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Conference Session
Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
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Claudia María Zea Restrepo P.E., Universidad EAFIT; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juan Guillermo Lalinde-Pulido, Universidad EAFIT; Alberto Rodriguez P.E., Universidad EAFIT; Natalia Andrea Bueno Pizarro, Universidad EAFIT
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immaterial and material, the second floor is wheretechnology is integrated to the project that is being developed, and the first floor is the place tobuild the product conceived in its entirety. Such spaces and strategies have encouraged rethinkingthe curriculum of the School of Engineering in a way that, when integrated with processes forscientific research in education, may allow significant changes in learning environments andpromote the renovation of the pedagogical strategies.Thus, we propose an approach for designing curriculum for the School of Engineering of EAFITUniversity based on three types of processes: (a) scientific research in education, which allowsthe definition and construction of research and innovation projects that are based on
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Imin Kao, Stony Brook University (SUNY); Yacov A. Shamash, Stony Brook University; ChoonHo Kim, SUNY Korea
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Curriculum Development
comprehensive liberal-arts campus abroaddeveloped by a major U.S. research university.” Abu Dhabi’s commitment includes the offer topay for the entire cost of building and operating the new campus—“to build an A+ university.”In addition, the NYUAD campus will “offer the same degrees that are offered in New York, witha curriculum developed by the university’s New York-based faculty.” [4] According to the samearticle, the students of NYUAD will be chosen by NYU’s Office of Admissions, relying on thesame standards used for the New York campus. NYU Abu Dhabi students will be offered theopportunity to spend a semester in New York. However, some critics say that the description ofthemselves as guests of the United Arab Emirates “turns foreign branch campuses
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Hiroko Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Jun Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Scott Clark, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard Eugene Stamper P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Curriculum Development
program andwe have not developed yet any graduate programs to follow the undergraduate program.Therefore, if we develop an additional global engineer program to graduate students, whocompleted the current undergraduate Joint Global Engineer Education Program, we can combinethe undergraduate program and the new graduate program into a new integrated global engineereducation program.Although we have not yet officially started developing any graduate programs to follow theundergraduate program, one idea of graduate programs is a combination of “Study abroad” and“Work abroad”. One possible example of a combination of “Study abroad” and “Work abroad”for graduate students of KIT, who finished Bachelor Course at KIT, would be to enroll in aMaster Course
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Jared P Coyle, Drexel University; Jamie Lyn Kennedy, Drexel University; Jessica S Ward, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Adam K Fontecchio, Drexel University (Eng.)
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Curriculum Development
educationAbstractA grand challenge in the global engineering community is the recruitment and retention ofstudents. Previous research in engineering education has shown that pre-college exposure toengineering plays an integral part in student self-selection of engineering as a course of study atthe university level. Presented in this work is an international program which seeks to attracttalented students through the use of NSF GK12 Engineering Visiting Fellows and cross-cultural,hands-on problem based design projects. In this two-year study, 5 separate projects are carriedout involving 690 students split between urban high schools in the United States and partnersecondary schools in Kenya. Quantitative and qualitative analysis is carried out using
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Junichiro Kono, Rice University
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Curriculum Development
improvement in their oralproficiency at the end of study abroad.174.3 Intercultural Competency: We utilized the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) toassess intercultural competency of NanoJapan participants. The IDI is theoretically grounded inMilton Bennett’s “Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity,” a frequently-citeddevelopmental model that identifies six progressive stages through which individuals pass inadapting interculturally. The results of the IDI place an individual at a point along this six-stagedevelopmental continuum, from ethnocentric to ethnorelative. The stages of the DMIS aredenial, defense, minimization, acceptance, adaptation, and integration.18 While the IDI does notmeasure learning specific to Japan, it does
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Lynette Frances Johns-Boast, Australian National University
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Invited - Curriculum Development
curriculum will affect the process of curriculum designand development in which he/she engages as well as the output of that process – the written, theofficial, intended or planned curriculum.I agree with Lattuca and Stark 1 when they say that without an common view of curriculumacademics “seldom link the elements they mention into an integrated definition of the curriculum[instead thinking] of separate educational tasks or processes, such as establishing the credit valueof courses, selecting the specific disciplines to be taught or studied, teaching their subjects,specifying objectives for student achievement, and evaluating what students know” 14, p. 2. Theyalso note that “the most common linkage faculty members address is the structural
Conference Session
Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II
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2013 ASEE International Forum
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Jean N. Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Student and Curriculum Development
semester began first, with Colorado’s a close second,and Germany starting third in mid-October. Figure 1 shows a simplified schedule as well as eachUniversity’s semester dates and overlap.The overall project schedule was based on the University of Colorado’s Senior Design Coursetimeline, which encompasses an entire project experience over the span of 2 semesters. Theproject is divided into two phases, in sync with the CU semester schedule. The first semester, orphase of the project course, is focused entirely on design, analysis, and prototyping. The secondphase of the project encompasses the manufacturing, integration, and testing aspects. Eachcomponent must be manufactured, tested at a subsystem level, integrated to the system level, andtested
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
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Russel C. Jones, World Expertise LLC
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Invited - Curriculum Development
offer two graduate programs, a Master of Engineering Degreeand a Master of Science Degree. The undergraduate curriculum integrates cutting-edgeand applied research with innovative classroom instruction to ensure that its graduates areequipped to assume leadership roles after graduation.Carnegie Mellon Qatar has offered undergraduate programs in Computer Science andBusiness Administration since 2004. It has recently added a new Information Systemsdegree. These programs are aimed at providing the human capital to develop an effectiveInformation and Computer Technology (ICT) structure, one of the main pillars of theknowledge-based society that Qatar aspires to become.Saudi ArabiaKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is being
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Keith Willey, University of Technology Sydney; Anne P Gardner, University of Technology, Sydney
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informal learning in professional practice, flipped learning, academic standards, and improving peer review. Keith is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellow. He has received several awards including an Engineers Australia Engineering Excel- lence Award (Education and Training), the UTS Medal for Teaching and Research Integration and both the Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AaeE) Teaching Excellence and Research Design Awards. Keith has been a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, Europe, North America and Asia. His commitment to developing high quality teaching and learning practices is supported by his educa- tional research that has been published in numerous conference papers
Conference Session
Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Olga V Shipulina, Simon Fraser University
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Invited - Curriculum Development
water’s edge, another is located in the water (Figure 1). The optimalnavigation VE Task is to find the path between the platforms which would minimize time oftravel. The setting is programmed to record time and distance traveled by land for each tripbetween the platforms. This information is indicated on white banners, one of which is shown in(Figure 1). The SL allows utilizing both egocentric and allocentric view perspectives.After each trip the student must transfer the data from the banners (time and distance traveled byland) into a specially designed guiding–reflecting journal, which is an integral methodologicalpart of the research design
Conference Session
Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET, Inc.; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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area of interest23 . A collective casestudy, which we propose, is to study a number of cases to inquire into potential variations ofseemingly similar phenomenon22 . Using a descriptive collective case-study methodology willallow the investigators to understand and examine the contexts in which parallel performancetasks are implemented in three distinct sites and four distinct course-type settings (Table 3).DesignIn order to maximize what can be learned and to provide an adequate number of cases for acollective case study, we used purposeful sampling at three levels: 1) institution/program, 2)level of course in the curriculum and 3) instructor/course-type. When conducting purposefulmulti-site sampling, it’s important to select sites that are
Conference Session
Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Abdel F. Isakovic, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research; Szu Szu F Ling, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research; Selwa Mokhtar Boularaoui, Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research; Sara Bashir Timraz; Mualla Kara
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Student and Curriculum Development
academic workforce requires adequate laboratory skills and experience level;c. A more specific requirement that resonates with the global competency of KU engineering graduates originates in the undergraduate engineering curriculum requirement dictated by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education, which states that, at the end of the junior year, every student must take an outside-the-university internship position related to her/his major (such as a hospital laboratory intern for biomedical engineering majors, or a software troubleshooting intern position as a computer engineering major, etc.);d. Lastly, despite the significant local-specific start-up parameters and constraints, the demographics of the UAE (a Gulf nation inhabited by 20
Conference Session
Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Megan Elizabeth Sharp, IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology; Alison L. Stevenson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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Student and Curriculum Development
Page 21.18.2Engineering and Technology, we have historically had difficulties engaging students in studyabroad opportunities. Having a curriculum that is structured to provide background on a topic,geographic region, and culture - before the study abroad opportunity is addressed - will hopefullyencourage student engagement.In the School of Engineering and Technology, approximately 7% of students are non-residentinternational students. Our curriculum provides our local students with an opportunity toenhance their experience at IUPUI by working together with the international student population– both groups of students will benefit from working together and learning from each other’sdifferences.Justification“Business is increasingly conducted in
Conference Session
Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrea Mazzurco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sang Eun Woo, Purdue University
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Student and Curriculum Development
in their careers.2-7These and many other reports and studies have also addressed questions about what specifickinds of attributes are important for the so-called “global engineer.” For example, one forward-looking NRC report published in 1999 outlined a “global engineering skill set” with four mainitems: “(1) language and cultural skills, (2) teamwork and group dynamic skills, (3) knowledgeof the business and engineering cultures of counterpart countries, and (4) knowledge ofinternational variations in engineering education and practice.”3 Many other authors and groupshave since compiled or created their own partially unique lists of attributes, and other efforts ofthis type are ongoing.9-22 Accreditation guidelines and curriculum reports
Conference Session
Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Prue Howard, Central Queensland University; Duncan Andrew Campbell, Queensland University of Technology
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Invited - Faculty Development
Paper ID #8371Invited Paper - Curriculum Development to meet Accreditation RequirementsMrs. Prue Howard, Central Queensland University Dr Prue Howard has a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, A Masters Degree in Engineering, and a Professional Doctorate in Transdisciplinary Studies. She came to academia after four years as an engineer and designer in industry. Her initial research/consulting area was in dynamics and failure analysis, but the opportunity to become involved in Engineering Education research quickly changed her direction. An early grant from what was then known as CAUT showed how integration of
Conference Session
Partner Organization Plenary III
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland; Frank Bullen, University of Southern Queensland
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Partner Society Plenary
Paper ID #8374AAEE Plenary - Engineering Education: A National Integrated ApproachMs. Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland Lyn Brodie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests include engineering education, Problem Based Learning, assessment and the first year experience. She is a board and founding member of the USQ Teaching Academy and Director of the Faculty Engineering Education Research Group. Lyn was the academic team leader for the teaching team which successfully designed a strand of PBL courses for the faculty
Conference Session
Reception & Poster Session
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
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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Paper ID #8342Organizing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering(GRCSE) for International RelevanceMr. Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology / Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) Mr. Henry is a doctoral candidate at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ working on a PhD is Systems Engineering. He is also a researcher with the Systems Engineering Research Center, and an author of the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) and the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE). He holds a B.Tech degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Anna University
Conference Session
Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Ralph Dreher PhD P.E., International Society for Engineering Education (G
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biography of learning during their engineeringpedagogic education.Consequently, such a curriculum has to feature self-contained units of reflective learning ofessential engineering pedagogic tasks– modules, which respectively include an engineeringpedagogic task and are to be worked on reflectively.Crucial is not only the content of such a module but also that the modules individually showspecific moments and strategies of phases of reflection.Content and string of the modulesRegarding the definition of the contents of modules, methods of vocational scientific macroanalysis have been used [3]. This means that based on work observations and workshops withlecturers and experts the various types of classes have been identified as essential in Fig. 1
Conference Session
Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Danielle Marie Dowling, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Morgan M Hynes, Arizona State University
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Faculty Development
Paper ID #8286Instructional Stance as Indicated by Words: A Lexicometrical Analysis ofTeacher Usage of an Inquiry-Based Technological Tool in High School Class-roomsMs. Danielle Marie Dowling, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach After nearly 20 years as a journalist, Danielle Dowling decided to return to school to earn a second bachelor’s degree in physics, which she received in 2011 from Hunter College in New York City. Soon after, she started her master’s degree in science education at Tufts University. While pursuing her master’s, she became involved with the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach
Conference Session
Track 3 - Session II - Faculty Development
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Mohammad Kamal Hossain, Tuskegee University; Stacy Benjamin, Northwestern University; Kwanju Kim, Hongik University; Manuel Löwer, RWTH Aachen University; Pradosh K. Ray, Tuskegee University
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Faculty Development
, MSC Software, RTT, STRATASYS, TRUBIQUITY, and Wacom as itscontributors in its global operations to support strategically selected academic institutionsworldwide to develop the automotive product lifecycle management (PLM) team of the future.PLM is an integrated parametric-based approach to all aspects of a product's life-from its designinception through its manufacture, marketing, distribution and maintenance, and finally intorecycling and disposal21.PACE strives to educate and inspire students on the necessity of global collaboration and tofoster awareness of current social and economic pressures. In keeping with these objectives, thePACE Global Leadership Committee (comprising of members from GM, Autodesk, HP, Oracle,and Siemens) defines a
Conference Session
Reception & Poster Session
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University; Victor A Atiemo-Obeng, The Dow Chemical Company (Retired)
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ASEE International Forum
heterogeneity of the student backgrounds, but a major contributor is the three-week timeframe for the courses. It is not likely that a longer time can be allotted in the foreseeable future, given the time commitments of visiting faculty at their home institutions and the limited financial resources at AUST for acquiring permanent faculty. Nonetheless, for the core courses to be useful as foundations for the Materials Program, they should be well assimilated by the students. A possible solution is to develop two-part core courses, e.g., Thermodynamics 1 and 2. Context and pedagogy. AUST is located in Africa. Should this make a difference in the Materials curriculum? One cannot seriously claim that there is an “African” Materials
Conference Session
Track 1 - Session I - Student Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
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Robyne Bowering, Monash University
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Invited - Student Development
ingraduates, can be enhanced through improved faculty teaching and learning methods. Thenew curricula should encourage deeper learning and understanding of context. They shouldcontain among other things: integrated experiential activities, interdisciplinary perspectives,addressing different learning styles and helping students to develop life-long learning skillsby assisting them to understand how they learn and provide a connectedness to the needs andissues of the broader community.[11-13]Service-learning is a pedagogical practice that deliberately integrates community serviceactivities with educational objectives. Students engage in meaningful learning throughapplied, active, project-based learning, drawing on multiple knowledge sources
Conference Session
Partner Organization Plenary II
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2013 ASEE International Forum
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Michael E. Auer, International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP)
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Partner Society Plenary
-tertiary education. Learning in the future has to be an integrated part of the job! People of all ages have to renew their knowledge in decreasing cycles. This is what we understand as "Life Long Learning".New Questions of Today’s and Future Engineering Education Page 21.30.4All these realities require a concerted effort to evolve engineering education into what today’sreality is demanding of practicing engineers. In other words, many traditional educationalmodels and practices are no longer functional. For this reason, the importance of pedagogy isgrowing at an enormous pace. The need to innovate and apply new paradigms to the teaching
Conference Session
Track 1 - Session II - Student Development
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
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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Student Development
needs and desires might not be fully understood from the perspective ofan American engineer. The lowest level of agreement for NapoNet program outcomes is for the impact onunderstanding engineering in a global sense. One student commented, “The NapoNet project islocalized to one district within Peru, and it is difficult to see how the project impacts the peoplethat live outside of this sphere very much.” This comment points to an area for improvement inthe NapoNet curriculum about increasing student understanding of engineering in a globalcontext. Students could be assigned readings and case studies to augment the mostly appliednature of the project. One note of caution for interpreting the student surveys results is the smallsize (n = 9
Conference Session
Partner Organization Plenary II
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Svetlana Vasilyevna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Reserch Technological University
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of IGIP.Because of its cooperation with IGIP, KNRTU was one of the first institu-tions in Russia toestablish a center for re-training and advanced training of engineering edu-cators, which isaccredited by IGIP as a training center for "International Engineering Educa-tors" and conformsto IGIP's curriculum for engineering pedagogy. About 70 leading profes-sors, including someuniversity presidents, rectors and chancellors have completed this course. Professor VasiliyG.Ivanov, the first Academic Vice-Rector of KNRTU, is a member of the IGIP RussianMonitoring Committee.For many years now, the KNRTU team has been an active participant in IGIP events, includ-inginternational annual conferences on engineering education, where delegates from all
Conference Session
Reception & Poster Session
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland
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ASEE International Forum
-stakeholders; Genuine social and ethical attributes; Strong emotional intelligence; Strong intelligence leadership; Strong leadership in sustainability; Confidence in presence and abilities; Strong business and commercial acumens; and An in-depth knowledge of one’s industry.From the attributes above, it is proposed that the learning journey start in the early yearsworking as a graduate engineer in pursuit of their professional or chartered status. It shouldincorporate and integrate personal, professional and educational development with closesupervision by mentors, both within the industry and academia. It is possible to complete thelearning journey in an intensive 3 year timeframe, but a more realistic 5 year timeframe
Conference Session
Track 3 - Session I - Faculty Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Dirk Schaefer P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology
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Invited - Faculty Development
students, industry, and society as a whole? How Page 21.42.4can resources be synergistically integrated to support such an effort? What are the majorchallenges or barriers present that must be overcome in order to create such a system?In response to these questions, they present a concept map to explore how faculty educationaldevelopment could support and greatly enhance an entire system revolving around facultydevelopment in teaching and learning. Utilizing and reflecting upon the literature, major issuesconsidered that relate to the questions above include various roles in the higher educationengineering community; relationships between
Conference Session
Track 1 - Session I - Student Development
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2013 ASEE International Forum
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Teresa Restivo, University of Porto
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sensors also for the health area, virtual instrumentation, remote and virtual labs, wireless sensorization, as well as the use of ICTs and haptic devices in training and in education. She is author (or co-author) of articles, book chapters and 7 eBooks, two of them with an international editor. She has prizes both in R&D areas. She has been project leader and team member at national level, as well as team member of European projects. She has supervised a number of theses. She has three patents and two pending (national and international). She is coordinator of the System Integration and Process Automation Research Unit at IDMEC-Polo FEUP also integrated in the Asso- ciated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and
Conference Session
Reception & Poster Session
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2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute
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ASEE International Forum
of professional engineering such as design and professional skills. Today, engineeringschools are mostly populated by engineering researchers who are less familiar, and lesscomfortable, with a curriculum that integrates theory and practice, and who have little if anyindustrial experience. The result is a focus on specialized disciplinary knowledge thatemphasizes the fundamentals of engineering, with little space for the development ofprofessional skills or a broader understanding of what it means to be an engineer and the role ofengineering in society.The current state of engineering education has led to numerous publications calling for reform.These include titles such as Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education tothe
Conference Session
Track 1 - Session I - Student Development
Collection
2013 ASEE International Forum
Authors
Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland; Lesley Jolly, Strategic Partnerships; Caroline Crosthwaite, University of Queensland; Lydia Kavanaugh, University of Queensland
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Research Methods Interest Group of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE). In that capacity I have run work- shops on research methods and educational evaluation in Australia and New Zealand and was a founder leader of the annual AAEE Winter School for engineering education research. In the last two years I have completed two CRC projects; Evaluation of Simulators in Train Driver Training and Towards a National Framework for Competence Assurance for Train drivers. I have also recently managed an ALTC project called Curriculum Change through Theory-Driven Evaluation on behalf of the University of Queensland.Caroline Crosthwaite, University of Queensland Caroline Crosthwaite BE(Hons), MEngSt (UQ