Conference Session

Growing and Maintaining Graduate Enrollment

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Barker, University of Virginia; Amy Clobes, University of Virginia; Jasmine D. Crenshaw, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

marketing firm with global reach to designtwo digital marketing campaigns that aid in the overall recruitment plan [20-22]. Two categoriesof digital market campaigns were developed and implemented: a) one focused on reputation-building targeted to undergraduates at top engineering schools, historically black colleges anduniversities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and specific internationalregions; and b) increasing yield after admission offers were made. Both campaigns rely on thecreation of engaging ads in multiple formats, and targeting these ads to specific areas,institutions, or individuals. Ads appear in internet browsers, and when clicked, users are taken toa specially developed landing page that includes more

Conference Session

Graduate Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colby Weishaar, University of Arkansas; Manuel D. Rossetti, University of Arkansas; Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas; Trevor Joe Dodson, University of Arkansas

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

hour. The three major sections of theworkshop consisted of the following: (1) the content and structure of the GRE; (2) what a good score is for each portion of the exam; and (3) how to prepare for the test including study plans and materials.The first section gave a brief overview of how the GRE is organized, discussing briefly each ofthe three sections: analytical reasoning, verbal reasoning, and the writing portion. If the studentsdo not understand what the GRE consists of, then the rest of the workshop will not provideadditional benefit for the student. The type of students who attended the first workshop rangedfrom freshman to graduate students, so some students had never previously heard of the GRE,other than that it is

Conference Session

Professional Skills for Graduate Students

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Swinburne University of Technology

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5) an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6) an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7) an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.The EC2000 criteria were initiated in August 1994. 58 invited guests, including guests from theABET Engineering Accreditation Commission board, several of the professional

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

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Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

writing issues.Techniques for Helping Graduate Students WriteWhat follows is a discussion of some techniques which may be helpful to keep in mind inworking with graduate students to improve their writing. There are a few techniques which willhelp graduate advisors and educators improve the writing of their students: providing samplework and requiring reading of the type of work they are expected to produce; mind mapping;writing plans and schedules; extensive rewriting; and setting specific goals for the student work.Reading and Sample WorkStudents will not know what good scholarly writing is unless they have been exposed toscholarly works through reading and writing. A frequently used technique involves requiring thestudents to read extensively

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mandy Wheadon, Purdue University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

Page 24.1124.1423. Golde, C. & Dore, T. At cross purposes: What the experiences of today’s doctoral students reveal about doctoral education. 1–58 (2001).24. Nerad, M., Aanerud, R. & Cerny, J. in Paths to Profr. Strateg. Enrich. Prep. Futur. Fac. (Wulff, D. H. & Austin, A.) 137–58 (Jossey-Bass, 2004).25. Dees, J. G. The meaning of social entrepreneurship. Duke Univ. Fuqua Sch. Business, Cent. Adv. Soc. Entrep. 1–5 (2001). at 26. Magner, D. Critics urge overhaul of Ph.D. training, but disagree sharply on how to do so: How graduate school alters students’ career plans. Chron. High. Educ. 46, 19 (2000).27. Carnevale, A., Rose, S. & Cheah, B. The college payoff: Education, occupations, lifetime

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mayra S. Artiles , Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

second or third year in my PhD degree program. 13 12.22% This is my second or third year in my PhD degree program and I have 5 5.81% passed my qualifying exam. I have passed the qualifying exam in my PhD degree program and I am 7 7.01% working on writing my dissertation. Other 3 3.07%In terms of career plans, the majority of the respondents were thinking about a career in industryfollowed by academia.Quantitative items. Respondents identified a number of factors related to

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Marina Miletic, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Graduate Studies

engineering education.Because student chapters are typically isolated geographically, the ASEE annual conference is anideal place for student chapter leaders to meet and exchange ideas about planning chapteractivities and events. Thus, the national ASEE organization can best support established studentchapters by facilitating student participation and interaction at the annual conference. The ASEEnational organization already helps student members attend this important annual conference bynot charging them a conference registration fee. This assistance is much appreciated and shouldbe continued. However, recognizing that the national conference is such a valuable part of theinteraction between student chapters and that travel costs can be

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Graduate Studies

must be at the 400 or 500 level. Thus a student inGeneral Engineering could count one four-unit 400 level course and one four-unit 500 levelcourse (or two four-unit 400 level courses, or two four-unit 500 level courses) towardrequirements for both degrees. Again, there must be a minimum total of 231 discrete units in any4+1 students program, requirements for particular programs, and thus the number of doublecounted units allowed, will vary. There must be a minimum of twenty-three 500 level units in thegraduate formal study plan. Students may begin double-counting in the quarter they wereaccepted into the 4+1 program.Joining the 4+1 ProgramParticipation in the program is based on prior academic performance and other measures ofprofessional

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Graduate Studies

coordinator, a faculty member who plans most assignments andprepares PowerPoint slides for both lectures and workshops. Some workshop leaders in the GTFprogram or with prior experience teaching in the department assist in preparing slides andactivities. This past fall, the largest course had two lead teaching assistants who were responsiblefor preparing workshop slides (which were then approved by the faculty course coordinator) andrunning the weekly course meeting. Though this meeting is intended for workshop leaders,faculty often attended and participated as needed. Each course has common exams andassignments. Faculty meet weekly to discuss new content, logistics, tests and exams. Workshopleaders are not assigned to specific faculty members because

Conference Session

Graduate Study Programs Supporting Diversity and Underrepresented Minority Students - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audeen W. Fentiman, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Janet M. Beagle, Purdue University College of Engineering; Phillip S. Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Susan K. Fisher, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

had been approached by employers and were planning to start a careerimmediately after finishing the bachelor’s degree. As a result, the project team decided to add anew component of the program. The new component was called Early Pathways and wasdesigned for sophomores from the MSIs and their faculty or staff mentors.The remaining sections of this paper outline the motivation for this program, describe theprogram itself, and report on student reaction to the first year of the Pathways program. Inaddition, the new Early Pathways component planned for the spring of 2017 will be described.MotivationThe overarching goal of the project is to increase the number of underrepresented minoritystudents who pursue a Ph.D. and a faculty career in

Conference Session

Graduate Study Programs Supporting Diversity and Underrepresented Minority Students - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth A. Bucher MSW, Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Program

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

. Universities can embed this in courses and supplement with experiencesoutside of class (Itani, M., Srour, I., 2015). Career planning should also be provided inprofessional development.Pilot Year: Suite of Support ProgramingPeer Mentoring: “Leadership Opportunity”Current MS students were asked to volunteer to meet with a small group of new MS students toanswer questions, offer advice, and share contact information. The active students developedleadership skills and added to their resumes by volunteering. The new students were given accessto experience community building and sense of belonging.A few volunteers were recruited through a “call for leaders”. The rest were recommended byfaculty. Eighteen current students led small groups of four to five

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mattox Alan Beckman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Graduate Studies

Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.The training is to be applicable to all types of GTA contexts: lab, discussion, and lecture. Becausemany of our engineering students’ career goals are within non-academic settings, students oftenhave little natural motivation to develop effective pedagogical skills. As explained in our previouspaper 1 , the team made a strategic decision to combine the teaching of leadership skills and peda-gogical skills in order to appeal to GTAs who plan to go into non-academic careers. In this paper,we will present our logic model for the iELITE program, which has four categories of inputs:GTAs, Engineering Faculty, Administration (College and Departments), and External Partners (in-dustry sponsors

Conference Session

Issues in Academic Integrity and the Value of Portfolios, Case Studies, and Supportive Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Patrick H. Knowles Jr., Cleveland Mixer

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #16704Engineering Portfolios: Value, Use, and ExamplesDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and the James S. Tyler Director of the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. As the Deputy Dean, he helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities. As the James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineer- ing Innovation & Design he leads the School’s efforts to promote collaboration, creativity, design and

Conference Session

Issues in Academic Integrity and the Value of Portfolios, Case Studies, and Supportive Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Tennessee State University; Shabnam Etemadi, Tennessee State University; Germysha Emily Little, Tennessee State University ; T'Shana DeShai Carter

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

engineering were earned by foreign students. 7 There are even fewerstudents that pursue graduate studies in STEM fields from historically underrepresented groups.For example, the National Science Foundation reports that an estimated 50% of Asian Americanor Asian students planned to major in a STEM field compared to 36% of African Americanstudents in the year 2012.7 An undergraduate academic career in STEM is the first step necessaryto pursuing a graduate degree in a STEM discipline. In one year of gathered national data, theNational Science Foundation discovered that approximately 50, 396 White, non-Hispanicstudents are enrolled in a graduate program in engineering compared to that of approximately4,172 Black students, 5,218 Hispanic students, and

Conference Session

Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Alavizadeh, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Graduate Studies

students weresatisfied with course contents, in general, and in particular, with weekly article review, thecourse relevancy to directed MS project. For the assignments and exam, however, theevaluations were a mix of high and low. Table 2 shows the results of students’ survey taken infall of 2012 and 2014.A quick review of a few other textbooks such as [6] and [7] indicated that the majority of thesetextbooks are for social science majors, too, though one may find a few technical examples. Forfuture, the author is planning to rely less on the textbook that he is currently using [5] andinstead, bring in more technical-oriented case studies in which students use scientific researchmethodologies to address the issue(s) presented (he is still in search

Conference Session

Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Tech; Prateek Shekhar, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

have.This paper is a work in progress; we attempt to identify the relevant engineering education PhDprograms in the country and compare them to understand if there is a consensus on how the fieldis perceived. This initial work will build up into a bigger plan of constructing a full evaluation ofPhD’s programs in ENGE and to measure the impact that the field has had in the engineeringdiscipline. More specifically, in this paper we will answer the following research questions: 1. Do all the PhD programs in engineering education have the same purpose? 2. Are there similitudes between the programs learning outcomes? 3. Are there similitudes between the milestones required to promote the learning outcomes

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajesh Bachu, University of Bridgeport; Deepak S. Deepawale, University of Bridgeport; Buket Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

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Graduate Studies

, Employment.Home Country Funds are offered by local government, corporate, or foundation sources.These sources are not found in all countries. College funds may be offered by theinstitutions. If it is offered, financial aid is usually made up of a number of different typesof assistance, including grants and scholarships and occasionally loans or part-time workprograms. Sports Scholarships can be offered to gifted student athletes to play for thecollege team as a means of paying for their education. Very little aid exists throughinternational awards, and it is usually earmarked for advanced graduate students. Loanprograms are another financial aid type. Before taking a loan, students must be aware ofhow a loan will affect their plans for the future

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.

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Graduate Studies

presentations focused on application ofconcepts to industry. Distance education technology includes WEBCT-Vista and video chatsessions using web-cams provided to the students.The curriculum consists of 30 credit hours of coursework which follows a fixed plan of study. Inaddition, there are three one-credit hour modules which covers a directed (applied) project.Students are encouraged to select an area for improvement in their career area. The target size ofa cohort is 25 students.In 2005, a program was initiated in cooperation with Rolls-Royce Corporation that was modeledafter the Weekend Program. It also follows a fixed plan of study modified to meet the needs ofRolls-Royce and is delivered at the UAW/Rolls-Royce Training Center by Purdue

Conference Session

Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Kane, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

. Through the 1980’s, New Jersey Institute of Technology, known earlier asNewark College of Engineering, was best known as a primary source of practicing professionalengineers. Through visionary leadership, reasoned planning and goals setting, an engineeringapproach to tactics, quality measures, and strategic resource allocation, NJIT became a majorproducer of graduate degrees, with increasing emphasis on research and the doctorate. Amongits priorities were an increase in graduate program participation in both master’s and doctoralprograms by those traditionally underrepresented in engineering by both ethnicity and gender. Astep-by-step approach is described: data gathering and analysis of student achievement, settingof admission and retention

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Capece, University of Kentucky; John R. Baker, University of Kentucky

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Graduate Studies

received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engi- neering from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. After obtaining his B.S., he spent three years working in the Plastics Division of Eastman Chemical Products, Inc. He entered his current position in July 2000. Page 23.566.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Experience with Mentoring and Directing Graduate Student Research at a Distance in a Mechanical Engineering ProgramAbstractThe advising of graduate student research projects from a distance requires both planning andflexibility from both the

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida

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Graduate Studies

doing today, why is it important, why should I pay attention? I mean, I will, but not everybody will. I think it is important for the professor to get people’s attention and it is more like a motivation, I guess, for why what we are doing today is worth looking at. (Laura)From their own student experiences, participants knew that not understanding the future use ofwhat is being learned had a negative effect on student motivation. These bewildering experiencesinfluenced how participants plan to communicate with their future students. Lee elaborates: Page 25.660.6 … I think my own experiences having been in a class or a

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

community. Through theprofessional development umbrella, GEECS has hosted webinars related to career development,graduate student life, and peer mentoring to help connect students in the field.In this paper, we discuss the initial peer mentoring plan and the evolution of two peer mentoringgroups. We then present autoethnographies4 about our experiences participating in the GEECSpeer mentoring groups. In concluding, we offer implications for future research, as well asprofessional development endeavors, such as expanding and connecting peer mentoring torelated types of activities.GEECS Peer MentoringTo fulfill the GEECS mission, there existed an opportunity for graduate students to personallyand professionally support one another through such things

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students - Diversity and Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

concepts that were adopted from current literature in developing these interactivelearning modules and using the module of “Being a mentor and being mentored” as an exampleto illustrate the concept.Related LiteratureBackwards DesignIn the area of facilitating teaching and learning, the concept of “backwards design” by Wigginsand McTighe2 has been adopted by multiple researchers, educators, and practioners because ofits advantages in reforming currilum design. “Backwards design” entails a three-stage processfor designing a certain teaching and learning task. These three stages are: (1) identify desiredresults, (2) determine acceptable evidence, and (3) plan learning experiences and instruction. The“backward design” process includes first thinking

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

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College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

university reorganization has also given us the opportunity to rethink the content ofour PFF seminars to better deal with the many other changes that are taking place in universityand college engineering programs. These include the rise of the field of engineering education,changes in the undergraduate experience such as increased emphasis on research, changes in theacademic engineering job market and in the importance of post-doctoral positions for thosestudents who are focused on a research career in academia, increased emphasis onentrepreneurship, both for faculty and for students, and ongoing challenges related to funding,especially for state universities. Here we describe our plans for modifying our traditional PFFprogram to better prepare

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel W. Walsh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robert S. Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Graduate Studies

. The formal establishment of the department wastriggered by input from two major constituencies; overwhelming student demand, underpinnedby industrial pressure and support. The Biomedical Engineering and General Engineering Page 22.1427.2Department is the only degree granting program in the CSU system. It has consistently drawn alarge number of well-qualified applicants. In fact, the department has attracted the highestquality and most gender-diverse applicants in the College of Engineering each year since itsformation. The program has grown at rate in excess of that planned, and faculty hiring has notkept pace; the student to faculty ratio is

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Shree Frazier; Osman Cekic, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Edwin Cawthorne Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

include: preparing future engineering faculty, improving teaching and learning, distance education and underrep- resented student success.Shree FrazierDr. Osman Cekic, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey Osman Cekic holds a Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University at Blooming- ton and a master’s degree in secondary school administration from the University of Arkansas at Fayet- teville and a Bachelor’s degree in educational administration and planning from Ankara University in Page 22.267.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Turkey. He

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Lucian Lucia, North Carolina State University; Jianzhong Lou, North Carolina A&T State University; Abolghasem Shahbazi, North Carolina A&T State University; Timothy Rials, University of Tennessee

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Graduate Studies

inseveral components of its long-range strategic plans. This strategic plan identifies its ForestBiomaterials and Biotechnology Initiative (FBBI) as a key growth area in terms of both research andinstruction. NCSU has a number of Biomaterials courses that it regularly offers.1NCAT has over the past few years begun to focus upon the development of interdisciplinarygraduate programs and initiated this past fall within its interdisciplinary Energy andEnvironmental Systems graduate program a concentration in Sustainable Bio-products.2 Thisconcentration capitalizes on NCAT’s agriculture and engineering research strengths. TheBioSUCCEED initiative will help NCAT enhance its graduate course offerings in materials frombiomass and better educate a growing

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Luis Enrique Guardia, Florida International University; Mais Kayyali, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

mentorship programs.IntroductionWithin graduate education, there is a lack of proper mentorship and mentoring programs atinstitutional and college levels [1]. Mentorship is so highly correlated to student success andprogram satisfaction [2], as such, there is a critical need to establish and improve mentorshipprograms at these institutions. The National Academy of Sciences suggests that with improvedmentoring, “students' educational experience, morale, career planning and placement, andprofessional competence” [3, p. 65] will be enhanced. However, for this mentoring relationshipto flourish and be satisfactory, it requires effort by both parties which would ultimately create a‘mutually beneficial’ partnership between the faculty mentor and the

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

; Conklin’s article. Representational images include a flower, raindrops, and people inconversation. Relational seed shapes and page forms include dotted lines, squares, and circles.]Workshop demonstration 3: Ideating arguments using VPFsWhen beginning my dissertation in 2018, I (Erica) began to use VPFs to ideate my ownarguments and dissertation plans (see Figure 7). As mentioned in our Visualizing Arguments andSketchnotes section, the affordances of VPFs are both rhetorical and epistemological; they helpnew scholars, like myself, think across purposes and make new knowledge and developconcepts.When drawing visual metaphors or using VPFs to ideate their own arguments for the first time,students face two particular struggles: 1) thinking with the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Writing and Communication

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy M. Clobes, University of Virginia; Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia

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Graduate Studies

talks, and completing a mentor profile assignment. While the SciComm program expanded graduate students’ understanding of variousSTEM careers, only three graduate students (21.4%) indicated their career intentions shifted as aresult of the SciComm program. Most graduate students still maintained their intended careerintentions (n=8, 57.1%). Two graduate students’ (14.3%) career plans changed over the 2017-2018 academic year, but indicated the SciComm program did not impact this change.SciComm Program Perceptions Based on inductive coding of the qualitative data, it appeared that participants had bothpositive perceptions of the program and suggestions for improvement. Further, participants citedadditional benefits from the program