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Ilka Balk; Zach Fuqua

• Introductions• Overview of UK, COE, and COE Career Development• Addressing the Question• How are we doing? What are our the continued struggles?• Small group discussion• Large group feedback University of KentuckyLand Grant University, est. 186520,657 Undergraduate (1,768 PT)5,739 Graduate (1301 PT)Tuiton and Fees: ca. $12k in state, $28k out of state/year(upper and lower division tuition/fees are averaged) About the UK College of EngineeringUndergraduate Demographics:• 9 majors• Average ACT 28.1• 11.5% URM UK College of Engineering Career Development• 3 Staff• Employer relations, Career Advising, Co-ops• 4 Career Fairs per year• Multiple programs and events The issue

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Rachel Walsh

ability to communicate in practice• Impact of accents• Coping mechanism of self-segregation (Rose- Redwood and Rose-Redwood, 2013) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session CEED 432 Overcoming Challenges• Focus on empowerment and practice • Ongoing language support (opportunities to practice, writing centers) • Workshops specifically targeting professional communication, LinkedIn, career fairs, networking, navigating cultural differences in the workplace, etc. • Peer mentorship Proceedings

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Elizabeth Petry

Session ETD 435 Professional Preparation for Architectural Engineering Technology Students Elizabeth Petry, AIA Associate Professor and Architecture Licensing Coordinator University of HartfordAbstract:The University of Hartford’s Architectural Engineering Program (AET) or pre-architecture program is based on the blending academic-based theoretical studies withprofessionally based problem solving. Our objective has always been “to preparestudents for a variety of professional careers in the design and building

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Sharon Britton; Andrea Cox; Lorraine Mountain

3GE/NU Partnership TeamCooperative Education and Employer Relations andExperiential Learning Career ServicesCollege of Engineering • Maria Stein• Lorraine Mountain - COE • Jim Boyle• Sharon Britton - MIE • Jane Braley• Jake Walker – BioE/ChemE• Josie Flanagan – ECE NU Alumni Relations andD’Amore-Kim School of Business Development• Heather Hauck –Finance • John Bowen• Ernest Mauristhene – MarketingCollege of Computer & Information NU Center for STEMScience Education• Yasmil Montes • Claire Duggan • Nicholas Fuchs

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Lucinda Fowinkle

. Thisexperience gives the student motivation to complete their degree and enter industry aftergraduation. Internships benefit all of the stakeholders: the student gains valuable, marketableskills that give them a head start to a career; the employer has the opportunity to screen potentialfuture employees; the engineering technology programs’ recruitment and retention rates increase.Teaching in an engineering technology 2+2 program has given me experience with students of abroad age range. I began to notice that some of the younger students were not as engaged in theclassroom, were absent more often, and seemed to only be concerned with passing the courseand not necessarily understanding the concepts. The problem did not seem to be related toaptitude, but

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R. E. Floyd

and faculty member be consistent in theirattendance. Students must also be invited in order for them to express their interests. If possible,it would be appropriate to include graduates of the programs to see how the programs preparedthem for their new careers in industry. All facets of any particular program can be reviewed atthis meeting, including course content, the course text, and any labs associated with the program,etc. There must be open dialog on the course by all participants – it isn’t a witch hunt, but anattempt to continue to provide the very best material for the benefit of the student.Internships Internships are of particular value to the student and to Industry. The internship may be aSummer hire, or could be an

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Soma Chakrabarti

for Summer Term students.2. Develop the high performing Summer Term team members for programmatic, enrollment and financial success, and for their professional and career growth.3. Develop and maintain symbiotic partnerships with schools, colleges, department, student life and administrative units, in partnership with summer deans, for creating future programs and infrastructural excellence.4. Develop streamlined, systematic processes for research, program development, program management, operation, communication, data gathering and analysis, information dissemination, budget management, and event management. February 8, 2018 25

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Saeed Foroudastan; Carey Snowden

University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer and 17 yearsof academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academicexperience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in theareas of civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advisedundergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastanhas also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME,Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In addition to Foroudastan’s teachingexperience, he

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Rafic Bachnak; Susan Eskin; Dave Wirick

-prepared for college and have clear future career goals. This paper presentsthe results of a new two-week summer enrichment program that focuses on improving studentpreparedness for college, while promoting active learning through hands-on experiences andactivities. Students were introduced to various engineering disciplines through hands-onactivities that included topics in chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, computer science,electrical engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. The program alsoincluded two field trips where students toured a science laboratory and a manufacturing plantthat employ scientists and engineers from different disciplines.IntroductionIn 2014, nearly 45% of incoming freshman undergraduates entered

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Schwarz Schwarz

Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session CEED 432 Solutions to challenges IIntegration of internship preparation into the curriculum from the first to the lastsemester1. Univ 1810 (First Semester Learning Community): first round of (English) resume and cover letter as part of the Career Center’s “Certificate of Professional Development,” establish LinkedIn profile, “connect” to current and former Eurotech students as part of the LinkedIn Eurotech Group, explore internship portals of German companies in CT2. Second semester: Company visits, applications for summer internships in the US3. 2nd Year 1 credit modular

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Elke Howe

results early in my career.” That is adirect quote from an alumni survey I received in the summer of 2017. Year after year, alumnisurveys validate a strength of the ETAC of ABET accredited B.S. in Industrial EngineeringTechnology program at Missouri Southern State University: students gain hands-on experienceduring their studies through industry projects. Whereas students have multiple opportunities todo projects in industry while pursuing the degree, the capstone project provides an opportunityfor a culminating experience where students have the opportunity to identify, analyze, and solvebroadly-defined technical problems using appropriate methodologies and tools.Continuous assessment of the capstone project has led to many changes in the

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Claudio Brito; Melany Ciampi

achallenging educational environment by following high quality standards. The course is alsodeveloped to provide to the participants some free time to relax and enjoy the city and all it canoffer.Accommodations are the best possible; students stay in comfortable hotels, with all facilities, indowntown areas of the cities [5].OBJECTIVES, GOALS AND EXPECTED RESULTSThe main objective of the course is to foster curiosity and passion for the engineering profession.Provide engineering students an opportunity to experience different environments in the chosenprofession.Furthermore, the course aims to:  Improve the academic skills and leadership;  Living in different cultures;  Strengthen their career goals

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Joseph Morgan; Jay Porter

. Thecurriculum then culminates in a twenty-nine hour focus area that customizes the degree plan for aparticular area of the job market. Currently, the degree has a single focus area in Mechatronics,preparing students for careers in the design, development, implementation and support ofelectromechanical systems that are controlled through embedded hardware and software. The MXET degree is now being expanded to include new additional focus areas. The firstone of these areas is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) TeacherPreparation. In collaboration with the College of Education, a MXET focus area is beingcustomized to produce graduates who can sit for their Mathematics/Science/Engineeringcertification and who can teach at the

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Frederick Berry; Anne Lucietto; Andrew Scott

2015 to spring 2015. While the results are not earth shattering,they begin to show how teams of two interact, the interaction of the students, as well as theirthoughts about a capstone related to their career path. While this is a contrast in how the capstoneis formed and students interact with larger capstone groups such as at Purdue University, thestudent experience at WCU and other institutions will provide a rich understanding of teambuilding and interaction throughout their solo and pair capstone experience. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018, American Society for Engineering Education

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Joseph Cecere

their education our future designers and builders should ingrate sustainabilityinto their projects in order to meet the societal demands in the future. [1]To a large extent, there is a great deal of latitude given to the design of a capstone course. Thecontent of the course may be influenced by several factors including the geographic area theuniversity services, the main focus area of the program (industrial, commercial, or residential),the program’s philosophy, the faculty's experience and expertise, and the perception of industry'sneeds. The course content may change with time, and courses may differ from program toprogram, but the basic goal is the same; to prepare students for a career in the civil engineeringfield. However, today the

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Nasser Alaraje; Vincent Druschke; Mark Highum; Joshua Hooker; Mark Kinney; Scott Kuhl; Aleksandr Sergeyev

406attainment, and 5) enhance support for graduate and early-career research 10. Our approachaims to address, through short and long term goals, each of these recommendations.Educational Need: Robotics is a great tool to promote STEM fields and educators have beenmaking measurable progress toward improving STEM education from primary to tertiary levelsof education, but challenges remain. Given the current shortage of student interest in STEMeducation, increased attention has been given to the appeal and attraction of Robotics. In theclassroom, robotics can easily be used to introduce a variety of mandatory skills needed topursue a variety of STEM career paths 14-17, 22, 24. More specifically, a robotics platform advancesstudents’ understanding of both

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Gretchen Mosher

information is known about ET graduates and even less has been written about theacademic pathway of these graduates [6]. Conventional wisdom attributes high attrition fromengineering to other disciplines an unavoidable cost of under-prepared or unmotivated studentsentering engineering degree programs. As noted by [2] and others, not all those who exit theengineering discipline do so primarily because of low academic performance.Several researchers have examined the career pathways of students who have left engineeringand found success in other STEM disciplines [8, 9, 10] but largely absent from the publishedliterature is specific information on students who transfer from engineering into ET. Ortiz andSriraman [1] explored faculty perceptions on why

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Sidney Martin

being replaced as technology is introduced to theclassroom. There is a need to develop new ways of instruction to reform the overall educationmethods currently in use. The result for these innovative methods would be to help to ensure aseamless transition from obtaining knowledge and skills to being career ready and enjoyinglifelong learning (Patterson, 2011). Education disruptors, a term used to describe those who promote the use of technology ineducation and want fast and agile change implemented in P-20 (Robinson, 2013). Being adisruptor in education is not considered a bad approach. However, some education leaders andtechnologists think that education disruptors are not effective leaders because they are notmaintaining the expected

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Robert Adams; H. Bora Karayaka

provided by CUSPTM were modified tosuit the needs of the demonstration labs accordingly. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018, American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 305Project Evaluation, Results and FindingsAn evaluation plan was developed and implemented with the purpose of measuring this project’simpact in enhancing student learning and retaining students for careers in sustainable powerindustry. Part of the plan includes a survey of all students who take the Modern Power SystemAnalysis course in the School of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina

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Claudio Brito; Melany Ciampi

symptomatic dysfunction due to thestructural changes that are transforming the nature of work and reshaping employmentopportunities. This shows that organizations and policies are not keeping up with the changes inbusiness practices and new technologies that are defining what kind of jobs will be created andwhere they will be located. So there is a need for companies to redefine how and where differenttasks have to be carried out requiring new skills and new employer and employee relationships[2].It is very important to attempt that the possibility of international careers for engineers has beenexpanding access to low-cost talent professionals and creating a greater need for workers withhigher levels of education and specific skills in order to