internationals. What they find in our educational system isdifferent from anything they have encountered in their school career.Surprisingly, there is very little literature on the differences between American engineeringeducation and engineering education overseas. To be sure, there are many articles on theexperiences of foreign graduate students in the U.S. [2, 3, 5] and comparing the experience ofAmerican and international students [6]. There are also studies of how to relate to internationalstudents [1, 4]. These are very useful, but it is this author’s belief that we cannot understandtheir expectations unless we know something about the educational systems from which theycome.2. MethodologyThe author surveyed his own international students from
and mathematics. He has over 30 published papers and/or technical presentations while spearheading over 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member while assigned in Europe. Professor Santiago has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions including: control and modeling of large flexible space structures, communications system, electro-optics, high-energy lasers, missile seekers/sensors for precision guided munitions, image processing/recognition, information technologies, space, air and missile warning, mis- sile defense, and homeland defense. His interests includes: interactive multimedia for e-books, interactive video learning, and 3D/2D anima
, acquisition development and operation research support while in the United States Air Force. He currently has over 16 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 40 different graduate and undergraduate courses in electrical engineer- ing, systems engineering, physics and mathematics. He has over 30 published papers and/or technical presentations while spearheading over 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member while assigned in Europe. Professor Santiago has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions including: control and modeling of large flexible space structures, communications system, electro-optics, high-energy lasers
- ing, systems engineering, physics and mathematics. He has over 30 published papers and/or technical presentations while spearheading over 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member while assigned in Europe. Professor Santiago has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions including: control and modeling of large flexible space structures, communications system, electro-optics, high-energy lasers, missile seekers/sensors for precision guided munitions, image processing/recognition, information technologies, space, air and missile warning, mis- sile defense, and homeland defense. His interests includes: interactive multimedia for e-books, interactive
-solving abilities of student participants were strengthened as studentswere challenged to respond quickly and adequately to problems that arose on-site.Another element of the project organization in May 2005 included the partnering of each EWB-VU project participant with a host community member. Each pair worked together daily at oneof the project sites. These partnerships enabled EWB-VU members and their Turkana partners tolearn from each other technically and culturally while developing a friendship.The authors recommend the division of preparatory work between chapter sub-groups, periodicproject team updates, working at different project sites in the same host community (if the groupis sufficiently large to accommodate this separation
mathematics. He has over 30 published papers and/or technical presentations while spearheading over 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member while assigned in Europe. Professor Santiago has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions including: control and modeling of large flexible space structures, communications system, electro-optics, high-energy lasers, missile seekers/sensors for precision guided munitions, image processing/recognition, information technologies, space, air and missile warning, mis- sile defense, and homeland defense. His interests includes: interactive multimedia for e-books, interactive video learning, and 3D/2D anima- tion
fully online due tothe pandemic, and 2023 was a hybrid format, with the first half of the program featuring online lectures andthe second half in-person at the Indonesian university’s campus. This onsite component contained variousout-of-the-classroom field research and extracurricular activities, such as an incinerator visit, severalfactory investigations, technical discussions with corporate engineers, and local cultural activities. Theopportunity to communicate with local government officers about societal issues and discuss with industryprofessionals about possible technology applications from social and international perspectives results in ahighly practical learning process [6].Major expected learning outcomes include (1) knowledge about
that technical skills are in some sense less necessary; we do not wish to reify a strict division between the “social” and the “technical.” The variety of technical skills brought to the project were all important to the successes accomplished. Such skills were not only engineering skills, but also artistic, writing, and research skills. Most importantly, to be successful the interns had to learn to creatively adapt their skills to emerging issues. They had to improvise. However, improvisation , seen here as quick technical responses to shifting issues, was not only an
undergraduate courses in electrical engineer- ing, systems engineering, physics and mathematics. He has over 30 published papers and/or technical presentations while spearheading over 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops as a steering committee member while assigned in Europe. Professor Santiago has experience in many engineering disciplines and missions including: control and modeling of large flexible space structures, communications system, electro-optics, high-energy lasers, missile seekers/sensors for precision guided munitions, image processing/recognition, information technologies, space, air and missile warning, mis- sile defense, and homeland defense. His interests includes
Paper ID #17480The STEM Loop: Undergraduate Engineering Students Create a STEM Chil-dren’s BookDr. Leslie Seawright, Texas A&M University at Qatar Leslie Seawright is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She has pub- lished several journal articles and book chapters related to pedagogy, Engineering education, intercultural communication, and notions of identity through literacy. Her research interests include technical writing, discourse analysis, community literacy practices, and transnational education.Prof. Ibrahim Hassan P.E., University of Texas, Austin
their knowledge to “think their own way of reasoning about thediscipline, analyzing its nature, and evaluating its quality [3]. “That ability to thinkmetacognitively.” This is one of the most significant characteristics of extraordinaryteachers: Therefore, it is not enough to be excellent professionals and knowledgeable inspecific fields, with unquestionable skills and technical knowledge. However, this timedemands that teachers recognize transdisciplinarity as the focus of their teaching. Forexample, the iPEER (International Professional Engineering Educator Registered) title wasrecently achieved through the “Pedagogical Training of Engineering Educators (ENTER)Project (created in 2018). This was achieved with the support of the only
turn, this dynamic perpetuates inequity in engineering education and society as a whole.Joseph Valle, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Joseph ’Joey’ Valle is a Ph.D candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michi- gan - Ann Arbor. His thesis includes both technical and engineering education research components. His engineering education research focuses on understanding and seeking ways to undo oppression based harm in engineering. He holds a B.S.E in materials science and engineering from MIT and a M.S.E in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, with a focus on electro- chemical energy storage systems.Dr. Stephen Secules, Florida International
, Texas A and M University, College Station. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University, USA. The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and industry sponsors fund her research. Her research potential and the implication of her work are recognized through national and international awards, including the 2023 NSTA/NARST Research Worth Reading award for her publication in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023 New Faculty Fellow award by IEEE ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2022 Apprentice Faculty Grant award by the ERM Division, ASEE, and 2020 outstanding researcher award by the School of Engineering Education, Purdue
independent organizations such as ABET. International coursecollaborations able to fulfill these goals are challenging under regular conditions, but the COVID-19pandemic and the migration to virtual learning in both Mexico and the United States presented anopportunity to test multinational collaboration during a regular course context. In the Fall 2021, wepiloted a month-long collaboration between two engineering courses at Rice University (US) andTecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico). This collaboration was designed to meet the two student outcomesstated above in the context of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 using COIL. A series of activitieswere designed to promote student reflection on topics such as the cultural, social, and technical
engineering students who participate in sponsored programs. According to Ortega-Alvarez et al. [1], three common challenges that most early-career engineering faculty face arebalancing the demands of research, teaching, and other professional obligations; lack of time tocope with personal and professional responsibilities; and setting realistic goals and expectationsfor individual accomplishments. The difficulties can be more pronounced for internationalstudents, especially those who return to their home countries. Khanal and Gaulee [2] describethis readjustment as reverse culture shock. Arthur [3] recognizes that international students oftenneed coping strategies to manage the re-entry transition after their academic studies arecompleted. She
perform a detailed study of therevised project’s impacts at that future time.Description of the Internal Combustion Engines CourseMechEng 432: Internal Combustion Engines is a senior-level technical elective course primarilytaken by Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students nearing the end of their B.S. studies.The course can also be taken, with additional course requirements, by graduate students forgraduate course credit. The course is offered every three semesters. The last three offerings ofthe course had between 42 and 50 students enrolled in each semester. Prior to that, the numberof students enrolled was typically approximately 30 students a semester. Generally, between 1and 3 graduate students are enrolled in the course, so that the
Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Engagement in Practice: Reflections on Remote Community- Engaged Learning in the Context of a Multilateral International PartnershipIntroductionA significant aim of many engineering programs is to give students the knowledge, skills, andattitudes to become global problem solvers [1]. There has been re-examination withinengineering curricula to prepare students to achieve said outcomes that will help them navigatethe culturally diverse global workforce [2]–[4]. Universities across the higher educationlandscape have developed community-oriented programs that aim to give students team-basedopportunities to apply technical
students recognizethe importance of the topic or course to their overall career preparation.When proposing a curricular change to incorporate more non-technical subjects into engineeringprograms, one issue that is often raised involves how this will impact ABET accreditation of theprogram. This has occurred in many settings, including discussions in TELPhE division sessionsat ASEE conferences. This paper describes how one mechanical engineering program revised itscurriculum and in the process both reduced the number of credits needed for graduation andopened up flexibility in the program that enables the addition of courses on non-technicalsubjects or on technological literacy. The approach taken demonstrates that a program can reviseits
Seminar course for 2 credits, and the capstone, Engineering Design Projectfor 3 credits, where the Senior Seminar and the Engineering Design Project are offered in the Falland Spring semesters of the senior year, respectfully. These courses present an environmentconducive to multiyear design/research projects. Specifically, the technical elective hours can besplit in ½ hour increments per semester allowing students to be involved in research/designcontinuously for 3 years. In the fourth year, the Senior Seminar and the Senior Design Projectallow continuous engagement of students in multiyear projects.It is worth mentioning the 3+2 Program offered at CSUP where, after completion, students receivesimultaneous BS and MS degrees in ME. Namely, for
course was alsodesigned and implemented by the Communication Lab Director and tutors from the EECS Com-munication Lab, together with the EECS Department Head and a faculty advisor. It provided anoverview of relevant technical communication tasks, detailed below, facilitated by guest lecturesand hands-on workshops.3.2.1 The communication course’s operationThe course consisted of a weekly, two-hour session. Topics covered a range of technical com-munication tasks, as outlined in Table 3. Typically each session began with an introductory guestlecture (∼30 min), followed by small-group workshops run in parallel, in separate rooms, and ledby Communication Lab tutors. Guest lecturers were selected based on (1) their example as goodcommunicators and
Geotechnical Engineering - A Case StudyAbstract ABET 2019-20 Criterion 3 requires that engineering students at the time of graduationpossess the “ability to communicate effectively with a range of audience”. This paper presents acase study of the author’s approach to achieve this outcome in a junior level soil mechanicscourse. In the laboratory portion of the soil mechanics course, students were presented with areal-life problem faced by a fictious client. Students performed standard laboratory experiments,analyzed the data, and compared their experimental results against applicable guidelines or codesto arrive at recommendations to the client. Students prepared technical reports with clients aspotential audience and learned the fundamentals
type ofmotor(s) they will integrate and operate for their system. There are different types of motors tochoose from and knowing the characteristics of each motor type will aide students in sizing theappropriate motor that meet their desired performance requirements, helping students learn howto cooperate in interdisciplinary situations [4]. Allowing students to practice engineeringdecision-making will allow them to digest and absorb scientific knowledge through observationand experimentation [1-3]. For some universities, lab equipment used to showcase experiments,can be expensive and are unable to leave the laboratory, which can be a huge constraint [1], [3].For instance, the Mechatronics Actuators board developed by Quanser features several
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result, universities are working to include more sociotechnical content informerly purely-technical courses, with the goal of engaging students in recognizing andanalyzing the economic, political, and social aspects of technology. In the U.S., many of thefocus topics for this sociotechnical content are grounded in a U.S. context, requiring anunderstanding of the history and current state of racial and economic power structures. WhileU.S. residents are likely familiar with these structures, it is important to consider how thesetopics are encountered by international students.This work-in-progress study on international student experiences is part of a larger NSF-fundedresearch project exploring integrating sociotechnical topics in a first-year
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cases are among the most well-developed CEP programs in the country and very rich in presenting new concepts and practices.They are also made available here for the first time for the international community in theEnglish language. The programs are: the Technical Solidarity Center (Soltec), at the FederalUniversity of Rio de Janeiro, and the Citizenship and Social Technologies Lab (LabCTS), at theAeronautics Technological Institute (ITA), in the São Paulo State.Due to a few compelling reasons, we contrast the Latin American cases with the minor inhumanitarian engineering at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra: ANU’sprogram is a result of a thorough process of reviews and debate about learning outcomes andservice learning