Paper ID #37386Case Study: International Summer Research Programming ExperiencesSponsored by TAMUS LSAMPDr. Michael D. Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development, through external evalu- ation, and as publication support. Most of his work involves STEM education and advancement projects and is completed for Minority-Serving Institutions. He also conducts research regarding higher education focused on the needs and interests of underserved populations and
pertaining to integration and cultivation of intercultural competence. Her expertise extends to facilitating workshops and training sessions, catering to the needs of both staff and students within Purdue University.Dr. Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Dr. Sakhi Aggrawal is a lecturer and research scientist in Purdue University’s Department of Computer and Information Technology. Her work explores how project-management frameworks, teamwork dynamics, intercultural competencies and AI tools can enhance STEM and engineering education. She also serves as a technical program manager at Google—industry experience that underpins her research on data-driven project management and agile methodologies. She
Uniminuto University employshigh relevance sustainability pedagogies such as problem-based learning, collaborative learning,and active learning in their daily teaching practices.Table 1 The high relevance sustainability pedagogies High Relevance and High Confidence Sustainability Pedagogies Pedagogical Approach Description/Example Project/problem-based Learning through actively attempting to study/address a learning (in an community/organizational problem or undertake a project deemed organization/community) necessary/useful by the class/community/organization. Integrative learning Integrating knowledge/methodologies/methods from more than one (inter-and disciplinary framework to understand/address
wider deployment. In particular, the educational systems in many sub-SaharanAfrican countries do not offer renewable energy courses. Furthermore, skills around writing proposals toacquire funding to finance these systems, basic project management skills around deploying andimplementing renewable energy systems and developing sustainable business models to ensure that theproductive use of the generated electricity provides sufficient income to sustain a renewable energyenterprise are often not incorporated into education curricula. This paper considers a new renewableenergy curriculum for the Burundian context that includes these components.Review of Existing Renewable Energy Programs in Sub-Saharan AfricaSeveral renewable energy masters
gain knowledge on major climate issues. Visitsincluded a tour of CTE, a company that works to make LEED-certified buildings; a biomass landfill;energy storage laboratories of the University of Sao Paulo; Zambianco, a sustainable sugar and ethanolplant; Angra, the only nuclear power plant in the country, and others. Incorporated in the trip was a project where students were split into groups and paired withBrazilian students from the University of Sao Paulo and an employee at CPFL Energia. CPFL is thesecond largest non-state-owned group of electric energy generation and distribution in Brazil. Theprogram's goal was to solve real issues that the company faces. Solutions were required to be analyzed foreconomic, political, and social
in the context of higher education institutions in Latin America and theCaribbean, which are directly related to some advances in compliance with SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDG) number 4 on quality education of the countries of this region inthe SDG Index. The obtained data allow us to understand the existence of educational needsof university professors from Latin America and the Caribbean, who wanted to learn not onlyabout STEM and migration but also about the intersectionality of DEI with other minorities,such as black communities, natives, Hispanics in the United States, and LGBTIQ+.IntroductionSignificant efforts have been made to promote gender equality in higher education. However,addressing broader projects on Diversity, Equity
(InternationalProfessional Engineering Educator Registered) title was achieved through the project“Pedagogical training of engineering educators—EnTER" (created in 2018). This wasachieved with the support of the only professional regulatory body that overseesengineering teaching professionals, the International Standard Classification ofOccupations (ISCO), with code 2311 (ISCO Code 08) as “Higher education teachingprofessional: Engineering educator" [4–6]. Thus, this article will show how the reviewedprograms are structured, and will provide a proposal for engineering that seeks to reflect,innovate, and rethink its teaching practices. Some research shows that engineering teachingpractices closely linked to the concept of traditional science are recognized, but in
Paper ID #38022Toward Bidirectional Faculty Development: A Collaborative Model forDesigning and Implementing Faculty Trainings on Evidence-BasedStrategies for Supporting Student Learning in Low- and Middle-IncomeCountriesMr. Steven Ghambi, Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences Steven Ghambi has over seven years experience as a lecturer in Materials engineering, currently with the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). While searching for better teaching strategies, Steven got attached to the NEST project co-implemented by Rice University and MUBAS. Through these collaborations, Steven has
graduate studies, and initially worked through language and culturaldifferences. She started doing CER in the third year of her graduate studies. She saw anannouncement from the university about a program on outreach and engagement offered by thegraduate school. They offered summer intensive training and certification in communityengagement for graduate students. She elected to participate because it seemed like a greatopportunity that was well-aligned with her dissertation research which required her to go into thecommunity to collect environmental samples. She recognized that her dissertation work could“easily transform to community engagement.” Her faculty advisor didn’t design the project forcommunity engagement, but she saw this opportunity
thesignificance of connecting these experiences to students’ academic and professional goals,promoting a reflective and meaningful learning journey.IntroductionEngineering education in the 21 st century faces a distinctive challenge in adjusting to a swiftlyevolving technological landscape, where ideas and innovations transcend geographical bordersand distances. Numerous major technological companies in the United States maintain robustglobal presence across their business, research, development, and production sectors, andengineering projects and teams often collaborate across multiple countries and culture. Eventhough technical expertise remains crucial, engineers must possess skills such as globalawareness, effective communication across diverse
well as, in some cases, Brunel University London and Dortmund University of AppliedSciences and Arts. Two different collaborative courses were held over four semesters withlecturers from the four universities. One of these courses, the International Engineering Project,was based on the Engineering Design Challenge organized by Engineers without Borders UK.Students from a variety of majors (e.g., architecture, civil engineering, IT, electrical engineering,mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, sustainable systems engineering) worked incross-university and cross-discipline groups to solve design challenges for two low-incomecommunities in Peru, and in the following year, a disadvantaged community in Cape York,Australia. The second
Paper ID #42892Board 131: Challenges and Innovative Strategies in International StudentEducationMr. Fanyu F Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University Fanyu F. Zeng is an Assistant Professor in Computer Information Technology and Data Analytics at Indiana Wesleyan University. His research interests include software development, programming, database management, database performance, data analytics, data mining, software project management. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Challenges and Innovative Strategies in International Student Education Fanyu Frank Zeng
examined the impact of internationalprograms on students, limited research has focused on the impacts on instructors, specifically interms of skill development, technological integration, pedagogical growth, and leadershipprogression during these global learning experiences.Existing frameworkIn the early 2000s, the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) framework wasdeveloped by SUNY COIL to offer intercultural engagement among students [10]. Thispedagogical method facilitates rich global engagement for students, faculty, and staff withoutinternational travel [11]. This program connects students and leaders with people worldwide tocollaborate on projects and discussions [12]. Prior studies on COIL indicated primarily positiveimpacts on
, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dr. Ernest-John Ignacio is an Instructor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a B.Eng. (2004) and M.Eng. (2005) in Civil Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; and a Ph.D (2024) in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois in 2018, he worked in the construction industry in New York for eleven years as a project manager.Dr. Brian Woodard, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dr. Woodard received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University
. Has vast experience in coordinating several international projects (including Erasmus + projects) as well as organizing joint international partnerships in educational and research areas, organizing conferences, seminars, workshops and training courses. As part of her academic activities, she is currently associate professor at TPU (Department of Professional Higher Education Management and Teaching). As an international expert in quality assurance, she has participated in many visits during the international-level professional accreditation of educational pro- grammes, current member of the EUR-ACE Label Committee. She has facilitated international quality assurance and accreditation workshops as a trainer in
Paper ID #37545Analysis of gaps in the training of engineers in relation tointernational standards: The case of industrial engineering students inChile.Mr. Ruben Vega-Valenzuela, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile Master in Industrial Engineering from the Andr´es Bello University, Public Administrator from the Uni- versity of Chile. He has three diplomas in the areas of operations management, project management and managerial management. Likewise, he has certifications in ontological coaching and comprehensive facilitation of learning processes. He currently works as academic secretary and tenured professor at Uni
navigate diverse cultures and places, learning and applying the course content in afamiliar setting before departing. Engineering students who implement some of the skills andcontent typically see an immediate return during the experience. The reflective final project thatthey complete once they return reinforces the awareness and skills that are a link betweenclassroom theory and concepts and real-time impacts.Through a continuous improvement feedback model, this paper also seeks to identify the rangeof content that can be refined and leveraged for various locations. Quantitative results indicatethat global/cultural skills are relevant immediately, requiring little reinforcement from othercourses. This study provides a baseline of data and
Paper ID #47700Exploring the Impact of Unexpected Learning Outcomes Across Cultural andArchitectural Differences: A Comparative Study of Japan and EthiopiaMr. Hiroyuki Ishizaki, Shibaura Institute of Technology Hiroyuki Ishizaki is a Visiting Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), a leading Japanese engineering school. His research interests include multidisciplinary teaching and learning, cross-cultural competence, collaborative online international (COIL), technopreneurship, and project/problem-based learning methods. As a Director of the Malaysia Office, he has been expatriated in Malaysia since 2014 and
synchronousmeetings, allowing students to continue working on their projects independently when livemeetings were not possible.Weeks 5-7 Once each team identified a specific health problem to address, they posted short videoson Flipgrid explaining their findings. This allowed other teams to provide peer feedbackasynchronously, ensuring that all students could participate despite differences in time zones andavailability. The asynchronous nature of this activity also helped address the challenge of unequalinternet access, as students could engage at their own pace and within their own technologicalconstraints. After incorporating the feedback, students brainstormed solutions to the identified regionalhealth problems. Teams worked separately in
in education. Despite these challenges, blockchain has the potential toimprove the efficiency, security, and credibility of the education system by facilitating the management ofcredit, recognition, and payments. In addition, transparency can increase trust between students andinstitutions, promoting more efficient and reliable education [19], [20], [21]. c) Challenges of using Blockchain in EducationThere are several solutions in the market that address the specific problem that the university network istrying to solve. Many private, multi-academic, and university solutions have implemented HyperledgerFabric in their academic credential management and certificate validation projects. These use caseshighlight Hyperledger Fabric's ability
perspective on the need for a robust engineering education system in society.Dr. Cristina Diordieva, Nanyang Technological University Cristina Diordieva is currently the Project Coordinator for the World MOON Project. She was a Post- doctoral Research Fellow in the joint medical school (LKCMedicine) at Imperial College London in the UK and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is a co-author of a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Switzerland. Her research interests include educational technology, online learning, digital health, and language massive open online courses (L-MOOCs).Ribhav Galhotra, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Ribhav Galhotra is a bachelor’s student
the Journal of Engineering Education, and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Education. Dr. Finelli studies the academic success of students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), social justice attitudes in engineering, and faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: Understanding How International Graduate Students in Engineering Fit into American Culture through the Lens of Gender Pronouns: A Pilot StudyAbstractInternational
through out-of-classroom experiences, including the CS Study Abroad program. Mohammed has 20+ years of experience in teaching university level courses, and he presented and conducted multiple talks and training workshops in different countries. Among other courses, he taught: Software Engineering, Database Systems, Usability Engineering, and Software Project Management. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Expanding Access to Study Abroad: The Role of Virtual Exchange in Global Engineering CompetencyThis is a student paper and will be presented by the student. I. AbstractStudy abroad programs have traditionally offered students the opportunity to immerse
explores how the integration of school safety strategies with disciplinary practices, often under zero-tolerance policies, blurs the lines between them, suggesting that both are byproducts of the school-to-prison pipeline.Dr. Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers Roberta Rincon, Ph.D., is the Director of Research and Impact for the Society of Women Engineers. She is responsible for overseeing the research activities for the organization, including collaborative research projects with external researchers and dissemination of SWE research through academic conferences, the SWE Research website, and the annual SWE State of Women in Engineering magazine issue. She is the Principal Investigator for the NSF INCLUDES
ranging from academics, NSF PIs, in- dustry leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals to students or high-schoolers starting out with Computer Sciences, helping them strategize and broaden participation, as well as explore, understand, and apply emerging technologies. Sreyoshi is committed to broadening participation among underrepresented mi- norities in engineering and serves as a Senator at the Society of Women Engineers. She is also part of the Advisory Board at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and serves as an Advisor to the leadership at Sisters in STEM. Sreyoshi frequently collaborates on several National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career
“connectsstudents and professors in different countries for (online) collaborative projects and discussions”as part of their coursework [4]. Models such as COIL accelerated during the COVID-19pandemic. However, the authors contend that a virtual study experience is about as appealing asubstitute for a program with travel as would be virtual honeymoon in Hawaii. This may be whysince the pandemic’s global shutdown, in person experiences have sharply rebounded with morethan 1000% growth in physical mobility of students from U.S. HEIs in 2021-2022, while virtualstudy abroad is not embraced with the same excitement among students [5]. Regarding the scaleof engineering student participation, data prior to the 2020 travel disruption indicated that from2018-2019
education sector, managing and leading programs of high academic recognition and international positioning. 10 years of business experience in financial and administrative areas, leading organizational change management processesMILTON JANUARIO RUEDA, Ean University Statistician, specialist in financial analysis and management, Master in Statistics, and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Research professor – Director of Doctoral Programs at Ean University, with over 25 years of experience in data analysis. Extensive teaching experience at various universities, speaker, and consultant for project development in public and private sector organizations. Specialist in advanced information analysis
Paper ID #39338Work in Progress: Influence of COVD-19 in Cultural Dimensions in CivilEngineering Students inDaniel CartucheDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from Virginia Tech, and two Grad- uate Certificates from Virginia Tech in
Paper ID #38384Understanding the Academic Journey of an International West AfricanEngineering Graduate Student in the United StatesMr. Daniel Ifeoluwa Adeniranye, Florida International University ’Daniel Adeniranye’ holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, a joint and dual master’s de- gree in Petroleum Engineering and Project Development from IFP School, France and the University of Port Harcourt, and a Project Management degree from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is currently a Graduate Assistant at the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education, where he seeks to
strategic dissemination via various media platforms,including China's influential graduate student recruitment system, it was anticipated that UGA'sreputation would be bolstered among millions of prospective Chinese students and parents.BUCT, as a national key university under the Ministry of Education, boasts exceptionalprograms in bioengineering and materials science and engineering, attracting top-tier talent fromChina and East Asian countries. Collaborative programs with UGA were poised to attract evenmore high-caliber candidates, enriching both institutions. Moreover, in addition to teaching,faculty members from both universities could work together on joint research projects,supervising graduate students, publishing research papers, and