Conference Session

Study and Research Abroad

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech

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, directed by academicmentors, with the goal of establishing a small class atmosphere that promotes peer-to-peer interactions, expandslearning beyond the classroom, and provides with mentoring and role modelling relationships. The initial goal ofthe program was to generate intrinsic motivation in engineering students regarding their civil engineeringeducation [12]. The purpose of this exploratory study is to present preliminary information about the implementationof Icarus, as a radical engineering education experiment. The program’s goal was to provide students with adifferent space to develop the competencies and skills desired while simultaneously they form their identity asengineers. Icarus is an innovative solution since the School or

Conference Session

Cultural Issues in Engineering: International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech; Johnny C. Woods, Jr., Virginia Tech; Abram Diaz-Strandberg, Virginia Tech

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higher education in Liberia for approximately 11 years. He currently serves as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at VT. His research interests are: Immi- grants in STEM, migration and immigration issues in education, and Quality Assurance.Mr. Abram Diaz-Strandberg, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Understanding Students’ perceptions of Dimensions of Engineering Culture in EcuadorAbstractThe purpose of this study is to explore how engineering students perceive different dimensionsassociated with culture. We are using Hofstede’s theory of

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holt Zaugg PhD, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Alan R. Parkinson, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Timothy L. Elliott, Brigham Young University; Kathryn L. Watkins, Brigham Young University; Meaghan Lynn Weldele, Brigham Young University; Quincey Cole, Harold B. Lee Library ; Lindsey R. Barnes

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Young University with other SA programs across campus.Description of College and Study Abroad ProgramBrigham Young University is a private, church sponsored university with approximately 33,000undergraduate and graduate students across 12 colleges within the university. The Ira A. FultonCollege of Engineering and Technology helps prepare more than 4,000 students in 10 degreeprograms. During the 2014-2015 academic year, 600 undergraduate students and 129 graduatestudents completed their degrees in the engineering and technology programs.In 2015, Brigham Young University sponsored 164 different international programs. Theseprograms sent 1,575 participants to 54 different countries and included students from most ofBYU’s 12 colleges. In 2015, the

Conference Session

Global and Intercultural Competency

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Claudia Alves , Texas A&M University

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1industry. Consequently, “… engineering colleges must develop strategies that provide globalperspectives and international experiences to help their graduates excel in their future workenvironment” [4].Study-abroad programs is one of the ways universities have found to provide a globalperspective to students. However, it has two limitations: low participation of engineeringstudents and effectiveness in providing global perspective. The low participation is because onlyfew students can afford to have a study-abroad experience. Despite the growing awareness of thebenefits of study-abroad by students, the challenges preventing students from studying abroadare numerous and complex [5]. A study by the Institute for International Education (IIE

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoyang Zhang; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yang Da Wei

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Diversity

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, there were 442,273 international students in China in all, in which48,394 majored in engineering, ranking only below the numbers of students majored inthe traditional popular majors-Mandarin Chinese (169,093) and Western Medicine(49,022). In addition, with China joined the Washington Accord as a signatory countryand lots of engineering programs taught in English was developed for internationalgraduate students further increase of international engineering students can be expected. Existent studies have explored the motivation, social-cultural adjustment,learning experiences of international students in China. Nevertheless, few studies haveexplored their learning outcomes. Considering the shift towards outcome-basededucation in global

Conference Session

Technical Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Porcel, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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the language is only a meansto social gains with very little interest in the culture or the community of people who speak thelanguage. On the contrary, the integrative orientation implies a personal involvement or desireto connect with the community that speaks the language, get access to its culture or evenbecome a member of the group. The former distinction is not supposed to be taken as amutually exclusive dichotomy since there is an element of instrumentality in the integrativeorientation [21] [22]. The remaining sections of this paper will present a study on language attitudes amongundergraduate students enrolled in an engineering public university. Before moving on to thenext section, a brief synthesis of the discussion up to this

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Bianey Cristina Ruiz Ulloa, National University of Tachira; Francisco Gamboa, Universidad del Táchira; Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MiguelAndres Andres Guerra P.E., Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Karen Dinora Martinez Soto; Reema Helen Azar, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ

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Education, 2021 Cultural dimensions in academic disciplines, a comparison between Ecuador and the United States of AmericaAbstractBroadening participation in engineering has been part of the engineering education researchagenda for years. We argue that if we can understand the traits of the different dimensions ofculture in engineering, we can identify potential solutions to broaden participation. In this study,we are comparing how engineering students from Ecuador and the United States characterizetheir culture orientation based on Hofstede´s cultural dimensions theory. Data were collectedwith engineering students at major polytechnic universities in Ecuador and the United States.The survey was translated into Spanish for the

Conference Session

International Accreditation and Credentials: International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Junaid Qadir, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan; Aamir Shafi, National University of Computing and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan; Ala Al-Fuqaha, Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University; Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Sunway University; João Ponciano, University of Glasgow; Sajjad Hussain, University of Glasgow; Muhammad Ali Imran P.E., University of Glasgow; Sajid Sheikh Muhammad, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan; Rao Naveed Bin Rais, Ajman University, UAE; Muhammad Rashid, Umm Al Qura University; Boon Leing Tan, Xi'an International University

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theprogram level, i.e., outcomes expected at graduation time, and others at the course level, i.e.,outcomes expected at the time of clearing a course. Unfortunately, still, the terminology can beconflicting here with some acronyms having more than one usage and different terms being usedfor the same idea. We introduce the main terms next. • Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)—Program learning outcomes are statements that de- scribe what the knowledge, skills and attitudes students should have at the time of graduation from an engineering program. PLOs are discipline agnostic. These are also referred to as Graduate Attributes (GA) (see Table VI for the Washington Accord’s recommended GAs). The term PLO also has synonyms

Conference Session

International Educational Experiences (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alistair Cook, Colorado State University

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(Zambia). The EWB Challenge has been piloted at Colorado State University for the past two years [4]and has been successfully undertaken by students across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdomand Ireland since 2007 [5, 6]. The other two curricular groups studied are engineering students who willbe studying engineering abroad with a partner university for a semester or more, and engineering studentsundertaking a short term (3 week) sustainable design and construction three credit study abroad programin Costa Rica over the winter break. Finally, two co-curricular groups of students will be investigated,members of the universities Engineers Without Borders USA chapter will be looked at as two differentgroups. Those involved in the design