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College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session II: Curriculum

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Maysam Pournik, University of Oklahoma; Bryan William Bodie

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Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems by managing uncertainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of Robust, Resilient and Flexible Networks Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products Managing Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution Space His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for

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College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session II: Curriculum

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Pines, New Mexico State University; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University

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diverse workforce withour various partners. Collectively, we identified a need to expand student learning at theundergraduate level beyond the classroom, thus a model for pop-up professional developmentworkshops soon followed. These workshops were developed as an outcome of our multi-yearparticipation in the Pathways to Innovation program, which was funded by the National ScienceFoundation and managed by Stanford University and VentureWell to integrate innovation andentrepreneurial skills across the engineering curriculum. The Pathways program has become achampion of the pop-up model as a flexible format for enhancing student learning across multi-disciplinary areas. The specific pop-up model adopted at New Mexico State University

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College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session II: Curriculum

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Schmueser, Clemson University

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problem – theformulation applied to redesign the tested chassis component. They specifically stated that thesimulation skills and knowledge related to structural optimization would serve them well in anyfuture job that would require them to design light-weight vehicle structures and components.Summary and ConclusionThe students who completed this vehicle structural integration course gained valuable experienceregarding how to select components for an experiment, how to set up an experiment, how toevaluate experimental results, and how to improve a design via computational simulation. In theirfuture engineering positions they will be either designing or evaluating experimental results on aregular basis. The skills gained from this course will make

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College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session I: Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Niranjan Hemant Desai, Purdue University North Central; George Stefanek, Purdue University, North Central

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thecurriculum. We wanted to ascertain whether they would like to have “mini-capstone” projectsincorporated into the curriculum in order to give them experience with solving practicalproblems earlier in their degree program. Finally, we wanted to know whether they would beinterested in having a series of project presentations by industry professionals integrated into themain-capstone course. The survey that we distributed to the students is found in Appendix A.Presenter Survey: We also conducted another survey in which we distributed a questionnaire tothe project presenters (see Appendix B). This survey was designed to gain an industryprofessional’s perspective on the following issues:1. The level of preparedness that fresh engineering graduates have

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College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session I: Students

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenda D Young, Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Lee Michael Warburton, AKKA Technologies; Christopher David Ciechon

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discussion of howelements of an engineering academic-industry partnership support professional socialization.Figure 1 presents a summary of elements found in the literature to support professionalsocialization in various professions [15, 26].Through this lens, stakeholders from other academic-industry partnerships can take a closer lookat how designing experiences to support students to gain knowledge, skills, and values that canhelp narrow the skill gap and increase career readiness to support retention in full-time roles inengineering. Through this socialization, we propose that engineering students are able to makemore informed decisions about finishing their respective engineering curriculum, entering into an

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INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victor Taratukhin, Stanford University; Yury V. Kupriyanov, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Jörg Becker

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company would prefer to get the right students in the rightcourses and does not want to teach the somebody, who wants to be an SAP consultant infuture, software testing technologies.The students as well as university and industry representatives state that the joint educationalprogram shows high practical applicability, as it was specifically designed to teach new ITtechnologies. The interviewees also mentioned that in comparison to the joint-programstructure, the university curriculum is out-dated and no longer meets the fast changingrequirements of the IS field. The joint program is strongly seen as an opportunity to close thisgap.During the interviews we have also analysed the satisfaction level of the students whoparticipate in the courses

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane L Peters PE, Kettering University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University

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attend classes in order to graduate. There are also optionsfor students to experience either one or three co-op experiences.University of Cincinnati (www.uc.edu)The University of Cincinnati is another co-op oriented university, with co-op integrated into thedegree requirements for the College of Engineering and Applied Science as well as many otherprograms within the university. The co-op options include over 600 institutions of various types,including large and small companies as well as governmental departments.Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/)At Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, faculty are eligible for sabbatical leave after six yearsof service, and one of the options for leave activities is an industry

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INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USA

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last 30 years, whether working in corporate engineering or nonprofit international develop- ment, Ms. Leslie has developed and utilized her technical interests in creating solutions for engineering projects that integrate the needs of the client along with the sustainable needs of the environment. As Executive Director of EWB-USA, Ms. Leslie uses her organizational and project management skills to ensure that the volunteer organization can fulfill its mission and vision. Ms. Leslie was a part of the second project to be completed within EWB-USA, a water project in Mail, Africa. There she worked directly with the community and other volunteers to develop a agricultural water source, and this project was what