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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Teresa Restivo, University of Porto

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21.51.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 U.Porto, its Faculty of Engineering and PBL approachesAbstractThe University of Porto (U.Porto) was founded in 1911. Its Faculty of Engineering(FEUP) is the largest school of U.Porto.U.Porto and FEUP are very active in research, development and innovation with about20% of all scientific papers in Portugal among the 15 public Universities in the country.FEUP is also aware of the important role of higher education in training futureengineers. U.Porto and FEUP have been following discussions and significant effortshave been made for promoting teacher professional development in order to guarantynew teaching/learning methodologies and initiatives to

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Eleonore Lickl, HBLVA for Chemical Industry

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-the-job.Although no effort is made to support the coaches in an institutional way, the project work issuccessful since more than 20 years.Seal of Approval “Young Science”Young Science27 is given to Austrian schools and colleges for their commitment to work togetherwith research institutions. It is said explicitly that the professionalization of students and teachersare valued. This initiative was started in 2012, 30 % of the awardees were VET colleges.JUNIOR CompaniesAnother initiative values JUNIOR Companies, where students of VET colleges start a projectwhich ends in a product, the project also includes an involvement in the open market – theproducts should be financially successful. The categories of the award are sustainability

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Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Robyne Bowering, Monash University

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design and teach a STEM-based unit of work. Robyne’s pedagogical focus is on providing the best learn- ing environment for individual student growth and her current research interest is how learning to teach provides engineering students with the cognitive, conative and metacognitive skills needed for effective problem-solving in the engineering workplace. Page 21.46.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Preparing the Global Engineer: How learning to teach in a Service-LearningProject Develops Effective Oral Communication Skills in Engineering Students.AbstractGlobalisation

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session I - Student Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart, University of Rhode Island; Erin Papa, University of Rhode Island

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Engineering Education. Under Sigrid’s leadership, the IEP received NAFSA’s Senator Paul Simon Spot- light award for innovative campus internationalization (2011), and the Andrew Heiskell Award for study abroad (2012) by the Institute for International Education. Sigrid serves on the Provost’s Global Educa- tion Steering Committee. As Managing Director of the MIT-Germany program, she previously developed experiential learning opportunities such as internships and workshops for MIT students in German com- panies and research institutes for the MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI). From 2007-2009, Sigrid served as MIT Delegate for the Global Excellence Initiative (GEI-GEIP), a consortium of the best