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Steven M. Pilgrim, Alfred University

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Group III. Reflection Assignments are of greatestvalue for Group IV wherein they build confidence in their academic choice and personalcapability. Assessment reveals that the zero-credit first-semester seminar has beensuccessful.BackgroundThe Inamori School of Engineering (SoE) at Alfred University encompasses sixengineering programs. Four are state-supported as part of the New York State College ofCeramics and two lie wholly within the private portion of Alfred University. Sincetuition rates and the programs are substantially different, the incoming cohort is verydiverse with a large component of “first in the family to college”. Typically two-thirdsof the approximately120 incoming students select a major prior to matriculation at

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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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 University,  Sweden  in  the  late  1990’s7.  The  early  attempts  were  based  in   Page 20.24.2a  Problem  Based  Learning  (PBL)  environment  with  one  or  two  student  teams  comprising  students  from   1both  universities  and  a  primary  focus  on  technical  achievement  and  competencies  was  reflected  in  the  assessment.  From  2000  the  initial  PBL  course  expanded  to  a  larger  cohort,  and  a  range  of  mentorship  components  and  teamwork  assessment  items  were  added.  The  course

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

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/reflective learners,sensing/intuitive learners, visual/verbal learners, and sequential/global learners. The differentconglomeration of these scales for the students in any cohort forms a specific cognitive profile.We used the Felder-Soloman index of learning styles survey to determine the dominant learningstyles within a cohort of students. Knowing the students’ cognitive profile helped us adapt ourteaching styles to achieve an optimal learner-centered classroom. We mainly focused onactivities that would engage the majority of the students, to help facilitate the learning processand consequently, improve the students’ achievement. The effectiveness of this approach wasquantitatively verified by assessing the students’ satisfaction with the learning

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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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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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

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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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= 3.07, SD = .84; RQI: PreM = 3.07, SD = .37); see Figure 1(c).Both groups reported gains on post-program test scores, but those for the NanoJapan students weregreater such that these students reported higher post-test scores than their RQI counterparts(NanoJapan: PostM = 4.18, SD = .53; RQI: PostM = 3.81, SD = .57). This difference between thetwo groups was significant, suggesting that the NanoJapan students experienced greater gains oninterpersonal development as compared with the RQI students. This may reflect an importantdifference between the programs in that throughout the summer, the NanoJapan students completeda curriculum that required written updates and reflection exercises on not only their researchprojects but also intercultural

Conference Session

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Ibrahim Ali Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

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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

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Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Reserch Technological University

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, methods, evaluation toolsand procedures during the interim and final evaluations;- receive comments and recommendations for making corrections to the program content, eliminateorganizational shortcomings for further successful implementation of the program.Summarized results of the survey are reflected in the table below. Questions in the questionnairewere formulated so that the audience had the opportunity not only to choose from a range ofresponses, but also to express their opinion in free form. The survey was attended by more than 80per cent of trainees.The analysis of the trainee results and comments revealed "narrow" places of the programs andways of their improvement, and confirmed that all four training programs constitute an

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Lev Vadimovich Redin, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia

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knowledge of its basic constitutingelements, the principle of disjunction, that consists in isolating and separating cognitivedifficulties from one another, leading to the separation between disciplines, which havebecome hermetic from each other, the principle of relativity. Dialectic: the law of the unity and conflict (interaction) of opposites (ancient Ionianphilosopher Heraclitus); the law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitativechanges according to measure (Aristotle); the law of the negation of the negation (Hegel) (orauthor interpretation – the law of the reflection of the reflection of the reflection), principlesof historicity and futurism. Modern Physics: uncertainty principle, correspondence principle, principle

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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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“freely available for use its unmodified form” (p. 153). 1Second, we explore the significance of these baseline findings for engineering students whochoose to opt-in – or choose not to opt-in – to global engineering programs. Our primary goalhere is to continue the work initiated by Jesiek, Shen and Haller to explore whether the Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale-Short form is an effective, sufficient, and consistentassessment mechanism. We conclude by reflecting on explanations for the results of theMGUDS-S in our baseline assessment, and implications for future use of the MGUDS-S areexplored. GLOBAL COMPETENCY FOR ENGINEERSIn his book Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington writes, “It is my hypothesis that

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

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the early years of their studies as a way tocreate opportunities for them to engage with their fields of study in practical, real-world, globalcontexts. The final activity provides students from all of the previous activities the opportunityto reflect on and learn how to communicate effectively about their global experiences: Page 20.30.3Activity 1: January-August Internship Program in ChileActivity 2: August-December Bilateral Academic ExchangeActivity 3: August Sustainability Project and Study Tour in ChileActivity 4: September-December Innovations in

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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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additional content analysis of thetweets, both within and outside of the conversational strands. Post-course surveys will also beadministered to each student enrolled in the course.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.Grant No. 1243510, PIRE: Context Sensitive Implementation of Synergistic Water-EnergySystems. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. Page 20.40.9BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Trotz, M.A., Muga, H.E., Philips, L.D., Yeh, D., Stuart, A

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Henry Griffith, Wright State University; Riad Ajami, Director, Center for Global Business, WSU; Angela Griffith

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provided by the course though the improvement of mathplacement scores, consider the scenario for a student scoring at the mode of the above sample(MPL = 2). In the current mathematics program sequence at WSU, such a student would berequired to enroll in a developmental mathematics course, thereby leaving them at least 3semesters removed from a course in mathematics which would count towards their degree. As suchcourses represent unnecessary steps towards the fulfillment of the ultimate end goal of thecustomer, it is evident that successful implementation of the EGR 1980 course reflects a uniqueopportunity to achieve the primary objective of lean process design.Based upon the unique demographics of this cohort, it is worthwhile to devote some

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Guangyu Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Affairs Division of Dalian University of Technology, November 15 Page 20.28.6  http://teach.dlut.edu.cn/tsjyzx/tsk/1/%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80%E8%BF%9B%E6%AD%A5%E7%B1%BB/13-1.doc.8 Luegenbiehl, H. 2004, “Ethical Autonomy and Engineering in a Cross-Cultural Context,” Techné: Research inPhilosophy and Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1.9 Cao, N. 2004, “Dui Zhong Guo Gao Xiao Gong Cheng Lun Li Jiao Yu De Si Kao,” (“Reflection on the Educationof Engineering Ethics in China”), Gao Deng Jiao Yu Gong Cheng Yan Jiu (Advanced Engineering EducationResearch), 5. Wang, Q. 2009, “Gong Kai Ke: Ke Xue Ji Shu

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

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appraisal, it was determined that the most appropriate project (7) for the students toengage in was a solar water heater for the local school. The students designed and built a verysimple but effective water heater using local materials and costing less that $100 to build. Thedesign was very specific to the region as the proximity of Costa Rica to the equator allowed ashallow angle for the panel that water flowed over which contributed to a measured 70˚Ftemperature gain which made the design applicable and effective for the design challenge. Upon completion of the trip, students were required to write a reflective project report andpresent the experience to an audience through the avenue of the undergraduate researchsymposium at MSU Denver

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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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Enterprise spread to Brazil in 1988. Within one year, it is estimated that 10 JuniorEnterprises were started throughout the country, reflecting the enthusiasm Brazilian collegestudents exhibit towards entrepreneurship. An umbrella organization to oversee Brazil, similar tothat of JADE in Europe, was founded in 2003 and named Brasil Junior. Brasil Junior nowgoverns approximately 28,000 students. A relationship between Brasil Junior and JADE wasestablished almost immediately in 2003 to further the entrepreneurial activities of bothorganizations and its constituents while actively promoting Junior Enterprise to countries such asTunisia, Canada, and the United States. Currently, there are three Brazilian ambassadors inBrussels working with JADE to

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Maya A Trotz, University of South Florida; Joniqua Howard, University of Texas Arlington; Ken Darrie Thomas, Auburn University, Biosystems Engineering & The Honors College; Helen Muga, University of Mount Union; Jeanese Christine Badenock, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill; Sheena A Francis, University of Technology, Jamaica 235 Old Hope Rd Kgn 6. Jamaica

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 materials  to  implement   their   project.     Another   University   of   Mount   Union   field   experience   will   occur   in   May   2014   to  continue  with  this  project.  Faculty   reflection   on   the   inaugural   EGE   320   course   identified   the   following   areas   for   improvement   for  2014:  1)  More  strategically  planned  interaction  and  engagement  of  Mount  Union  Engineering  students  with   the   Belizean   High   School   students;   2)   Incorporation   of   a   detailed   educational   piece,   whereby   the  Mount   Union   students   prepare   a   module   and   present   it   with   the   students   on   the   ground   to   various  stakeholders,   and   3)   Incorporation   of   pre-­‐   and   post

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Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University

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structures among different institutes.  Competition: Struggle among institution for enticing motivated and qualified students.[2] States that Romania follows a framework for the development of its academic institutions.Thus, allowing universities for individualizing their curriculum. However, although progress isachieved in the these changes do not reflect all the changes that are taking place in the area ofspecific subjects as well as of the interdisciplinary domains. A solution to bridge this gap couldbe the recommendation made to the faculty to ensure that a curriculum that is designed and usedshould be mainly an interdisciplinary one, or the one focusing on new domains [4]. As part of theacademic globalization effort, the European

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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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face global challenges.AcknowledgementsThis material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Researchin Engineering Education program under Grant No. 1129178. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. National Academy of Engineering. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2004.2. Duderstadt JJ. Engineering for a Changing World: A Roadmap to the Future of Engineering Practice, Research, and Education. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan; 2008.3. Sheppard SD, Macatangay

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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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the outcomes: A framework for EC-2000. Education, IEEE Transactions on 43, 100-110 (2000).7 Wickersham, L. E. & Chambers, S. M. ePORTFOLIOS: USING TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE AND ASSESS STUDENT LEARNING. Education 126 (2006).8 Creswell, J. W. & Clark, V. L. P. Designing and conducting mixed methods research. (Wiley Online Library, 2007).9 Stefani, L., Mason, R. & Pegler, C. The educational potential of e-portfolios: Supporting personal development and reflective learning. (Routledge, 2007).10 Lorenzo, G. & Ittelson, J. An overview of e-portfolios. Educause learning initiative 1, 1-27 (2005

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Marjaneh Issapour, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale

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: Successful Collaborations to Improve High School Student Achievement” Accessed on 3/10/2014 from Los Angeles County Office of Education http://apep.gseis.ucla.edu/bestla/BEST-InsideSchlUnivPartnerships.pdf 7. Ing, M., Huang, P., LaCombe, N., Martinez-Lopez, Y., and Haberer, E. D., 2012, “Creating Opportunities for Reflection: Analyzing Middle School Student Work During a Service-Learning Course on Solar Cells”, International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Vol.7, No.1, Spring 2012 8. Bagiati, A., Yoon, S. Y., Evangelou, D., and Ngmabeki, I., 2010, “Engineering Curricula in Early Education: Describing the Landscape of Open Resources”, Journal of Early Childhood

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Henry W. Kraebber, Purdue University, West Lafayette; E. Shirl Donaldson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Katie Mae Hackney

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review details of the upcoming trip. Elements include: flight time, schedulewhile abroad and what to pack. Students forge connections and relationships that continue afterthe trip is over and everyone returns to the university.Class sessions were held after returning from Germany to debrief and complete reflections onwhat was observed and learned. Photographs are shared as part of the documentation. Studentideas about the mechanics and logistics of the journey are gathered during these sessions toimprove the expedition for the next year. The combination class/trip provides a comprehensivestudent experience. Students are enriched academically, professionally, culturally, and socially.2013 Impact SurveyDuring the ten years since the first trip

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre; Gautam Akiwate, University of California, San Diego; Ayano OHSAKI P.E., nnovation Center for Engineering Education, Tottori University

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egoless in theircareers, and were assured full confidentiality of their inputs.Reliability AssessmentIt is important to conduct a thorough measurement analysis on the survey instrument. It gives assurancethat the findings reflect accurate measures and that the results are trustworthy. Test reliability furtherindicates the extent to which individual differences in scores can be attributed to ‘true’ differences. Weused the most popular measure - Cronbach Alpha for assessing reliability of the collected data. Table 2shows the Alpha values, calculated using Minitab Version 16, for the data collected for each of thesubsets. TABLE 2: CRONBACH ALPHA VALUE FOR THE INSTRUMENT Subsets

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Robert W Fuessle, Bradley University; Amir W Al-Khafaji, Bradley University

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institutions abroad. In 1996,the Bradley University’s International Program was limited to the summer months. Theinvolvement of engineering students and faculty was extremely limited for at least two reasons.First, many course offerings were for language studies or general education. A more importantreason was that most engineering students preferred or were obligated to work during thesummer months. Summer employment was important to gain experience and for financialreasons as Bradley is a private institution. Yet faculty and students could benefit greatly frominternational exposure. More importantly, the internationalization program inspired the facultyto modify the curriculum to better reflect the changing realities of our engineering

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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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improved. However, in the designof the solar pv system and generation there was a small percentage (9%) that did not grasp theconcept and 18% got slight improvement. Whereas the rest student’s population had a grasp ofthe concept and this is the population of the students that partook in the competition phase. Theresult of this survey is reflected in the class evaluation shown in Table 1.The construction phase transitioned smoothly as the students had learned about the project ingreater detail at the end of the design phase as indicated in students’ evaluations of Table 2. Ineach area of the construction, professionals were invited to coach students in the execution oftheir design. This was very beneficial in the competition phase because the

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Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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, Albuquerque, NM. 2001. Page 20.12.1021. Waples, Lisa M., and Kristina M. Ropella. "University-industry partnerships in biomedical engineering." Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE 22.4 (2003): 118-121.22. Bresciani, Marilee J. "Overview of Outcomes-Based Assessment Program Review." Outcomes-based Academic and Co-curricular Program Review: A Compilation of Institutional Good Practices. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2006. 36-37.23. Haddara, Mahmoud, and Heather Skanes. "A reflection on cooperative education: From experience to experiential learning." Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education 8.1 (2007): 67-76.24

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John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Simon William Cavenett, Deakin University; Eloise Gordon, Deakin University; Matthew Joordens, Deakin University

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studentevaluations across engineering indicate that students in semester three 2013 were much moresatisfied with the delivery of on-line subjects than they were in semester three 2012.Written comments from students (table 1) also reflected this sentiment. While the use of E-liveis only one of many factors in a student’s experience of an on-line course, we believe that it isa significant one. Table 1: Some Student Comments from the Course Evaluations Subject Student comment 3rd-year Control theory Elive tutorials are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for this unit to be of any value to the understanding of the theory involved. 3rd-year Concrete Elive tutorials for off campus students were

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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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Page 20.31.6Education Services, and one of their directors served as the moderator for the program. This seminar included students from several disciplines, including 15 STEM students.While the number of STEM “in-person” attendees is small, students who attended the seminardiscussed their opinions with students who did not attend through our “Professors BeyondBorders” online discussion group. The responses from the online discussions reflected thesentiments of the 15 STEM graduate students who attended this seminar in person. Figure1shows that 93% of the participants felt that the seminar gave then important information; inaddition, Figure 2 shows that 60% of the students who attended the seminar gained a morecomprehensive understanding

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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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2007. Currently in its 4th edition, published in 2011,the Standards are being reviewed and updated to reflect changes in the field. In addition to theseStandards, the Forum also published the Standards of Good Practice for Short-Term EducationAbroad Programs in 200910 and a second edition of the Code of Ethics for Education Abroad11in 2011. The Forum's “Standards of Good Practice are recognized as the definitive means bywhich the quality of education abroad programs may be judged.”12 For the purposes of this paper we will limit discussion to 4th edition of the Standards of GoodPractice for Education Abroad. The Forum Standards are designed and intended to beimplemented on an ongoing basis to respond to the practical realities of developing