Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jongwon Kim, Seoul National University; Dong Mok Kim, Seoul National University; Stefano Consiglio, Technical University of Berlin; Semih Severengiz, Technical University of Berlin; Guenther Seliger, Technical University of Berlin; Lalit Patil, University of Michigan; Debasish Dutta, University of Michigan

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International

studentsCombined with the considerable depth and diversity of the project task, the differences incultural backgrounds provide the students with formidable challenges, requiring a well-considered choice of candidates. The student selection process at SNU is somewhat tied to theBK-21 funding and associated faculty (more on BK-21 in Section 4). An effort is made toinclude graduate students from the research groups of every faculty involved in the BK-21program. The faculty recommend students for enrolment in GPD.In TUB and UM, the course is hugely oversubscribed and the challenge is to devise a good andfair selection process. In TUB, every student is required to write an application to explain theirmotivation for the GPD course and must provide an academic

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Wesley Donahue, Pennsylvania State University

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International

Business Administration and the College of Education. He was also the director ofmanagement development programs and services for the university. He was the sole instructorfor the course, and primarily responsible for the development of the course content.The pilot course implemented in the Fall of 2004 was to be a 50/50 mix of engineering andsociology students, but engineering students soon discovered that they could register through thesociology department. As a result, engineering students made up a majority of the twenty-fourstudents enrolled in the course. The remainder were sociology and psychology students. Thereis some anecdotal evidence that the students enjoyed having peers from other programs in thecourse, but no formal assessment was

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

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International

ofappropriate infrastructure projects and technically competent people to operate andmaintain them; and small business startups by technically competent entrepreneurs. BothUNESCO and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations are currently activelyengaged in technical capacity building in developing countries.High quality engineering education is a necessary forerunner to such economicdevelopment; and technically competent and current faculty members are key toproviding high quality engineering education programs. In addition, quality assurancesystems such as peer review based accreditation are needed to promote such high qualityeducation programs. Such quality assurance systems can then provide the basis for cross-border recognition systems

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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International

classes have adefinite advantage over their peers in the admission process. However, the transfergrades are not used when calculating the graduation GPA. Students have claimed thatthe earlier classes were easier to obtain high grades in at both schools, so not being ableto include those early class grades in their final GPA puts them at a disadvantage atgraduation. Obviously, this raises fairness concerns and may lead to discomfortamongst the student body.B. Sustaining academic standards – problems with grading on the curve From our teaching experience, we feel that discrepancies exist between thematerials taught at some of the non-accredited institutions compared to the UofU. This is

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Grandin, University of Rhode Island

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International

, open to different cultural perspectives, sensitive andable to adapt to difference. Given the new and highly rigorous emphasis on engineering andscience education in the rapidly emerging economies of nations such as China and India, wherework can be done at a fraction of the cost and where a great deal of attention is paid to dealingculturally and linguistically with others, American students must be prepared to understand,work and communicate with their peers abroad. It is therefore critical that engineers be educatedas global citizens, trained to work in global teams, and prepared to develop and manufacture fora global market. Without these skills, they will fail and their work will be handed off to peersfrom other parts of the world where