Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 1: Using Co-Op and Internships to Improve Diversity, Retention, Learning, and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katelyn Elizabeth Gunderson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology ; Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University; Jamie Ladge; Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

translates into academic, work, and career self-efficacy particularly for women. Student sections of industry clubs and professionalorganizations such as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers, the Lunar Lion Team at Penn State, and the National Societyof Black Engineers provided the students interviewed here with a heightened sense of academicand work self-efficacy. These organizations afforded students valuable opportunities to meetlike-minded engineering students, learn about important industry news, and serve as mentorswhile providing outlets to employ technical skills taught in the classroom.Although only the full-time engineer data pool was asked specifically about whether their co

Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 1: Using Co-Op and Internships to Improve Diversity, Retention, Learning, and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott R. Hamilton, Northeastern University; Jack Fitzmaurice, Northeastern University; Paul John Wolff III, Northeastern University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

disciplinary majors (bio, chemical, civil, computer,electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering as well as operations research), and also topurse multidisciplinary professional master’s degrees in energy systems, engineeringmanagement, information systems, sustainable building systems, and telecommunicationsystems. Our Co-op course was developed specifically with the international students from thesemulti-discipline masters programs in mind. To be clear, international students represented 96%of the students in our course in 2014-2015 (Table 1). These professional graduate programsrequire completion of about 32-credit hours of coursework during the course of approximately24-30 months. Based on interviews with students, most students chose to

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

information passes from the notes of the instructor to the notes of thestudents - without passing through the mind of either one - continues as “the norm”.The purpose of this paper is to renew the call for deployment of better and more effectiveinstructional strategies in the classrooms of the Arab Gulf States, stressing on cooperativelearning practices as a viable alternative to the traditional (low-interaction lecture-based)environment that has gripped the engineering education of Region’s institution for decades.The paper sheds light on: theoretical roots, research support, current practices, andsuggestions for redesigning classes-if need be- to stimulate interaction and help break thetraditional lecture dominant pattern, when cooperative learning