Paper ID #8820Capstone project challenges: How industry sponsored projects offer newlearning experiencesDr. Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University Dr. Carrie Steinlicht is an Asst. Professor of Operations Management. She has directed many Capstone projects with Industry partners for students in Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Operations Management. She has several years of industry experience as an advanced development engineer and has served as a consultant to industry for over 10 years.Prof. Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University Byron Garry is an Associate Professor of Electronics Technology
Paper ID #8681College-Industry Design Project Case Study: Process Heater SimulatorDr. Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Hamworthy Combustion Chuck Baukal, Ph.D., P.E. is the Director of the John Zink Institute, which is the training organization for John Zink Hamworthy Combustion where he has been since 1998. He has over 30 years of industrial experience and over 20 years of adjunct teaching experience. He teaches chemical and mechanical engi- neering courses as an adjunct instructor at Oral Roberts University, the University of Tulsa, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Utah. He is the author/editor
, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; Page 24.286.1 writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e- portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering. c American
as well as the book ”Location Aware Information systems - Developing Real-time Tracking Systems”, published by CRC Press. Page 24.115.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Successful Partnership between Industry and Academia: Curriculum Improvement, Research, and Outreach through Collaboration with Industry AbstractThe Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has been working on an EnergyStorage Project. This project is the nation’s first solar storage facility fully integrated intoa utility’s power grid. This award-winning
200 hours per year of industrial training and consulting for topics including forecasting, inventory management, production planning, project management, and supply chain management. His research interests are in improving supply chain efficiency through the application of technology and best practices for warehousing, logistics, and inventory management. He holds a B.S. and Master of Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Indiana State University. He also holds professional certifications of CPIM and CSCP from APICS, The Association for Operations Management, and a PMP from the Project Management Institute
consulting for topics including forecasting, inventory management, production planning, project management, and supply chain management. His research interests are in improving supply chain efficiency through the application of technology and best practices for warehousing, logistics, and inventory management. He holds a B.S. and Master of Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Indiana State University. He also holds professional certifications of CPIM and CSCP from APICS, The Association for Operations Management, and a PMP from the Project Management Institute.Mr. John Pickard, East Carolina University I am a teaching instructor at East Carolina University in
responsibilities as Di- rector, he also teaches machine design, and advises senior design capstone projects. His research interests include integration of industry and academia, and utilization of project based (experiential) learning to enhance the applicability of learning.Dr. Vukica Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Jovanovic is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology De- partment, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Prior to joining ODU’s Engineering Technology Department Dr. Jovanovic was teaching at Trine Uni- versity, Angola, Indiana at Design Engineering Technology Department. Before Trine, she was working as an
the notion that redefining faculty engagement and differencesamong various categories of service, outreach, and engagement would help move the discussionsof outreach – as an essential component of promotion and tenure – in the right direction. Theoverall goal is to better prepare faculty for accepting outreach activities for Promotion andTenure. Outreach Activities as used in this context are activities that may involve students,faculty members, student organizations, business leaders, professional organizations,administrators, or any combination thereof. These activities are designed to create and supportuniversity-recognized projects that have been encouraged – if not officially sanctioned – bycollege or departmental administrators to
Paper ID #9363University-Industry Partnership in Semiconductor EngineeringDr. Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University Tim Dallas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Dallas’ research includes MEMS packaging issues with an emphasis on stiction. In addition, his research group designs and tests SUMMiT processed dynamic MEMS devices. His MEMS group has strong education and outreach efforts in MEMS and has developed a MEMS chip for educational labs. His group uses com- mercial MEMS sensors for a project aimed at preventing falls by geriatric patients. Dr. Dallas received the
Opportunities through Education by 2015(EcO15), was created in 2008 to address that deficiency. The main objective of the initiative wasto move residents up one level in their education, training, and/or job placement. One of theprogram’s primary successes was bringing Project Lead the Way (PLTW) programs and classesto every public high school in the ten-county region. PLTW is a pre-engineering, high schoolcurriculum that promotes engineering careers through a rigorous curriculum of engineeringdesign and analysis. Since 2008, student enrollment in PLTW classes in this mostly rural, 10-county region has increased over 900 percent while overall STEM enrollment has increased 30percent. High school graduation rates have also increased over that period from
Distribution Program presented her the Award of Distinction in 2010. Dr. Natarajarathi- nam’s research interests include coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains. Her research articles have won best paper awards at Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators Conference and Society of Marketing Advances Conference. She currently serves on the Editorial advisory board for International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. Dr. Natarajarathinam has worked on several research projects funded by government agencies and industry. She has a strong passion for student development. She is the founding faculty of
Paper ID #9498More than Advice: Increasing Industry Advisory Board Member Involve-mentDr. James W. Jones, Ball State University Dr. James W. Jones is the Construction Management Program Director and an Associate Professor in Ball State University’s Department of Technology. He has taught in the areas of leadership and construction management for more than 10 years and has more than a decade of experience managing construction projects in both field and office environments. Page 24.914.1 c
-phase research project on characteristics of BPTconducted within a Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) multi-national company.The aim of this research is to support ways to capture technical knowledge in industry and enablethe transfer of this knowledge to the next generation of professionals.BackgroundIn today’s organizations, human capital, and the potential it brings in terms of expert knowledge,efficiency, and insight,1 is more important than traditional assets such as equipment, facilities ornatural resources.2 Organizations that see themselves as “knowledge-generating communitiesmust continually determine what they know and do not know, find ways to efficiently share whatthey know among their members, and create or acquire knowledge
-innovation analysis argues, “that technological growth should be proportional topopulation size” (Ibid). And yet, population density actually causes innovation to grow fasterthan population size. Indeed, ‘Globalization’ is critical, entrepreneurially, to succeeding in theworldwide economy (Wilson, M.D., et al, 2013). Moreover, entrepreneurs need to understandGlobalization and that the evolution of the global economy has brought forth a competitiveworldwide marketplace delivering the benefits of reduced labor costs and lower operatingexpenditures, which could directly affect the product that they are developing3. UnderstandingGlobalization successful processes is important to both growth and innovation. The purpose ofany project or organization is
arrangements, I only have a single experience to share, but that may bea result of its unsuccessful outcome. At one point, I worked to get a faculty co-op positionapproved on my engineering team. The concept was that we would bring in a professor duringhis or her non-teaching term (most likely during the summer), and we would have them workside-by-side with our regular engineers on whatever projects we were already working on. Weviewed this as a high-end version of a student co-op. Presumably, the faculty member would beable to hit the ground running regarding many of the tasks we were working on. There would beopportunities for the faculty member to learn how we did things in our organization, and theycould recognize and suggest improvements to the
industry; (d) Advising through mentoring; and (e) Resources for academicsuccess (hence the acronym CLEAR). The ultimate goal of this project is to produce engineeringbaccalaureate degree graduates with lower student loan indebtedness and greater preparation forpost-degree roles.We present here our early results and lessons learned from the process of getting this program offthe ground, as well as our plans for continued growth.Program DesignThe CLEAR Scholars program provides scholarship support and academic, career, andleadership development opportunities to a cohort of students with demonstrated financial need aswell as potential to succeed in engineering, demonstrated by maintaining a GPA over 2.7 infreshman math, science, and engineering
critical of their instructors than thosewho left.The findings for co-op in this study not only lend support to those who have long asserted thatquality co-ops can enhance undergraduate retention but also demonstrate co-op’s enduringenhancement of students’ work self-efficacy.IntroductionThis study is part of a larger research project, supported by a National Science FoundationResearch on Gender in Science and Engineering program grant # 0827490, designed todetermine the effect of self-efficacy and other factors on retention, especially of women inundergraduate engineering programs. These data represent the pre-survey of the studycompleted in the 2009-2010 academic year (referred to as Time 1), a post-survey follow-up inthe 2010-2011 academic year