2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Text Mining Analysis for Assessing Washington Accord Graduate Attribute Profiles through Techno-Socio Project-Based Learning Program

Presented at International Division (INTL) Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation, Globalization without Travel

Techno-socio Project-Based Learning program (PBL) is a very effective method to nurture engineering students’ skillsets and mindset as future professionals by identifying, analyzing, and solving issues through group work with a wide variety of teammates. This is a highly practical learning experience for participants to communicate with local government officers, industry professionals, and other local people, about societal issues and possible technology applications. This program especially puts high emphasis on experiential learning “outside the classroom”, namely field research activities that can supplement the limitation of conventional in-class studies. Engineering students can absorb what they need through practical experiences together with teammates with different backgrounds. While these experiences are valuable, in most cases they are not quantitatively measurable.
Meanwhile, PBL is highly suitable for 11 Graduate Attribute Profile (GAP) skills and awareness essential for global engineers defined by the Washington Accord (WA). They can be acquired through real-world experiences as “practice makes perfect”, rather than in-class lectures. However, these GAPs also consist of unmeasurable factors. Moreover, in the case they are acquired, it is difficult to clarify where, and how they happened.
This article examines the experiment to identify the causality between the techno-socio PBL contents and learning outcomes related to WA11GAP by applying a text-mining technique. The result concluded that this methodology is useful not only for grasping the effectiveness of PBL program contents from the cause-effect perspective but also applicable to other nonstandard teaching methods that cannot be quantitatively assessed with conventional exams.

Authors

Mr. Hiroyuki Ishizaki http://orcid.org/0009-0008-7482-2038 Shibaura Institute of Technology [biography]

Hiroyuki Ishizaki is a Visiting Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), a leading Japanese engineering school. His research interests include multidisciplinary teaching and learning, cross-cultural competence, collaborative online international (COIL), technopreneurship, and project/problem-based learning methods. As a Director of the Malaysia Office, he has been expatriated in Malaysia since 2014 and leading the internationalization of SIT and its partner universities throughout the Southeast Asian region. Under his initiatives, various short-term mobility programs and student exchanges have been started. He is also Chair of the Mobility Special Interest Group of Asia Technological University Network (ATU-Net) and initiated a COIL program called Virtual Asia Exploration (VAx) by orchestrating the collaboration of six Asian universities.
He is also an entrepreneur through his consulting company established in 2004, and has been rendering management consultation services to both small-medium size companies and multi-national enterprises such as global strategy planning, cross-border business entry, middle manager training, and partner development. These business achievements are reflected in his academic activities through the designing of lectures and mobility programs with practical implementation perspectives.
Ishizaki has been actively presenting and publishing his academic achievements at international conferences in the Asia Pacific region and North America such as APAIE, WERA, and NAFSA.
He earned a Master of Business Administration majoring in international business at the University of Southern California in the United States of America, and a Bachelor in Law at Hitotsubashi University in Japan.
Dr. Maria Anityasari http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4401-0051 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology - ITS [biography]

Maria Anityasari is the Director of ITS Global Engagement. Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Surabaya, one of the best sciences and engineering universities in Indonesia. Under her leadership, the university has been building partnerships in engineering and non engineering fields with various universities and institutions in different countries. She initiated many innovative and breakthrough programs, such as Community and Technological (CommTECH) Camp – a very successful world class short program, an intensive training on EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction) for lectures, connecting classroom programs, Global Project based Learning (GPbL) programs, intensive staff mobility between ITS and university partners, MOOC courses, and so on. She also created many programs to assist internationalization of other universities in Eastern Part of Indonesia (EPI). Currently she is the co-chair of Western Australian and East Java Universities Consortium (WAEJUC) for mobility and the vice-coordinator of Special Interest Group (SIG) for mobility in Asia Technological University Network (ATU-Net). She is also a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Industrial and System Engineering, with research interest in the field of life cycle management, sustainability, and system design.
Prof. Masaomi Kimura http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3991-4259 Shibaura Institute of Technology [biography]

Prof. Masaomi Kimura received a Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 1999. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering in Shibaura Institute of Technology. His current research interests are in the areas of data science and data
engineering as an application of artificial intelligence.
Prof. Hitoshi Nakamura Shibaura Institute of Technology [biography]

Dr. Hitoshi Nakamura received Ph.D. in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2006. He is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include Planning for Urban and Regional Resilience focusing on multidisciplinary studies across architecture, civil engineering, environmental studies, and social sciences.
Prof. Tomoko Iwata Shibaura Institute of Technology [biography]

Tomoko Iwata is a Professor in the Department of Planning, Architechture and Environmental Systems, Collage of Systems Engineering and Science at Shibaura Institute of Technologyt where she has been a faculty member since 2017 and a vice president since 2023.
She completed her undergraduate studies and Ph.D. at The University of Tokyo. Her research interests lie in the area of sustainable energy system, ranging from theory to design to implementation.
Dr. Mohammad Iqbal Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology - ITS [biography]

Dr. Mohammad Iqbal is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia. He received bachelor and master degrees from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember in 2010 and 2012, and doctoral degree from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan in 2022. His research interests include data science, data mining, and machine learning.
Dr. Imam Mukhlash Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology - ITS [biography]

Dr. Imam Mukhlash is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics in Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya Indonesia. He received a bachelor degree from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, master and doctoral degrees both from Institut Teknologi Bandung in 1998 and 2010, respectively. His research interests include data mining, fuzzy set and logic, machine learning, and it’s applications.
Faiqoh Agustin University of Maryland, College Park [biography]

Faiqoh Agustin is a Fulbright scholar currently pursuing a master’s degree in international education policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. With over seven years of experience in the field of internationalization in higher education, she has developed a keen interest in international education programs, especially within higher education contexts. Faiqoh is also passionate about advocating for STEM education for girls, reflecting her commitment to promoting equitable access to education.

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