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Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Maggie Varga, SOCHE; Sean J. Creighton, SOCHE; Derrick Langley, Air Force Institute of Technology; Diana Lynn Cahill, Air Force Institute of Technology; Richard K. Martin, The Air Force Institute of Technology

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Signal Processing. Page 24.1279.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Transforming Undergraduate STEM Summer Internships in a Federal Government Institution for 21st Century Engineering CareersAbstractThis paper describes first steps to transform all internships in the undergraduate STEM SummerResearch Program in the federal government at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) toprepare students for engineering careers in the 21st century. AFIT is a government institution ofhigher education within the Air Force. Over 40 students

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manuel D. Rossetti, University of Arkansas; Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; Edgar C. Clausen, University of Arkansas; Carol Schubert Gattis, University of Arkansas; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas

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with graduate education,2. To provide underrepresented and financially needy undergraduate students with enhanced financial support and career experiences to improve the likelihood of completing both a BS and a MS in engineering,3. To provide personalized integrated industry and academic mentoring and professional development that results in increased enrollment and completion of graduate engineering degrees involving industry beneficial research,4. To increase the number of highly skilled employees in engineering fields ready to directly apply engineering research, Page 24.532.25. To develop an innovative program that integrates

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joy Watson, University of Cincinnati; Maureen G. Schomaker, University of Cincinnati

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Paper ID #9273Introduction to Cooperative Education-The CourseDr. Joy Watson, University of Cincinnati Joy Watson is an assistant professor in the University of Cincinnati’s Division of Professional Practice and Experiential Learning where she is the co-op adviser for chemical and environmental engineering students. She completed her Ph.D. in the College of Engineering at the University of South Carolina in August 2011. Her doctoral work focused on preparing engineering Ph.D. students for careers in industry. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with her

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hans J. Thomas P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Michael Nowatkowski, U.S. Military Academy; Brodie K. Hoyer, U.S. Military Academy; Michael J. Benson, U.S. Military Academy; Bruce Floersheim, U.S. Military Academy; Luksa Luznik, United States Naval Academy; Wesley Anderson, U.S. Air Force Academy; Steven J. Condly, United States Military Academy

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Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He has his Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy (1994), and his Master of Science (2003), Degree of Engineer (2003), and Ph.D. (2011) from Stanford University all in Mechanical Engineering. He has authored/co-authored papers in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Heat Transfer, along with Engineering Education.Lt. Col. Bruce Floersheim, U.S. Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Floersheim graduated as an Engineer officer from the United States Military Academy in 1989. He has served in the U.S. Army in the United States, Turkey, Bosnia, Germany and Iraq during a career spanning over 24 years. He holds a PhD in Mechanical

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen M. Short, University of the District of Columbia- CC, Workforce Development and Lifelong Learning ; Annie R. Pearce, Virginia Tech; Christine Marie Fiori P.E., Virginia Tech; Tanyel Bulbul, Virginia Tech; Andrew McCoy, Virginia Tech

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wasadministered to industry hiring professionals to determine what factors they believed woulddetermine student success in the industry. This survey contained nine multiple choice questionsand five open response questions. Participants in the survey were selected during theconsecutive spring 2012 and fall 2012 semesters at a university program offering an accreditedfour year construction program which did not require internship participation as a necessary partof curriculum fulfillment. The participants served as the main hiring source for these students.They attended career fairs, submitted job opportunities to the department for posting on thestudent list serve, spoke to students on campus during class sessions about their work, and heldinformal meet

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University; Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University

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3.55Product Design & ManufacturingEngineering EGR 290 Co-op I (Summer 2013) 0 0 3 8 3.73 EGR 390 Co-op II (Winter 2012) 0 0 6 3 3.33 EGR 490 Co-op III (Fall 2013) 0 0 3 6 3.67 Mean: 0 0 12 17 3.59for two others. From the graduating student perspective, they are adequately prepared for dealingwith ethical issues in their early career. As is typical with many self-assessments, students maytend to score themselves lower than their actual knowledge and skills level, as evidenced byscores on the course assessments and feedback from employers on

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose A. Galvan, Carnegie Mellon University; Elizabeth Casman, Carnegie Mellon University; Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Mitchell J. Small, Carnegie Mellon University

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