Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University; Mats Daniels, Uppsala University; Åsa Sofia Cajander

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Student Development

 and  assessment  approach  used  at  that  time  is  described  in  Pears  et  al.  200117.In  2005  we  introduced  international  collaboration  in  a  semester  long  project  course,  where  the  Uppsala  students  work  with  students  at  an  American  university.  This  course  has  an  explicit  focus  on  competencies  suitable  for  global  collaboration  and  different  pedagogical  challenges  with  this  has  been  investigated  in  an  action  research  manner3-­9,14,15.  The  goals  are  to  help  to  scaffold  progressive  development  of  global  engineering  competencies  and  experience.The  paper  is  structured  as  follows.  We  describe  the  evolution  of  the  curriculum  reflecting  on  the  instructional  design

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Junichiro Kono, Rice University; Shane M Curtis, University of Tulsa

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Student Development

and awareness of various cultures and their impact onsociety, and an ability to use cultural context to evaluate what is known or valued. Intrapersonaldevelopment considers how an individual becomes more aware of and integrates his or her personalvalues into a sense of identity. This dimension is evidenced by a student’s sense of self-direction inlife, awareness of his or her strengths, values, personal characteristics, and sense of self. It is alsoevidenced by respect for and acceptance of cultural perspectives that are different from his or herown and a degree of emotional self-assurance in encounters with other cultures. Interpersonaldevelopment is concerned with how willing an individual is to interact with people from differentsocial and

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Terri A. Camesano, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Natalie A Mello, The Forum on Education Abroad

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Student Development

, social, cultural, and economic issues thatare intimately connected to engineering issues and people affected by these engineeringchallenges. One of the most effective ways of providing our students these learning experiencesis through education abroad opportunities. Yet less than 4% of US engineering students studyabroad and there has been little growth in the past two years1. It is also well established that experiential, project/problem-based learning with an emphasison acquiring new knowledge and applying and integrating previous knowledge can be veryeffective structures for enhancing student learning2. These structures engage students in open-ended, ambiguous, authentic activities; and usually involve teams. It is learning that goes

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Christie Ritter, The University of Colorado at Boulder; Alan Rolf Mickelson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jared Leventhal, University of Colorado at Boulder; David Espinoza, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Student Development

needs and desires might not be fully understood from the perspective ofan American engineer. The lowest level of agreement for NapoNet program outcomes is for the impact onunderstanding engineering in a global sense. One student commented, “The NapoNet project islocalized to one district within Peru, and it is difficult to see how the project impacts the peoplethat live outside of this sphere very much.” This comment points to an area for improvement inthe NapoNet curriculum about increasing student understanding of engineering in a globalcontext. Students could be assigned readings and case studies to augment the mostly appliednature of the project. One note of caution for interpreting the student surveys results is the smallsize (n = 9

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Mercedes Echevarria, International Engineering Program, University of Rhode Island; Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island

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Student Development

Spanish curriculum. She has developed specialized Spanish courses designed for engineers, as well as interdisciplinary courses that connect engineering to other fields of study. In her research she is equally versatile: her scholarship covers a wide range of topics relating to international education, languages across the curriculum, applied linguistics, materials development and literary and cultural studies.Dr. Sigrid – Berka, University of Rhode Island Dr. Sigrid Berka is the Executive Director of the International Engineering Program (IEP) at the Univer- sity of Rhode Island, and also the Director of the German and the Chinese IEP, responsible for building academic programs with exchange partners abroad, internship

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Student Development

the Center from a background in engineering education and applied psychology. Dr. Knight joined CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science in 2001 after graduate school. He has been a part time associate of DC Colorado since 2007, and became a full-time associate in August, 2013. Dr. Knight’s responsibilities include assessment and program eval- uation of the Center’s hands-on design curriculum, educational research on center development, diversity and teamwork, and team facilitation for the Center’s on-going industry-sponsored teams. Dr. Knight also serves as an educational resource for other departments in the College as well

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Eck Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Harvey Charles, Northern Arizona University

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Student Development

to these new imperatives byexploring a variety of more intensive international training programs. For instance, Iowa StateUniversity’s Language and Cultures for the Professions initiative [11] encourages students toincorporate specialized language study and cross-cultural coursework into their studies, as wellas providing help in finding internships abroad. Similarly, the GEARE program at Purdue [12],[13] offers engineering majors the opportunity to integrate introductory language study, asemester of study plus summer internship abroad into a four-year curriculum. The InternationalPlan at Georgia Tech [14] offers students a range of options for internationalizing their studies,requiring a combination of globally-focused coursework, basic

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kimberly Lau, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley; Sara L. Beckman, Haas School of Business

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Student Development

). Among the students, we have undergraduate and graduate populationsfrom engineering, business administration, and other disciplines within the sciences andhumanities.The undergraduate student data were collected at three universities: 1. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST): from students taking a freshman-level course focused on the fundamentals of conceptual design and critical thinking [24]. 2. Anonymous U.S. University: from the entire entering class of 2015 to a new Integrated Design Program (IDP). 3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB): from students enrolled in an upper-level course focused on the engineering design process and conceptual design of products.The graduate student data