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Anders V Warell, Lund University, Industrial Design; Charlotta Johnsson, Lund University; Carl-Henric Lennart Nilsson, Technology management

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, and a project. The final examination is an oral presentation, a written report and a 3-minute film. • Students: The student base is the 40 Swedish students from the Technology Management program (20 from LUSEM and 20 from LTH) together with approximately 40 Chinese students (20 from SoM and Page 19.7.4 20 from the technical departments (ID and CSE). • Teachers: Teachers from both Sweden and China and from Engineering, Design (LTH, ID and CSE) and Management (LUSEM and SoM) are involved in the lectures. A minimum of two teachers with different aspects of the subject are present

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Hu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Paper ID #17512The Design and Implementation of Engineering Leadership Programs: AComparative StudyMiss Hu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Yu Hu is a graduate student at the Graduate School of Education in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She obtained a B.S. in biotechnology from Hebei Normal University. Her current interest focuses on engineer- ing leadership, cognitive development of engineering graduate and undergraduate students, the assessment of teaching and learning in graduate education.Dr. Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai

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Nicolas Couto Giffoni dos Santos, SIUC Leadership Development Program; Bruce DeRuntz, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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, PhD, is a Professor in the College of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Car- bondale where he teaches classes on project management and leadership. He consults with universities and companies on their leadership development of human resources for six sigma and project manage- ment teams. He is the Director of SIUC’s Leadership Development Program and the former Editor of the ASQ’s Quality Management Forum. He is a Fellow with the American Society for Quality and holds certifications for Six Sigma Black Belt and Quality Engineer.Dr. Rhonda K Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Rhonda K. Kowalchuk is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Kseniya K Tolkacheva, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Association for Engineering Education of Russia; Yury P Pokholkov, Tomsk polytechnic university, Association for Engineering Education of Russia; Sergey B. Mogilnickiy, Tomsk Polytechnic University; Maria Yurievna Chervach, Tomsk Polytechnic University; Jose Carlos Quadrado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

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Paper ID #17517AEER accreditation of educational programs: quality assurance aims andrequirementsMrs. Kseniya K Tolkacheva, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Association for Engineering Education of Russia Member of the Association for Engineering Education of Russia responsible for AEER international co- operation activities. PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, graduate degree in ”Mathematical Methods in Eco- nomics”. Also holds a Management degree. Her research focus is in Quality Assurance, active learning and international academic mobility. Has experience in coordinating several TEMPUS projects as well as organizing joint

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David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Robert A Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Robert L. Murphy, Northwestern University; Akinwale Oladotun Coker P.E., university of ibadan; Akinniyi A. Osuntoki, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Nigerian universities. One ofthese programs is at the Federal University of Nigeria at Owerri (FUTO), and was established in2009; the other program is at the School of Biomedical Engineering Technology, Ahmadu BelloUniversity, in Zaria, and was established in 19933. These programs are designed primarily “totrain qualified technical experts to manage and maintain hospital equipment and systems,”according to materials from UI, and accordingly the program at FUTO is a Bachelor ofTechnology in Biomedical Engineering (http://www.nigerianbme.org/nibefutolinkage.html).FUTO also has MS and PhD programs in Biomedical Engineering Technology3.While educational programs in BME are rare, Nigeria does have the Nigerian Institute forBiomedical Engineering (NIBE

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Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University

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Paper ID #14356Engineering Program Accreditation in Latin America and the CaribbeanDr. Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Larrondo Petrie has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and is a Professor and Associate Dean of International Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science of Florida Atlantic University. She is the Executive Director of LACCEI (Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions) and served in the past as an officer of the International Division of ASEE (American Society of Engineering Institutions). She is Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American and

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James N Warnock, Mississippi State University; Galyna Melnychuk, Mississippi State University

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= Required, E = Elective, *Electrical Engineering requires Technical Writing; however, it is taught in conjunctionwith the senior capstone design course and students must register for the designated section of the course.In addition to ensuring the programs offered could be integrated in the curricula and wererelevant to students, it was important to ensure the offerings were sustainable. The willingnessand availability of faculty to teach courses each summer was a main concern. To alleviate thisconcern we only considered courses that had multiple instructors on campus who would bewilling to teach overseas. Our second consideration was location. We wanted to choosedestinations that would be appealing to students and their parents and where we would

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Sergey M Avdoshin, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Valery V. Shilov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation; Sergey A. Silantiev

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mathematical analysis, algebra, discretemathematics, probability theory and mathematical statistics, statistical and empirical methodsof computing, programming, data structures and algorithms, distributed computing,architecture of computer systems, operating systems and databases. Professional cycleincludes software architecture, design of software systems, quality control and testing,software project management, psychology in IT, group dynamics and communication inprofessional practice of software engineering, economics of the firm, economics of softwareengineering, intellectual property law and some others. Above this, every student chooseselective disciplines, research seminars, computer practicums, and university-wide minors. Thestudy of English

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Jeongkyu Lee, University of Bridgeport; Sarosh H Patel, University of Bridgeport; Brian Lim, University of Bridgeport; Roger Dianlei Geng PhD, Wuhan University of Science and Technology; Zhigang Jiang, Wuhan University of Science and Technology

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Paper ID #17536Toward Success of Collaborative Program In School of Engineering Betweenthe US and ChinaDr. Jeongkyu Lee, University of Bridgeport Dr. Jeongkyu Lee is currently associate professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Bridgeport. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arling- ton in 2006. Before he pursued his doctorate, he worked as a database administrator for seven years with companies including Hana Bank and IBM Korea. His primary research area is in the multimedia database management system and analysis. Research interests include graph-based

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Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island; Emily Ann Serman, University of Rhode Island; Megan Mercedes Echevarria, University of Rhode Island; Lars O. Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Silke A. Scholz; Anette Geithner

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% and added an Italian branch. Sigrid has raised close to a million dollars in corporate, foundation, government and private funds for the IEP. She held prior positions as Coordinator, then Managing Director of the MIT Germany Program (1996-2009) and as Assistant Professor of German Studies at Barnard College (1990-96). She has published a book and numerous articles on 19th and 20th German Literature, co-authored an intermediate German textbook, and has more recently published several articles in the area of International Engineering Education.Emily Ann Serman, University of Rhode IslandProf. Megan Mercedes Echevarria, University of Rhode IslandDr. Lars O. Erickson, University of Rhode Island Lars Erickson is Director of

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, State University of New York, Farmingdale

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graduates.The Plant Machinery Maintenance Technology program in this South American institute offers acurriculum in the field of mechanical engineering technology. The graduates of the program areprepared to work in a mechanical design, maintenance management, or project managementwithin industry. The program educational objectives are as follows:  Graduates analyze, design, implement and supervise modern mechanical systems; as well as manage maintenance of industrial plants.  Graduates identify problems and opportunities for improvement, and they implement solutions applying modern technologies and appropriate procedures.  Graduates manage resources and work with effectiveness, initiative, creativity, and within teams

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Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Paper ID #14274Ten Year Experience of Global Capstone Design Projects in ChinaDr. Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yiming (Kevin) Rong is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Associate Program Director of Manufacturing/Materials Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D in Me- chanical Engineering from University of Kentucky, in 1989. Dr. Rong worked as a faculty member at Southern Illinois University for eight years before joining WPI in 1998. Since 2010, Professor Rong has also worked at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, taking the leadership in Manufacturing Engineering

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Russell D Jamison, Virginia Commonwealth University

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students a global framework for design thinking – a potentially useful skill as preparationfor professional practice in the global economy of the 21st century.Pilot StudyIn the summer of 2014, three undergraduate biomedical engineering students from VirginiaCommonwealth University (VCU) spent two months at u r b a n a n d provincial clinics andhospitals in Nicaragua (two students) and Tanzania (one student). They were part of a co-hort of students selected by Engineering World Health (EWH), an international NGO head-quartered in Washington, DC, to participate in their Summer Institute Program.The students spent their first month in an orientation program, conducted by EWH staff. Thisin-country program provided language and culture immersion, along

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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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2016 ASEE International ForumTriple-Helix and International Collaboration to Design and Implement anOutcomes Based Engineering Curriculum to Better Serve Stakeholders in Valparaíso, ChileAbstractFollowing an approach that has been pursued by many engineering programs that areoutcomes based accredited, this paper describes the process of designing and implementingthe curricula in the College of Engineering of the Universidad de Valparaíso in Chile, using abackwards design approach and also focusing on addressing stakeholders’ needs throughstudents’ outcomes. Driven by the Chilean government through funding from MINEDUC (itseducational development branch), this University has undertaken the task to completelyrevamp its

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Mandy Liu, Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET); Liang-Jenq Leu, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University; Charlie Than, Myanmar Engineering Council

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and the United States of America to be able to manage programs Page 2in engineering education in Myanmar. Therefore, the engineering education system ofMyanmar started to change from British system to US System but it was not as strong yet.However, an inconsistency between education systems had arisen since then. After gaining independence in 1948, most of the scholars were sent to technologicaluniversities in the United States of America. When they came back, the engineeringeducation system was changed from the British system to the US system. Since the caretaker government gained power in 1957, the scholars were sent to EastEuropean countries such as Russia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia

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Ayano OHSAKI P.E., Okayama University

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Paper ID #17562India and Japan Joint Project-Based Learning -What was Learned from theDesign Thinking Workshop-Ms. Ayano OHSAKI P.E., Okayama University Ms Ayano OHSAKI is an assistant professor at Okayama University. She also works as an assistant pro- fessor at the Innovation Center for Engineering Education, Tottori University since 2012. She is in charge of development new engineering education program. The objectives of the program are improvement of creativity, collaboration skills and problem solving skills. Students learn communication skills, project management skills, analysis, etc. by working on design

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Ang Liu; James R. Morrison, KAIST, ISysE; Yun Dai, University of California Santa Barbara; Stephen C-Y. Lu, University of Southern California

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Technical Committee on Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation.Miss Yun Dai, University of California Santa BarbaraDr. Stephen C-Y. Lu, University of Southern California Stephen Lu is the David Packard Chair in Manufacturing Engineering at University of Southern Califor- nia. His current professional interests include design thinking, collaborative engineering, technological innovation, and education reform. He has over 330 technical publications in these areas. He directs the Master of Science of Product Development Engineering degree program at USC. He is a senior Fellow of ASME and CIRP, and the founding Director of the iPodia Alliance (www.ipodialliance.org) – a global consortium of 11 leading universities that uses

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Frederick C Webber, Air Force Research Laboratory; KelseyLee Hunter Schafer, Air Force Research Laboratory; Eric T. Vinande, Air Force Research Laboratory; John P McIntire, US Air Force Research Laboratory; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Shaohui Foong, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Wai Yong Chue, DSO National Laboratories; Yaohui Li, DSO National Laboratories; Kevin Ang, Temasek Laboratories @ National University of Singapore; Richard H. Crawford P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Gabriel Hoongwen Wong, DSO National Laboratories

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an alternative navigation specialist on the SUSTAIN team.Lt. KelseyLee Hunter Schafer, Air Force Research Laboratory KelseyLee H. Schafer, 1st Lieutenant USAF received her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Cincinnati, (Cincinnati, OH) and serves as a program manager and research engineer in the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Vehicles Directorate. She is currently pursuing her masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Cincinnati.Dr. Eric T. Vinande, Air Force Research LaboratoryDr. John P McIntire, US Air Force Research Laboratory John McIntire is an Engineering Research Psychologist at the US Air Force Research Laboratory, at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA. He

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Saud A Ghani, Qatar University

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-confident regarding keeping upwith the company’s values and ethics, dealing with multiple roles and generally accomplishingdifferent tasks (multirole behavior), can result into less friction experiences in both work andnon-work obligations. The importance of promoting more women into leadership (Hoyt andMurphy 2016) and engineering roles is greater than just fulfilling the promise of equalopportunity and making businesses, institutions, and governments more representative. Otherassets, include advanced self confidence in processing tasks, in navigating organizationalculture/climate and enhanced ability to manage multiple life roles. Finally, academically orientedwomen are characterized by broad interests, emotional sensitiveness and tolerance of

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Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Wes Stone, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, Western Carolina University; Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University

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University Dr. Adams is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Western Carolina University. His research interests include in digital image processing, biomedical signal processing and engineering edu- cation.Dr. Wes Stone, Western Carolina University Dr. Wes Stone is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. He earned his bachelors degree from the University of Texas at Austin, masters degree from Penn State, and PhD from Georgia Tech, all in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include manufacturing processes and quality techniques. He also serves as the program director for Engineering Technology at WCU.Dr. Hugh

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Aaron Richard Sakulich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Lake Gatún; and helping to design grouting systems for theBorinquen 1E dam [14, 15]. MQP students are currently supported by Grant #1357667, titledIRES: Environmental Impact of the Panama Canal Expansion Project, funded by the NationalScience Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering. This grant aimed toprovide students with projects related specifically to the sustainability of the Panama CanalExpansion Project, as well as to improve the MQP experience by doubling project length toroughly 15 weeks; providing additional cultural programming; supporting students in presentingtheir work at a professional conference; and encouraging students to submit manuscripts basedon their work to journals.The first cohort of grant

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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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university ”Escuela Colombiana de Ingenier´ıa Julio Garavito” in Bogota, Colombia. A year later I did an internship on micro hydro power in rural regions of Central America in Le´on, Nicaragua, 2015, which is part of the area I am focussing on in my studies. I served as Relations Officer 2013-2014, International Chair 2014-2015 and Vice President for Member Relations 2015-2016 at SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Develpoment). I am now aspiring my graduation as B.Sc. in July, 2016 and after that a Master of Science in the area of water ressource management and environment.Mr. Agustin Ferrario, National Technological University, Resistencia Faculty, Argentina Chemical Engineering student in the National

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Otsebele E Nare, Hampton University; Vitaly Khaykin, Hampton University; Hoshang Chegini, Hampton University; Chandra T Oaks-Garcia, Time Out 4U, Inc.; Vadivel Jagasivamani, Hampton University

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manufacturing activities that have been developed at otherconsortium universities for the summer programs are incorporated into the program as well asthe advanced manufacturing program modules developed specifically for the program. Theprogram coordinators focus on:  Coordinating program activities and projects;  Developing and ensuring quality project activities;  Recruiting program participants;  Maintaining and tracking data on student participants;  Planning, implementing, and managing regular activities;  Enhancing the program curriculum materials;  Training and supervising the undergraduate students and volunteers. As an example, the program modules connect the engineering design concepts with

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Mark Kennedy, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland

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experience.In the spring of 2013, the first cohort of three engineering sophomores participated in aMadrid semester program operated by a third-party provider and designed for engineeringstudents. Five more sophomores participated in the program in spring 2014 however, due tofinancial reasons and some curricular incompatibility, the University stopped supporting thisprogram. To replace the Madrid option, the University allowed the Shiley School to use eightplaces in what is normally a year-long Salzburg program to launch an engineering semesterprogram. A pilot of this program began in spring 2015 with full implementation expected inspring 2016. The Salzburg engineering semester program represents a partnership between theUniversity’s main campus in

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Thomas M. Powers, University of Delaware

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artificial intelligence and robotic ethics to the ethical aspects of design. Powers received aB.A. in philosophy (College of William and Mary) and a Ph.D. in philosophy (University of Texas at Austin) for a dissertation Immanuel Kant. He has been a DAAD-Fulbright dissertation-year fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit¨at, Munich, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the School of Engineering andApplied Science at the University of Virginia, and a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire d’Informatique (LIP6) at the Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Understanding  International

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Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Alfiya Ivanovna Lakhova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Kazan National Research Technological University

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Masters’ multidisciplinarytraining, which will form competent, prognostic and innovation-oriented personnel able toensure efficient operation of production at present and in terms of their future development,including technological project managers in high technology, capable of operating in theglobal capital markets [3]. This involves the development of the educational program "Lifecycle managing of petrochemical enterprise", which will generate Masters’ competencies inthe field of chemical engineering, management and organization of petrochemical enterprises.The curriculum is designed in order to meet the requirements of Federal state educationalstandards of higher education of third generation towards the preparation for training direction

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

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. At [my internship] I worked with pretty young like 30’s people and then people on the top like my boss. I had to work with American managers and Japanese managers and clients all over [the world]. (Miguel) On my resume I have knowledge of AutoCAD and, yes, I learned that from my engineering degree [program] but I really (emphasis added) learned it from my summer internship when I worked with my mentor doing some CAD projects with AutoCAD mechanical. When you’re doing an AutoCAD design a lot of shapes are already built into the program so you’re creating the design for the electrical person to follow. It’s cool because I learned how to build the basic components myself. (Alexis)While

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Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University; Meghan M. Alexander, Texas A&M University; Victor Manuel Camara-Poot, Yucatan Government Ministry of Education; Martha Elena Ortega, CANIETI

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senior staff, are looking forward to find the way to increase the number of mexican professionals trained in the latest technologies and greater economic potential. Page 19.19.1 Martha Ortega is an Computer Systems Engineer by the ”Instituto Tecnol´ogico de M´erida” and has a Master degree en Information Technologies Management. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Increasing the Number of Sponsored Mexican Graduate Students in Engineering Colleges in the United StatesIntroductionThe presence of international students in graduate degree programs in

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Alice F. Squires, Washington State University; Jon Patrick Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems & Enterprises); Nicole A.C. Hutchison, Stevens Institute of Technology

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the defense industry and commercial industry (healthcare, transportation,telecommunications, etc.). Validation exercises were conducted with 25 individuals who workwith systems engineers (program managers, classic engineers, etc.) across a variety oforganizations. Each organization participating in Helix was asked to confirm that the individualswho participated in the study were considered effective; organizational representatives assessedall individuals from “average” to “very high” effectiveness.This data is being used to build a theory of what makes systems engineers effective, called Atlas,preliminary versions of which were published in 2014 and 2015.4,5 Atlas includes considerationfor proficiency – an individual’s level of knowledge

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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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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Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) for the 12 institutions in the University System of Maryland, and Co-PI Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate at UMBC. Dr. Tull has worked with thousands of students from Alaska to Puerto Rico, and in Latin America through graduate school preparation workshops that have been sponsored by AGEP, The National GEM Consortium, National Society of Black Engineers, Society for Hispanic Pro- fessional Engineers, Society for the Advancement of Chicano, and Native American Scientists, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the Alliance/Merck Ciencia Hispanic Scholars Program. She has presented workshops on graduate school