Paper ID #43174Opening the Doors for International Students: Are We Ready?Dr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Sushil Acharya, D.Eng. (Asian Institute of Technology) is a Vice President for Research, Grants and Global Initiative. A Professor of Software Engineering, Dr. Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. His teaching involvement and research interests are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Software Security, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in
they met outside the classroom if they would be interested in beinginterviewed about their experiences.The interviews were done individually or in a group of two students based on the participants’availability. The original plan was to perform focus groups but often students did not respond atthe same time, making scheduling individual interviews easier. The researchers did not observedifferences in the answers from focus groups or individual interviews. For example, the studentswere asked “If you feel comfortable, did finances play a role in your track selection?” and allstudents chose to answer the question, often saying which option was the most affordable tothem. The students knew their peers in the focus group from the class at least for
gender pronouns is related to their experience using thembefore living in the U.S., with longer exposure to the U.S. leading to increased use of genderpronouns. For international graduate students who have lived in the U.S. for less than one year,the preference for using gender pronouns is greatly different from their peers who have been inthe U.S. longer, suggesting that new international graduate students could benefit from additionalguidance about gender pronouns to assist them in adjusting to the college environment. Buildingfrom this pilot study, we plan to investigate how international engineering students’ perceptionsof gender identity and gender expression practices change over time and identify factors thatinfluence these changes. Then
, while the Mexican team developed a can crusherto save space and a bicycle and a picnic table with solar panels to charge electronic devices oncampus. Exemplifying how the cultural environment draws different needs and solutions.Each team of students actively worked on their own solution while also providing guidance,support, and feedback to their counterparts on how to direct their own solution. III. DATA COLLECTIONThis course was not originally planned as a research project; thus, the data available for analysiswas limited to a promotional video created by students and end-of-semester, voluntary, writtenreflections about the course. The promotional video was transcribed using Otter AI software[6]. After
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people, and hasconsistently seen a significant reduction in Total Capital to Labour ratio expenditure over thepast few years. This reduction means that more focus is being placed on retaining the servicesof the mining labour force, even in the advent of digital transformation in mining, driven bythe core technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Most underground hard-rockmining companies have adopted some form of automation where possible, however thenature of the orebodies and infrastructure constraints favour conventional and human-centredmechanised mining methods over completely automated production environments. Theskillset of the workforce is therefore crucial in maintaining high production levels with zeroharm, whilst planning for
Marshall Plan scholarship.From 2008 to present, 32 students have participated in research at KTH in Sweden. In theNetherlands, from 2010-2019, 21 students were hosted at the Maastricht University. During theperiod, a total of seventy-four students participated from 2008 to 2018 in programs based inSweden, the Netherlands and Austria, twenty-five in Brazil based programs [44], and overtwenty in Morocco. All programs were modeled after the REU programs funded by the NSF.Toyohashi, Japan - At Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) research projects for studentswill include areas such as Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, BiomedicalScience/Engineering, Material Science and Nanotechnology.Beijing, China - A partnership with the
,” in Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education, D. Palfreyman and D. L. McBride, Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007, pp. 93–113. doi: 10.1057/9780230590427_6.[21] D. N. Ugwu and M. Adamuti-Trache, “Post-Graduation Plans of International Science and Engineering Doctoral Students Attending U.S. Universities,” J. Int. Stud., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1–21, Jan. 2017, doi: 10.32674/jis.v7i1.242.Appendix A5.1 Narrative 1: AuthorXI came to the United States as an international student from India to study a literacy education Ph.D.program at a midwestern Historically White Institution (PWI) high research (R2) university. I came froma heavily quantitative mindset due to my background in psychology in India