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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

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Jeffrey Evans; Davin Huston; Milan Rakita

credit hours) in classes such as written composition, oralcommunication, information literacy, and design thinking. An initial cohort of 35 first semesterfreshman students participated in the Seminar and Design Studio learning experiences allowingthem to explore their own story of who they were (Seminar) while tackling world hunger bydeveloping a “Garden in a Box” (Design Studio). During the spring of 2015 the faculty teamdecided to shift from a competency per outcome per credit hour system to a system wherecompetencies are separate from courses. The team believed this approach leverages the benefitsof utilizing traditional (and online) courses for scaffolding learning while eliminating thetractable but very large task of mapping every course

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

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Claudio Brito; Melany Ciampi

entrepreneurship environment. Apart from this,engineers need to develop broad fundamental understanding of their professional responsibilitiesas well as the need to be entrepreneurial in order to understand and contribute in the context ofmarket and business pressures. If engineers can work with the public to explain how engineeringcan help address their problems, and to help them to decide which are the most effective andaffordable ways to address their concerns, the community can make great progress andimprovements. It will surely be a great acquisition for the city business community as well as forthe students themselves, once they can get a glimpse of what it is to engineer in real world.This project is being developed in partnership with a City Hall

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

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Claudio Brito; Melany Ciampi

students of engineering courses.The idea is to have during the first 3 months’ period, in the second semester of the 1st. year,provide the students have different classes, which are more dynamic, due to the mix of site visits,lectures, project proposals, travel period and project presentation. It is a very dynamic experience Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 526that provides students a clear view of what it is to be an engineer and what their possibilities forthe future are.The final goal of this project is to

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

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Sidney Martin

a productiveeducational experience. The needs of teaching and learning should be presented from the view and perspective ofthe prevailing culture of the society and then match the techniques to those used in the P-20classroom. To attempt to use teaching techniques that are successful in another country such asJapan may not produce the same results in a class in the USA. Understanding the community isimportant when attempting to incorporate successful educational methods from other cultures orcountries (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000; Oakes, Lipton, Anderson, & Stillman, 2012). P-20 Impact on Higher Education The community college system falls within both P-16 and P-20 education. There