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Eleonore Lickl, HBLVA for Chemical Industry

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Paper ID #8375Invited Paper - Faculty Professionalization in Industry Sponsored Projects inAustrian Vocational Education and Training SchoolsDr. Eleonore Lickl, HBLVA for Chemical Industry Former Secretary General of the International Society for Engineering Education IGIP, currently teaching at the Vocational and Technical College For Chemical Industry in Vienna, Austria and at the University of Teacher Education Styria in Graz, Austria. Since 2011 she is editor-in chief of the online journal The International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP). She is also writing in Austrian media related to chemistry, and food

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Christie Ritter, The University of Colorado at Boulder; Alan Rolf Mickelson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jared Leventhal, University of Colorado at Boulder; David Espinoza, University of Colorado at Boulder

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deployed the network, the CU team decided to support education initiatives. The pilotproject consisted of installing an educational subnetwork in the schools that could be dedicatedto distance education. Students who traveled to the Napo Region had the chance to interact withthe locals, learn from and teach the locals, understand the local culture, and exchange dailyexperiences (See Figure 1). Page 21.59.4Figure 1: L-R (1) installing computer scripts to control transmission and routing of packets toVoice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones; (2) meeting with the Governor of the State ofLoreto, Peru in a working session; (3) conducting focus groups

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Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart, University of Rhode Island; Erin Papa, University of Rhode Island

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Associate Professor of German at the University of Rhode Island where he is also a Language and Honors advisor in University College; in addition, he has served as the Associate Director of the URI Honors Program from 2006 to 2012. He has developed several interdisciplinary hu- manities courses for the Honors Program and specialized German language courses with technical content for engineering students. His research interests in applied language pedagogy focus on German for sci- ence and technology and business German. His literary research concentrates on utopian and apocalyptic texts and on Exilliteratur. Walter von Reinhart teaches specialized language courses for engineering stu- dents and general language courses

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Robyne Bowering, Monash University

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globally competent and locally relevant.Downey et al.[3] define global competent engineers as those who possess ‘the knowledge,ability, and predisposition to work effectively with people who define problems differentlythan they do.’ Engineering has become a discipline where the social and technical havebecome inextricably intertwined.[4] Engineers need to be technically able and proficient atmanaging relationships and building networks. They need strong social skills (a sub set ofprofessional skills/soft skills/generic skills/transferable skills) in particular:  effective oral communication skills - able to differentiate and cater to different audiences.[2, 5] They need to be able to communicate efficiently in English, the official

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Edward J. Berger, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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. Identify customer needs through a variety of methods including interviews, surveys, focus groups, and action research. 8. Develop overall goals and performance metrics for a system. 9. Work with clients to obtain necessary data and information. 10. Generate and evaluate alternative solutions to a problem. 11. Deliver effective oral presentations to clients. 12. Write effective technical reports for clients.These learning objectives are mapped to the GCOs as shown in Table 1. In addition, anoverview of how each learning objective is measured is shown in the table. Page 21.19.6Table 1. Argentina Program Mapping of

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Kimberly Lau, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley; Sara L. Beckman, Haas School of Business

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0.22 8 IDP vs. UCB (Engineering) 0.00The results for the Korean university students are most striking (Rows 1-5 in Table 7), as theyshow significantly significant differences with all of the other student populations studied exceptfor the CCA students. Although it is not surprising that these technically-oriented studentswould show up as different than the design-oriented IDP students, it is surprising that theyshowed up differently than the UCB undergraduate engineering population. It could be thatthere are other factors at work, such as age (the population at KAIST consisted of Page 21.26.7Freshman

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Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University; Madelyn Marie Espinosa, Michigan Technological University - Pavlis Institute; Helena Keller, Michigan Technological University

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LearningAbstractMichigan Technological University’s Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership wasinitiated in 2005 to provide MTU students with international leadership skills throughcoursework and a student-led intensive international experience. The Pavlis certificate programrequires 25 semester hours of coursework with 13 semesters in the summer (nine hours areallocated to the five week in country experience) between the student’s junior and senior years.The additional hours are focused on preparing them to lead, work, and communicate effectivelywith one another and with their in-country contacts. The major differences between the Pavlisprogram and other intensive programs that prepare global engineers are threefold: 1. The Pavlis teams (typically

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Patrick D Ulrich, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Chad D Vecitis; Jason Dyett, Harvard University, DRCLAS; Monica F A Porto, USP

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Environment, and Extreme Events 2013 Brazil 28 Global Challenges of Energy Production in the Coming DecadesEducational ObjectivesThe educational goals for the Collaborative Field Course can be divided into the specificeducational objectives of the 2013 course focusing on energy production, as well as the long-term collaborative objectives of the on-going annual course.The specific Educational Objectives for the 2013 course were: 1. To evaluate current and future energy generation technologies that are relevant on both a local and global scale, including the associated environmental and social impacts 2. To compare the similarities and differences of the energy systems and production in Brazil and the U.S

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Teresa Restivo, University of Porto

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; Psychology and Education Sciences; Scienceand Sport) and 1 Business School, 60 R&D units. It is a public university with over31,700 students and around 3000 students are from 106 nationalities. More than 9000students are at postgraduate level (MSc and PhD). It offers 35 first cycle courses, over150 integrated or independent masters and 89 third cycle courses. The university hasover 1900 teaching & research (FTE) (76% PhD) and around 1700 technical andadministrative staff 1. Its Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), with roots dating back to1837, is the largest school at U.Porto, with over 8.700 students, 424 teaching andresearch staff (86% PhD) and 326 non-academic staff 2. FEUP is under Bologna processsince 2006. It has nine Departments: Chemical

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Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland; Lesley Jolly, Strategic Partnerships; Caroline Crosthwaite, University of Queensland; Lydia Kavanaugh, University of Queensland

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how and what students set about learning. C5 Use of Real Understandings of the projects as work in the real world for real World Projects clients has an effect on both student and teacher approaches to the task and how well the objectives are realised.The context we have chosen to illustrate our analysis of context factors is one of the categoriesfrom C2, which could be understood as equivalent to the well-known principle of constructivealignment13,. We labeled this the “correct assessment target” context (Figure 1). While many ofthe staff we interviewed identified non-technical skills such as communication and the need forsustainable design as desirable learning outcomes, in practice assessment

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Anna Friesel, Technical University of Denmark Ballerup Campus; Denis GENON-CATALOT, Grenoble Alpes University; Jean-Marc THIRIET, • Univ. Grenoble Alpes; CNRS, GIPSA-lab, F-38402 Grenoble; Michael Helmut Werner DUPE Hoffmann, Inst. of Microwave Techniques, University of Ulm, Germany

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educationinstitutions) and 1 Russian University. The main challenges addressed by this project are:1. Ensuring graduates are prepared to enable Europe to respond to the current global technical challenges in the Green Energy the Environment and Sustainability, Communications and IT, Health, and Modern Manufacturing Systems (including Robotics), that is, a “new skills for new jobs” approach. This will embrace conventional education, lifelong learning and training for entrepreneurship.2. Ensuring that programme and module governance is sufficiently well understood that issues of mobility, progression and employment are understandable by appropriate stakeholders including the accrediting bodies for professional engineers.3. Ensuring all

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

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business leadership roles. For many years, he was Vice President for Bell Labs. Other positions he held include Vice President and General Manager for EasyLink Services Corporation as well as President of Innovation and Quality Solutions. Bill has received numerous quality, reliability and innovation leadership awards and has authored several tech- nical and process quality papers. He was twice awarded the Bell Labs President’s Award for innovation and Technical Excellence. Bill received a BSEE from the University of Connecticut and a MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality, member of INCOSE and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.Dr. Michael Pennotti, Stevens

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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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professors would have encountered if they embarked on similarprograms during their own time in college. Students who have recently returned from aninternational service experience in Andean Peru report their perception of the value of the trip byresponding to the following prompts: 1) what was the significance of service learning to yourprofessional development?, 2) compare the value of international experiences with the value ofsimilar domestic experiences, 3) was service learning effective at developing technical skills?and, 4) what motivated you to incorporate international service learning into the crampedengineering curriculum? For comparison, the two faculty organizers also responded to the sameprompts. While not all student responses

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

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now are included in the accord, andsubsequently have the ability to become globally certified and employable. In addition to the 15current signatories to the accord, there are also five provisional accreditation entities that aremodifying their accreditation protocols, with a view of becoming signatory members. However,currently, the 15 signatory accreditation entities still do not recognize the equivalency ofengineering programs offered in the nations that still remain in provisional status. Thosenational accreditation entities that have provisional status are:21. Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (representing Bangladesh)*2. German Accreditation Agency for Study Programs in Engineering and Informatics*3

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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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a global context, their solutions - consumer products, system designs, orinfrastructure improvements - may have unintended consequences including resource exhaustionand environmental damage that transcend international boundaries. According to philosopherand engineering educator Hans Lugenbiehl, “in the past, engineers have considered a relativelynarrow set of consequences from their actions, generally being limited to the safety dimension oftheir designs. As technical experts on whom society relies, however, engineers are in perhaps thebest position to also consider the wider and more long-term ramifications of their engineering Page

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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isrecommended as the step for most graduates to management starts generally after 6 years ofwork experience14. The learning journey should also be reinforced by peer-supportnetworking in a virtual social network which students and alumni can access acrossinstitutions. This learning journey is illustrated in Figure 1.Under the educational development stream, it is proposed to embed principles such asInnovation, Leadership, Globalization and Sustainability, as part of the 21st Century SkillsSet14, into relevant technical and engineering curriculum infused within the personal,professional and educational development framework. It is envisaged that the learningjourney may involve short-term placements in another industry such as banking or the arts.Under

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Muhammad H Rashid, University of West Florida

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, consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design appropriate to the student's field of study. The engineering sciences have their roots in mathematics and basic sciences but carry knowledge further toward creative application. These studies provide a bridge between mathematics and basic sciences on the one hand and engineering practice on the other. (c) a general education component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the program and institution objectives.What constitutes an engineering topics course? The Engineers Council for ProfessionalDevelopment, in the United States, defines as the creative application of “scientific principles todesign or

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

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                                                                                                                                                                                         8 http://www.hpl.hp.com9 Morell, Lueny, Developing the Next Generation of Technology Leaders in Challenging Times: the ASEE-NSF Industry Research Fellows Program, 2010 ASEE Conference Proceedings   10 http://www.life-global.org/en11 http://www.life-global.org/en/LIFE-IN-ACTION/Success-Stories/Page/112 www.luenymorell.com13 www.iideainstitute.org14 A session/paper is being held at ASEE 2013 titled: A Multi-Stakeholder, Multi-National Partnership toEnhance Engineering Education in China, which describes an HP partnership initiative where HP, IIDEA andother partners are assisting through workshops Chinese engineering education leadership with theirtransformation

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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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solutions. Partnering closely with the variousstakeholders related to a technology will ensure that Tata Center projects are driven towardssuitability, scalability, and sustainability.References                                                                                                                1 MIT Energy Initiative. Tata Center for Technology and Design, http://mitei.mit.edu/research/tata-center, 2012.2 J. O’Neill. BRICs and Beyond. Goldman Sachs Global Economics Group, 2007.3 T. Moe, C. Maasry, and R. Tang. Global Economics Paper No. 204, EM Equity in Two Decades: A ChangingLandscape. Technical report, Goldman Sachs, 2010.4 P. Polak. Out of poverty: what works when traditional approaches fail. Berrett-Koehler

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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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loyalty to the chosen occupation, strive for self-actualization,sociability, eloquence and ability to express oneself correctly, honesty, initiative and enthusiasm,and ability to make decisions. Professional qualities are perfect computer skills, good theoreticalprofessional knowledge, awareness of modern technologies and material, experience indraftsmanship, capacity to work with specifications, technical and regulatory documentation andreferences, knowledge of foreign languages, etc. According to inquiry data, employers considerpersonal qualities to be even more important than specific professional engineering competences[1] . It is reasonable because professional knowledge and skills may be acquired during thelifetime, meanwhile personality

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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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assessment in Physics 1 remains the final exam, we start with it to look forevidence of learning gains in terms of technical know-how attributable to course reforms. Whilethere are variations, we generally see the trend observable in Figure 4, with students from bothtraditional and studio approaches performing better on early questions and a bit worse on thelater questions. Shown by the grey bars in the figure, the average score is obtained from all ofthe sections taught in the traditional manner between Spring 2009 and Fall 2012 (involving 524 Figure 4: Average scores on final exam questions labeled by topic, comparing student performance in

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame

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(EE), mechanical engineering (ME), or software engineering (SE). However, as an inherentlymultidisciplinary activity, no single discipline provides the breadth demanded by robotics in thefuture. Realizing this, universities are now starting to offer undergraduate and graduate degreesin robotics. Worldwide, there are now approximately 10 undergraduate programs and an equalnumber of graduate programs in robotics. Roughly half of each are in the United States; theother half are distributed globally.Beyond the broad technical education required of robotics engineers, to be an effective roboticsengineer also requires an awareness of social and societal issues. These issues are global inscope. This leads to our main theses: 1) Robotics engineering

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Alina Yurievna Khramova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasil Yurievich Khramov; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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world is mutual recognition ofacademic degrees and international cooperation in quality management. The main focus isgiven to professional mobility. Over the recent ten years among the major tasks of Bolognareforms European academic society has considered the development of students’, professors’and administrative staff academic mobility. It is commonly known that two levels of training,ECTS system of credits, etc. have been introduced to achieve these goals in the counties-Bologna declaration participants. The aim of academic mobility programs’ development is improvement of educationquality, amelioration of mutual understanding between different peoples and cultures,education of new generation, prepared to live and work in the

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

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limited time available. The instructor had decided that before embarkingon the project the students should first be exposed to the process chemistry tools noted above.This meant the assignment was presented to the students in the last week of the 3-week course.One of the lessons learned is that it will be more productive to give this assignment on day 1 ofthe course. The general scientific and engineering competences acquired at the BS level, shouldhave prepared them to start items a, b, and c in the assignment.The students also struggled with the “this is not my field” syndrome. Parts a-c of the assignmentrequired exploration of the geological and mineral engineering literatures. Aside from 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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. Program Attributes Delivery Mode Face to Face 94% Online 41% Hybrid 25% Multi-modal 50% Average Course/Module Session 16 weeks Average Program Length 2 years Project Thesis or Capstone Project required 94% Program Focus General Systems Focus; SE; Systems Architecture; Systems Design; 66

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Meiliu Lu, California State University at Sacramento

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users of these learning tools have participated in such unique experience of technical communication with their peers. Data analytics is playing a significant role in science and engineering education in this digital information era. Data warehouses provide online analytical processing tools for the interactive analysis of multidimensional data of various granularities. The objective of this project is to develop a web-based interactive courseware to help students or beginning data warehouse designers in learning data warehousing. Developers of this project include Computer Science international graduate students from India. The targeted primary users are students of a computer science course called Data Warehousing and Data Mining. Other

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Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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. Page 21.33.11 Figure 9: Examples of students’ productions at the time of modeling the current in an RLcircuit with the PhET simulator, using alternating current (variable) in an RL circuitIn general, the implementation of this class activity was designed as follows:Stage 1: Discuss in groups the previous knowledge regarding the DE analytical model thatmodels the change of the load of a capacitor in an RC circuit. Step 2: Assemble an electrical RCcircuit and measure the load capacitor through a voltage sensor. The material used for theactivity consisted of a circuit (a bulb, a capacitor, a set of four batteries and connectors) for eachcomputer, a TI sensor of voltage, a TI browser and the protocol to the practice. Step 3: Analyzethe

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Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

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and published them via the UGA Course Management System called Blackboard Vista/Wimba for web access by UGA students to review the course materials as needed (see Fig. 1 for a typical video frame). Thus the obvious solution was to enroll the NTU instructors and students into the UGA Vista/Wimba system. In early tests, we found that this approach was technically feasible but the NTU network speed was not fast enough to handle MP4 video streaming Page 21.24.3 satisfactorily in real time (essentially from half way around the Earth). Although NTU had its own CMS C (CEIBA A), it

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J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville; Michael Sanio, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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organization devotedto activities in a particular area of engineering.The governing body of the Federation is the General Assembly which meets every twoyears, elects the Officers and National Members, approves the annual dues structure, andestablishes Standing Technical Committees (STCs) and other committees. The GeneralAssembly consists of the representatives of Members in good standing, each having onevote; one-third of all voting Members constitute a quorum.Between meetings of the General Assembly the activities of the Federation are directed bythe Executive Council which meets annually, approves the budget, and may establish othergroups as deemed necessary. The Executive Council consists of the following voting

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Dr. Zaini Ujang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

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Paper ID #8384Invited Paper - New Academia in Student Learning ExperienceProf. Dr. Zaini Ujang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Prof. Zaini Ujang is a professional environmental engineer cum scientist who integrates studies on water ecology with engineering systems towards pollution control and sustainability, especially with reference to river rehabilitation in developing countries. His interest in the field leads him to collaborate with leading scholars worldwide, particularly in membrane bioreactor, granulation process and biofouling control. At present he is leading the oldest technical university in Malaysia and