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William Robinson, Stevens Institute of Technology; Michael Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology

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business leadership roles. For many years, he was Vice President for Bell Labs. Other positions he held include Vice President and General Manager for EasyLink Services Corporation as well as President of Innovation and Quality Solutions. Bill has received numerous quality, reliability and innovation leadership awards and has authored several tech- nical and process quality papers. He was twice awarded the Bell Labs President’s Award for innovation and Technical Excellence. Bill received a BSEE from the University of Connecticut and a MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality, member of INCOSE and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.Dr. Michael Pennotti, Stevens

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Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel Pando P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Michael Adam Hoff, UNC Charlotte

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professors would have encountered if they embarked on similarprograms during their own time in college. Students who have recently returned from aninternational service experience in Andean Peru report their perception of the value of the trip byresponding to the following prompts: 1) what was the significance of service learning to yourprofessional development?, 2) compare the value of international experiences with the value ofsimilar domestic experiences, 3) was service learning effective at developing technical skills?and, 4) what motivated you to incorporate international service learning into the crampedengineering curriculum? For comparison, the two faculty organizers also responded to the sameprompts. While not all student responses

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Scott Grenquist, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Roger G. Hadgraft, RMIT University

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now are included in the accord, andsubsequently have the ability to become globally certified and employable. In addition to the 15current signatories to the accord, there are also five provisional accreditation entities that aremodifying their accreditation protocols, with a view of becoming signatory members. However,currently, the 15 signatory accreditation entities still do not recognize the equivalency ofengineering programs offered in the nations that still remain in provisional status. Thosenational accreditation entities that have provisional status are:21. Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (representing Bangladesh)*2. German Accreditation Agency for Study Programs in Engineering and Informatics*3

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Lucia Howard

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a global context, their solutions - consumer products, system designs, orinfrastructure improvements - may have unintended consequences including resource exhaustionand environmental damage that transcend international boundaries. According to philosopherand engineering educator Hans Lugenbiehl, “in the past, engineers have considered a relativelynarrow set of consequences from their actions, generally being limited to the safety dimension oftheir designs. As technical experts on whom society relies, however, engineers are in perhaps thebest position to also consider the wider and more long-term ramifications of their engineering Page

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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isrecommended as the step for most graduates to management starts generally after 6 years ofwork experience14. The learning journey should also be reinforced by peer-supportnetworking in a virtual social network which students and alumni can access acrossinstitutions. This learning journey is illustrated in Figure 1.Under the educational development stream, it is proposed to embed principles such asInnovation, Leadership, Globalization and Sustainability, as part of the 21st Century SkillsSet14, into relevant technical and engineering curriculum infused within the personal,professional and educational development framework. It is envisaged that the learningjourney may involve short-term placements in another industry such as banking or the arts.Under

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Muhammad H Rashid, University of West Florida

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, consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design appropriate to the student's field of study. The engineering sciences have their roots in mathematics and basic sciences but carry knowledge further toward creative application. These studies provide a bridge between mathematics and basic sciences on the one hand and engineering practice on the other. (c) a general education component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the program and institution objectives.What constitutes an engineering topics course? The Engineers Council for ProfessionalDevelopment, in the United States, defines as the creative application of “scientific principles todesign or

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

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                                                                                                                                                                                         8 http://www.hpl.hp.com9 Morell, Lueny, Developing the Next Generation of Technology Leaders in Challenging Times: the ASEE-NSF Industry Research Fellows Program, 2010 ASEE Conference Proceedings   10 http://www.life-global.org/en11 http://www.life-global.org/en/LIFE-IN-ACTION/Success-Stories/Page/112 www.luenymorell.com13 www.iideainstitute.org14 A session/paper is being held at ASEE 2013 titled: A Multi-Stakeholder, Multi-National Partnership toEnhance Engineering Education in China, which describes an HP partnership initiative where HP, IIDEA andother partners are assisting through workshops Chinese engineering education leadership with theirtransformation

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Amos G Winter V, MIT; Robert James Stoner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles H Fine, MIT Sloan School of Management

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solutions. Partnering closely with the variousstakeholders related to a technology will ensure that Tata Center projects are driven towardssuitability, scalability, and sustainability.References                                                                                                                1 MIT Energy Initiative. Tata Center for Technology and Design, http://mitei.mit.edu/research/tata-center, 2012.2 J. O’Neill. BRICs and Beyond. Goldman Sachs Global Economics Group, 2007.3 T. Moe, C. Maasry, and R. Tang. Global Economics Paper No. 204, EM Equity in Two Decades: A ChangingLandscape. Technical report, Goldman Sachs, 2010.4 P. Polak. Out of poverty: what works when traditional approaches fail. Berrett-Koehler

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Farida Tagirovna Shageeva, Kazan National Research Technological University; Natalia Vladimirovna Kraysman; Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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loyalty to the chosen occupation, strive for self-actualization,sociability, eloquence and ability to express oneself correctly, honesty, initiative and enthusiasm,and ability to make decisions. Professional qualities are perfect computer skills, good theoreticalprofessional knowledge, awareness of modern technologies and material, experience indraftsmanship, capacity to work with specifications, technical and regulatory documentation andreferences, knowledge of foreign languages, etc. According to inquiry data, employers considerpersonal qualities to be even more important than specific professional engineering competences[1] . It is reasonable because professional knowledge and skills may be acquired during thelifetime, meanwhile personality

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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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assessment in Physics 1 remains the final exam, we start with it to look forevidence of learning gains in terms of technical know-how attributable to course reforms. Whilethere are variations, we generally see the trend observable in Figure 4, with students from bothtraditional and studio approaches performing better on early questions and a bit worse on thelater questions. Shown by the grey bars in the figure, the average score is obtained from all ofthe sections taught in the traditional manner between Spring 2009 and Fall 2012 (involving 524 Figure 4: Average scores on final exam questions labeled by topic, comparing student performance in

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, University of Notre Dame

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(EE), mechanical engineering (ME), or software engineering (SE). However, as an inherentlymultidisciplinary activity, no single discipline provides the breadth demanded by robotics in thefuture. Realizing this, universities are now starting to offer undergraduate and graduate degreesin robotics. Worldwide, there are now approximately 10 undergraduate programs and an equalnumber of graduate programs in robotics. Roughly half of each are in the United States; theother half are distributed globally.Beyond the broad technical education required of robotics engineers, to be an effective roboticsengineer also requires an awareness of social and societal issues. These issues are global inscope. This leads to our main theses: 1) Robotics engineering

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Alina Yurievna Khramova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasil Yurievich Khramov; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

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world is mutual recognition ofacademic degrees and international cooperation in quality management. The main focus isgiven to professional mobility. Over the recent ten years among the major tasks of Bolognareforms European academic society has considered the development of students’, professors’and administrative staff academic mobility. It is commonly known that two levels of training,ECTS system of credits, etc. have been introduced to achieve these goals in the counties-Bologna declaration participants. The aim of academic mobility programs’ development is improvement of educationquality, amelioration of mutual understanding between different peoples and cultures,education of new generation, prepared to live and work in the

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Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University; Victor A Atiemo-Obeng, The Dow Chemical Company (Retired)

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limited time available. The instructor had decided that before embarkingon the project the students should first be exposed to the process chemistry tools noted above.This meant the assignment was presented to the students in the last week of the 3-week course.One of the lessons learned is that it will be more productive to give this assignment on day 1 ofthe course. The general scientific and engineering competences acquired at the BS level, shouldhave prepared them to start items a, b, and c in the assignment.The students also struggled with the “this is not my field” syndrome. Parts a-c of the assignmentrequired exploration of the geological and mineral engineering literatures. Aside from the

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Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology / Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC); Tim L Ferris, University of South Australia; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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. Program Attributes Delivery Mode Face to Face 94% Online 41% Hybrid 25% Multi-modal 50% Average Course/Module Session 16 weeks Average Program Length 2 years Project Thesis or Capstone Project required 94% Program Focus General Systems Focus; SE; Systems Architecture; Systems Design; 66

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Meiliu Lu, California State University at Sacramento

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users of these learning tools have participated in such unique experience of technical communication with their peers. Data analytics is playing a significant role in science and engineering education in this digital information era. Data warehouses provide online analytical processing tools for the interactive analysis of multidimensional data of various granularities. The objective of this project is to develop a web-based interactive courseware to help students or beginning data warehouse designers in learning data warehousing. Developers of this project include Computer Science international graduate students from India. The targeted primary users are students of a computer science course called Data Warehousing and Data Mining. Other

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Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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. Page 21.33.11 Figure 9: Examples of students’ productions at the time of modeling the current in an RLcircuit with the PhET simulator, using alternating current (variable) in an RL circuitIn general, the implementation of this class activity was designed as follows:Stage 1: Discuss in groups the previous knowledge regarding the DE analytical model thatmodels the change of the load of a capacitor in an RC circuit. Step 2: Assemble an electrical RCcircuit and measure the load capacitor through a voltage sensor. The material used for theactivity consisted of a circuit (a bulb, a capacitor, a set of four batteries and connectors) for eachcomputer, a TI sensor of voltage, a TI browser and the protocol to the practice. Step 3: Analyzethe

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Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

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and published them via the UGA Course Management System called Blackboard Vista/Wimba for web access by UGA students to review the course materials as needed (see Fig. 1 for a typical video frame). Thus the obvious solution was to enroll the NTU instructors and students into the UGA Vista/Wimba system. In early tests, we found that this approach was technically feasible but the NTU network speed was not fast enough to handle MP4 video streaming Page 21.24.3 satisfactorily in real time (essentially from half way around the Earth). Although NTU had its own CMS C (CEIBA A), it

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Helmuth Gesch, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, Germany; Richard O Gale, Texas Tech University; Tanja Karp, Texas Tech University; Nanna Suryana Herman

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international executive program. The general course structure is aligned with • blended-learning. industry partners on their needs and attuned with HR managers and CEOs of electronic companies.The program is structured in three semesters. While in Successful students will be awarded the academic degree ofsemester 1, German, U.S. and SEA students jointly attend MSEE and Master's of Engineering (MEng), respectively.courses at UAS La, Germany

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Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Joules Webb, Transformation 2013 Texas STEM Center

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pursuing a PhD in Integrative STEM Education through Virginia Tech. She served on the Texas Education Agency (TEA) T-STEM Academy Blueprint design committee. She brings a depth and breadth of STEM education knowledge to the community. As an influential member of the T-STEM Net- work, she leads STEM professional development design teams, campus instructional coaching programs, and provides STEM technical assistance to district leadership. As a STEM specialist, Joules facilitates K-12 mathematics and science educators’ understanding of Design/Engineering/Technology as context for teaching of STEM concepts, including the content required by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards. Specifically, the design

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Margaret Pearl Lyn Blackstun, Air Force Institute of Technology

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science curriculum, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, oftenincorporates hands-on laboratory experiences. This hands-on lab work provides students withconcept relevancy, integrated knowledge, and technical skill required in engineering jobs [1].Hands-on and project based curriculum are examples of inductive learning techniques whereinductive learning reverses the traditional method of deductive learning. In deductive learning,a theory is presented to students and examples are then given in illustrations, in-classexperiments or homework exercises. In inductive learning, the process begins with a set ofobjectives or a problem to be solved. Faculty guides students along the way and the studentsreach an understanding of concepts through