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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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. The challenge is to create educational environments that fostercomprehensive training that includes meaningful connections to the real world of work, whilefacilitating the development of self-efficacy beliefs and soft skills all leading to the competencynecessary for the job market and employers’ expectations (Harris, J. G, et al, 2013). As stated byClark (2012), higher education must enhance the employability and work readiness of itsgraduates by helping the students to transfer the knowledge gained in the classrooms intosituations in the labor market (Clark, S. 2012). Employability has been recognized as a lifelongprocess that supports students’ development of knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors whichwill enable them to be successful

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Takao Ichiko, Professional online

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up- per software for the purposes of higher functionality (software dominated) and multidisciplinary R&D on electronic media introducible environments into higher educational situations, along with education based items such as on-site case studies for pedagogical methods and electronic media materials applica- tions to meet internationally accredited engineering education qualifications were daily requirements of this position. Afterwards, practical applications for cost effective educational environments and feasible types of verification including evolutionary R&D, along with pedagogical analyses based on multimedia quantitative data and fundamental practices in highly structured network environments

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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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; consequentlystrengthening their country's economy. These programs believe that learning is better achievedthrough a blend of formal academic training and experiential learning that is achieved whenstudents apply their technical knowledge to lead real-world projects.The SIUC Leadership Development Program The LDP is a two-year program whose purpose is to train students for future challenges bydeveloping team-building, interpersonal skills, character, and leadership skills. Student’s skills areimproved by experiences the program provides, such as life skills lectures, leadership classes,individual mentoring, community service projects, and leading engineering student competitionteams. The program participations are divided into two groups: the first

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, State University of New York, Farmingdale

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highest ethical and professional standards towards employers and community during their professional career;  recognize the need and engage in life-long learning activities through the pursuit of further studies, on-job training and certification; and  reach professional success through working and communicating effectively within multidisciplinary team, solving real-world problems, and assuming leadership roles with integrity and high responsibility in their organizations.Common Theme of ExcellenceAll the institutions had some common approaches to accreditations. These are in spite of widedifferences in educational and cultural backgrounds of the students and faculty. Even betweenthe two institutions in the

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Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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. In addition to enhancingacademic acquisition of scientific knowledge and problem solving ability, non-technicalskills, such as communication effectively in various contexts, understanding ofprofessional & ethical responsibility, understanding of solution impacts andsustain/exploit benefits, project management, relationship management, quick responseto changes, etc. have been practiced in doing real world projects sponsored by globalcompanies. Through the practice of a mixed team with members from USA and China,the students have the opportunity to grow becoming better global citizens. They learn tounderstand the society and social responsibility of a qualified engineer in new century.They learn from each other from living and working

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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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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, Virginia as a ”Teacher In Residence” in 2009. She served on conference planning committees for VTEEA and TSA locally over a period of time. She also worked with the Division’s Career Academy Team for Hampton City Schools in 2010. Mrs. Oaks-Garcia has proudly served a community of learners in the Hampton City School District in various capacities for the past fifteen (15) years. For her teaching strategy, Mrs. Oaks-Garcia incorporates real world learning into the classroom to promote and enhance student’s critical thinking and problem solving skills. In September 2001, her Future Engineering Team consisting of 11th and 12th grade stu- dents of Hampton High School tackled a real-life engineering challenge following the

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua, Ohlone College

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student’slife, where STEM classes traditionally teach sets of scientific and engineering principles andconcepts with little course time devoted to exploring the application of principles and concepts inreal-world context or technology implications.11 Additionally, scientific principles are typicallytaught in scientific discipline silos, without real-world application that can span more than onescientific discipline.Responding to the challenges identified in the PCAST report, UC Berkeley created a researchexperience program for community college faculty, called RET in Engineering and ComputerScience Site: UC Berkeley's Context-Based Research Experience for Community CollegeFaculty (also referenced as the UCB Context-Based RET Site in this article) that

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Dorian A. Cojocaru, University of Craiova; Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen; Daniel Spikol, Malmö University

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project results in learning analytics tools for practice-basedSTEM learning that are appropriate for real-world learning environments.IntroductionThe PELARS1 project is intended as a testing ground and generator of 21st-Century STEMknowledge and skills. The project generates, analyses, uses and provides feedback for analyticsderived from hands-on, project-based and experiential learning scenarios. These scenarios are: 1. European High School level STEM classrooms. 2. Postsecondary Science and Engineering practical environments. 3. The more open-form studio environments of the Interaction Design Schools (which form the basis and inspiration for many of the project’s orientations).The project serves to help better understand learners' knowledge

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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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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language is of great importance. Future specialists are expected to work ininternational environment and be acquainted with the most modern world achievements incomputer science. Some disciplines of professional cycle are taught in English as well.The benefits of the program are the following:1. Combination of theoretical training with practical work experience in companies.We have partner relations with more than 60 leading domestic (Yandex, Kaspersky Lab, etc.)and international (IBM, Microsoft, etc.) companies. It gives our students the opportunity toget knowledge in a wide range of real IT-projects during educational and technologicalinternship, professionally oriented and graduation practices. Among the lecturers there arerepresentatives of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Accredidation

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Julia Ziyatdinova; Artem Bezrukov; Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Petr Osipov

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conferences, workbooks and monographs.Dr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year career working in and with industry managing and participating in broad range technology development and commercialization.Dr. Petr Osipov c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Best Practices of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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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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knowledge about our world. TheSchool of Engineering of the University of Bridgeport provides comprehensive educationand research opportunities to a diverse community in engineering, sciences, and theapplication and management of technology. The School prepares students for leadership andtechnology positions in industry, government, and academia and significantly contributes tothe profession and community locally, nationally, and globally. The School offers adistinctive education in fundamental and emerging disciplines through its faculty andinstitutional partners. The education features an application-oriented approach tointerdisciplinary issues and opportunities that balances theory with real world state-of-the-artpractices. As of Spring 2016, the

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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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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Page 19.38.12 Subject CourseSubject One: policy guarantee mechanism at the national levelCourse 1: Science and Technology Focus on the learning about the development trend andDevelopment Strategies and Information application of the leading science and technology of the world,Technology Construction the development history, policies and strategic planning of China’s science and technology, master the direction and focus of the future development of national defense technology, and understand the focus of innovation and research of engineers in

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Hamadou Saliah-Hassane ing., TELUQ -University of Quebec; Mamane Moustapha Dodo Amadou ing., École de technologie Supérieure; Maarouf Saad, Ecole de Technologie Superieure; Willie K. Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

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laboratories based onsimulations are called Virtual Laboratories [1-5]. On the other hand, hands-on/physicalexperiments require equipment. With the traditional approach of performing experimentdirectly with equipment, the need for equipment grows proportionally to the increase ofthe number of students, often resulting in considerable expenses. Following hands-onapproach, the only way for universities to share the same equipment is if the students of aother universities are moving physically to a given university to perform their laboratorysessions. We all now know that one way to overcome this drawback is the use of remotelaboratories [6-14]. Remote laboratories allow students to access and manipulate realequipment located anywhere in the world

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Manojkumar Vilasrao Deshpande, SVKM's NMIMS, Shirpur, MS, India; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Innovation Centre; Prashant Pralhadrao Udawant P.E., SVKM's NMIMS, MPSTME Shirpur Campus

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Computer Programming- Ithe programming subjects. It can be found that during lastdecade there is dramatic drop in number of students Trimester II Computer Programming-IIenrolling in IT and Computer science courses. Alsoattrition ratio is also continues to be significant [2]. After Trimester III Computer Applicationa keen survey by Teague has found that students arefacing problems while learning programming, such as,difficult content, lack of enjoyment, inability to see Program : MBA Tech ( First Year)relevance to ”real world” application of the unit content,lack of motivation to learn, lack of inability to learn

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Sivachandran Chandrasekaran P.E., Deakin University; John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Yanan Wang P.E., School of Engineering, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Geelong, Victoria, Australia; Junior Nomani JN, Deakin University; Qiang Zhao; Zhigang Jiang, Wuhan University of Science and Technology; Roger Dianlei Geng PhD, Wuhan University of Science and Technology; Bernard Rolfe, Deakin University

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-knowledge-based content. However the students found difficulties in applying thistheoretical knowledge to practical problems. For example, on the exam there was a question on how toselect a material for a bicycle frame. Ninety percent of the students did not give a correct answer. Inorder to improve student understanding of the application of theory to real-world problems, in the futuremore practical case studies will be introduced.From the survey results, about 82% of students agreed that the group-based practical activities were mosthelpful towards achieving the learning goals. The project/design-based learning activities have enhancedstudents learning capability of understanding practical/theoretical prospects in this course. Most of thestudents

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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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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outlining the course and its content was intensified in the spring of 2012. The subject forthe course decided upon was “Innovations and Product Development”, being key words for both LU and ZJU.The pedagogical intention was to support the students learning in “relating parts of the subject matter to eachother and to the real world” and “comprehending the world by reinterpreting knowledge”. The course was titled“international Market-Driven Engineering (iMDE)”.The two universities already had cooperative agreements that the course could leverage upon. One such exampleis the Joint Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LU-ZJU JCIE), a platform aiming to help realize jointactivities of innovation and entrepreneurship. iMDE is a joint course

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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

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management techniques. A total of 18 hours arerequired to complete the minor, including a required course in “Challenges in GlobalEngineering”. The curriculum outline is shown in table 3.The foundation of the minor is the Challenges in Global Engineering course. Upon completionof the course students gain a broader perspective of global challenges facing engineers today,including specifics of managing international engineering projects, engineering standards,economic, legal, and environmental issues. Students have an understanding of the role of culturein engineering design and problem solving and global trends in engineering. They are exposed toengineering work in various countries through projects that focus on real-world casepresentations and case

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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

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INTRODUCTION Higher education in the United States (U.S.) is an expansive enterprise,comprised of more than 4,300 colleges and universities and approximately21 million college students enrolled part-time or full-time for study.Countries vary in the size and scope of postsecondary education systems(Altbach, Berdahl, & Gumport, 1999), making the U.S. system the largest inthe world. Women represent the numerical majority on most U.S. collegecampuses and nearly 40% of U.S. college students identify asunderrepresented ethnic minorities (URMs) including Blacks/AfricanAmericans, Hispanics, Asian Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, andbi/multiracial (non-White) students. Despite their growing presence in highereducation, URMs still represent a

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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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National Education Ministry in projects for distance learning and reducing the digital divide. Taught at the university level for over thirty years in electronics, computing, multimedia and learning technologies. Produced three books about Learning Technologies and Engineer- ing Education, one of which was published by Pearson. Authored 5 book chapters and more than 40 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences. (www.cukierman.name)Mrs. Lueny Morell, InnovaHiEd Lueny Morell, MS, PE, Ing.Paed.IGIP is President of Lueny Morell & Associates and Founder & Director of InnovaHiEd, a world-class team of experts with extensive academic and industry experience offering services to help higher education leaders

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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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Engineering from the University of Georgia, Athens and B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of the West In- dies, Trinidad. Dr. Gray is a seasoned engineer and educator who has lived, studied and worked in various countries around the world. Prior to arriving at The Lincoln University, she managed the global curriculum portfolio for over a hundred and twenty programs in sixteen countries at Arcadia University and was instrumental in successfully developing and implementing study abroad opportunities and exchanges for undergraduate engineers from institutions across the country, while internationalizing the engineering curriculum through cooperation, consortia and curriculum integration.Ms. Constance

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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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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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kari L. Clase, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lauren Ann Terruso, Purdue University

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Delivery Mode Geographical Employment Real-Time 1998 Distance-Hybrid; on campus 2005 Distance-Hybrid; on-site, off-campus 2010 Distance Synchronous Programs 2010 Distance Asynchronous ProgramsFigure 2.0 – Enrollment Limitations by Delivery ModeMethodologyThere was a need to perform a benchmarking study to compare the existing Purdue program andthe programs offered by others throughout the world in order to identify strengths and potentialgaps in the Purdue BIRS Program, specifically associated with global regulatory scienceeducation. A comprehensive literature review yielded an exhaustive list of institutions withgraduate degrees and certifications in fields related to

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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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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/Interpersonal more than one media for written and verbal Skills communication. Recognizes simple non-linear causal relationships with real-world variables; graphs behavior over time; Thinking/Mindset understands and uses causal loop diagrams and system Approaches archetypes; identifies system goals and develops more complex pattern recognition.Middle Runs and analyzes case studies; identifies states and state Multiple PerspectivesYears

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Lokesh P Padhye, The University of Auckland

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active learning activities and other small group activities for instructors. Hence,the project was designed as a service not only to students but also to class instructors.In addition to online quizzes, we also introduced industry guest lecturing component forhelping students learn importance of practical aspects of learning chemistry forenvironmental engineering careers. Although engineering academics have expertise inteaching and research, they often are not at the forefront of implementation of state of the artengineering solutions for solving real world problems. As demonstrated by D’Este andPerkmann (2011)21, faculty members benefit from the influx of corporate expertise, andstudents gain knowledge about high-throughput technology and

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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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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travel course has never been taught. The Council onInternational Educational Exchange (CIEE) offered an inaugural grant opportunity,especially for a travel course in STEM. In response to that, a proposal was submittedafter discussions among colleagues and administrators. Although the grant proposal wasnot funded, the CIEE offered a large discount for the program and the CIEE programmanager worked tirelessly to accommodate the requests to revise the program. When theinitial abstract of this paper was submitted in January 2016, nine student applications hadbeen received, for travel in May 2016. Unfortunately the class was cancelled after twostudents withdrew reducing the numbers below the required enrollment and budget limits.However, throughout

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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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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need to learn with what they want to learn via invertedlearning and provided multi-layer collaboration platforms for students to engage and interactcontinuously via interactive learning, international learning is an additional feature thatstrategically brings global diversity into local classrooms to enrich all students’ learningexperiences in this globalized world. It should be note that the above inverted and interactivefeatures of the pedagogy are equally applicable (and can/should be applied) to on-campuseducation. However, if students on local campuses can learn from and work with directly peersfrom different universities across physical, institutional, political, and cultural distances, theywill certainly learn much more. The diversity

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Aaron Richard Sakulich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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tocompletion in the real world.”Both student teams selected for work in Panama participated in university-standard evaluationactivities, which included both quantitative data (Likert Scale ratings) and qualitative data(responses to open-ended questions) focusing on every aspect of the program. Although thesample set was extremely small (five MQP and five IQP students), that roughly 90% of questionswere answered with a ‘four’ or ‘five’, on a scale of zero to five, indicates broad satisfaction withthe experience. (The other 10%, mostly ratings of ‘three’ received from MQP students, werescattered and did not indicate a clear trend with regards to one particular aspect of the program.)Reaction to the actual project work was mixed – two MQP students rated

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Courses

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jennifer Craig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. Many ELL are accustomed tospeaking in language acquisition classes and in those settings with circumscribed topics,their language abilities may seem adequate to the normative language level of that group.However, when there is a shift to a language use setting—the real world---, a student mayfind himself unable to perform fluently. Without a significant and readily retrievablevocabulary (perhaps in a specific technical discipline) and a ready command of grammar,the lower proficiency student cannot generate enough language to make meaning in thatspecific context or perhaps he cannot generate it quickly enough. Moreover, his receptiveskills may play a part since oral presentation and interaction usually include listening andthen responding