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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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2006-1290: QUASI INTERACTIVE VIDEO: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TOTHE DELIVERY OF LABORATORY CLASSESPeter Burton, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Peter C. M. Burton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT. He has also taught extensively and worked in the microelectronics industry in the United States. A background and strong interest in video production, coupled with an appreciation of difficulties faced by some first year tertiary students has been the impetus for this current work.Sanjay Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Sanjay Kumar is a Research Associate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His background is in

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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gregory zieren, Austin Peay State University

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like Thomas Edison or GeorgeCorliss. He focused his attention instead on the achievements of a corps of professionalengineers, and on the qualities of an educational system that had fostered suchexcellence.American engineering education had begun to enjoy world-wide renown by 1893. Prof.John Goodman, newly appointed to a chair at England’s Yorkshire College of Sciencequoted a senior colleague who advised him, “Now the very first opportunity you get, goover and see what the Americans are doing, and you will see there technical educationcarried out with the greatest efficiency.”3 What most impressed foreign observers werethe pedagogical possibilities of laboratory-based instruction in the engineering educationcurriculum. Laboratories gave

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricio Tapia, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

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only the education process but also the wayshow Teacher Assistants perceive their responsibilities. Becoming a Teacher Assistant atUniversity of Florida helps student’s financial needs and prepares those who want topursue an academic career. For Chileans, being a Teacher Assistant is considered a highprestige.IntroductionTeacher Assistant (TA) activities play an important role in the education of civilengineers since students learn and have the opportunity to interact with their fellowstudents. TA’s activities include performing assigned class duties, office hours, assistingstudents in the laboratory, field trips, and grading. The emphasis in each activity is afunction of the type of topic covered by the course. Theoretical subjects need

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shi (Stan) Lan, DeVry University-Chicago; Yaqing Mao, Beijing Normal University, China

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that electronics students sampled in China spent significantly more time onattending classroom lectures/scheduled laboratories and on studying outside the classroom thantheir counterparts in the United States.The researchers also reported that there was a substantial difference in unversity expendituresbetween the two countries. In addition to this subtantial difference, historically in China collegestudents and their families were paying a small percentage of the total educational expenditure.2Although in recent years university tuition and fees are increasing drastically, culturally moststudents in China consider that they do not share the responsibility of paying the cost of theiruniversity education, and that this responsibility either

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International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roli Varma, University of New Mexico

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organizations. The paper is based on in-depthinterviews with 82 Asian Indian scientists and engineers working in industrial companies,national laboratories, and academic institutions in the United States and 38 Indian scientists andengineers who worked in the United States for some time and then moved back to India.IntroductionPublic and private organizations in the United States have made enormous strides since CivilRights activists first demanded parity in educational and career opportunities for racial/ethnicminorities some 40 years ago. Changes to the law and organizational attitudes have opened thedoor to many people who a few decades ago would have found it not just locked but barred.Nevertheless, change has not come as quickly or as completely

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akbar Eslami, Elizabeth City State University; Mehran Elahi, Elizabeth City State University

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Tech. His research interests are in Composite materials and control. Page 11.360.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Conversion of an Obsolete Manually Operated Universal Testing Machine into a Hydraulic Hot-Press with Communications CapabilityIntroductionThe improvement of outdated laboratory equipment is a useful and often overlooked resourcethat has several advantages. One obvious advantage is that it saves money by adding newcapability and reducing capital expense for newer equipment. Another advantage is the honing ofskills by the people who make the improvements. Yet a third

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International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wenlung Li, National Taipei University of Technology; Jhy-Cherng Tsai, National Chung-Hsing University, TAIWAN; Wei-Chung Wang, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Cheng-Kuo Sung, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Jennie Wu, Ministry of Education, TAIWAN

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the most important, comprehensive andfundamental technologies for industries. Major achievements of the program includeestablishment of the expertise laboratories, the educational resource integration and outcomessharing, the e-education, the hands-on project competitions and the community service. Inaddition, the program also encourages the communities to organize the academy-industryalliances (AIA). During year 2001 to 2004, ten educational alliances, directed by the educationalresource centers (ERC), were formed in the past four years with more than 78 academic and 25industrial partners participated. Moreover, about 54 expertise laboratories are establishedtogether with accompanying courses and lecture materials. The outcomes and

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Direk Lavansiri, Chulalongkorn University; Boonchai Sowanwanichakul, Chulalongkorn University; Manoj Lohatepanont, Chulalongkorn University

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is, the degreesoffered by Thai Cyber University will be students’s second (or later) degrees. The program isdesigned in this fashion in recognition of our inability to provide fundamental laboratory courses,such as Physics or Chemistry. Students will have had taken these classes in conventional system Page 11.526.9prior to enrolling with Thai Cyber University.The learning in the program will be monitored through a learning management system to ensurequality of the education. Group discussions will be held through the internet webboard. Someprograms of study will employ local tutors, who can help students and act as contact pointsbetween

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

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communication technologies to the delivery ofcourse content and materials. Engineering schools can develop synergistic and complementarypartnerships with engineering programs in developing countries. Three of their partnerships aredescribed below.In 2002 Purdue University, Kabul University, Kabul Polytechnic and Kabul EducationUniversity were awarded a grant to establish a rapid training program at the universities in Kabulin order to generate an immediate flow of skilled workers and trainers into Afghanistan’srebuilding effort, with a focus on agriculture, education, engineering, and technology. Thepartners targeted their efforts on training in the use of distance learning (DL), and establishingfour DL laboratories at three universities in Kabul. Four

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University; Dueb Lakhder, Consultant to UNESCO; Thomas Siller, Colorado State University

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Chemistry I 4 General Chemistry II 3General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 General Chemistry II Laboratory 1Calculus I for Physical Sciences 4 Calculus II for Physical Sciences 4Physics I for Engineers 5 Physics II for Engineers 5College Composition 3 Public Speaking 3Second YearCalculus III for Physical Scientists 4 Ordinary Differential Equations 4Engineering Mechanics – Statics 3 Engineering Mechanics – Dynamics 3Social Problems 3 Current World Problems 3Principles of Plant Biology 4 Principles of Microeconomics

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashok Goel, Michigan Technological University; Hyun-Chan Cho, Korea University of Technology and Education

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various industrial Page 11.1233.2fields with opportunities to learn advanced teaching methodologies and new technologies.Historical development of HRDI is summarized in Table 1 and the various training programsundertaken by HRDI from 1998 to 2003 and the number of participants in these activities arelisted in Table 2. HRDI provides state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory facilities as shown inFigs 1 and 2. Table 1 Historical Development of HRDI Date Activity According to the government's New Five-Year

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado-Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado-Boulder; R. Scott Summers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

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them can be found at www.edc-cu.org/Education.htm.Starting in spring 2004, an outdoor teaching laboratory has been created on the CU Boulder campusthat gives students the opportunity to practice sustainable building techniques in an outdoor setting.The Field Laboratory for Applied Sustainable Technologies (FLAST) allows students to gain Page 11.566.7experience with low cost, low maintenance green building materials through active and experientiallearning (www.edc-cu.org/FLAST.htm). In 2004, the laboratory was used as an integral part of theteaching of Sustainability and the Built Environment, which wastaught to graduate and undergraduate

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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.” Page 11.1285.6ClassroomETHOS incorporates research projects into several undergraduate Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering courses. These courses include: MEE312L - Materials Laboratory, MEE410 – HeatTransfer, MEE431L – Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Laboratory I, and MEE432L –Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Laboratory II. To date, most classroom work has focusedon the design and analysis of biomass cook stoves. Primarily, these course projects have focusedon the design and analysis of insulative brick materials and the failure of chimney stacks used inconstruction of biomass cook stoves. Through these projects, students perform researchbenefiting collaborating organizations while being exposed to the associated social and

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Scheibler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Glenn Wrate, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Professional Engineer in California, and has held numerous positions in the ASEE Energy Conversion and Conservation Division.Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Petersen is Department Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 11.366.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Radha Balamuralikrishna, Northern Illinois University

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as a Renewable Energy Source. 2004. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. www.rcep.org.uk/bioreport.htm Biomass Program. 2006. U.S. Department of Energy. http://www.eere.energy.gov/biomass/ Biomass Program: Biomass Publications. 2005. US Department of Energy. http://www.eere.energy.gov/biomass/publications.html#feed Biomass Program: Feedstock Composition Glossary. 2005. US Department of Energy. http://www.eere.energy.gov/biomass/feedstock_glossary.html Biomass Program Multi-Year Technical Plan. 2003. US Department of Energy. http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/pdfs/MYTP%20FY%202002%20v13.pdf Biomass Research. What is a Biorefinery? National Renewable Energy Laboratory. www.nrel.gov/biomass

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International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech; Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

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available at both universities.Examples of courses with a one-to-one match, both in content and in credits, include fluidmechanics, vibrations, controls, heat and mass transfer, and senior capstone design. Forinstance, the unique, required course at Virginia Tech on applied fluid mechanics and heattransfer design, was replaced with a cluster of non-required but regularly offered portfolio oflecture and laboratory courses at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, that taken together,covers the material of the required Virginia Tech course, with the surplus credits being appliedtowards the Virginia Tech technical elective requirements; thus no credits earned abroad remainunused once transferred home.The students from the Technische Universität

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gayle Elliott, University of Cincinnati; Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Brian Dansberry, University of Cincinnati; Louis Trent, University of Cincinnati

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It became increasinglyapparent to the Division that the focus of the co-op program should be upon those areas that arecritical from the standpoint of both academia and industry.The faculty also recognized that, unlike a laboratory that is under the control of the facultymember, our students’ learning environment is under the control of the co-op employer. Whilethe goal was to develop a curriculum that provided all students with common learning outcomesthat they would be developing through participation in the Professional Practice Program, facultymembers were well aware of the time constraints students would face. The curriculum mustenhance the learning that is taking place naturally on the job and should not conflict with, or takepriority

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Lee Poe, Middle Tennessee State University; Olivia Dees, Middle Tennessee State University

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organisms flourish together. This ideology is possiblethrough the creation of technical solutions by engineering programs which have incorporated thiscurrent issue within its curricula. By representing both industrial and environmental ideals,classroom curricula can address various obstacles to bridge these polar entities. Students canthen develop creative methods in the laboratory with special research projects. Laboratoryresearch reinforces learning through hands-on application of classroom principles, while alsoproviding a significant atmosphere for technical collaboration with industrial contacts.A strengthened infrastructure of international environmental regulation for industry is necessaryfor maintaining a healthy balance in the relationship

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roland Kempter, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College; Neil Cotter, University of Utah; Lee Brinton, Salt Lake Community College

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Science I Introduction to essential programming concepts using C. Decomposition of programs into functional units; control structures; fundamental data structures of C; recursion; dynamic memory management; low-level programming. Some exposure to C++. Laboratory practice. (Intended for non-CS/CE majors).4. Cp Sc 1010 Introduction to Unix An introduction to the Unix workstations used in the College of Engineering CADE Lab. Topics include the X Windows system, Unix shell commands, file system issues, text editing with Emacs, accessing the World Wide Web with Netscape, and electronic mail. Self-paced course using online teaching aids.5. Math 1210 or 1270 Calculus I or Accelerated Engineering Calculus I

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International Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mulchand Rathod, Wayne State University; Mary James Legatski, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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and associate professor (1979-87), Tuskegee University as assistant professor of mechanical engineering (1976-78), and Jackson Engineering Graduate Program as adjunct faculty (1975-76). Over the period 1980-85, his was employed in summers and academic years at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of California Institute of Technology and IBM. He worked in HVAC industry with B&B Consulting Engineers (1975-76). He earned his B.E. (Mechanical) degree from Sardar Patel University in India in 1970. Upon immigrating to USA, he earned his M.S. (1972) and his Ph.D. (1975), both in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University. His specialty areas of interest include biomedical engineering

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismet Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University

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enhancedwith web-based exercises and projects. By the spring semester of 2003, a complete WebCTsupplement was developed for the course and beginning in the fall of the same year, the entirecourse was delivered through WebCT. Throughout the spring 2003 semester, no course materialswere committed to paper. The syllabus, handouts, course chapters, tests, unannounced quizzes,homeworks, lab assignments, lab reports, and presentations were presented, delivered, orsubmitted via WebCT [4].Course Materials on WebCTIn the ‘CAD for Technology’ course, students involve themselves in many industrial designprojects and part design laboratories. This course has the following modules in the WebCTsystem. 1. Course syllabus and information 2. Calendar, tips and

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International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Rowe, Sheffield Hallam University; Tim Mulroy, Sheffield Hallam University; Ian Robinson, Sheffield Hallam University; Boon Han Lye, Kolej Bandar Utama International College

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higher education. The Collegeencourages staff development, has a buoyant programme of scholarly activity, staff are supportedin their study for doctorates and a number of staff engage in personal research. KBU staff areexpected to engage in scholarly activity, and there are a number of small research laboratories forboth staff personal research and student project activities.KBU’s current engineering provision has been professionally accredited by the Board of EngineersMalaysia (BEM) by virtue of the host programmes in the UK being accredited by the Britishprofessional engineering bodies. KBU is the first private college thus accredited. The collegereceived, in 2000, formal acknowledgement of the quality of provision, which allows students

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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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. Those who are dedicated toimproving the situation in their native countries often return home after graduate studyabroad, and take teaching position at local universities. They are then often beset by amultitude of problems – inadequate salaries, forcing them to have an additional job whichdetracts from their university effectiveness; lack of financial resources for teaching andresearch laboratory equipment, and for publications that could keep them abreast ofdevelopments in their technical and professional fields; and lack of funds for travel toconferences that could keep them technically and professionally up to date. Page 11.1366.2With developments

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University

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2006-1394: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL WORLDVIEWKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Ken Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received his B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy, his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University, and his DPhil. at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering.Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University Steven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from

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Engineering Education & Capacity Building in Developing Countries

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Jane Parmentier, Arizona State University; Haritha Mogilisetti, Intel; N.K. Kishore, IIT, Karagpur; Uma Devi Sundararajan, National Highways, India; Krutarth Mehta, Arizona State University; Rajeswari Sundararajan, Arizona State University

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. One such example of this is the IIT Kharagpur’s initiative to ‘adopt’villages in its vicinity and bring information technologies to these villages to create awarenessand interest amongst the villagers. Another example is IIT Kharagpur’s agricultural and foodengineering departments which are setting up a laboratory on food processing technology toassist rural people.Educators need to work on the development of more tools, workshops and online offeringsshaped by ongoing feedback from program participants. The Indian curriculum is to be modifiedto help students develop the required thinking skills they need to participate and succeed in theknowledge based economy. Private companies and educational institutions need to collaborateon developing

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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on traditional lectures; Page 11.1257.8 • Increased emphasis on experiential learning through properly designed laboratory experiments to teach engineering principles and verify theoretical work raised in the classroom; • Stress on: life-long learning, systems thinking, organizational management, teamwork and group problem–solving skills, and cultivation of leadership skills; • Focus on design issues of relevance to the Region, involving life-cycle economics, environmental impact, utilization of locally available resources, maintainability, and conformity with