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

engineering education, including how to support engineering students in reflecting on experience, how to help engineering educators make effective teaching decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. Page 22.1720.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 “I just thought I did insignificant tasks”: Using E-portfolios to Understand Co-op and Undergraduate Research ExperiencesAbstractThis paper discusses initial work with having engineering students in optional

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

-III, the final in the series. The student would report on the results of the action learning projectat that time, share what they had learned in their leadership of that project, and how they hasimpacted their organization through their leadership of the team. Finally, the students wereasked to continually update their plans to reflect new learning, new progress and newinformation about themselves, integrating new knowledge and lessons from experience.At that time, much remained to be done in order to know the overall impact of this innovativedesign. As we looked to the future, we had some hunches about overall outcomes. It was ourintention to continue to monitor the individual and collective outcomes as the students movedforward in their

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Baytiyeh, American University, Beirut; Mohamad K. Naja, The Lebanese University

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College Industry Partnerships

’ demographics and information related to their process of locating a job.Participants were requested to use a 5-point Likert scale to rate five factors that may have helped Page 22.317.3them in the transition process such as an internship, final project, or career centers. Participantswere also asked to rate 10 factors on a 5-point Likert scale reflecting the challenges they mayhave faced when they started their career.Five open-ended questions were included at the end of the survey asking participants to share theparticular aspects that would have facilitated a smoother transition process. For example, theywere asked to describe if their summer school

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

an emphasis on intrinsic motivation9 to encourage participation by faculty,industry fellow, and students. I then present an evaluation of the model based on data collectedfrom interviews with industry fellows, self-reflection by the instructor, and post-course surveysof students to argue that all three of the challenges mentioned earlier are addressed. Finally, Iprovide an argument for why Industry Fellows is novel as compared to other models foracademic-industry collaboration, such as guest speakers and student internships. I conclude by Page 22.866.2summarizing the model and its key characteristics. In the balance of this paper, I use the

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

sophisticated semiconductor test equipment.4 A recent survey of leaders from thesemiconductor industry underscores the desire for more universities to introduce material intotheir curriculum that more closely reflects the practices of industry, such as test programdevelopment.5This paper will discuss the partnership between The University of Texas at Tyler and SPEAAmerica to introduce test engineering into the BSEE curriculum. SPEA is major manufacturer of Page 22.965.2advanced automated test equipment (ATE) and has donated to our institution a high performance

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

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

president and general manager to ask whether he thought he should move to manufacturing management. The vice president told him the main issue would be dealing with a wide variety of people and their problems. This was somewhat disconcerting to Nate. He did think some of his skills would match the job, even though he was good at keeping a lot of balls in the air. It was a risk moving outside his comfort zone, yet others felt he had the ability to succeed. He took the plant manager job. This step led to personal growth beyond his wildest expectations.A Model Reflecting Culture ChangeWhat is needed in industry and academia to identify, articulate and educate for the capabilitiesand mindset needed to lead? How

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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College Industry Partnerships

survey data, which reflects the use of computational tools and computationalthinking in the context of the engineering workplace.2) Jeannette Wing’s discussion of Computational Thinking (CT)6 can be summarized in terms ofeight exemplar categories: • Building on power and limits of computing processes. • Solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior. • Reformulating a difficult problem into one we can solve. • Thinking recursively. • Using abstraction and decomposition. • Thinking in terms of prevention, protection and recovery from worst-case scenarios. • Using heuristic reasoning to discover a solution. • Complementing and combining math and engineering thinking. We aligned our interview

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

training will be most beneficial to individuals that have the educational maturity for the reflection, analysis, and synthesis necessary to process clinical experiences, and then to apply that learning in practice. For identical reasons, we believe engineering internships and cooperative educational experiences are most meaningful for students at the post-baccalaureate level, and that a practice-based post-baccalaureate education is the optimal pre-requisite for entry into the profession.  Incorporation of Clinical Experiences into Program Learning Outcomes The accreditation standards set by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME) explicitly state that “the curriculum of a medical education

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

places where the EPICS course has appeared is in careers exploration courses. Thesekinds of experiences allow students to explore different “jobs” as they rotate different roles onthe teams. Appropriate reflections can build on the experience to give students a deepunderstanding of opportunities for careers, casting the careers in the context of needs in theirown communities.Partnerships with EPICS High Engineering-based projects require many levels of partnerships from the community,government and private sectors. In the community, long term partnerships are needed betweenschools and community organizations. The EPICS Program has demonstrated the need andvalue of long-term community partnerships. First, in the quality of work that is

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