Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session I: Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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College Industry Partnerships

, there exists one significant drawback: fresh graduatesare unskilled at the process of representing real-world systems as idealized models that can besubsequently analyzed using theoretical textbook principles. This conclusion was based uponanecdotal feedback received from employers and freshly graduated engineers. This anecdotalfeedback was enough to initiate a more formal process to explore the transition from theclassroom to the real-world for an engineer or technologist.The capstone course, where students do projects with industry, attempts to fill in the voidbetween theory and practice. However, based upon feedback from fresh engineering graduates, itdoes not perform an optimum job of doing so since it is a single course taken during the

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session II: Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

.  Junior internship – continue to learn about BHI and take a course for credit that is taught jointly by BHI engineer and FM. Identify capstone project.  Senior internship – take a course for credit that is taught jointly by BHI engineer and FM, plus identify and work on MS project.  Fifth year at OU – Work on BHI MS project under supervision of FM and BHM / BHI engineers.  Fourth and fifth years: The BHS’s degree plan is jointly worked out by mentors (BHM and FM). Students are provided the opportunity to take customized courses: - Three graduate courses from Petroleum Engineering for ME students and a like number from AME for the PE students. - Graduate electives - Up to two graduate

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

for increased “relevancy” of engineering educationwith greater industry-academia collaboration on many fronts. It was inspired by a round tablediscussion, where engineering graduates of Region’s colleges have suggested ways to startdeveloping viable and enduring connections between local industries and the academicinstitutions of the Arab Gulf States. Strategies to help promote the collaboration effort areoutlined. In particular, activities (plans, and scenarios) perceived as effective in closing the gapbetween academia and industries are described. Training, capstone courses, consulting by facultymembers, and joint research projects, aimed at serving the interest of both parties (academia &the industrial partners) are also addressed. The

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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College Industry Partnerships

with them; often,these collaborations are each run separately and therefore can be considered to be separatecollaborative efforts. Such collaborations often focus on providing projects for students, for theircapstone design course or a similar class. One example of this is Olin College. Another model iswhen a university has a strong experiential learning program that features co-op or internshipexperiences, such as the co-op program at Kettering University, Drexel University, or theUniversity of Cincinnati. Collaborations may also focus on the professional development offaculty members, as at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Olin College (www.olin.edu)As in all engineering programs, Olin College students perform a capstone project. In the