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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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January term.iii TheProvost’s recent J-term initiative has seen a growth in travel courses from 8 in 2014 to 18 in2015 with over a third more students traveling 96>159. URI’s flagship five-year dual Bachelordegree International Engineering Programiv has for over two decades enrolled 25% of itsundergraduate engineering population and sent them abroad for an entire year. But for the other Page 19.20.275%, short-term opportunities are very welcome,v and in a curriculum which integrates STEM &Humanities educationvi a short-term excursion abroad plays a slightly different role since it is thefirst step in a gradually more intensive

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Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University

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twofold: the actual cost of a program and the perception that it is too expensive. Both issues need to be addressed. More scholarships and sponsored sources of funding, as well as a greater awareness of funding options, would very likely encourage and enable more students to go abroad. Higher education institutions also need to continue working to provide less expensive options and more financial assistance, or allow students to take advantage of other cost-effective options.” [2] “Curriculum: Study abroad is not currently considered an essential component of an undergraduate experience by many students, families and educators. In fact, it is often considered an “add-on” and not integrated within

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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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UniversityEngineers must work within multinational and multicultural environments, butincorporating international experiences into a packed undergraduate curriculum in ameaningful and scalable manner is difficult. This paper addresses the need to betterunderstand how course instructors can effectively internationalize their learningmaterials in a domestic engineering classroom. The course used as a qualitative casestudy in this paper is an Introduction to Engineering course at a large public university inthe United States. We highlight a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning case study of onecourse’s efforts to provide international experiences in a domestic classroom.Introduction and RationaleEngineers must work within multinational and multicultural

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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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, professional devel- opment, and educational outreach programs. She is co-PI for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to broaden participation among minority engineering students through engagement in innovation and entrepreneurship and a co-PI for an i6 Challenge grant through the U.S. Economic Development Admin- istration (EDA) to foster regional economic development through innovation and new business start-ups. She is institutional integrator for the Partnership for the Advancement of Engineering Education (PACE) at NMSU. She is also co-lead for a NSF funded Pathways to Innovation cohort at NMSU with a focus on integrating innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum through a blending of indus

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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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include using the Building Information Modelling (BIM) process as a way of encouraging and fostering Page 19.32.1 collaborative learning. He has presented and published research in both areas.Mrs. Dede M Nelson, North Carolina State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #14277As an instructional designer, Dede Nelson, M.Ed., works collaboratively with engineering faculty to helpidentify and facilitate the effective integration of instructional technology and strategies

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Takao Ichiko, Professional online

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interactive interface betweenhumans and computers under the concept of hypermedia and on-hand items like pensand paper. This enabled bi-directional cooperative learning in an easier manner andcontributed to the removal of more than a few of the boundaries between learning andteaching². The third step described some essential capabilities for multimediatelecommunications and conceptual models to be introduced. This enabled a realisticsolution for the use of multimedia telecommunications in a widespread range ofpersonal and social communities, on the conceptual configuration of multimediatelecommunications schemes with real-time software³. Therefore, here are some typicalbasic concepts, concrete schemes and clinical practices integrated on real

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ZhongLi FU, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies (CNSSS) In National University of Defense Technology (NUDT).; Huang Zhang, National University of Defense Technology; Lini ZHOU, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies, National University of Defense Technology; Tong Wu, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies, National University of Defense Technology; Zhao Zhao, National University of Defense Technology; Changfang Zhang, National University of Defense Technology

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, the developmentof engineering education, as a kind of professional education, is influenced by the game playingbetween scientific thought and pragmatistic thought. 19 Building an engineering education curriculummechanism applicable to improve scientific research capability is still a major practical problem in thedevelopment of engineering education. Thus, for building an engineering education and trainingsystem in a scientific manner, it is prerequisite to keep deepening the study on scientific researchcapability of engineers, figure out the root of the mechanism for enhancing scientific researchcapability and further construct the engineering education curriculum on the basis of solving practicalengineering problems. Next, we need to

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Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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collaborative universitiesand project sponsoring companies, as well as many colleagues and friends involved in thecanter operation.References[1] Daniel Hirleman, Eckhard A. Groll, and Dianne L. Atkinson, “The Three Axes of Engineering Education”, International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE), Coimbra, Portugal, September 3 – 7, 2007.[2] F. Looft and Y. Rong, “The Capstone Project: An Integrated Experience”, Chapter 8 in Shaping Our World, Engineering Education for the 21st Century, Editors, G. Tryggvason and D. Apelian, ISBN 978-0-470-92974-2, Wiley and Sons, 2011[3] E. Sosnovsky, B. Windsor, Y. Rong, “Comprehensive Design Process of Planar Mechanisms for Small and Medium-sized Companies

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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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3 4 In order to develop leadership skills, technical skills and other essential soft skills requestedby industry, the program requires that the students attend a team building week during the summer,go to weekly workouts, develop and join leadership workshops, read leadership books, write bookreports, practice giving presentations, participate in a summer internship, take extra classesimportant to an engineering curriculum and maintain a 3.0 GPA. The results of all those activitiesare recorded and analyzed using a powerful tool called the Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix for strategicplanning to evaluate the success of the program and to teach

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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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Sustainability, Communications andIT, Health, and Modern Manufacturing Systems including Robotics. The aims of this project are also toensure all learners, irrespective of their background or disabilities equal opportunity to education.IntroductionThe EU identifies “New Skills for New Jobs” as an imperative for the future. This project focuses onElectrical and Information Engineering (EIE) modules and programmes aligned to the “new” jobs of thefuture – those in the key global technical challenge areas. The project offers a team of EIE technicalexpert academics who are very well placed to both propose new curricula, but also to develop modelssensitive to new teaching methods and the needs of all learners. In the SALEIE project there are 45European

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Ben Groenewald; Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama, Huntsville

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STEMeducation at the undergraduate level and beyond3,4.The nation of South Africa is also accelerating emphasis upon STEM education and careersamong its K-12 population. During a 46 year period, from 1948 to 1994, apartheid existedwhereby a majority of the nation’s population experienced educational discrimination-mathematics and science were no longer provided within the educational curriculum. Apartheidcategorized each South African citizen into one of four groups; “Whites”, “Indians”, “Coloreds”,and “Blacks”, whereby the privileges and status of each group decreased in alignment with theaforementioned order. Even though South Africa has made great strides since 1994, the legacyof such an extended period of educational discrimination has kept South

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Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

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,symposia, and workshops in the United States, Finland, Belgium, Colombia, Argentina, Japan,U.K., Spain, U.A.E., and India. In all but one event, the principal attendees were university-levelengineering educators or industry partners. The October 2013, San Antonio, Texas, eventprovided an opportunity for K-12 and community/technical college stakeholders to have inputinto the Project. Each event was structured as both a focus group (to seek stakeholder input) anda workshop (to permit the dissemination of findings and encourage integration of attributes intothe engineering curriculum).During the focus group portion, highlights from the survey findings were shared and discussed,and participants had an opportunity to provide reactions or contribute

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

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,attractive, cost neutral and relevant to the student’s academic/professional needs. The Office ofInternational Affairs at TTU provides a platform that supports all international academicprograms and opportunities offered at TTU colleges.The Whitacre College of Engineering (WCOE) has an undergraduate enrollment in 2014 ofapproximately 4700students. These engineering undergraduates can be more competitive in theglobal marketplace if they possess an understanding, appreciation, and respect for culturaldiversity. According to Berdan and Goodman1, (2014) “international experiences shouldn’t be aseparate or tangential part of education, but rather an integrated part of the curriculum.” Withthe support of TTU administration and WCOE alumni, the WCOE

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

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. This summer program has been offered everyother summer through 2012 and then, due to student demand, we switched to offering theprogram every year. A cohort of between 15 to 25 students from across the engineeringmajors completes two courses during the six weeks, a core curriculum liberal arts course andeither engineering statistics or engineering economics. The latter engineering courses arerequired for all of the engineering majors and can be taken as an elective by the computerscience majors. The students are typically rising juniors though we occasionally allow risingseniors and rising sophomores to participate. An engineering faculty member accompanies thecohort and several technical and cultural excursions are included in the

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

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seminars,internships, learning communities, and capstone projects compared to only two anecdotalreferences to study aboard.This paper postulates that ABET’s Student Outcome 3(h) “the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context” and Student Outcome 3(i) "a recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in lifelong learning" are not mutually exclusive but rather interdependent and mutualisticin nature. Outcomes by their very nature describes what students should know or can do by thetime of graduation. The implication is therefore, that lifelong learning and a global perspectivemust originate within the 4-year engineering curriculum/program. The