programs in order to build a community on campus where female students can feel safe and nurtured by their peers, e.g. University of WisconsinMadison, University of Michigan [2,3]. Success was measured by better grades and an overall higher satisfaction with the University. Currently the situation in Liberia is such that there is no critical mass of female students to create such programs and achieve a sense of community [4]. Organizations like SWE have the potential to provide a critical mass of fellow women engineers for female students, and subsequently increase persistence of women in engineering [5,6]. Moreover, global competence is making its way into engineering education as a necessary skill for today’s engineers [7
has worked at the University of Glasgow specialising in teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes. Anna is interested in academic development, particularly related to writing skills and graduate attributes. She has developed a keen interest in e-learning and how technologies can be used to enhance learning and teaching processes. Her special areas of interest include: effective online course and activity design, building online communities and multimodal approaches to writing and assessment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Investigating EAST (English for Academic Study Tele-collaboration) A UK- Palestine English Language Project for Engineering and Science
an ASEAN regional standard.4While both ABET and AUN-QA are nonprofit, non-governmental organizations, they featurevery different organizational structures (it should also be noted that AUN is a much youngerorganization than ABET and its predecessors). ABET limits its membership to technicalsocieties, currently 35 members, that represent related professions. The bulk of the work withinABET activities is done by volunteers from academia, government, and industry.5 The membersocieties nominate individuals to act as these volunteers, who are key participants in ABET’sacademic program peer-review process. Programs accredited by ABET range from the associatedegree to master degrees, depending on the accreditation commission. ABET is divided
served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Pro- gram at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepre- sented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at
with thesematerials. It is primarily a call to consider how students engage in their college experience,and to search for proper tools that can be deployed to stimulate learning.In moving forward, there are numerous tools available to select from, including the modelspredicated on cooperation; i.e., working together to accomplish shared goals. Withincooperative activities, individuals seek outcomes that are beneficial to them and also benefitall other group members. (2, 3) Cooperative learning researchers and practitioners have shownthat positive peer relations are essential to success in college. The positive interpersonalrelationships promoted through cooperative learning are regarded by most as crucial totoday’s learning communities. They
Technological University since March 2014. She has the position of an interpreter and her current area of activities includes: organization international conferences, visits of foreign delega- tions, writing minutes of the meetings; preparation documents for concluding international agreements and making calendar and end-of-year reports. Marina is the author or co-author of about 15 research papers.Dr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed
experiences will be a springboard for increasinglycollaborative curricular experiences for our university students to work together to developcompetency in intercultural interaction and to engage in sharing their unique perspectives andexperiences.This study aims to measure engineering students’ intercultural competence—their ability toparticipate in a multicultural team-based learning environment effectively—and to determine theeffectiveness of curriculum to affect intercultural competency. This effort aims not only toimprove the program quality but also to communicate the findings related to curriculumdevelopment to establish effective teaching methods with other programs through peer reviewedjournal publications and conference presentations.This
. With which college/school are you affiliated? C. What program are you attending? D. How did you find out about the international program? (Check all that apply.) General Questions for All SA programs As a result of participating in this international program: 1. My confidence and ability to live abroad or interact with people from other cultures has been strengthened. 2. I have a greater appreciation for other nations or cultures. 3. I have a deeper understanding of my own culture. 4. I have a deeper understanding of my own discipline. 5. My respect and love for people different from me has grown. 6. Please write a paragraph explaining the impact that your study abroad program has had on your overall
cognizant of international student needs while integrating diversity 1718 activities into WIEP mentoring programs. We also recognized, as others have before that the international participants in our program could help to increase multicultural awareness for our domestic participants, while conversely, domestic students can support the integration of international peers into the university. While other studies related to cultural aspects of mentoring in education tend to focus on three primary themes surrounding the mentoring relationship, organizational structure, and “manner in which ethnicity and societal beliefs relate
), funded under the US-Brazil Higher Education Program of the U.S. Department of Education, at VT. He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.Prof. Gopalkrishna H. Joshi, KLE Technological University Dr.Gopalkrishna H Joshi has his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering. He is currently working as a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and is also leading Engineering Education initiatives in KLE TECH as Director of Centre for Engineering Education Research. He research areas of interest include Data Engineering and Engineering Education.Prof. Ashok S. Shettar, KLE Technological University Dr. Ashok S. Shettar is Vice-Chancellor of KLE Technological University, Hubli India. He