Preparing Students for Intensive Global Fieldwork: A Work in Progress

By Mary K. Pilotte1, Daniel F. Radcliffe2

1. Purdue University 2. Swinburne University of Technology

Describes the "backwards design" process for an Engineering-focused week-long study abroad program. Of particular importance is the ability of the authors to contextualize intercultural skills as critical to field-based engineering practice.

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This presentation, given at the CILMAR "Scaling Up" institute in 2018, nicely weaves together the literature on intercultural mentoring (see definition in Paige and Goode, 2009) and globalizing Engineering Education.  Readers who wish to know more may also want to consult two published articles by the authors:

  1. Pilotte, M. K., & Radcliffe, D. F. (2017, October). Preparing students for intensive global fieldwork. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  2. Radcliffe and Pilotte (2018) Field Investigations: An Overlooke Form of Laboratory Experience. Available at: https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/106/papers/21967/view
 

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  1. authentic assessment
  2. engineering