Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USA

Tagged Topics

Corporate Member Council

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College Industry Partnerships

................................................................................................................................ 25 4.3 Manufacturing and Construction .................................................................................. 28 4.4 Operations and Maintenance ......................................................................................... 28 4.5 Professional Ethics ........................................................................................................... 29 4.6 Business, Legal and Public Policy.................................................................................. 29 4.7 Sustainability and Societal and Environmental Impact ............................................. 30 4.8 Engineering Economics

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan J Bremner, University of Glasgow; Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow; Yangyang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

board became a limitation; the original strengths and benefitsof engaging with local companies were outweighed by both the commercial and educationalneed to embrace cultural and ethical differences. Furthermore, as system and productintegration extended beyond single engineering disciplines the membership of the advisoryboard had to be similarly extended. A topical and relevant example of this is the blurring ofboundaries between Computer Science and Electronic Engineering in the emergent marketfor the Internet of Things [5]; the new products consisting of a fusion of technologies fromboth disciplines. With the advent of trans-national joint degree programs betweenUniversities in separate continents, the problem is further exacerbated by the

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session II: Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

administrative infrastructure to market courses, process online fee-basedcourse registrations, and direct the various details associated with the delivery of professionaldevelopment programs. The I/U program has become financially self-supportive with facultycompensated for new course development through revenue generated from fee-based courses.Where appropriate, personnel from industry partners were enlisted as advisors to ensurerelevancy across the developed courses.Policies have been developed to ensure the ethical conduct of business across the I/Urelationship. Lastly, the developed courses have provided an opportunity for faculty to transferresearch findings and topical expertise directly to a multi-faceted workforce in a relevant andtimely