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Fernández-Raga, María; Villard, Thierry – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This case study describes two iterations of a cross-disciplinary Virtual Exchange (VE) project developed between the Universities of Bordeaux (France) and León (Spain), involving students of Applied Physics and Measurement Engineering (APME), and Electrical Engineering. The students worked together on designing a real garden in Bordeaux within…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Virtual Classrooms, Physics
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Nomnian, Singhanat – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
This study aims to explore the narrative identity of a politician-turned-doctoral student at an Australian university with a particular focus on his academic and social encounters based on his English resources and experiences of learning and living in Australia. This case study is unique in the way that very few Thai politicians would end their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Public Officials, Cultural Pluralism, Multilingualism
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Winn, Wendy; Beck, Katalin – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
Given the rapid advances in information communication technology (ICT) and the ever-increasing likelihood that students will be collaborating on cross-cultural teams in their future careers, creating opportunities to engage in collaborative writing projects across borders and then observing the dynamics of international virtual online…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Correlation, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education
Mak, Jenny Shuk Ching – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed-methods study explored the influence and applicability of the Perry Scheme to students from mainland China studying in the U.S. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the intellectual and ethical development of students from mainland China enrolled in a U.S graduate engineering program using the Perry Scheme of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Engineering Education, Ethics
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Hatam, Amir Hussein; Shafiei, Shilan – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of the present study was twofold. Firstly, it tried to investigate the relationship between the technical English proficiency of the students of Mechanical Engineering in the universities of Iran and their technical translation proficiency in translating technical texts of Mechanics. Secondly, it attempted to evaluate the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English for Special Purposes, Translation, Language Proficiency
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Miller, Lindsay – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article explores how Hong Kong Chinese engineering students with low English language proficiency manage to cope with their lectures given in English. An ethnographic case study approach was used with multiple sources of data triangulated to provide a picture of the lecture event from both the students' and the lecturer's perspectives. One of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency