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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Soohyun Yi, Texas Tech University

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Conference Session

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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uses 2 bands, and it applies the reactive handoff approach to each of the two channels independently. The rest of the assumptions are the same as in the notes. Comparing the duplexing (sharing the resources between access point and user terminals) mechanism of 802.11 and 802.22, what is/are the main difference(s)?
i. Derive the expression for pm under this scenario.
ii. Find the mean SU session time in this case.Laboratory experiments: One of the key assessments of this course were the virtual laboratoryexperiments spread throughout the semester. There were three such experiments based onsimulation of some real life application of the concepts being covered in the course. They weredeveloped using USRP software

Conference Session

Developing Teaching and Mentoring Skills

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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with professional development and not knowing how to support thegraduate students in their pursuits. This study’s comprehensive examination of an activeadvisor’s experience with supporting graduate student development proves to be informative anduseful in determining potential next steps in the formative development of a program aimed atgraduate student professional development.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumber 1545211.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Joseph Rencis; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Mohammad Noori, North Carolina State University; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; David Woodall, Oregon Institute of Technology; Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Albert McHenry; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Edmund Segner, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Barry Farbrother, University of New Haven; Ken Burbank, Western Carolina University; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Randall Holmes, Caterpillar Inc.

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, recommends, wemust “ensure that the United States is the premier place in the world to innovate.” 32.1 Statement of the ProblemBut a disturbing reality is now apparent that must be corrected. Over the last several decades, 1960’s,70’s, 80’s, 90’s, the nation has invested wisely, because of 1945 U.S. science policy in fostering worldpreeminence of research-oriented graduate education for the U.S. Scientific Workforce for basic researchand ‘discovery’ at the universities, and must continue to do so.4 But it has not made a parallel investmentand balanced educational emphasis during this same time period in fostering professionally-orientedgraduate education, beyond entry level engineering, that supports the further development of the U.S.Engineering

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Graduate Student Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder

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Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

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innovation as the core ingredient of theirfuture economic development. As Alan Wolf, member of the NRC-Committee on ComparativeInnovation Policy points out, China’s drive toward innovation has been an unmistakable messageof its top leaders for several years: “In today’s world, the core of each country’s competitive strength is intellectual innovation, technological innovation and high-tech industrialization.” [Jiang Zemin] “[We should give] priority to independent innovation in S&T [Science and Technology] work, take efforts to enhance S&T innovation capability, increase core competitiveness and [strive to make] S&T innovation with Chinese characteristics a reality … …We must aim to be at the forefront

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Casey E. Wright, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Erica M. Stone, Middle Tennessee State University; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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writing,” Coll. English, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 610–617, 1979.[20] J. Colwell, J. Whittington, and C. F. Jenks, “Writing Challenges for Graduate Students in Engineering and Technology,” 2011, doi: 10.18260/1-2--18722.[21] A. Selzer King, K. R. Moore, S. Frankel, and A. Hardage Edlin, “Drawing Strategies for Communication Planning: A Rationale and Exemplar of the Geometric Page Form (GPF) Approach,” ACM'S Spec. Inte. Group on the Des. of Info., 2017.[22] A. S. King and A. H. Edlin, “Structured drawing tasks support research ideation : A mentor-mentee report on iteration, invention, and collaboration,” ACM'S Spec. Inte

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Mitchell, North Carolina State University; Robyn Fillinger, North Carolina State University; Marcia Williams, North Carolina A&T State University

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AC 2009-1904: ON THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF AN NSF-FUNDEDBRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE PROGRAM IN STEM DISCIPLINESTony Mitchell, North Carolina State University Tony L. Mitchell, Lieutenant Colonel United States Air Force, Retired, received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from North Carolina A&T State University, the M. S. in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. Currently he is Assistant Dean, Engineering Student Services, Director, Minority Engineering Programs, and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Previous educational

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Mohammad Noori, North Carolina State University; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Duane Dunlap, Purdue University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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part American universities have neither kept up with the paradigm shift in engineering for innovation nor with the changes required in professional graduate engineering education to reflect the modern process and practice of engineering for technology innovation during the last four decades. Emphasis on attracting federal funding for academic basic scientific research began during the late 1960’s, intensified in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to the present day ─ resulting in the subsequent build- up of a generation of excellent research-oriented faculty at most engineering schools who are expert at scientific research, who can attract federal research funding, but who are not that proficient, experienced, interested, or rewarded in

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Growing and Maintaining Graduate Enrollment

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Fantasi Nicole, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Conference Session

Preparation for Graduate Research

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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dark arts (of Cyberspace) universities are offering graduate degrees in cybersecurity,” IEEE Spectr., vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 26–26, Jun. 2014.[2] M. Lloyd, “Negative Unemployment: That Giant Sucking Sound In Security,” Forbes, 21- Mar-2017.[3] B. NeSmith, “The Cybersecurity Talent Gap Is An Industry Crisis,” Forbes, 09-Aug-2018.[4] A. Bicak, X. (Michelle) Liu, and D. Murphy, “Cybersecurity Curriculum Development: Introducing Specialties in a Graduate Program,” Inf. Syst. Educ. J., vol. 13, no. 3, p. 2015.[5] S. A. Kumar and S. Alampalayam, “Designing a graduate program in information security and analytics,” in Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Information technology education - SIGITE ’14

Conference Session

Professional Skills for Graduate Students

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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, TX, 2012, p. 25.1394.1-25.1394.13.[7] E. A. Erichsen and D. U. Bolliger, “Towards understanding international graduate student isolation in traditional and online environments,” Educ. Technol. Res. Dev., vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 309–326, 2011.[8] J. L. Colwell, J. Whittington, and C. F. Jenks, “Writing Challenges for Graduate Students in Engineering and Technology,” in 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, p. 22.1714.1-22.1714.13.[9] S. L. Gassman, M. A. Maher, and B. E. Timmerman, “Supporting Students’ Disciplinary Writing in Engineering Education,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 1270–1280, 2013.[10] A. A. Kranov, “‘It’s Not My Job To Teach Them How To Write’: Facilitating The Disciplinary

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Mental Health of Graduate Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amanda C. Arnold, Arizona State University; Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, University of Massachusetts Boston; Jennifer M. Bekki, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University; Madison Natarajan, University of Massachusetts Boston; Ashley K. Randall, Arizona State University ; Roxanna Francies, Arizona State University; Chinwendu Elyse Okwu, University of Pittsburgh

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herself, "This is really mentally affecting me." Erin noticed thetoll that graduate school had on her mental health and attributed this to the lack of preparationon the part of advisors and mentors. She stated, I had realized the mental and emotional toll that grad school was heaping on [me], honestly, unrealistic level[s] of expectations, the multiple projects, and the teaching, and still dealing with personal life, and all while being thrown in the deep end. No one actually ever teaches you how to do research. You just kind of sink or swim.Giselle’s increased mental distress led to her decision to take a leave of absence. She shared, I had to take a leave of absence, because I couldn't deal with it. I had to take a

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Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tershia A. Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan

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thisterm?”The majo ority of TAs (64%) who reported usiing active le arning indiccated that theey were onlyy“somewh hat successfuul” implemennting these strategies s in their class, 12% reporteed being “verrysuccessfuul,” while 17 7% reported being “unsu uccessful” annd 7% weree “very unsucccessful” (Fiigure2). For thhis question, only 14 TA As provided further explaanation. Sinnce the majoority of thecommentts were from m “somewhatt successful”” and “very ssuccessful” T TAs, these ccommentscentered around TAss receiving positive p studeent feedbackk (N=11), annd recognizinng students bbeingable to

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Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Andrew Richards, Purdue University; Juan Diego Velasquez, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University

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Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Russell Tessier, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Yadi Eslami, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Christopher V. Hollot, University of Massachusetts Amherst; George Bryan Polivka, Shorelight Education

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the courseinstructor(s) and teaching assistants. Live video feeds from the four corners of the examinationhall are provided to the course instructor(s) to monitor the test-takers in real time. Test questionscan either be distributed via the course LMS on student laptops or in paper test books printed byFigure 2: An example of a remote synchronous examination with co-located students. Proctoringis performed both locally by program staff and remotely via webcam by the course instructor andteaching assistants.local proctors. The risk of student misconduct during the test and/or use of improper resources(through their computers) is low due to the presence of the local proctors and live camera feeds.An example of a remote, proctored examination is

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Preparation for Graduate Research

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University; Cliff J. Lissenden, Pennsylvania State University; Francesco Costanzo, Pennsylvania State University; Bruce Gluckman, Pennsylvania State University; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University

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transition to independent research, Studies in Higher Education, 30:2, 137-154.[4] Gardner, S. K. (2010). Contrasting the socialization experiences of doctoral students in high- and low-completing departments: A qualitative analysis of disciplinary contexts at one institution. The Journal of Higher Education, 81(1), 61-81.[5] Gardner, S. K. (2008). “What's too much and what's too little?”: The process of becoming an independent researcher in doctoral education. The Journal of Higher Education, 79(3), 326-350.[6] Lovitts, B. E. (2008). The transition to independent research: Who makes it, who doesn't, and why. The journal of higher education, 79(3), 296-325.[7] A document preparation system. (n.d.). Retrieved

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Innovative Graduate Programs and Methods, Developing Master's & Ph.D. Programs and Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas J. Connolly, University of Texas - Austin

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Graduate Studies

effectiveness.Teaching practicum sessions provide TAs with the opportunity to demonstrate their teachingskills via short problem-solving sessions attended by the director for teaching assistantcertification and fellow first-time TAs. A standard evaluation form is used to rate the TA in thefollowing areas:  statement of the problem and learning objective(s)  discussion of relevant equations or overarching engineering concepts  indication of common misconceptions or sticking points  questions that are used to assess student understanding  clarity and effectiveness of teaching  verbal communication: pace, volume, and clarity  graphical communication: clear handwriting/organized slides; diagramsAll evaluators are required to

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Stacey Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crocket, California Polytechnic State University

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at our primarily undergraduate institution.IntroductionGraduate engineering education is a key to the maintenance of U.S. competitiveness in the worldmarket. The world has been an extremely dynamic engine during the last fifty years, and wehave witnessed a dramatic change in the world order. The change has been evolutionary in manycases, but recent events in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, China, India, Japan and the erstwhileSoviet Union are only slightly less cataclysmic than the Second World War. That war set theeconomic order for the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. After 1945, the Soviet Union was a nation inruins, a nation that had lost over 20% of its' population in a conflict fought largely on its' soil. Itfaced the challenge of an arms

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New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daphene Koch, Purdue University; Orczyk Joseph, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

College of Technology(CoT) at Purdue University grew from a craft-oriented, non-degree program that was initiated in1946 to re-train the returning GI's. The nature of this program slowly shifted from post-war, non-academic teaching of construction craft skills to academic teaching of drafting and surveyingskills through the 1950s.6 It now is considered one of the leading programs for producingconstruction managers educated with a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree. It was first accreditedby the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE) in 1976 and has passed allaccreditation visits since that date. With the undergraduate degree being the basis for thedepartment, graduate course have been introduced since the 1990’s to follow the needs of

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University; Mary Anne Walker, Michigan State University

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Graduate Studies

MEASUREMENT # DATA TEAM # MEMBERS # TUBES LENGTH METHOD(S) POINTS REPORTED 1 4 Ruler 1 1 10.5 cm 2 4 Ruler 1 1 9 cm 7 4 Ruler 2 2 3.5 inches 10 4 Ruler 1 4 4 in 11 4 Ruler 1 2 10.2 cm 16 4

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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LaRuth McAfee, State University of New York-Stony Brook; David Ferguson, State University of New York-Stony Brook; LaRuth McAfee, State University of New York-Stony Brook

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expected to write proposals to externalagencies to fund their research projects. In other departments, a lack of funding meant that thestudents had to be teaching assistants frequently, and some even taught at other local collegesbecause there was significant competition for the few teaching assistant opportunities in theirarea(s) of expertise. For minority students, however, this issue of funding did not come up asmuch as it did for non-minority students. This is partially due to certain internal and externalfellowships available to minority graduate students. The offices that administer internalfellowships for minority students also organize events for the students in the program. Suchevents help to build a university-wide community among

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Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth J. Stewart, University of Michigan; John G. Younger, University of Michigan; Michael J. Solomon, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

. Page 24.692.12References 1. NSF Advanced Funding Search. Retrieved December 26, 2013 from http://www.nsf.gov/funding/advanced_funding_search.jsp. 2. Borrego, M., & Cutler, S. (2010). Constructive Alignment of Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Engineering and Science: An Analysis of Successful IGERT Proposals. Journal of Engineering Education, 99(4), 355-369. 3. McNair, L. D., Newswander, C., Boden, D., & Borrego, M. (2011). Student and Faculty Interdisciplinary Identities in Self-Managed Teams. Journal of Engineering Education, 100(2), 374-396. 4. Lattuca, L. R., Knight, D. B., & Cortes, C. M. (2011). Working as a Team: Enhancing Interdisciplinarity for the Engineer of 2020. Proceedings

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General Topics in Graduate Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Pariyothorn, Texas A&M University; Robin L. Autenrieth, Texas A&M University

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Graduate Studies

by contributing to ongoing faculty research projects or pursuing anindependent research topic. More than 555 participants have completed the USRG program sincethe summer of 2000.The objectives of the program are to: 1) provide immersive research experience(s) forengineering undergraduates; 2) increase participant’s interest in pursuing graduate studies withan emphasis on the Ph.D. program; 3) increase participant’s awareness of the graduate schoolexperience; 4) provide an outlet to enhance participant’s writing and communications skills; 5)increase participant’s understanding of the graduate school application process for admissionsand fellowships; and subsequently, 6) position participants to be more competitive for graduateadmissions and

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General Topics in Graduate Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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genres and challenges present themselves. 2. Problem-based learning groups would be a good match for Engineering disciplines because of the inherent focus on problem-solving. 3. Guided peer response can shoulder some of the burden of responding to graduate student writing, especially if more senior students can be recruited to join the groups.Bibliography1. K. B. LeFevre (1987). Invention as a Social Act. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP.2. S. Miller (1984). “Genre as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 70, 151–167.3. M. Carter (2007). Ways of knowing, doing, and writing in the disciplines. College Composition and Communication 58, 385-418.4. B. Kamler and P. Thomson (2006). Helping Doctoral Students

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mirit Shamir, Kansas State University; Matthew R. Sanderson, Kansas State University; Rebecca Cors, Wisconsin Center for Education Research; Melanie Derby, Kansas State University

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/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_325.35.asp [Accessed Feb. 11, 2021].[2] “Digest of Education Statistics, 2019,” nces.ed.gov.https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_325.45asp [Accessed Feb. 11, 2021].[3] “Degree Attainment - Research and Trends for Women in STEM,” Research and Trends forWomen in STEM, Aug. 17, 2016. https://research.swe.org/2016/08/degree-attainment/.[Accessed 11 December 2020].[4] J. Trapani and K. Hale, “Higher Education in Science and Engineering | NSF - NationalScience Foundation,” ncses.nsf.gov. https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20197/demographic-attributes-of-s-e-degree-recipients.[5] M. Estrada et al., “Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM,”CBE—Life Sciences Education, vol. 15, no. 3, p

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Frehill; Amanda Lain, New Mexico State University; Ricardo Jacquez, New Mexico State University; Lauren Ketcham, New Mexico State University; Karen Luces, New Mexico State University

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theory approachwas used to study the themes that emerged from these faculty members’ interviews concerningtheir experiences of mentoring as graduate students.The study in which these faculty interviews were completed was an impact evaluation of ascience and engineering (S/E) faculty mentoring program. Of the 43 interviews, 24 wereconducted with mentors or mentees who had participated in the program. Purposive samplingwas used to ensure that the interviewees included a mentor and mentee of both sexes (2 X 2)from each of the three campus units associated with the National Science Foundation-fundedADVANCE: Institutional Transformation program. Of the 24 participants, 3 were departmentheads (and were either full or associate professors), 6 were full

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Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Anthony, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Marjory Palius, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Carolyn Maher, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Prabhas Moghe, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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classifications identified in other studies ofcommunities of practice – i.e., elaboration, interpretation, explanation and argumentation in thework of Palincsar[10] and contextualization, explanation, instruction, critique, and elicitationamong the speech events identified by Donath et al.[3].Scaling tendency refers to the context in which the discourse occurs and where it fits in thelandscape of activities that comprise the experience of doing research. We have identified threescales of discourse. The most finely grained is tactics (T) , which focuses on details of thespecific research. The mid-level is strategy (S), which focuses on both the experimental designand interpretation of results, which may address issues like assumptions, simplifications

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Weir, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University; Jonathan Davis, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

packetis to make the transition smoother.Bibliography 1. Astin, A. W. (1984). Student involvement: A developmental theory for higher education. Journal of College Student Personnel. 25. 297-308. 2. Baumeister, R.F., Cambell, J.D., Krueger, J.I., & Vohs, K. D. (2003). Does high self-esteem cause better performance, interpersonal success, happiness, or healthier lifestyles? Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 1-44. 3. Bowlby, J. (1988). A secure base: Parent-child attachment and healthy human development. New York: Basic Books. 4. Burroughs, S. M., Eby, L. T. (1998). Psychological sense of community at work: A measurement system and explanatory framework. Journal of Community

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Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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Graduate Studies

the course contributed to the success of thecourse. Students’ responses on the survey indicate that the majority of the students, as a result ofthe course, better understand the advantages and disadvantages of various instructional methodsand appreciate that well-trained teaching assistants can be a benefit to the culture of the college.11As the course continues to evolve, the instructional methods will focus on giving the studentsmore opportunities to present in front of the group. The instructor plans to design and pilot amicroteaching assignment to allow students additional opportunities to practice teaching.Bibliography 1. Prieto, L. R. & Meyers, S. A. (2001). The Teaching Assist and Training Handbook: How to Prepare TAs