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Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Balachandran, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Lalitha Balachandran, Wisconsin Department of Transportation

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next section of this paper presents briefly the standards, elements and intellectualtraits of critical thinking. Deming’s Deming’s wheel wheel (P.D.C.A.) (P.D.C.A.) PLAN DO Continuous ACT CHECK Improvement & Learning Weekly Discussion e/Inertia Resistanc Figure 1: Process Approach to

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Position Titles Typical Professional Attainments Licensure Status Professional Experience Academic Qualifications (b) Teaching (c) Scholarship of Engineering Page 12.734.8 (d) Engagement [Service in the Profession]Assistant Professor Level ─Engineering Level 4Suggested Guidelines for Professionally OrientedUnit Criteria Leading to Tenure and Promotion(a) Comparable Professional QualificationsGeneral Characteristics. As a fully competent engineer in all conventional aspects of the subject matterof the functional area of the assignment, plans and conducts work

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

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: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, National Academy Press, 2006.8. Strategic Plan: Enabling a Strong U.S. Engineering Workforce for Competitiveness, National Collaborative Task Force on Engineering Graduate Education Reform, 2006. Page 12.733.8 Appendix AThe U.S. Department of Labor Engineering Job Rankings, Levels 1 to 9 Engineer Level 1 (GS-5)This entry level of professional work requires a bachelor's degree in engineering and noexperience, or the equivalent of a degree in appropriate education and experience. Assignmentsare designed to develop professional

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Raymond Morrison, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Norman Egbert; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

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, needs-driven, and systematic practice for the deliberate creation (invention / design), development, andinnovation of new, improved, and breakthrough technology to meet the hopes, wants, and needs ofsociety … for the advancement and betterment of human welfare (See Appendix B).As Sanders and Brown pointed out in 1966: 10 “The great discovery of our age is that technological innovation need not be haphazard. Industry and Page 12.600.7 government have developed a new concept of planned an systematized innovation, founded on vastly expanded scientific and engineering efforts. These institutions are now making regular provision

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Stacey Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crocket, California Polytechnic State University

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University of California, Berkeley. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Dr. Crockett is a specialist in technology development and commercialization of advanced materials and manufacturing processes. Prior to joining Cal Poly, he was founder and President of Xeragen, Inc., a San Luis Obispo-based biotechnology startup company. 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

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Wheeless, University of Washington; Brianna Blaser, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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a longitudinal tracking assessment. The annual evaluation has been an assessmentfixture of the program since the mentoring program began in 1998. It asks participants questionsabout the frequency and type of contact between mentors and mentees, questions related toperceived impacts on retention and career planning, as well as others ways participants feel theprogram may have benefited them. The university’s student database is used to follow the Page 12.1059.2degree progress of mentoring students. The student database allows program staff to collectaccurate enrollment data about graduate students. Additionally, it allows program staff to

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University

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transfer in the marketplace.The Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina (BGUNC) system echoed theawareness that the UNC system must play a “more direct, active role in economic development”in the state in its 2004-2009 Long Range Plan 17. In a study for the UNC system by the ResearchTriangle Institute on technology transfer capacity, it was noted that some campuses lacked theinfrastructure to support the process of bringing technology to the commercial stage. Among itsaction steps to improve outreach and engagement, the BGUNC identified the need to foster anenterprising university culture. In July 2000 the North Carolina General Assembly gave theBGUNC the authority to designate areas of campus land as Millennial Campuses which are

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael Todd, University of California-San Diego; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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willing to pay to learn abouttechnology developed through the EI demonstrates the relevance of the EI’s research work.Finally, the EI will continue to seek traditional academic metrics of peer review such as refereedjournal publications, presentations at national and international technical conferences, andparticipation in various professional society activities.Future Plans.Future plans for the EI fall into four areas of 1) personnel, 2) education, 3) research, and 4)facilities.Personnel. Personnel plans for the next four years include adding 1) one additional full-timeTSM, 2) three half-time staff members, 3) five, rotating, two-year staff positions, 4) two post-docpositions, 5) five additional fellowships for full-time UCSD graduate students

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaustubh Nagarkar, General Electric; Krishnaswami Srihari, State University of NY-Binghamton

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. Based on all the above work, three courses wereproposed in the field of health systems engineering which included, HealthcareInformation Systems, Quality in Healthcare, and Healthcare Systems. A plan to develop aspecialization in health systems engineering within the department was developed. Aftera comprehensive search and review, a textbook was selected, and several were identified Page 12.208.2for reference. Subsequently, a graduate course - Industrial and Systems Engineering inHealthcare – was introduced. This course includes an introduction to the issues in thehealthcare industry in the United States. It enables students to understand the

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy; Michael Jenkins, University of Detroit Mercy

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other comment the students wished to add.3.2 Impact on Students The responses of the eleven students who completed the survey were collected and analyzedto obtain general trends and attitudes towards graduate studies. Nine of the respondents havegraduated. The following general statements could be safely made. Four of the students were attending graduate school and four said they were planning onattending graduate school in the near future. One student said he was not planning on attendinggraduate school while the remaining student had no opinion. Seven students indicated that the research experience would help them ‘a lot’ in theirgraduate studies, while two said it would provide ‘some’ help. The remaining two students hadno opinion

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Kane, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Stephen Eck, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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shifted the administrative oversight of theBS/MS program to the Dean of Graduate Studies with marketing and promotion of the programto NJIT undergraduates becoming a joint effort of the Graduate Studies and the separateGraduate Admission Office (Ref. 4). This new partnership and the addition of key personnelresulted in an expansion of interest and participation of NJIT undergraduates in the program andin the important variations of the original and basic program.Need and OpportunityThe Graduate Studies Office saw this program as vehicle to develop the university in a numberof ways consistent with its mission and academic plans. The first opportunity was to increaseenrollment in the NJIT Master's programs and to increase the number of NJIT's own

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Marina Miletic, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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engineering education.Because student chapters are typically isolated geographically, the ASEE annual conference is anideal place for student chapter leaders to meet and exchange ideas about planning chapteractivities and events. Thus, the national ASEE organization can best support established studentchapters by facilitating student participation and interaction at the annual conference. The ASEEnational organization already helps student members attend this important annual conference bynot charging them a conference registration fee. This assistance is much appreciated and shouldbe continued. However, recognizing that the national conference is such a valuable part of theinteraction between student chapters and that travel costs can be

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.

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presentations focused on application ofconcepts to industry. Distance education technology includes WEBCT-Vista and video chatsessions using web-cams provided to the students.The curriculum consists of 30 credit hours of coursework which follows a fixed plan of study. Inaddition, there are three one-credit hour modules which covers a directed (applied) project.Students are encouraged to select an area for improvement in their career area. The target size ofa cohort is 25 students.In 2005, a program was initiated in cooperation with Rolls-Royce Corporation that was modeledafter the Weekend Program. It also follows a fixed plan of study modified to meet the needs ofRolls-Royce and is delivered at the UAW/Rolls-Royce Training Center by Purdue

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Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Kane, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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. Through the 1980’s, New Jersey Institute of Technology, known earlier asNewark College of Engineering, was best known as a primary source of practicing professionalengineers. Through visionary leadership, reasoned planning and goals setting, an engineeringapproach to tactics, quality measures, and strategic resource allocation, NJIT became a majorproducer of graduate degrees, with increasing emphasis on research and the doctorate. Amongits priorities were an increase in graduate program participation in both master’s and doctoralprograms by those traditionally underrepresented in engineering by both ethnicity and gender. Astep-by-step approach is described: data gathering and analysis of student achievement, settingof admission and retention

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Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Kenneth Burbank, Western Carolina University

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signal processing of the hand tremerdata. Since the AR model is an adaptive linear predictor, it is anticipated that it will be able toadaptively adjust to different patients. Eventually it is envisioned that these techniques couldbe implemented on an inexpensive portable digital signal processor-based device that wouldprovide the signals necessary for real-time electromechanical suppression of hand tremers.When we develop plans for a new project, we have found it beneficial to the student to get a Page 12.791.4senior working on the project during one academic year and then in the second year, when the Submitted for publication in the

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Godfrey, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University

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workstation after one hour of use. When the user Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright®2007, American Society for Engineering Educationlogs into the workstation, the Poweroff software and a log-in screen for recording eachuser’s activity are started automatically. Deepfreeze was used to remove any newlysaved data on the workstation after each restart. [5]The initial plan for the system was to allow each automated workstation to be on separatenetworks. Wireless Linksys routers were to be used to separate each workstation and thecorresponding wireless web cameras together. Each network was to be connected toanother Linksys router, which then would be connected

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anderson Prewitt, University of Florida; Wanda Eugene, Auburn University; Shaundra Daily, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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part of NSBE’s mission: “To increase the number of … engineerswho excel academically”. The Stratus Mentoring Program utilized a systematic mentoring modelfor its operation as opposed to an informal arrangement between potential mentors and protégés(See Figure Below). Page 12.1072.6 Stratus Mentoring Program Model PLANNING STRUCTURE ASSESMENT • Planning – Recruitment & Training – Goal Setting – Weekly

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Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yamilka Baez-Rivera, Mississippi State University; Lennon Brown, Mississippi State University; Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University

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is currently working with Mississippi Power Company in Gulfport, MS. He currently holds the position a Distribution Planning Engineer.Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University Noel N. Schulz received her B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1988 and 1990, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in EE from the University of Minnesota in 1995. She has been an associate professor in the ECE department at Mississippi State University since July 2001 and holds the TVA Endowed Professorship in Power Systems Engineering. Prior to that she spent six years on the faculty of Michigan Tech. Her research interests are in computer applications in

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norman Egbert; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

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created in response to defense product, space exploration,and national security needs have found applications across the broadest spectrum of both militaryand commercial products. As technologies have become available off the shelf, they havespawned a technology push enabling innovative products that have provided the U.S. a uniquecompetitive advantage. Continued high levels of Government activity in this arena are essentialto maintaining a competitive edge.System focused technology planning processes are now being established to better facilitate thedelivery of systems and solutions providing breakthroughs in functionality. These processesidentify needed technical capabilities that would enable systems to offer these new levels offunctionality

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Frehill; Amanda Lain, New Mexico State University; Ricardo Jacquez, New Mexico State University; Lauren Ketcham, New Mexico State University; Karen Luces, New Mexico State University

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students varied greatly in terms of their current stage of the graduate process.A few students had started participating in the Program as undergraduates, while others wereclose to the time when they planned to complete their qualifying exams. This heterogeneity,combined with the Program Director’s basis in engineering, made it more difficult for theseminar to fulfill the same role as it had with the first cohort. Furthermore, the bench sciencemajors in the second cohort already had support groups in the form of their lab groups. Thestudents who lacked this support—such as the lone African American woman in the mathematicsdepartment, a program in which students often work in solitude—were subsequently unable torely on the seminar in the same way