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Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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, J. (2007). The Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) project, a peer reviewed chapter of Research-Based Reform of University Physics, (Redish, E., and Cooney, P., eds.), College Park, MD: Am Assoc of Physics Teachers.43. Zavala, G., Alarcón, H., Domínguez, A. y Rodríguez, R. (2010). Sala ACE: Aprendizaje al servicio de la Educación. Revista Ciencia Conocimiento Tecnología. Pp. 36-40. Gobierno de Nuevo León.44. Zavala, G., Domínguez, A. y Rodríguez, R. (2013, in press). ACE: Innovative Educational Model to Teach Physics and Mathematics for Engineering Students. ASEE 2013 Conference Proceedings.45. Maab, K. (2006). What are modeling competencies?. ZDM, 38 (2). pp. 113-142.46. Henning

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Khairiyah Mohd Yusof, Regional Centre for Engineering Education - Malaysia (RCEE); Zainura Zainon Noor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

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Centre for Teaching & Learning (2008 2011), and the Head of the Chemical Engineering Department (2006-2008). Her engineering education research focuses on innovative teach- ing and learning practices, especially Cooperative Learning (CL) and Problem-based Learning (PBL), first year experience, and sustainable development in engineering education. A practitioner of Coopera- tive Problem-based Learning (CPBL), she regularly conducts training for academic staff from institutions of higher learning, especially in student-centered teaching and learning methods.Ms. Fatimah Puteh, Regional Centre for Engineering Education - Malaysia (RCEE) Fatimah Puteh is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is one of the

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

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Paper ID #8247Experiences in Cross-Teaching within a Distance Education EnvironmentDr. Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia C. N. Thai is an Associate Professor for the College of Engineering at UGA. He teaches courses in Robotics, Machine Vision and Systems Simulation. His main research areas are in Robotics and Spectral Imaging applications for plant health and quality characterization of agricultural products, and also in Human Robot Interactions within Theatrical Environments.Prof. Yan-Fu KuoDr. Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University Dr. Ping-Lang Yen was born in 1966. He Received B.S. degree from Dept. of Power

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Baldev Raj, Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (GEEP)

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GC 2012-5660: INAE ACTIVITIES FOR PROMOTING INTERNATIONALCOLLABORATION IN S&T AND INNOVATIONMs. Baldev Raj, Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (GEEP) Page 17.28.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Nurturing Students for Next Generation Challenges Baldev RajPresident, Indian National Academy of Engineering, President, International Institute of welding, President- Research,PSG Institutions, Peelamedu, Coimbatore-641004 E-mail: baldev.dr@gmail.comNext generation challenges are to improve sustainability and equity.The

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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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peers and have experience inadvanced industrial engineering and scientific management of labor; be a good team-leader andmanage people and innovations; be self-aware, know personal strengths and weaknesses, manageself-development and life-long learning process; fully fulfill personal power and human resourceof the team, etc. It is evident that future global engineer has to possess these characteristics tosuccessfully perform in the challenging innovative environment. An engineer today does not only create or improve machinery and technologies, but alsobears responsibility for his activity, thinks about possible positive and negative physical,economical or psychological effects. Due to the global processes a contemporary engineershould be

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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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international informationsociety. The key factor for the international cooperation in the majority of advanced Russianengineering institutions of higher education is development of academic mobility, understoodas “transfer of a person somehow engaged in the educational process to another educationalinstitution (in the home country or abroad) for a definite period of time (usually up to oneyear) to study, teach or research” [4]. There are mainly two types of academic mobilitydistinguished: inner and international (studies and internship at international universities andother educational institutions). The level of development of academic mobility at aninstitution of higher education and in general in the national educational system is in fact

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Young Uk Kim, Myongji University

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GC 2012-5665: INTRODUCTORY TEACHING PLAN OF ELEMENTARYENGINEERING DESIGN FOR FRESHMEN MAJORING IN CIVIL ANDENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGProf. Young Uk Kim, Myongji University Professor, Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Myongji University Education: 2000 Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University 1991 M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea University 1989 B.S. Civil Engineering, Korea Univer- sity Research Interests: Soil Remediation, Waves in Soils, Engineering Education Page 17.32.1 c American Society for Engineering

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Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Research Technological University

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Professional Com- munication of the Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU). She Graduated from KNRTU in 2012 and became PhD student at the department of Processing Technology of Polymers and Composite Materials. Page 21.47.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Public-Private Partnership in Professional Education: Experience of the Research UniversityIn the context of modernization and formation of innovation-driven economy of Russia manysocial and economic problems came to light especially on labor market. Nonconformance oflabor force

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Keith W Buffinton, Bucknell University; Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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from 2003 through 2007 as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. In 2003 he received Bucknell’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Prof. Buffinton’s scholarly interests range across the areas of multibody dynamics, nonlinear control, mechanical design, systems thinking, entrepreneurship, engineering management education, and his pri- mary research focus, the dynamics and control of robotic systems. He has been the recipient of external grants from a number of funding agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Pennsylvania, and most recently the Kern Family Foun- dation. As Dean of Engineering, Prof

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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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of creating an Malaysia. Besides mere manufacturing, these companiesinternational joint master program in the area of also aim at innovative and applied research and developmentelectronic system engineering (ESE) focused on the needs (R&D). While the transfer from manufacturing to runningof the electronic industry. Three universities in the U.S., the entire production (including e.g. quality management andGermany and Malaysia have designed an accredited testing) is desired, a pitfall herewith lies in the suboptimalexecutive master program in collaboration with supply of engineering graduates trained at the highest level.multinational companies operating in the electronic and

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

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. Thispresentation highlights the African University of Science and Technology (AUST), a private,pan-African, coeducational university located in Abuja, Nigeria. Its mission is to “advanceknowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that willbest serve the African continent in the 21st century”. Starting in 2008, graduate programs at themaster’s level have been offered in Computer Science and Engineering, Materials Science andEngineering, Petroleum Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Physics, and Pure and AppliedMathematics. We discuss in particular opportunities for innovative ideas for the MaterialScience and Engineering curriculum. The desire is to ensure a well-rounded grounding of thestudents not only in the

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Mohan Khedkar, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati (M.S.)

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, Amravati (M.S.) India-444602 The effectiveness of teaching learning process is a function of multitude of factors like teacher, student, course curriculum, course planning and assessment. Hence, to have effective learning by the student, faculty development is must. Role of universities in international collaboration in faculty development is important to make engineering education & research more relevant to the needs of global society and to the aptitude and aspiration of new generation of engineers. Shortage of training opportunities and attention to over all growth of faculty is adversely affecting impartation of

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R. Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology

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.Significant enhancement in Ph.D. admission capacity in engineering institutions and research fellowships.4.Quality of 4.Re-design of Accreditation processes alignedengineering with Washington Accord (and ABET) outcomes –institutions based criteria. 20 Page 17.7.21 INDIAN DECADE OF INNOVATION President’s Address to the Parliament on June 4, 2009 ―My Government will ensure that its policies forEducation and S&T are infused with a spirit ofinnovation, so that the creativity of a billion peopleis unleashed. The next ten

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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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Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; and a PhD in Systems Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technol- ogy in Hoboken, New Jersey. Current research areas include systems thinking, competency framework development, and engineering education.Dr. Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Massood Towhidnejad is the director of NExtGeneration Applied Research Laboratory (NEAR), and a tenure full professor of software engineering in the department of Electrical, Computer, Software and System Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His teaching interests include autonomous systems, and software and systems engineering with emphasis on quality assurance. He has been in

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Mohammed A Omar, Clemson University

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interdisciplinary character. To ensure that the interdisciplinary character isintegrated into the program and through the student educational experience, the hiring of theprogram faculty targeted faculty expertise in computer science, mechanical, electricalengineering, business and management, in addition to psychology. Additionally, the programfaculty are recruited with industrial experience and with academic backgrounds, coming from 11different countries. This diverse faculty composition ensured the interdisciplinary globalcharacter; through the faculty teaching styles and methods in addition to their research topics andmethodologies, which created a balanced educational experience that exposes the students to theresearch and innovation opportunities

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R. Murugesan, Anna University of Technology Madurai

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experiences to  incorporate international content into existing courses or develop new courses. 15 Page 17.34.16 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION International collaboration serves as a means to discuss common challenges and new approaches to deal with them, and to share examples of good practices with the global engineering education community. As engineering becomes more global, collaborations in engineering education research are increasingly important, especially to  promote continued innovation in engineering education and  ensure the employability and mobility of engineering

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Min Jou, National Taiwan Normal University

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National Science Council (Taiwan) to serve as committee member of research project principal reviewer in Discipline of Applied Science Education. Professor Jou has authored 1 technical book in design, and over 50 research papers in diverse areas of education, e-learning technology, information technology, and automation. In addition to, he served as reviewer of numerous SSCI and SCI indexed journals for many years. Dr.Jou is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Electronic Democracy (Inder- science Publishers), International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications, and The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology (SSCI). Dr. Jou teaches multidisciplinary courses in

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Margaret Pearl Lyn Blackstun, Air Force Institute of Technology

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commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force.The astronautical engineering department at USAFA operates an undergraduate satellitedevelopment program called FalconSAT. FalconSAT research is conducted withinthe Academy's Space Systems Research Center. The SSRC coordinates research funding withoutside organizations and provides planning and management for satellite missions. FalconSATis a senior capstone course that all astronautical engineering majors are required to participate in.The goal of the program is for cadets to ‘learn space by doing space.’ Seniors and faculty fromother departments including management, physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering,and mechanical engineering also participate in the program. The

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Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

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), 768- 772. 5. King, I. (1915). An inquiry into certain aspects of the study habits of university students. School and Society, 2(49), 824-828. 6. Bailey, M., Floersheim, R. B., & Ressler, S. J. (2002). Course assessment plan: A tool for integrated curriculum management. Journal of Engineering Education, 91(4), 425-434. 7. Hayes, R., Kotovsky, K., Kozbelt, A., & Weissman, A. (1999). Where does students’ time go? Center for Innovation in Learning at Carnegie Mellon, Research Brief, 1(2), 1-4. 8. Ressler, S. J., & Lenox, T. A. (1996). The time survey: A course development tool that works! Proceedings of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

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Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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Paper ID #8328Infusing Engineering Practice into the Core to Meet the Needs of a Knowledge-based EconomyDr. Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute Dr. Brian Bielenberg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, a Master’s in Materials Science, and a Ph.D. in Education. His research interests revolve around engineering education reform, content and language integrated learning, and academic language and literacy needs in design classrooms. He currently serves as Head of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Assistant Director of the Arts and Sciences Program at the Petroleum Institute in Abu

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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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Foundation, Engineering Information Foundation, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design, entrepreneurship, and engineering modeling. She has served as an associate editor for the JEE and is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Dr. Gisele Ragusa is an associate professor at the University of Southern California (USC). She is jointly appointed in the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Division of Engineering Education and the Rossier School of Education. Her research interests and areas of expertise include: engineering education, STEM college access, STEM teacher education and retention

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R. Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology; Mohan Khedkar, Anna University of Technology Madurai; Baldev Raj, Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (GEEP); R. Murugesan, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati (M.S.)

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GC 2012-5663: AN AGENDA FOR FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR ENHANC-ING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AMONG FACULTY, STUDENTS,CURRICULAR, AND LABORATORY DEVELOPMENTDr. R. Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology R Natarajan received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya Col- lege of Engineering (of the then Mysore University) in 1961. Subsequently he obtained the M.E. degree of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and the M.A.Sc and Ph.D degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has worked as a National Research Council Fellow in Canada, and as a Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany. He served as The Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from 1995 to 2001

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

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assistive technology. As an international engineering educator, her current research includes innovative design-based pedagogy, humanitarian engineering, and ways to attract and retain traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering education.Joules Webb, Transformation 2013 Texas STEM Center Joules Webb has a passion and expertise for STEM Education gained through over twenty years of expe- rience serving in both education and industry. In education, she has served as a Texas high school science teacher and campus instructional technologist, a science teacher instructional coach, and currently as a STEM Educational Specialist with Transformation 2013 Texas STEM (T-STEM) Center. She is also a doctoral student

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Edward Godfrey Ochieng, Liverpool John Moores University; Andrew David Price, Lougyhborough University; Ximing Ruan Ruan, University of the West of England

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project engineers will beconfronted with situations which challenge the traditional ways engineering projects havebeen managed. Terms such as responsive graduate engineer and innovative engineer areincreasing in popularity, however, dealing with the mutual inconsistency these two termsprovides a challenge to most of today’s global engineering organizations. In spite of recentextensive research, there has been little consideration given to how to develop a globalproject engineering curriculum. This examined how a global project engineering curriculumshould be developed to address needs of global engineers. Using two case studies, the resultshave been summarized under the following headings of: defining the process of developing aglobal engineering

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Young-Min Kim, Chungnam National University; Chang-Hoon Lee, Education Center for Creative Future Engineers; Myoung-Hee Oh, Education Center for Creative Future Engineers; Ki-Soo Kim, Chungnam National University

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has been developed that the programs based on engineering and technologyfor middle and high school students. Therefore the programs were instructedthrough team teaching by engineering professors and technology teachers.Second, the programs were consisted with lecture, field trip, problem solving,project and so on.Third, the programs were utilized in various institutes such as engineering andtechnology related colleges, universities, governments, research institutes, andindustries.Fourth, we applied the programs three times in December 2011, February 2012 andMay 2012. Approximately, 100 students participate in all the programs, respectively.It was high that the satisfaction of the participants, their parents, engineeringprofessors and

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Steven Chingnam Goh, University of Southern Queensland

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in a number of boards, and provides advisory and consulting services. His research interests are in engineering education, engineering management, and renewable energy. He is a recipient of a USQ Faculty Award for Excellence in teaching (Early Ca- reer) 2008, USQ Associate Fellow 2009, and USQ Senior Fellow 2010. He served as the 2012 QLD President of Engineers Australia, and is currently serving as a Congress Member of Engineers Australia. He loves mountaineering, travel, food and afternoon naps. Page 21.3.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Proposing a global

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

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IT company in the world, HP has a long history of supporting engineeringeducation. Support and collaboration takes place in many dimensions, from research anddevelopment; to recruiting talent, providing students and faculty with opportunities forinternships and experiences in the company; to philanthropic grants to assist education inincorporating novel use of technology to enhance learning, influencing science, math andengineering innovation policy for win-win outcomes as well as education sales opportunities Page 21.58.2for products and services.2 , 3,4 ,5. HP is member and serves in several national andinternational engineering education

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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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Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), an all-terrain wheelchair designed for de- veloping countries that was a winner of a 2010 R&D 100 award and was named one of the Wall Street Journal’s top innovations in 2011. His Ph.D. work focused on adapting the burrowing mechanisms of razor clams to create compact, low power, and reversible burrowing systems for subsea applications such as anchoring, oil recovery, and cable installation. Prof. Winter is a founder of Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT). He was the recipient of the 2010 Tufts University Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2010 MIT School of Engineering Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring Award, and the 2012 ASME/Pi Tau

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Muhammad H Rashid, University of West Florida

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Electronics (in Libya & Malta). Dr. Rashid is actively involved in teaching, researching, and lecturing in electronics, power electronics, and professional ethics. He has published 17 books listed in the US Library of Congress and more than 160 technical papers. His books are adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book, Power electronics has translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Italian, Chinese, Persian, and Indian edition. His book, Microelectronics has translations in Spanish in Mexico and in Spain, Italian, and Chinese. He has received many invitations from foreign governments and agencies to give keynote lectures and consult, by foreign universities to serve as an external examiner for

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Jung-Uk Lim, Arkansas Tech University

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disadvantages when it is used as an effective learning tool in power system courses.However, in this paper, the PowerWorld software is utilized as a power system analysis toolbecause of the following reasons: - It can support very powerful power system visualization techniques such as power flow animation, 3-D display and contouring and map data projections [4-6] - Currently it is one of the most commonly used power system simulator by many power utilities and in the electric power industry [7] - It is relatively easy to teach students how to run simple power system cases and even complex real-life power system cases [1].In fact, a newly update version of PowerWorld software supports innovative and