Conference Session

Programs That Serve Industry and Academia

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Wittenborn, Boeing Company; Michael Richey, Boeing Company; John Paredes, Boeing Company; Daniel Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dale Atkins, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Continuing Professional Development

also heavily involved in a similar program with Purdue University. Dr. Wittenborn earned his Ph.D. from the College of Technology at Purdue University where he was also selected as a Bilsland Dissertation Fellow. His doctoral research focused on distance and engineering education, as well as evaluation and assessment. He also has a M.S. from Purdue University in Computer Graphics Technology, focusing on Virtual Product Integration. He earned his B.S. from Southeast Missouri State University in Technical Computer Graphics.Michael Richey, Boeing Company Michael Richey is Associate Technical Fellow currently assigned to support Workforce development and Learning Science research

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon deMonsabert, George Mason University; John Lanzarone, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Mico Miller, George Mason University; Barry Liner, George Mason University

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Continuing Professional Development

in GMU offering a Graduate Certificate Program in TechnicalEntrepreneurship tailored to meet the needs of USACE. Technological change and the increasein privatization and enterprise development trends within the public sector require a wide varietyof multidisciplinary skills for the successful management of government technical programs andprojects. The graduate level technical entrepreneurship certificate responds to the need for broadtraining in entrepreneurial skills, performance measurement, engineering informationmanagement, systems analysis and leadership.This paper assesses the impact of the GMU certificate program on USACE Headquarters and itsemployees. It attempts to answer the question: Are USACE engineers better leaders

Conference Session

Programs That Serve Industry and Academia

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Timothy Keener, University of Cincinnati

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Continuing Professional Development

the educational objective of the student.In today’s competitive technology environment, industries need to have highly skilled practicingengineers who are flexible in their professional capabilities. The MEng program is a practiceoriented, focused degree and caters to this need. Graduates will contribute significantly to thetechnical competitiveness of business and industry.The degree is based on the successful completion of a minimum of 45 credits of graduate-levelcourse work and does not require a thesis. The Master of Engineering has a common corecurriculum that all students are required to take regardless of their discipline specific goals and anumber of discipline required courses. There is also ample opportunity to choose electives

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Baukal, John Zink Institute; Wes Bussman, John Zink Institute

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Continuing Professional Development

education may take a variety of forms ranging from 30 minute webinars toadvanced graduate degree programs. This paper focuses on technology-specific short coursesthat generally last one to five days, eight hours per day. Here, the short course is on burners usedin process heaters (see Figure 1). It is important to note that most undergraduate chemical andmechanical engineering programs have very little if any content on combustion. Therefore, mostgraduates who work with fired heater equipment learn theory and application in their field aftergraduation, through a combination of on-the-job training, magazines, journals, books, andcourses. This paper focuses on a course that uses a variety of techniques to teach heater control

Conference Session

Programs That Serve Industry and Academia

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Baldwin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; John Ludwick, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kevin Marshall, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Continuing Professional Development

Promotion and shared a Potluck Gold BDA for the SIGGRAPH short "Road to San Antone," which he storyboarded. As an independent project, John designed, directed and animated the short "Baguira." a depiction of one minute in a house cat's life was shown in Brazil's 2003 Anima Mundi festival. He's been published in SIGGRAPH and the The World Congress on Communication and Arts, giving analyses of Educational Animation and Design.Kevin Marshall, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Kevin Marshall currently splits his time between Director of Computer Graphics Technology for the Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI and running his own interactive media company, Rocket

Conference Session

Programs That Serve Industry and Academia

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao, North Dakota State University; Zhi GE, North Dakota State University; Charles McIntyre, North Dakota State University

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Continuing Professional Development

felt as thoughthey were doing all the work and the instructor was “just there” in case questions should arise. Itmust be noted that this perception was voiced by a minority of the students, but further datacollection and analysis is required in order to investigate and address this perception.Bibliography Page 14.453.9 1. Wahby, “Teaching Construction Project Management On-line: A Case Study.” Proceedings of 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, ASEE, 2005.2. Bury and Mutter, “Implementation of a Web-Based Curriculum in Architectural Engineering Technology.” Proceedings of 2005

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Continuing Professional Development

AC 2009-865: ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENTS THATADDRESS INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITYMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional , national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of