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International Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Adebayo Ogundipe, James Madison University; Siya Paul Rimoy, University of Dar es Salaam; Divina Donald Kaombe, University of Dar es Salaam

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to be implemented during the study abroadprogram and to identify appropriate projects for students to collaborate on, 2 faculty membersfrom the University of Dar es Salam, Tanzania (UDSM) were invited to James MadisonUniversity (JMU) in 2017. During their visit, they had meetings with relevant administrators andfaculty, toured facilities, engaged with engineering classes, had formal and informal meetingswith engineering students and participated in workshops. They also took the opportunity to visitsregional sites to develop a deeper appreciation of the social context in which American studentslive and study. The visiting faculty worked with JMU faculty to develop goals and scope for anengineering capstone design project for our respective

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

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Paper ID #32395Lessons Learned Developing and Running a Virtual, Faculty-Led,International Program on Sustainable Energy in BrazilDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engi- neering. In 2011, she joined Northeastern as a teaching professor in the First Year Engineering program. As part of the First Year Engineering faculty she focusing on curriculum innovations and implementing educational lessons and engineering design projects on sustainability. In 2017, she moved full time into the Chemical Engineering department

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Bing Mu, University of Rhode Island; Lars Olav Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Iñaki Perez-Ibanez, University of Rhode Island

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gives students the verbal communicationskills which heighten their integration and interaction with their work teams. In this example, thestudent wrote a detailed explanation in which she described the different elements that affectsuch performance and the measurements used in her project. Her essay shows that the technicalvocabulary was necessary for her verbal communication skills.  SPA2_A7 wrote, I did not know many of the words that I used in the previous paragraph [in this paragraph she explained the internship project she conducted at CEIT, a study of the efficiency of electric boat motors] before starting my internship. It is important to learn and understand the terminology used in an office in case your