International Research And Engineering Education: Impact And Best Practices
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| Abstract | The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Divisions in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE), created the International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) initiative. Launched in 2006, the IREE program aims to provide "opportunities for international research and education for early-career researchers, i.e., undergraduates and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty members, and to enhance U.S. innovation in education and research through closer interaction between U.S. institutions and their foreign counterparts". In 2006, the IREE program funded 115 proposals from 82 U.S higher education institutions. Researchers and their faculty attended and presented their trip report at a 3-day conference held at Purdue University in November 2007. The first grantees conference was attended by 170 people, including 47 faculty members, 113 graduate students, 6 undergraduate students, and 6 NSF staff members. The 2007 IREE Grantees Conference was to provide a venue and facilitated opportunity for the IREE awardees, both students and faculty, to share experiences and what they gained from their time abroad under IREE: Based on both verbal and written responses of the IREE grantees, common themes were identified regarding the impacts and the usefulness of conducting international engineering research. The common themes are organized into a set of 18 impact areas that are organized into three categories: technical, professional, and global/ trans-cultural. The paper also presents set of best practices and recommendations that maximize learning and research outcomes of international research and engineering education. |
| Contributor | Yating (Chang) Haller
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| Sponsored By | National Science Foundation, Division of Engineering Education and Centers, Grant No. NSF-EEC-0753112 |
| Cite this work | Researchers should cite this work as follows: Yating Chang, Dianne Atkinson and E. Dan Hirleman, (2008) "International Research And Engineering Education: Impact And Best Practices", Presented at the 7th Annual ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, Cape Town, South AfricaOctober 19-23, 2008. https://globalhub.org/resources/197. |
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