initiatives, course redesign, partnerships, impact on institutional culture,and impact on change beyond campus [17]. PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for GraduateEducation and the Professoriate is another noteworthy program. This program makes efforts onall levels to promote URM scholars from undergraduate degrees to doctoral degrees to facultypositions. The program recommends the professional development of graduate students thatincludes a critical mass of URMs and extends beyond experiences that are provided by coursesand research laboratories [28]. The program believes that all of their graduate students shouldhave accessible and functioning support systems to help them develop professional skills,network, get career advice, and strengthen their
Sustainable Systems Program. He is Chief Science Officer of Fusion Coolant Systems. Professor Skerlos has gained national recognition and press for his research and teaching in the fields of technology policy and sustainable design. He has co-founded two successful start-up companies (Accuri Cytometers and Fusion Coolant Systems), co-founded BLUElab, served as Director of the Graduate Pro- gram in Mechanical Engineering (2009-2012), and served as associate and guest editor for four different academic journals. His Ph.D. students in the Environmental and Sustainable Technologies Laboratory have addressed sus- tainability challenges in the fields of systems design, technology selection, manufacturing, and water.Ms. Megan
in a meaningful way to create an enriching learning experience. Moreover,designing assessments that stretches students’ thought-process is critical to engineeringpedagogy. This is implemented in the course as structured threaded discussion forums, governedby instructors that provide thought-provoking guiding questions followed by peer discussion.This essay also explores the design and implementation of virtual laboratory sessionscomplementing the bi-weekly homework assignments and a final project. It describes theassessment design decisions, based on the overall course learning outcomes, taken to suit theonline learners. The aim of this essay is to inform, the community of asynchronous onlinecomputer engineering educators, of assessment
gained utilizing various versions of the Arduino microprocessor will help develop future ultra-low power capstone and embedded processing class projects.- Knowledge gained from the use of the integrated development environment (IDE) software package in this project can be used to create tutorials and labortory exercises for the digital design and the advanced embedded design courses.- System-level designers need to be able to develop hardware driver(s) for targeted hardware platforms. Knowledge gained from developing ultra-small hardware drivers for a specific application will help create advanced laboratory exercises for the system- level design course.IV.F. Future ImprovementsWhile the platform created was successful in
were in a completely new field, so they had to learn about that field and about thetechniques used in that field. For example: “…I learned several techniques that were instrumental techniques, … analysis techniques…” (M-ENG) “I changed fields when I started my postdoc. So I’ve had to learn a completely new set of experimental techniques and laboratory skills and those kinds of things that I didn’t have before.” (M-SCI)When describing the professional skills they learned, they mentioned improving theircommunication and writing skills, and teamwork/collaboration skills, as well as their abilities tomentor and work with students.Another benefit of a postdoc position was being able to focus on research and
thatdiffered in a variety of characteristics, including time in their graduate program, focus withinmaterials science engineering, and level of experience with independent laboratory research.Senior graduate students were responsible for facilitating an interdisciplinary research projectand delegating research work tasks to teams of other students. We present findings from a mixedmethods study which evaluates individual and team successes in collaborative multi-institutionaland interdisciplinary research. Implications of this work include helping programs developcompetencies for their graduate students that include “team science” and collaborative skills.I. IntroductionTo solve complex, ill-structured engineering and science problems in an
failure to switch from a PhD to a master's. That was the second time I went to counseling. I was just kind of working through those feelings of failure, even though it was an active decision.All the participants expressed that they found the utilization of counseling to be helpful. Becky,for example, described how going to counseling in response to the anxiety attacks she hadexperienced in her research laboratory, gave her useful tools. She shared, I did feel as though I was able to get good insights. He showed me how to like if I had another anxiety attack, breathing mechanisms that I could do to kind of stimulate my parasympathetic system and slow my heart rate and stuff like that, calm my system down.Erin
through selected quotations how the proposedresearch mentoring models exist and apply to each of the mentoring relationships, regardless ofgender composition, research area, type of laboratory or experimental work, etc. The coachingmodel is explained first from the perspective of 3 mentoring pairs: Mia and Annie (both female),Nate and Scott (both male), and Russell and Rachel (male mentor and female mentee). Thesupervisory model follows, as demonstrated by Dwayne and Amelia (male mentor and femalementee), Keeley and Veronica (both female), and Drake and Shannon (male mentor and femalementee). These gender pairings are summarized in Table 2Error! Reference source not found
-sustaining fellowship program with Virginia Tech(VT) hosted at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), with the vision of graduatestudents and faculty working together to connect research and practice. The program was Page 24.651.4originally intended to provide a laboratory for VT graduate students to practice engineeringeducation in the classroom and for RHIT faculty to build their expertise in the discipline ofengineering education. The implemented program retained the benefits to RHIT faculty, butchanged the activities of the fellows. In essence, the program took advantage of the expertise ofthe first applicants to re-envision their roles as
distinct disciplinary patterns2. This research training is central to transformingthe student into a producer of knowledge, so much so that departments design specializedtraining programs to meet the needs of individual disciplines3.The majority of engineering graduate students spend their graduate school years as part of aresearch group4. These groups are generally organized around the research specialty of aprimary advisor, or collaboration between faculty advisors, depending on the size of the researchgroup5. Doctoral students, master’s students and post doctoral researchers work together underthe guidance of these faculty advisors, often in shared laboratory and office spaces6. It’s thisgroup environment where the majority of student learning
”Creating Your Online Presence: Developing Your E-Portfolio” and ”Teaching in the Laboratory” workshops for the College Teaching Workshop Series, and has presented College Teaching Workshop Series: Basics of Teaching and ”Presenting at Scientific Conferences” to Purdue University’s Women in Science. Page 25.1315.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Influence of a College Teaching Workshop Series on Teaching Assistant Perceptions of Preparedness and Self-EfficacyAbstractAt large, research-intensive institutions graduate students are often funded as teaching
University. The University of East Anglia has been delivering a ‘Rotation PhD’in which students visit different labs in 10-week long research mini-projects, directed bydifferent supervisors and trained in different techniques. The ‘Integrated PhD’ at theUniversity of Southampton has offered 3 laboratory rotation projects after which the studentis awarded an MRes (Master of Research) and they then spend 3 more years deepening theirexpertise towards a PhD degree. These approaches have been successful over the years anddemonstrate an appetite for very varied, skills-training focused programs that provide theresearcher with broader knowledge and varied competencies that prepare them foremployment. However, these programs are typically found in