Engineering – The Model To Practice Dialogues MTPD™ https://mtpdculture.org Enabling positive social change by facilitating intercultural communication with the Hofstede theories Sun, 03 Apr 2022 08:16:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 184201045 Cultural differences in software engineering https://mtpdculture.org/articles/cultural-differences-in-software-engineering/ https://mtpdculture.org/articles/cultural-differences-in-software-engineering/#respond Sun, 03 Apr 2022 08:16:24 +0000 https://mtpdculture.org/?p=2294 ABSTRACT

The effect of cultural differences is often overlooked or neglected when analysing attractive, cost-effective options for software development. This papers aims to highlight people issues that arise out of cultural differences between interacting software development teams, particularly between Indians and non-Indians. The author’s intent is to merely bring out the differences and not to provide solutions or recommendations or to identify root causes for the behavior. This is an experience paper, mostly based on observations and sharing of personal experiences from various colleagues and coworkers.

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]]> https://mtpdculture.org/articles/cultural-differences-in-software-engineering/feed/ 0 2294 Encouraging cultural awareness in engineering students https://mtpdculture.org/articles/encouraging-cultural-awareness-in-engineering-students/ https://mtpdculture.org/articles/encouraging-cultural-awareness-in-engineering-students/#respond Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:12:03 +0000 https://mtpdculture.org/?p=887 : With ever diversifying engineering student cohorts, faculty, and ultimately, engineering workforce, there is an increasing need to foster genuine cultural intelligence and awareness in students. An in-depth audit of graduate attribute-oriented learning experiences in engineering curricula at the University of Wollongong, identified a very limited number of learning experiences targeting cultural intelligence. This paper
describes a project aimed at developing learning activities to improve the cultural awareness of first year engineering students. Crucially for the project, activities had to be developed with ‘nuts and bolts’, or ‘formulae’ focused engineering students in mind. Concepts of Critical Consciousness and self reflection have been cunningly disguised in activities that are directly relevant to engineering, and more specifically the area of
engineering design and innovation. Stimulus material, discussion and design activities are packaged for a series of one hour tutorials to be run in conjunction with more traditional design and drawing tutorials. Evaluation of the effectiveness of this approach using a quantitative survey and qualitative focus groups is due to be completed in the second semester of 2010.

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