Conference Session

Issues of Cooperative Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

, demographics, etc.More details about NESLOS, including a list of some of the outcomes, are included in a previousASEE publication, in which NESLOS was employed to assess students’ learning outcomesduring capstone design projects 8. Most of the NESLOS items were based on a 5-point Likertscale. Item analysis and survey validation procedures revealed good reliability indexes(Cronbach’s alpha coefficients) varying from 0.60 to 0.90. This study took place at a researchuniversity, where students were administered a computer-based version of NESLOS at the end oftheir co-op or internship experience. The survey instruments and administration were approvedby the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Office of Research Compliance.Participant DemographicsIn

Conference Session

Issues of Cooperative Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

ROBERT GRAY, Penn State Erie

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

learning and the opportunities that may be available for additional career development after graduation. 6. Organize and effectively manage an industrially-based project a) Students, in a team environment, demonstrate that their system design meets specification requirements. b) Students demonstrate that their system was completed within budgetary constraints. c) Students submit a final written report and oral presentation that detail overall requirements, design, implementation, and results for their capstone design project. Page 13.1135.4On-Campus and Off-Campus Learning TopicsThe course

Conference Session

Cooperative Education and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

technical classroom knowledge to the next level of expertise.With respect to Bloom’s Taxonomy, 5 students appear to engage at higher learning levels, fromBloom’s level 1-5 knowledge of a good quality engineering education program to Bloom’s level4- 6, since co op students in a corporate environment learn through integrating Bloom’scategories of Level 4: Analysis, Level 5: Synthesis and Level 6: Evaluation. Co op students learncommunication, team collaboration, program and project management, leadership ofimplementation, and achieving through consequences, accountability and evaluation, as well asmany other skills.In order to be able to document these educational advantages, one must have a vision of thedesired result. Only then can a methodology be