Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chih-Hao Wu; Kim Troboy; Tracy Cole; Loretta Cochran; David Roach

. Students from various ethnic groups took on specific roles (mediator, resource, critic orprovocateur) and followed those scripts in a “role-play” session. They then led group discussionsbased on those scenarios. He stated in his paper that once the initial shyness and reluctance ofsome cultures were overcome through the building of rapport in this exercise, his students wereable to develop their own scenarios and write their own scripts appropriate to ethical, social andcultural factors. Prince finally stated that his innovative method is now being adopted in a shortcourse format to assist the professional integration of foreign trained engineers. Fleischmann19 at Grand Valley State University School of Engineering in Michiganfound that