Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidar Malki, University of Houston; Michael Gibson, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

those sought by9; i.e. persons who seek to emerge as leaders and arepursuing career paths centered upon the “creation, development & innovation of new/improvedtechnology in the form of new/improved/breakthrough products, processes, systems, or technicaloperations.”Program implementation, Growth, and AssessmentThe initiation of the M.T. program should begin in 2007-2008 with an expected enrollment of 10-15 students. It is expected that the program will experience 20-25% growth in its first 3 yearswith a leveling out of 50-75 headcount in the program over time.Initial growth will be the result of local and national marketing efforts to businesses, industries,governmental agencies, and other universities. These marketing efforts will emphasize

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne W. Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

course addresses the Mechanical Engineering Program Objective to prepare some of ourgraduates to enter graduate programs and succeed in obtaining graduate degrees at the Mastersand/or PhD level. The MS degree program in mechanical engineering is focused on enabling aresearch-oriented career path for those of our students who are so inclined. Some non-dualdegree MEng students wishing to change their status to MS also take the course to help them puttogether a successful proposal.Students enrolled in this course are expected to perform work independently, with minimalguidance, and with utmost attention to professional standards and conduct. Students taking thiscourse will be expected to perform at the level of a practicing BS mechanical engineer

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Paul Tallon, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

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Graduate Studies

in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, and serves more than 250,000 membersin more than 12,500 clubs in 106 countries.Members Have the Opportunity to:  Learn and practice techniques of effective public speaking.  Prepare and deliver formal speeches on subjects of their own choosing.  Give impromptu talks on assigned topics.  Gain speaking experience that relates to specific career needs.  Sharpen their listening/evaluation skills.  Learn proper parliamentary procedure.  Preside as a meeting chairman.  Gain valuable leadership management experience  Gain personal confidence that will help when speaking to one person or one thousand.  Enter Toastmasters International‘s Annual Speech Contest, ―The World Championship of Public

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; John A. Nychka, University of Alberta; Roger Graves, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

variety of reasons, creating a new course is unworkable. In someways a course may not be the ideal solution because it is often removed from the context ofwriting in a working research group. One ideal solution would be a problem-based learninggroup that is facilitated by instructors in Engineering or writing, and embedded in thedepartment’s activities (e.g., researching, presenting, and publishing). Departments can establishthese learning groups, and writing centres (writing across the curriculum programs) on thecampuses of large universities are often eager to support these groups.Ultimately we came away from the workshop with these thoughts: 1. Technical writing skills must be learned continually throughout a career as new writing

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett, Univeristy of Saint Thomas; Elaine R. Millam, University of Saint Thomas

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

. Page 22.459.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Developing Leadership Attitudes and Skills in Working Adult Technical Graduate Students Research Interview Results with AlumniAbstract Many individuals educated as engineers find their careers take them into management positions. Despite the EAC of ABET program outcome requirements of Criterion 3 for Student Outcomes, few are prepared by their formal education to lead with confidence, and few have been prepared by their companies to develop the skills and attitudes necessary to be good leaders in their organizations. Leaders are needed at all levels in these organizations, not just in

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

areencouraged to meet with the Director, to talk through the program, expectations, and to provide ahint of context about the research component of the program (though extensive detail isn’tnecessary until later in the program.) The Director also discusses and reviews individualizedplans of study with students, identifying issues and recommending other courses the student maybe interested in as they relate to a student’s personal goals and career plans after the degree.There are seemingly small elements of Community of Practice theory at work in this design.Since students are often transitioning back into academia from industry, they often are notthinking about calling their professors by academic titles. While some professors do not mind

Conference Session

Growing and Maintaining Graduate Enrollment

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Adrienne K. Scott, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madalyn D. Kern, University of Colorado, Boulder; Julie E. Steinbrenner, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

at University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches Senior Design, Mechanical Engineering as a Profession, and thermo-fluids courses. She has also developed new curriculum and programming for student professional development and career exploration which have strengthened connections between students, alumni and industry part- ners. She serves as chair of External Relations for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder. She has been the Wolenski/Roller Faculty Fellow since 2017. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Increasing communication avenues between Mechanical Engineering doctoral

Conference Session

Case Studies and Programs to Improve Graduate Students' Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida; Emily Rivera P.E., University of Florida; Ryan Thrun, U.S. Navy; Sarah Isabel Romero, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

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 in- clude transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, public works and renewable energy.Ms. Emily Rivera P.E., University of Florida Emily Rivera is a Civil Engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers at the Washington Aqueduct in Washington, DC. She holds a BS Degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus and is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Water Resources Planning and

Conference Session

Case Studies and Programs to Improve Graduate Students' Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanne Lax, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Audeen W. Fentiman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

appear to be a similar situation in the graduate-levelliterature. Thus, for the three contexts discussed, there exists no structured follow-up todetermine whether the students continued to improve in their oral presentations skills in thefuture. Given the logistics with several thousand graduate students, it is difficult to envision alarge-scale way to gather longitudinal data on the improvement of students’ oral communicationskills. However, graduate students in engineering are expected to take responsibility for theirown professional development. They know, or are learning, that making excellent oralpresentations is essential for their career success. Thus, constructive, actionable comments arelikely to be of some value even without follow-up

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Recep Goktas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ulas Tezel, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

concerning as many master’s studentsin our program continue onto Ph.D. programs or pursue careers in engineering research upongraduation. Page 12.722.12Table 2. Selected assessed skill benefits as indicated in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 studiescategorized by degree program. Skill Program Benefit, 2005-06 Program Benefit, 2004-05 MS Res PhD MS Res PhD Concl Concl Mean SD Mean SD Mean

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

assistants (pp. 33-45). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.13. Crede, E., Borrego, M., & McNair, L. D. (2010). Application of community of practice theory to the preparation of engineering graduate students for faculty careers. Advances in Engineering Education, 2(2), 1- 22. Retrieved from http://advances.asee.org/vol02/issue02/papers/aee-vol02-issue02-p04.pdf14. Cox, M. F., Hahn, J., McNeill, N., Cekic, O., Zhu, J., & London, J. (2011). Enhancing the quality of engineering graduate teaching assistance through multidimensional feedback. Advances in Engineering Education, 2(3), 1-20. Retrieved from http://advances.asee.org/vol02/issue03/papers/aee-vol02-issue03-p04.pdf15. Matusovich, H. M., Lee, W. C., Janeski, J

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rachel A. Louis, Virginia Tech; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ida B. Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brook Sattler, University of Washington

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Graduate Studies

engineering education research. Essentially, all of theparticipants were currently working on engineering education research in some capacity.The pre-workshop survey was used to obtain a better understanding of graduate students’ viewsabout the current state of graduate student collaborations. Based on our results, the most commonperception was that graduate students are indeed collaborating with peers apart from workingwith a faculty member. However, the students’ perceptions of the frequency of thesecollaborations varied. Half of the participants perceived that this type of collaboration happensonly once over the course of a graduate student’s career, while others perceived that if graduatestudents are, in fact, conducting research with their peers

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

For Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants”, American Society for Engineering Education 2008 conference proceedings. 12. Crede, E., Borrego, M., McNair, L.D., (2010) Application of Community of Practice Theory to the Preparation of Engineering Graduate Students for Faculty Careers, in Advances in Engineering Education Journal, Summer 2010, http://advances.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/vol02/issue02/papers/aee-vol02- issue02-p04.pdf. 13. Nilson, L.B., (2007) The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Jossey-Bass. Page 24.189.12 14

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech; Walter Curtis Lee Jr., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design, writing across the curriculum in statics courses, and a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering. She serves as Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education in her department at Virginia Tech and co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center. Page 25.485.1

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy L. Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet; Carl F. Jenks, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

. Page 22.1714.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Writing Challenges for Graduate Students In Engineering and TechnologyAbstractGraduate education for most students is the move to deeper exploration of knowledge throughpersonal involvement, primarily through research and writing. By thesis or directed project,many graduate programs in engineering and technology incorporate substantial written research-based projects into the master’s level curriculum to prepare graduates for professional careers orfor further study at the doctoral level. Students in the engineering and technology fields faceseveral challenges in moving to written projects of

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 22.248.2(Gardner & Hatch, 1989). 1. Word Smart: Linguistic Intelligence 2. Number Smart: Mathematical Intelligence 3. Picture Smart: Visual Intelligence 4. Body Smart: Kinesthetic Intelligence 5. Music Smart: Musical Intelligence 6. People Smart: Interpersonal Intelligence 7. Self Smart: Intrapersonal Intelligence All schools, colleges and universities appreciate the need, importance and impactof linguistic and mathematical intelligences at almost every stage of a learner’seducational career. Reading, writing and a working knowledge with numbers areconsidered as essential foundation for establishing a strong base of general knowledge.However, the next three, namely, visual, kinesthetic

Conference Session

Graduate Education Model, Industry and Practitioner Experience - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Jordan Hanson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peter Lindahl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Samantha Dale Strasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alison F. Takemura, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dirk R. Englund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jaime Goldstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

recognitions include the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2011 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2012 IBM Faculty Award, an 2016 R&D100 Award, the OSA’s 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal , and the 2017 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award.Mrs. Jaime Goldstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Technical Communication Instruction for Graduate Students: The Communication Lab vs. a CourseAbstractCommunication skills are critical to engineers’ success in both academia and industry. Neverthe-less, a variety of factors keep engineering students from

Conference Session

Graduate Recruitment & Professional Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bolun Huang, Microsoft Corp.; Samantha Wang; Narasimha Reddy

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

several issues with employing the university hiring graph. First, a very smallpercentage of graduates actually get hired by universities and hence this is a small sample of thetotal population. Second, a university professor’s tenure system biases the hiring graph towards a“survival bias”. Given that tenure decision is made within 5-7 years and a typical professor’scareer may span 30 years, most of the information in the hiring graph tends to reflect professorswho get through the tenure process.Third, the longevity of a typical professor’s career makes a hiring decision that reflects on thatprogram for a long period of time. Our analysis reflects this as explained later. Fourth, mostdepartments tend to be small with a faculty size between 20 and

Conference Session

Opportunities within Graduate Study Programs - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carey Whitehair; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

global and from interdisciplinaryteam? What behaviors and milestones are critical for new team members to develop mutual trustwith other team members?In graduate level engineering settings, this type of research could be helpful in three practicalrespects. First, today’s graduate students are tomorrow’s experts working to lead global andinterdisciplinary teams in industry and in academia. By illuminating mechanisms by whichcollaborative competencies such as trust are developed and the impact they have on collaborationsuccess over time, there is a potential for graduate students to be able to be more immediatelyproductive in their future careers. Second, determining the role of trust in research groupcollaborations could “jump start” the

Conference Session

Professional Skills for Graduate Students

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prasun Lala, École de Technologie Supérieure; Félix Langevin Harnois, École de Technologie Supérieure; Ghizlane El Boussaidi, École de Technologie Supérieure; Christian Desrosiers, École de Technologie Supérieure; Catherine Laporte, École de Technologie Supérieure

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Graduate Studies

scientific writing support, and then describe our activity including asummary of possible benefits and challenges. We conclude in section 5 with some thoughts onhow we see our program developing in the future, and also with a summary of our impressionson the usefulness of this learning community initiative to provide scientific writing support toengineering graduate students.2 Engineering graduate students and scientific writing2.1 The importance of scientific writing for engineering graduate studentsGraduate students must share the results of their research, mainly by writing and publishingscientific papers, in order to disseminate their ideas and begin the path to a successful career, beit in academia or industry. Studies have shown that

Conference Session

Assessing Learning Outcomes for Flipped Classrooms, Recruitment and Research Internships, and Alternate Assessments for Online Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ritushree Chatterjee, Iowa State University; Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University; Zhengdao Wang, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

]. Available: http://www.comsoc.org/blog/breaking- newstelecommunication-engineering-now-official-accreditation-criteria. [Accessed 30 January 2016].[12] K. Pretz, "Telecommunications Engineering Is Now a Distinct Education Discipline," 21 November 2014. [Online]. Available: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/university-education/telecommunications- engineering-is-now-a-distinct-education-discipline.[13] G. P. Wiggins and J. McTighe, "What is backward design?," in Understanding by design, NJ, Merill Prentice Hall, 2001, pp. 7-19.[14] L. W. Anderson and D. R. Krathwohl, A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives., New York: Longman, 2001.[15] T. Litzinger

Conference Session

Graduate Programs, Development, and Research Fellowships

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Daniel Albano, Northrop Grumman Corp.; Wagdy H. Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia; Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia

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Graduate Studies

program director. During her career, Dr. Ososanya has worked for private industry as a circuit development engineer and as a software engineer, in addition to her aca- demic activities. She received her education in the United Kingdom, where she achieved her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bradford in 1985, and was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She was a Visiting Professor at Michigan Technological University for five years, and an Associate professor at Tennessee Technological University for 7 years prior to arriv- ing at the University of the District of Columbia in the Fall of 2001. Dr. Ososanya’s research interests include new applications for VLSI ASIC

Conference Session

Developing Teaching and Mentoring Skills

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison J Kerr, University of Tulsa; Bradley J. Brummel, University of Tulsa; Bret Austin Arnold, University of Tulsa; Michael W. Keller, University of Tulsa

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc.; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

been slowdowns in space program activity and layoffs of highly skilled space technicianson the Space Coast. One of the goals of the Space Coast Innovation Outreach Network (SCION)is to retrain and redeploy these skilled resources into careers in high tech entrepreneurship.Research indicates that teaming researchers and engineers from private industry and universitiescan help overcome the problem of the “Valley of Death” a dangerous portion of the innovationcycle where technological advances are established, but never put to productive use or brought tomarket.17 The conclusions from the 2002 AUTM Licensing Survey support this by showing thatthe academic and industrial technology transfer field is an integral part of the innovationeconomy

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

engineering is not one of those criteria. The faculty reward system recognizes teaching, research, and service to the profession, but it does not give the same status to delivering a marketable product or process, or designing an enduring piece of the nation's infrastructure.” “Of course, what you measure is what you get. For the most part, our faculty are superb "engineering scientists," but they are not necessarily folks who know a lot about the practice of engineering. At most schools, for example, it's hard to bring someone onto the faculty who has spent their career in industry, even though such people would be extremely valuable to the students; their resumes simply don't fit what the reward system values. Sometimes, it's

Conference Session

Professional Skills for Graduate Students

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy Roldan, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

translate theacademic paper into a handout that would be appealing for the public and practitioners while alsotranslating my handouts into both english and spanish. My reflection also touches on how I’venoticed that the virtual notebook affords unique, individual contributions while also creating acollaborative product. Some additional themes in my reflection are about the class pace, the needto connect theory to practice, and the utility of this activity for my academic career.***This week I made the title of my reflection "Design IRL" because although I continue to learnabout how important being a peer reviewer is, what it takes to get a publication, and aiming forrejections to get published more, this week felt more grounded about how I can