Paper ID #25501A Course in Best Practices in Scientific Writing and Oral Presentation in En-glish for Chinese Graduate Students in Engineering and the Life SciencesProf. John B. Troy, Northwestern University John B. Troy, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University, has a B.S. (1st class hon- ors) from the University of London, King’s College and a D.Phil. from the University of Sussex, both in the U.K. His research is within the broad area of Neural Engineering with focus on signal processing within the nervous system and the development of technology for neuroscience research and neuropros- thetics
nomination in 2015. Six finalists were invited to present. Topics included two paperson engineering design, one with a focus on ethical and contextual decisions later in thecurriculum [9] and the second focused on problem framing and design considerations in the firstyear of the curriculum as a tool for underrepresented students to better identify their assets withengineering [10]. This paper, which reported on Mapping Assets of Diverse Groups for ChemicalEngineering Design Problem Framing Ability, by Svihla et. al. [10] was selected as the best 2016Diversity paper. One of the finalists, Mikel, et al. was from the Pacific Southwest Section ofASEE [11]; this paper focused on nontraditional adult students and factors that impacted theiracceptance in
international research programs found that, in addition to the technical andprofessional impacts, the global or transcultural aspects of these experiences include: a) fuelingthe emergence of ‘best practices’ effective in sustaining transcultural collaborations, b)encouraging the innovative development of a ‘shared work space’ to accommodate culturaldifferences, c) developing and extending research communities beyond the U.S., d) increasingnon-English language proficiencies, e) affirming the centrality and power of language, and f)contributing to solutions of the ‘Global Grand Challenges’.23Despite these benefits, there remains a need for more assessment of specific outcomes. Aworkshop report issued by Sigma Xi regarding how to assess international
for posterity and toencourage engagement within other academic institutions and professional societies. Some of ourexamples and strategies can be scaled and adapted to address institutional or regional challengesor to increase awareness and engagement in other national societies. Outcomes seen throughinitiatives have resulted in increased connections with previously disenfranchised members tothe ASEE community, engagement across divisions, and expanded programming in support ofdiversity, equity, and inclusion practices.1. Importance of Diversity, Equity, and InclusionEngineers have a significant impact on society. Their actions shape future technology,infrastructure, and innovation. Improving workforce diversity has been shown to
-funded International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)program for undergraduate and graduate engineering students. U.S.-based faculty and a sampleof international partners from nine IRES programs were interviewed to understand how theyhave structured their programs and what the outcomes of the programs have been for studentsand their own research productivity and larger-scale collaborations. A variety of program designdecisions including student deliverables, in-country logistics, and unique program features werefound to influence both faculty members’ research and the departments and colleges hosting theIRES programs. Best practices for faculty coordinating international research programs includeidentifying research outputs for the
, pavement design & materials, and concrete durability. His interests also include: contemporary issues of engineering education in general, and those of the Middle East and the Arab Gulf States in particular. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Suggested Plans and Practices for Further Development of Engineering Educators in the Arab Gulf RegionAbstract:The increased mobility of engineers worldwide poses new and difficult challenges tocountry and/or region–based systems of engineering education, whose advocates nowface the possibility that their graduates may not possess the skills recognized asvaluable in other countries or by international employers operating within their
Paper ID #28865 education (OBE) workshop. He manages the PhD in Computing programme and has been implementing OBE to design curriculum and courses, contributing to its successful accreditation. He serves as a pan- ellist in the accreditation of various programmes and courses. He publishes research works in the areas of applied artificial intelligence, networking, as well as information and communications technology in education.Dr. Ing. Joao Ponciano P.E., University of Glasgow Eur. Ing. Dr. Jo˜ao Ponciano (CPE, LLB (Hons), M.Eng (Hons) , M.A. (Distinction), PhD, FIET, C.Eng, MBCS, CITP, SFHEA, MIEEE, FinstLM) started his career as a researcher for the International Or- ganisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in
education.Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech Yousef Jalali is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering. His research interests include critical thinking, ethics, and process design and training.Dr. David B. Knight, Virginia Tech David Knight is Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in the De- partment of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of International Engagement in Engineering Education and affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program at Virginia Tech. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering
are formalagreements with overseas universities to facilitate the successful transfer of students withoutduplication of course work, which can provide another source of students coming to the UnitedStates [10].International Graduate Students Recruiting Strategy – A Partnership ProgramAs shown in the literature review above, best practices in recruiting international studentsaccording to Özturgut (2013) are: 1. Providing academic support and utilizing campus resources;2. Attending and participating in international education fairs and recruitment events; 3.Partnering with other organizations (colleges and universities, non-profit and governmentalinstitutions, high schools, for-profit organizations); 4. Passive Marketing such as Webadvertising
Practice. Tsinghua University is one ofthe top ranked universities in China and widely regarded as the best in the field of engineering.The two-way program started in 2010 with receipt of a seed grant from Purdue’s InternationalPrograms. Students from the two partner institutions form cross-cultural teams that undertakeinterdisciplinary research projects for a period of ten weeks. This paper describes the twoprojects offered during the summer of 2014, which were focused on big data and analytics inbiomedicine. The projects’ interdisciplinary spirit is justified and strengthened by theparticipation of faculty advisors from Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering andTsinghua’s Department of Automation.The dual exchange program is structured
project. The goal of this project was to initiate a recycling program at the St.Christopher Midsummer Festival, which previously, had no recycling program. The planningstages for this project began in February 2017. A proposal was submitted to the IUPUI Service-Learning Office for $1,800 and approved for funding to cover miscellaneous expenses andprovide a stipend for the graduate students. The overriding intent of this project was to take toheart the philosophy, principles, and practices of sustainability and apply it to a communityproject.St. Christopher Midsummer FestivalSt. Christopher is a catholic parish located in Speedway on the west side of Indianapolis. The80th annual St. Christopher Midsummer Festival took place July 13-15, 2017 on the
served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Pro- gram at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepre- sented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at
Paper ID #27514The Impact of Participation in Multiple International Learning Experiencesfor Engineering StudentsJiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity. Her primary research interests relate to the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students, and global engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University in 2013.Miss Yaxin Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yaxin Huang received a Bachelor’s degree in
least two years of supervised professional service and internationalresearch experiences that includes specialized training in language, culture, participatoryplanning, and sustainable development practices through the Peace Corps partnership. Thisusually includes at least 8 weeks of intense language, cultural, and technical training and 27months of service in a designated community. The students also gain a global perspective whileperforming graduate level research in an international context of economic, social, andenvironmental limitations5,6. There are over one hundred7 MIPs currently operating at USuniversities; however, the specialization within engineering is currently limited to nine7campuses and typically includes mechanical, civil
of Engineering Graduates: An Indian Case Study', International Journal of Training and Development, 14 (2010), 130-43.11 Waychal Pradeep, and Dixit Rajan, 'Applying Scm Principles to the Indian Engineering Education System', in International Conference on Best Practices in Supply Chain Management (Bhubaneswar, India: 2012 ).12 Philip L Roth, and Richard L Clarke, 'Meta-Analyzing the Relation between Grades and Salary', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 53 (1998), 386-400.13 Chitu Okoli, and Suzanne D Pawlowski, 'The Delphi Method as a Research Tool: An Example, Design Considerations and Applications', Information & Management, 42 (2004), 15-29
facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use
School. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering and mathematics from Central Michigan University in 2010. She is supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship, and a Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Fellowship.Dr. Aline Cotel, University of Michigan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Towards a global virtual community of female engineering students and professionals: I. Impacts of grassroots international partnerships of student organizations on U.S. engineering undergraduate cultural competency Introduction 1. Overview The
improve quality of life. Experience with financial auditing for state Congress, government projects, and universities in the U.S. demonstrate diverse work and skills. Mission: Global diversity and inclusion in STEM fields. Presence: U.S., Latin America, Caribbean and Asia.Ms. Denise Nicole Williams, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Denise N. Williams is a third year Chemistry PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as a member of Dr. Zeev Rosenzweig’s nanomaterials research group. She is currently a National Science Foundation AGEP Fellow, a Meyerhoff Graduate Fellow, and a research associate of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. Prior to her time at UMBC, Denise earned a
, graduate students, post-docs, and young researchers [13]. The focus of these schools is typically on education on thelatest technology rather than projects.The project described in this paper is a university-industry-government collaboration in China.The partners worked together to offer a summer school as an alternative to an internship forundergraduate and graduate engineering students throughout China. The summer schoolincludes education as well as practical experience with current FPGA technology. Thisinnovative partnership can serve as a model for other programs with similar aims.Context of ChinaTo better prepare students for the fourth industrial revolution including big data, cloudcomputing, and intelligent manufacturing, the Chinese
, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Sergey Dubikovsky is an Associate Professor at Purdue University in the School of Aviation and Trans- portation Technology. He teaches advanced aircraft materials and processes and advanced manufacturing and design process courses. His research focus is in immersive learning, problem- and project-based learning, international engineering education, globalization, lean Six Sigma. He worked previously in industry as a Design, Product, and Project Engineer. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Me- chanical Engineering from South Ural State University (formerly Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute) in Russia and a PhD in Engineering Education from
designed to provide global competency to students so that claimsabout the success of educational practices might be evaluated [1] in [11]. This study contributesto the body of knowledge on how to and what prepares engineering students to be ready for theglobal job market and society they will face once they graduate by understanding how studentscome to appreciate cultural differences to interact effectively with different others in the contextof a global engineering course. This research supports the lifelong learning concept and ways todevelop the five competencies rated most important by the industry, which includes appreciatingand respecting cultural differences, collaborating and working on a multicultural team, using
engineering experience to mirror a team research anddesign environment as opposed to the lecture/lab environment found within most study abroadprograms world-wide. The team-based structure also best allows the transfer of ideas andperspectives among the students. To accomplish this, the summer design experience wasconstructed as a program made up of multidisciplinary teams not only based on educationaldiversity but also including cultural and gender diversity. The instructional staff for the summerprojects selected a broad program theme, but individual teams were given the freedom to pursuea project topic of interest within that theme. For the 2014 program, the theme was visible light(wavelength) communication systems (VLC). Within this theme, the
approaches for designing and operating re- silient and smart urban water infrastructure. This research has received more than $15 million in funding and produced more than 75 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Burian’s enthusiasm for student learning has led to teaching awards and service assignments as assistant mentor and mentor at the American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Teaching Workshop. He has also developed a variety of teaching and cur- riculum development workshops, including the Wasatch Experience Sustainability Teaching Workshop at the University of Utah. Steve has participated in the ASEE Annual Conference every year since 2007, co-authoring 14 papers and presenting 12. At the 2011 conference his paper was
teaching and learning for engineering faculty. In his research Dominik May focuses, inter alia, on future requirements for science and engineering graduates, such as interna- tional competence, in order to become successful engineers in a globalized professional world. Therefore he designs and investigates respective educational strategies with a special focus on online solutions and the integration of remote laboratories. For his research and the development of several transnational on- line courses he benefits from his working experience in international companies and a broad international professional network. Furthermore Dominik May is founding member of both the Engineering Education Research Group at the Center
problemthe cluster faces is the need for successful approaches for Asia. The reason is that efficientpractices for Europe had poor effect in Asia-Pacific as different intercultural aspects andvarious details had to be considered to ensure success.This paper describes new practices which have been implemented to solve this problem. First,a Russian research university engaged in research for the cluster was selected as a site whichhelps the cluster with challenging process of internationalization. Next, a representative officeof this Russian university was established in Vietnam to balance cultural, linguistic,psychological, and administrative issues. This office employs Vietnamese graduates of thisuniversity and coordinates cooperation between
practice of design and the resulting impact of engineering designs on society.The CoursesCourse InstructorsAs discussed earlier, the endeavor of teaching engineering as a sociotechnical discipline whileintegrating issues such as race, justice, and -isms can be a daunting task for instructors, and weare no exceptions. As the background and positionality of the instructor is critical tounderstanding the risks and rewards associated with these courses, this section briefly describeseach of the instructors who have taught or are currently teaching the course.J. A. Mejia self-identifies as Mexican American and his research investigates the funds ofknowledge of Latinx adolescents. He grew up in a binational setting where the majority of thepopulation
focuses on the analysis of designated andemergent leaders during the project26.Project-based learning is associated with increased student satisfaction, skills development, andlong-term retention of material27. In engineering education, it is an effective mode in which toteach design28 and can closely model engineering practice: in a typical course, teams ideate,design, and prototype an engineering product. The types of skills developed in project-basedcourses, including teamwork, communication, and self-directed research, are congruent withbroader professional goals for graduating engineering students. Finally, current accreditationguidelines for U.S. schools require a capstone design course for all engineering programs26.Therefore major U.S
in a diverseclass containing freshmen through graduate students. Findings suggest that students develop agreater appreciation for language differences, see a connectedness between their engineeringwork and societal impacts, and draw connections more readily between theories presented inclass and practical applications on site. Not surprisingly, our findings also suggest that studentsare more likely to participate in a study abroad program when their class schedules are notadversely affected and when the topic relates to their major discipline.IntroductionStudying abroad at the post-secondary level is frequently advocated for because of the manypotential benefits to student learning1,2,3,4. However, these benefits are not uniformly
institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division of the American Society for Engineering Education and in the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution (LACCEI).Prof. Jared Roberto Ocampo, Universidad Tecnol´ogica Centroamericana (UNITEC) Jared R. Ocampo is currently a researcher of the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad Tecnol´ogica Centroamericana (UNITEC) campus of San Pedro Sula and previously worked as Academic Head of Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering Coordinator and as an undergraduate and graduate professor. He also works as a private
to exclude their information.3.3 COVID-19 Setting To provide greater context to the setting in which this research was conducted, we mustacknowledge the COVID-19 pandemic and the situations in which that forced internationalstudents into. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, incoming international students were admittedinto a special virtual program designed to cater to their needs called Bound. This allowedstudents to take asynchronous classes while being in various time zones. While being at homewas safe and comfortable, it was also difficult for students to make connections with peers andparticipate in extracurricular activities. Despite the virtual nature of most meetings and events,being in a time zone more than 7 hours ahead made it