Fasse, B. B., & Benkeser, P. (2011, June), Developing the Global Biomedical Engineer through a 12-Month International Undergraduate Research Experience in the U.S. and China  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--17744

\bibitem{asee_peer_17744}
  Fasse, B. B., \& Benkeser, P. (2011, June), \emph{Developing the Global Biomedical Engineer through a 12-Month International Undergraduate Research Experience in the U.S. and China}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--17744

Barbara Burks Fasse and Paul Benkeser.  "Developing the Global Biomedical Engineer through a 12-Month International Undergraduate Research Experience in the U.S. and China".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/17744 Internet.  09 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_17744}
  Barbara Burks Fasse and Paul Benkeser.
  "Developing the Global Biomedical Engineer through a 12-Month International Undergraduate Research Experience in the U.S. and China".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/17744 Internet.  09 Jan, 2025

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AB  -       Developing the Global Biomedical Engineer through a 12-month International               Undergraduate Research Experience in the U.S. and ChinaThe AAAA Undergraduate Research Experience (AURE) is an NSF-funded researchproject offering undergraduate students three consecutive semesters of lab research,including an integrated international component. The goal of AURE is to provideundergraduate students with an international research experience that offers them a globalperspective on research challenges and opportunities in the field of biomedicalengineering while enhancing their skills in scholarship and innovation through research.An ancillary objective is to motivate students not only to enter graduate studies, but alsoto enroll in a graduate program with a strong international component. The lessonslearned from this research fall into two categories: those learned by the students and thoselearned by the program facilitators. We will address the student outcomes in this paper.Participating AURE PIs are engaged in cross-cultural collaborative research projectslinking the XXX Department of Biomedical Engineering at WWW Tech and YYYUniversity with ZZZ University (ZU) in China. AURE students commit to the project forone calendar year by beginning their research in January of the spring semester andcompleting it in December of the following fall semester. During the intervening summersemester, students work in partnering ZU labs and reside on its campus in City, China. Intheir “home” labs at WWW Tech or YYY in the U.S. a graduate students are tasked withpreparing them to begin the research here that they will continue in the collaborating ZUlabs in China. At ZU, intermediate goals should be accomplished to enable the students tosubsequently return to their home lab where they will complete the work during the finalof the three semesters. It was predicted that this process would support a year ofcontiguous research and facilitate communication between the partnering labs on eachside of the globe. This plan took a detour causing the research trajectory to be lessseamless than the students had anticipated—as was their adjustment to communal livingwith eight strangers and to the cultural contrasts between China and America. The AUREstudents achieved both personal and professional success through their struggles todeconstruct and solve the complex problems associated with negotiating life and work ina novel context. They gained knowledge, confidence, and pride in their accomplishmentsas interdependent individuals and as members of the global community as well as in theircapabilities as biomedical engineers. They began to define themselves as engineers astheir experiences crystallized their plans for the future into a tangible reality. The purposeof this paper is to discuss the challenges that the students faced and what they learnedfrom those challenges.The research reported in this paper uses case study design to learn from the first AUREcohort of nine WWW University BME students. The triangulated ethnographic datasources consist of weekly thematic journal entries, surveys, formal and informalinterviews, and field-notes from a weeklong XU site-visit four weeks after the studentsarrived in China. The AURE journal entries served as a series of real-time interviewsfocused around weekly themes.
AU  - Barbara Burks Fasse
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
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