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Graduate Student Experiences

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Norton, University of Michigan; Reginald Rogers, University of Michigan

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under the moniker “Future Faculty Series” wasoriginally created by student chapter members and has been offered by the student chapter sincemid 1990’s. Recently the CoE instituted a program of their own, called Academic Careers inEngineering and Sciences (ACES) with very similar objectives and structure. The describedobjective of ACES is to prepare senior graduate students for careers at research-orienteduniversities and institutes. The student chapter found that ACES directly mirrored three of the Page 11.1429.2four Future Faculty Series sessions offered by ASEE. The student chapter was even approachedby the Dean of Graduate Students and asked

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland; Janet Davis, University of Washington

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teachingpositions after graduate school. The Preparing Future Faculty program is an exampleintervention to assist graduate students when making career choices and preparing for a facultycareer. Because graduate students generally complete an advanced degree at researchinstitutions, there are few opportunities for graduate students to learn about teaching positions atteaching-oriented colleges and universities.The purpose of this paper is to provide advice and information to graduate students in computerscience and engineering fields who are considering a teaching-oriented position after graduateschool. There is little information about teaching-oriented positions and few opportunities formentorship between faculty in teaching-oriented positions and

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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LaRuth McAfee, State University of New York-Stony Brook; David Ferguson, State University of New York-Stony Brook; LaRuth McAfee, State University of New York-Stony Brook

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, Engineering, and Mathematics DisciplinesAbstractThis study seeks to determine key factors influencing the career choices and experiences ofunderrepresented minority undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and facultymembers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Specialattention is given to exploring factors influencing decisions to move along paths leading to theprofessoriate. Questions being studied include 1) what are the key factors influencing minoritystudents' decisions to pursue graduate study in STEM, 2) what are the key factors influencinggraduate students' decisions to select the STEM professoriate as a career choice, and 3) what arepatterns in the experiences of minority graduate students

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekhar Bhansali, University of South Florida; Ashanti Pyrtle, University of South Florida; Louis Martin-Vega, University of South Florida; Peter Betzer, University of South Florida

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techniques for college-level science andengineering instruction; with development of professional and “soft-skills” including technicalwriting (research manuscripts and proposals), conference presentation preparation (oral andposter), professional etiquette, time management, strategic career planning and interviewingskills. The courses were cross listed in both Colleges of Engineering and Marine Science.These courses were designed as half-day biweekly sessions that started with a working lunch.This enabled the students to interact and share their concerns, challenges, successes and failureswith the group. The courses were offered separately in Fall and Spring, ensuring studentinteraction for two semesters.C. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority PhD

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shashi Marikunte, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Frances Harackiewicz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lizette Chevalier, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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offered for Fall 2005. Dean of the College ofEngineering was the speaker on Ethics. Distinguished speakers for other topics included:an expert from the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts on CommunicationSkills; Professors from various departments within the college, who were recipient ofbest teacher award on Effective Teaching; professionals from career services on ResumeWriting; an expert from Department of Psychology on Learning Styles; and an expertfrom School of Law on Intellectual Property. Speakers had wide latitude as to theirpresentation format and content within the topic. This proved to be beneficial to speakersas well as graduate students. Selection of topics and speakers for Spring 2006 is inprogress at this time. The length

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ernest McDuffie; Elaine R. Milliam; Robert Kavetsky; Ronald Bennett; Eugene Brown

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degrees to ensure the economic future of the nation;• To foster stronger ties between the university researchcommunity and the Navy in order to apply the latest research in amore timely fashion;• To provide new pathways for talented STEM professionals toenter careers at Navy research and development centers.The focus of the NNCS Leadership Symposium is having an initialgathering of students from several different universities across thenation. They will come together to form learning communitiesacross boundaries. Each student will engage with teams oflearners, mentors and advisors from differing backgrounds andinterests. These teams will provide an environment for learningsupport, for deep inquiry and encouragement for stretching oneselfto take

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Graduate Studies

2006-16: ON THE STRUCTURING OF THE GRADUATE ENGINEERINGDISQUISITIONDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been a manufacturing engineer for over four decades, roughly equally divided between industrial and academic employment. He has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. Prior to this appointment, he served in a manufacturing engineering and education post at Focus: HOPE for six years and on the faculty of University of Cincinnati for fifteen years. His early career included some twenty years in research and development, manufacturing engineering and production management in the power generation

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Michael Clare, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; John D. Graham, Western Carolina University

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2006-1509: ACADEMIC CAPABILITY PRODUCING ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT: A SUCCESS STORYPhillip Sanger, Western Carolina University Phillip Sanger is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Technology and serves as the Director of the Center for Integrated Technologies at Western Carolina University. He holds a B.A. in Physics from Saint Louis University and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Technology development including MRI magnets and SiC power devices plus economic development has been his career foci.Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University Aaron K. Ball is an Associate Professor and serves as the Graduate Program Director in

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy Noonan, Purdue University; Jaemeen Baek, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sangil Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ulas Tezel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Grant Michalski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chia-Hung Hou, Georgia Institute of Technology

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master’s students in general cared less about the number of Page 11.130.13papers they published and where their papers are published considering that such achievementstypically are not as important to their career goals as they are to goals of Ph.D. students.Questions (H3) and (H6) produced specific, overlapping comments.However, there were some potential validity issues associated with Blocks G and H. At least onestudent was confused by the term “methodology” in (G1). Several respondents selected multipleanswers in (G2) suggesting that they were considering with equal weight multiple career optionsfor after graduation. In future surveys, (G2

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidar Malki, University of Houston; Michael Gibson, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

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Graduate Studies

those sought by9; i.e. persons who seek to emerge as leaders and arepursuing career paths centered upon the “creation, development & innovation of new/improvedtechnology in the form of new/improved/breakthrough products, processes, systems, or technicaloperations.”Program implementation, Growth, and AssessmentThe initiation of the M.T. program should begin in 2007-2008 with an expected enrollment of 10-15 students. It is expected that the program will experience 20-25% growth in its first 3 yearswith a leveling out of 50-75 headcount in the program over time.Initial growth will be the result of local and national marketing efforts to businesses, industries,governmental agencies, and other universities. These marketing efforts will emphasize

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc.; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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been slowdowns in space program activity and layoffs of highly skilled space technicianson the Space Coast. One of the goals of the Space Coast Innovation Outreach Network (SCION)is to retrain and redeploy these skilled resources into careers in high tech entrepreneurship.Research indicates that teaming researchers and engineers from private industry and universitiescan help overcome the problem of the “Valley of Death” a dangerous portion of the innovationcycle where technological advances are established, but never put to productive use or brought tomarket.17 The conclusions from the 2002 AUTM Licensing Survey support this by showing thatthe academic and industrial technology transfer field is an integral part of the innovationeconomy