Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

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

, worked for the DuPont Co, and has been at WPI since 1980. His current interests are in educational research: the process of student learning, international engineering education, and educational assessment. Collaboration with two colleagues resulted in being awarded the 2001 William Corcoran Award from Chemical Engineering Education. He served as 2004 chair of the ASEE ChE Division, has served as an ABET program evaluator and on the AIChE/ABET Education & Accreditation Committee. He has also served as Assessment Coordinator in WPI’s Interdis- Page 20.34.1 ciplinary and Global Studies Division and as

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

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

thefundamental source of human conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological orprimarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflictwill be culture.” 2 As described above, attention to the “soft skill” of global competency forengineers is now a visible and growing component of engineering education and practice. Theestablishment of the International ASEE Forum in 2012, for example, speaks to the importanceof and attention to this area.However, just as the meaning of engineering varies across both time and nation, the idea of“global competency” differs from one academic institution to another. For the purposes of thispaper, we align our understanding of global competency with the definition offered

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Andras Gordon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Richard J Schuhmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Richard F. Devon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State University; Ahmad Atieh, Taibah Univeristy; Peter Dietrich, Corvinus University Budapest

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Curriculum and Lab Development

4Cultural Dimensions of International Business, 2005, Prentice Hall) are also integrated.G. Hofstede studied questionnaires received from employees at IBM branches across the world and useddata from 40 countries in order to define a suite of national cultural indices (Geert Hofstede, Culturesand Organizations: Software of the Mind, 2010). Hofstede initially defined four bipolar dimensions andlater added an additional two dimensions. According to Hofstede, the four fundamental “mental(software) programs” we assimilate early in life are a function of our cultural environment and consist offour primary cultural dimensions: (1) Power Distance; (2) Individualism; (3) Masculinity; (4)Uncertainty avoidance. The (PDI) reflects how equally power is

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Duane B Swigert, Metropolitan State University of Denver

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Curriculum and Lab Development

and future class offerings.Bibliography(1) Mitcham, Munoz, Humanitarian Engineering, Synthesis Lectures on Engineers,Technology and Society 2010, 87 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00248ED1V01Y201006ETS012)(2) Onyije & Francis ,“Technology Solution for the Marginalized” European Scientific JournalJune edition vol. 8, No.13, 2012(3) website: https://www.msudenver.edu/strategicplanning/missionvaluesvision(4) website: https://www.asme.org/(5) D. Weichert, B. Rauhut, R. Schmidt, Educating the Engineer for the 21st Century, ISBN:978-1-4020-0096-6 (Print) 978-0-306-48394-3 (Online)(6) R. Caldwell, "Project Design Handbook," Tango International, Cooperative for Assistanceand Relief Everywhere, Inc. (CARE), 2002(7) M. Bauer, Quantitative Assessment of

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University

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Curriculum and Lab Development

communication and teamwork skills.ABET therefore now proposes improvement for the knowledge, skills and professional values for thegraduating students. In addition, analysis of the industry studies, together with the review of theABET accreditation criteria and study of engineering education reveals that the industryemployers and the students are looking for significant changes to the current philosophy anddelivery of engineering education [5]. These issues can be summarized as follows: 1. Engineering curricula does not provide sufficient integration of engineering science and technical topics to industrial practices. 2. Programs at times do not provide sufficient design experiences to students. 3. Graduates lack communication skills as well