Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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AC 2008-378: AN EVALUATION OF INDIAN INTERNATIONAL GRADUATESTUDENTS’ EXPECTATIONS AND EXPERIENCESRajesh Bachu, University of Bridgeport Rajesh G. Bachu is Graduate Assistant in Electrical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. He is pursuing his Masters of science, Electrical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, CT.Deepak S. Deepawale, University of Bridgeport Deepak S. Deepawale is Graduate Assistant in Electrical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. He is pursuing his Masters of science, Electrical Engineering at the University of Bridgeport, CT.Buket Barkana, University of Bridgeport Buket D. Barkana is a Visiting Assistant

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Sherra Kerns, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Paige Smith, University of Maryland; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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promoting diversity in graduate engineering education, Proc. 2006 ASEE AnnualConference, Chicago, IL, June 2006.4. Eugene M. DeLoatch, Sherra Kerns, Lueny Morell, Carla Purdy, Paige Smith, Samuel L. Truesdale, and BarbaraWaugh, Articulating a multifaceted approach for promoting diversity in graduate engineering education, Proc. 2007ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, June 2007.5. Phillip C. Wankat, Analysis of the first ten years of the, Journal of Engineering Education 88 (1), 1999, pp. 37-42.6. R.G. Batson, T.W. Merritt, and C.F. Williams, Barriers to increased engineering graduate enrollments:counterforces and their implementation, Journal of Engineering Education 82 (3), 1993, pp. 157-162.7. S. Baker, P. Tancred, and S. Whitesides, Gender and

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Mueller, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Hossein Oloomi, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Elizabeth Thompson, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Jiaxin Zhao, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne; Steve Walter, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng)

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. Fifty years ago, the biggest regionalcompanies included International Harvester, General Electric, Westinghouse, Magnavoxand ITT Communications Division. Today, the largest employers of engineers andtechnologists include ITT Aerospace /Communications Division, Raytheon Net CentricSystems, General Dynamics, Undersea Sensors Systems Inc., Zimmer, Biomet, DePuy,General Motors, Dana Corp, and International Truck & Engine. These companies neededucational resources to grow their local talent.The lack of graduate programs in urban areas such as Fort Wayne is rooted in the legaciesof the land grant college system. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the U.S. governmentgave states allotments of federal land with which to create an endowment to

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Tenille Medley, Purdue University; Jeremi Hayes, Purdue University

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J. Turner, "Growing a Garden Without Water: Graduate Teaching Assistants in Introductory Science Laboratories at a Doctoral/Research University," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 41, pp. 211-233, 2004.[2] E. Seymour, Partners in Innovation: Teaching Assistants in College Science Courses. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.[3] D. M. Shannon, D. J. Twale, and M. S. Moore, "TA Teaching Effectiveness: The Impact of Training and Teaching Experience," Journal of Higher Education, vol. 69, pp. 440-466, 1998.[4] D. A. Torvi, "Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Instructional Programs: Training Tomorrow’s Faculty Members," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, pp. 1-6, 1994.[5

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Crain, University of Oklahoma; James Sluss, University of Oklahoma; Monte Tull, University of Oklahoma; Samuel Lee, University of Oklahoma

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areas of optical communications and photonics. He has been awarded seven U. S. patents and has authored/co-authored numerous journal and conference publications. He is a member of the IEEE Education Society, IEEE Communications Society, OSA, and ASEE.Monte Tull, University of Oklahoma MONTE P. TULL joined Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in 1996 after a 29-year career in advanced switching technology at AT&T, Bell Labs, and Lucent Technologies. Research interests are in digital hardware, multiple-valued logic, reconfigurable computing, and embedded systems. BS Physics, East Central State University; MSIE, OU; MSEE, OSU; PhDEE, OU.Samuel Lee

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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customize lesson slides before their first workshop. Theyalso wanted more information about what topics and activities were approaching in the next fewweeks. As an additional time commitment, office hours can run over when needy students visit.Finally, since these courses surveyed a wide range of engineering topics, workshop leaders spentmore time learning new content than they might if teaching in their degree-granting department.At least one workshop leader spent up to two additional hours per week doing the homeworkassignments so s/he could be prepared when students came to office hours with questions.Another stated that helping students for additional hours was far more desirable than preparingfor class for additional hours.Office hours was a

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan

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development of graduate student instructors. In C. Wehlburg & S. Chadwick-Blossey (Eds), To Improve the Academy: Vol. 22. Resources for faculty, instructional and organizational development, (pp. 320-332). Bolton, MA: Anker. 2. Hancock, T. & Norton, J. (2004, June). Experiences of Graduate Student Mentors Mentoring Graduate Student Instructors. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Salt Lake City, Utah. 3. Phillips, J. & Murphy, T. (2005, June). Mentoring Graduate Students in Engineering Education through Team Teaching. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Portland, Oregon. 4. Norris, P. & Palmer, S

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Solomon Hollister introduced intoprofessional engineering education at Cornell University in the 1950’s. This advancement hasproven successful for over 50 years, as have many of the graduates of this then uniqueprofessional educational approach for creative engineering practice.From an educational and financial analysis, the ASEE-National Collaborative initiative is botheducationally sound, proven, adaptable to all regions of the nation, and is extremely cost-effective. Feasibility analysis to date indicates that the National Collaborative’s approach ofintegrating professional graduate engineering education with on-going creative engineeringpractice and project-based learning in industry will generate [median] technological returns ofover 10 to 1

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan Rinehart, Rice University; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University

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-CD885E390298/0/sed2003.pdf2. Moyer, A., P. Salovey, S. Casey-Cannon, Psychology of Women Quarterly 23, 607 (1999).3. Boyce, M.C., et al., MIT Report on Women Faculty in Engineering, Reports of the Committees on the Status of Women, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March, 2002. Page 13.354.8

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Soumya Keshavamurthy, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University

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Page 13.285.7need to be more responsible and aware of all the regulations through International organizationsof the universities and other available resources.Bibliography1. “International student enrollment and U.S. higher education enrollment trends, selected years 1950/60- 2006/07”, Open doors, Institute of International education, 20072. Hussain, Sakina S., “Schools struggle to combat foreign student drop”, Aug 8, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14034413/ (accessed in Jan 2008).3. Krupnick, Matt, “Drop in Foreign Enrollment worries U.S. Educators,” Contra Costa Times Jan 5. 2006.4. “International students by primary source of funding, 2005/06 and 2006/07”, Open doors, Institute of International Education, 20075

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Ken Burbank, Western Carolina University; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University; Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Yeqin Huang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University

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machines include; power (measured in Watts),frequency (measured in Hertz), feed rate (measured in inches per minute (IMP) andmillimeters per second mm/s), and focal length (measured in inches and millimeters).This research includes all these parameters in a Design of Experiments (DOE) in order tostatistically find the optimum settings for engraving. The experiment aims at determiningoptimum engraving parameters for 20 gage stainless steel at 0.034” thickness and tostatistically compare the performance between the two machines. The same material willbe engraved on both machines. The statistical and quantitative data gathered during theexperiment provide both future researchers and users a guideline for engraving of not juststainless steel but other

Conference Session

Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

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, “Looking Back: Lessons Learned from Ten Years of Training Teaching Assistants,” Proceedings, 1997 Annual ASEE Conference, ASEE, June 1997.3. T.M. Baber, D. Briedis, and R.M. Worden, “Teaching and Mentoring Training Programs at Michigan State University,” Chem. Engr. Education, 38(4), 250–253 (2004).4. S. Marikunte, F. Harackiewicz, J. Nicklow, and L. Chevalier, “Benefits and Challenges of Training Teaching Assistants,” Proceedings, 2006 Annual ASEE Conference, ASEE, June 2006.5. P.M. Norris and S.C. Palmer, “Effectiveness of the Woodruff School Doctoral Teaching Intern Program,” J. Engr. Education, 87(3), 223–226 (1998).6. M.J. Pavelich & R.A. Streveler, “An Active Learning, Student-Centered Approach to Training