Paper ID #25172Are We Teaching What They Want? A Comparative Study of What AM Em-ployers Want versus What AM Frameworks RequireDr. Faye R. Jones, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research.Dr. Marcia A. Mardis, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Marcia A. Mardis is a Professor and Associate Dean at Florida State University’s College of Communica- tion & Information and Associate
). Page 22.913.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integrating Professional Practice into the Engineering Curriculum: A Proposed Model and Prototype Case with an Industry PartnerAbstractWe present a case for a dramatic shift in the university-industry relationship for engineeringprograms, following recommendations from two 2008 reports on the future of engineeringeducation. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching report1 EducatingEngineers: Designing for the Future of the Field established the “imperative for teaching forprofessional practice” in engineering education by providing the “engineering equivalent of theclinical
changes in our environment and to better prepare ourstudents to be future academic leaders.IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF) programs typically meet three standard requirements: 1. they focus on the full spectrum of faculty roles and responsibilities with regard to teaching, research, and service, and how these responsibilities may be interpreted in different institutions; 2. they provide participants with multiple mentors and feedback not only on their research but also on teaching and service; 3. to accomplish these goals, they involve a cluster of institutions, with one doctoral degree-granting institution partnering with a variety of other institutions.The 12-year-old Preparing
system identification techniques. Her efforts as a PhD candidate at Drexel University include enhancing science and engineering education for K-12 and undergraduate students through development of biologically-inspired educational tools for use at museums and aquari- ums. She has been a teaching assistant for an undergraduate course on product development since 2009. She has mentored teams of undergraduate engineering students through the development of biologically- inspired educational tools. She has also taught science and engineering topics to K-12 students at various workshops and science events since 2005.Mr. John Joseph Carr Jr., New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences Jack Carr is Senior Manager of Public STEM
AC 2011-2248: INDUSTRY ADJUNCTS: LESSONS LEARNEDCharles E. Baukal, John Zink Co. LLC Dr. Baukal is the Director of the John Zink Institute which is the training organization for the John Zink Co. LLC in Tulsa, OK which is a leading manufacturer of industrial combustion equipment. Dr. Baukal has over 30 years of industrial experience and over 20 years of teaching experience. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, has authored or edited 8 books on industrial combustion, and is an inventor on 11 U.S. patents.Geoffrey L Price, University of TulsaJohn E Matsson, Oral Roberts University John E Matsson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chairman of the Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, and Mathematics
AC 2011-1222: INTRODUCTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR TEST ENGI-NEERING INTO THE BSEE CURRICULUMDavid H. K. Hoe, University of Texas at Tyler David H. K. Hoe did his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto, culminating with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1991. His professional experience includes positions at General Electric’s Research and Development Center as a Staff Engineer and at the University of Texas at Ar- lington as a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor. He assumed his present position as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Tyler in August 2008. He teaches classes in Computer Architecture and VLSI Design. His research
history of learn-by-doing, the technology evolution in the lastdecade challenges instructor ability to deliver industry-relevant laboratory experience; this isespecially true in advanced (400-level and 500-level) hardware-based courses. In the era whereone square-inch of board space packs more technology than we cover in the entire EE curriculum(no exaggeration), technology outpaces the rate of instructors' professional development. This ismostly due to the confluence of different technical fields. As depicted in the prism analogy inFigure 1 such convergence is observed in many industry sectors creating new system-of-systemsparadigms. In practical terms, instructors may be able to teach 'point-of-confluence' courses andexplain how key concepts
Paper ID #12525Example of Academia / Industry Professional Organization Engagement inSTEM Outreach ActivitiesDr. Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityDr. Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC Charles E. Baukal, Jr. has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an Ed.D., and Professional Engineering License. He is the Director of the John Zink Institute which offers continuing professional development for engineers and technicians. He has nearly 35 years of industrial experience and 30 years of teaching experience as an adjunct. He
Page 25.778.2undergraduate disciplines that benefit most from experiential learning. Despite acomprehensive classroom and laboratory curriculum, program outcomes are bestachieved when course content includes elements of contextual teaching andlearning (CTL) as even the most complex academic engineering exercises fail tocapture the project and work –based learning experiences that are found inindustry.To address both the outcomes of the program and the expectations of industry, theSoECS embarked on a pilot project with Quanser which led to collaborative andproject-based learning in senior and master level capstone projects. This industrypartnership provided our students with career-oriented education as well as acommitment to practical
Student - Developed test system, designed and fabricated custom components. • 32 Course Graduate Students - Gave feedback on the course content and delivery over 2 semesters.Course ObjectivesWe wanted to establish a course that starts by teaching the fundamentals of structural modeling,but leads the students quickly and directly to the laboratory. At the graduate level this validationstep is often excluded, so students end up with the skills to build complex models, but never to setup realistic experimental conditions and accurate data acquisition systems to test these models.Our goal was to provide the educational structure to teach the integration of the two disciplines,but to also take it a step further and have the exemplar
been working to build a VoIP telephone system in thetelecommunication laboratories – a new “VoIP initiative” 2. The idea is to use simple strategiesto adapt undergraduate laboratories on computer networks to the teaching of VoIP protocols.New laboratory experiments were created to introduce our junior-level undergraduate students to Page 22.21.3VoIP protocols, such as the session initiation protocol (SIP) and the real-time transport protocol(RTP).However, industry support is essential to the success of this VoIP initiative and the creation ofnew laboratories, in terms of industry - donating equipment, - funding student workers and
mission of King Saud University, one objective of the strategicplan of the College of Engineering at King Saud University is to strengthen the partnership andcooperation with the different institutions of the society. In this regard, the College ofEngineering has worked in several directions to activate such partnership. The first area is toprovide engineering consultations by members of the teaching staff to the industry (mainly in theprivate sector). In addition, the College has established industrial advisory committees for theindividual departments and the College at large to get continuous feedback from its stakeholders;the members of these committees are selected from both the governmental and the industrialsectors. The second area is to
,” are assigned to teachpractice - related courses. Often, teaching design-oriented and/ or field-related subjects dorequire “first-hand” knowledge that instructors could only get by having taken part, or beeninvolved in real engineering problems. Relying mainly on textbooks and/ or reference material,as the only source to teach from, is regarded by many, as an oversimplification or a deviationfrom reality.This paper sheds light on the pros and cons of opening-up to off-campus practitioners, andargues for engaging properly selected adjunct faculty in the teaching-learning process, inpartnership with “full-time” regular faculty members. The impetus here is three fold. First, thegeneral belief that well-seasoned and experienced practitioners can
ofgraduate school and have absolutely no experience “under their belt,” are assigned to teachpractice-related courses. Often, teaching design-oriented and/ or field-related subjects do require“first-hand” knowledge that instructors could only get by having taken part, or been involved inreal engineering problems. Relying mainly on textbooks and/ or reference material, as the onlysource to teach from, is regarded by many, as an oversimplification or a deviation from reality. Page 26.1199.2This paper sheds light on the pros and cons of opening-up to off-campus practitioners, andargues for engaging properly selected adjunct faculty in the teaching
, University of TulsaProf. Geoffrey D. Silcox, University of Utah Prof. Silcox has been a member of the chemical engineering faculty at the University of Utah since 1987. His research interests include atmospheric particulate matter, controlling and characterizing the emissions of pollutants from the combustion of low quality fuels, and process modeling. He is currently teaching courses in thermodynamics and air pollution control engineering.Michael Newton, University of Utah, Chemical Engineering Department Michael Newton is a recent B.S. in Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Utah. He had an emphasis in Energy Engineering and a Chemistry minor. Newton is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor
Paper ID #11099Sabbatical Leaves with Industry–Three ExperiencesDr. Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama Bob Batson is a professor of construction engineering at The University of Alabama. His Ph.D. training was in operations research, and he has developed expertise in applied statistics over the past thirty years. He currently teaches the required courses in project management, safety engineering, engineering man- agement, and engineering statistics within the undergraduate programs of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, and graduate courses in operations research and supply chain
college, we continued our collaboration to realize the dream of the Dean toutilize the building and building systems as a practical teaching tool for faculty and students.Representatives from Trane and the engineering faculty met to brainstorm on ways we could utilize thebuilding as a teaching tool – we primarily expanded on existing lab experiments already in the curriculumto develop new laboratory experiments using instrumentation added to the new building’s hydronic systemas well as a dedicated heat pump system in the Thermal-Fluids lab with high-level instrumentation. Thisallowed for lab exercises calculating heat transfer, air flow, thermodynamics, hydronics, efficiencies, etc.The resulting lab curriculum benefits students insomuch as it
AC 2011-977: BENEFITS OF SMALL COLLEGE-INDUSTRY PARTNER-SHIPS FOR TRAINING PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTBruce V. Mutter, Bluefield State College Bruce V. Mutter is the founder and CEO of the Center for Applied Research & Technology, Inc. (CART) and teaches project management and engineering economics at Bluefield State College as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Technology.Roy Pruett, Bluefield State College Roy E. Pruett is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Professor and Department Head of the Electrical Engineering and Technology Department at Bluefield State College. He is the owner of Pruett Engineering and serves as consultant to several local businesses. Roy received his B. S. degree in
faculty are required to have doctoral degrees and maintain asponsored research program in addition to their teaching duties. Although most of our tenure-track and tenured faculty have construction industry experience, few have more than 5 years ofconstruction experience. We have found that the more industry experience a faculty member canbring into the classroom to supplement the core coursework, the better the students master thecontent. When students make the connection between course materials and real-life situations,they realize the importance of what they are learning. We have worked with industry on twofronts to increase the real-world content of our courses: (1) having tenure-track facultyparticipate in the Faculty Scholar Program, and (2
educators to work with professional practitioners in practice-based fields suchas engineering. Similar sentiments are expressed by the National Academy of Engineering intheir recent report Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century17.Yet there are three interrelated challenges in bringing professional practice more fully into theclassroom. First, while college professors have expertise in teaching, they often lack the modernpractices required in fields that are constantly changing. The workaday demands of the full-timeacademic make it difficult for college teachers to keep up with state-of-art practices, even forthose with a strong background in industry. Second, while professional practitioners possessstate-of-art technical skills
Paper ID #9182Counter Current - Perspectives from My Move to the Corporate World fromAcademiaDr. John C Oliva, Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation Dr. John C. Oliva has had a diverse career spanning the fields of academia and industry. John spent the first half of his career teaching mechanical engineering as a fulltime faculty member, first at Kettering University and later at Grand Valley State University. He then transitioned to the corporate world where he has spent the more recent half of his career as a professional engineer. John currently works as an engineering analyst at Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation. His
. Hang Zhang’s academic and research interests include global comparative education, higher education administration and entrepreneurship education. She possesses rich teaching and training experiences in K-12 and higher education.Dr. Ming Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University Ming Li is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education, Beijing Foreign Studies Univer- sity, Beijing, China. He received B.A. in Qingdao Agricultural University, M.Ed. in Shandong Normal University, and Ph.D. in Beihang University. From March 2013 to June 2013, he studied in School of En- gineering Education at Purdue University as a visiting scholar. After obtaining the PhD title, he worked as a postdoctor at the Institute of
at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests in engineering education focus on the role of self-efficacy, belonging, and other non- cognitive aspects of the student experience on engagement, success, and persistence and on effective methods for teaching global issues such as those pertaining to sustainability. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Industry-University Capstone Design: How did students adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic?AbstractA 2015 survey of 256 institutions from the US revealed that 70% of their capstone programswere funded by industry and government sponsors. This indicates the
Paper ID #12260Industrial Advisory Board Open ForumDr. Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC Charles E. Baukal, Jr. has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an Ed.D., and Professional Engineering License. He is the Director of the John Zink Institute which offers continuing professional development for engineers and technicians. He has nearly 35 years of industrial experience and 30 years of teaching experience as an adjunct. He is the author/editor of 13 books on industrial combustion and is an inventor on 11 U.S. patents.Dr. Ted Song, John Brown University Dr. Ted Song joined the JBU engineering faculty in
AC 2012-4583: FOSTERING INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT IN THE CO-CURRICULAR ASPECTS OF AN ENGINEERING LIVING-LEARNINGPROGRAMDr. Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic ad- ministration, advising, career planning, first-year programs, women and diversity programs, etc.) and curricular issues. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory course in civil engineering. His research and consulting
compression of four-year programsfrom 140 to 120+ credit hour range. In the wake of reducing engineering content and cost,something had to go. So laboratories, where students (and faculty) gained valuable hands-onexperience and learned to use tools and instruments, have almost entirely disappeared. After all,these are resources that require staffing, scheduling, consume major space, involved expensiveequipment, require costly supplies, demand maintenance, all while presenting environments thatharbor potential liabilities if students are injured – a huge concern in our litigious era. So labshave become “look, but don‟t touch” observation or simulation exercises normally conducted bygraduate teaching assistants – not faculty. Hence the lack of
projects funded by the US Department of Education. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering education projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Macedo- nia, Poland, Romania, and Thailand.Dr. R. Ryan Dupont, Utah State University Dr. Dupont has more than 35 years of experience teaching and conducting applied and basic research in environmental engineering at the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University. His main research areas have addressed soil and groundwater bioremediation, stormwater management via green
why IABs came into existence.Engineering Schools have had IABs for many years but the purpose of these has not alwaysshared common goals. In some instances the primary purpose of an advisory board may befund raising, gaining political influence, developing a student internship program, ordeveloping industrial placements for graduates of the program [2]. Although these may beworthy causes, they are not the primary role of an IAB; an IAB should be advising on coursecontent and teaching methods. In 1994, this mismatch between IAB activities caused theABET commission to place the existing accreditation methodology under scrutiny and movedthe focus from what was being taught towards a more strategic role focused on outcomes andobjectives. The ABET
and the Undergraduate Program Coor- dinator of the Department of Construction & Operations Management, in the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering at South Dakota State University. His research interests are in the areas of student learning, assessment of student learning and dissemination of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Page 24.253.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Capstone Project Challenges: How Industry Sponsored Projects Offer New Learning ExperiencesIntroductionThere has been an ongoing debate on the value of
Professional Engineers, and the United States Society on Dams. Rick’s research focuses on laboratory and field testing of soils and remote sensing applications within geotechnical engineering.Micah Hale, University of Arkansas Page 22.707.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Faculty and Student Involvement in a Graduate Level Civil Engineering Seminar SeriesAbstract: In an effort to establish a “community of learning” within the Civil EngineeringDepartment at the University of Arkansas, a new graduate student seminar series was created