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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William Peterson

has had from MCC is the lead in raising funds that wastaken by MCC’s president. Additionally, the MCC Foundation was a major contributor.The plan for the curriculum and the plan for conducting the program were submitted to thevarious committees, councils, and boards with final approval for the program being obtained inthe summer of 1996. Almost immediately upon final approval of the program, the Department ofManufacturing Engineering was made operational with the hiring of its first faculty member andthe offering of the first WMU course in the program. More complete information on thedevelopment of this manufacturing engineering program can be found in Peterson (1996).The First Year and A Half of the ProgramThe first WMU class in the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Wayne Hall; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

, $What are we doing in engineering education, to address theissues and incorporate the ideals of sustainability into the education of young, new engineers?#the answer turns out to be, $Academic engineering programs in the United States, like many ofthe nation s other important institutions, are doing a lot towards developing and implementingplans and programs that have Sustainable Development at their core.# For example, in March1998 the Presidential Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) is publishing acomprehensive report on the status of this concept in the U.S., along with recommendations,action plans, strategies and implementation plans. The document will cover all aspects ofsociety, including industry, education, transportation, and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhang Wenxue; Yuan Dening; Chen Zhi

education reform program in China, the most significance is to updatethe concepts about education. The basic reason lies in a series of changes which will takeplace in China as well as in the world for the next century. From the viewpoint of thedevelopment of economy, culture, science and technology at home and abroad, many currentconcepts about education are confronted with an epochal challenge. This challenge will comefrom the economy, science, technology and culture. First, China’s economic system will befurther changed from a planned economy to a socialist market economy, the world economywill further move into one integration, and the competitiveness and variability of economywill be intensified. Under such circumstances, higher education

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schneider, University of Dayton; Erick S. Vasquez-Guardado, University of Dayton; Corinne H Mowrey, University of Dayton; Michael Moulton, University of Dayton; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew A Witenstein, University of Dayton

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

used to support decision making and managerialanalysis. This is a required course for Industrial Engineering Technology students that istypically taken in their junior or senior year. After the introduction of linear programming,students participated in an approximate 10 week case study that aimed to apply networkmodeling to a problem based on real-world events. Inspired by the historical seismic activity ofthe Middle East, the Spring 2023 class case study sought to develop a distribution plan of reliefsupplies (ex., bottled water) from pre-positioned storage facilities in Turkey that could be used inthe event of a natural disaster. The case study involved 4 research assignments the studentscompleted outside of class paired with 4 in-class

Conference Session

Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Chemical Division

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osama Desouky, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Marwa AbdelGawad, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

andimagination [2], [3].Studies of workforce requirements reveal the emphasis on foundational skills needed in theworkplace for graduates to thrive [4]. These skills were identified as critical thinking, planning,ways of working, communication, mental flexibility, mobilizing systems, developingrelationships, teamwork effectiveness, self-awareness and self-management, entrepreneurship,goals achievement, digital fluency, software use, and digital systems. Aligning with theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) outcomes in engineering withmarket changes presents a need for more critical thinking and mental flexibility in teachingmethods. Moving from well-defined experiments to more open-ended experiments that encouragethe students to

Conference Session

Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Rasmussen, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

curriculumand department line-up with current and emerging trends.Methodology:For collecting bachelor of science (or engineering) curriculum data, schools’ public 4-year planswere used to find the number of credits for each class and the year in that plan at which they arerecommended to be taken. The credits for each curriculum were scaled such that there were 128total credits for each program, by multiplying each class credit with the ratio (128 / total numberof credits in 4-year curriculum), making an average class roughly 3-4 credits. 128 credits waschosen as the normalizer due to it being the average number of credits in a semesterly 4-yearprogram. This scaling was done to group quarter and semester systems together, and reconcilevarious credit

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3: Student Experiences and Support

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Edward Chaback, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Student Division (STDT)

while taking classes. Yet both approaches focus heavily on theacademic side of the student experience, and do not pay much attention to other areas of holisticgrowth or development. The course learning objectives provided by most classes focus primarilyon obtaining and retaining information. Some examples of standard course learning outcomes are“Learners should be able to recall nutritional guidelines for planning meals” and “Learnersshould be able to develop solutions for networking problems, balancing business concerns,privacy and technical issues” [10]. While these course learning outcomes evaluate how wellstudents are progressing in a class, they do not look at how much students have developedholistically.2.2 Zachman Framework The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew J. Ash, Oklahoma State University; James E Stine, Oklahoma State University; Erin Dyke, Oklahoma State University; John Hu, Oklahoma State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

understanding; and backward design. Culturalrelevance emphasizes the need to understand students’ linguistic, geographic, gender, racial, andgenerational, among other cultural, knowledge as assets that can be leveraged for curriculum andteaching [3]. Concept-based understanding prioritizes inquiry-based learning and application andtransferability of knowledge versus rote memorization of information or discrete skillacquisition. Backwards design provides an accessible structure for planning assessment andlearning activities in ways that center conceptual understanding and student inquiry [4]. Teacherskept reflective journals, analyzed science and mathematics state standards frameworks, and*1 This work was supported by the National Science Foundation

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University; Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin; Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University; Carlos R. Corleto, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

they could not complete the working styles assessment and final reflection,so we may need to reconsider the timeline as well.The class’s reflection assignment showed promising results. When considering what toimplement, many students considered their personal weaknesses and identified strategies toimprove as team members. Responses included, “I plan to be more decisive and set my goalsearly to be more productive”, “I plan to try to avoid being too strict with specific criteria and selfcreated deadlines, compared to in the past where I maintained a strict schedule and becameannoyed if it wasn't maintained”, and “I tend to procrastinate my work, especially if it's adifficult task, so I will try to start my work early and be more considerate of

Conference Session

Engineering a Just Future: Cultivating Equity, Voice, and Community in Technical Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelyn Rola, Southern Methodist University; Hannah Louis, Southern Methodist University; Alain Mota, Southern Methodist University; Kathy Michelle Hubbard, Southern Methodist University

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

a better understanding of faculty approaches to teaching within the school ofengineering and the related impacts on student learning. We also plan to consult facultythroughout the toolkit development process to co-design a readily adoptable product. We shareour approach as a methodological contribution to toolkit design by aligning espoused advice,best practices, and perspectives from the lived experience of students who are minoritized in thesystem.For the first stage of developing an inclusive teaching toolkit, the authors obtained copies of aninstitutional instructor’s guide that is distributed annually to all engineering faculty. Wereviewed the existing guidelines and contrasted them against high-impact practices related toinclusive

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert S. Woodley

(thyristor) relay.During the research and design phase the teams were well prepared from their ECE course work.The learning objective for this phase was to discover and plan in preparation for the constructionof the coil guns. All teams did well.Senior Design Semester II – Construction and TestingThe second semester of the two-semester Senior Design sequence is focused on theimplementation and testing of the project design. This phase of the project is where most of thelearning happens. The ECE curriculum has multiple layers of hands-on experiences, most ofthese are short term assignments and are generally well defined. Senior Design is the firstopportunity the students get to work in a multi-discipline team (Electrical Engineers, ComputerEngineers

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jose L. Vega; Michael W. Mourot; Edgar C. Clausen

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Preparing PhD Students for Jobs in Industry Jose L. Vega,a Michael W. Mourotb and Edgar C. Clausenc JVegaSolutions,a Sinclair Group,b University of Arkansas, Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical EngineeringcAbstractMore than 70% of engineering PhDs now plan to pursue business or industrial careers asopposed to careers in academia. In an effort to better support these students, the University ofArkansas College of Engineering developed a one-hour course devoted to career preparation andsuccess. The focus of the class was on finding the right job and then succeeding at the right job.The

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fiona Levey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Alireza Ebadi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John McNeill, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

(74%), and, to a lesser extent, technical work (45%). This patternhighlights the relative benefits of capstones for developing professional skills beyondstrengthening the technical core knowledge taught in other coursework.3 Context: Capstones at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)In the turmoil and social upheaval of 1960s, a group of faculty at WPI pioneered a substantialchange to education at WPI. At that time, education at WPI gave students little room to becreative as every student was given a prescriptive curriculum that had to be strictly followed.Engineering instruction did not include social paradigms and challenges of the time. The Plan,adopted by the faculty in April 1970, brought radical change to education at WPI. The Planwould

Conference Session

Springfield's STEM Spectacle: Evaluating Engineering Excellence, D'oh!

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni Haag Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jessica D Gale, Georgia Institute of Technology; Talia Capozzoli Kessler, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

variables. Open-ended survey items were used as a supplementary data source. Thepreliminary results from the first year of implementation (2022-2023 academic year) suggest thatsimilar to the original study, there is an increase across some of the student constructs, includingstudent engagement. This finding was also supported by engineering teachers’ input aboutstudent engagement in the classroom. As the study progresses into its planned 2 nd and 3rd yearsof curriculum implementation, we will be able to further discern the extent to which multipleyears of course enrollment might differentially impact the attitudinal factors of interest (i.e.,dosage effects

Conference Session

Diverse Pathways in Engineering Education: Exploring Experiences and Opportunities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dessaray Monique Gorbett, University of Texas at El Paso ; Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas at El Paso; Cristina Villalobos, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Sara E. Rodriguez, University of Texas at El Paso; Ariana (Ari) Arciero, University of Texas at El Paso; Josef Aaron Sifuentes, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

actively involved inguiding them throughout their research journeys and future academic plans. However,participants also articulated a need for incorporating more professional development activities inthis program, especially in preparation for graduate or professional school.In terms of program implementation, the program’s staff experienced administrative challengeswhen compensating participants and with low levels of involvement from faculty mentors in thementorship workshops facilitated by the program staff. Despite these challenges, participantsremained enthusiastic and reported minimal disruptions in their research experiences as they alsoexpressed appreciation for the transparency of the program's staff in addressing and

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Afshin Zahraee; Cheng Zhang; David Pratt; Chandramouli V. Chandramouli

project focuses on engaging industry professionals to incorporate newlydeveloped experiential learning (EL) components in courses at the freshman, sophomore, juniorand senior levels (vertical integration) in the Construction Engineering and ManagementTechnology (CEMT) program at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). It is intended to includean integrated assessment and evaluation plan for continuous improvement.The EL components are designed to supplement classroom learning with real-world problemsolving, whose outcomes include professional communication, teamwork, self-guided learning,observation, and reflection. These components will also help students visualize a variety of field-based scenarios, including constraints and barriers to completing

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Eli Westbay; Isaiah Storey; Francis Nkrumah, Jr.; Mert Bal; Reza Abrishambaf

different requirements.The robot operating system (ROS) is employed to implement a navigation system which fulfillsthe requirements of an industrial material transportation system. A software system must bedesigned that is capable of coordinating all vehicles in the system, ensuring a conflict freetraveling and performing material handling actions. To do so, methods are required to localizethe vehicle, perceive the environment, and plan optimal paths through the environment.Additionally, a hardware abstraction layer is required to enable the communication with sensorsand actuators.A driver software on top must interface with high-level applications. This enables an evaluationof sensor readings and to control the robot system. ROS is an open-source

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ronald K. Williams

60 40 20 0 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Figure 2 – Graph of Participation by Yearbridges. As this trend became apparent, FMEC and MSUM officials began to search for reasonsfor the decrease. Interviews with teachers and students at the competition, and with otherscience teachers throughout the region offered several possible causes: • More events compete for student time each year. The February competition date, set to occur during E-Week, requires the students to be planning and building their bridges at the same time they are working toward MathCounts, Science Olympiad, JETS competitions, and sports tournaments, among others. If they view

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey J. Heys

of objectslike mathematical equations, lines, bold face text, and links to other webpages. The ‘discussion’tab, shown in Figure 1, is a similar window where group members can discuss their plans witheach other and the instructor can leave comments for the group.Figure 2. Edit page of the wiki.Clicking on the ‘history’ tab in any window brings up a page showing a detailed list of thechanges that have been made to the webpage. The history tab for the main page (figure 3) showsthat the page has mostly been modified only by the instructor, ‘Jheys’. However, it also shows astudent changing the name of a project (the only part of the individual student projects appearingon the main page), and another student corrected the instructor’s spelling and

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Patricia S. Buford

Instruction) in addition to theAlumni Office. This project was an attempt to create an atmosphere which fostered theexperience of engineering in a global, economic, environmental and societal context; wherestudents worked with other students and faculty from different disciplines. Additionally the goalwas to create a spirit of service where engineering and other students would learn by experiencethe culture of sharing their abilities and talents with others beyond the boundaries of theirindividual comfort zone. Major project deliverables were the following: design of a solar batterycharging unit; a marketing plan including press releases, website, project brochures, andspeaking engagements; testing and repair of donated laptops; educational software

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University at Erie – The Behrend College

social issues, economic issues, safety issues and ethical issues. Students arealso exposed to project management including such topics as scheduling, budgeting andreporting. Communication and teamwork are stressed. Many of these skills are needed for thesuccessful completion of the senior project. The nature of these projects requires the students tosystematically complete their long-term project goals, so good planning is essential. The coursesalso include guidance in resume writing and interviewing skills.One instructor is responsible for the overall course content and grading. Other faculty membersare asked to serve as advisors on the project. Advisors are selected based, as much as possible, “Proceedings of the 2006 Midwest Section

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David W. Dinehart; Timothy Harrington; Matthew Bandelt; Adam Beckmann

students, so the decision was made to serve middle school students. A Monsignor at anunderprivileged parish in Philadelphia, St. Martin of Tours, had requested some assistance in acareer day event at the parish school. The school in turn became the recipient of the firstengineering club. The principal of the school was excited about our interest, as was one of thesixth grade teachers. An engineering club announcement was sent out to the sixth grade. In onenight, the club was filled to capacity with twenty-five sixth grade students.This paper discusses the format and learning outcomes of the club, the curriculum, observationsand outcomes, lessons learned, and expansion plans, assessment needs, and conclusions.Format and learning outcomesThe

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ernest Y. Wong

, which numerous commercial software applications are already capable of accomplishing, I leveraged spreadsheet modeling as a way to analyze in greater depth how changes in one’s financial circumstances can affect one’s federal tax liabilities. By doing so, the students gained the knowledge that they have the power to make changes in their own finances to help reduce their income taxes. Furthermore, this spreadsheet model empowers students with the ability to look beyond their current year’s tax filing requirements and encourages them to plan strategically for their future annual tax obligations. By introducing the practical into the classroom, I am helping students not only gain a greater

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Farouq Alhourani

Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Vicki V. May

Student Development of Class Notes using a Wiki as an Alternative to a Single Course Textbook Vicki V. May, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Director, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, and Instructor, Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 Vicki.V.May@Dartmouth.eduAbstractHow often do we as faculty members complain about the textbook? Not to mention thecomplaints we get from our students. Yet, the first thing we often do when planning a courseis select a textbook. Selecting and relying on a single text tends to be teacher-centered andcontent

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shanelle M. Harris; LeeRoy Bronner

]. As shownBig Data, Cyber Security, Human, Social, Culture, Behavior in Fig. 1, the process flow is project selection, project(HSCB), Urban Resilience and Sustainability, there is a need for planning, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance.new research methodologies. The purpose of this research is thedevelopment of a methodology to address and analyze large The objective of the SDLC is to ensure a high quality productcomplex systems. The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is is delivered while reducing inherent risk [2].a standard methodology used to analyze and solve system

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gabriel Parmer; Rahul Simha; Chris Toombs; Poorvi Vora; Timothy Wood

Course Objectives and EvolutionThe 8 credits of senior design are associated with a year long Fall-Spring sequence of courses,each carrying 4 credits. The course has core junior-level courses as prerequisites so that studentsenter with some substantive computer science fundamentals. We list below the formal courseobjectives. In the two courses, students will: 1. Learn key elements in the development of a significant year-long computer science project: planning, specification, design, analysis, and implementation. 2. Apply concepts from software engineering to the project: requirements, specification, reuse, documentation, verification and validation, testing, configuration management. 3. Learn to write about and practice

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

member/author hascontacted local nonprofit agencies to offer service learning course project assistance. Theservice learning community partners that we have worked with on this project need the students’help to produce existing condition construction drawings, and energy efficient retrofit details, fortheir facilities. Many of them do not have any usable drawings of their facilities due to the factthey were not required to apply for building permits for their own facilities, or drawings werelost. They need drawings for a variety of reasons including space planning, emergencypreparedness and to initiate renovation and building addition projects with architects. In thisservice learning project, student teams serve local non-profits by visiting

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jin-Lee Kim; Tang-Hung Nguyen

, American Society for Engineering Education  128  Table 1. Performance Criteria and Evaluation Methods. Outcome 1: Understand the language of construction drawings. The student will be able to identify lines, symbols, and standards commonly used in construction drawings. The student will be able to accurately interpret information.(e.g. dimensions, symbols, graphs, texts, etc.) in construction drawings for both residential and commercial construction. The student will be able to interpret and relate written specifications of a construction project to drawing plans of that project.ation methods: examinations, assignments and in

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

perspectives, new training materials and approaches. These will take place largely in the first half of the project as materials are redeveloped to embody a full multidisciplinary, global perspective and are made available on the electronic learning platform.• To provide 48 students with benefits from global exchange and training activities and in addition, by means of local, national workshops and online communities of practice, spread the benefits to a further 60 non-exchange students and around 20 academics.• To disseminate proven practices, models and study programs.3. Planned ActivitiesThe project and its aims have been developed not only to meet a need for computingworkers of all levels but also to meet the needs of the