Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 2: Leveraging Internships and Experiential Learning in Higher Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

reformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogicalskills in particular. The paper also argues that any meaningful change in Region’s classroompractices today (dominated by traditional lecture-based methods) must be mandated andsupported by the university administration. What is necessary to create a change, is for thedepartment or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set of components: clearlyarticulated expectations, opportunities for faculty to learn about new pedagogies, and anequitable reward system.Introduction“To teach is to engage students in learning.” This quote, from Education for Judgment byChristenson et al, (1) captures the meaning of the art and practice of pedagogies ofengagement. The theme advocated here is that

Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 2: Leveraging Internships and Experiential Learning in Higher Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Weican Xiao, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

Computer Engineering Department HeadsAssociation, Mousavinezhad et al. started a workshop series for developing educational andresearch programs in a critical area of power and energy systems with the support of the NationalScience Foundation 3. Many recent efforts have been devoted to improve the teaching throughsimulation 4-7; nevertheless, few have been devoted to enhance hands-on skills. Recently Farhadiand Mohammed designed a Laboratory-Scale Hybrid DC power System to address that issue8.However, it requires tremendous effort from the instructors and a great amount of sourcefunding, which is hard to duplicate in most of the schools. In addition, the DC power system issparsely used in power industry as the AC power system is still dominant due

Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 2: Leveraging Internships and Experiential Learning in Higher Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derrick Langley, Air Force Institute of Technology; Diana Lynn Cahill, SOCHE; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Richard Martin, The Air Force Institute of Technology; Maggie Varga, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education; Sean Joseph Creighton, SOCHE; Jeremy Paul Stringer, Air Force Institute of Technology

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters.Ms. Maggie Varga, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education Maggie Varga, Chief Operating Officer, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Maggie Varga is the COO for the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE). In this capacity, Maggie leads the SOCHEIntern Program, which employs nearly 300 students annually in co- operation with local government and small businesses, as well as the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The program provides high impact experiential learning opportunities for students while generating economic bene- fit and enhancing