insight into team organization and structure and the team's interdisciplinary andmultifaceted skillset. Best practices, successes, and areas of opportunity for leveragingmultistakeholder collaborations were essential to our project. Our aim is to document our processas a road map for other university researchers who wish to collaborate with industry and non-profitorganizations.Keywords: Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Collaboration Ethics, Community Engagement.IntroductionConducting collaborative research across multiple stakeholders can be considered a cumbersometask, which often requires room for adjustments and process improvement. Collaborating andcommunicating, especially in the context of longitudinal interdisciplinary research examining
transferability of their skills, demonstrating that the criticalthinking and problem-solving abilities honed through FSAE projects were applicable acrossdiverse engineering contexts. Such experiences underscored the enduring impact of FSAEparticipation in cultivating practical engineering skills, enhancing graduates' effectiveness intheir professional endeavors.Suggestions for ImprovementSuggestions for improvement centered around enhancing access to experienced mentors andstreamlining resources for learning Ansys software. Alumni emphasized the value of learningfrom common mistakes and pitfalls, suggesting that a repository of best practices and casestudies in which things go wrong could aid in developing students' proficiency. Additionally,there was a
Paper ID #43851Planning a Trucking Research Consortium using Industry Customer Discoveryand Innovation Ecosystem MappingProf. Mohamed Razi Nalim, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Dr. Razi Nalim is Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IUPUI, where he directs the Combustion and Propulsion Research Laboratory and helps lead the Transportation and Autonomous Systems Institute. He has extensive experience in higher education and professional practice – in industry, academia, and government. He has administered research, sponsored work, graduate programs, international initiatives, accreditation
originated to connect talented and engaged students with the required domain knowledgeto a critical mission need. Over several program cycles, we have expanded our mission support toprojects within our organization. A major benefit of CIRCUIT is a systematized, scalable modelthat supports a research and outreach approach with broad impacts for students, institutions, andthe nation. Our program model has eight pillars: Holistic Recruiting, Mission Engagement, Tar-geted Training, Leadership Development, Integrated Assessment, Diverse Mentorship, AcademicPartnerships, and Career Empowerment. These are supported by our active research in learningand engagement, and dissemination activities to broadly share our tools and capabilities . Throughdeveloping
Paper ID #37348A Review of Promising Practices in STEM Bridge Programs Serving HighSchool and College Native American Indigenous CommunitiesDr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, The University of Texas, San Antonio Araceli Martinez Ortiz, PhD., is the Microsoft President’s Endowed Professor of Engineering Education in the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design/ College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She leads a comprehensive research agenda related to integrated STEM learning, challenge-based learning for students, engineering faculty professional development and culturally
Paper ID #43329Women’s Engineering Career Stories: Looking for a Pathway BackDr. Christina A. Pantoja, Campbell University Christina Pantoja is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Engineering at Campbell University. Her research interests include career choices, pathways, and retention of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering. Her other interests include the topics of mentoring, job-crafting, and self-care. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, a M.S. in Education from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She has four years of
themotivations and interaction channels between the academia and industry, and intends toanswer to following two questions:1) For what purposes would universities and industry jointly involve in educational UIC to trainfuture engineers?2) What are the best practices of educational UIC in facilitating university-industry relations inChina?To address the research questions, we undertake an explorative case study in a highereducation institution (the authors’ home institution) in China, investigating the motivationmechanism and interaction channels concerning university-industry educational collaborationfrom both universities and industry sides at organization and individual levels. By taking thisdiverse perspective, our study contributes to the discussion
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professional skillslike communication and lifelong learning in order to adapt to the needs of their industry.However, graduates hired in computer engineering and electronics frequently lack the abilitydesired by employers to concisely communicate their designs and technical results [4]. Forexample, Campi and colleagues researched communication skills in a project-basedMicroelectronics course designed to simulate an industrial environment [4]. This study wasdriven by the need for professionals in the microelectronics engineering industry to be able toreport individual, specialized work to team members and supervisors. The authors emphasizethat communication "becomes even more important when the graduate has to face, in the courseof his/her professional
Purdue University. His focus is the development and operations of world-class programs to educate world-changing industrial engineers. His research interests include the design of transformable production networks and facility logistics; the connections between models, modeling, and decision making; engineering and intercultural education; and course and curriculum design. He teaches in the areas of engineering economics, production management and control, advanced facility design, and undergraduate and graduate level capstone design courses. He has also regularly co-coordinated study abroad programs. Dr. Brunese is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, the Institute for Operations Research
provides the REPs with masterydigital badges. The curriculum guides REPs on utilizing mentoring as a leadership developmenttool that helps navigate career advancement in their respective engineering fields. Integrated intoeach of the three courses are best-practices designed to positively influence the development of aself-directed learning mindset and building leadership capacity among REPs as future engineeringleaders.Mentors often cite the ability to increase their professional skills as personal benefits gainedthrough the mentoring process, stating that serving as mentors caused them to reflect on andsharpen their own skills, including coaching, communicating, and introspection.2 We report on ourongoing efforts to scale a novel leadership