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Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

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William Jordan, Baylor University

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AC 2010-500: IMPLEMENTING SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS IN THEDEVELOPING WORLDWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials related courses. He does research in appropriate technology applications, engineering ethics, and entrepreneurship. Page 15.686.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010

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Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

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Shi-Jer Lou, National PingTung University of Science and Techno; Shun-Yuan Chuang, National Kaohsiung Normal University; Hsiang-jen Meng, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology; Ron Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of Technology; Chi-Cheng Chang, National Taipei University of Technology

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AC 2010-424: A STUDY OF PROJECT-BASED STEM LEARNING IN TAIWANShi-Jer Lou, National PingTung University of Science and TechnoShun-Yuan Chuang, National Kaohsiung Normal UniversityHsiang-jen Meng, National Pingtung University of Science and TechnologyRon Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, TaiwanKuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of TechnologyChi-Cheng Chang, National Taipei University of Technology Page 15.98.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Study of Project-Based STEM Learning for Senior High School Students in TaiwanAbstractThe purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of incorporating the Project-Based

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Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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Dan Baker, The University of Vermont; John Merrill, The Ohio State University; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

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AC 2010-1962: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & ENGINEERING:PERSPECTIVES ON INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS IN HONDURASDan Baker, The University of Vermont Daniel Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont. He specializes in participatory and collaborative projects between academic institutions and community groups -- in international, regional, and local settings. With a background in technology transfer, agricultural economic and business analysis, he is engaged in numerous projects throughout Honduras. He is also a PI for a multi-year grant investigating agricultural labor practices in Vermont.John Merrill, The Ohio State

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Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Ricardo Mejia, Universidad EAFIT; Carlos Rodriguez, Universidad EAFIT

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AC 2010-433: COLLABORATIVE TOOLS FOR GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECTMANAGEMENT: CASE STUDY OF AN ACADEMIC EXPERIENCEIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, global design, and global engineering education. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division of the American Society for

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Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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Stephen Frempong, State University of New York

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AC 2010-957: BRINGING OUT THE BEST FROM THE ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY STUDENTS THROUGH A SENIOR PROJECT COURSEStephen Frempong, State University of New York Page 15.242.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Bringing out the best from Engineering Technology students through a capstone (project) course at SUNY CantonAbstract:The capstone (project) course in the Electrical EngineeringTechnology program was developed four years ago at the StateUniversity of New York at Canton is making a big difference inour senior students. This paper will discuss a more hands-onsenior capstone course that gives the student an opportunity tothink, research, design, construct

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Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

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Gary Chinn, Pennsylvania State University; Veena Raman, Pennsylvania State University; Steve A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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AC 2010-1273: USING TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED COLLABORATION IN THETEACHING OF ETHICS & GLOBALIZATIONGary Chinn, Pennsylvania State University Gary Chinn is project manager of the eLearning Initiative in the College of Engineering at Penn State. Sponsored by the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, the initiative explores new technologies and approaches related to teaching & learning.Veena Raman, Pennsylvania State University Veena Raman is a lecturer in the departments of Communication Arts and Sciences and Science, Technology, and Society at Penn State. Dr. Raman teaches courses on globalization, new information technologies, the cultural implications of new media

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Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Colleen O'Holleran, Engineers Without Borders-USA; Cathy Leslie, Engineers Without Borders

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, attitudes, and identity) more successfully than traditionalmethods; for faculty LTS is seen as a powerful motivator for classroom learning (students aremore enthusiastic about their discipline); for universities it is seen as a strong recruitment andretention feature (students want to study at schools with these programs); for the communities itis a way to get much needed technical assistance through the service projects performed bystudents and faculty.The next part of the Summit focused on possibilities, particularly what an LTS-based curriculumwould look like if it was developed with no restrictions. As the ideas, expressed as curriculumplans generated by groups of attendees, are rich in complexity and diversity it is impossible tosummarize them

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Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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Lamyaa El-Gabry, The American University in Cairo - Mechanical Engineering Department

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AC 2010-68: COMMUNITY BASED LEARNING IN ENGR 101 TERM PROJECT:TOY DESIGN FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN IN DISADVANTAGED OLD CAIROCOMMUNITYLamyaa El-Gabry, The American University in Cairo - Mechanical Engineering Department Page 15.293.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Community based learning in ENGR 101 term project: toy design for school children in disadvantaged Old Cairo communityAbstractIntroduction to Engineering (ENGR 101) is the first engineering course students take uponadmission to the engineering program. It is required of students in all disciplines of engineering.It is a one credit hour course that meets once a week

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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comprehensivecourse framework. The modifications to existing software engineering project managementcourse contents are made mainly to develop student’s communication skills. Another task is toconduct an experiment on feasibility of integrating communication training into the projectmanagement course. The research develops a plan to test whether or not the new methods andactivities are effective to develop Chinese student’s soft skills in general and particularlyimprove their practical communication skills in the course. Students are required to go through avariety of new team activities and complete newly designed team oriented project assignmentswith the new focus on developing student’s communication skills. Throughout the course studentsurvey and other

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University; Glenn Blackwell, Purdue University

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, mechanical andindustrial design departments of the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts –Engineering & Architecture (LUASA), as well as the Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology department of Purdue University.Students and faculty from Lucerne University traveled to Purdue University in the fall of 2008 tomeet and to determine assignments for the design and construction aspects of the project. Afterboth teams worked on the project during the fall, and winter of 2008 and the spring of 2009, thePurdue team then traveled to Lucerne, Switzerland, in May 2009 for two weeks to work on theintegration of the hardware and software aspects of the project. This project served as thecapstone senior design experience for the students from

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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Richard Hill, University of Detroit Mercy; Patricia Pena, Federal University of Minas Gerais

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Systems CourseAbstractThis paper presents the results of a collaborative group project involving teams of students fromthe University of Detroit Mercy in the United States and the Federal University of Minas Geraisin Brazil that took place during the summer of 2009. This assignment was given as part ofexisting undergraduate control systems courses offered at the participating universities. As theseare existing courses that are currently required in the respective curricula, students were notrequired to take an extra course and a range of students were reached. Furthermore, the entireproject was performed at a distance employing readily available technologies such that additionalcosts were not a concern.IntroductionThe effects of globalization on

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Richard Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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AC 2010-706: EVALUATION OF INTERCULTURAL LEARNING IN ANEDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAM FOR STEM UNDERGRADUATESChrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Chrysanthe Demetry is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Educational Development & Assessment at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where she has been on the faculty since 1993. A materials scientist by training, she co-directs WPI's Bangkok Project Center and has advised approximately 75 off-campus student research projects in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Her research interests include measurement of student learning outcomes from international education, active and

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Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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Mazen Hasna, Qatar University; Abdelmagid Hamouda, Qatar University; Boualem Boashash, Qatar University

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AC 2010-827: PREPARING AND EDUCATING THE QATARI ENGINEER OF 2030Mazen Hasna, Qatar UniversityAbdelmagid Hamouda, Qatar UniversityBoualem Boashash, Qatar University Page 15.973.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Preparing and Educating the Arab Qatari Engineer of 2030AbstractThis paper addresses the issue of adapting Engineering Education to a changing situation inQatar, a small country that is part of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council. It presents theframework for a national project planned to take place in the State of Qatar during the 2010/11academic year.Over the past few years, several professional organizations started reviewing the issue

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Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

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Kevin McGarvey, Rowan University; Michael Panko, Rowan University; Michael Kerbaugh, Rowan University; Gabriel Posluszny, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Anthony Cavalier, Rowan University

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thatrequire redesign or development of a device that will enhance the quality of life of the local area.The students then work on modifying or designing the device using local materials and inputfrom the local community. Some examples of projects undertaken include development of ahuman powered grain crusher and a tree climber. The grain crusher being designed at RowanUniversity has undergone many revisions to make it more affordable and sustainable based onpilot studies and end-user feedback. It can be powered easily by a single person and thereforecan utilize human energy for crushing grains efficiently. The second project currently inprogress is a palm tree climber. The tree climber will provide a safer alternative to the traditionalclimbing

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Gary Riggins, Virginia Tech

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AC 2010-2064: A WORKSHOP FOR INDIAN ENGINEERING FACULTY UNDERTHE INDO-US COLLABORATION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONVinod Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod K Lohani is an associate professor in the Engineering Education Department (EngE) and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received a PhD in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He led a major curriculum reform project (2004-09), funded under the department-level reform program of the NSF, at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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Ilka Balk, University of Kentucky; John Balk, University of Kentucky

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studentsarrive in Karlsruhe between January and March, and start with a research project that has beenformulated by faculty at both institutions. Whenever possible, the US student is paired with aGerman student who will participate in the reciprocal phase of the exchange program. When thesemester begins in Karlsruhe in April, students transition to coursework and either finish theirresearch or decrease their laboratory workload.The engineering students from Karlsruhe, Germany, come to the University of Kentucky inAugust to take regular classes in the fall semester. Karlsruhe’s engineering students, who arerequired to complete a 500-hour research project for their degree, perform some of this researchin the fall semester, while also taking classes, and

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International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Colledge, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Zhao, Pennsylvania State University

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engineering design education, indigenous knowledge systems and systems thinking.Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University Mary Lynn Brannon, Instructional Support Specialist at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at the Pennsylvania State University, has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design, and instructor of the Graduate Assistant Seminar for

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Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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Robert Todd, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University; Jim Nelson, Brigham Young University; Brent Nelson, Brigham Young University; Michael Miles, Brigham Young University

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benefit a community, they must also provide a quality engineering experience to the students that are involved. 3. International Design/Capstone Projects: International experiences may be integrated with departmental senior design/capstone programs. In this model, groups of students are assigned projects that have international content. In some cases, the students are teamed with students from foreign institutions. 4. Internships and supervised group projects: In these programs students work in carefully- selected international organizations as employees for 3-6 months, or under the supervision of a faculty member for shorter one-month group projects.Learning OutcomesLearning outcomes for international

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University

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project. Team members communicate using various software and hardware tools such asemail, audio and video conferencing, shared design documents, and CAD design models.For the past three years, faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU) have coordinated theefforts of student teams across the globe, including teams in Canada, China, India, Korea,Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Mexico and Australia, in a large scale design-and-build project.Building on those efforts, we recently initiated a National Science Foundation sponsored Page 15.385.2research program to develop and assess the effectiveness of global collaborative designexperiences in developing

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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Sabina Jeschke, Aachen University of Technology (RWTH); Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Olivier Pfeiffer; Nina Reinecke, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Erhard Zorn, Technische Universitaet Berlin

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robots, research cooperation in virtual worlds and cooperating IT systems, in particular cloud computing. In addition to her full professorship in Aachen, she holds a co-professorship at the University of Stuttgart, targeted towards the coordination of several eResearch projects. Sabina Jeschke received her diploma (M.Sc.) in physics at the Berlin Institute of Technology in 1997, graduating with distinction. Holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, she spent several months of research at NASA in Moffet Field, CA/USA during her studies. From 08/2000 to 05/2001, she worked as an assistant professor at GaTech (Georgia Institute of Technology

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International Division Poster Session

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Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences; Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety

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with different cultures and habits and at the same time having a kindof influence. Enterprises are looking for new talents no matter where they are and so moreopportunities and the reverse side of the same coin more competitiveness. The history shows anenormous amount of companies and engineers working in different places in the worldaccomplishing huge projects promoting the development of countries and societies. Page 15.484.2Now more then ever engineers should pay attention to what is going on worldwide to go forinternational experiences to improve personal skills and get different opportunities becausenothing has more impact than personal

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Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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Frank Duda, Grove City College

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Child) to jump start pre-engineering and science education in ruralUganda.Findings of survey trip to BKK in 2004The author organized an initial survey trip to BKK. The trip was made up of a team ofengineering educators and coordinated with education leaders in BKK. A summary of the tripand findings of the team were reported in a previous ASEE paper3 and the authors were awardedthe ASEE International Division Global Engineering & Engineering Technology EducatorAward for 2005.Three significant findings of the team relating to the XO1 project were the following: First, theteam found one progressive innovative secondary school (Bulindi Secondary School inextremely rural BKK) which had a well equipped multiple IBM type computer lab consisting

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Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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J Thompson, Kansas State University; Ata M. Nazar, Kabul University

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Page 15.1017.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Rebuilding Kabul University Engineering ProgramAbstract:Kansas State University (KSU) and Kabul University (KU) have established an EngineeringPartnership for the purpose of rebuilding the engineering program at Kabul University. Thepartnership is part of the Strengthening Higher Education Program (SHEP) of the Ministry ofHigher Education (MoHE), sponsored by the World Bank. The ten year partnership started in2007. This paper provides an historical backdrop against which the rebuilding project isdescribed. The project was designed on the concept of preparing the engineering programs toqualify for ABET accreditation. A form of the Fundamentals of Engineering

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Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

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Edmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, Montegancedo; Nelson Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo

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AC 2010-2222: A QUALITY MODEL OF OPENCOURSEWARE APPLIED TOENGINEERING COURSESEdmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, MontegancedoNelson Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de LojaManuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a DistanciaMartin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo Page 15.80.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Quality model of OpenCourseWare applied to Engineering coursesAbstractThe OpenCourseWare (OCW) project started at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT), in the year 2001, with the aim of offering pedagogical materials inan open and free of charge basis to society. The main objective of this

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz, University of Hartford; MirGhulam BarizHosaini, Herat University in Western Afghanistan; Alnajjar Hisham, University of Hartford

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theUniversity of Herat, in Herat City, Afghanistan. The goals of the project are to use a combinationof curriculum revision and development, faculty development, distance learning andcollaborative projects, and local/internal partnerships to establish the Herat University Faculty ofEngineering at the preeminent Engineering program for Western Afghanistan.Once a part of Kabul University, the Faculty of Engineering became a permanent part of HeratUniversity in 2004. After functioning in Kabul for approximately 20 years, the Engineeringprogram was closed following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The programalso temporary relocated to Pakistan in the 1990s. Although the university was officially open inHerat City during the civil war

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati; Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati

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engineering technology programs at the University of Cincinnati,such as internships or co-ops, service learning courses, study abroad programs, field projects,academic research, etc. This paper will describe how two faculty members in the MechanicalEngineering Technology department in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS)designed and delivered two avenues of concrete experience. One is a service learning coursewith entrepreneurship for honors scholars and the other is a study abroad course for allengineering technology students.IntroductionThe University of Cincinnati (UC) is a large urban public institution with students from aroundthe world. It is also classified as a research university by the Carnegie Commission. The city

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Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University; Hien Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University

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such as these, engineers will increasingly work on globallydispersed teams, where engineers in the United States may be working virtually with otherindividuals around the world. Graduates of engineering programs need to be prepared to workon projects that may be physically located in another country. They must also be able to work ondiverse teams with other engineers who may be from a different culture or country. As NAEnotes, “Many advanced engineering designs are accomplished using virtual global teams –highly integrated engineering teams comprised of researchers located around the world. Theseteams often function across multiple time zones, multiple cultures, and sometimes multiplelanguages.”2Employers of engineers have expressed the need

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent Jesiek, Purdue University; Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila Thompson, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

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Page 15.619.2producing “graduates [who are] effective in global context” is one of its three strategic goals for2009-2013.9 And as discussed in more detail below, the College’s Engineer of 2020 initiativefeatures a number of target graduate attributes with an explicit global dimension.Many kinds of strategies and programs have emerged to help prepare engineering students forglobal professional trajectories.6,10-11 At Purdue, for example, the Global Engineering Program(GEP) and Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) give studentsopportunities to study, work, volunteer, and intern abroad, and participate in multi-nationaldesign projects.12,13 Many students receive other kinds of global education through coursework

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Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

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Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University; Thomas Siller, Colorado State University

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three sponsoring programs. Each panel session ended withinput or questions from the audience. There may have been as many as 800 attendees andthe symposium was quite interesting because of the diverse nature of the grandchallenges. The breadth of topics placed the symposium at the opposite end of thespectrum of typical single topic engineering symposia or conferences. But what was theprocess that had led up to this symposium?In 2006 the National Academy of Engineering started a project titled Grand Challengesfor Engineering. The stated purpose of this National Academy of Engineering project1is In a fourteen-month project, the NAE will convene a select, international committee to evaluate ideas on the greatest challenges and

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Engineering Education in India, the Far East, and Central Asia

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M. Adithan, Vellore Institue of Technology; Robert Creese, West Virginia University

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our engineeringand technology programmes by international agencies.Objectives of Globalization Objectives of globalization at VIT University in India may be stated as follows: (1) To create a cosmopolitan culture and an international ambience in the university, thus providing an experiential learning to students in a cross-cultural environment; (2) To facilitate the visit of foreign professors and international experts, enabling them to share their expertise and experience; (3) To facilitate exchange of students and faculty to work on projects and to carryout R& D on areas of mutual interest; (4) To augment the facilities of laboratories and research centres already established in universities in India so