Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University

. Sanger, the visiting professor from the Purdue University, USA3,the graduate students proposed a rather surprising idea for their project: To help foreignstudents at the university faster and easier adapt to the new environment. In KNRTU, a specialattention is paid to solving the issues of academic mobility4,5, the number of foreign studentsfrom near and far abroad increases every year (over two thousand people from 63 countriesare studying here), which is another specific feature of the national research university. At thesame time, adaptation to the new socio-cultural environment is one of the main issues thatboth the university and the foreign students themselves face, since this determines the successof their learning activities to a large

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II - Courses II

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Randal T Abler, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Talis Juhna, Riga Technical University; Hale Kim, Inha University; Stephen Marshall P.E., University of Strathclyde; Mauricio Pardo, Universidad del Norte; Julie Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Winston Spencer Percybrooks, Universidad del Norte

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struggling to advance research programs with a only few graduate students,to collaborate in research activities in a mostly extracurricular and informal environment.Therefore, one of the main motivations for starting a VIP program in our school was to betterarticulate the extra curricular research work that some faculty were already undertaking withundergraduate students. This allows students, on one side, to be in contact with researchactivities in more formal and possibly more rewarding conditions. Faculty, on the other side, canget critical junior members for their groups to help advance their research agendas. Ourimmediate goals regarding our VIP program are: Begin achieving technical results, in the form of prototypes, software and