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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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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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AC 2010-2035: PROJECT-ORIENTED CAPSTONE DESIGN IN CIVILENGINEERING: LINKAGES WITH INDUSTRY TO ENHANCE THE PRACTICEWaddah Akili, Iowa State University Page 15.999.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Project–Oriented Capstone Design in Civil Engineering: Linkages with Industry to Enhance the PracticeAbstract: Teaching civil engineering design through senior projects or capstone design courses,with industry involvement and support, has increased in recent years. The general trend towardincreasing the design component in engineering curricula is part of an effort to better preparegraduates for engineering practice. While some design

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mamdouh Bakr, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Dept. Of Engineering Technology

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College-Industry Partnerships

. Howeverthis relationship becomes closely tested when industry and academia endeavor to work togetheron joint projects, especially if a courtship period is cut short or bypassed in the interest ofexpediency. Fissures may show up as a result of the difference in cultures, objectives,expectations and the “internal clock speed” of each organization.3Joint Industry University ProjectsThe key to a successful working relationship with industry is the mutual recognition of the"Operating Cycles" of business and the university, and the motivation on both sides to achieve acommon goal. Business cycle is often driven by quarterly performance, new productintroduction, and organized efforts to improve manufacturing. The company operating cycle isinfluenced by

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahesh Aggarwal, Gannon University

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DescriptionThis is a professional track work study academic program combined with application training onactual industrial problems. At the same time students are exposed to real-world problems throughhands-on experience. The program consists of one program coordinator from GE Transportationand one program coordinator from Gannon University. Students are selected for this track basedon academic background, self motivation, and leadership, interpersonal and communicationsskills. Each student is assigned a Gannon University professor as a mentor while working at GETransportation. The mentor advises the student on his academic work and guides the student onengineering projects related to GE Transportation. The projects are carefully chosen to

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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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benefits for both organizations. TU could offer a course to theirstudents in an area that was not a specific strength of its faculty. TU students had thebenefit of learning professional practice from experienced industry engineers. JZ hadclose access to top senior and graduate chemical engineering students that were potentialinterns and permanent hires. JZ also benefitted from high quality student final projectresearch reports and presentations in topic areas suggested by and of interest to theinstructors. The main area for improvement for future classes is better coordinationamong the instructors for the quantity and difficulty of homework and exam problems,better consistency on grading projects, and eliminating unnecessary duplication. Themain

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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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Dave Sly, Iowa State University; Daniel Bumblauskas, Iowa State University; Frank Peters, Iowa State University

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course involves between 6 to 10in-class presentations by professionals that are successful in Technical Sales. These professionals are synchronized with thecourse syllabus, such that they are able to reinforce the specific material being taught around the time they are speaking. Inthe Technical Sales 2 course, students are required to individually be assigned to a specific company which they present tothe class (every two weeks), and attempt to improve, that company's sales organization to the other students in the class.Therefore, the final project for students in the Technical Sales 2 course is to design an improved process for part of that salesorganization's function.Another element of the structure of both courses is the addition of inter

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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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Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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University. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career

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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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assistantprofessor power faculty also declined to only 12 percent in 2006.Developing the power engineering and energy workforce for the next millennium has become anational and global challenge. Not only is the industry workforce approaching retirement, so isthe educational backbone of electric power engineering2. It is estimated that approximately 30 to40 percent of the national electric power workforce will reach retirement or move into otherindustries by 20133. Universities need to revamp and invigorate their electrical engineeringprograms to entice new faculty as well as new students. The projection for the 2013 workforcelooks somewhat bleak.In order for the United States to provide an adequately skilled labor force for the electric utilityindustry

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

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College-Industry Partnerships

. Enabler Key Industry and Gov Leaders Implementers Educational partners & Various Project Oriented Organizations & Personnel Grass Roots Community Activists and Retired Engineers Figure 2: Tactical Coalition Pyramid The broad-base, or grass roots level, participants include political activist retirees fromthe local air force base, engineers from local industry, the local community college faculty

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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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. Thedress is business casual which sets the tone for the week, relaxed yet professional. This week waspivotal to the Welliver Program as it allowed the Fellows to meet and develop the necessaryteam spirit for required team research projects. During this week the Boeing staff hadicebreaker exercises to help the Fellows learn about each other, informational presentationson topics such as the Welliver Heritage, Boeing organizations, and Boeing’s universityaffiliations. Administrative procedures such as the Boeing ID card and being issued a Boeinglaptop computer were also accomplished. Field trips were taken to the Boeing St. Louis site andto a Cardinals baseball game. The week was entirely too short but the goal was accomplished.All Fellows felt

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Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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communicated to the workers? How is quality defined by the organization? What are the customers’ expectations of quality from the organization? Do these expectations of quality actually match with the definition of quality in the Page 15.989.8 organization? Are the ISO 9000 standards being addressed?Topic Five: Your Supervisor’s Choice- The topic of this fifth paper is selected in conjunction with the intern’s supervisor. Typically the supervisor has insight into an area or project the company would like to explore or document.G. Conclusions1. Significance - Describe how the

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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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the dSPACE software, including ControlDesk and MotionDesk,and were given a demonstration model to practice on. Page 15.1301.3Students have also been trained through a Model Based Systems Design class offered atMississippi State University. In this class, the students were trained using tools offered by TheMathWorks, such as Matlab and Simulink. These programs are the basis for the dSPACEsoftware suite. In this class, students were given projects which required them to developcomponent models and integrate them into an HIL simulation. For example, one group modeledan electric traction motor by setting up and instrumenting the motor on a