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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Beata Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Joyce B. Main is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University. Dr. Main examines student academic pathways and transitions to the workforce in science and engineering. She was a recipi- ent of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Award, the 2015 Frontiers in Education Faculty Fellow Award, and the 2019 Betty Vetter Award for Research from WEPAN. In 2017, Dr. Main received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to examine

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3 - Co-op Recruitment and Factors Affecting Success

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Katherine McConnell, University of Colorado Boulder

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prototyping, testing, and ongoing ideation of programmatic changes andimprovements.IntroductionInternships have been shown to be of great value for both student learning and career attainment.They allow students to build the real-world skills and perspective necessary to engage effectivelywith their own education [1]. There is also evidence to show that they contribute to greater careerengagement later in life [2] and that having an internship is one of the top qualifications thatemployers look for in new graduates [3]. At the University of Colorado Boulder specifically,87% of AY 15-18 Mechanical Engineering graduates who completed an internship rated theirexperience as “extremely useful,” “very useful,” or “useful” [4]. Despite those clear benefits

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan; Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan; Cassandra Sue Ellen Woodcock, University of Michigan; Kevin Cai Jiang, University of Michigan; Stacie Edington, University of Michigan

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student, faculty, and staff navigation through the ExperientialLearning Framework.We used several methods to identify current students’ experiences that could count asexperiential: the census of engineering graduating seniors, the survey of College of Engineeringfaculty, interviews with College of Engineering faculty, and the student report on experientiallearning. They revealed a broad range of experiences: curricular and co-curricular, technical andnon-technical, and short term and long term. Additionally, the student group created engagementspectra to show the diverse set of experiences in their student organizations.3Figure 2 offers an example of an engagement spectrum for Engineering Student Government. Atthe top of the spectrum are

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1 - Skill and Competency Development through the Co-op Experience

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Haaniyah Ali, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University

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. It is clear that each discipline has its own culture that the faculty are attuned to.They can provide more detailed perspectives on how to improve each individual student’sexperience. From the interviews done here, the divide is clear and it is a resource that can betapped for mutual benefit. Other recommendations require more data. In particular, it might be interesting forco-op programs to explore the idea of adding skill-based training modules. These could becatered to disciplines in particular, to give each student a unique experience. As the combinedfocus group showed, students learn well from one another. This might be an interestingformat to explore for reflection purposes. By increasing multi-disciplinary experiences

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2 - Development, Assessment, and Impact of Experiential Education

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Rachael E. Cate, Oregon State University; Donald Heer, Oregon State University

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weremodeled after disciplinary communities of practice outlined by McDermott, Snyder, and Wenger[18]. The explicit mission of the program is to: Prepare students to succeed in their careers and to adapt to an ever-changing world by providing opportunities to engage in inclusive and collaborative communities wherein they accumulate proficiency by putting knowledge into practice. Within these communities, students, together with industry and university experts, explore knowledge of a specific topic area, identify personally meaningful problems, take initiative, design technical solutions, obtain support, implement solutions, develop mentor relationships, serve as leaders in professionalism and innovation, and showcase meaningful

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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. IntroductionThis evidence-based paper assesses strategies for Research Experience for Undergraduates(REU) social program success. REU programs typically bring together students from across thecountry – or even around the world – to a university campus for the summer. While at thisuniversity, the students learn how to conduct real research in their discipline by actually doing it,under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Giving students exposure to conducting bona fideresearch allows them to determine whether they may be interested in pursuing a research career(and, to support this, continuing on to graduate-level education).Many students who participate in REU programs remember these programs long after theprogram is complete. The initial experience