Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

Session 3155 Guidelines for the Industry-Academic Transition Sigurd L. Lillevik Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Portland Portland, OR 97223AbstractRecently, practicing professionals with several years of industry experience have joined theacademic ranks. This experienced, but new faculty member faces many of the same challenges asthe recent Ph.D. hire plus one additional issue: his colleagues assume that he knows what he isdoing and how to teach. This may or may not be

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinivas Chakravarthy

students to procrastinate doing their work. Finding a balance is very important!Acknowledgment: This work is partially supported by a travel grant from Kettering University’sCenter for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.4. Reference[1] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., and Cocking, R.R. (2000). Eds., How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool, National Academy Press, Washington.Srinivas R. Chakravarthy Dr. Chakravarthy is a Professor of Operations Research and Statistics in the Department of Industrial andManufacturing Engineering and Business at Kettering University. His areas of research interests include appliedprobability and stochastic modeling. He received Kettering University Alumni’s Outstanding Teacher Awards (1990

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

educational enterprise.To keep engineering courses relevant, faculty often bring in current topics to their undergraduateclasses. In the ideal world (or department), faculty engaged in research will teach undergraduatecourses in the same discipline area. Bringing in research work performed by undergraduatestudents into undergraduate courses has the important benefit that the coursework is still fresh inthe undergraduate student's mind. The key benefit a faculty member has when integratingresearch results from undergraduate students is by observing how the undergraduate researchstudents learn the necessary research material based on the foundation concepts originally usedin the classroom. From these observations, the faculty mentor can determine the

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

archived lectures and chats. The wordsflowed poetically from his department chairman’s mouth, Twigg recalled later. Heseemed impressed with himself. Twigg was impressed too. After all, chairman Lunts’expertise was in mechanical engineering and not in computer technology. Twigg had noidea what Lunts was talking about. Twigg’s intellectual curiosity finally got the better ofhim and he exclaimed,“What in the world are you talking about Bruce? I don’t have a clue about anything youjust said. What in the name of Sir Isaac is streaming video?”Lunts looked at Twigg, forming a wry smile, he replied: “Man Twigg, to tell the truth,I’m not altogether sure,” and he paused. He then asked Twigg if he knew that campusadministration was extremely motivated to