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. Page 19.2.33.1 Detailed Schemes in the Research There are different and more numerous types of questions and answers betweenlearners and teaching staff in the distance learning environment. Fig.1 shows anexample of questions and answers (denoted Q/As) from learners (denoted S1 to S4) andteaching staff (denoted T), respectively. For instance, there may be a volley of answersfor Q3 if it is assumed to be of the highest priority at a certain time during the process oflectures/seminars. It is more effective to timely enhance dynamics between learners andteaching staff by making the usage of shared space mobile Q/A integration. It is alsopossible for any S to get an answer for each question uploaded if it can be found andmatched in the knowledge

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Manojkumar Vilasrao Deshpande, SVKM's NMIMS, Shirpur, MS, India; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Innovation Centre; Prashant Pralhadrao Udawant P.E., SVKM's NMIMS, MPSTME Shirpur Campus

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program, student need to take course related programminganalyzed statistically. language. These courses are offered to student with further objectives: (1) Student must acquire fundamentalsThe proposed pedagogy incorporated hands on practice of programming languages (2) Student should have abilityin laboratories tailored with short theory sessions to learn software tools related to their discipline.(3)replacing conventional way of conducting theory sessions Student should have adequate skills of analyzingin classroom and practical sessions in laboratory requirement and developing engineering

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Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shreyas Vathul Subramanian, Purdue University; Mushtak Al-Atabi, Taylor's University; David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo and IFEES; josé aquiles grimoni jabg P.E., polythecnic schoool university of são paulo

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environments, whichrequires global competency and ongoing, lifelong learning to better understandingengineering cultures around the world [1], [2]. Accreditation bodies and universitiesrecognize that the preparation of lifelong globally competent engineers begins during theundergraduate degree [3]. However, incorporating international experiences into a packedundergraduate curriculum in a meaningful but affordable manner is difficult for courseadministrators and instructors. Furthermore, little is known about the effectiveness ofexisting efforts. This paper addresses the need to better understand how course instructorscan effectively internationalize their learning materials in an engineering classroom.The course used as a qualitative case study in

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Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

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Ang Liu; James R. Morrison, KAIST, ISysE; Yun Dai, University of California Santa Barbara; Stephen C-Y. Lu, University of Southern California

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isachieved by the synthesis of inverted, interactive, and international learning in networkedclassrooms on distributed campuses, while learning technologies are used strategically to enablethe new pedagogy to enrich the learning experiences and outcomes of all domestic andinternational students on local and remote campuses at multiple universities. Such a different, ifnot unique, pedagogy is developed based on three basic premises: (1) contextual understanding isbest achieved via direct engagements (as opposed to linear lecturing), hence the "inverted"learning, (2) what students learn depends on with whom they learn (instead of from whom theylearn), hence the "interactive" learning, and (3) diversity increases learning opportunity foreveryone, hence

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Anders V Warell, Lund University, Industrial Design; Charlotta Johnsson, Lund University; Carl-Henric Lennart Nilsson, Technology management

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leading to increasing strategic value of the application ofdesign in businesses (see Figure 1), the ‘Design Ladder’ model (DDC (2003)) highlights the value of design forcompetitiveness. Typically, companies’ design maturity, exhibited by their attitude towards design, is reflectedin how they integrate design thinking as part of their innovation process. In the first step of the ladder, design is anegligible part of their business. When design is applied as ‘style’, it is typically seen as an appearance attribute,relating to the final physical form of the product, which may be the responsibility of a designer or someone elsewithin the company. In the third step, design is not the result, but a method, which is integrated into the

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Mark Kennedy, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland

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engineering majors complete a studyabroad experience; engineering represents three percent of all US study abroad students whilecomputer science is at 1.5 percent.1 Notwithstanding the significant resources often needed topromote study abroad, there are several other factors that affect the ability of institutions topromote globalization outcomes for students. For example, several universities are revampingtheir core curriculum to include an emphasis on globalization while others are creatinginterdisciplinary courses with an international “thread” linking subject content from disciplinesas diverse as fine arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and economics.2

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Zaida M Gracia, Texas Tech University; Allison Wright, Texas Tech University

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interdisciplinary activities and assess theentire program.The project will allow a number of results to be achieved: (1) the development of a combinedResearch-Academic undergraduate student exchange program, and (2) the interaction betweenboth institutions' faculty in academic and research domains. Project results will pave futureavenues of collaboration at the graduate level, and increase cultural awareness of studentsstudying abroad to the U.S. and Colombia. Page 19.9.2 BackgroundHigher education institutions are moving toward the internationalization of their campuses. Inthe U.S., universities are recognizing the

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Andrew Thomas Conley, Michigan Technological University; Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University

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Institute was set onproviding humanitarian services for the destination through a leadership learning experience forthe undergraduate Michigan Tech students. As the Institute grew throughout the next few years,it was clear that additional project locations were necessary.Over the next years, the Pavlis Institute broadened its reach to countries such as Argentina, India,and, its most recent addition, Malta. The addition of each leadership practicum location“demonstrates the maturity and success of the Pavlis Institute.” 1 Each location brought aboutpolitical, authority, and educational challenges, all of which were embraced by the studentstraveling there. The learning outcomes of the Pavlis Institute were changed by the experiences inthe developed

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Engineering Education Association), and in the past served as First Vice President of IFEES (International Federation of Engineering Societies) Page 19.13.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Engineering for the Americas: Progress on the Action Plans of the Ministers of Science and Technology of the Organization of American StatesThe Organization of American States’ First Meeting of Ministers and HighAuthorities of Science and Technology, held in Lima, Peru in November of 2004,resulted in the Declaration of Lima [1], which pronounced that science,engineering

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Nicolas Couto Giffoni dos Santos, SIUC Leadership Development Program; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Regression, Experimental Design, Program Evaluation, and Survey Methods. Page 19.14.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 1 Engineering Leadership Development Programs: Universities Respond to Critical Needs in the US and InternationallyIntroduction In a world where technological innovation continues to accelerate, engineers need tocontinuously evolve and improve, just like the new technology they are developing. The need forengineers to be effective leaders and

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Caribbean.These are examined, and a summary of the state of engineering program accreditation in theregion will be presented.IntroductionEngineering program accreditation is the key to a global knowledge economy. Internationallyrecognized Engineering accreditation establishes programmatic and institutional optimizationthat provides quality assurance, internationally recognized standards, and a process ofcontinuous improvement. This would bring internationalization to academia, which would inturn build capacity, foster development, enable mobility and move the countries to globalcompetitiveness.The International Engineering Accreditation Alliance (IEA) [1] groups the agencies that havebecome signatories of the six international mutual recognition

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Ronald J Hugo, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan P.Eng., University of Calgary; Jian Zhang; Xiaodong Niu, Shantou University

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Educational PartnershipIntroduction:Over the last three decades, the internet has accelerated interconnectedness. From thisinterconnectedness, the appearance of the “micro-multinational” or small to medium-sizedcompany that operates internationally has become a major contender. Given the highlyinternational level of economic activity now seen1, engineering graduates will likely be calledupon to navigate effectively in the global economy.In response to economic needs, post-secondary institutions have begun to address ways thatglobal competency can be integrated into engineering programs. Five educational methods thatcan be used to help develop global competency are listed below: 1. International enrolment refers to the traditional student

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Stephen U. Egarievwe, Alabama A&M University

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Faculty Development and International Collaborations Using Vertical Education Enhancement Model Stephen U. Egarievwe1,2 and Ralph B. James2 1 College of Engineering, Technology and Physical Sciences, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL 35762, USA2 Nonproliferation and National Security Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USAAbstractThis paper presents the international collaboration and experiences of an effective facultydevelopment initiative based on a vertical education enhancement (VEE) model. The VEEfaculty development program was designed to effectively improve performance and moralthrough

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Monica Gray P.E., The Lincoln University - College of Science & Technology; Constance Loretta Lundy

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Engineering Education’s (ASEE), Going theDistance report, 53.6% Hispanics, 61.4% Native Americans, 61.7% African Americans and 49%Female students who enter engineering programs do not graduate in this major.1 This translatesto an engineering workforce that comprise of about 6% Hispanics, 0.3% Native American, 4%African Americans and 13% females according to the latest National Science Foundation’sreport.2 With such high attrition rates among minorities and underrepresented groups, changingthe current engineering workforce’s diversity portfolio is of grave national importance andrequires a plethora of high impact approaches. In the aforementioned ASEE report, over 60strategies and best practices were proposed. High impact practices included first-year

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Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University; Meghan M. Alexander, Texas A&M University; Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucatan Government Ministry of Education; Martha Elena Ortega, CANIETI

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American universitiesbrings a variety of benefits to those institutions including developing international ties, securingfinancial resources, adding diversity to the intellectual pool of students and fulfilling a shortageof engineering talent in the US [1]. However, competition for recruiting these students hasincreased in the past few years with Australia, the UK and Germany attracting a large number oftalented students [1]. Several approaches have been reported to ensure the number of internationalstudents on campuses does not decline [2], including collaborations, increased efforts inrecruitment, and commitment to new funding for marketing and program promotion [3]. These aregood strategies, however, according to Srivastava et al (2010) “there

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Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island; Emily Ann Serman, University of Rhode Island; Megan Mercedes Echevarria, University of Rhode Island; Lars O. Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Silke A. Scholz; Anette Geithner

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, andGeotecnica Ambiental. They served as important ambassadors for the tour, able to show off theirsignificantly increased linguistic and cultural proficiency in Spanish/ in the Chilean way of life.As role models they could relate best to the younger SIEPers, advocate for Chile as a site oftechnology and culture and the site of choice for the younger students’ up-coming year abroad.SIEPers can choose between study abroad options in Spain, Mexico and Chile, and it is adifficult undertaking to steer them away from the always preferred Spain and open their mind-sets towards Latin America.xiiiAcademics: The Chile J-term students earned 1-4 URI Credits: 3 credits for CVE 323: Sustainable Solutions for Developing Communities – Using Paul Pollack’s 2008 book

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Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University

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. This involves shared education that happens across several university settings. Authorsin16 present ideal features for BOL to have a effective collaborative learning is to: (1) providetechnical and resources support, (2) get familiar with each system, (3) launch effective andsustained communication, (4) build mutual trust, and (5) get organized in all aspects of thecollaboration. In this type of collaboration using BOL can have various types of communications(a) Discussions with other instructors teaching classes in the program at two institutes involvedin the collaboration. (b) Lecturing or chatting with students in the class, may be from differentinstitutes. Communication in a BOL typically takes three forms: (i) communicating with

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Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Delia Valles-Rosales, New Mexico State University; Marcelo Augusto Leal Alves, University of São Paulo; Brendan P. Sullivan, New Mexico State University

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global environment. This evaluation process consists of monitoringthe development of the learning experience. Also, students need to evaluate the experience as a Page 19.22.5function of theory in combination with feelings by participating in a reflection session. Finally,feedback should be provided to the student to complement their reflection.To accomplish this goal, the following specific objectives have been defined: 1. Increase the incorporation of global-centric, real-life, meaningful research and professional development activities in the classroom. 2. Increase the preparation of STEM students to enter an interdisciplinary

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S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Daniel Cox, Harvard University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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with do-it-yourself (DIY) kits they could use at home alongside a neuroscience MOOC.2. Research questionsIn order to better understand the experiences of students who were sent at-home laboratory kitsto use alongside this MOOC, we ask four primary research questions:1. How can we characterize the ways in which students around the world use onlineresources with the at-home lab kits? What online behaviors can we identify for the students inthe treatment group when they are likely to be using the kits at home? For example, how muchtime do they spend online watching lab videos that demonstrate kit experiments?2. How is their use of the kits reflected in their online individual and collaborativebehaviors? What patterns of behaviors (e.g

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Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Kazan National Research Technological University; Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Dilyara R. Erova, Kazan National Research Technological University

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, technical objects andprocessing procedures [1]. Therefore interest and taste for engineering are among successfactors in his professional activity. Mechanical aptitude, power of engineering observation,mechanical intelligence and spatial perception are professionally important qualities. However engineering activity is of creative nature. Real engineer should actindependently, creatively and with initiative in every field. Often engineers become teammanagers, therefore administrative abilities are also of great importance. Sense of responsibility is also necessary for professional engineers as wise utilizationof funds, equipment and manpower often depends on his work, abilities and self-discipline. At the university future

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Anna Friesel, Technical University of Denmark; Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Ian Andrew Grout, University of Limerick; Dorian A. Cojocaru, University of Craiova, Romania

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practices inengineering education in different EU-countries).Project ApproachIllustration of the SALEIE project’s main themes is shown in figure 1.Figure 1. SALEIE Project Workpackages and Main ThemesThe methodology that this project is following is to audit current practice, design new models, integratethe models into trial institutions, monitor and evaluate the trials and analyse, report and disseminatethe findings.As a first step questionnaire surveys have been developed, launched and the results have been analyzedfor an audit of the current situation and current practices in interest areas of this project. The surveyshave been designed to audit:• The skills required of graduates able to help industry to respond to the current global

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Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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situation exists for womenin underrepresented groups across all ranks in computer and information science. This meansthat the numbers of women professors in engineering from underrepresented groups are so smallin the U.S. (less than 1%), that most of them can be readily identified [1]. Increasing therepresentation of women and diversifying the field of engineering has become a nationalimperative, which is closely aligned to the United States’s ability to maintain its globalcompetitive edge [2], [3]. Initiatives that facilitate women’s access to mentoring relationshipsand research networks have proven successful in providing women engineers with the academiccapital necessary for career advancement [4]. Research demonstrates the direct

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Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Alfiya Ivanovna Lakhova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Kazan National Research Technological University

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-leveltechnical equipment and adaptability with an innovative development vector. Large-scaleinnovation of the industry is largely determined by ensuring its production of highly skilledstaff, training quality of that should be responded with fast-changing demands of thedeveloping manufactures. In modern conditions, the main goal of the petrochemical industry enterprises is toimprove the quality of products, ensuring theirs competitiveness and as a result, theachievement of profit, which is the source of funds for the further development of enterprises[1]. During the transition from one stage of company development to another, there is anaccumulation of organizational problems. These problems may be the result of making wrongmanagement

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Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, ​ Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics National Zoological Park

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develop solutions for real-worldissues. Despite involvement of some graduate students in international research, there remainsubsets of graduate students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups who have neitherbeen encouraged nor invited to participate in international projects. The Council of GraduateSchools’ 2013 publication, “Graduate Education for Global Career Pathways,” included papersthat encouraged graduate students to participate in global conferences as means to engage, andserves as the premise for our strategy to broaden participation of URM graduate students ininternational projects.1 The Graduate School at UMBC and the National Science Foundation’sPROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP

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Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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for the future it is critical to decrease emissions from fossil fuelswhile harnessing energy from renewable resources. These concerns reach across political andgeographical borders, and, when considering the establishing of knowhow and practice indeveloping nations, researchers and practitioners need to address the special needs of capacitybuilding and infrastructure and resource limitations. Beyond that one must be cognizant of howto create a link with engineers and scientists to begin with and then go beyond that to maintainthe collaboration while considering issues related to tact, communication, and understanding theinfluence of culture on research and interaction practice [1].In this paper we consider a USAID/NSF PEER program aimed at

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Edward J. Jaselskis, North Carolina State University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Satyanarayana N. Kalidindi; Linda D. Krute, North Carolina State University; Hongling Guo, Tsinghua University; David Comiskey, Ulster University; Dede M Nelson, North Carolina State University

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. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) citesfactors such as increased access to high performance computing, Internet connectivity and othertechnology by previously under-developed countries as some of the reasons for the increasednumber of firms globally that are now competing for engineering projects (1). In some cases,major projects require the contributions of virtual global teams made up of members located indifferent parts of the world. These teams often function across multiple time zones, multiplecultures, and sometimes multiple languages. They also can take place synchronously (live) orasynchronously (viewed at a later time). The challenge of working effectively with multiculturalteams will continue to grow in importance. NAE

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Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Hu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; BO YANG, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Chen Bing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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university in China. The summer courseshave been launched at the University H since 2012. In 2014, forty-one graduate-levelcourses were offered with 24 courses in engineering related disciplines. Among these24 courses, 19 engineering courses have invited scholars from outside of theuniversity to be guest professors. These international collaborative summer courses(ICSCs) have emerged to be a dynamic platform for diversifying students’ learningexperiences. Most of the courses would invite renowned professors from topuniversities around the world to conduct the teaching. As shown in Figure 1, fifty-fivepercent of professors came from the US, followed by the UK and Japan (14%respectively). ICSCs provide students with a short-term exposure to

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Russell D Jamison, Virginia Commonwealth University

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apparent absence of constraints in project initiation and the suffocating presence of con-straints in project execution.There is evidence in fact that the highest forms of creativity may be derived from designingwithin an envelope of significant constraint, i.e. thinking “inside the box” [1]. There is also anemerging view of “reverse innovation” that suggests that good design for the constraints of thedeveloping world informs and improves design for the developed world [2-5].The current study exposed students to environments significantly different from their own,perhaps a worthwhile objective in itself. But the core objective of the study was to exposestudents to environments of high constraint. The countries selected were among the 138 coun

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Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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not only in quantity but also in quality. In order to provide the society withquality engineers in the new century, engineering education has been developed more andmore in three dimensions, i.e., academic, entrepreneurial, and societal components. It isparticularly described as “engineering education is now comprised of three key axes:technical, professional and global skills” [1]. After analyzed the current situation ofengineering education, James Plummer proposed the changes we should make in order tohave a mixed curriculum with other fields for students to learn many skills not intraditional engineering curriculum but very useful in their professional career [2].Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has implemented the project based