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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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were the ones anticipated by the program organizers, thestudents’ perceptions are useful to the planning and marketing of future international serviceprograms. By applying the evaluation and critique of this round of program participants topromoting future trips, the organizers will be able to better encourage engineering students toengage in international experiences during their college career. Summary statements arepresented regarding the perceptions of this batch of students. Finally, conclusions incorporateplanning choices made based on student input.Introduction An international service club (ISC) was established at The University of North Carolinaat Charlotte (UNCC) in 2009 with the intention of providing opportunities for

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

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offerthese courses through its regular curriculum (as electives), or, if preferred, as a separateoffering. In addition, select universities can offer the entire professional HP ExpertOnecertification program as part of their continuous education portfolio to help professionals inthe workforce expand their career opportunities with validated skills in the latesttechnologies, including cloud solutions.Integral to the program is the HP Certified Educator component which validates professorsare qualified to teach these courses. HP Institute students may also spend internship periodsat companies and have access to HP’s vast community of IT experts. HP Institute is one wayof preparing the global engineer through a very unique industry-university

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

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Design Simulation, involved twenty-eight early-career engineers whohad been selected for the Leadership Development Program of a large, international technology-based company. The students were enrolled in Stevens’ Systems Engineering Graduate programand were located in five geographically dispersed locations. This initial simulation provided thebaseline system design used in all of the subsequent simulations.The Design Simulation was initiated by defining specific roles. Class instructors acted as the“Customer” for the system being designed, developing the requirements and Statement of Work(SOW) for the system and making all the key program-level decisions, e.g., competitionwin/loss, throughout the simulation.The students’ functional leaders

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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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, professional engineers require not only technological know-how, but also a set of key professional skills and broad understanding of contemporary issues. Critical to efforts to prepare local engineering undergraduates for careers in today’s economy, it is argued, is a rethinking of how engineers are educated. In this paper, the major aspects of calls for reform are highlighted, with a discussion of suggested pedagogical approaches and changes in learning environment that can better prepare engineers for the roles they will play in the 21st century. One set of innovations which appears to be having positive impacts in this direction are the efforts of the Arts and Science Program at a small Middle Eastern

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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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engineers from different cultures• Cross cultural communication (intercultural communication skills; strategies; comparative analysis)• Problem solving involving scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines being applied to non-US centered problems (not just problem solving; it’s why we need the engineers; understanding of cross cultural similarities and differences in practice; ability to adapt to a project to local circumstances)• World view (understanding impacts of global connectedness)• International professionalism (ability to articulate global engineering practices in general and how their career as a future engineer impacts engineering practices globally)• Curiosity• Self-cultural awareness (aware of one’s own cultural perspective

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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activities or self- evaluate career episodes Year 2 improvement workshops reporting, and adjust learning along with other plan if required. Should Continue with the educational participants from other include a Work-Integrated development plan and complete disciplines and/or Learning and short 10 courses; Can be accelerated professions professional development with residential schools or courses as part of the intensive coursework; recognition of informal Recognition

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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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Paper ID #8360Tata Center for Technology and Design at MITProf. Amos G Winter V, MIT Amos Winter is the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Me- chanical Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on the marriage of mechanical design theory and user- centered product design to create simple, elegant technological solutions for use in highly constrained environments. His work includes design for emerging markets and developing countries, biomimetic de- sign, fluid/solid/granular mechanics, biomechanics, and the design of ocean systems. Prof. Winter is the principal inventor of the

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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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development of GRCSE was to conduct a survey of systems engineering(SE) graduate programs offered internationally. This exposed the author team to differencesbetween these programs in a number of issues including matters arising from local marketconditions, jurisdictional issues, education traditions, the place of a postgraduate degree in theeducation and work career of students, industry domains which needed to be supported, the typesof work into which graduates would expect to proceed, and the balance of systems-centric anddomain-centric SE needs. This diversity was recognized and accepted in the GRCSE project asthe contextual facts-on-the-ground which must be accommodated to enable a referencecurriculum to meaningfully inform program design to an

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

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mentioned in the Introduction section, ENGR 290 China visited many companies. On almostevery such visit, someone, usually in a leadership role, gave a presentation about the companyand how they do business in China, if it is a multi-national company, or how they work in theglobal market, if a local company.When visiting HP Cloud Executive Briefing Center in Tianjin, we met a Bucknell engineeringalumnus who was involved in the designing of the HP cloud computing center in China. Hedescribed his personal experience of coming from the U.S. to work in China when he had verylittle knowledge of China. He described how working in China for HP presented him with atremendous career opportunity. Though he went through some initial culture shock and he had

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Edward Godfrey Ochieng, Liverpool John Moores University; Andrew David Price, Lougyhborough University; Ximing Ruan Ruan, University of the West of England

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competency and ethics.For instance, at present, in the UK engineering is poorly understood and beset by stereotypes.As noted by National Grid and the Royal Academy of Engineering1, there is a lack of clarityabout what it encompasses and low appreciation of its huge contribution to the society,making it almost an imperceptible industry. It is worth noting that, there is a huge possibilityto raise and enhance profile of engineering, to inspire young people by demonstrating theimpact of engineering’s successes and to ensure more of them aspire to career as an engineer.According to Harris2, warnings have emerge from leading figures in higher education,employment and management across the engineering sector. They affirm that a growingproportion of

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Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Natalia Vladimirovna Kraysman; Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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engineering disciplines. The main purpose of additional professional education (APE) is to prepare students forthe constantly changing modern world. Therefore APE aims to improve competitiveness ofgraduating students of institutions of higher technological education at the regional andinternational labor market. Graduating from the FAE students get additional career opportunities. Implementation of the APE model presupposes the following didactic basis:• system principle,• principle of continuity,• principle of individualization and differentiation of education,• principle of succession and interconnection with the major. Therefore, innovative training of competent and competitive engineers in thecontemporary

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

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to achieve personal, career and organizational goals and objectives. development. Nor does it e) Thinks critically and applies an appropriate balance of logic and specify the importance of time intellectual criteria to analysis, judgment and decision making. management. Nor does it f) Presents a professional image in all circumstances, including relations require a “professional image” with clients, stakeholders, as well as with professional and technical at all times. colleagues across wide ranging disciplines.3.6

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

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Page 21.16.7anecdotal notion that Africa is richly endowed with natural resources, many students at this stagein their academic career have little knowledge about their countries’ minerals resources and haveno idea where and how to access such information. In the US we often tell our students that thechallenge today is not lack of information, but how to use the ever-abundant information. For theAUST students, however, access to information was nontrivial. Library resources (physical plusonline) were extremely limited, access to the computer lab was restricted, and the availablebandwidth often made downloading a formidable task. In spite of the challenges above, thestudents’ response to the course was positive overall, as captured in this