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Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Bird, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Continuing Professional Development

basedon excellence in teaching. All three of these individuals are faculty at R1 institutions and havereceived recognition for their innovative teaching in terms of awards and media attention.Pseudonyms have been assigned to protect confidentiality. The three individuals are at distinctcareer stages – an early-career assistant professor, a mid-career associate professor, and a late-career full professor. Pseudonyms are prefaced with e, m, and l respectively to indicate early-,mid-, and late- career stages. The questions in the interview were designed to elicit the stories Page 23.1145.3of how they came to adopt and evolve their teaching and to

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ed Alef, Rochester College; Soma Chakrabarti, University of Kansas

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Continuing Professional Development

and sustainable program.Introduction:Let’s assume that you are an organization whose technical leadership sees the necessity inestablishing and maintaining a technical continuing education program (TCEP) for its workforcein order to effectively and efficiently achieve its strategic technical goals. Further, let’s assumethat this technical leadership also sees the necessity to assure career path plans and processes thatintegrate with the development and retention of a valued workforce that will benefit from theknowledge derived by such a TCEP. These two assumptions help build the foundation for thesuccessful creation and continuation of a TCEP that will add value to the organization and theemployee. Without this dual benefit to the employee

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne P. Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Continuing Professional Development

possible and provides thesupporting structure for students and faculty. By removing the obstacle of distance, the programenables a sufficient number of practice-oriented engine engineers to enroll in the programwithout moving or suspending their careers. The intentionally collaborative, project-basedlearning in the program enables students to learn with and from highly experienced industrypeers. The program also creates broader and deeper connections between campus faculty andindustry, enabling faculty to gain greater understanding of, and linkage with, the interests andneeds of mid-career engineers and their employers.For the author, the unique learning opportunities that online learning can create was illustratedparticularly well in a web

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

undergraduate assimilated knowledge throughsuccessfully greater career opportunities, recommendations from supervisors and third partiesand the potential students statement of purpose. In the final analysis, it is a judgment decision onmaturity, based on a collection of factors that support an informed decision on the potentialsuccess of an applicant. These many career oriented factors are typically not available whenassessing the Master’s applicant who has just completed their undergraduate degree.This paper shares the quantitative results of a longitudinal study of nearly 400 workingprofessional adult learners, from business and industry, who graduated from Purdue University’sCenter for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR

Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems; Timothy Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Noah Miller, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems

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Continuing Professional Development

”. Nothing was asked in return, because each had given far more thanmost to the program, and to each other. Now these leaders have the challenge to go forthand create great strides; should they choose to pursue this journey as they forge theirfuture careers. Page 23.1406.8Page | 7 Selections by "The Bottom 3" Diversity "The Bottom 3" Group Counts! Leadership # of # in # % # % % Women Training Applicants Selected Selected Selected Selected Women & Program Group

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos; Wayne W. Wheatley; Valerie Ann Little

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Continuing Professional Development

high schoolmath teachers from the Dayton-Montgomery County in Ohio, who worked in local industries.The teachers worked with engineers, material scientists, marketing analysts, environmentalconsultants, and physicists. The key goal in this effort was to improve math education in the highschool. While the participants’ focus was on math education, they found that the internshipexperiences were even more valuable in that they helped these teachers adapt their teachingmethods to include more cooperative learning, open-ended problem solving, writing, andtechnology, to better prepare students for careers in business and industry3.The next work involved an NSF funded center whose mission was to strengthen and expandbiotechnology technician education

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York, HQ; Lisa Miles Raposo, State University of New York Center for Professional Development

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Continuing Professional Development

development opportunities for faculty, librar- ians, and instructional support staff throughout the 64-campus State University of New York system. Lisa chairs the Program Planning Committee for the largest SUNY Conference, the Annual SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology (CIT), and manages the Certificate Program Development for Teaching Faculty. Lisa began her career at SUNY as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at SUNY Institute of Technology. Lisa has a Bachelors Degree in English Communications from Le Moyne College, located in Syracuse, New York, and earned her Masters in Library Science from Syracuse University

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

(defined as BS Eng. graduates).Land points out “…the perennial debate among engineering and engineering technologyeducators has been where bachelorette engineering technology (ET) graduates fit within thespectrum of engineering and technical careers.” To this end, the Land study was instrumental invalidating what many in business and industry already suspected; that being, the key differencebetween technologists and engineers resides in the education both receive (application versustheory) and their most applicable subsequent roles and titles on entering the workforce.Importantly, and a required follow-on, is a better understanding of each cohort’s contributions tothe engineering processes attendant to the product life-cycle.Technologists have an

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Miller, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems; Timothy Boyd, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman

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Continuing Professional Development

company’s prestigious LTP (Leadership Training Program) and, just two cycles from graduation, planned and facilitated two recent offsite retreats, events involving a hundred participants, requiring months of de- tailed planning and acute project management. An avid nature lover, Boyd’s hobbies include back country camping and hiking as well as learning self reliance in the wild.Mr. Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Eric Pearson has experienced an extensive career of personnel and technical development during the past twenty-nine years at Northrop Grunna Corporation. After leading teams through intense technical radar development programs he transitioned to personnel development and Unveristy recruiting in 2000 creating