Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine McConnell, University of Colorado Boulder/Denver

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

examples from students’extended network (i.e.: alumni, student interns, senior design teams) isn’t lost in translation.Research MethodsResearch methods included: (1) a comprehensive inventory of course materials; (2) interviewswith students, alumni, and faculty; and (3) observation of five courses.The primary research method was an inventory of course materials drawn from across thecurriculum in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.The majority of those materials were collected as part of the department’s ABET accreditationprocess during Spring 2017. The accreditation process required that faculty collect a syllabus,homework, and exams from every core undergraduate course [9]. Approximately half (7 out