Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso

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Computers in Education

technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of that vision and our future.Prof. Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso Prof. Oscar Perez received his B.S. and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso with a

Conference Session

Corporate Member Council Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Marta A Panero, New York Institute of Technology; Brian Carbonette, New York Institute of Technology

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) and its three labs in the critical areas of IT & Cyber security, Bioengineering and Health Analyt- ics, and Energy and Green Technologies. Anid is NYIT’s principal investigator on a ”Pathway to Cleaner Production across the Americas” project, funded by the Higher Education for Development (HED) in collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technology and seven academic institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean. She has been named one of ”100 Inspiring Women in STEM Award” Winners by INSIGHT Into Diversity and one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business by Long Island Busi- ness News (LIBN). Anid is a program evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission

Conference Session

Course Structuring for Effective Student Engagement

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Kenneth Lamb, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #22815Where Grammar, Content, and Professional Practice Meet: The Case of thePassive VoiceDr. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Professor of Applied Linguistics, is the head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project, in which engineering faculty, engineering practitioners, and writing specialists collaborate to improve writ- ing instruction in civil engineering courses. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Kenneth Lamb, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Kenneth is an Associate Professor at Cal Poly Pomona. Kenneth is a

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

, group learning, etc. However, one type of PL, group-to-group peer learning(GGPL) is not addressed in literature. GGPL can be defined as a learning method where two ormore peer groups interact to increase the knowledge of all members. Here, the scope of the workis limited to only classmates working in pairs on their lab design projects and receiving help onlyfrom other classmate pairs. This pair-to-pair peer learning (PPPL) represents the simplest form ofGGPL where group size includes only two members per group.This paper mainly addresses students’ experiences with a novel PPPL method as it is implementedin a lab setting during a lab design project encompassing two different engineering programs,mechatronics and industrial engineering. The lab

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Dhushy Sathianathan, Pennsylvania State University

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International

AC 2008-437: GLOBAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE AMERICAS:CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIESIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State Brandywine. His current research interests are in the areas of Global Engineering Education, Engineering Design Education, Innovative Design, and Global Design. 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 Vice-President for Region I and assistant of the Executive

Conference Session

Distance Learning in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John Ritz, Old Dominion University; James Eiland, Blue Ridge Community College

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Engineering Technology

defense contractors, local industry and inventors. James Eiland is a retired Naval Intelligence Officer and earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University Of Texas El Paso prior to his military service in 1972. Page 13.358.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Design and Develop a Cost Effective Microcontroller Training System for Distance Learning Engineering StudentsAbstract This is the review of a NSF funded project that addresses the hands-on distance learningneeds in microprocessor/microcontroller related courses. A research team designed a low costtraining

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Abbott, University of Missouri; Katie Grantham Lough, University of Missouri

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Design in Engineering Education

instructors in theireffort to effectively teach this concept.The goal of the educational tool, component functional templates, is to not only aid classroominstructors in presenting the concept of functional modeling to students in a timely manner, butwill also aid the students through modern visual and interactive learning techniques that promoteproper form and assisted development. Ultimately, the templates will only be a first step, muchlike training wheels, in the process of learning how to functional model and will be an invaluabletool for the novice user with more in-depth engineering design problems to tackle.2.0 BackgroundThe educational foundation on which this project is based is the active learning process, whilethe primary method of

Conference Session

Innovations in Biological/Agricultural Education-II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Lurline Marsh, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Craig Daughtry, United States Department of Agriculture; Tracy Earle, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Jurgen Schwarz, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Biological & Agricultural

efforts.Tracy Earle, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Tracy J. Earl received her Bachelors of Science in Fisheries and Wildlife Management with a dual in Animal Behavior from Michigan State University and then her Master of Science in Fisheries and Wildlife Resources from West Virginia University. She took classes in GIS, both during her Bachelors and Masters degrees. While at WVU, she used ESRI’s products to work on the GAP Analysis project. After graduating, she started working at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a Geographic Information System Specialist. She is now the GIS Program Manager in the Dept of Agriculture at UMES.Jurgen Schwarz, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Morton, Western Washington University

senior level microprocessor, embedded systems, and senior project courses. Most of thesechanges have been made practical because of the continued developments in the embeddedmicrocontroller industry. New microcontrollers continue to get more powerful – or, in somecases, less powerful – with increases in memory, on-chip resources, and bus speeds.We have traditionally used Motorola (now Freescale) microprocessors and microcontrollersincluding the 6800, 6809, 68HC11, 68HC12, and now, the 9S12 family of microcontrollers.Because of this, we will focus on the 9S12 family in this paper, though many of the newtechnologies apply to other manufacturers as well.We have found that the 9S12 family is a very versatile family of parts. This allows our

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ronald Caffey, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Bruce Chrisman, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Chris Pearson, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Ernest Lewis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Hasan Sevim, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

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First-Year Programs

applying massively parallel architectures in the development of smart munitions, from Seagate Technology on image compression research, and from Cleveland Medical Devices on signal processing and pattern recognition NIH funded research related to brain wave form analysis and classification. Currently, he is working on a NIH project awarded by Think-A-Move related to Human-Machine Interfacing and by Neuronetrix on detecting neurological disorders from evoked potentials. He serves as the Associate Chair for the ECE Department ABET review committee and is a mentor in the College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Program. Dr. Gupta serves as an Associate Editor of the Pattern Recognition

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Dullanty, ATM

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Ocean and Marine

and coastal environmentsincluding corrosive conditions. Marine structures provide for excellent classroom case studiesbecause they inherently require multidisciplinary evaluation and site specific engineeringsolutions.IntroductionThis paper discusses practical design considerations for a heavy marine structure in SouthCarolina. As an example, it uses one project from the South Carolina State Ports Authority. Theproject is the extension of a commercial break bulk cargo wharf at the Georgetown Terminal inGeorgetown, SC,The South Carolina State Ports Authority (Ports Authority) operates six waterfront sites thathandle containerized cargo, bulk cargo and break-bulk cargo. As a container port, Charlestongenerally ranks fourth in the U.S. in terms

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Schreier, University of Dayton; Carl Eger, University of Dayton; Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton

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Liberal Education

Opportunities of Service-learning (ETHOS)program at the University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) is founded on the belief that engineers aremore apt and capable to serve our world when they have experienced opportunities that increasetheir understanding of technology’s global linkage with values, culture, society, politics andeconomy. ETHOS seeks to provide these opportunities by means of curriculum integratedservice-learning programming. Such educational programming – classroom projects, studentorganization activities, collaborative research and international technical immersion – facilitatesholistic learning, ethical engineering practices, perspectives of technology integration andappropriate technology transfer. To appropriately measure the value

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

Integration of Research,Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are building alearning community of faculty, staff, and students who can respond to this kind of need.Because links with similar projects in the Netherlands and New Zealand were germane to theinvestigation, project results can inform similar efforts in other countries to augment engineeringcurricula.IntroductionIn an effort to cultivate an organizational culture that supports performance improvement andinnovative stakeholder collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR)and other natural resources agencies worldwide are exploring organizational change approaches.The University of Wisconsin, Engineering Professional Development (EPD

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-4699: ENHANCING LABORATORY EXPERIENCES WITH PORTABLEELECTRONICS EXPERIMENT KITSDr. Jason Yao, East Carolina University Jianchu (Jason) Yao received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor of engineering at East Carolina University. His research in- terests include wearable medical devices, elehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosig- nal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; James R. Lewis, DeVry University, Pomona

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Computing & Information Technology

, namely Xcode andinterface builder, although it is possible to develop Cocoa applications without using theseapplications at all. Beginning with Xcode 3.1 and the introduction of iOS, when we create asoftware project, we must choose a platform SDK. The platform SDK contains everything that isrequired for developing software for a given platform and operating-system release. The SDK foriOS (like MAC OS X SDK) consists of frameworks, libraries, header files and system tools butincludes a platform-specific compiler and other tools. There is also a separate SDK for iOSSimulator. All SDKs include build settings and project templates appropriate to their platform.Xcode and MVCXcode is the engine that powers Apple’s integrated development environment

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah Sharer; David Murphy; Stephen Kuyath

the two one-week Summer Campsoffered by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s (UNC Charlotte) EngineeringTechnology Department as a part of its Diversity in Engineering Technology project, funded bythe National Science Foundation. The purpose of the camps was to involve high school studentsin an intensive week-long program and show them that engineering and engineering technologycould be fun and rewarding.The Engineering Technology Department at UNC Charlotte has four disciplines: ElectricalEngineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology,and Fire Safety Engineering Technology. Faculty from each of the disciplines developed aneducational, but engaging, hands-on activity designed to pique the

Conference Session

Institutional Transformations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University

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Women in Engineering

Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Scholars Program National Steering Committee. She served for six years on the Board of Directors for WEPAN. She served on the National Advisory Panel for the Society for Women Engineer’s Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) Project; as Vice President for Professional Interest Councils on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE); and is Director-at-Large for the ASEE Women in Engineering Division. She regularly reviews for the ASEE Women in Engineering Division, the Frontiers in Education Conference, National Science Foundation programs (including the Graduate Fellows Program and ADVANCE), the Journal for Women and Minorities in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

impacts on student motivation, learning,and retention.The paper outlines this pairwise linkages model, the goals of this project, the framework forevaluating the linkages and the types of data we are collecting as part of the evaluation effort. Page 9.362.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationResults from the current study confirm that problem-based team work enhances student attitudestowards MatLab.IntroductionUndergraduate education in engineering has been generally successful over the last

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

Experience such as a senior thesis, project, orseminar.”II. ObservationAs can be seen in the above, the General Education Curriculum places considerable emphasis onproviding the students with exposure to aspects in the humanities and social sciences, and with alesser extent, to aspects in science and mathematics. This is probably the case in many colleges Page 8.1243.2and universities. Engineering students are usually required to take courses that are not completely “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

-aided design application to explore and integrate a specific aspectof an architectural design component into the larger context of a design studio project. Such anapproach attempts to exploit the features of the software that may be most efficient while notrequiring the use of CAD for any aspect of the project that students or faculty feel may be moreappropriately addressed using another medium. For example, students could be required to useCAD software to analyze a site using 3D terrain modeling. Similarly, students could be requiredto analyze design proposals using 3 dimensional massing studies created using the software’s solid-modeling commands. This approach is based on the premise that the strengths of CAD canexploited by identifying a

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

National Science Foundation Graduate K-12 Fellows grant at theUniversity of Oklahoma is a combined engineering and education class. The goal of this upperdivision or graduate credit course is to prepare authentic science and math educators by providingboth the educational theory and the scientific knowledge to prepare authentic classroom exercisesin the K-12 environment. This paper reviews the course demographics, goals, content, andexecution of the first offering of this course in fall of 2001. A discussion of the combination ofeducation majors with engineering majors and a presentation of a combined curriculum ispresented. This course is not only a model for other NSF GK-12 projects, but other universitiesinterested in bridging the gap between

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

engineering economy course provides an ideal environment inwhich students may demonstrate teamwork and communication skills, awareness of ethicalstandards, and an understanding of the impact of engineering solutions on society. Case studiesbased on the Challenger disaster and the Ford/Firestone controversy have direct relevance to theindustrial engineering curriculum and can be adapted to meet the needs of specific courses suchas engineering economy, project management, and quality control.IntroductionRecent revisions in engineering accreditation guidelines have raised awareness of the wide rangeof learning outcomes that comprise a modern undergraduate engineering education 1. In additionto technical competence in engineering science, students need

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A Masi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

experiences is the goal of integrating engineering, science, humanities, and socialscience disciplines. Another common factor is the integration of experiential learning withformal academic subjects so that students can use real-world projects to reinforce learning withpractice.1,3,5,15,16Some have noted that a drawback of such experiences is that they can exist in isolation, from thestudents’ perspective, from other parts of an undergraduate’s educational experience. Moreover,even when students may complete elective or minor subjects in disciplines outside of their majordiscipline, they often see their coursework as disconnected subjects both from one another and,more importantly, from their major learning experience. Recently, some authors have

Conference Session

A Systems-Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia M. Wigal, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Systems Engineering

-making process that aids the engineer in generating andevaluating characteristics of an entity (physical or process) whose structure, function, andoperation achieve specified objectives and constraints. The program describes the process as theapplication of the solid foundation of the basic sciences, mathematics, and engineering sciencesto the abstractness, complexity, and solving of real world problems.The elements of the design process are emphasized throughout the program’s curriculum,beginning with the freshmen year. At the freshman year the Introduction to Engineering Design(IED) course uses project-based learning to address (1) problem definition, (2) attributegeneration, (3) function, constraint and objective identification, (4) idea

Conference Session

Towards Global Competency for Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Patricia Fox, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Lynn G. Brown, The Boeing Company; Alan Jacobs, Education Market Business Development Consulting; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Daniel R. Sayre, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Hans J. Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

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International

position, she has oversight of various programs and projects for international and domestic higher education engagements. This includes such things as: developing corporate policy, procedures and guidelines for Boeing inter- national university relationships; providing recommendations to the Higher Education Integration Board and executive sponsors for country and university relations global expansion for Boeing’s strategic work- force; leading a global network of Boeing Country/Regional Focals for alignment and implementation of Boeing’s University Relations Strategies; and managing the company’s domestic university relations portfolio of more than 160 higher education institutions. Annually, University Relations

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

sophisticated softwareto perform the autonomous navigation using the sensor inputs. The complexity of the projectnecessitates the involvement of a relatively large group of students working together on differentparts of the system.The Robotics Laboratory at the University of Central Florida has been participating in the annualIGVC competition since 2002. In this project the students learn about most of the engineeringdisciplines that are typically included in a complex robotic project such as software design,computer vision, sensor data interpretation and fusion, robotic motion planning, vehiclenavigation, vehicle design and construction, electric motor control, computer interfaces tovarious components and many others. Naturally this education

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Zorowski

berepeated for the students who misses a presentation or becomes confused or lost in the normalprogress of the class. There is no way in this live format for a student to rehear or review what issaid in the classroom short of the course being taped. This aspect of the graduate education process is neither very efficient nor does it makefor a very effective learning environment. However, it is generally accepted that when thislecture course format is supplemented with one-on-one personal research project interaction witha faculty advisor the total graduate educational experience appears to work quite well andproduces acceptable results. But just because it works quite well is no reason why the processshouldn’t be informed to be even better

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James E. Fuller

systems. Itsenhancements revolve around the application of programs to re-present information in newways. For example: Statics and structural design: use of spreadsheets to perform calculations of static structures; using spreadsheets for selecting beam sizes and reinforcement in concrete beams; Contract documents use of spreadsheets for door, window, finish, equipment schedules; word processing for specifications; the use of CAD to produce construction documents; use of scheduling software to produce project staffing schedules and construction schedules; Mechanical systems use of spreadsheets for sizing piping and ducts; spreadsheets for performing heat loss calculationsIn all of these

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Sureshkumar; J. Sato

management, communication, advertising, commerce andtrade has created a global market place in which “the traditional engineer” should redefine hervital role. In addition, many of the emerging technologies require engineers to function efficientlyin multidisciplinary environments and team projects. IT offers great potential for the developmentof new education tools that transcend the limitations of traditional classroom instruction. Thevision behind the IRIMs project is to use advances in IT to develop a “global” learning culturethat promotes education through multidisciplinary, team-oriented, computer aided learning.Principal elements of our present efforts are outlined below.2. IRIMs in Education and OutreachUse of animations and movies to aid

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas R Phillips

Session 3260 North American Engineering Education & Academic Exchange: -- Canada, Mexico, the United States -- Thomas R Phillips, ABET/FlPSE Project Consultant Managing Director, Collegeways Associates (USA)From 1993 to 1996 the author served as ‘External Evaluator’ for the Regional Academic MobilityProgram (RAMP), a multilateral exchange program run by the Institute of International Education(IIE). RAMP has brought together 26 institutions in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, movingover 200 students in its first three years. However, only about 12% of the exchanges