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Libanos Redda, SPEED; Fabian Reichl, SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development); Agustin Ferrario, National Technological University, Resistencia Faculty, Argentina; Rohit Kandakatla, SPEED; Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Student Platform for Engineering Education Development

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ice-breaking sessions included in the forum, with 63.2% of surveyed studentsreporting that the ice-breaking sessions were helpful in bringing them out of their comfort zoneand facilitating their engagement with other students (Fig 3A).Post-GSF Analysis. Overall, GSF appears to have had a positive impact on its participants. At theconclusion of the forum 91.7% of interviewed subjects agreed that working in groups during theforum helped them to develop an appreciation for diversity in teams (Fig 4A) and 97.9% saidthat GSF was helpful to them in developing methods to overcome cultural/language barriers (Fig4A). The combination of these results show that GSF had a strong influence on its participants interms of learning how to gain an

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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Paul John Ackerman Jr P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Tim Moore P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Tyler Adam Brickles

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?Founding of the ABC University ProgramIn 2009, a faculty member of ABC collaborated with EWB to start a student chapter. EWB hadcompleted a site assessment and health survey for a village in Bolivia. The assessment reportidentified low technology, high impact projects that would benefit the community. ABC wasinterested in designing and implementing the project and as a result ABC’s program was born in2010. During subsequent projects, ABC partnered with EAI which provided significant supportand experience in working with Bolivia. As a result of this relationship, ABC began arelationship with several Bolivian engineers that have significantly reduced the projectconstraints on resources and logistics. The Bolivian engineers are also the in country

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Lokesh P Padhye, The University of Auckland

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manner, it appears that frequent online quizzes and industryguest lectures are indeed making a positive impact on enriching the student learningexperience. The benefit of increased class engagement of students appears well worth theinitial investment of time required to set up the online quizzes and redesign course curriculumto accommodate industry lectures.AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank all supporting academic staff, administrative staff, tutors, and TAs ofthe University of Auckland involved in successfully conducting above two classes in 2015.References1. Ryan, T. E. (2006). Motivating novice students to read their textbooks. Journal of Instructional Psychology,33, 135–140.2. Gurung, R. (2003). Pedagogical aids and student performance

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute; Gang Zheng, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute; David L.S. Hung, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

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. Further, as mentioned above, theoretical approaches to ethicsare, to some extent, unique to the “Western world.” To cast a wide net, and remain realistic aboutcriteria for ethical behavior students can be expected to understand and endorse, and with whichthey can easily work, we have used the following definition in teaching ethics to engineeringstudents in international and cross-cultural contexts: “ethics is about actions that have thepotential to have a serious impact on the lives of others.”45On the one hand, this definition is broad enough to encompass characteristics associated withand implied by ethical positions relevant to and unproblematic for engineering ethics, forexample, consequentialism or the role ethics of Confucianism. A broad

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua, Ohlone College

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University of California (UC) or California StateUniversity (CSU) campuses8. One year earlier, nearly 20% (3,344) of all UC B.S. degrees inSTEM fields were earned by community college transfer students, but only 11% (356) of thesetransfer graduates were from underrepresented minority backgrounds; 40% were women.6 In2015 fifty-five percent of community college students are people of diverse ethnicbackgrounds and roughly 53 percent are female.6Despite the relatively significant number of female and ethnic minority students in the CCCSwe see a disproportionately low number in the STEM fields. Therefore, there is the need toadapt our classroom pedagogies to engage these demographic groups of students.Context Based Learning PedagogyThe Obama

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Concurrent Virtual Sessions

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Nailya Sh. Valeyeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Roman V. Kupriyanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Elvira R. Valeyeva, Kazan National Research Technological University

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mutualunderstanding, identify stressors and conflict-generating factors of teamwork, and identifyways to prevent or overcome these factors. Through participation in simulation gamesstudents have the opportunity to identify the leadership qualities, acquire group management,decision-making, and stress-management skills. Simulation games method was implementedas an addition to lectures on "Business Communication", "Professional ConflictManagement". The focus of training exercises and simulation games was on the management ofinterpersonal interaction. In order to gather feedback from students on their participation in exercises/games andassignments, and learn how these activities impact the development of teamwork andcommunication skills, the authors

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Esra Tekdal Yilmaz, Pennsylvania State University, Lehman

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(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.4) Continuous Improvement5) Curriculum6) Faculty7) Facilities8) Institutional SupportThe goal of engineering education is to give the creativity, research ability and ability to solveproblems on their own in addition to

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Fabiola P Ehlers-Zavala, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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, to infuse international andcomparative perspectives throughout the teaching, research, and service missions of highereducation. It shapes institutional ethos and values and touches the entire higher educationenterprise. It is essential that it be embraced by institutional leadership, governance, faculty,students, and all academic service and support units. It is an institutional imperative, not just adesirable possibility. Comprehensive internationalization not only impacts all of campus life butthe institution’s external frames of reference, partnerships, and relations. The globalreconfiguration of economies, systems of trade, research, and communication, and the impact ofglobal forces on local life, dramatically expand the need for

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Vitaliy Popov, 1. University of San Diego. 2. The Global STEM Education Center; Larisa K. Schelkin, Global STEM Education Center, Inc.; Russell Faux, DSRA

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multicultural,either in the United States or internationally, cooperating through technology. Based on thedata on international collaboration that were collected in 2006 by SETAT, one in sixscientists and engineers in the United States reported working with individuals located inother countries. These scientists and engineers used telephone, e-mail, and Web-based orvirtual communication as main means of communicating during their internationalcollaboration. Thus, it is becoming increasingly imperative for today’s students—tomorrow’s workers— not only to have the opportunity and skills to use various means ofcommunication but to be able to work with people from diverse linguistic and culturalbackgrounds.This growing demand for engineers with global

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Sergey Gerasimov, Siberian Transport University; Yury P Pokholkov, Tomsk polytechnic university, Association for Engineering Education of Russia; Kseniya K Tolkacheva, Association for Engineering Education of Russia, Tomsk Polytechnic University; Jose Carlos Quadrado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

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of other membersof experts group will depend on opinion of this specialist and an assessment outcome will be providedon the subjective basis.Secondly, not every specialist even the most recognized in his field can become a member of an expertgroup. Some of them, even those with comprehensive knowledge, do not have qualities required for amember of an expert group and are not able to provide adequate opinion which may disrupt assessmentespecially during meetings with representatives of students and teachers participating in accreditedprogram.That is why the first criterion for experts’ selection is the degree of their competence. There is of coursean issue with evaluation of such competence. Usually competence is evaluated on the basis of

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Concurrent Virtual Sessions

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jeffrey R Seay, University of Kentucky; John Christopher Higgins, University of Kentucky; Chandni A Joshi, University of Kentucky ; Sarah Frances Willett, University of Kentucky

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societal impacts ofthose projects on the local communities. This contribution gives an overview on how these partnershipswere developed and describes the importance of strong in-country partnerships for successful servicelearning experiences. In particular this contribution will illustrate how the need for community interactionis critical to the success of any project in a rural or developing community. The experiences of the UKATSgroup with the African Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (ACREST) in Cameroonand the Organization of Development Action and Maintenance (ODAM) in India will be described. Inaddition, lessons learned regarding properly preparing students for service learning based education abroadexperiences will be

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Monica Gray P.E., Lincoln University; Constance Loretta Lundy

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of the global market place.Study abroad has not been previously considered as a high impact activity, there is, however, amovement afoot to change that paradigm. The National Science Foundation in the latest LouisStokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program solicitation cited researchersBowman and Sage as follows, “Preparing a diverse, globally-engaged scientific andtechnological workforce necessitates strengthening international research opportunities forstudents under-represented in STEM fields”. 15Studying abroad: benefits, challenges and opportunitiesAccording to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Open Doors 2015 report, over thelast two decades, the number of U.S. students studying abroad has tripled to a

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Thomas M. Powers, University of Delaware

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.    Instead  of  bemoaning  the  normative  complexity  introduced  by  global  science  and  engineering,  ethicists  can  use  the  diversity  of  norms  to  lead  richer  discussions  of  the  ethics  of  science  and  engineering  on  the  whole.    This  “windfall”  of  difference  and  contrast  is  something  that  is  cherished  in  the  ethics  classroom.    The  best  discussions  of  ethical  issues  almost  always  occur  when  students  (respectfully)  disagree.    The  ethics  of  science  and  engineering  can  also  benefit  from  some  disagreement—under  the  assumption  that  this  is  part  of  a  process  that  is  headed  towards  the  convergence  and  acceptance  of  norms  of  research  and  practice,  and  not  the  opposite

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo; Darryl N Williams, Tufts University; Rovani Sigamoney, UNESCO

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member of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). In this role he serves as a Vice President, repre- senting Diversity and Inclusion. He is currently performing research as a Fulbright Scholar postdoctoral researcher at the Escola Polit´ecnica da Universidade de S˜ao Paulo for his project titled ”An Action Re- search of Boundary Spanning Intervention on University-wide STEM Educational Engagement” where he will attempt to optimize community/university relations for broadening participation in the STEM fields. David is a co-founder and past president of the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED). He has ambitions to significantly broaden the global pipeline of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Uriel Ruben Cukierman, IFEES; Lueny Morell, InnovaHiEd; Rene Alejandro Noel, Universidad de Valparaíso; Roberto Munoz, Universidad de Valparaíso; Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, Polytechnic University of Valencia; Carlos Becerra, Escuela de Ingeniería Civil Informática, Universidad de Valparaíso; Carmen Gloria Prado Mg, Universidad de Valparaiso

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engineering curricula by engaging faculty, students and industry, together withinternational collaborators from Argentina, Puerto Rico and Spain. A specific challenge forthis redesign is the low performance of Chilean secondary students in international scienceand mathematics tests, that is tackled by putting an S.T.E.M. emphasis in the overall process.Using the mentioned backwards design approach, the multi-disciplinary, multi-national,multi-stakeholder team will share the process of establishing University-wide learningoutcomes, as well as specific outcomes for the engineering program benchmarked through avery novel method and validated by industry and employers’ representatives.The authors will describe their motivations, aspirations and work

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, The Ohio State University; Royel Montel Johnson, Center for Higher Education Enterprise

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conclusion that engineeringmajors engagement in internships and co-ops produce significant learninggains in terms of problem-solving, communication, and learning more aboutwork.Insights from one-on-one interviews support these conclusions using storiesshared by students themselves. Clearly, engaging URM engineering majors ininternships and co-ops is one way to facilitate learning in core areas (e.g.,problem-solving), soft skills (e.g., working on a team), and career learning.From internships students learn how to communicate professionally, skillsfor managing time and prioritizing tasks, and technical skills such as CADdesign, computer programming, and management/leadership.Much more needs to be done to educate students about engineering as

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jane Goodyer P.E., Massey University; Lizzie Miles, Coventry University UK; Anh Lan Ho Tran, Coventry University

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University that has recently introduced ‘Internationalisation’ into itsmerit review system as a compulsory requirement for all academic staff. There is a broadspectrum of activities that can be categorised as ‘Internationalisation’, which can range frominternationalisation of curriculum through case studies through to taking students overseas tostudy. The university has provided large scale investment to encourage academics to engagein this activity and it will be interesting to review the impact of this change in the meritsystem on engagement with the UNTWIN by Coventry academic staff.Coventry University has also received support from its bureaucratic structure (i.e. the Facultyof Engineering and Computing) to release resource to develop the

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute; Mary Ragnhild Hilja Hatakka, Petroleum Institute

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understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g) an ability to communicate effectively h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning j) a knowledge of contemporary issues k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.The lists of competences, attributes and learning outcomes are based on much research and havebeen modified over time to ensure that engineering education develops along with industrialneeds and college learning outcomes are adjusted