Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy; Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

International

Student Exchange, Faculty Exchange, and Faculty Collaboration – both instructionand research and development. We then share some of the key characteristics that make eachpossible and successful. Key factors, such as timetable matching and course equivalencymapping for accreditation and time-to-degree considerations, will be described and exampleprocedures and documents to these ends will be shared.This paper provides, not a conceptual exploration of what might be, but rather a practical, reality-based sharing of best practices that derive from our two institutions’ more than two year effort toevolve sustainable linkages. We are reporting on lessons learned from the real experience ofadministrators, faculty and students, not only exchanging but

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iskandar Hack, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; CARMEN BOJE, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

International

begun to explore the many ways that technology can enhanceinternational education for professional school students, and there is a need to share our “bestpractices.” The Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access(TICFIA) Program is a Title VI funded initiative designed to support projects that will developinnovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies to collect information fromforeign sources.”. Engineering needs to become “engineering-plus-international flavoring”[1]. By example,Mazumder and Bean [23] write: “…an engineer must possess not only technical skills, but alsocross-cultural skills based on knowledge to the other culture and their own cultural biases”. Theydescribe the