Conference Session

Online and Professional Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bharani Nagarathnam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

: • Course Registration • All textbooks & course material delivery. • Video lectures, class notes. • Ability to complete all assignments, home works and exams. • Residency Week materials. • Capstone project materials presentation. • Technical support for eCampus or Blackboard Learn LMS courses • Tuition & fees billing checks and reminderseBooks Platform VitalSource was selected as the eBook platform based on the wide availability ofeducational books and their willingness to work with industry trade publications to get some ofthe books that the MID program was using on the eBook platform. Since 2015-16, all books areavailable in the VitalSource eBooks platform and delivered through their app – The

Conference Session

Online and Professional Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bharani Nagarathnam, Texas A&M University; Frederick Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

) is a 30-credit hour distance educationgraduate degree from the top 10 ranked College of Engineering at a Texas A&M University. Theprogram began in 2001 and has graduated more than 600+ professionals in addition to 99currently enrolled students in two cohorts. The MID program is a 21 month, part-time, lock-step,online graduate program designed for working professionals. The program focuses on SupplyChain Management, Logistics and Profitability of distributors and manufacturers (suppliers) inthe industrial channels. The MID program involves immersive learning experiences such as aresidency week, a global class & trip and a capstone project. The program has won national [2]and regional [3] awards.Curriculum The MID Program is

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Locke Davenport Huyer, University of Toronto; Neal I. Callaghan, University of Toronto; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

supportingdevelopment of teaching self-efficacy. Secondary school students visit university facilities intheir class cohorts, accompanied by their teachers, to execute project-based learning. A selectedoverarching global research topic is sub-divided into subject-specific research questions (i.e.,Biology, Chemistry, and Physics) that students work in small groups to address, iteratively on-campus and in-class, during a term-long project (Figure 1A). The Discovery framework providessecondary school students the experience of an engineering capstone design project (including amotivating scientific problem, a discipline-specific research question, and systematicdetermination of a professional recommendation addressing the needs of the problem posed)meanwhile