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Graduate Student Needs and Experiences, Exploring Graduate Funding and Undergraduate Research Experiences

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University; Steven J. Skerlos, University of Michigan; Megan Kaczanowski, University of Michigan

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strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and en- trepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end design processes.Dr. Diane L. Peters, Kettering University Dr. Peters is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University.Dr. Steven J. Skerlos, University of Michigan Professor Steven J. Skerlos is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a tenured faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He also serves as a UM Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Sustainability. He is Director of Sustainability Education Programs in the College of Engineering and Co-Director of the Engineering

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Graduate Student Needs and Experiences, Exploring Graduate Funding and Undergraduate Research Experiences

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert N. Coffey Jr., University of Michigan; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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get experience writing a paper, making a poster, and presenting my work”  “An in-depth understanding of research and graduate school opportunities”  “I hope to learn how to operate the equipment used in analysis or material systems”The EnSURE program is marketed as an “internship in graduate school” so it is bothunsurprising and reassuring that nearly all responses to this question involved students’ desires togain research skills, disciplinary knowledge, and other experience that will assist them inreaching their academic and/or career goals.It is interesting that very few students (3% of total responses) indicated that they were hopingthat EnSURE would help them clarify their career path. Many other researchers 3,3,4,9,20–23

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Assessing Learning Outcomes for Flipped Classrooms, Recruitment and Research Internships, and Alternate Assessments for Online Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brittain Sobey, The University of Texas - Austin; Margo Cousins, The University of Texas - Austin; Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas - Austin; Stephanie Ruth Young M.Ed., The University of Texas - Austin

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program.The program relies mainly on faculty research funds to employ graduate students. Recruitinggraduate students to partner with faculty on research is an essential part of developing newleaders in the field and maintaining a high quality BME PhD program. Excellent students notonly assist with current faculty projects, but are also producers of their own innovative research,which they carry with them into their careers post-graduation. To this end, the department seeksto recruit a diverse group of students from leading undergraduate engineering institutions eachadmission cycle.Historically, the UT Austin BME PhD program has not enrolled as many students as desiredfrom certain student populations. While the program has been successful enrolling a

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Case Studies and Programs to Improve Graduate Students' Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joanne Lax, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Audeen W. Fentiman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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graduate students to post-doctoral staff. Of the workshops offered,three of them—“Designing and Delivering Oral Presentations,” “Doing a 3-Minute ResearchTalk,” and “Designing and Giving a Poster Presentation”—require live presentations of thestudents’ research before an audience of fellow workshop participants. These presentations arefilmed, and students can later access electronic files to review their performance and compare itto the written and oral feedback they receive from fellow students and the instructor.Students receive a list of guidelines for their talk in advance. These guidelines, condensed intoan oral presentation rubric in a table format, are given to audience members to completeanonymously while they are watching their classmates

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Assessing Learning Outcomes for Flipped Classrooms, Recruitment and Research Internships, and Alternate Assessments for Online Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ritushree Chatterjee, Iowa State University; Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University; Zhengdao Wang, Iowa State University

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in a meaningful way to create an enriching learning experience. Moreover,designing assessments that stretches students’ thought-process is critical to engineeringpedagogy. This is implemented in the course as structured threaded discussion forums, governedby instructors that provide thought-provoking guiding questions followed by peer discussion.This essay also explores the design and implementation of virtual laboratory sessionscomplementing the bi-weekly homework assignments and a final project. It describes theassessment design decisions, based on the overall course learning outcomes, taken to suit theonline learners. The aim of this essay is to inform, the community of asynchronous onlinecomputer engineering educators, of assessment

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Graduate Programs, Development, and Research Fellowships

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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tensionswithin the development of an engineering identity9. Engineering and technical communicationsresearchers also argue that a part of this success is that within such verbal-based activities,students are practicing the authentic engineering discourse needed to consider oneself “anengineer” 10.At the graduate level, some level of professional or academic identity has been achieved throughbachelor’s level education. However, the expectations for disciplinary socialization are muchstronger within the apprenticeship model of graduate education in the U.S. As graduate studentswork under a particular member of an academic discipline, they are able to participate fully inthe activities, the expertise, and the communication patterns of the discipline11,12

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Potpourri: Various Issues and Topics in Graduate Studies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ekembu Kevin Tanyi, Norfolk State University; IRVING K CASHWELL Jr, Norfolk State University; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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teaching career by teaching several labs as a graduate teaching assistant and later on as an adjunct faculty. While at Towson University, he also cultivated good friendships with his advisors and now mentors: Dr. Rajeswari M. Kolagani and Dr. David Schaefer. His research led to his first publication a few years later. Forced by destiny, he ended up at Norfolk State University where he is now pursuing a PhD degree in Material Science focusing on optical characterization of materials for energy harvesting. Through the IGERT fellowship, he is pursuing his ultimate goal of becoming a professor and intends to carry on research in optical materials. - See more at: https://www.asee.org/public/person#sthash.lcrL5s3P.dpufMr. IRVING