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Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Rafael Hernandez, Mississippi State University

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enrolled in the summer 2009 course were asked to complete pre-course and post-course surveys on their self-measured skills and attitudes. Individual responseswere recorded and paired between pre and post surveys; group trends were then compiled.Responses for questions were all cast on a 5 point Likert scale with 5 being the highest rating, 3as neutral and 1 as the lowest rating. The faculty were asked to assess the student performancesand to compare them to prior years where students were required to write a research proposal,but were not given guidance on developing the proposal. This paper will describe the coursestructure and then discuss the assessment tools and results for the summer 2009 cohort comparedto ~3 years of qualifying exams without

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Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Shreya Kothaneth, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Dale Pokorski, Virginia Tech; David Bailey, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Engineering has deployed various strategic alliances withinternal and external organizations to the university.Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory has been used as a theoretical framework tomaximize adoption of instructional technologies2. According to Rogers, there are fiveattributes to be considered when it comes to adoption of technology. They are relativeadvantage, compatibility, trialability, observability, and complexity. Adoption oftechnology will be more likely if the complexity of the technology is reduced but relativeadvantage, compatibility, trialability, and observability are maximized. Figure 1 depictsthe strategic alliances maintained to increase faculty/student adoption of TabletPCs,while using Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation

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Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Thompson, University of South Carolina; Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

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. Page 15.862.2IntroductionIn the 1990s the National Science Foundation (NSF) introduced the Graduate Teaching Fellowsin K-12 Education (GK-12) initiative [1]. The GK-12 program supports the participation ofgraduate students from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines,called GK-12 Fellows (Fellows), in K-12 science and mathematics education. One of the primarygoals of the GK-12 initiative is to improve Fellows’ communication and teaching skills [1] in thehope that these improvements will lead to more effective teaching when the Fellows matriculateinto the professorate. This study examined how participation in one GK-12 program influencedthe teaching beliefs and self-confidence (known as teaching efficacy) [2] of the

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Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Robert Herrick, Purdue University; Gareth O'Donnell, Dublin Institute of Technology; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University; Nuria Castell, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Miquel Barcelo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Didac Balas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Maria Ribera Sancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Jordi Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

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activity established a solid foundation for the newdual/concurrent technology degree program and enabled it to get off to a fast start. Two of thenew consortium members are already partnering in an Atlantis undergraduate student mobilityproject that is working well and which has generated considerable student and faculty traffic andcollaboration well in excess of the funding requirements [1]. The partners have investedconsiderable amounts of their own monies in building the relationship and thus evidence thesustainability of the new dual transatlantic technology masters degree program.Globalization, technological innovation and sustainability are critical issues for most if not allnations in the world. Nowhere do these concerns converge more than

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Brooks, Temple University; Naji Khoury, Temple University; Fernando Tovia, Philadelphia University; Tony Singh, Temple University; Hossein Rostami, Philadelphia University; Amithraj Amavasai, Temple University; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli, Temple University

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15.692.5effectively.Bibliography 1. BOYER, E.L. (1995) Assessing Scholarship, ASEE Prism, 4, pp. 22-26. 2. BROOKS, R., MADJAR, A., MILLER, W., TAKKALAPELLI, K. Finite Element Method - A Tool for Learning Highway Design, 2008 ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburg, PA 3. BROOKS, R., AYRANCI, B., TAKKALAPELLI, K. Improvement of Graduate Students’ Performance in Design, Discovery, and Learning. 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, Austin TX 4. KIM, S.K. (1990) Essence of Creativity: A Guide to Tackling Difficult Problems (Oxford, Oxford University Press). 5. ROSS, M.L. & TAHER (Eds) (1967) Explorations in Creativity (New York, Harper & Row). 6. SHALLEY, C.E. (1991) Effects of Productivity Goals, Creativity Goals, and Personal

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Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University; Traian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University

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3CIT 594 - Intermediate Graduate Topics: Computer Information Technology 3CIT 599 - Intermediate Independent Study 1-3CSC 507 - Concepts of Programming Languages 3CSC 533 - Computer Networks 3CSC 550 - Database Management Systems 3CSC 582 - Computer Security 3PHI 510 - Ethics in Information Technology 3Advanced Elective Courses CreditsCIT 630 - Advanced Computer Forensics 3CIT 637 - Wireless Networks

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Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Buket Barkana, University of Bridgeport

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real-time applicationissues in the related areas. With this motivation, we designed a graduate level laboratory coursewhich is Audio Processing Laboratory in the electrical engineering department in our school twoyears ago. This paper presents the status of the audio processing laboratory course in our school.We report the challenges that we have faced during the development of this course in our schooland discuss the instructor’s and students’ assessments and recommendations in this real-timesignal-processing laboratory course.1. IntroductionMany DSP laboratory courses are developed for undergraduate and graduate level engineeringeducation. These courses mostly focus on the general signal processing techniques such asquantization, filter

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Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

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formal assessmentis in order. Thus we have embarked on a project to survey past participants (there arewell over 100 "graduates" since the program began in 1999) to see what changes will bemost beneficial for future participants. We are also setting up a website for current andpast participants to encourage mentoring of newer participants by PFF in Engineeringgraduates. The survey of past participants is still ongoing, since contact information forsome past participants has been difficult to obtain. But we do have data for recentparticipants and some anecdotal evidence to present at this time.Survey Results—Recent ParticipantsSurvey questions are shown in Figure 1 below. Complete survey results from the pastyear are available. Ten students, from

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Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Phillip Dunston, Purdue University; Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University; Pamella Shaw, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

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-reflect upon the process of creating scholarly ideas and communicating them to others intheir field. REACH Activities that support the tenet of Intentionality include monthly REACHseminars. The outcomes of the seminar focus on three main areas: (1) peer mentoring throughdiscussion of daily activities, coursework, research, and other topics, (2) a professionaldevelopment component focused on skill development and strategies that enhance their careerdevelopment, (3) feedback back from REACH PIs on options.Multiple relationships, the second tenet of the REACH Scholars’ multiple apprenticeship model,focuses on student engagement with numerous intellectual mentors. In addition to the student –advisor relationship, central to the graduate education

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barrett Caldwell, Purdue University

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training in bothengineering and medicine, and thus students working to combine these areas may find it difficultto find an advisor with skills in both the engineering methodological and problem solvingapproaches, and the practice of medicine with its focus on life-critical performance demands.In retrospect, previous attempts to integrate industrial engineering and healthcare have sufferedfrom this lack of appreciation of the unique demands of combining these fields. HospitalIndustrial Engineering is a traditional industrial engineering text that is still used, over 40 yearslater, to describe time study and shop-floor production approaches to managing hospitalperformance 1. However, this text also demonstrated the limits of a manufacturing

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Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Frehill, Self employed consultant; Amanda Lain, Freelance Consultant; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering

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American Indians and Alaska Nativesand even smaller numbers of African Americans. The other two groups are then separated bycitizenship: U.S. citizens and permanent residents versus temporary residents. The non-URM-US category, then, includes all U.S. citizens and permanent residents who were classified asWhite, Asian/Pacific Islander, or of unknown race-ethnicity.Figure 1 shows the proportion of all graduate students enrolled during this five-year period - anaverage enrollment of 278 students - within the six groups defined by race-ethnicity, citizenship Page 15.374.7and gender. Figure 2 shows these same data for the three-year period 2003-2007

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sunni Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lydia Soleil, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology

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distinct ways: 1) presentation of participationrates and assessment data will illustrate the potential for utilization of and appreciation for thistype of programming, and 2) description of resources used, design steps taken, and programcomponents implemented will provide a template for individuals at other institutions interestedin setting up similar programs. Page 15.347.21. Introduction The graduate level component of the Tech to Teaching project aims to create aninfrastructure at Georgia Tech which encourages graduate students to gain the skills needed toobtain and be successful in a career in college teaching. The Tech to Teaching

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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of the classes are available to the biomass communitythrough a web-based distribution system.1 These classes serve as a template for other universitiesinterested in developing their own curricula and degree programs; to be used as is or modifiedfor individual needs. This approach of jointly developing and testing the classes, and offeringthem without cost to the community-at-large reduces the costs of others interested in developingsimilar classes, workshops, continuing education or degree programs.Importance of Sustainable Bio-products EducationIt is clear that bio-products, in the form of fuels, energy, chemical, and materials, offer asignificant opportunity for the U.S. to begin to develop domestic sources of non-petroleumfeedstocks

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Educating Students for Professional Success

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Burrows, The University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, The University of Cincinnati; Mike Borowczak, The University of Cincinnati; Amr Safwat, The University of Cincinnati

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program between 2006and 2009. Lastly, Project STEP focuses on the sustainability of the program itself. The universityfaculty participants, six primary investigators and four coordinators, play a large role infacilitating the promotion of community partnerships with teachers, K-12 students, and Fellows.Training of the FellowsLong term goals for our project include: 1)To train, energize, and sustain graduate engineering,math and science Fellows to effectively teach STEM skills to secondary school students;professional development of each Fellow that involves lesson observations, lesson plandocumentation, and course mastery of instructional planning and practicum; 2) Develophierarchical and expandable STEM lesson plans that explicitly connect key

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology; Siva Thangam, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

parts: (1) an evaluation of publication rates within two years aftercompletion of the degree, and (2) an assessment of the dissertation and the defense using anumber of criteria. The criteria were based on a review of the online literature plus additionalcriteria developed ourselves. Common criteria include originality, advancing of the state of theart, and demonstration of a high degree of mastery. The additional criteria include:demonstration of mastery of the literature; the work has academic or practical utility; the workuses advanced or novel techniques; the work has elements of both theory and experiment.Several other criteria are linked to our institution’s mission, including: The work may lead tomarketable technology; the candidate

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jeeyeon Hahn, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University

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new pedagogical observation system,called the Global Real-time Assessment Tool for Teaching Enhancement (G-RATE), has beendeveloped to provide GTAs with multidimensional feedback about their teaching. This paperdescribes the evolution of the G-RATE system, provides an overview of each section of theinstrument, and discusses future steps for the development of this tool.Introduction Seymour et al.1 note the importance of pedagogical feedback for graduate teachingassistants (GTAs) in a variety of disciplines. In a comparison of GTAs teaching in innovativeand traditional course environments, the authors identified GTA responsibilities in traditionalenvironments to include grading, working closely with undergraduate, and serving as

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

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AC 2010-196: STRENGTHENING THE U.S. ENGINEERING WORKFORCE FORINNOVATION: FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL GRADUATE EDUCATIONFOR THE NATION’S ENGINEERS IN INDUSTRY ? PART I EARLY CAREERDEVELOPMENT: DIRECT LEADERSHIP ?Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina Page 15.1106.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Strengthening the U.S. Engineering Workforce for Innovation: Foundations of Professional Graduate Education for the Nation’s Engineers in Industry ─ Part I Early Career Development: Direct Leadership ─ Part I 1. The Direct Leadership Function of Engineering in Industry

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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the needs of creative engineering practice in industry toenhance U.S. technological innovation and competitiveness. This paper implements the findingsof the National Collaborative as a model pilot effort at a major university. The Masters forEngineering Professionals to be introduced at New Jersey Institute of Technology is reflective ofthe skills, knowledge and actions required for early career development in developingengineering leaders for the first stage of Direct Leadership [Levels 1-3 Engineering]. Thepostgraduate engineering curriculum has been designed as a matrix of advanced studies versusskills, knowledge and actions required for Level 3 engineering. Program emphasis is placed uponengineering creativity, innovation, and its

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

required for Engineering Levels [1-3]; b) Part II addresses theOrganizational Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [4-6], and; c) Part IIIaddresses the Strategic Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [7-9]. The overallanalysis sets the foundation for building a coherent professional graduate curriculum and dynamiceducational process reflective of how experienced engineering professionals learn, grow, and create newtechnology in industry. This paper addresses Part II: the Organizational Leadership Function, Skills andActions that engineers must learn and develop from Group Leader, Functional Area Manager, SystemsEngineer through Technical Program Manager Levels [4-6

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

addresses the skills continuum in three main parts: a) Part I addressesthe Direct Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [1-3]; b) Part II addresses theOrganizational Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [4-6], and; c) Part IIIaddresses the Strategic Leadership Skills and Actions required for Engineering Levels [7-9]. The overallanalysis sets the foundation for building a coherent professional graduate curriculum and dynamiceducational process reflective of how experienced engineering professionals learn, grow, and create newtechnology in industry. This paper addresses Part III: the Strategic Leadership Function, Skills andActions that the engineer must learn and develop at Director of Engineering

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Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Fleisig, McMaster University; Harry Mahler, Ontario College of Art and Design

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Graduate Studies

realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact.Implicit in this understanding of Figure 1. Navajo Bridge in the Grand Canyon Nationalengineering design is that need is Park7something that is established by non-engineers or engineers working outside of engineering practice and is communicated in anover-the-wall approach to the engineers. Non-engineering factors such economics, safety,reliability, aesthetics, ethics, and social impact are relegated to a plethora of systematizedapproaches often known as Design for X If engineering design is merely the application ofalready well defined knowledge then there indeed

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Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet

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Graduate Studies

required for thenew economy, and the role of professional or soft skills in getting and keeping a job. Infact, according to one recent research report (discussed extensively below), only 31.5%of four year graduates enter the workforce with excellent professional skills.1 While theresearch report discusses graduates of four-year institutions and their work skills, thisauthor posits that any identified shortcomings in four-year education can be remedied notonly by changing the education in undergraduate education, but also by addressing thoseemployer needs at the graduate level. Without question, technical skills are required intechnical professions, but those technical skills alone are no longer sufficient to preparegraduates in engineering and

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Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Brooks, Temple University; Tony Singh, Temple University; Hossein Rostami, Philadelphia University; Fernando Tovia, Philadelphia University; Amithraj Amavasai, Temple University

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include concepts on how students contribute personally throughouttheir lives to reduce the carbon footprint and maintain a safe, sustainable and healthyenvironment. Students are encouraged to choose at least one concept to take up in their life.Except for these steps, there was no difference between the control group and ITS group.The students were asked to rank the overall performance of the TAs and overall learningexperience in the labs on a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent). TAs were asked to rank the overalljob satisfaction and evaluate the performance of the students. A rubric was provided to the TAsto evaluate the performance of the students. The improvements in all the seven performanceindices over the control group were determined using

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Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

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enhancestudents’ leadership skills and technical knowledge are: 1) academic research training, 2)academic and industry partnerships in research, and 3) learner centered courses. Otherinstructional strategies, such as degree or certificate programs in leadership do exist, but they donot show evidence of strengthening students’ technical knowledge. This paper focuses onprograms whose goal is both to educate doctoral students with technical knowledge and enhancetheir leadership abilities.Academic Research Training Programs. Engineering doctoral education in the United States isbased largely on an apprenticeship model. The degree includes of technical courses, a researchbased dissertation, and comprehensive exams. Students are assigned or choose a supervisor

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Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Sara Branch, Purdue University; Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University; James Cawthorne, Purdue University; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University

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constantcomparative method 20 was used to highlight the similar or different views of the respondentsregarding the problems and solutions in graduate student recruitment and retention. Theparticipants responses were grouped by re-reading of the data and possible themes wereidentified. After reading each interview the themes were reviewed and new data was classifiedunder appropriate themes.Findings and DiscussionThe themes that were identified among the sample are discussed in Figure 1. All participantsmentioned the need to raise awareness among potential engineering doctoral students about thebenefits, rewards, and relevance of obtaining such the degree. By educating engineering studentsat all levels, they might learn early the role that Ph.D. recipients

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Daniel Bumblauskas, Iowa State University; Matthew Verleger, Purdue University

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of the Student Constituent Committee (SCC), with the long-term goal of forming a Student Division. To help guide the organization’s student leaders, anadvisory council was formed consisting of faculty and industry leaders familiar with ASEE. In2007, that advisory council formed sub-committees to develop by-laws, nominations, recruiting,and the 2008 program. The SCC elected their first executive council at the 2008 ASEE National Page 15.193.2Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.The stated goals of the SCC include: 1. Fostering programs for ASEE student members at regional and national ASEE meetings. 2. Promoting the development at