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Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas F. Schubert, University of San Diego; Frank G. Jacobitz, University of San Diego

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the home institution provide an overview ofstudent attitudes about the course. (2) Instructor observations and course grades are used toassess the efficacy of the delivery of technical material. These observations are compared tosimilar courses taught in a semester-long format at the home institution. (3) Students writeweekly reflection papers concerning their total experiences. Finally, (4) a survey instrument isused to assess the international experience of the students.In the following, each of the two engineering courses is described. Next, the assessmentmethods are described and assessment results are presented and discussed. Finally, conclusionsare drawn from the assessment results.II. Description of these two Compact International

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Kelly, Dublin Institute of Technology; Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of Technology

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obtainedopinions and descriptive data instead of reflective accounts. Interviews are difficult to dobecause people are not always honest or sometimes may not realise or be aware that theyknow something. In addition, the wording and the sequencing of the questions can alterthe answers to the questions.Qualitative studies begin with research questions and the research methodology andmethods are chosen to best answer these questions. The methodology could bephenomenology, case studies, participatory research and/or action research to name but afew. For example, action research is an iterative research process intended to change theresearcher’s own behaviour and hence is often employed in practitioner-based education

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Collaborative Learning, Project-Based, Service Learning, and Impacts on Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D. Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Aaron Daniel Lewicki, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Seung Won Hong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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throughtransformation of experience. For him, learning is not a mere transmission of content but aninteraction between content and experience. His model of experiential learning cycle is based onLewin's problem-solving model of action research and drawing and Dewey's concept as well asPiaget. This cycle consists of four steps that delineate how learners transform an experience intoabstract knowledge, which is applicable to future decision-making or problem-solving situations.Those steps are concrete experience, observation and reflection, formation of abstract conceptsand generalization, and testing implications of new concepts in new situations. Kolb alsosuggested specific learning and teaching strategies to be used to facilitate each stage ofexperiential

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Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sowmya Narayanan, VIT University; Muniratnam Adithan, VIT University, Vellore; Robert C. Creese, West Virginia University

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and for professional development of its faculty members at VITUniversity is in line with the international concept of continuous training of faculty members 3. „The shortage of appropriately skilled labour across many industries is emerging as asignificant and complex challenge to India's growth and future. According to the NationalAssociation of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), each year over 3 milliongraduates and post-graduates are added to the Indian workforce. However, of these only 25percent of technical graduates and 10-15 percent of other graduates are considered employableby the rapidly growing IT and ITES(Information Technology Enabled Services) segments.Hence, what we have today is a growing skills gap reflecting

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiago R Forin, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. Page 22.12.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 “It’s gonna be a long trip…but we’re gonna get it done.” A student’s experience with engineering abroad.AbstractThis paper uses a narrative to take the reader on a reflective journey of a student’s, the author’s,perspective of a water filtration project that was developed at Purdue and implemented inEldoret, Kenya. While involved in this global engineering project, I was placed in scenarios thatwere different from traditional classroom experiences, and my classmates and I had to overcomevarious obstacles. Engaging these obstacles provoked thoughts about the various learningexperiences presented to me. How will I

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International Experience, Effective Instruction, and Student Exchange Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fanyu F. Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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. Everyonereceives the same credit for success or same penalty due to failure no matter how much their Page 22.1503.8responsibility and contributions are. The benefits of team work are to work with people withdifferent personalities and develop student’s interpersonal relationship management, a key skillto motivate people and receive support. Students learn how to create an environment and compelto them to work and think individually. Participants in a team can help leverage unique insights,foster collaboration, and build momentum for change. They may generate productivediscussions and thoughtful reflection, share guidelines for continuing the conversation

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Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University; Randall Davies, Brigham Young University; Alan R. Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Aaron G. Ball, Brigham Young University

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was developed into a 1 to 2 hour lectureincluding power point slides, notes and student assignments. As materials for each lecture werecompleted, they underwent a review process with engineering faculty. This ensured correctengineering principles and GV team principle links to engineering. Any revisions needed weremade prior to the lecture being presented.Student assignments and assessments reflected use of course content on the GV Team. Forexample, an initial assignment required students to create an On-line personal profile. Thisincluded a picture, student experience, expertise and other information that enabled students toget to know teammates. This was followed up with a five-minute phone call where studentspaired with international to

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila D. Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Daniel Hirleman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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and reflect ontheir IREE experiences, (2) allow professional and social network opportunities among theparticipants, and (3) assess the challenges and opportunities faced by the program participants.At the IREE re-entry meeting, individual hour-long interviews and two-hour thematic focusgroups were conducted with 56 participants.For the scope of this paper, we present and discuss select focus group and interview data relatedto three different themes: (1) gender differences, (2) second generation Chinese immigrants, and(3) African and Hispanic Americans. Preliminary data analysis reveals some of the unique issuesfaced by each student population, as well as some of the cultural images encountered inside andoutside of various cultural

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace, Competency, and a Successful Career

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council

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society is living in the 21st. Century. It is theapplication of Science to help society to reach the goal of achieving the same level ofdevelopment as the technological.Much of the objects we interact with during a typical day are the result of an engineered process- from the alarm clock to our car, the Internet, through television, the streets and buildings andeven the clothes we wear. All these objects so prosaic are the result of human ingenuity,personified in the professional engineer. All these objects came after weeks of reflection andnights, months or years of experiments, testing, developments and improvements, deep momentsof sublime technique and passion, until they were ready to serve the man.In according to the economic theory, this is

Conference Session

A Global Engineer: International and Domestic Engineer

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

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as a holiday has been in existencefor approximately 1700 years, though the structure of the festival has changedsignificantly even in the last 100 years.Because of this ‘culture-centered’ viewpoint, little thought has been given to thedominant social relational modes that have typically made up the structure of humansinside a culture. When one reflects back on most of civilization, the dominant supportstructure for cultures has been hierarchies. Hierarchies can be dichotomized into twotypes: authoritarian hierarchies, run by an individual or group of individuals, withexamples running the historical gamut from Egyptian pharaohs to Nazi Germany; andlegalistic/absolutistic hierarchies, such as the United States. The degree ofhierarchicalization

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International Experience, Effective Instruction, and Student Exchange Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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practicalproblems and issues that practitioners usually face, into the classroom.(6) Pedagogical studieshave demonstrated that the case study/ case history approach to engineering education provides agreater understanding of the multifaceted nature of civil engineering.(7,8) They can be used to Page 22.312.2simulate a variety of learning protocols such as: design and analysis experiences,interdisciplinary issues and concerns, costs, hazards, owner preferences, and compliance withstandards and guidelines. Cases, by and large, describe situations, projects, problems, decisions,etc., and are primarily derived from actual experience, and do reflect thoughts

Conference Session

International Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fakhteh Nakhavali, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

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most of them carry negative connotations. 4. Traditional notions show themselves in the form of proverbs. In other words, proverbs likeother linguistic vehicles are the reflection of speakers’ views, cultures, believes social behaviors androles. So animal expressions can reveal the individual or social thoughts. 6. References A) English Adams, w., Thomas, and Susan R. Kuder, 1984, Attitudes through Idioms, Newburg Housepublishers, INC. Collis, Harry, 1994. 101 American English proverbs, Published by: passport Books, a division OfNTC Publishing Group. Davies, E. E., Bentahila, A., 1989. Familiar & less familiar metaphors. Language &communication 9, 49-68. Fraser, B., 1981. Insulting problems in a second

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A Global Engineer: International and Domestic Engineer

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council; Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization

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understanding of different cultures and respect for diversity andcommunication. There are differences in the focus of the courses, general or more specific, moreor less practical and etc. There is no recipe, an equation that can be applied to all the Institutionsto ensure the expected results, precisely because there is a great diversity in addition to theincreasingly rapid changes that happen and more embodiments by scientific and technologicaldevelopment. This paper has the goal to instigate the reflection on the formation of engineeringteachers in present challenging academic community.Keywords: Mobility, program design; motivation; global formation; skills.1. IntroductionNo matter the field of expertise civil, electronic, chemical, environmental it

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Collaborations, Accreditation and Articulation Issues for International Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Technology; Yasin Akhtar Raja, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications; Syed Muhammad Hassan Zaidi, NUST School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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industry, the participants and the other non-profit organizations in the host countries.Although the focus of HONET predominately remained optical Internet and associated information& communication and enabling technologies, a special theme was added each year to reflect thecurrent state of technology and its applications. During the past seven years of organizing andholding these symposia and associated workshops over two thousand attendees consisting offaculty, engineers, students, delegates from different countries and CEOs of Internationalbusinesses have participated in this knowledge sharing experience and were motivated forinternational collaboration. These symposia were attended by the nationals of Australia, Britain,Canada, China

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A Global Engineer: International and Domestic Engineer

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac W. Wait, Marshall University; Andrew P. Nichols, Marshall University; Wael A. Zatar, Marshall University

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be useful to understand the Page 22.353.10existing learning pathways that students are prone to employ (e.g., Auditory).  It is likely that cultural influences shape students’ preferred learning styles in regions beyond theMiddle East and the United States, and thus the results of this study can be used to support theidea that where instructor and student come from different cultural environments, there may bethe need to reflect on differences in preferred learning styles and the proportion of students invarious learning style categories, and how to best respond to these differences in order toenhance student learning.Bibliography1. Fleming

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Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven L. Shumway, Brigham Young University; SClaudina Vargas, Complex Systems Optimization Lab; Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Ron Terry, Brigham Young University

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engineering design process in addition to listing them.At any rate, these observations can help improve the curriculum design process and theclassroom process to improve internalization or better learning.Perception of learning vs. results. The results show that students' perception about how muchthey learned do not always align with the picture emerging from their responses about theirunderstanding of concepts. However, their perceptions are correct because they reflect theirexperience. For example, most, students in Groups 1 and 2 learned about maglev transportationsystems for the first time this summer. For them this was a great learning experience. Thus,while their responses to specific questions showed they had difficulties grasping the

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Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jian Yu, Auburn University and Tsinghua University, China; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University

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all the questions are more than 4. The results are favorable andindicate that the LITEE Workshops were acceptable to the participants and were perceived tobe beneficial. We used SPSS 10.0 to do principal analysis. Through factor analysis, in the RotatedComponent Matrix as the Table 2 shows, there are 3 Components that are abbreviated Ci(i=1, 2, 3). C1 includes 29 VARs that are VAR 8-36, which can be called “Expectations toMIS” because from the meanings of these questions they reflect the expectations to MIS andhope to improve the skills from the learning of MIS; C2 includes 4 VARs that are VAR 2, 3,5, 6, which can be called “Attitude to MIS ” for the four questions show the perception oflearners about learning MIS and imply the difficulty

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Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel James Boland, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Michael V. Schaefer, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Carmen M. Langel; Taryn Michelle Tigges, University of Iowa; Fabienne Bertrand, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Marian Muste, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Zachary David Hingst; Timothy James Middlemis-Brown, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa

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in students’ familiarity with both the host countries society and their waterresource engineering capacities. For both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, students feltthat they were much more acclimated to the local society. This also led them to feel morecomfortable traveling alone internationally in general. Thus the class has been able to buildstudents’ confidence in being abroad. The perceived gains in knowledge of the water resourcesof each country reflect the impact of the thematic nature of the course. Similar results werereflected in the entrance and exit surveys of the course that travelled to Egypt. Page 22.1007.10Table 2: Key

Conference Session

International Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fakhteh Nakhavali, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

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like) (ET: to work like a dog), yet to praise people inthe form of proverbs. Hsieh (2006, p. 2216) believed that names of domestic animals and pets are used for women,and names of wild animals for men. Traditional notions show themselves in the form of proverbs. In other words, proverbs like other linguisticvehicles are the reflection of speakers’ views, cultures, believes, social behaviors and roles, So animal expressionscan reveal the individual or social thoughts.References:Abrishami, A.. 1996. Multilingual dictionary of proverbs. Tehran: Negarestan publication. (in Persian)Collis, H.. 1994. 101 American English proverbs. Illinois: Passport Books, a division Of NTC Publishing Group.Davies, E. E. & Bentahila, A.. 1989. Familiar &

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Collaborative Learning, Project-Based, Service Learning, and Impacts on Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, Media

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globalbusiness.Ethics is defined as the set of standards, rules and guidelines for moral or socially approvedconduct and is based on the idea of what is right and wrong. Individuals’ ethical behavior is Page 22.846.4influenced by: (a) personal ethics, the set of one’s commitments learned at home and religiontraining and modified later by reflection; (b) common morality, the set of moral ideas shared bymost members of a culture or society; and (c) professional ethics, the set of standards adopted byprofessional organizations.The four basic frameworks for ethics are: (1) consequence-based thinking, based on the notion ofdoing what is best for all affected; (2

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Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xia Wang, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Michael A. Latcha, Oakland University; Li Jia, Beijing Jiaotong University; Zhuqian Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University

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. This is reflected in the end of program survey. For example, one student said “I think that the stipends could be less, and the program could last 10 weeks. I would definitely accept more time in China for less money.”Therefore, a significant amount of efforts was required before the departure to overcomestudent’s fear, doubt or concern of studying in China. These efforts include: 1) Booking Airticket: To secure a seat and a better price, the air ticket was reserved two months before departure. The program director coordinated with each NSF IRES participant to confirm their departure dates, departure airports, returning dates and returning airports. Since these participants finished their school on different dates, they

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Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of Technology

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Inventory(IDI). While this tool is widely used and robust, the major disadvantage is its proprietarynature: the institution needs to pay a fee each time the instrument is administered. One otherdrawback in using this tool is that it may not give the full picture about the learningexperiences of our students while abroad.Given this review, we assert that assessment of study abroad programs in a comprehensiveway is necessary but has not been done to a sufficient degree. Assessment tools exist oncultural sensitivity (e.g., IDI), however, results on these alone do not reflect the growth inknowledge our engineering students need to have, and show to justify the expense directedinto these programs. To fill this void, we develop an assessment instrument

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace, Competency, and a Successful Career

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yi Shen, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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orienting experiences that help develop their cultural awarenessand orientation. This could include relevant activities “at home,” such as coursework orextracurricular experiences, or short-term travel programs. Second, instructors and programadministrators should be mindful of the different levels of cultural awareness and appreciationthat exist among participants in global educational experiences, and use this knowledge to tuneorientation and program activities accordingly. To support development of global competency,students should be provided with a variety of reflective learning opportunities that allow them toengage, understand, and appreciate cultural differences.Our study also points to numerous opportunities for further research, some of

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Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl F. Zorowski, North Carolina State University

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Design Courses: Implications for Formative Assessment”; 2006-1180, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 200613. Gerlick R., Davis D., Trevisian M., Washington State Univ., Beyerlin S., Mac Cormack J., Univ. of Idaho; Harrison O., Tuskegee Univ.; “Assessment Structure and Methodology for Design Processes and Products in Engineering Capstone Courses”; 2008-1950, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 200814. Davis D., Trevisian M., Gerlick R., Washington State Univ.; Beyerlein S., Mac Cormack J., Univ. of Idaho; Harrison O., Tuskegee Univ.; Howe S., Smith College: “Assessing Design and Reflective Practices in Capstone Engineering Design Courses”; 2009-663, American Society of