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CIP Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atin K Sinha, Albany State University

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Paper ID #6612Project Oriented K-12 Programs in Rural SouthDr. Atin K Sinha, Albany State University Dr. Atin Sinha is the professor and coordinator of the Engineering Program at Albany State University. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tennessee Space Institute in 1984. He had worked in Learjet and Honeywell before moving to academia in1990. He is a Registered Professional Engineer. Currently, he is engaged in motivating undergraduate engineering students in inquiry based learning through hands-on, realistic projects. He is also involved in various outreach activities with K-12

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CIP Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Chell A. Roberts, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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of content.3The College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University offers an EngineeringAccreditation Council (EAC) of ABET-accredited Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree.The degree’s curricular structure includes an engineering foundation in the first two years andprimary and secondary areas of focus in the third and four years. The program utilizes a projectspine, with project classes every semester of the curriculum, with an explicit emphasis on thestudents gaining professional skills as they progress through the curriculum, as recommended bymultiple engineering education studies.4, 5, 6 The program utilizes a 120 semester hourcurriculum and is structured to satisfy the “general” ABET criteria (but not any program

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CIP Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC; Geoffrey L Price, University of Tulsa; Geoffrey D. Silcox, University of Utah; Michael Newton, University of Utah, Chemical Engineering Department; Terry L Phipps

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Society and has received many departmental, college, and university scholarships. He worked with Dr. Jost O.L. Wendt of Utah for two years as a research assistant in the oxy-coal combustion group as part of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, helping three doctoral students’ research efforts. His work was presented at the 2nd International Oxyfuel Combustion Conference in Yeppoon, Australia in September 2011. Additionally, Newton spent a summer taking part in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates working as a student research associate for Oscilla Power, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. His project with Oscilla Power, Inc. entailed a preliminary design and investigation into the

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CIP Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meagan C Pollock, Purdue University

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needs and state of thisparticular market.Summer Internship. Meagan was looking for an opportunity to return to industry and work at theintersection of engineering and education. Meagan approached two companies with educationtechnology businesses and proposed a research project exploring K-12 engineering education asa market. She reached out to two executives who were within her network in November of 2011.Both responded, but the other company described that they were unable to pursue a partnershipat the current time. Given Meagan’s background and network at TI, it is not unreasonable toassume this had great influence on securing this opportunity. After a few email correspondences,and conference calls, an agreement was established with TI ET in

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CIP Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abdullah I. Almhaidib, King Saud University

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support the scientific research through the finance provided byindustry in order to establish research chairs in the College, the first funded research chair wasestablished in the College of Engineering among the colleges in King Saud University. So far,the College of Engineering has established thirteen research chairs, which are funded by differentinstitutions of the society; most of them are from the industry. The third area contains the supportprovided by industry to the educational aspects in the College through the provision ofscholarships to the outstanding students in different departments of the College. It also includesthe provision of awards to the outstanding graduation projects in the departments. The fourtharea involves the

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CIP Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lori Glover J.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Todd S. Keiller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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marketing experience. He has worked for sixteen years in the industrial sector in a variety of sales, marketing, and business development roles, ten of which were with Corning Glass Works in their Science and Medical Products Divisions. He has over 20 years of academic licensing experience and is the former vice president of Ventures of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and formed the technology commercialization office at the University of Vermont. While at UVM, he formed UVM Ventures, an internal gap fund intended to create a ”valley of birth” by funding projects that had commercial promise but were too early for initial outside investment. He is in the process of doing the same at WPI. Keiller has founded or

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CIP Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

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-level Other occupationsNote: Fields that respondents in our final sample selected are highlighted.Table 2. Engineering sub-occupation fieldsEngineering practitionersEngineering consultantsEngineering managers, first-lineEngineering managers, mid-levelEngineering research associates and assistantsEngineering teachers and professorsEngineering technologists, technicians, and surveyorsOther engineers or engineering-related technologistsNote: Sub-fields that respondents in our final sample selected are highlighted.We combined first-line and mid-level engineering managers into a single group called“managers”. First-line engineering managers typically supervise engineering teams and projects,whereas the NSF describes mid-level