Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahesh Aggarwal, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

reinforceclassroom work and to develop the student into outstanding engineers. In addition to thementorship in technical areas, the professor also mentors the student in leadership skills, workand personal ethics, and communication skills that are needed in the industrial workplace. Thestudent is also assigned a mentor from GE Transportation. The mentor assigns the projects to thestudent including the specific tasks to be completed and directly interacts with the student forday to day activities on all projects. This track requires that the student work on these industrialprojects half time during the school year and full time during the summer. Program consists of12 courses (36 credits) to be completed over a two year period.The graduate work-study under

Conference Session

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

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

problem statements andspecifications, consideration of alternative solutions, and detailed system description. Further, it isrequired to include constraints such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics, and socialimpact. Courses that contain engineering design normally are taught at the upper-division level of theengineering program. Some potion of this requirement must be satisfied by at least one course which isprimarily design, preferably at the senior level, and draws upon previous coursework in the relevantdiscipline”. (14)A proliferation of capstone design experiences, over the last decade, has taken place at manycolleges of engineering – all seem to meet some of the requirements noted above. The ABETrequirements is the

Conference Session

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

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

. P. (2007). Designing and conducting mixed methods research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.13. Creswell, J. W. (2003). Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods applications (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, p. 15.14. Elliott, J., & Luke, D. (2008). Epistemology as ethics in research and policy: the use of case studies. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 4287-119. doi:10.1111/j. 1467-9752.2008.00629.x.15. Shelley, J.S., & Bowen, M. (2009). Innovation in engineering outreach: Engineering 11 as a tool for recruiting minority students to engineering. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Austin, TX. June