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Main Plenary 3 - Opportunities for collaboration with engineering educators in India (ISTE)

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2012 ASEE International Forum

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R. Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology; Mohan Khedkar, Anna University of Technology Madurai; Baldev Raj, Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (GEEP); R. Murugesan, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati (M.S.)

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GC 2012-5663: AN AGENDA FOR FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR ENHANC-ING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AMONG FACULTY, STUDENTS,CURRICULAR, AND LABORATORY DEVELOPMENTDr. R. Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology R Natarajan received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya Col- lege of Engineering (of the then Mysore University) in 1961. Subsequently he obtained the M.E. degree of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and the M.A.Sc and Ph.D degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has worked as a National Research Council Fellow in Canada, and as a Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany. He served as The Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from 1995 to 2001

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Main Plenary 3 - Opportunities for collaboration with engineering educators in India (ISTE)

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Mohan Khedkar, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati (M.S.)

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quality knowledge and skills to the students, thereby lowering their overall development and employability. At times, the faculty also lack in communication and pedagogical skills and industry academia collaboration is also at nascent stage. Faculty development basically means: Improved teaching and learning necessary for deep understanding of technical information and skills Implementation of latest teaching strategies Creating practical learning environment provided by laboratories and workshops Effective assessment methods to determine quality and improve the learning process Understanding properly the changing role of teacher in various areas including research ‘Train the Trainer’ model has to be

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Main Plenary 3 - Opportunities for collaboration with engineering educators in India (ISTE)

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D. N. Reddy, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)

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EngineeringEducation. Though the Focus is to provide access, to many but equally important is to ensurequality of education. Engineering graduates today require not only adequate technologicalability and problem solving skills, but also must be equipped with soft skills, business skills,inter personnel and intercultural adaptability.Now, the emphasis should be on self learning and the role of teacher is redefined as facilitatorto enable the students to be more involved in active learning through laboratory. Project work ,assignments and case studies Lifelong learning and continuous learning is key aspect of teacherand student.International collaborations are essential for better student development. Inview of theglobalisation and in this endeavour the role of

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Reception & Poster Session

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

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latest HP technologies, high quality learning solutions, faculty trainingand enablement. Page 21.58.4This brief youtube video shows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIHncvmLJs the goalsof the HP Institute and students’ testimonials.Other HP Programs for Higher EducationHP Laboratories Interns and PostDocs Opportunities8 9While HP corporate laboratories (HP Labs) has a long tradition of hosting postdocs andinterns (e.g., every year, HP Labs hosts about 100 interns at its Palo Alto facility), during thelast few years it has been providing postdocs, MS/PhD students and recently graduatedengineers opportunities to collaborate in R&D projects with our

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International Forum Poster Session & Welcome Reception: Sponsored by Quanser and Cypress Semiconductors

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Helmuth Gesch, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, Germany; Richard O Gale, Texas Tech University; Tanja Karp, Texas Tech University; Nanna Suryana Herman

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• intercultural competence, development, knowledge of pure mass production is not • project management. required and therefore not transferred during the program.Didactics will be characterized by Conclusion • active rather than passive pedagogy (student centered), The presented program of Electronic System Engineering • team teaching and cooperative learning, (ESE) will be promoted and partly supported by German, • laboratory tutorials, U.S., and Malaysian companies in an

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International Forum Poster Session & Welcome Reception: Sponsored by Quanser and Cypress Semiconductors

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Margaret Pearl Lyn Blackstun, Air Force Institute of Technology

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science curriculum, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, oftenincorporates hands-on laboratory experiences. This hands-on lab work provides students withconcept relevancy, integrated knowledge, and technical skill required in engineering jobs [1].Hands-on and project based curriculum are examples of inductive learning techniques whereinductive learning reverses the traditional method of deductive learning. In deductive learning,a theory is presented to students and examples are then given in illustrations, in-classexperiments or homework exercises. In inductive learning, the process begins with a set ofobjectives or a problem to be solved. Faculty guides students along the way and the studentsreach an understanding of concepts through

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Reception & Poster Session

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

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capstone design projects are performed at industrial sites andgovernment laboratories, including geographically diverse locations.Geographically distributed capstone project teams – Geographically distributed designprojects offers the opportunity to engage as students in the kinds of global engineering activitiesthat are expected of practicing engineers. The challenges and some methods to optimize idea Page 21.20.4generation in distributed settings are described in [10].Institutional exchange programs – Many institutions of higher education have exchangeprograms in place whereby students from one university spend a semester or year at

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Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology / Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC); Tim L Ferris, University of South Australia; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; and a PhD in Systems Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technol- ogy in Hoboken, New Jersey. Current research areas include systems thinking, competency framework development, and engineering education.Dr. Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Massood Towhidnejad is the director of NExtGeneration Applied Research Laboratory (NEAR), and a tenure full professor of software engineering in the department of Electrical, Computer, Software and System Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His teaching interests include autonomous systems, and software and systems engineering with emphasis on quality assurance. He has been in

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Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

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National Taiwan University (NTU). It was implementedduring the Spring and Fall 2012 semesters with a total of 27 students from both universities. Itwas designed around 4-5 projects with lectures and laboratory demonstrations performed by theinstructors (from both sides) to provide necessary background materials for students to carry onsuccessfully with their chosen projects. The major difficulties were the differences in the startdate and duration of the respective courses at each university and prevented our attempt tosynchronize student progress and interaction. The "technical" issues turned out to be easilysolved by each side using similar hardware and software. The instructional materials were sharedvia classroom capture and webcasting

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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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thesepedagogies are being employed in long-standing environments, namely laboratories, research, orinternships…”19, p.33. To promote a more widespread implementation across the departments inour program we sought to bring about changes at a broader curricular level and to introduce thesepedagogies into regular classroom practice. Research has shown that for young adults, such thedesired skills and dispositions are best learned through experiential approaches (Cohen, 1996;Kolb, 1984). 20, 21 We therefore have begun to implement them in a variety of ways as part of anoverarching comprehensive approach to developing in students the needed academic andprofessional skills, and technical know-how, through exposure to what it means to be anengineer.Implementing

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International Forum Poster Session & Welcome Reception: Sponsored by Quanser and Cypress Semiconductors

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Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Joules Webb, Transformation 2013 Texas STEM Center

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2011 HSTEAP. An additional four pairs, participants selected from asix-week, National Science Foundation RET program, experienced HSTEAP as their inauguralweek providing the foundation for development of engineering lessons during and after theirsubsequent five weeks of work in research laboratories. Each pair was chosen based oncertification level, current school assignment, number of years teaching, previous professionaldevelopment workshops attended, and responses to essay questions.Curriculum and Teaching Design TeamHSTEAP 2011 facilitators chosen to design and lead the program were brought back from theprior year and integrated lessons learned from the first iteration to refine and enhance the teacherprofessional development experience

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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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Amos G Winter V, MIT; Robert James Stoner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles H Fine, MIT Sloan School of Management

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pollution mitigation in an industrial district with many small and medium sizedmanufacturing firms. In Muzaffarnagar, an industrial town 100 km north of Delhi, several dozenpaper mills, another dozen sugar mills, and a large range of other SME manufacturing entitiescollectively contribute to significant environmental degradation to the region’s air, water, andsoil. Building on strong connections between MIT and the local chapter of the India Industry Page 21.63.6Association, four MIT students, a team of advising faculty members from a range of academicdepartments, and engineers from firms in Muzaffarnagar are using this region as a laboratory

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

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. Safely applies laboratory, test and experimental procedures appropriate to the engineering discipline.(c) an ability to design a system, 2.1 d, g and i) Competently addresses engineering problems involving uncertainty, ambiguity,component, or process to meet desired imprecise information and wide-ranging and sometimes conflicting technical and non-technicalneeds within realistic constraints such as factors. Identifies, quantifies, mitigates and manages technical, health, environmental, safety andeconomic, environmental, social, other contextual risks associated with engineering application in the designated engineeringpolitical, ethical, health and safety

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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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the benefits of and motivations for service learningwere surprisingly close to the program intent developed by the faculty. These benefits includeddevelopment of soft skills, application of technical skills and formation of an internationalperspective. This implies that the faculty was successful at developing the itinerary anddelivering the program in a way that achieved these goals. Despite the overall success of the program, the positive impacts reported by the studentswere not linked to the program components as planned by the faculty. Students reportedreceiving the most benefit and most intense learning from their interaction in the village and notin the laboratory and classroom at the foreign university. They also preferred the

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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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- rience for Undergraduates Program. Since 2006, this program has sent 106 young U.S. engineering and physics students to Japan for research, language, and cultural study. She also manages the reciprocal NanoREIS: Research Experiences for International Students at Rice University which provides oppor- Page 21.15.1 tunities for students from the laboratories of our Japanese collaborators to come to Rice for short-term research internships. Since 2008, 60 Japanese students have come to Rice for research through this pro- gram. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

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Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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, laboratory practices, modeling andsimulation practices, worksheets/spreadsheets) has been developed for the DE course. Its mainaxis is concerned with the modeling of biological, physical or chemical phenomena.Recent research has shown the need to change the way to teach DE, from the “traditional” way,which emphasizes analytical methods, to an integrative mode, which uses graphical andnumerical methods. This integrative mode should enable students to identify and recognize a DEin its different representations; and thus, improve the learning of DEs as mathematical objects.The student should not only learn how to use techniques to solve DEs but also learn theapplication of the DE as a tool to model several problems. This is also strengthened through