Development Of An International Collaboration In Electrical (And Related) Engineering Disciplines Between The College Of Technology, Purdue University And The Faculty Of Engineering, Dublin Institute Of Technology

Abstract

Development of an International Collaboration in Electrical (and related) Engineering Disciplines between the College of Technology, Purdue University and the Faculty of Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology. This paper focuses on the forming of the Purdue College of Technology-DIT relationship and will review the similarities and the differences in teaching and other practices in a number of departments in both institutions and will report on some of the difficulties, successes and failures encountered in the process so far. The paper will establish the parameters of the collaboration by firstly providing a comparison of the organizational structure at departmental level, identifying programs taught, subjects/courses and their relative levels and time lines. Page 11.472.2 Collaborative activities include student exchange, faculty exchange and faculty collaboration. The paper discusses the process of encouraging students and faculty to 'buy' into the process and reviews specific cases of exchange and collaboration. Paper Overview This paper will firstly outline and review the areas or lines of activity which need to be addressed to ensure a successful ongoing engineering technology international collaboration from the department head's perspective. Each of the areas is briefly discussed in terms of various approaches towards making progress in the form of guidelines, protocol proposals, course and curriculum matching, language and terminology normalisation or matching, calendar comparisons and actions to be taken. The paper will then go on to provide an overview and then address in some detail the practical and organizational issues which need to be addressed. These will include comparison of departmental organizational structures, curriculum subject mapping, calendar mapping and its impact on travelling students, identification of undergraduate projects, short visit structures, comparison of terminology, and a glossary. Outline of Issues for Collaboration This section proposes an outline plan or roadmap which will help to establish a structure within which the development of the collaboration can be managed (see Figure 1). Here we can list problems and challenges we experience (for each of the following points) when pursuing collaboration and expand upon the main areas for collaboration, i.e. Faculty exchange Undergraduate exchange Postgraduate exchange Industrial internships Research and development projects Scholarly work Professional society work, e.g., SEFI, ASEE, etc

Integrating Teaching Abroad Into An International Student Exchange Program

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