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Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven H. Billis, New York Institute of Technology; Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Alan Jacobs, Education Market Business Development Consulting; Ziqian Dong, New York Institute of Technology

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Page 25.778.2undergraduate disciplines that benefit most from experiential learning. Despite acomprehensive classroom and laboratory curriculum, program outcomes are bestachieved when course content includes elements of contextual teaching andlearning (CTL) as even the most complex academic engineering exercises fail tocapture the project and work –based learning experiences that are found inindustry.To address both the outcomes of the program and the expectations of industry, theSoECS embarked on a pilot project with Quanser which led to collaborative andproject-based learning in senior and master level capstone projects. This industrypartnership provided our students with career-oriented education as well as acommitment to practical

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University; Timothy J. Hinds, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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AC 2012-4583: FOSTERING INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT IN THE CO-CURRICULAR ASPECTS OF AN ENGINEERING LIVING-LEARNINGPROGRAMDr. Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic ad- ministration, advising, career planning, first-year programs, women and diversity programs, etc.) and curricular issues. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory course in civil engineering. His research and consulting

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James G. Ladesic P.E., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Robert R. Wolz, Gulfstream Aerospace; Frank Simmons III P.E., Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation; Timothy D. Farley

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compression of four-year programsfrom 140 to 120+ credit hour range. In the wake of reducing engineering content and cost,something had to go. So laboratories, where students (and faculty) gained valuable hands-onexperience and learned to use tools and instruments, have almost entirely disappeared. After all,these are resources that require staffing, scheduling, consume major space, involved expensiveequipment, require costly supplies, demand maintenance, all while presenting environments thatharbor potential liabilities if students are injured – a huge concern in our litigious era. So labshave become “look, but don‟t touch” observation or simulation exercises normally conducted bygraduate teaching assistants – not faculty. Hence the lack of

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

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themechanical design of the system including the motion control aspects.Company C is a medium-sized Nordic product development company acting as consultancyprimarily within embedded systems and industrial IT. The company is involved in the earlystages of product design in a wide range of fields and for many different customers. In thisspecific case, Company C was recruited by a “third part” who hired Company C to design andmanufacture a prototype of a machine to be used in a medical laboratory setting for theanalysis of tissue samples. The “third part” was kept secret for the student team and CompanyC basically took the same design brief as being given from the third part to the student team.This company was also located within the Stockholm area. The

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Stephan J. Nix, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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focused on new student recruitment, but recently much more attention has been directedtoward the issue of student retention. Although recruitment remains fundamental in today’seducational environment, student retention is becoming increasingly important. Studies haveshown that it is much more expensive to recruit a new student than it is to keep a current one. Inaddition, if students are not successful in completing their degrees, there can be seriousinstitutional implications. For example, student attrition raises questions about the institutionalpriorities, particularly those of teaching and student development. In recent years, retention rateshave been cited as one of the critical measures of institutional effectiveness

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald G. Colliver P.E., University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

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semester2011 which was developed for the students to obtain this eyes-on learning. In order to expand thelearning opportunity in the course and to make it more than simply a series of tours, the coursewas designed so the students would do background work to gain an understanding of what theywould be visiting, and then actually visit the facility and talk with operators. At the conclusion ofeach visit the students would then write a journal of their visit to each regional power and energyrelated facility. Assessments from the students about the course and its learning opportunitieswill also be presented. The class represents a potential model for exposing students to industryfacilities in the form of a learning laboratory and also exposes the students