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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Page 8.1133.1problems, perform testing and analyses, make recommendations, build prototypes, manufactureProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education. Session 3454parts, stay within budgets (real and imaginary), and manage multiple projects. The objectives ofthe Enterprise Program are to • provide opportunities for students and faculty to develop entrepreneurial and innovative engineering skills, • provide students with a multi-disciplinary design experience that involves other baccalaureate

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2001 Annual Conference

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Nanette Keiser; Gloria Tressler; Arlen Gullickson

ASession 1526@ Communication with Recipients of a Web-Based Evaluation Survey1 Gloria R. Tressler, Arlen R. Gullickson, Nanette M. Keiser The Advanced Technological Education Project, The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan UniversityAbstractA current method of conducting evaluation surveys is by using the World Wide Web as a delivery vehicleand computer programming to collect and process submitted responses. Benefits of this method includesubstantial savings in postal mailing costs, rapid access to survey assistance, and efficient

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2001 Annual Conference

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Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

, have launched an Engineering School-Industry Outreach Program inwhich students and faculty from the USA and Mexico reciprocate visits in order to teamup and "work together" in industrial projects in realistic professional settings. Studentsfrom both universities get credit from their home institution and are assessed based ontheir engineering performance on each project, despite the evident cultural, languageand environmental differences between people, universities and industries from bothcountries. While the main objective is to bring an international dimension toengineering education a proactive approach brings new perspectives to industry andacademia from which new lessons have been learned. For the participating students it was made

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2001 Annual Conference

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Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

spoken language is only one aspect of communication. For true understanding, inaddition to hearing what is said, the recipient of the spoken word, also, must be able toprocess the messages and set them into context. To complicate matters further, thecontext is dictated by cultural cues. Thus, in business, native English speakers shouldbear significant responsibility for their ability to conduct at least part their work in thelanguage of their hosts and cannot rely on translators to provide them with fully accuratetranslations.This paper discusses WPI’s ten-year history at its project centers in Puerto Rico andCosta Rica and the impact of knowing Spanish on the student experience inorganizational settings, on the outcome of their projects, and on

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terra Smith

needed to be developed. This paper discussesthe nature and overview of the project, undergraduate engineering students contributions to theproject, and the benefits to engineering students and community health care because of theproject.Nature of the project This project represents service learning (SL) with community-based research (CBR) andoutcomes research. This study is also reminiscent of appropriate engineering. The description ofservice learning that describes the project is also the description embraced by Messiah College'sengineering program12: Service-learning is a method and philosophy of experiential learning through which participants in community service meet community needs while developing their abilities

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder; David Ollis

Session 2475 Introducing New Engineering Faculty to Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration David F. Ollis, Richard M. Felder, Rebecca Brent North Carolina State University AbstractIn recent years, a large and rapidly growing body of academic research has invo lvedmultidisciplinary collaboration. This trend has been driven by a dramatic rise in funding formultidisciplinary projects and research centers, along with a growing recognition that few trulyimportant unsolved research problems involve only one

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

and consideration to the economics of fluid systems performance. The student will beable to identify the parameters that characterize the operation of fluid flow in incompressible andcompressible flow problems and its application on turbo-machinery systems. Computer programin FORTRAN or in C, MATLAB, and Lab View will be developed and used to support designand Lab projects and analysis.III. Developing Teaching Strategies: SEAARK Teaching ApproachThe faculty of the mechanical engineering department at Alabama A&M University adoptedSEAARK system approach for instruction and teaching. It starts from the basic to the complexlevels or learning. SEAARK stands for (in reverse order) Knowledge, Repetition, Application,Analysis, Evaluation and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ferguson; Lisa Anneberg

Session 2525 FRESHMAN ENGINEERING COURSE MODULE UTILIZING A 3 D MODELING TOOL Lisa Anneberg Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI Roger Ferguson Department of Computer Science and Information Technology Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MIABSTRACTInstructors of freshman level Introduction to Engineering and Design courses are facedwith numerous objectives, some of which are conflicting:1. interesting projects - from both the professor

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Outreach

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England College

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Materials

Engineering Education, 2011Information Literacy as part of the Materials Science CourseThe Materials Science course is taught at an introductory level to a vast majority ofengineering students at many institutions around the country. In one semester, it may benearly impossible to cover all the information, with significant breadth and depth. Toaddress this and give the students tools for lifelong learning, a project is assigned tostudents that include a paper and a poster. To give students research skills above andbeyond Google or Bing searches, an information literacy session is integrated into thecourse. The instructor and the librarian collaborate to develop an exercise that providesthe students with basic literature research skills, yet is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andy S. Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Sidi Berri, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

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NSF Grantees

, technicians, and designersfrom various disciplines to possess broader knowledge beyond their specialized fields and towork together concurrently. This concurrent engineering and mechatronic design approach,which emphasizes team collaboration, has become the new industry standard in product designand development. Mechatronic technology has been identified as one of the top 10 highlyinfluential emerging technologies of the 21st century by MIT’s Technology Review and by theInternational Center for Leadership in Education.Students from both departments were given mechatronic/robotic design projects that requiredthem to use actual mechanical, electrical/electronic hardware and software that are currentlybeing used by the industry. This enabled the

Conference Session

The Designer of 2020: Innovations in Teaching Design

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

AC 2012-3881: CAPSTONE DESIGN: INSIGHTS FROM AN INTERNA-TIONAL COLLABORATIVE STUDENT TEAMProf. James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology James Hanson is an Associate Professor of civil engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where his teaching emphasis is structural analysis and design. Over the last nine years, he has taught or co-taught capstone design. For eight of those years, he has been in charge of recruiting external clients and coordinating projects for capstone design.Dr. John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Page 25.285.1 c American

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2001 Annual Conference

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Gouranga Banik

applications without much difficulty.Key Words: Temporary construction structures, Construction, Architectural Engineering,Structures, Learning outcome.1. IntroductionTemporary structures are the essential components required to complete a construction project.Temporary structures are also a significant cost component on many projects, and in some cases,exceeds the actual cost of the in-place construction items such as formwork. Recent studies have Page 6.958.2been found that 40% to 60% of the cost of concrete work for the building construction is for the"Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth M. Bryden; Donald R. Flugrad

design objectives and constraints.2. The student should be able to implement various phases of the design process and use different tools and solution methods in each phase in the context of engineering design problems.3. The student should be able to use a wide variety of creative thinking methods and tools to develop unique, meaningful, and viable design options.4. The student should be able to incorporate analysis tools into the design process, choosing the correct tools for each aspect of the design process and each type of design.5. The student should be able to determine the best engineering design that satisfies all implicit and explicit constraints.6. The student should be able to schedule and plan engineering projects

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Nazalewicz; H. Hadim; D. Donskoy; B. Gallois; Keith Sheppard

” demanded of engineeringgraduates, as embodied in ABET EC Criteria 2000, by evolving them over the four years of thedesign sequence. Examples include effective team skills, project management, communications,ethics, economics of engineering, etc. It is also a means to enhance learning, as each of thedesign courses is linked to engineering courses taught concurrently. Students see this stronglinkage for the first time in the second semester of the freshman year when they take Mechanicsof Solids concurrently with Engineering Design II. Mechanics of Solids is a four-creditlecture/recitation course that integrates the topics of statics and strength of materials courses thatwere taught separately in the previous curriculum. In the two-credit Engineering

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Zelmanowitz

Session 3251 Incorporating Political, Social, and Legal Issues into an Environmental Engineering Course Sharon Zelmanowitz United States Coast Guard Academy 1. IntroductionEnvironmental Engineering is largely driven by the political and social forces that shapeenvironmental legislation and that influence the feasibility of environmental projects. As such, itis essential that environmental engineering be taught in the context of these issues rather than asa purely technical subject with no social or political relevance

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

R. J. Helgeson; Douglas Sterrett

have been added to the course to morerealistically reflect a real-life design project. These enhancements include a number of features,all of which attempt to show the relationship between analysis and design. The studentsemployed spreadsheet based mathematical models to optimize key parameters in their designprojects. Experiments were carried out to empirically determine energy-related parameters thatmay affect their design. Finally, limited application of error analysis was introduced byencouraging the students to examine expected performance when key parameters were varied.This paper discusses the success of this modified project approach, and possible improvementsthat might be incorporated in the future

Conference Session

Hands-On Learning in ET I

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Cioc, The University of Toledo; Sorin Cioc, The University of Toledo

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

, KEEN Ambassador and a 2021 Fellow, etc. She has numerous awards and recognitions to her credit, including several best paper awards.Dr. Sorin Cioc, The University of Toledo Dr. Sorin Cioc is a clinical associate professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Enhancing MET Education: Innovations in Laboratory Equipment DevelopmentIntroductionSenior Design Capstone courses provide a hands-on learning environment where students gainvaluable experience in project management, collaboration, problem-solving, and technicalexpertise. They

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Alan Gow, Alan Gow and Associates; EunSook Kwon, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-2562: INTERACTIVE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH:Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston FARROKH ATTARZADEH earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1983. He is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Technology Program. He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983. Dr. Attarzadeh may be reached at FAttarzadeh@central.uh.edu Page 22.938.1

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Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Hutzel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Otie Kilmer, Purdue University; Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Purdue University; Rosemary L. Kilmer, Purdue University; Clark A Cory, Purdue University; Travis Horton, Civil Engineering; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University; Raymond Patrick Hassan, Purdue University; Jonathon Day, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

professional responsibility is undergraduate instruction in architectural and construction graphic communication and visualization. He currently continues to develop & improve the Construction Graph- ics Communication specialty area within the Computer Graphics Department at Purdue. Clark has had over 35 years experience in the AEC industry with positions ranging from general laborer to project man- ager of residential & commercial structures and even designer. In addition to professional experience, teaching, and student organizations participation; Clark is currently involved in industry/educational part- nerships with such companies as Holder Construction, Saterfield & Pontikes as well as software develop

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Andy S. Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College Of Technology

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Engineering Technology

tight integration of mechanical components, electrical/electronicsystems, industrial design ideas, computer-control systems, embedded systems, and intelligentsoftware into the product design and development processes. Most of the products now beingdeveloped are mechatronics in nature. To help students to understand the multidisciplinarynature of the product design, various hands-on product design projects have been developed bythe faculty members in the two engineering departments. Students from four different fields ofthe two departments (mechanical engineering technology, industrial design technology,electromechanical engineering technology and computer engineering technology) have beeninvolved in these projects. Students are divided into

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandy W. Feola, Sinclair Community College; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College

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Engineering Technology

AC 2011-1709: ENHANCING THE STUDENT JOB SHADOW EXPERI-ENCE WITH INDUSTRYSandy W Feola, Sinclair Community College Sandy Feola works in the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) as Customer Engage- ment Manager supporting the METEC Online digital clearinghouse for manufacturing and engineering technology resources and provides project management. She is also a part time instructor for The Uni- versity of Dayton Engineering Technology Department (since 2007) and Sinclair Community College’s Operations Technology Department (since 1995) teaching industrial engineering and quality engineering curriculum. Over the past 25 years, Sandy has held engineering, contract support and management roles in

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Jackson

team oriented activities. Page 4.556.1The problem with the vertical separation between disciplines is that students from each disci-pline learn to solve their part of the problem independently. This separation discourages themfrom understanding the relationship among the problem components. The students can completetheir projects without having the opportunity to gain insight to the trade-offs required for anoptimal solution. While courses in each department include information about the other disci-plines, each is taught in a manner which tends to diminish the importance of integration.Moreover, the ultimate professional relationship among the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Naber; Jerry Branson; Glenn Edelen; Don Ruoff

capitalinvestment. A laser printer is used to print a circuit layout onto ink-jet paper or a commercialproduct (i.e. PnP-Blue from Technics, Inc.). The image is then transferred to a copper clad boardusing a standard household clothes iron. The transferred toner acts as an etch resist in a FerricChloride (FeCl3) bath. Using this method, it is possible to fabricate PCBs with state-of-the artfeature sizes as small as 4 mils using a 300 dpi laser printer. A higher resolution printer isexpected to give finer resolutions. Tradeoffs between the ink-jet paper and the PnP-Blue paperwill be analyzed and discussed. This approach has been used for graduate-level coursesincluding a VHDL class project to implement an ALU using a 44-pin CPLD and a microwaveclass project

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Stevenson

Session 2238 Using Computer Graphics for Descriptive Geometry-style Problems in a Freshman Graphics Course Dennis R. Stevenson, P. E. University of Wisconsin-ParksideAbstractThis is a report on a project to incorporate more challenging graphics in the form of traditionaldescriptive geometry problems, in a freshman graphics course. As a result of this project, studentsdo a greater amount of three-dimensional spatial analysis problems on computer instead of on paper.This project reflects a number of objectives of the program faculty. This institution uses

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John K. Brown

-faceted projects will structure the semester.During its first six weeks, students working in pairs will conduct the “Research Interview Project”(RIP). Under the project students choose a specific discipline of engineering (most choose theirprospective major), they conduct library research on that topic, and they interview an engineer inthat field. The interview and ancillary library research form the basis for a number of furthercomposition and speaking assignments. The RIP will help arm students with the perspectiveneeded to declare their majors.The second major project, tentatively called “Perspectives on Engineering” (POE), will occupy thelast eight weeks of the semester. For the POE project, each discussion section will break downinto five

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Kuc

, logic gates, computer hardware and software, measuring informationusing entropy, information coding and encryption, information transmission and informationmanipulation. EElOl includes a hardware and software project. For the hardware projecteach student implements a bean counter that counts a student-specific number of beans.The real success of the course is the software project that involves writing a personal WorldWide Web page and developing a Web page for a Yale-affiliated organization. Having takenthe course, students feel that they have an appreciation for the digital information artifactsthey encounter on a daily basis. The joys and tribulations of teaching EElOl are discussed.IntroductionThe problems with teaching science and

Conference Session

Learning by Doing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Morgan, Texas A&M University; Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University

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Civil Engineering

level capstone experience. This newcapstone course is coupled with two other required graduate courses: 1) a newly developedapplied finite elements (analysis) course, and 2) a pre-stressed concrete design course. Thisstructure requires the students to be a cohort through these courses and allows them to developlearning communities, to gain experience on high stakes teams, and to work on a larger projectthan normally available in an academic setting. These integrated projects allow for leveraging ofresources and just-in-time teaching and learning. The capstone design course is designed tofunction as a small structural engineering design office, where the class as a whole is developingalternative design solutions for a common client. A detailed

Conference Session

IE and Manufacturing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu Chang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William Peterson, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Industrial Engineering

productassembly efficiency.Overview of Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) program at MSUMany Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) curricula include both product design andmanufacturing processes courses. These courses typically focus on different product realizationprocesses and manufacturing process analysis, which often involve a lot of design andmanufacturing issues and theoretical concepts. At Minnesota State University (MSU), Mankatomany design and manufacturing projects attempt to provide the students opportunities to practicetheir design for assembly knowledge and build their own product assembly. In recent years,about 30 students in our program involve our DFA project every year. All of the students aregiven foundational DFA

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Lily Kemathe, University of the District of Columbia; Suresh Regmi, University of the District of Columbia; Kamden Patrice Kouam, The University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

capstonedesign projects and laboratory experiments to provide the students of wireless communicationand networking with a hands-on experience. The motivation of this approach is twofold. First,the projects pertain to the area of wireless sensor networks where rapid technological changes inwireless sensing devices have changed the types of work electrical and computer-engineeringstudents are likely to do in their careers. Second, student groups come up with their own projectapplications and problem statements for which to design a system.1. IntroductionThe academic field is undergoing significant changes correspondent to the revolutionaryadvances in technology. Nowadays, more students have full time jobs or family obligations,which negatively affect on

Conference Session

Industry Lead Interactive Session - Presented by IUPUI

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Lynn G Brown, The Boeing Company; Patricia Fox, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Alan Jacobs, Education Market Business Development Consultant; Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Daniel R. Sayre, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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IUPUI - Industry Lead Interactive Session

time she became the leader of various programs and projects for pre- dominately domestic higher education engagements. Due Boeing’s desire for international expansion, Lynn was given the responsibility of growing Boeing Higher Education International presence. This in- cludes: Developing corporate policy, procedures and guidelines for international university relationships Establishing corporate infrastructure and leading a global network of Boeing executives for implement- ing Higher Education engagements for the company, and Working across Boeing organizations to align higher education engagements and funding to the various Boeing Presidents’ country Strategies. Annu- ally, Boeing provides over $7.1 million