Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper and presentation will chronicle the experiences of an undergraduate student participating in an NSF funded international summer research experience for industrial engineering students at the Universidad Nacional Del Táchira in Venezuela (The Experimental National University of Táchira State).The authors along with students from University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Virginia Tech University conducted research relevant to industrial engineering, gained intensive language training and stepped out of the familiar to encounter different and diverse people, cultures, and lands which broadened their world view.We will discuss how this experience prepares the next generation of engineers by exposing them to different cultures prior to entering the workforce and improves the undergraduate experience.The outcomes of the experience were: 1)to improve students' knowledge of, as well as a demonstrate proficiency in, culturally competent research skills relevant to their major field of study under the mentorship of a faculty member; 2) to increase students' level of comfort when working with people from different cultures through exposure to the technological, economic, and socio-political aspects of Venezuelan society; and 3) to increase students' awareness of cultural differences by considering their own culture from another's perspective and thereby develop a global view of research.
Source: ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors: Stephanie G. Adams, Jeffrey W. Rieske
Institution: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407678101