McHale, D., & Okudan Kremer, G. E., & Dyrenfurth, M. J., & Bowe, B. (2011, June), An Investigation of the Perceptions of Gains from Undergraduate International Exchange Programs: The Tale of Atlantis   Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--17471

\bibitem{asee_peer_17471}
  McHale, D., \& Okudan Kremer, G. E., \& Dyrenfurth, M. J., \& Bowe, B. (2011, June), \emph{An Investigation of the Perceptions of Gains from Undergraduate International Exchange Programs: The Tale of Atlantis }
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--17471

Donal McHale, Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Michael J. Dyrenfurth, and Brian Bowe.  "An Investigation of the Perceptions of Gains from Undergraduate International Exchange Programs: The Tale of Atlantis ".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/17471 Internet.  04 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_17471}
  Donal McHale, Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Michael J. Dyrenfurth, and Brian Bowe.
  "An Investigation of the Perceptions of Gains from Undergraduate International Exchange Programs: The Tale of Atlantis ".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/17471 Internet.  04 Dec, 2024

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AB  -       An Investigation of the Perceptions of Gains from Undergraduate          International Exchange Programs: The Tale of AtlantisGiven the projections [1] that (1) the pace of technological innovation will continue to berapid, (2) the world in which technology will be deployed will become progressively moreinterconnected, and (3) designers, manufacturers, distributors and users will be increasinglydiverse and multidisciplinary; our graduates will need to develop a global awareness and theability to operate effectively in different cultural settings; settings where members potentiallyfrom various countries and regions with different traditions of work and personal relationswill endeavour to effectively collaborate. For third level institutions and specifically Schoolsof Engineering, Design and Technology intent on responding to the challenges of theseincreasingly important global contexts, a key emerging question is how best to preparestudents for such settings while continuing also with engineering fundamentals and theincreasingly complex technological subject matter.Clearly there can be several approaches to develop students for multi-disciplinary,international collaboration settings focused on engineering problem solving. Theseapproaches range from “course level” technology enabled virtual international collaborationsthrough to full-student exchange programs where the experience of an adaption and totalimmersion in a different cultural setting is possible. In general, the key drivers of the choiceof approach are: (1) Availability of funds to sustain the programs, and (2) Faculty buy-in.Given the impact of global recession on many educational budgets, it is imperative tounderstand the actual benefits in total immersion programs in comparison to internationalvirtual collaboration efforts. Indeed, a review of the literature did not provide conclusiveevidence. For example, while there are several papers discussing the benefits of exchangeprograms [3], authors, in general, do not use comparisons completed by validatedinstruments.We fill this void in the literature by a mixed methods approach (quantitative and qualitative).For the quantitative piece, we replicate selected sections of the P2P [2] surveys developed aspart of an NSF funded work (EEC 0550608). With the replication at hand, we specificallyfocus on the curricular experiences as experienced by students (program emphases, the extentto which programs focus on developing professional and problem solving skills, instructionalapproaches, and assessment practices), and ask the students who have international exchangeexperiences to record their perceptions about the programs they have experienced. Thequalitative portion of the study seeks to discern the value of these experiences through semi-structured interviews.The subjects of the study are the student participants in the DETECT Exchange Mobilityproject. The DETECT project is a four year project running until November 2011; one oftwo Exchange Mobility projects selected in 2007 for funding by the US Department ofEducation and the European Union under the Exchange Mobility Action of the EU-USAtlantis program. The EU-US Atlantis program is a program of co-operation in HigherEducation and Vocational Training between the US and the EU. The DETECT ExchangeMobility project is designed to promote transnational exchanges between four leadingEngineering, Design and Technology Education institutions (Dublin Institute of Technology,Dublin, Ireland and the University of Applied Science, Darmstadt, Germany; PurdueUniversity, W. Lafayette, USA and the Pennsylvania State University, USA). Funding ispredominantly used to support full-semester transatlantic student exchange and the projectaims to support a minimum of 48 full semester exchanges over its lifetime.In this paper, we provide the quantitative results collected through a two-column surveyinstrument with which students recorded their perceptions of these educational experiences,and then summarize the qualitative study findings to outlining the benefit of being immersedin the different educational settings. 1. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, National Academy ofEngineering, ISBN-13: 978-0-309-09162-6, 2004.2. Hoppe, U. (2010). ATLANTIS – Lessons Learned from an Educational Network for theMutual Exchange of Academic Courses in Management Information Systems, Proceedings ofInforming Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE).3. http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/e2020
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