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Alok Verma; Nima Fathi; Paul Potier; Irfan Khan; Donna Lang

high schools. Lack of student interest in technical careers can also beattributed to a lack of an integrated approach in teaching math, science, and technicaleducation. Lack of a strong foundation in math and science at the school level has led to large-scale flight and attrition from STEM-based career tracks in higher education. Engineering andengineering technology programs throughout the nation have observed declining graduationrates and quality of incoming students. To engage students’ interest in a technical career path,students must establish a link between the theoretical knowledge and its application to solvereal-life problems early in their learning experience. Project-based activities have a provenrecord as an instructional tool. The

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ETD 425 Early Age Experiential Learning through STEM Pioneers (Work in Progress) Jafar Al-Sharab, Amal Al-Ruseifan, Mohammed Al-Sharab, Curtis Desslles, Safiyah Al- Sharab, Omar Al-Sharab Northwestern State University/STEM Pioneers Inc.AbstractSTEM education is vital and of concern to the future of our nation. This paper describes a newinitiative established to promote STEM education by delivering various engaging STEMactivities. The new initiative creates an awareness of career pathways at early ages. This effort isa response to the national need in STEM

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program to deliver a lab-based automotive lab to students remotely during the 2019-present school years while the COVID19 pandemic restricted student access to the lab.• Motlow State Community College in Tennessee uses zSpace to provide students seeking certification in advanced manufacturing, welding, and nursing with lab-based learning experiences.• High school students at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Rhode Island use zSpace to explore career pathways in advanced manufacturing, health science, automotive technology, engineering, welding, and other pathways before selecting a program of study. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration

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Mauricio Torres; Ying Shang; Zakariya Al Hamouz

ETD 475 Fig. 4. Co-ops or internships, area of engineeringStudents’ opinions on how the Mechanical Engineering program prepared them to perform intheir current career are neutral/somewhat related in 49.95% of the answers in Fall 2020, 30% and62.50% in Spring 2021 and Spring 2022 semesters, respectively (Figure 5). Fig. 5. Students’ opinions on how well prepared they are for their careers. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2023, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 475Mechanical engineering graduates work in construction

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Laurie Flood; Adam Slazas; Hank Stewart; David Walker

classrooms on campus to an operating plant, a virtual “cityat sea.” These students operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair complex propulsion,electrical, and support systems while being supervised and mentored by experienced licensedmarine engineering officers. MMA faculty members, many of whom have extensive industrialexperience, participate in the training cruises to provide education in the ship’s classrooms andoversee this experiential learning process. The cruise curriculum is both challenging andimmersing and provides context to the students about potential career opportunities andchallenges while preparing them to progress on their chosen academic path.While there are several engineering-track options available at MMA, one of the most

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Elizabeth Dell; Marcos Esterman; Carol Marchetti

improved.IntroductionWomen faculty continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields, despite an increase in thenumber of women earning doctoral degrees in STEM over the past decade [1], [2]. Barriers totheir participation include challenges related to work-life balance, career navigation, stereotypethreat, and unconscious bias [1]. Faculty who are underrepresented based on their identities otherthan and in addition to gender are also impacted by unconscious biases. This impacts therepresentation and inclusion of a diverse faculty in higher education. Unconscious or implicitbiases are associations that are made quickly that affect our perceptions, judgments, and behavior[3]. They may be based on physical or social characteristics associated with race or ethnicity

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systems thataugment workers and provide a safer working environment.The increasing prevalence of Industry 4.0 technologies in the process industry amplify an alreadysignificant skilled labor shortage in the US. A further hindrance is the low public visibility of theactivities and work roles in the process industries, often only visible in challenging applicationswith inherent safety risks, security concerns, and intellectual property protections.The first step to improving the workforce shortage is to improve awareness of the industry, itsimpact, and its career paths to the next generation preparing to enter the workforce. Atechnology-forward showcase of the process industry can recast perspectives and entice studentsand parents to further

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Chandramouli Chandramouli; Shoji Nakayama; Mohammad Zahraee; Niaz Latif

for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 345presented a proposal to PNW during January 2020. This initiative was developed to provide anopportunity for those individuals, who had many years of experience in the field but without abachelor’s degree, to advance in their respective careers. Based on the industry proposalpresented to the PNW, the Construction Science and Organizational Leadership (CSOL)Department took initiatives to develop a suitable program for construction industry professionals.This pathway program provides a pathway to construction professionals

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solution.The roles of faculty from the collaborating departments, resource requirements, challenges facedin conducting a project with an interdisciplinary team, and suggestions to overcoming theseobstacles are described. The primary objective and goal of the findings in this paper is to provideimpetus to engineering technology programs, and potentially other disciplines that see merit, toencourage, and perhaps require, at least one capstone project to be performed in amultidisciplinary and applied manner.Introduction and BackgroundA capstone project is the collection of knowledge attained and skills learned in a collegestudent’s career, culminating to one final presentation showcasing the ability to apply what hasbeen learned into the real world

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industry.IntroductionPartnership between educational institution, industries, and other units continues to fosterexcellent collaboration. There are many universities that partner closely with business andindustry to fit their needs. Universities and industries traditionally maintained relationshipswhich may include some of the same activities. The purpose of this SDCET’s partnership meetsnumerous elements in educating and preparing its students. However, the safety course is uniquesince it is not rarely covered in a specific course. The information and training they receive arevital for the student’s success in this chosen career. Again, programs that cultivated andstrengthen these relationships with firms, professional, society, and others. Proceedings of

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ourstudents. To do that we must Create a student focused and student-centered organization. The university, and particularly the engineering technology faculty, must adapt the numerous external requirements placed on our curriculum to best focus on the needs of the student with his/her graduation and career in mind. Include students in decision-making processes and teams. Campus decisions made that affect the students (and all decisions ultimately affect students) should be made with the Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education

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excellent lab equipment that works and challengesthe student to gain a solid understanding of the control dynamics of the process.A good plastics person helps tremendously. Also, a processor that costs $189 complete withsoftware is a great find. A good computer, an idea and a little money is all that is needed.And one may learn that eight units can be affordable. If possible, students should not be standingaround watching someone else demo the equipment. They should actually be performing theexperiment in small groups of two or three and be responsible for their own data or writing codeto control a process.The sharing of labs may also be useful to someone outside academia wishing to begin a career inautomation. The text (“Hybrid Text”) and labs

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Paniz Hazaveh; Aleksandr Sergeyev; Nathir Rawashdeh

for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 475Fig. 3. Average number of credit hours in each category of the mechatronics program in the US and Germany.The required internship in the German curriculum is potentially the most notable distinctionbetween the two curricula with a weight of 10 Credit hours. In the United States career servicesfacilitates events such as career fair which gives students the option of finding internships andco-op opportunities which are outside of the program degree. The number of credits hours spenton the

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

evaluating the performance of students in an engineering senior design course is a“tricky task,” and that many papers exist that simply discuss the existence of various gradingrubrics and outlines, but these papers rarely go into great detail. Hanneman mentions that “reportrubrics have been set up on purpose to be less student-friendly, but more industry friendly” [6].A similar emphasis is described later in Section III of this paper, while great concern andattention has been given to industry perspective of senior capstone projects. This “industry”concept may be relatively new to the students. Up to this point in their undergraduate career,students have largely focused their work solving a defined problem, formatted to their professor.Now, the

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Mohsen Azizi; Venancio Fuentes

. The ET Department continuously develops strongconnections with the community colleges and industries and offers significant hands-on Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 445laboratory experiences and applied research opportunities which complement the classroomexperience in preparation of students for careers in a wide range of industries.County College of Morris (CCM) is a community college located in Randolph, New Jersey,serving students in the northwestern part of the state. CCM has recently become a member of

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obstacles.One team implemented a state-of-art algorithm introduced during the recitation for stage 2,dynamic obstacle avoidance. As the course was designed for seniors and graduate students, mostof the students aimed to pursue their careers in robotics. They were motivated to work onimproving their algorithm performance as they were already interested in the topics. Having thesystem dynamics course listed as a prerequisite course, some students wanted to design their ownPID trajectory tracking controller instead of time-based control. We plan to include this as anoptional lab activity.Successes and ChallengesFirst of all, having Windows-based PCs in the lab caused some issues at the beginning of thesemester. Although ROS started with a Linux-based

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Brad Dahm; Emma Davidson; Paniz Hazaveh; Aleksandr Sergeyev

Department. Althoughthis project was not centered on a specific industry partner, it provided the same experience inworking with industrial equipment and creating an industrial environment within a laboratorysetting. The scope of the project was such that the students needed to adequately research theFANUC robotics platform as well as the safety equipment and procedures required for anindustrial robot work cell. This adequately mimicked the industry experience.The knowledge of robotic platforms is extremely valuable in industry today. Not only operatingbut having installed and configured a robot is an experience that will be helpful moving forwardinto other, larger projects in future careers. This project will help the community at

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Erik Kocher; Chukwuemeka George Ochieze; Ahmat Oumar; Travis Winter; Aleksandre Sergeyev; Mark Gauthier; Nathir Rawashdeh

with afocus on research and development.CHUKWUEMEKA GEORGE OCHIEZE is a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering in the University of Virginia. He earned his master’s degree from Michigan Technological Universityin the department of Mechatronics. During his master’s degree program, Ochieze was a mechatronics instructor inthe 2020-21 academic year for the Career Technical Education program in Mechatronics, which was recentlylaunched by Michigan Tech and the Copper Country Intermediate School District. Prior his master’s program, heworked with Lafarge Africa PLC as a mechanical design engineer and instructor.AHMAT OUMAR has a master’s in Mechatronics from Michigan Technological University. Prior to pursuing aMaster of

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assessment data will becollected from future offerings as part of the program’s continuous improvement plan.References1. J. D. Lang et al., “Industry expectations of new engineers: A survey to assist curriculum designers,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 43-51, Jan 1999.2. W. Stone and H. Jack, “Project-based learning integrating engineering technology and engineering,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., 2017.3. G. Figgess and R. Vogt, “Building career-ready students through multidisciplinary project-based learning opportunities – A case study,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., 2017.4. J. Song and D. Dow, “Project-based learning for electrical engineering lower-level courses,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., 2016.5. R. Ulseth et al., “A new

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Marilyn Dyrud

Engineering Education ETD 335By studying the design issues of Challenger, students can learn important career-related lessons,including the significance of choosing the lowest-cost design, the necessity of speaking out early(with ample support) about perceived concerns, and the frustrations of dealing with managementfocused on other issues—in NASA’s case, positive public relations.WhistleblowingBlowing the whistle is the predominant microethical issue in the Challenger disaster and one thatimmediately engages students. According to Harvard professor Sissela Bok, whistleblowing is“sound[ing] an alarm from within the very organization in which they work

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prepare engineering technology students for theirengineering career [5]. These projects are preferred by engineering technology programs for theirstudents who typically are more exposed to hands-on problems or applied engineering. On suchprojects, students learn to work with stakeholders to scope the project, clarify requirements, anditeratively work through the product realization to execute the project. Reifenberg and Long(2017) explain that industry-sponsored team capstone projects create value for the client and aremore valued by students. However, the broadly-defined nature of most client-based capstoneprojects can also lead to higher frustrations when the stakeholders (faculty members, sponsors,and student teams) are unable to develop and