Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Eck Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Harvey Charles, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Student Development

research laboratories. Academic partners are often able toimmediately offer internship placements as research assistants in applied research laboratories oncampus, and local collaborative research projects with industrial partners can pave the way intocorporate contexts. In short, program development strategy should prioritize academicpartnerships, leverage these to place initial cohorts of students, then supplement these withindependently developed internship opportunities over time.Focus on reciprocity to stimulate collaboration on internships. Many academic partners may behesitant to offer help on placing foreign students in internships, especially if local degreeprograms require an internship placement for their own students. GSEP offers

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Edward J. Berger, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Student Development

as more conventional measures (the final reflective essay and the letterhome) to evaluate student achievements. The class discussion notes and post-discussion reviewwas very helpful in solidifying evaluations of students for their participation in class.Discussion and ConclusionsThis paper is intended to provide a lens on several issues related to short-term engineering studyabroad through examining two such courses in Latin America. The authors realize that theemergent themes resulting from analyzing these two case studies may not be generalizable to allsuch programs. The objective, however, is not generalizability. Instead, the objective is toprovide a rich description of themes that could later be studied across a broader set of