ETAC of ABET and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Technology.Prof. Robert De La Coromoto Koeneke, Daytona State College Robert Koeneke is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Daytona State College. He received his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in 1977 and his M.S. in Computer Science from Santa Clara University in 1982. His 34 years of professional career covers: teaching at undergraduate and graduate level, planning, developing and managing project in the areas of Telecommunications and Information Systems. His research interest includes embedded systems, digital programmable devices and computer communications. He is a member of IEEE
. & Prod. in Ind. & Tech. (IT 508) and Adv. Quality Eng. Methods. • Less emphasis on qualitative methods, despite the fact that the degree is an interdisciplinary degree with students coming from a diverse background and career. • Unfamiliarity of a majority of students with the resources available to help them with their directed MS project, how to prepare the final report, and as such (a similar concern is mentioned in [1]). This is in particular, important since the majority of students are non-traditional (e.g., part-time students) who may have been out of academia for a number of years and therefore, they are not familiar with the expectations and degree requirements they need to be
Beta Pi. His research on passive radon-resistant new residential building construction was adapted in HB1647 building code of Florida Legislature. Najafi is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on many committees and programs, and continuously attends and presents refereed papers at international, national, and local professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works.Miss Sarah Rajkumari Jayasekaran
12.1393.5and stimulating careers for the people of WNC.Our partners, shown in Figure 4, represent all the human and institutional resources needed to besuccessful in this challenging initiative: academic, technical, healthcare and aging care providersas well as business and entrepreneurial connections.The goal of the Collaborative is to collect needs and product ideas from our members includingstudents, faculty, healthcare providers, and elderly retirees and develop them into viable businessopportunities solving problems faced in healthcare and by aging citizens. The building of thebusinessopportunitypackage isundertaken bymultidisciplinary studentteams(primarilyWCU)mentored andsupported byWCU facultyand externalexperts. Theproductdevelopmentprocess
the country. Enrollment hastripled over the last few years (currently, a total of 470 students). UB hosts the largest Page 13.176.5Technology Management Program in the nation (over 300 students).The University of Bridgeport has partnered with CPEP (Connecticut Pre-EngineeringProgram) for many years. Most recently, UB has offered 50 scholarships, at a total of$2.4 million, to qualified CPEP students. CPEP is a non-profit organization that helpsminority middle and high school students pursue careers in the science, technology,engineering and math.Most of our new students do not expect to have financial aid and campus jobs for theirfirst semester
diversity inperspective and experience they provide. The faculty member has more experience teaching andknows what is required to run a course and what is expected of a teaching assistant throughoutthe semester. In addition, most faculty members served as a TA in their graduate careers andrecall their own experience. This outlook is particularly beneficial in dealing with concepts suchas teaching, working with your professor and writing lesson plans. The experienced TA, whojust recently finished their first semester as a TA, can provide the new TAs with life lessonslearned the hard way. This outlook is especially beneficial in dealing with concepts such asgrading, holding office hours and working in a team of TAs. Ultimately, all of the
Fellowships as a graduate student, applicants to Master'sprograms that separately require GREs for admission evaluation, and all applicants whose last Page 12.162.4degree was from outside the United States are required to submit GRE scores. For the majorityof NJIT undergraduate BS/MS participants, consistency with the GRE policy overall meant thatvery few BS/MS participants were required to submit GRE scores.The program was initially targeted toward full-time students but with so many undergraduatestudents working off-campus and recognizing the reality of professional careers, the programwas expanded to include part-time students for all the various
. (Another paper (Ref. 2) discusses theBS/MS and BS/PhD programs that were developed and enhanced at NJIT in order to attract theuniversity's own highly diverse population to part-time and full-time graduate study.) Thegraduate office and the university therefore made a concerted effort to have NJIT involved andactive in a number of regional and national programs to address diversity in its doctoralprograms. Since 1990 therefore, NJIT has become a member of or more active in the followingprograms:The Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement program.The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc.(GEM).The Minority Academic Career Program of New Jersey.Project 1000 consortium centered at Arizona
„disconnect‟ between the graduate students throughout the college. TheGSC saw an opportunity for cross collaboration as well as creating a more united community ofcohorts within its graduate programs. The GSC wanted to provide an opportunity for growthwithin the graduate student community. After a meeting with the dean in January of 2011, it wasdecided that providing a college wide conference for the graduate students to present their Page 25.577.2research would yield great benefits for not only the graduate students, but also the university.Students would profit from improved presentation skills for their future professional careers 2 aswell as
include thin film deposition, interconnect technology, semiconductor manufacturing technology and radiation hardened nanoelectronics. Dr. Ryan joined JSNN after working at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany as Associate Vice President of Technology and Professor of Nanoscience from 2005 to 2008. At CNSE, he managed the cleanrooms and numerous consortia involving CNSE and its industrial partners such as IBM, TEL, AMAT, ASML and others. Dr. Ryan joined CNSE after a 25 year career with IBM. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Advanced Materials and Process Technology Development and served as the site executive for IBM at Albany Nanotech
weresubmitted, from which 3 have been successfully funded and over 20 papers have been publishedand/or presented at conference proceedings or peer reviewed journals. Several others arecurrently under review.ConclusionsIn summary, this program has resulted in an increase and diversification of research activities atUPRM that have been beneficial to both undergraduate and graduate students from differentengineering departments. Also male and female Hispanic high school students have beenengaged in research activities that have allowed them to consider engineering as a career andalso to be interested in engineering research.AcknowledgmentsThe authors of this paper would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation and the
, assimilate and apply learned content, The required Directed Project was important to the student and perceived as an important part of the Weekend Master’s Program, Successful Weekend Master’s Program participation yielded a positive impact on the student’s career, opportunities, job responsibilities and salary, and, Employers of the student’s were generally supportive both with time release and financial assistance.In comparing the findings from the previous benchmarked studies, both studies found theprogram enhanced the personal portfolio of student skills, improved student ability to assess,assimilate and subsequently apply learned content. In both studies, the student employers weresupportive of the
slightly staggered startand end dates), identification of a weekly time slot convenient to all campuses, scheduling of atelevideo-enabled classroom with archiving capability and the cost of staffing such a facility,travel schedules of lead and guest instructors with active research careers outside the classroom,and the difference in exposure level to certain background information, such as biologyfundamentals, among some students. The challenges were successfully overcome and the modelpopular enough that a third trans-ERC course, led by a researcher (Dr. Yeoheung Yun) fromNCAT, was successfully offered in the Fall 2010 semester. Assessment results for that course areawaited. As an epilogue, the success of these course added impetus to the
developing these skills at the master’s level5-9, the literature does notadequately address the preparation of engineering doctoral students who pursue careers inindustry. This study will thereby assist in determining the knowledge, attributes and skills(KAS) industry desires in Ph.D.s in order to develop Ph.D. programs that include effectivestrategies to align student preparation with industry needs.MethodologyA survey was designed to determine the skills and the level of expertise needed by engineeringPh.D.s in industry. The survey was based upon a list of skills that were determined through areview of advertised job solicitations in industry, as described in Watson et al10. These jobsolicitations were for industry positions requiring a Ph.D. in
status, but not between time and TAs’ discipline affiliation.Recommendations for increasing TA self-efficacy and preparedness are provided as aredirections for future research.1. IntroductionAt large, research-intensive universities, many graduate students receive funding for their studiesthrough assistantships that involve research, teaching, or some combination of the two 1. Thosegraduate students who are funded as TAs are typically asked to become involved in a widespectrum of teaching activities ranging from grading undergraduate student work to serving asthe primary instructor for an undergraduate course1. Teaching opportunities are critical tograduate student development as those who plan to pursue careers in academia are likely to
from asking the participation of the entirefaculty in the seminar course, making the seminar topics more diverse and less detailed, toincluding discussion of current relevant topics in the field and inclusion of alumni talks in theseminar about their career experiences.B. Graduate Coursework. Survey questions 21 to 30 were formulated to address studentconcerns about graduate coursework in the program. Question 21 was aimed at determiningfactors motivating students’ decisions to register for courses. Relevance to the PhDcomprehensive examination and applicability to research and job prospects were the significantfactors influencing students to choose a particular class. Also the advisor’s recommendation andcore course requirements to obtain a
master’s students in general cared less about the number of Page 11.130.13papers they published and where their papers are published considering that such achievementstypically are not as important to their career goals as they are to goals of Ph.D. students.Questions (H3) and (H6) produced specific, overlapping comments.However, there were some potential validity issues associated with Blocks G and H. At least onestudent was confused by the term “methodology” in (G1). Several respondents selected multipleanswers in (G2) suggesting that they were considering with equal weight multiple career optionsfor after graduation. In future surveys, (G2
. IntroductionEquipping graduate students with the skills they need to succeed in an academic career is aparamount issue in engineering education. There has been much concern that while graduatestudents receive extensive support in developing themselves as research scholars, there are fewopportunities for them to receive training on how to teach.5,10,24 Further, the recommendation inthe Educating the Engineer of 2020 (p. 92) calls for creating learning environments “in whichstudents (1) were more actively engaged than taking notes, (2) focused on problems, designchallenges and artifacts in addition to concepts, and (3) often worked with other students tounderstand and complete assigned tasks.14” Since active learning teaching methods, like theones mentioned in
. In addition, she is an NSF CAREER Awardee, has served as co-PI on an NSF REU site, PI on grants from NSF and DOE, and was the faculty advisor for MSU’s chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). Her research is in medical microdevice diagnostics & dielectrophoresis.Rafael Hernandez, Mississippi State University Rafael Hernandez is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. He has a BS (1993) and MS (1995) in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and a PhD (2002) in chemical engineering from Mississippi State University (MSU), Mississippi State, MS. He worked for
for future research.1. IntroductionGraduate students attending large, research-intensive institutions of higher education are oftenprovided departmental funding as teaching assistants (TAs). This is especially true in the case ofhigh enrollment and service courses such as English, mathematics, foreign languages andintroductory courses in disciplines such as psychology and sociology. Although the specificresponsibilities of TAs vary among institutions and even between departments within the sameinstitution, many graduate students serving in these positions are asked to deliver content andeven serve as primary instructors1. These teaching responsibilities are important to graduatestudent development as individuals who intend to pursue careers
), or to pursue a career in academia, or to become a specialized researcher in agiven field (a doctoral degree). While this is true of many individuals, there is also an emerginggroup of ―adults in America today – and [potentially] even more so in the future – [who] cannotstop learning‖ 4. In many cases these are individuals who have been working professionally formany years before returning for advanced degrees for a variety of reasons – the desire forprofessional advancement, a career change for personal reasons, or a need for retraining causedby a shift in the labor market – yet there is a dearth of research regarding what these returningstudents bring with them to graduate programs. It is probable that professional non-traditionalstudents
VLSI memories.Dr. Christopher V. Hollot, University of Massachusetts Amherst C.V. Hollot received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1984 after which he joined the ECE Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he is presently Department Head. His research interests are in the theory and application of feedback control.Mr. George Bryan Polivka, Shorelight Education Bryan Polivka is currently the Senior Director for Shorelight Education, focused on instructional design and learning architecture for Field Degrees. Over the course of his career he has helped schools, universi- ties, corporations, and non- profits by providing both strategy and strategically positioned
constructors (thosewho have a minimum of five years experience), but also attract some who might transition to aposition in academia. The program needs to provide distance learning options or utilizes otherunique delivery systems while limiting residency requirements (cutting cost for out of statetuition). Young constructors are also likely to have less fear of returning to academics.Continuing education is becoming known as providing value to an employee. The ultimate goalwould be that a graduate degree is important to their career; it could make them stand out abovethe others. The program must then provide the ability to be completed with minimal interferenceof work. They can not quit their jobs and attend school full time as a residential student
professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Technical Review of Companies able to Support the Education and Naval Installations’ Renewable Energy Goals through the use of Tidal and Hydro Kinetic Energy DevicesAbstractTidal Energy uses the earth’s gravitational interactions with the sun and moon to converthydraulic energy into usable electric power for
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psychology graduate teaching assistants. Teaching of Psychology, 26(4), 264-266.16 Niemczyk, E. K. (2015). A case study of doctoral research assistantships: Access and experiences of full-time and part-time education students (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Brock University, St. Catharines, ON.17 Janssen, B. W. (2012). A qualitative exploration of the relationships between graduate teaching assistants and contingent faculty members (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.18 Connolly, M. R., & Lee, Y. (2015). The effects of doctoral teaching development on early-career STEM scholars’ college-teaching self-efficacy. WCER Working Paper No. 2015-1. Madison, WI: Wisconsin
Poster Abstract Draft 4 Seminar: Research Ethics Research Report #3 Annotated Bibliography 5 Seminar: Career Options for MS and PhD Recipients Research Report #4 Networking Lunch with Faculty Member Research Paper Outline 6 Seminar: Graduate Programs & Application Processes Research Report #5 Research Poster Symposium Registration Poster Title & Abstract
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residential building construction was adapted in HB1647 building code of Florida Legislature. Najafi is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on many committees and programs, and continuously attends and presents refereed papers at international, national, and local professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works.Mr. Chi Xu, University of Florida Ph.D. in Civil Engineering University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (Begins in Jan
IndividualDevelopment Plan (IDP) facilitates student self-reflection, goal setting and career planning as theTable 3. The interdisciplinary graduate education program. Curriculum & Activity Timeline Disciplinary Grounding Year 10 Summer School in Computational Materials Science Summer 1 Assessment Rubric Learning Outcome & Skill Multidisciplinary Courses Course 10, 11, 12 7. Understand concepts/methodologies of Year 2 Projects