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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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Paper ID #8328Infusing Engineering Practice into the Core to Meet the Needs of a Knowledge-based EconomyDr. Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute Dr. Brian Bielenberg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, a Master’s in Materials Science, and a Ph.D. in Education. His research interests revolve around engineering education reform, content and language integrated learning, and academic language and literacy needs in design classrooms. He currently serves as Head of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Assistant Director of the Arts and Sciences Program at the Petroleum Institute in Abu

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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engineeringgraduates and professional competence. These agreements govern mutual recognition ofengineering qualifications. For example, the Washington, Sydney and Dublin accords forengineering, technologist, and technician graduate respectively3,4. In addition, there are threeagreements that aim to address the recognition of equivalence at the practicing engineer level,where individual evaluation of experience and expertise (not qualifications) are seen to meetthe benchmark standard. That is, a person recognized in one country as reaching the agreedinternational standard of competence should be able to obtain registration in another countrythat is party to the agreement with minimal assessment3,4.These accords and agreements have allowed increased mobility of

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Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University; Victor A Atiemo-Obeng, The Dow Chemical Company (Retired)

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early course on ”Mixer Selection, Scale-up and Design” was devel- oped into the Dow Mixing Manual and Mixing Course. Victor served for many years on the Executive Council of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF), a division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). While in that capacity, he was invited to be co-editor as well as contributing author of several chapters of the world-acclaimed ”Handbook of Industrial Mixing: Science and Practice” published in 2004 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. In support of Dow’s commitment to achieving a diverse work force, Victor co-created the award-winning Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) Symposium at Dow to introduce doctoral and post-doctoral

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Keith W Buffinton, Bucknell University; Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Paper ID #8249Exploring Engineering in China in a Global and Societal ContextProf. Keith W Buffinton, Bucknell University Keith W. Buffinton is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford. Following his graduate studies, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute for Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2001 through 2004 he served as co-director of Bucknell’s Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management and

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William Robinson, Stevens Institute of Technology; Michael Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Institute of Technology Michael Pennotti, Ph.D. is Director, Systems Programs and a Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Stevens in 2001, Mike spent twenty years in systems engineering practice and leadership at Bell Laboratories, primarily working on undersea surveillance systems for the Navy. He then spent ten years applying the same prin- ciples and practices to organizations and enterprises as a member of the senior leadership teams of three different AT&T businesses. Since joining Stevens in 2001, Mike has helped develop the SDOE Program into one of premier systems engineering graduate programs in the U.S. He has taught

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Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel Pando P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Michael Adam Hoff, UNC Charlotte

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development?  Service learning is useful for acquainting students with elements of professional practice such as communication, relationship building and networking as well as the required level of care for various tasks. o Service learning improves student understanding of the impact of engineering designs and solutions to real projects that can have a positive impact on different groups in society.2) Compare the value of international experiences with the value of similar domestic experiences  Because of the regional diversity present in the United States, I believe that domestic service learning projects can provide an equally rich experience as international ones

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

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and University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez colleagues12. These workshops aretailored for engineering faculty and engineering deans interested in renovating theirengineering programs to better serve their country/region’s needs. Faculty from relateddisciplines and graduate students interested in pursuing academic careers are encouraged toattend. The workshops provide a space and time for faculty and deans to learn aboutengineering education issues, revamping its curricula, effective teaching/learning methodsand become aware of best practices so they can become more effective educators.During the last two years, HP has partnered with IIDEA, the International Institute forDeveloping Engineering Academics13, to not only sponsor, but also participate

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Scott Grenquist, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Roger G. Hadgraft, RMIT University

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cooperation in engineering education, particularly the sharing of best-practice learning materials. Page 21.14.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Are Australian and American Engineering Education Programs the Same? The Similarities and Differences between Australian and American Engineering Accreditation ProceduresAbstractIn our ever more globally connected world, one of the principal objectives for engineeringeducation accreditation standards is to maintain the international standard of quality of ourengineering graduates. However, most of the world's

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame

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moved from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in 2010. Tryggvason received his doctorate from Brown University in 1985 and spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute. After fifteen years as a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Michigan, he moved to WPI in 2000. He has also held short term visiting positions at Caltech, NASA Lewis Engineering Research Center, University of Marseilles, and University of Paris VI. Professor Tryg- gvason is well known for his research on numerical simulations of multiphase and free-surface flows, vortex flows, and flows with phase changes. He is an

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Lucia Howard

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from the first round of three rounds.2.0 Literature ReviewMost contemporary research on how international experiences and education impact engineeringstudents is anecdotal; there is only emergent empirical research to guide educational practices 11.The factors cited for why engineering students’ international experiences include limitedspecifically designed engineering programs with foci on global competence, and the risk ofdelaying graduation when international experiences are included as a degree requirement. Yetthere are notable exceptions. Parkinson provides an overview of 24 exemplary programs, notingthat a few have ambitious goals to increase their number of graduates with an internationalexperience. These include Georgia Tech with a