Conference Session

Cooperative Education Addresses ABET

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Stwalley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

priority given toanalysis is low. Bringing the entire process back within the central office in an electronicform will not only eliminate these deficiencies, but will also improve the quality ofinformation that can be derived from the data and the timeliness of the analysis. Thispaper is intended to give cooperative education and internship professionals an idea ofthe development path utilized at Purdue in planning and preparing to implement anoutcomes-based assessment system. The balance of this paper will examine the Purdue experience in developing anoutcomes-based assessment applicable to our situation. The following section willprovide background and examine the efforts of some of the acknowledged academicleaders in outcomes-based

Conference Session

Collaboration Provides the Best Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Koehler, North Carolina State University; Susan Matney, North Carolina State University; Jerome Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Mary Clare Robbins, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

mentors enhance their professional development as role models,share undergraduate experiences, and participate in a career-building experience. This paperdescribes the design and second year implementation of the MENTOR program includinglessons-learned and future plans for the retention of engineering students at a large, diverse,research extensive university.Background 1MENTOR (Motivating ENgineers Through Organized Relationships) is a ground breakingprogram in terms of its size and scope, whose aim is to increase student success in engineeringthrough early connections to a positive peer network.1 In order to understand the strengths,weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges of a program of this magnitude, we benchmarked ourplans with peer

Conference Session

Collaboration Provides the Best Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Anita Todd, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

are assigned to a Professional Practice (co-op) Faculty Advisor bydiscipline area. This faculty advisor is responsible for all aspects of thecooperative education program for their assigned disciplines. Co-op students arerequired to complete an “Introduction to Cooperative Education” class in theirfirst year, apply for and be accepted into the co-op program by meeting specificcollege criteria. Students are also required to meet with their faculty advisor inadvance of each new co-op assignment to discuss future plans and at thecompletion of each co-op assignment to reflect upon and discuss past experiences.Students are registered for cooperative education during the quarters they are onwork assignment and are considered full-time students

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Kettil Cedercreutz, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

alignment.The objective is to build feedback structures that keep the schools abreast of arapidly-changing environment. The inclusion of a wide array of programs and alarge, diverse reference group caters to building a process that can be effectivelyutilized in schools engaged in cooperative education within a diverse set ofacademic fields and educational levels. The Grant was filed by Cheryl Cates as Page 12.1480.2PI and Kettil Cedercreutz as co-PI in a joint effort with the Accreditation Councilfor Cooperative Education. The three year pilot program will involve theDepartments of Architecture (Prof. Anton Harfmann, College of Design, Art,Architecture and Planning

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Jon Whited, St. Jude Medical; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering and was employed by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, where he was a lead engineer and Principal Investigator on projects to develop technology evolution plans for the Space Station. Page 12.408.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Cooperative Education as a Prime Mover and Key Constant in Industry - University RelationshipsAbstractThe Cooperative Education Experience underpins the educational development of the student,provides an opportunity for the student to become familiar with

Conference Session

Cooperative Education Addresses ABET

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mathews, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

-8 employers with ahistory of hiring co-op students at MSU and invited them to breakfast on the morning of ourcareer fair when they were planning to be on campus already. We had approximately 15employers from 6 different companies represented at the breakfast. The main points that theemployers stressed in the surveying process were: ‚ the survey needs to be online and not paper that will get lost on a supervisor’s desk; ‚ the survey needs to take no more than 30 minutes to complete and 5-15 minutes would be optimal; ‚ the survey needs to stress to the employers that expectations for students may vary depending on the level of the student and their particular co-op semester; ‚ the survey would provide a vehicle for