The Effects of a Water-Focused Study Abroad Program on Engineering Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence

Merfeld-Langston, Audra L.; Elmore, Andrew Curtis

doi:10.1061/9780784480595.050

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“…All students reported increases in their intercultural knowledge, attitude, skills, and awareness after their international experiences (Figure 1), which is consistent with previous findings about engineering doctoral students who scored higher for intercultural competency on the Miville–Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale-Short form after international experiences (Main & Wang, 2020). Engineering student participants in a three-week study-abroad program to Guatemala increased their scores on intercultural sensitivity assessments after the trip (Merfeld-Langston & Elmore, 2017).…”

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International Research Experiences and Global Competency Development for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science

Verbyla

Vernaza-Hernández

Feldman

2023

Journal of Studies in International Education

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Challenges from globalization, population growth, and climate change require science, technology, and engineering (STEM) professionals to have global competency. However, the impact of international experiences on STEM students’ development of these abilities has not been well studied. We assessed the effects of international research experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Europe on the development of global competency for STEM graduate students from the United States. Research placements in LAC were generally field-based, involving interactions with community members, while placements in Europe were mostly lab-based. Surveys and interviews with participants before and after their trips revealed increases in intercultural abilities for students from all groups. Students who traveled to LAC had higher intercultural abilities before the trip but experienced smaller gains than their counterparts who traveled to Europe. Despite the value in community-based activities for students outside of university settings, more effort is needed to eliminate students’ barriers to understanding communication styles in their host communities.

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International Research Experiences and Global Competency Development for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science

Verbyla

Vernaza-Hernández

Feldman

2023

Journal of Studies in International Education

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“…Intercultural competence development plays a vital role across fields including (but not limited to) medicine (Bein, 2017), law (Healey, 2018), and engineering (Merfeld-Langston & Elmore, 2017). As an essential lifelong learning skill in diverse disciplines and contexts, intercultural competence has been defined in various ways to adapt and connect it to specific fields.…”

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Intercultural competence development via service-learning in Spanish for the professions

Poteau

2019

Rev. signos

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With an overview of the concept of service-learning in Spanish-language courses, this article will examine the following four principal areas to help educators prepare individuals for effective intercultural communication in their prospective fields: (1) role of intercultural competence development across disciplines and in service-learning programs, (2) interdisciplinary approaches to service-learning program development, (3) connect two types of learners (heritage and foreign language learners) in Spanish for the Professions courses to linguistic and ethnic minority challenges to seek solutions to growing disparities across professional contexts through active classroom-tocommunity connections, and (4) empirically examine the benefits of service-learning with a primary focus on heritage language learners in two university courses (Spanish Interpretation and Translation) that involve the establishment of diverse global and local community partnerships that bridge the classroom with the community and seek to eradicate disparities. Results suggested that students (N = 19) in the service-learning programs thought these programs positively affected intercultural competence and linguistic skills development. Study limitations are explored with suggestions for future research.

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Comparison of Field-Measured Ceramic Pot Filter Performance and Users’ Perception of Performance in Coastal Guatemala

Salvinelli¹,

Merfeld-Langston²,

Elmore³

2018

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018

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The Effects of a Water-Focused Study Abroad Program on Engineering Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

International Research Experiences and Global Competency Development for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science

International Research Experiences and Global Competency Development for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science

Intercultural competence development via service-learning in Spanish for the professions

Comparison of Field-Measured Ceramic Pot Filter Performance and Users’ Perception of Performance in Coastal Guatemala

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