no balance between theoretical andexperimental knowledge and approaches, out of step with most universities across theworld, providing little context or practice into the learning. Furthermore, the level ofsome subjects in the curriculum may not be

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Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmine Polito, Valparaiso University; Braden Katterheinrich, Valparaiso University

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removal.Educational ImpactsHands-on service projects such as the well drilling described in this paper serve asexcellent preparation for the challenges that students will face during their careers inindustry. During these projects, students are faced with open-ended, and oftenunexpected, problems for which engineering solutions must be conceptualized andexecuted within a difficult series of environmental, economical, and cultural constraints.The remoteness of the operation usually prevents the problem from being easily solvedsimply by ordering new parts or running to the hardware store, thus requiring the studentsto use the materials and funds that are available. The fast paced project environmentrequires quick decisions and clever solutions

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Convergence of Quality Assurance Systems Around the Globe

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University; David Watkins, Michigan Technological University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University

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needs. From this list projects will be designed and built over thecoming years with the intent of creating a long-standing relationship with the community.International Senior DesignThis program began roughly five years ago, the vision of a lecturer in the department. Tointegrate her consulting career and volunteer experiences with non-governmentalorganizations, the department created a senior design section that required the students toexecute a project in a developing country. This led the first groups to Bolivia with latergroups going to the Dominican Republic. Enrollment in the international senior designgroups is limited to twelve, partly for educational purposes, partly for travel purposes.The two-semester course flow requires the project

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Henderson, Arizona State University

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isvaluable to society in many ways including innovation and cost, but for each country that isgrowing because of outsourcing, there are others that are seemingly retracting. Again,illuminating society value should be on the GEE to-do list.Suggested value propositions for the three stakeholders (students, faculty, industry) are listedbelow:Value to Students ̈ Career potential ̈ Jobs / globally competitive ̈ Resume ̈ Salary ̈ It’s cool, exciting, intellectually stimulating ̈ Creation of new opportunityValue to Faculty ̈ Intellectually stimulating (advancement of knowledge) ̈ Promotes peace ̈ It’s Cool, exciting ̈ Helps them Remain relevant/competitive

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Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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2006-1269: UPDATING FOR ENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERS INDEVELOPING COUNTRIESRussel Jones, World Expertise LLC Russel C. Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services in engineering education in the international arena. He previously served as Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to that, he had a long career in education: faculty member at MIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University of Massachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware. Dr. Jones is President of the Committee on Capacity Building of the

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International Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Brathwaite, City College of the City University of New York; Samantha Deokinanan, LSAMP at City College of New York

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College of New York, provides a support system during the critical stages of academic and career development.Ms. Samantha Deokinanan, LSAMP at City College of New York Samantha Deokinanan recently began pursuing her Master’s degree in Data Science at the CUNY School of Professional Studies. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the City Col- lege of New York, where she is also working as a data coordinator for the New York City Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) in STEM. Her past research work included analyses of psy- chophysiological signals associated with attenuated psychotic symptoms and real-world applications of adaptive trimmed means. c

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Study Abroad Experiences Intl Div Tech Session 9

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jessica D. Ventura, Endicott College

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, Engineering Projects in Global Health, Career Development & Global LeadershipUniversity of http://studyabroad.ucsd.edu/studentsCalifornia San Business Management and Leadership /programs/global-seminars/Diego Cross-Cultural Engineering Studies, Computer Science,University of https://ufabroad.internationalcenter.u Measurement and Design, International Engineering,Florida fl.edu/ Engineering and ArtsUniversity of https://cse.umn.edu/college/global- Robotics &

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Global and Intercultural Competency

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mauricio Torres, Northern Kentucky University; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University

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the very last semesters during their educational career at the college,despite repeated faculty and advisors’ recommendations to address these deficiencies. Eventualinstructors’ bias is not resulting in lower grades when performance is similar, when compared withdomestic students.Class reports, project reports, and presentations are required as part of some engineeringtechnology courses throughout the curriculum, offering additional opportunities for students toimprove their communication skills.A test instrument was developed to measure the student population’s knowledge levels infundamentals of engineering. This research will continue and the test will be administered to juniorand senior students from the Engineering Technology programs, at

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International Division Technical Session 7

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Gearold R. Johnson, Colorado State University

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developingsolutions. Because the middle years of the engineering curricula tend to focus on developing analyticalskills, students do not see many undefined problems at that stage, so this introduction can broaden theirunderstanding of the engineering profession. The EWB Challenge provides valuable engineeringbackground, introduces students to international development issues early in their careers, and connectsthem to a larger international effort that includes students from all over the world. The students at Colorado State University seem to have become more interested in being active ininternational efforts such as EWB projects so the EWB Challenge can be used as a complement to theexisting EWB-USA efforts. The Challenge also engages many more students

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International Division Technical Session 7

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Innovation Centre; Jayantrao Bhaurao Patil, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur, India; Pramod Jagan Deore, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur, India.

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on the job. We contacted all the 65 students of the class andsought updated information about their career journey, domicile and non-academic activitiesduring their college days. We received data form 43 students out of which, five were notemployed. Some of them had opted for higher studies and some others had decided to be full-time parents, resulting in 38 valid responses. This information along with the college recordsabout academic performance and family background provided us the required basis to decideresponse and explanatory variables that are described in the next sections.Response VariablesWe chose employability and on-job performance as two response variables and have describedthem in the next sections.Employability assessed

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International Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

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year to an all-time high. Study abroad byAmerican students has more than tripled over the past two decades1. Universities are realizingthe great benefits for their students to have an international experience while in college. Thesebenefits include but are not limited to, becoming globally aware and global citizens, morepersonally and socially aware, and strengthening their career and academic choices. A studyperformed by Williams in the Journal of Studies in International Education found that studentswho went on study abroad exhibited a greater change in intercultural communication skills aftertheir semester abroad than students who stayed on campus. They also found that exposure tovarious cultures was the greatest predictor of intercultural

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International Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Kim Lester, Virginia Tech; Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Thomas Carl Long, Virginia Tech

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Virginia Tech alumnus and Boeing employee.Virginia Tech student delegates were selected by the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering facultyand were required to have completed the department’s two semester senior capstone designproject. Students from UCI were selected from an aerospace engineering student club, DesignBuild Fly (DBF) and also from a student satellite club, CubeSAT (SAT). The students chosenfrom DBF were participants of the 2013 AIAA Student DBF competition where they wereawarded first place. The students selected from SAT worked closely with the Boeing satellitedivision. Boeing provided programming addressing both the business and technical aspects of thecompany. These included a panel on career and leadership development, a

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Global and Intercultural Competency

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

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the new course as described below. Figure 1 illustrates the presentationof a portion of the topics as organized in the Blackboard learning management system used byUC. Each thematic area extended over several weeks.Teams - students work in teams multiple times throughout their academic career, most notablyduring senior design. Focusing on teams in this course provides the opportunity to reinforce theimportance and further develop students’ skill in this area. General team processes anddynamics [8], [9] are covered to make connections with students’ prior learning and experiences.Material that deepens students’ knowledge of teams [10] and provides content specific to globalteams and virtual teams is also introduced [11]. Personality types and

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Cooperative and Project-based Global Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Friesel, Technical University of Denmark

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Board (EAB) Faculty Resources Committee (FRC). The mission of the EAB FRC is ”to promote the continued evo- lution of engineering education and the career enhancement of Engineering, Computing and Technology (ECT) faculty through quality programs/products/services designed to advance innovation in educating engineers”. She is an Associated Editor in IEEE Transactions on Education. She collaborates regularly with many technical universities in Europe, Latin America and USA. Her research interests include math- ematical modeling, system dynamics, control theory, and educational methods in automation, robotics, and in engineering in general. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bernd Widdig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jack Lohmann, Georgia Institute of Technology

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entmobi li tyt o spend time abroad during their undergraduate career. The mostcommon programs involve study, internships, or research experiences abroad. Most are shortterm (e.g., a summer, one semester) but occasionally may be longer (e.g., a year or multiplestays). He rewef oundt hatMI T’sI nte rna tiona lSc ienc eandTe chno logyI nit

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International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati; Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati

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project consists of designing, building, and testing a prototype of a product or process. Atthe completion of their senior capstone project, students will have acquired the followingnecessary skills, which will apply to their professional careers. 1. Synthesizing knowledge from early courses 2. Starting from concept to making a working prototype 3. Project management 4. Time management 5. Dealing with vendors 6. Oral communication to a technical and non-technical audience Page 12.450.2 7. Writing a formal project reportSenior Capstone ProjectThe four-course sequence for senior project consists of Senior Seminar, Senior

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International Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Burton, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Sanjay Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Dinesh Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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with employment opportunities to support their studies and also becausesome may seek to pursue academic careers and it is felt that the labs provide a viable trainingopportunity for them. These students frequently have very little, if any, previous teachingexperience and although they may know the subject matter well, they cannot necessarily teach itwell. A less than perfect command of the English language in respect of international graduatestudents can also be a factor.A common scenario is that 7/8 different graduate students are engaged to teach approximately 11lab sections and the combination of factors outlined above frequently means that there isconsiderable variability in teaching quality and thus in the educational experience of the

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International Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy

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Science (traditional), Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and ComputerNetworking. The curriculum content for the Computer Science degree is based on the 2001ACM Curriculum Report. The CNS department has 11 full time faculties. Half of the faculty hasearned a Ph.D. degree and the other half masters degrees. The Computer Science degree atUVSC is accredited by ABET in 2002 and currently has 869 students.The Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program was one of the first Bachelor of Scienceprograms implemented at UVSC in 1993. The program’s goal has been to provide a qualityprogram that meets accreditation standards while providing the students with a skill set thatallows them to succeed in computing careers.2Computing Curriculum