Conference Session

Programs that Serve Industry & Academia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Carol Popovich, Corporate member, Microchip Technology Inc.; John McGrane, Microchip Technology Inc.

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Continuing Professional Development

modelers cannot predict tomorrow.”6 In other words, educators are currentlypreparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist.This continuing upward spiral of innovation imposes difficult challenges on companies, theeducational infrastructure, government and the individual to adapt and stay current. If thegraduating engineer will be working with technologies, products, applications and markets 10years or less into his/her career that did not exist at the time of graduation, where will he/she gainthat knowledge? How can companies address the time and cost pressures of having to constantlyre-train their engineering staffs to remain competitive? How can the educational infrastructureremain relevant and effective when the useful life of a technology

Conference Session

Programs that Serve Industry & Academia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Dickson, University of Strathclyde

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Continuing Professional Development

learning Lifelong learning Flexibility Source 1. ABET 2004 General criteria for accreditation of all engineering programs (USA) [3] 2. IChemE 2001 Guidelines for accreditation of degree programmes in chemical engineering [4] 3. AGR 2004 Association of Graduate Recruiters (UK) – all graduates [5] 4. GCCA 2004 Graduate Careers Council of Australia – all graduates [6] 5. LTSN 2003 Learning and Teaching Support Network (UK) – all graduates [7] Table 2. Main Transferable Skills [2] Chemical engineering graduates are expected to be: 1 Good at communicating in a variety of forms (written, oral, etc) 2 Able to work well in teams 3 Able to

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Non-traditional Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John Nelson, U. of Wisconsin-Madison; Amy Shenot, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

Education, 2008 Design and Delivery of a Graduate-Level Project Management Course for Experienced Engineering Professionals: Collaborative, Applied Learning for Distributed TeamsIntroduction and Purpose of PaperThe purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the development and teaching of a projectmanagement course tailored in content and format to meet the needs of experienced, workingengineers. Key distinguishing characteristics of the course of interest to continuing educationprofessionals include: • Content is specifically optimized to meet the needs of mid-career engineers, rather than the more traditional approach of requiring such experienced professionals to participate in

Conference Session

Innovative Programs - Structure, Delivery, Evaluation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Continuing Professional Development

in Austria havecreated a training program open to all “teaching teachers”. Participation is voluntarily and oftenused as a means of continuous professional development to support career development.Successful completion of their program leads to professional registration as ING-PAED IGPP(International Professional Engineering Educator).IGIP, together with SEFI, the European Society of Engineering Education14 (the equivalent ofASEE in the US) represent the largest network of higher education engineering institutions andof individuals involved in engineering education in Europe. It promotes information exchangeabout current developments in the field of engineering education between teachers, researchersand students in the various European

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies / Pedagogies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Chris Collins, University of Cincinnati; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

side of the desk, there areenumerable students desperately wishing the instructor would find a way to teach that wasn’t justlecture with PowerPoint or equations on a white board. If a classroom existed that required activeparticipation of all students and instructors and there was immediate and meaningful feedbackbased on the students’ ability to demonstrate what was learned, would you use it?Not today and not next year, but during the professional career of most of today’s educators, thisclassroom will exist. A prototype of this environment exists and is being used by millions ofstudents and a growing number of educators. Actually it is not one prototype but several that gounder the names of wikis, social networks, and virtual

Conference Session

Innovative Programs - Structure, Delivery, Evaluation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Kurt Colvin, California Polytechnic State University; Joel Shrater, The Aerospace Corporation; Daphne Dador, California Space Education & Workforce Institute; Matt Everingham, California Space Authority

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Continuing Professional Development

navigation, guidance and control products at Litton, at Singer-Kearfott, and at Bendix.Daphne Dador, California Space Education & Workforce Institute Daphne Dador received her M.A. from the George Washington University in Space Policy and Communications. She also holds a certificate from the International Space University. Dador is currently a project manager at the California Space Education & Workforce Institute where she oversees STEM-related education and workforce development projects through a state and federal economic development initiative. As an active member of the space community, her work has often focused on attracting young people to become involved in space activities and careers

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Non-traditional Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lanny Griffin; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Szlavik, California Polytechnic State University

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Continuing Professional Development

Poly is poised to become the national leader in biomedicalengineering professional Master’s programs due to the large number of graduates in theworkforce who continue to do great things, and the recognition of our industrial partners.Program GoalsThe MS programs goals are: 1) to provide graduates with an underpinning of a rigorous, broad-based advanced engineering education and an opportunity to create an individualized focus thatwill propel graduates into the many diverse career opportunities of Biomedical Engineering. 2)to provide graduates an empowering professional degree for students who are currently orintend to become practicing engineers, 3) to provide graduates job-entry education andopportunities for the more complex and evolving