Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas, El Paso; Ryan Wicker, University of Texas, El Paso; Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso; Ahsan Choudhuri, University of Texas, El Paso

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College Industry Partnerships

AC 2011-683: INTEGRATING PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE INTO THEENGINEERING CURRICULUM: A PROPOSED MODEL AND PROTO-TYPE CASE WITH AN INDUSTRY PARTNERRichard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Schoephoerster is the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he leads a College of over 3000 students (including approximately 500 graduate students) in 17 different BS, MS, and PhD degree programs, and 80 faculty members in six different departments with approximately $25 million in research funding from local, state, and national agencies and companies. Dr. Schoephoerster received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 1985, and his M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1989) in Mechanical

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

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College Industry Partnerships

year plan to integrate practicallaboratories in semiconductor testing at all levels of the BSEE curriculum. Past approaches havetraditionally implemented a single technical elective in the senior year. The proposed approach isunique in this regard as the conjecture is that introducing laboratories in semiconductor testacross the curriculum is more effective. An outline of this plan and its rationale along withexpected program outcomes are described in this paper. The experience in the first year of thisplan, including design of the interface electronics, implementation of the first two laboratoryprojects, and interactions with applications engineers, are also discussed.IntroductionAs an increasing number of transistors continue to be

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Andrew N.S. Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Joseph L. Gutenson, Western Kentucky University, Center for Water Resource Studies

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College Industry Partnerships

environmental consultant prior to being employed by the Center in 2004.Andrew N.S. Ernest, Western Kentucky UniversityJoseph L. Gutenson, Center for Water Resource Studies - Western Kentucky University Joseph Gutenson has been an employee at the Center for Water Resource Studies for over two years. His duties have varied but most of his time is devoted to research and field work. He is proficient in ArcGIS, creating maps for a variety of purposes. In addition, he has been a contributor to the WTI program, assisting in research endeavors, curriculum development, and student advising. Joseph graduated Magna cum Laude from Western Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science in Geography and plans to begin pursuit of his

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation; Martina Y. Trucco, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Francisco Enrique Andrade, Hewlett-Packard Mexico

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College Industry Partnerships

AC 2011-296: AN INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIPTO DEVELOP TALENT AND TECHNOLOGYLueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation Lueny Morell, M.S., P.E., is Program Manager in the Strategic Innovation and Research Services Office of Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. She is part of the team facilitating co-innovation with government, partners and universities. From 2002-2008, she was in charge of developing engineer- ing/science curriculum innovation initiatives worldwide in support of HPL research and technology areas and former director of HPL University Relations for Latin America and the Caribbean in charge of build- ing research and education collaborations with universities throughout the

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

, they need to be prepared to benefit from the knowledge beingproduced in this field and to interact constructively with colleagues in this field. As a basicintroduction to this field, our new semester curriculum will include an introduction toengineering education, as well as assignments requiring participants to read and report on at leastone experimental study whose results could be applied to a class they are teaching or might teach.In addition, faculty from the UC Engineering Education Department will be invited to makepresentations to participants on their research. These faculty will also be asked to participate inthe mock review panel to which PFF participants are required to submit abbreviated NSF REUgrant proposals. Thus the new

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech

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College Industry Partnerships

, transportation, environmental, surveyingand project/construction management. While as many as one third of graduating civil engineersgo to work in the land development industry (University placement statistics, 2001-2005), fewcivil engineering programs in the country have any course or emphasis in land developmentwithin their curriculum. This paper describes an ongoing initiative that brings togetherundergraduate CEE students and faculty with industry professionals in an effort to improve landdevelopment design education.Prior to this initiative, the CEE Department had one course titled “Land Development Design”,taught once per year and it was available for more than 10 years. Historically, this course wasalways taught by an adjunct instructor, usually

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Thomas F. Wolff, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Cindee Dresen; Kysha L. Frazier, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; Louise Paquette, Lansing Community College

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Michigan State University. Dr. Briedis has been involved in several areas of education research includ- ing student retention, curriculum redesign, and the use of technology in the classroom. She is a co-PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET.Dr. Neeraj Buch, Michigan State UniversityThomas F. Wolff, 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

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas; Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

takes in information and learns from it)Through interactive explorations (individual and small groups), they shaped a collectivedefinition of leadership, received interpretative guidance on four of the assessment instruments,assessing strengths, talents, values and learning styles. All of this was integrated with leadershipand learning theory to shape an individualized plan of action. The plan flowed naturally fromtheir uniquely articulated vision for the kind of leader the student had chosen as their ideal. This Page 22.459.7expressed vision and accompanying roadmap was articulated in a final writing assignment aswell as a presentation

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington, Tacoma

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College Industry Partnerships

, their professional demands prevent them from being able to devotetime to ―moonlight‖ as university instructors. Even for those who do, their effectiveness islimited by their lack of teaching knowledge and their isolation from the rest of the faculty. Andthird, simply introducing students to professional practices does not alleviate the challengeassociated with relating and integrating these practices with students‘ academic knowledge. Butsuch integration is necessary if they are to fully benefit from their educations over theirprofessional careers.This paper describes the Industry Fellows model32, a novel attempt at addressing theseinterrelated challenges in an integrated manner. Industry Fellows involves a university facultymember and a

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas; Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas

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Millam is a senior consultant, executive coach and educator with over 35 years of leadership experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors,developing the leadership capacity to create high performing organizations and facilitating leadership teams to do likewise. She has earned a reputation for her leadership with female leaders, coaching them to live into their greatest potential. She uses an integrated model that balances the inside-out and outside-in approach to developing leaders. She has earned graduate degrees in Educational Psychology, Industrial Relations, and Organizational Leadership. She is a published author of several articles and two books

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

(PSM) after which this program is modeled. For thepast ten years the PSM program has been growing in popularity in US schools of engineering. Itis designed for students who do not wish to continue on to a doctorate leading to an academiccareer but rather to enter the workforce with a master’s degree, a degree now viewed by many ashaving displaced the baccalaureate as the terminal engineering degree. These programs put moreemphasis on applied skills as opposed to those more theoretical in nature. The paper concludeswith a detailed description of the NJIT proposed curriculum and the assessment process used toevaluate defined outcomes.1. Introduction Research engineering universities frequently emphasize long-term research as the processby

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen F. Gygi, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

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College Industry Partnerships

students are still out.Nevertheless, the Co-op students who did construct portfolios found the experience to bevaluable. They did not feel comfortable with providing the experiential learning advisor with theentire portfolio but said that they had leveraged the portfolio to integrate other experiences inschool and work. Although the portfolio was offered as an option instead of the report, somestudents did the report anyway and included it as an artifact in the portfolio. Informalconversations with students indicate that they felt ownership of their portfolios in ways notassociated with formal report.FindingsThe title of our paper begins with a quotation from a pilot Co-op informant who said thatcreating a portfolio helped her see the value of her

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College Industry Partnerships

Quality Testing – San Diego, California Students are designing water quality monitoring systems and are taking data on water quality in local rivers and resevoirs. Students design the test systems and data acquisitions systems by integrating commercially technologies where appropriate. Students analyze the data from the findings and present their results to the community.Implementing EPICS High Three models have emerged for implementing EPICS into high schools. The first is as anafter school program or club. Students meet with teachers after school or during activitiesperiods during the school day. This model was the one that launched the pilot at Bedford,Indiana. A second model has been to integrate an

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University; Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University; Christopher A. Mattson, Brigham Young University; Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University

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College Industry Partnerships

toward the completion of an otherwise large anddaunting project. Brainstorm, design, and test every component of your design in the smallestpossible chunks to ensure that each performs as expected. Only then -- once you've vetted thepieces -- should you look to integrating them into the final solution/prototype.” Page 22.865.18Be aware that success will take much effort“This is the most relevant to real-life work scenario activity you will do at school. Invest a lot ofeffort into it to see if it is something you want to do long-term. Working with people of varyingskill levels and limited resources is pretty typical. The concept of just study hard on