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College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tammy Baldwin, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.; Marisa Hemingway, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc

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Laboratories developed and integrated a formalized mentor program intothe EDP. The program coordinators reviewed the needs of associate engineers, evaluated bestpractices, and created benchmarks for success. It became evident that a mechanism beyondsupervision and teaching was a necessary component of the new training program. Mentoringserves many purposes at varying levels. The EDP includes numerous individuals across theUnited States and therefore had to be multifaceted and deliverable through contemporary trainingand communications methods.The needs of the associate engineers included a formal mentoring component that would aid theirultimate success as well as assist with swift facilitated growth. Formal mentoring can be achallenge, because it

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Baukal, John Zink Institute; Joseph Colannino, John Zink Co. LLC; Wes Bussman, John Zink Institute; Geoffrey Price, University of Tulsa

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disadvantage of this instruction format is the difficulty establishing a relationshipbetween students and multiple short-term instructors due to the short contact time.Student end-of-course assessments were very positive. This course will now be offeredannually as a chemical engineering elective. This paper discusses the details of thecourse including the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned for this college-industrypartnership.IntroductionThere are many ways that industry and academia can collaborate to educate engineeringstudents. Industry can provide individual instructors to teach existing courses as adjunctsor visiting professors.1 McMasters and Komerath (2005) describe a program developedby Boeing called “Boeing Fellow on Campus Program.”2

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Shelley, United States Air Force; Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

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laboratory classes, to the student’s senior, but usually not last, year.Because of low student enrollment and dissatisfaction with the JEP by both the local employers,who did not benefit, and the two partner universities, the JEP ended in spring semester 2004. At the close of the JEP, a partnership of local engineering employers, city, state, and federalgovernment agencies motivated a single university to offer programs to provide mechanical andelectrical engineering baccalaureate degrees to students locally through a combination ofinteractive broadcast lectures and locally taught engineering laboratory courses.Industry/Government support for the program included temporary funding for an electricalengineering professor’s salary and an

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

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AC 2010-858: NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN: A REPORT ON THE EXPERIENCESIN BOEING’S WELLIVER FACULTY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Dr. Van Treuren is a professor on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the capstone Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course as well as courses in heat transfer, aerospace engineering, gas turbines, fluid mechanics, and wind power. His research interests include energy education and gas turbine heat transfer. He can be contacted at Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu. Page 15.912.1© American Society for

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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. Carrying out laboratory experiments and generating experimental data, visiting aproject site, and using pencil and paper to produce a schematic, are gradually fading away. Thesetraditional tools were instrumental in developing an engineering common sense. It is argued herethat generating data from physical models is potentially a great learning tool, particularly whenthe model is built by the students. Building a model, testing a model, generating physical datafrom the model, and analyzing said data, help students alternate between inductive andconductive processes, thus broadening their design vision and their understanding of theexperimental approach to engineering design. There is potentially a real need to research theways to teach engineering

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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G. Marshall Molen, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University; Matthew Doude, Mississippi State University

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capabilities, including HILhardware and software donated by dSPACE. The showcase laboratory is an invaluable tool tostudent engineers involved in the vehicle development process for EcoCAR, and is an asset tothe automotive instructional program at Mississippi State University. The breadth and depth ofstudents’ understanding of this development tool has already been greatly enhanced.IntroductionEcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge is a three-year, student-led engineering design competition whichchallenges 17 universities from across North America to develop solutions to commontechnological issues facing today’s automotive industry. This will be done by redesigning astock 2009 Saturn VUE as a hybrid, thereby improving the vehicle’s fuel efficiency andemissions

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Requirement for GraduationIntroductionProfessional internships are not a new concept to college and university programs.However, to require this experience in the form of a demanding, well designed andimplemented internship is a very time consuming investment, which will yield excellentreturns for your students and for your program. Students, both traditional and non-traditional, are given an opportunity to demonstrate, advance, and refine technical andsupervisory competencies learned in the classroom and in the laboratories. Graduateswith this type of resume-worthy experience have a substantial advantage over peers withno internship experience. “Once, having an internship or two on your resume made you areal standout in the marketplace. Today