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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jennifer Craig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Paper ID #17485TEACHING ORAL COMMUNICATION AT A RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY:HELPING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PRESENT THEIR ENGI-NEERING DESIGNSMs. Jennifer Craig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jennifer Lynn Craig is a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology where she teaches writing, oral communication, and collaborative skills to engineering students in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She has consulted in the grad- uate program of the Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as in industry. Ms. Craig has also consulted and taught

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Leslie Seawright, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Ibrahim Hassan P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Ali Darwish Alashar, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Paper ID #17480The STEM Loop: Undergraduate Engineering Students Create a STEM Chil-dren’s BookDr. Leslie Seawright, Texas A&M University at Qatar Leslie Seawright is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She has pub- lished several journal articles and book chapters related to pedagogy, Engineering education, intercultural communication, and notions of identity through literacy. Her research interests include technical writing, discourse analysis, community literacy practices, and transnational education.Prof. Ibrahim Hassan P.E., University of Texas, Austin

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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enhancing the understanding ofbiomass conversion technology and meeting the challenges of implementation in a developingnation. This project focuses on a global problem, energy demand, and utilizes an existingcollaboration to develop a miniaturized hands-on learning module for implementation in theclassroom and train future engineers from both sites while exposing them to internationalcollaborations to develop their problem-solving skills. The module is being designed toovercome process implementation barriers in resource limited environments like Nigeria.Discussions for writing and submitting the USAID-PEER proposal that supports this work wereinitiated by Washington State University (WSU) with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria,Nigeria, and

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Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island; Emily Ann Serman, University of Rhode Island; Megan Mercedes Echevarria, University of Rhode Island; Lars O. Erickson, University of Rhode Island; Silke A. Scholz; Anette Geithner

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planned. During the year the students also perform different fundraisingactivities and assist their faculty advisor with grant writing to support the trip expenses includingsupplies and maintenance of equipment. Since their formation the faculty-ESW-students haveraised more than $80K from federal and private foundations as well as support from individuals.Selection criteria for the team that will be going to Guatemala, are based on contributions to thestudents’ organizations, participation, as well as professional and personal skills. Spanish IEPstudents are highly valued amongst their ESW peers, because their language skills are essentialfor the educational activities that are simultaneously performed alongside the engineering work,and because

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Daniel Cox, Harvard University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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fields 3. Weexamine “active learning” in this study by applying Chi’s ICAP framework4,5. This frameworkmakes a hierarchical distinction between levels of “active learning”: 1) Passive consumption ofinformation as a baseline, 2) Active learning, which involves manipulating instructionalmaterials or content (e.g., pausing and playing a video) and therefore demands focused attention(e.g., recording pause/play click behavior or recording eye-tracking in videos), 3) Constructive Page 19.23.2learning activities, which require users to generate content (e.g., writing on a blog, responding toan appropriately-vague hint), thereby requiring knowledge

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Douglas Moore Schutz, Tokyo University of Science; Dante Dionne, Korean Air; Yong-Young Kim P.E., Konkuk University

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hierarchicallevels across more autonomous employees having similar hierarchical levels in flattertopologies [35]. In student-centered pedagogy learning theory at many universities in theU.S., learning shifts from top-down to bottom-up. This can be particularly helpful atengineering schools where classes are being turned “upside-down” with peer-led teamlearning workshops. This active-learning approach has led to increased confidence,intellectual curiosity, and interest in teaching among students [37]. Through student-centeredlearning, the individual student is responsible for setting learning goals, working towardsthem, monitoring feedback, and making appropriate adjustments [38]. We use power distanceas our measure for hierarchy. Power distance is the

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Outreach

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Jane Goodyer P.E., Massey University; Lizzie Miles, Coventry University UK; Anh Lan Ho Tran, Coventry University

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resources, age/seniority,negotiation style, trust, personal connection10,11,12.UNESCO UNITWIN FormationThe UNESCO UNITWIN in Humanitarian Engineering was signed in May 2013. Two yearsof the initiative have transpired and the first report has not yet been submitted to UNESCO,therefore the data summarised in this paper should be treated very much as preliminary dataand interpreted as such.When initially setting up the UNESCO UNITWIN strong parallels could be drawn betweenits operation and the Tuckman Model for ‘Developmental Sequence in Small Groups’15. Withthe actual development and writing of the proposal simulating the Forming Stage cultivatinga positive and polite atmosphere between partners. This has rapidly been followed by theStorming Stage of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II Skills Development

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2016 ASEE International Forum

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Saud A Ghani, Qatar University

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confidence, respect and motivation is useful inall kind of working fields; specially women undergraduate engineers are more confident whencompared with males of other discipline groups. Khazanee (1996) referred to female engineers,such as less aggressive attitude towards colleagues than males, tendency of listening more andacting not spontaneously, and being more attentive, accurate, and organized. Additionally,successful ability writing in math and science by females, can prove advantageous in allacademic fields (Halpern et al. 2007), while introduction of unique and important perspectivesand priorities will conclude into positive social outcomes and greater ethical accountability(Eagly and Carli 2003). Females are characterized as high self

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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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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3 4 In order to develop leadership skills, technical skills and other essential soft skills requestedby industry, the program requires that the students attend a team building week during the summer,go to weekly workouts, develop and join leadership workshops, read leadership books, write bookreports, practice giving presentations, participate in a summer internship, take extra classesimportant to an engineering curriculum and maintain a 3.0 GPA. The results of all those activitiesare recorded and analyzed using a powerful tool called the Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix for strategicplanning to evaluate the success of the program and to teach

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

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2015 ASEE International Forum

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Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Maria Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, ​ Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics National Zoological Park

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Education Forum (WEEF) – Cartagena, Colombia) 2013 UMET-Puerto Workshop: Writing for Dr. Kevin Omland, Dr. Rico Publication Renetta Tull, Nandadevi Cortes (UMBC) 2014 UMBC Panel: Global Pathways to Representatives from The Careers Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State, and Instituto Tecnológico y de