Title :
International project experiences: assessing impact on students´ educational and personal development
Author :
Demetry, Chrysanthe ; Vaz, Richard F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
Abstract :
We are examining the impact of global, interdisciplinary project experiences on WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) students. A first step is to understand pre-existing differences in students who choose to do their project overseas and those who do not. Here we report results of an analysis of CIRP freshman survey data that shows significant differences in social and civic orientation between these two cohorts of students.
Keywords :
education; CIRP freshman survey; Worcester Polytechnic Institute; global interdisciplinary project experiences; international education; international project experiences; outcomes assessment; student development; students´ educational development; students´ personal development; Cascading style sheets; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Engineering students; Input variables; Instruments; Probes; Regression analysis; Security;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2002. FIE 2002. 32nd Annual
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7444-4
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2002.1158220
