Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Graduate Studies

by invited speakers,focusing on teaching skills and professional development. Topics for the seminarpredominantly focused on ethics, principles of effective teaching, communication skills,grading, student/teacher interaction, intellectual property and professional licensure, etc.Speakers for the seminar consisted of professionals from within the college as well asexperts from outside the college and industry. Attendance for the seminar was voluntary.However, to encourage attendance students attending minimum of five seminars receiveda Certificate of Teaching Preparedness and Professional Development. A Guidebook forGraduate Teaching Assistants is being compiled, which consists of summary for eachseminar topic, key observations and frequently

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Graduate Studies

between the Tata Group (one ofIndia’s largest corporate houses), a consortium of Singapore companies led by Ascendas LandInternational Private Ltd. and the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board. The aim ofthis park is to create a “one stop solution” for the high-tech needs of knowledge-based MNCs inIndia. The park already accommodates major industrial conglomerates in IT-related services liketelecommunications, R&D, financial services, biotechnology, and electronics. Such public-private co-operative initiatives have resulted in the explosion of high tech firms in Bangalorefrom 29 in 1992 to over 800 in 2000 with exports exceeding $1 Billion. The Indian ethic ofdedicated hard work is a societal asset that the managers of large MNCs

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Graduate Studies

attend Institution B because Page 11.1147.7they enjoyed the area and felt that it would be an ideal location to have a young family. It shouldbe noted that most students who participated in the focus groups at this campus were married orpartnered, and a significant number had young children.At this university, mandatory online orientation courses were used to introduce incomingstudents to the code of conduct and issues related to ethics in research. Additional social eventswere held at the beginning of the academic year to allow students to meet each other and learnmore about the campus. These events were considered to be very useful and many