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Continuing Education for Faculty

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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does. But there is every reason tobelieve that introducing a higher level of professionalism would enable young facultyto create and sustain a more powerful form of engineering education for the Region.The author draws on his own experience in the Region, as a faculty member and anadministrator, and looks forward to a new paradigm in engineering education thatwill lead to widespread reform, to ensure the vitality and currency of engineeringeducation in the Arab Gulf Region.Some Benchmarks of Engineering Education in the Arab Gulf RegionIn most Middle East countries we witness an increase in the numbers of: engineeringcolleges, students, and engineering graduates. This trend has continued for decadesand has exceeded expectations. But

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They need more than technical skills!

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Media; Jared Roberto Ocampo, Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC)

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Paper ID #18137Comparison of Intrinsic Motivation of Freshmen Engineering Students asthey Participate in a Multinational Design ProjectDr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University Faculty member in the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems (EDMMS) at Western Michigan University’s (WMU). Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID), and currently the college representative to the President’s University-wide Sustainability Com- mittee at WMU. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin- Madison and received an MBA from Rutgers

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International Educational Experiences (2)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Timothy Kinoshita, Virginia Tech; Michelle Soledad, Virginia Tech, Ateneo de Davao University; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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helped students explore what it might be like to work on aglobal engineering team. Students were placed in small groups, and each person was assigned acountry from a different region of the world (e.g., one team had members assigned Egypt, SouthKorea, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and Indonesia). The students assumed therole of managers of an international team of engineers from their assigned countries and had todetermine how to lead the team effectively. In the first part of the project, each group identifiedquestions they could ask to learn about the cultural and business practices in their countries.Each student then located and communicated with an engineer from their assigned country todiscuss those questions. Students wrote

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International Educational Experiences (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Ebenstein, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University

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summer internship. The course content wasdesigned to enhance the participating students’ awareness of global and societal issues impactingand impacted by engineering decisions. Since that time, the course has been delivered 12 moretimes by a total of 17 different faculty members to over 280 students with five different engineeringmajors who traveled to a total of 13 different countries.Bibliography1. Eydgahi, H. Y., “Higher Education: The Need for an International Education,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.2. Machotka, M., and Spodek, S. “Study Abroad: Preparing Engineering Students for Success in the Global Economy,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition

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International Educational Experiences (2)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy L. Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Javier Fernando Del Carpio, Universidad ESAN; Nancy Matos P.E., Esan University

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important role. Severalstudents, particularly those who came to the university from out of state, reported that the offerof financial assistance swayed their decision to come to the university, and stated that they wouldprobably not be here otherwise. All of the students involved but one, who is now a Biologymajor, stayed within the College of Engineering (or in an engineering major housed in anothercollege) for the duration of their undergraduate careers. Students stated that by attending PreF(the first-year summer bridge), they became members of a strong-knit cohort consisting of thePathways fellows and other students. They felt that PreF and this community were major factorsin their retention in STEM majors and at the university. The Pathways

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Nontraditional Teaching Approaches

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Gopalkrishna H Joshi, KLE Technological University

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Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) Lab. In 2011 he founded Bhutanese-Nepali Christian Media Ministries, which utilizes online media to address needs in Christian ministries for people in these language groups. Prior to June 2010, he was a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire, where he earned his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering.Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K. Lohani is a Professor of Engineering Education and also serves as the faculty director of education and global initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is founding director of an interdisciplinary

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They need more than technical skills!

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Prewitt Penno P.E., University of Dayton; Roger J. Crum, University of Dayton; Eddy M. Rojas, University of Dayton

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get to know each other as well as the programfaculty who will be traveling and working with them in Italy. This course prepares students totake part in an integrated learning and living experience in Florence that is focused on thequestion of engineering leadership and problem solving in a global context. In addition toreceiving orientation to the specific engineering goals of the program, students explore andclarify broad academic and personal expectations and goals prior to departure. Program facultyand staff from UD’s Center for International Programs work with students towards:• knowing their fellow students, and creating an integrated learning and living community;• setting personal and collective goals that will be acted and

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International Educational Experiences (1)

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alistair Cook, Colorado State University

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, acontextualized international development project partnering with UNHCR Zambia that the students workon remotely from on campus as part of their curriculum, an extra-curricular design project workinginternationally on a development project with a partner community and a design project based studyabroad project in a developing country. Through this we hope to understand the relative importance ofinternational experience to becoming a globally competent engineer and can students gain a reasonablelevel of competence through introducing global perspectives into their classroom or do they need to travelabroad?IntroductionEngineering student’s ability to graduate and work in an increasingly global engineering marketplace isfundamental to their future success