Breakout Session 1 Global Awareness

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Breakout Session 1Global Awareness

• Identify current issues, problems,
  opportunities for students and faculty in ECE
  relative to Global Awareness?
• What incentives make us want to address these
  issues?
• How should the ECE curriculum overall be
  redesigned to enhance global awareness?
• What are some of the existing best practices in
  the area of global awareness?
• -Prepare summary presentation using either
  overheads or
• laptop (30 minutes, including discussion)
• -Working Lunch Continue working with group
  over lunch
• -After Break Summary report by each of the
  groups
• -Group leaders Coordinate report for groups

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Breakout Session 1Global Awareness

• Participants
• Frank Splitt, IEC, NW, Stephen Goodnick, ASU,
  Bruce Wessels, NW,
• Richard Blahut, UIUC (co-chair), Lloyd Harriott,
  UVa, Fred Looft, WPI,
• Bob Janowiak, ECEDHA, Stephen Phillips, ASU
  (scribe, co-chair)
• Identify current issues, problems,
  opportunities for students and faculty in ECE
  relative to Global Awareness? What incentives
  make us want to address these issues?
• Professionalism of students (business,
  community, advocacy etc)
• K-12 investment in noisy part of channel vs.
  top students
• ECE Offshoring IC mfg and now design with
  standardized tools
• Poor understanding of cultural economics,
  politics and business
• Educate for lifetime (China, India are
  countries du jour)
• Faculty buy-in for global awareness

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Breakout Session 1Global Awareness

• What are some of the existing best practices in
  the area of global awareness?
• Formal study abroad
• students study abroad, learn culture laws
  politics
• Real projects, statistics, academic methods
  needed
• faculty go with students and teach
• (WPI) 8 weeks, 2 faculty 30 students, safety,
  expensive
• faculty investment, streamlined process, peer
  mentors
• branch campuses
• relationships with another institution
• IAESTE
• Independent agency contracting model
• many students find it a life-changing
  experience

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Breakout Session 1Global Awareness

• What are some of the existing best practices in
  the area of global awareness?
• Non-abroad programs
• Collaborative distance programs
• Course study in globalization
• Integrated vertically through curriculum vs. a
  course or two
• International certificates and minors

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Breakout Session 1Global Awareness

• How should the ECE curriculum overall be
  redesigned to enhance global awareness?
• Instill professionalism, entrepreneurship,
  business sense
• Track in International Management, joint with
  business
• Courses on Asian/Latin/African history and
  cultural sensitivity
• Evaluate curriculum flexibility to allow more
  global emphasis
• More effective use of non-engineering electives
• integrated vertically through curriculum vs. a
  course or two
• prepackaged tracks or minors
• Specific global experiences (courses, tracks,
  capstone design)
• Global perspectives on I.P., offshoring,
  antitrust policy
• Must leverage existing resources, obtain
  faculty buy-in
• A systems view to enable the offshoring-proof
  engineer

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Breakout Session 1Global Awareness

• Actionable recommendations
• International NSF-REU
• Exchange programs with China, Japan, Korea etc
• International senior design projects
• International industry internships
• International management programs
• High level partnership between NSF and NSF-X
• Joint NSFs proposals from multiple countries
• Jointly NSFs funded student exchanges
• INTERNATIONAL Engineering Consortium
• Review of best practices in collaborations in
  software
• Prepare these for ECEDHA March meeting