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Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, ​ Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics National Zoological Park

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-buildingactivities between 2003 and 2011 that occurred between the PROMISE AGEP director and theUMET university community. The activities in Table 1 demonstrate the results of those earlyactivities, and showcase information and dissemination events that were developed byPROMISE at UMBC to serve larger groups of students. We spent 9 years with UMET in small-scale meetings that led to expanded engagement. Between 2003 and 2010, UMBC and UMETspent time building relationships through meetings, facilitating faculty and administratorexchanges, mentoring students, collaborating with faculty on ideas for expanding curricula, andwriting some grants to the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation tosupport our activities. In 2012, UMBC and

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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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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ice-breaking sessions included in the forum, with 63.2% of surveyed studentsreporting that the ice-breaking sessions were helpful in bringing them out of their comfort zoneand facilitating their engagement with other students (Fig 3A).Post-GSF Analysis. Overall, GSF appears to have had a positive impact on its participants. At theconclusion of the forum 91.7% of interviewed subjects agreed that working in groups during theforum helped them to develop an appreciation for diversity in teams (Fig 4A) and 97.9% saidthat GSF was helpful to them in developing methods to overcome cultural/language barriers (Fig4A). The combination of these results show that GSF had a strong influence on its participants interms of learning how to gain an

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Delia Valles-Rosales, New Mexico State University; Marcelo Augusto Leal Alves, University of São Paulo; Brendan P. Sullivan, New Mexico State University

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, professional devel- opment, and educational outreach programs. She is co-PI for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to broaden participation among minority engineering students through engagement in innovation and entrepreneurship and a co-PI for an i6 Challenge grant through the U.S. Economic Development Admin- istration (EDA) to foster regional economic development through innovation and new business start-ups. She is institutional integrator for the Partnership for the Advancement of Engineering Education (PACE) at NMSU. She is also co-lead for a NSF funded Pathways to Innovation cohort at NMSU with a focus on integrating innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum through a blending of indus

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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Paul John Ackerman Jr P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Tim Moore P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Tyler Adam Brickles

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?Founding of the ABC University ProgramIn 2009, a faculty member of ABC collaborated with EWB to start a student chapter. EWB hadcompleted a site assessment and health survey for a village in Bolivia. The assessment reportidentified low technology, high impact projects that would benefit the community. ABC wasinterested in designing and implementing the project and as a result ABC’s program was born in2010. During subsequent projects, ABC partnered with EAI which provided significant supportand experience in working with Bolivia. As a result of this relationship, ABC began arelationship with several Bolivian engineers that have significantly reduced the projectconstraints on resources and logistics. The Bolivian engineers are also the in country

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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Zaida M Gracia, Texas Tech University; Allison Wright, Texas Tech University

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TTU. The visit allowed further development of the student exchange modelabroad program and signing of the letter of intent agreement. On March 2015, a TTU team visitUninorte to sign the student exchange agreement and to offer a presentation at Uninorte’sCatedra Europa international week event as the keynote speaker. Program DescriptionThe Uninorte-TTU Study Abroad-Research Experience is an eight (8) week summer programthat engages engineering students and faculty in a bilateral exchange that creates an academic-research-societal interaction linked to current society needs. Led by a group of faculty from bothinstitutions that share mutual research interests in Renewable/Sustainable Energy, the

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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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international education fairs and recruitment events; 3. Partnering with other organizations for recruiting (colleges and universities, non-profit and governmental institutions, high schools, for-profit organizations); 4. Passive Marketing such as web advertising- online, brochures and booklets, and others; 5. Utilizing staff and faculty; 6. Utilizing alumni; 7. Utilizing agents; and 8. Snowballing or word-of-mouth [3]. Best Practices in Retaining International Students that emerged from the data on Özturgut (2013)’s study and the review of relevant literature are: 1. International Student & Scholar Services Staff; 2. Academic Programming and Support, 3. Social and Cultural Engagement and Support; and 4. Financial Aid, Health

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Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Hu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; BO YANG, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Chen Bing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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students’ engagement, learningexperiences, and skill development. Multiple studies have suggested that facultymembers using active and collaborative learning approaches, interacting with studentsfrequently, and creating a supportive teaching and learning environment in theclassroom had impact on higher levels of student engagement (Kuh, 2001; Pascarella,2001; Umbach, 2005). Other findings also suggested that the more students wereinvolved in the above-mentioned educational practices, the more would they developtheir learning skills and personal development (Kuh, 2003; Lee, 2010). Therefore,student engagement serves as an important indicator for assessing teaching andlearning.Context of the StudyUniversity H is a leading research-intensive

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

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Lokesh P Padhye, The University of Auckland

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manner, it appears that frequent online quizzes and industryguest lectures are indeed making a positive impact on enriching the student learningexperience. The benefit of increased class engagement of students appears well worth theinitial investment of time required to set up the online quizzes and redesign course curriculumto accommodate industry lectures.AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank all supporting academic staff, administrative staff, tutors, and TAs ofthe University of Auckland involved in successfully conducting above two classes in 2015.References1. Ryan, T. E. (2006). Motivating novice students to read their textbooks. Journal of Instructional Psychology,33, 135–140.2. Gurung, R. (2003). Pedagogical aids and student performance

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Rockwell Franklin Clancy III, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Joint Institute; Gang Zheng, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute; David L.S. Hung, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

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. Further, as mentioned above, theoretical approaches to ethicsare, to some extent, unique to the “Western world.” To cast a wide net, and remain realistic aboutcriteria for ethical behavior students can be expected to understand and endorse, and with whichthey can easily work, we have used the following definition in teaching ethics to engineeringstudents in international and cross-cultural contexts: “ethics is about actions that have thepotential to have a serious impact on the lives of others.”45On the one hand, this definition is broad enough to encompass characteristics associated withand implied by ethical positions relevant to and unproblematic for engineering ethics, forexample, consequentialism or the role ethics of Confucianism. A broad

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua, Ohlone College

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University of California (UC) or California StateUniversity (CSU) campuses8. One year earlier, nearly 20% (3,344) of all UC B.S. degrees inSTEM fields were earned by community college transfer students, but only 11% (356) of thesetransfer graduates were from underrepresented minority backgrounds; 40% were women.6 In2015 fifty-five percent of community college students are people of diverse ethnicbackgrounds and roughly 53 percent are female.6Despite the relatively significant number of female and ethnic minority students in the CCCSwe see a disproportionately low number in the STEM fields. Therefore, there is the need toadapt our classroom pedagogies to engage these demographic groups of students.Context Based Learning PedagogyThe Obama

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Ronald J Hugo, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan P.Eng., University of Calgary; Jian Zhang; Xiaodong Niu, Shantou University

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course. This will bring the total number of STU students participating inthe program to 29. Given the Design students’ background, each of the eight design teamsshould experience an improvement in the aesthetic quality of their final design. A second changeis that students from both UCalgary and STU will be surveyed using the Miville-GuzmanUniversality-Diversity Scale – Short form8,9,10 both before and after the program to assess howopenness and appreciation of cultural diversity changes through the student experience, and howopenness and appreciation have an impact on both the design process and team performance.A third potential evolution under consideration involves the addition of Technion undergraduatestudents to the program. Shantou

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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Esra Tekdal Yilmaz, Pennsylvania State University, Lehman

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(f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.4) Continuous Improvement5) Curriculum6) Faculty7) Facilities8) Institutional SupportThe goal of engineering education is to give the creativity, research ability and ability to solveproblems on their own in addition to

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ZhongLi FU, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies (CNSSS) In National University of Defense Technology (NUDT).; Huang Zhang, National University of Defense Technology; Lini ZHOU, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies, National University of Defense Technology; Tong Wu, Center for National Security and Strategic Studies, National University of Defense Technology; Zhao Zhao, National University of Defense Technology; Changfang Zhang, National University of Defense Technology

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) The main mode of the participants’ engagement in scientific research work: Mainly the collaboration between small-scale academic communities and the tackling of key problems with large-scale scientific research teams, accounting for 48.78% and 43.90% respectively.Chart 8 The main mode of the participants’ engagement in scientific research work Chart 9 Main roles they play in scientific research: (multiple choice)(2) As for the type of research result contributes significantly in scientific research, 52.99% of the engineers think technological inventions and patents play a key role for them to stand out in the scientific research field, 26.50% think academic papers, 15.38% think strategic consulting reports, and 17.09% think

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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Fabiola P Ehlers-Zavala, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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, to infuse international andcomparative perspectives throughout the teaching, research, and service missions of highereducation. It shapes institutional ethos and values and touches the entire higher educationenterprise. It is essential that it be embraced by institutional leadership, governance, faculty,students, and all academic service and support units. It is an institutional imperative, not just adesirable possibility. Comprehensive internationalization not only impacts all of campus life butthe institution’s external frames of reference, partnerships, and relations. The globalreconfiguration of economies, systems of trade, research, and communication, and the impact ofglobal forces on local life, dramatically expand the need for

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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Vitaliy Popov, 1. University of San Diego. 2. The Global STEM Education Center; Larisa K. Schelkin, Global STEM Education Center, Inc.; Russell Faux, DSRA

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multicultural,either in the United States or internationally, cooperating through technology. Based on thedata on international collaboration that were collected in 2006 by SETAT, one in sixscientists and engineers in the United States reported working with individuals located inother countries. These scientists and engineers used telephone, e-mail, and Web-based orvirtual communication as main means of communicating during their internationalcollaboration. Thus, it is becoming increasingly imperative for today’s students—tomorrow’s workers— not only to have the opportunity and skills to use various means ofcommunication but to be able to work with people from diverse linguistic and culturalbackgrounds.This growing demand for engineers with global

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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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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only a tinypercentage (in 2012-13 it was 3.2 %) of all US students studying abroad went for the entire year.A short-term stay abroad is often the only venue for global engagement for engineering studentswho are concerned about extra costs, efforts and about graduating on time. As a stand-aloneactivity it is, in and of itself, a valuable opportunity to infuse global citizenry and related culturallearning into the engineering curriculum. At the University of Rhode Island, whose Provost andVice President of Academic Affairs has made “Global Citizenry” a priority of his AcademicPlanii, short-term opportunities are becoming increasingly more important in an effort to increasethe percentage of students going abroad even if only for a two-week

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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Edward J. Jaselskis, North Carolina State University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Satyanarayana N. Kalidindi; Linda D. Krute, North Carolina State University; Hongling Guo, Tsinghua University; David Comiskey, Ulster University; Dede M Nelson, North Carolina State University

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universities located in the U.S., China, India, Canada, and ChineseTaipei. Development challenges confronted by the leadership team pertained to planning andlogistical issues and technology issues. Students gained tremendous knowledge aboutconstruction practices and issues in other countries and got a taste of what it will be like whenthey work in the real world and are faced with communication issues on multi-national teams.The significance of this paper is to provide lessons learned to help others better understand thechallenges of developing a successful partnership among multiple international universities.IntroductionAs in many other industries, globalization is having a significant impact on engineeringeducation and the construction industry

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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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isachieved by the synthesis of inverted, interactive, and international learning in networkedclassrooms on distributed campuses, while learning technologies are used strategically to enablethe new pedagogy to enrich the learning experiences and outcomes of all domestic andinternational students on local and remote campuses at multiple universities. Such a different, ifnot unique, pedagogy is developed based on three basic premises: (1) contextual understanding isbest achieved via direct engagements (as opposed to linear lecturing), hence the "inverted"learning, (2) what students learn depends on with whom they learn (instead of from whom theylearn), hence the "interactive" learning, and (3) diversity increases learning opportunity foreveryone, hence

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Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

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Paper ID #14302The Attributes of a Global Engineer: Results and Recommendations from aMulti-Year ProjectDr. Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Stephen Hundley is Chair and Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He also serves as IUPUI’s Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives. Stephen holds a Ph.D. from American University in Washington, D.C., and has published and presented on the topics of workforce engagement, adult learning, STEM education, and higher education administration

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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Sergey Gerasimov, Siberian Transport University; Yury P Pokholkov, Tomsk polytechnic university, Association for Engineering Education of Russia; Kseniya K Tolkacheva, Association for Engineering Education of Russia, Tomsk Polytechnic University; Jose Carlos Quadrado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

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of other membersof experts group will depend on opinion of this specialist and an assessment outcome will be providedon the subjective basis.Secondly, not every specialist even the most recognized in his field can become a member of an expertgroup. Some of them, even those with comprehensive knowledge, do not have qualities required for amember of an expert group and are not able to provide adequate opinion which may disrupt assessmentespecially during meetings with representatives of students and teachers participating in accreditedprogram.That is why the first criterion for experts’ selection is the degree of their competence. There is of coursean issue with evaluation of such competence. Usually competence is evaluated on the basis of

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Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shreyas Vathul Subramanian, Purdue University; Mushtak Al-Atabi, Taylor's University; David A. Delaine, Universidade de São Paulo and IFEES; josé aquiles grimoni jabg P.E., polythecnic schoool university of são paulo

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David A. Delaine has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Drexel University, in Philadelphia, USA. He currently serves as an executive member of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), as Vice President for Student Engagement, Diversity, and Inclusion. IFEES aims to strengthen engineering education practices around the world. He has recently completed his tenure as a Fulbright Scholar and is currently performing research as a FAPESP postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Dr. Jose Roberto Cardoso at the Escola Polit´ecnica da Universidade de S˜ao Paulo for his project titled ”Assessing the Impact of One Boundary Spanner on University-wide STEM Educational engagement” where he will

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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

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CultureelErfgoed (Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) that allows two mechanicalengineering students to complete summer undergraduate research projects at the intersectionof art and engineering in Amsterdam. Another is a University-wide program on service-learning in East Kenya that allows at least one engineering student to complete a projectrelated to his or her major for a rural community; typically these are clean water andsanitation projects that appeal to civil engineering students. We have also supported severalsenior capstone projects with an intercultural component including some with a travelexperience. Finally, in spring 2015, the Shiley School started offering an elective, EGR430Global Engineering that includes an international

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Monica Gray P.E., Lincoln University; Constance Loretta Lundy

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of the global market place.Study abroad has not been previously considered as a high impact activity, there is, however, amovement afoot to change that paradigm. The National Science Foundation in the latest LouisStokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program solicitation cited researchersBowman and Sage as follows, “Preparing a diverse, globally-engaged scientific andtechnological workforce necessitates strengthening international research opportunities forstudents under-represented in STEM fields”. 15Studying abroad: benefits, challenges and opportunitiesAccording to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Open Doors 2015 report, over thelast two decades, the number of U.S. students studying abroad has tripled to a

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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Thomas M. Powers, University of Delaware

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.    Instead  of  bemoaning  the  normative  complexity  introduced  by  global  science  and  engineering,  ethicists  can  use  the  diversity  of  norms  to  lead  richer  discussions  of  the  ethics  of  science  and  engineering  on  the  whole.    This  “windfall”  of  difference  and  contrast  is  something  that  is  cherished  in  the  ethics  classroom.    The  best  discussions  of  ethical  issues  almost  always  occur  when  students  (respectfully)  disagree.    The  ethics  of  science  and  engineering  can  also  benefit  from  some  disagreement—under  the  assumption  that  this  is  part  of  a  process  that  is  headed  towards  the  convergence  and  acceptance  of  norms  of  research  and  practice,  and  not  the  opposite

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Autumn Marie Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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andcollaborations. Subsequently, intercultural communication training will afford women of colorengineering faculty with an additional capital at their disposal when navigating interculturaldifferences in their career advancing international mentoring relationships, networks, andcollaborations.Promising Practices at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County UMBC is a nationally recognized leader in preparing underrepresented minority (URM)students for careers in science and engineering through its Meyerhoff Scholars program and alsofor increasing the number and diversity of Ph.D. graduate who go on to academic careersthrough its NSF-funded PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP program, and the NIH MeyerhoffGraduate Fellows program. UMBC is also a recipient of a now

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Monica Gray P.E., The Lincoln University - College of Science & Technology; Constance Loretta Lundy

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seminars,internships, learning communities, and capstone projects compared to only two anecdotalreferences to study aboard.This paper postulates that ABET’s Student Outcome 3(h) “the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context” and Student Outcome 3(i) "a recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in lifelong learning" are not mutually exclusive but rather interdependent and mutualisticin nature. Outcomes by their very nature describes what students should know or can do by thetime of graduation. The implication is therefore, that lifelong learning and a global perspectivemust originate within the 4-year engineering curriculum/program. The

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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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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member of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). In this role he serves as a Vice President, repre- senting Diversity and Inclusion. He is currently performing research as a Fulbright Scholar postdoctoral researcher at the Escola Polit´ecnica da Universidade de S˜ao Paulo for his project titled ”An Action Re- search of Boundary Spanning Intervention on University-wide STEM Educational Engagement” where he will attempt to optimize community/university relations for broadening participation in the STEM fields. David is a co-founder and past president of the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED). He has ambitions to significantly broaden the global pipeline of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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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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engineering curricula by engaging faculty, students and industry, together withinternational collaborators from Argentina, Puerto Rico and Spain. A specific challenge forthis redesign is the low performance of Chilean secondary students in international scienceand mathematics tests, that is tackled by putting an S.T.E.M. emphasis in the overall process.Using the mentioned backwards design approach, the multi-disciplinary, multi-national,multi-stakeholder team will share the process of establishing University-wide learningoutcomes, as well as specific outcomes for the engineering program benchmarked through avery novel method and validated by industry and employers’ representatives.The authors will describe their motivations, aspirations and work

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Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University

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collaborative mechanisms to be used for establishing anykind of initial connection for establishing collaborations.Once the collaboration is established then the next step is maintaining this collaboration. One ofthe important factor that can help in maintaining strong relationships among collaborating Page 19.21.2institutions is to always stay in touch and keep regular communication channels open. Authors1 report importance of feedback and sharing of ideas. Any such feedback will have no impact ifcollaborating institutions are not listening to each other. International collaborations may includeaccepting various and at times opposing ideas that

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Maria Claudia Alves, Texas A&M University

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it at all levels. 4. Use research strategically and more practically. 5. Engage the foreign language learning community as an ally and partner. 6. Secure buy-in from the top of institutions in order to mandate change. 7. Fix the broken systems on campuses that unnecessarily hinder study abroad. 8. Provide incentives to all stakeholders who stand to gain by expanding study abroad. 9. Develop creative partnerships with the private sector to raise funds, increase public awareness and link study abroad to careers. 10. Make global locally relevant to parents, communities and businesses. 11. Don’t be afraid to consider radical ideas. [2]The international Internship Program being described in this paper falls under