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Track 3 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Matthew E Verbyla, University of South Florida; Colleen Claire Naughton; Allan Feldman, University of South Florida; Vanessa Vernaza-Hernandez , University of South Florida ; Marilyn E Brandt, University of the Virgin Islands; Maya A Trotz, University of South Florida; E. Christian Wells, University of South Florida; James R. Mihelcic, University of South Florida

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). YouTubereaches more U.S. adults between the age of 18 and 34 than any cable network (7). Both Twitterand YouTube have also been recently suggested as an appropriate means to engage internationalstudents on U.S. campuses in programs that emphasize global citizenship (8).In 2013, the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI)launched the “Reclaim” initiative as a way to create a community that connects researchers fromdifferent disciplines around the world who are dedicated to the recovery of resources from waste.Reclaim utilizes a website with a blog (usf-reclaim.org), a YouTube channel, and a Twitteraccount to create this global community and to disseminate research findings and educationalmaterials. Students from

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Megan Mercedes Echevarria, International Engineering Program, University of Rhode Island; Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island

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Student Development

fields and tokey global issues closely related to those fields. This comprehensive experience has animportant impact on the high quality of our students’ technical preparation while also compelling Page 20.30.2them to engage in unique ways with people from other countries and to develop a deep sense ofintercultural understanding, social and economic awareness, and the potentially broad impact oftheir work as engineers.4The Spanish branch of the IEP has existed for close to two decades and, especially in recentyears, has experienced important successes. Since 2008 we have carried out extensiverecruitment activities, and as a result, we have seen

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Terri A. Camesano, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Natalie A Mello, The Forum on Education Abroad

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Student Development

, social, cultural, and economic issues thatare intimately connected to engineering issues and people affected by these engineeringchallenges. One of the most effective ways of providing our students these learning experiencesis through education abroad opportunities. Yet less than 4% of US engineering students studyabroad and there has been little growth in the past two years1. It is also well established that experiential, project/problem-based learning with an emphasison acquiring new knowledge and applying and integrating previous knowledge can be veryeffective structures for enhancing student learning2. These structures engage students in open-ended, ambiguous, authentic activities; and usually involve teams. It is learning that goes

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Kaitlin Litchfield, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Student Development

some of these competing demands.5 This research focuseson one such extracurricular activity, participation in Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a globalhumanitarian engineering service organization, in order to explore how such participation mayinfluence learning outcomes.Since the early 1990s, programs with some form of the name EWB have been established inmultiple countries, including France, Belgium, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Canada, and theUSA.6 Through these organizations, both student and professional engineers have engaged involuntary engineering service projects around the globe, often in foreign countries. Articlesanecdotally report that these engineers gain professional skills including communication,interdisciplinary teamwork

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Morgan M. Bakies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Karen Seliah Lamb, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Student Development

with small and medium-sized enterprises.7 Junior Enterprise hassignificantly affected communities around the world. In the Huffington Post, Michele Hunt wroteof her impressions after the Junior Enterprise World Conference 2012 where she was a closingspeaker: “[Junior Enterprise students] are co-creating the future: collaboration, cooperation andinnovation...They understand on a very deep level that we are all connected and they arecommitted to put their vision of what the world can be, to work for the benefit of all.”6 Junior Page 20.25.5Enterprise has positively impacted students and citizens throughout the world.As a result of international

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Junichiro Kono, Rice University; Shane M Curtis, University of Tulsa

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Student Development

engage cross-culturally at thebeginning of the summer, and they indicated accelerated gains such that they rated themselves as Page 20.42.8better prepared than the RQI students at the end of the summer. There may be several factors thatcontribute to this. As with the intrapersonal dimension, this may reflect that the NanoJapan studentsare more self-confident at the end of the summer as a result of having successfully lived and workedfor twelve-weeks in an international environment. This may also suggest that the NanoJapancurriculum, through which students are trained on intercultural communication and completeweekly written activities in

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Krishnanand Y Maillacheruvu, Bradley University; Amir W Al-Khafaji, Bradley University

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Faculty Development

. Page 20.20.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Impact of International Collaboration on the Learning EnvironmentAbstractIn this paper, the impact of scholarly and pedagogical exchanges in Denmark-Norway-Sweden,Egypt-Jordan, and India are presented. Direct measures including student exit interviews,indirect student measures as well as anecdotal evidence and assessment data such as employersurveys clearly shows that the study-abroad experience is significant to all stakeholders.Employers get quality employees with the cultural awareness and the needed understanding ofthe global dimensions of their future profession. The impacts of administrative, timemanagement, and policy decisions on the

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University; Mats Daniels, Uppsala University; Åsa Sofia Cajander

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Student Development

 place  particular  emphasis  on  teamwork  (in  the  context  of  geographically  distributed  projects),  communication  and  presentation  skills,  and  intercultural  competence  (by  which  we  mean  awareness  of  other  cultures  norms  and  the  impact  these  can  have  on  professional  practice).  Students  are  introduced  to  structured  teamwork  and  intercultural  communication  and  collaboration  in  the  first  course,  "Runestone"  at  the  end  of  the  third  year  of  academic  studies.  This  is  followed  up  in  the  fourth  year  by  students  taking  the  IT  in  Society  course  (ITiS)14,  where  they  encounter  a  larger  and  more  open-­ended  project.  The  sequencing  of  these  courses  in  relation  to  the

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Rami Jubrail Haddad, Georgia Southern University; Youakim Kalaani, Georgia Southern University

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Student Development

, while globallearners learn best by grasping the big picture. Global learners can engage their intellectualcuriosity and easily find the underlying connection between different concepts1.The Felder-Soloman Index of Learning Style instrument was used in a wide range of studiessome focused on the learning and teaching styles of the faculty and illustrated the mismatchbetween the engineering students learning styles and the faculty teaching styles8, while othersfocused on the correlation between the student learning styles and the use of non-traditionalinstruction to bridge the gap and improve students’ achievement2,12,13,14. We are proposing to usethe Felder-Soloman Index of Learning Style instrument as a starting point to help us identify thetype

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre; Ayano OHSAKI P.E.

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Student Development

werestudied and researched by political, environmental and medical science students in a Japaneseuniversity and the application development was entrusted to Indian engineering students. Themain contribution of this paper is in describing the design of this experiment and analyzing itsresult.The next section establishes the motivation behind the experiment which is elaborated in thesubsequent section. The paper then presents and analyses feedback of all the participants andends with concluding remarks.BackgroundThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology of the Unites States (ABET) hasidentified criteria required of good engineers that includes ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams, ability to communicate effectively and the broad

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Achille Messac, Mississippi State University; James N Warnock, Mississippi State University; Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University

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of the full impact of thisinitiative, the early indications point to the growing interest on the part of the undergraduatestudents to seek greater involvement in technical society activities.Motivation for Engagement of Technical SocietiesTowards the middle of the 20th century, engineering education trends began to shift heavilytoward engineering science and theory with less emphasis on engineering practice andapplication. This shift in emphasis led to the growing acceptance that many engineeringgraduates were not adequately prepared for the workforce, and companies needed to spendadditional time and resources on supplemental professional development. The engineeringindustry started to recognize the deficiency in undergraduate education in

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Kerrie L. Schattler, Bradley University; Amir W Al-Khafaji, Bradley University

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Faculty Development

Haven Foundation, and the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce.Dr. Amir W Al-Khafaji, Bradley University Page 20.17.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Engineering Faculty Perspectives on Shared Global ExperiencesAbstractStudying overseas has a deep and profound impact on the intellectual and personal developmentof faculty and students. This paper provides an overview of a Global Explorer Program (GEP)and a case study of an American born female transportation engineering professor who taughtoverseas in the United Kingdom/France and Egypt/Jordan. This professor

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Pritpal Singh, Villanova University

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to choose from (based on the ideasand opportunities that they uncovered from their visits to rural Nicaraguan communities). Theywere asked to fill out a decision matrix where the components of the matrix and weighting ofeach field were: 1. Project alignment with electrical/computer engineering fields (weighting – 1) 2. Interest in the technology (weighting – 1) 3. Skill set to work on the project (weighting – 1) 4. Social impact (weighting – 0.5) 5. Business opportunity (weighting – 0.7)Six projects were selected as follows and were assigned students from Villanova University andUNI as follows: 1. Solar charge controller design (one Villanova student, one UNI student) 2. Design of a tele-health and remote education

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Ibrahim Ali Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

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Faculty Development

Storytelling as an Effective Mean for Stimulating Students' Passion in Engineering ClassesAbstractStorytelling was employed as a powerful tool in stimulating students' interest in the classroom ofa sophomore level course in engineering design. Over two years, students’ assessment of themethodology was obtained through a survey that incorporated students that have and not havetaken the course. The outcome of students’ satisfaction and support of telling stories by theinstructor was overwhelming among both groups of students. The impact was not targetedtowards just creating passion in the classroom, but the active participation and reflection on thestories was sought to lead to ethical values pedagogy. To gain multi-cultural

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Dianne J DeTurris, California Polytechnic State University; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Lily Hsu Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Fred W DePiero, California Polytechnic State University; Zoe Wood Wood; Alana Christine Snelling

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Curriculum and Lab Development

3.76 3.592 from other countries I often listen to music of other countries 4.27 3.92 3.853 I am interested in learning about the many 5.27 4.92 4.704 cultures that have existed in this world I attend events where I might get to know people 4.43 3.85 3.735 from different racial backgrounds Relativistic Appreciation – the extent to which 5.05 4.58 4.63 students value the impact of diversity on self- understanding and personal growth Persons with disabilities can teach me things I 5.35 4.89 4.736 could not learn elsewhere I can best

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mona Azarbayjani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Curriculum and Lab Development

varied team seeing a projectfrom the preliminary design phase to construction and commissioning, the students wereprovided with a true multi-disciplinary hands-on opportunity. The opportunity proved tostrengthen their technical skills, acquired in the regular curriculum, via integration of theoreticalknowledge and practical experience. Moreover, the students were exposed to the perspective andeducational styles of professors and students in each represented academic department (electricaland computer engineering, mechanical engineering, civil and environmental engineering,architecture, marketing and communications). Organized in a multi-disciplinary format, studentswere then able to share their strengths across disciplines and contribute to a

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Yakov E. Cherner, ATEL, LLC; Maija M Kukla, University of Maryland, College Park; Linn W Hobbs OBE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sergey V Vasilev, Yaroslavl State University; Ivan Fedorov; Alexander S. Sigov

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limitations.Student laboratory task is often reduced to installing a sample and pushing the Start button. Allthe steps leading to final results on the computer are executed without student’s involvement.Although there are plenty of free and commercially available powerful research softwarepackages for X-ray diffraction and crystal structure modeling, there is a lack of comprehensiveand interactive e-learning tools for this subject that are capable of facilitating traditional, onlineand blended learning, motivate students and engage them in the educational process.To overcome these problems and provide the student with an opportunity to practice concepts,tasks, and equipment operation anytime an anywhere the virtual Multifunctional X-RayDiffractometer (v

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Miguel Alfonso Nino, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

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Faculty Development

learning from the other international students allowed me to understand their struggles as American. We live in a world that relies on global partnerships. Understanding everyone may not be possible, but at least attempting to come to a common ground is crucial to our success. I am interested in traveling overseas, and I must understand different customs of other countries.” In 2012, the PROMISE AGEP collaborated with Professors Beyond Borders, an actionnetwork of academics and professionals from the Institute of International Education, whoengage with real-world problems that impact quality of life in diverse communities