Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Matt Parkinson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Yoke-San Wong, National University of Singapore; Brian D. Jensen, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Gregory M. Roach, Brigham Young University, Idaho

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must not only develop technical skills for success within their career butthey must also develop global competence to interact effectively in today’s increasingly inter-connected world. Beginning in 2008, a group of universities from different parts of the worldpartnered together with a goal of better preparing global engineering graduates. This resulted in aculturally immersive international product development and design experience that takes placeeach summer. Students primarily from universities within the USA travel to the NationalUniversity of Singapore for an intensive two and one-half week design interaction in late Mayand Early June. Professors from participating universities that include the National University ofSingapore (NUS), Penn

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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and support/supportive environment: This scale, consisting of seven items, sought to learn about students’ relationships with instructors and students, and their perceptions of how supportive their instructors were. 3) Value: The four items in this scale asked students about their perceptions of the value of the topics covered in their courses, specifically regarding how interesting, challenging, and relevant to their future careers they considered these topics to be. 4) Self-efficacy: Similar to the self-efficacy scale used in the first-year survey, this five- item scale had the goal of revealing students’ levels of confidence in their abilities to succeed in engineering and in their courses. 5

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Marta A Panero, New York Institute of Technology

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guided by its mission to provide career- oriented Page 24.644.2professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and supportapplications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. Its students represent nearly all 50U.S. states and 109 countries, with 1400 international students at the New York campuses, themajority of whom are School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS) students.Following the creation of a Master Strategic Plan, a key initiative revisited the university’s corecurriculum which resides in the College of Arts and Sciences.The new Discovery Core Curriculum utilizes a progressive approach

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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fiveyear program is taken. At the moment, the five year national degree is the prioritized degree,and the students get the additional to degrees (BSc and MSc) as a bonus and to facilitateinternational careers. The trend is however to move towards the European degrees and reducethe importance of the five year degree. For the rest of this paper, the five year programs arereferred to as the “national engineering programs”.A student that starts at KTH therefore chooses between nine three year engineering programsand seventeen five year national engineering programs. All programs (except one) are givenin Swedish for the first three years and in English for the last, meaning that all BSc programs(except one) are in Swedish and all MSc programs are in

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart

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professional career, but slightlylower as cultural and personal growth experience (see Table 5). Participants valued theirinternships less as an opportunity to gain technical hard skills (61.3%), but more as anopportunity to apply their technical skills (67.1%) and to make professional contacts (75.5%).This assessment is partially supported by the gains participants reported in various skill sets.Ranking their skill gains on a scale from one to five, relatively few graduates reported impressivegains in hard skills, such as technical skills in their core discipline, mathematics, or computerskills. Nevertheless 60.2% of respondents reported significant gains in the ability to solvecomplex technical problems, and 71.6% returned with a significantly

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Svetlana Levonisova, University of Southern California; Shaobo Huang, University of Southern California; Scott C Streiner, University of Pittsburgh; Sydnie Cunningham Cunningham, The University of Tulsa; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Cheryl Matherly

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complete Ongoing, Creativity and Awareness of local, and others from technical tasks, how their career as regional and voluntary self- innovation different cultures presentations and impacted by global international motivated learner communications

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabeen A. Altaf, Institute of International Education; Eck Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Edward Randolph Collins Jr. P.E., Clemson University

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-2014 was selected to serve as a Provost Fellow at Clemson. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Joining Hands: Using Consortia to Efficiently Create Easily Accessible International Experiences for Engineering StudentsAs globalization has continued to gain momentum as a central theme shaping the modernengineering economy, international experience and global preparedness have becomeincreasingly sought after attributes of graduates headed for industry, professional schools, andacademia. Both practicing engineers and researchers will, at some point in their careers, beexpected to work closely with collaborators across national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries.This fact is

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Alejandro Teran, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM); Hoa Thi Pham, International University - Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City

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agraduate program, and eventually the ability to become a licensed engineer. Both purposes alsosupport the public goals of having high quality programs and making information about qualityavailable.The website accreditation.org “is intended to be the preferred resource for all information on Page 24.972.2Engineering, Technology and Computing (ETC) accreditation globally.”1 It contains informationon accrediting bodies by country and information on accords involving mutual recognitionagreements, as well as information on why accreditation is important and information onengineering and engineering careers. It also has a search engine allowing search for

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamid R. Parsaei PE, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Nimir Elbashir, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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undergraduate students andalumni of TAMUQ provided us feedback about their experience during the undergraduateresearch experience.The preliminary data stems from most faculty members noticing that such experiencespositively impact the students’ knowledge in their field as well as improving their academicand personal performance (no data provided in this paper). Also, many students indicated thatsuch experiences helped them to identify their future career while many alumni indicated thatit provided them with a speedy start in their first jobs after graduation. Hence, this survey isaimed at compiling these findings and observations.The purpose of this survey to look at these impacts both quantitatively and qualitatively toidentify the importance of these

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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Texas Tech University students even though the international experienceis required instead of options. Benefits include the following.  Study abroad experiences in the early stages of a student’s career statistically improve 4 year, 5 year and 6 year graduation rates, with the greatest improvement in the 4 year graduation rates.  Student with a study abroad experience have higher GPAs at graduation than students that did not study abroad.  Study abroad experiences have shown to improve retention of underrepresented groups.In addition to positively benefiting the students, the hope is that the international and studyabroad experiences benefits the departments and WCOE. One benefit may be that the studyabroad