general overview of productdevelopment process (see Table 3). Students form a start-up company and design a newproduct, develop a (rough) design of processes to manufacture this product, build acorresponding financial model and a business plan. This course is described in details in nextsection. Stage 2 is divided into two semesters: during the first semester lectures cover ProcessDesign and students are learning hands-on fundamentals of specialized software platform(s)for process modeling and simulation. Based on the knowledge and experience gained in the PPI class, in the following semesterstudent groups contact local companies, develop project proposals, and carry out projectsaccording to the joint agreement. Student teams offer services
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. To me, joining a leadership program seemed like the next logical step, but I had noidea how much of an impact it would make on my communication skills, leadership abilities, andgeneral outlook on life.Throughout the first three years of coursework in the program, I was continually challenged toreflect on my own personal growth and development. Without the program I know that I wouldhave thought I was „good enough‟ at all of the skills previously mentioned. As soon as thisthought pops into ones head, that is the end of any hope that one can make a difference. I thinkthat is one of the biggest lessons learned through the program‟s coursework. I feel that having agroup of people who know me and can give feedback so I can grow is the only way to
anticipated to rise 13% from 2009 to 2020, based on projectionsfrom the NCES’ “Projections of Education Statistics Through 2020” cited above. The Councilof Graduate Schools (CGS) also projects that graduate enrollments will increase as well (seediscussion below). The CGS Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2000 to 2010provides information based on 655 responding institutions, receiving nearly 1.77 millionapplicants for admission to graduate programs.5Enrollments v. Long Term Projections for GrowthRecently, there has been a slight decline in graduate enrollments. The CGS reports that theenrollments for new students in US graduate schools declined for the first time in seven years forfall of 2010.6 Enrollment s fell by 1.1%, despite having
lives, and thevast majority possess large personal libraries and use digital music devices and services. Digitalmusic curricula have been used as positive and educational gateways in public and at-risk highschools in other countries. For example, some British schools host digital music workshopscombining the youth culture of musical “chatting” (British rapping) with music-creationsoftware3. Even before computers were useful tools for creating music, the 1980’s urban Hip-Hop movement provided ways for young people without musical training to compose and createmusic4.Howard Gardener’s theory of multiple intelligences suggests that music may be one way thatchildren relate to the world and learn from their experiences5. Jeanne Bamberger’s research
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testing was designed specifically to observe the type/use andefficiency of individual heuristic(s) employed in a successful attempt in communicating relevantinformation (as determined by participant) to complete level 1. The task was designed to elicitparticipant’s spacial abilities, reasoning abilities, and conceptual knowledge which could beinferred from the placement and positioning of portals and objects on the submitted sketch. Thisalso gave insight into participants reasoning abilities, and procedural knowledge in terms ofjustification and selection of communication procedure and whether the participant saw fit toinclude a pathway or methodology to inform the perceived player.Participants were asked to complete as much of the computer
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), engineering education (active learning techniques), and high strain deformation of materials. She is currently a Co-PI in an NSF S-STEM and ADVANCE-PAID grants. She is actively involved in outreach activities that introduce middle school students to engineering.Dr. Mahesh C. Aggarwal, Gannon University Mahesh Aggarwal has been a faculty member at Gannon University since 1978. He graduated from Marquette University with a M.S. and University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in thermal science area. He has worked for numerous companies and currently working with GE Transportation in Erie, Penn. At GE, he is the Coordinator of GE/Gannon MS program. He has seven patents with GE Transportation over the last the last 10 years. He is
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new, and students who have participated in the workshop as part of ateaching-based co-op indicate that their communication skills are generally enhanced by the co-op. Future offerings of the workshop will include additional topics specifically relevant to TAs,and the workshop will be offered for credit.AcknowledgementsSupport for the TEAK Project is provided by the National Science Foundation's Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program under Award No. 0737462. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Sarah Cass, an Instructional
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