GC 2012-5638: INTRODUCTORY TEACHING PLAN OF ELEMENTARYENGINEERING DESIGN FOR FRESHMEN MAJORING IN CIVIL ANDENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGJi-Ho Park Page 17.33.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Introductory Teaching Plan of Elementary Engineering Design for Freshmen Majoring inCivil and Environmental EngineeringJi-Ho Park1) and Young-Uk Kim2)1) Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA 168012) Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Myongji University,Yongin, Korea 449-728ABSTRACTThe course development of introductory engineering
; 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. Page 17.8.1 c American Society for Engineering Education
soft skills and (3) Toincrease the employment rate in the field related to one’s major. This paper introduces theWIE program developed in Kunsan University in Cheonrabuk-do and summarizes theoutcome of the first 5-year programs in terms of improvements in psychological correlates,retention rate, and employment rate. 2. Program DetailsThe programs in the three sub-areas are listed in Tables 1-3. The inclusive environmentprograms include programs for faculty and students, as well as research programs to developeffective teaching pedagogies for female students. The competency enhancement programshave both technical and non-technical programs. Employment support programs includevarious training programs related to employment preparation.Table 1
Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineer- ing courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is active in the engineering education community including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Educa- tion (FIE) Conference, on the FIE Steering Committee, and as President of the IEEE Education Society for 2009-2010. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education. She and her coauthors were awarded the 2011
GC 2012-5628: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN CURRICULUMAND LABORATORY DEVELOPMENTProf. 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, and as the Chairman of The All India Council for Technical
GC 2012-5653: STUDENT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE UTM-DTUINTERNATIONAL SUMMER COURSE ON SUSTAINABLE CONSUMP-TION AND PRODUCTIONDr. Zainura Zainoon Noor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Dr Zainura Zainon Noor is a senior lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She has experiences in green design and processes, life cycle assessment, cost benefit analysis, carbon footprint, greenhouse gas inventory and projection as well as sustainable de- velopment policy implementation, and is currently leading the Green Technology Research Group at the Institute of Water and Environmental Management. Since 2010, she has been coordinating UTM DTU International Summer Course on Sustainable