Master’s Degree”, Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 16-19, 2002, Montreal, Canada13. J. Gross, D.M. Mohr and S. Pessiki, 2012, “Creation of a Structural Engineering Professional Master’s Degree Program”, Proceedings of the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 10-13, 2012, San Antonio, TX14. https://www.farmingdale.edu/academics/curriculum/ms-technology-management.shtml Accessed on 04/29/201915. Farmingdale State College, 2018-2019 College Catalog, https://www.farmingdale.edu/registrar/pdf/catalog-18-19.pdf Accessed on 04/29/2019
. One flyer, labeled “Get Your PhD For Free,” laid out funding options for PhD studentsand ways to obtain them. We were surprised to learn how many undergraduate students were notaware of the funding that comes with getting a PhD in an engineering discipline, and this flyergenerated great interest. All newly developed materials were utilized in each component of theoverall strategy, and in other forms of advertisement commonly utilized across higher education(such as ASEE First Bell).Digital MarketingAs marketing of services through digital technologies continues to show success in acceleratingproduct value to consumers (i.e. the value of a particular educational program to prospectivestudents), we enlisted the help of a world-renowned
theapplication materials to seek out that information, as well as descriptors for each criterion’snumerical rating. A score is given for each criterion and then all criteria scores are totaled andused as part of the overall admissions evaluation.Faculty dialogues, meetings, and educational emails were used to increase implementation of therubric across the school beginning with the admissions cycle for students matriculating in the Fallof 2019. The rubric was updated for the admissions cycle for students matriculating in the Fall of2020 based on continued feedback of faculty users, and review by premier experts in the field ofholistic graduate admissions. In the admissions cycle for students matriculating in the Fall of 2020,57% of admitted PhD students
-graduates-drop-number-and-be-increasingly-diverse[3] B. L. Benderly, “A frayed welcome mat: Engineering deans struggle to attract foreign graduate students discouraged by the tone of U.S. policies and rethoric,” ASEE Prism, pp. 24–29, Mar. 2019.[4] M. L. Springer and M. T. Schuver, “Dwindling graduate student enrollments in distance-based programs: A researched-based exploration with underlying findings and premise,” in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jun. 2018.[5] P. Bawa, “Retention in online courses: Exploring issues and solutions—a literature review,” SAGE Open, vol. 6, no. 1, Jan. 2016.[6] T. Wolf, C. V. Hollot, R. Tessier, B. Polivka, C. Hoehn-Saric, J. D. Kang, and K. Newman, “Synchronous
Institute in Berlin, Germany in the summer of 2019. Immediately following graduation, she started pursuing a Master’s in BAE under the mentorship of Drs. Czarena Crofcheck and Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, performing her research in the laboratories of UK CAER. Julia’s research focuses on the development of methods for the depolymerization of lignin, this being a main constituent of biomass. In so doing, Julia’s work aims to convert this largely waste material into a sustainable source of chemicals and fuels, thereby significantly improving the economics of biorefineries. Her graduate studies and research are currently supported by the NSF LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate Fellowship.Keren Mabisi, University of Cincinnati Keren
and workshops on campus and at other campuses, to share titles of texts, authors, andarticles in the area, and to share perspectives on justice, history, equity, and potential newdirections within teaching in higher education.This consultation with experts in active learning and inclusive teaching informed the literaturereview and course materials review during summer 2019. Literature review included traditionalengineering education sources such as ASEE proceedings and JEE papers, but also included thereview of websites of many university-level centers for teaching and learning. These includedresources that broadened the scope of the literature to include education research and scholarshipbeyond the STEM domain, and were rich sources of
drawn from attendees at theconsortium’s annual conference. Based on conference attendee demographics, we find thissample is representative of most of the URM population pursuing graduate engineering degreesin the U.S. per the National Science Foundation and ASEE By the Numbers [3], [16]. Wefocused our study on this sample purposefully, as these students would be more likely tohighlight a variety of support structures that have enhanced their doctoral journey and supportedtheir persistence [17]. The consortium brings together institutional liaisons, industry representatives, andstudents. The consortium hopes to positively impact the number of URMs who are graduatedegree earners in the U.S. working together to encourage underrepresented
struggle to attract foreign grad- uate students discouraged by the tone of U.S. policies and rethoric,” ASEE Prism, pp. 24–29, Mar. 2019. [4] Q. Guo, “Top U.S. Colleges With Branches Overseas,” Forbes, Aug. 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quanzhiguo/2018/08/21/ top-u-s-colleges-with-branches-overseas/ [5] “Enrollment in Distance Education,” Aug. 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.chronicle. com/article/Enrollment-in-Distance/244085/ [6] D. Lederman, “Are we seeing early signs of saturation in online academic programs?” Inside Higher Ed, Jan. 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/ article/2019/01/09/are-we-seeing-early-signs-saturation-online
—is of paramountimportance.The importance of communication within the engineering industry has prompted an ideologicalshift in higher education—especially regarding the skills engineering students should possess.Learning outcomes of engineering students are moving from emphasis on students’ technicalabilities towards what are termed ‘soft skills’ that complement technical expertise—one suchskill being successful communication. In fact, the main accrediting board for the Engineeringfield—the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)—listed the students’“ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences” (ABET, 2017) as one of its maincriteria for institutions seeking accreditation. Troy and Liang (2019) echo this
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. Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Michael J. Dyrenfurth is a Professor Emeritus and former Graduate Programs Coordinator in the Depart- ment of of Technology Leadership and Innovation in Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute. He is a member of the ASEE and he serves or has served on theGSD, ENT and the ETD leadership Boards and as program chair for the ASEE ENT (2014) and the CIEC in New Orleans (2008). Previously he completed a four year term as Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies in Purdue University’s College of Technology. He was co-PI of two international EU-FIPSE funded grants. His scholarship agenda focuses on techno- logical innovation
developers invariably envision a particular client group to serve as target forthe program that they are developing. Typically, their view of this group is one characterized bya set of characteristics that include assumptions of need, student goals, age and experience, andlocation among others. Of course, other important factors are also considered during newprogram design. These include institutional and originating department missions, geographicregion served, perceptions of need, advisory council input, leadership directions and more.In prior papers, delivered at the 2016[5] and 2019[6] ASEE conferences the authors addressedthe development process for the recently approved Doctor of Technology (DTech) offered by thePolytechnic Institute at Purdue
the area of Public Health and Psychosocial Behavior have performedstudies on the mental health level of immigrants. Filion et al. (2018) carried out a quantitativeanalysis using the National Health Interview Survey on “the Strength and DifficultiesQuestionnaire.” Comparing the responses from foreign-born non-citizens and U.S.-born citizens,they found that immigrant adolescents experience relatively more long-term emotional difficultieswhen compared to U.S.-born citizens (Shekunov 2016). Eskenazi et al. (2019) found a strongrelationship between the perceived immigration policy vulnerability on the mental and physicalhealth of U.S.-born Latino adolescents. Alegría et al. (2018) devoted a review study to examinethe role of social resilience in
graduate students discouraged by the tone of U.S. policies and rhetoric,” ASEE Prism, pp. 24–29, Mar. 2019.[2] E. Redden, “International student numbers decline,” Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/11/16/ survey-new-international-enrollments-drop-43-percent-fall[3] R. M. Lehman and S. C. Conceic¸a˜ o, Motivating and Retaining Online Students: Research- Based Strategies That Work. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand, 2014, ch. Concerns and Opportunities for Online Student Retention.[4] P. Bawa, “Retention in online courses: Exploring issues and solutions—a literature review,” SAGE Open, vol. 6, no. 1, Jan. 2016.[5] T. Wolf, C. V. Hollot, R
exists about suchprograms. However, in order to create a program that would be the signature of the departmentand the center of its identity, the design team decided to design a program from the ground up,instead.Having made that decision, the committee members looked to the research literature to find asystem for designing such a program. While graduate programs in engineering education areincreasing in number, they are still relatively few. Worldwide, there are twenty-nine institutionsthat specifically offer engineering/STEM education doctoral programs (ASEE-SD and CELT,2019). As such, there is not a large body of established curricula to inform what and how PhDstudents in engineering education are taught.Our own department of engineering
, “Mental health and academic attitudes and expectations in university populations: results from the healthy minds study,” Journal of Mental Health, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 205–213, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2017.1417567[10] S. J. Bork & J. L. Mondisa, “Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Graduate Student Mental Health: Insights from the Healthy Minds Network Dataset,” Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019. https://peer.asee.org/33255.[11] S. Lipson, S. Zhou, B. Wagner, K. Beck, & D. Eisenberg, “Major Differences: Variations in Undergraduate and Graduate Student Mental Health and Treatment Utilization Across Academic Disciplines,” Journal of College Student
programscomplete a semester-long placement at a primarily undergraduate institution (Hixson et al., 2015;McCord et al., 2014). These placements provide dual benefit. Graduate students experience animmersive internship in some academic role (e.g., teacher of record in an engineeringdepartment, assessment coordinator in the institutional research office, education researchconsultant in a teaching and learning center) and host institutions gain new perspectives andengineering education expertise in their units. For a more detailed description of participants’experiences during REEFE, please see McCord et al. (2014), Hixson et al. (2015), and Maxey(2019). The internship opportunities were created by two host institutions, with varied optionsbeing available
, Theory, and Culture, with a focus on Writing Program Administration in STEM. As an IEEE Senior Member, she currently serves as secretary to the IEEE Professional Communication Society Board of Governors and as Campus Representative for the ASEE North Midwest Section. She is also an active member of the Consortium for Graduate Communication and the National Council of Teachers of English. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020PeerPresentationsasaStudent-centeredLearningApproachinaNanotechnologyClassAbstract:BackgroundActive learning techniques have proven effective at engaging students in course content andfostering deeper learning, as compared with traditional lecture techniques
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-authored the paper nominated by the ASEE Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for ASEE Best PIC Paper for 2018. Most recently, she received her school’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring, Award for Leadership, and a 2019 award from the College of Engineering as an Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Engineering Graduate Stu- dents. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and recently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at apawley@purdue.edu. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
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engagementDiscovery has completed six terms of program delivery, with total secondary school studentparticipation now exceeding 500. Our previous analysis focused on beneficial outcomes tosecondary student participants [13, 14]. Concurrently, we now share the multi-factorialopportunities to teaching skill development through this model. Both qualitative and quantitativeoutcomes suggest Discovery is having significant impact both on graduate (and undergraduate)student instructor development of professional skills, as well as secondary school studentengagement in STEM.Instructor participationDuring the first 6 semesters of programming (2017-2019; Spring & Fall each year), 93 universitystudent trainees engaged as program instructors, with 24 trainees acting
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, and True depth 3D medical imaging dis- play equipment. He serves on ASEE Board of Directors as ASEE Zone III Chair and Member-at-Large of Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission Executive Committee of Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering from Slovak Technical University, Slovakia and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University. He is proficient in languages such as Telugu, Slovak, Czech, English and conversant in Arabic, Hindi, Russian, and Spanish. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
3 years 3 yearsNotes. Unique features of ACEEES at the master level is that students need to undertake a research projectoutside of their major field of research with a different academic advisor.* the number of peer review published papers required to qualify for graduation depends upon the department.When the energy course began in 2016, approximately 50 students were expected to join it but inactually over 100 students applied and were admitted. The program popularity was unexpected.It is expected that the number of students will reach 200 in several years depending upon thenumber of doctoral students and the reception of industry to the master graduates in 2018 anddoctoral students in 2019.Until academic year 2017, both
Materials (D3EM). He is the author or co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on computational materials science, interdisciplinary materials discovery and design as well as interdisciplinary graduate education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Showcasing Interdisciplinary Capabilities: Employers’ Perceptions on Reflective ePortfolios AbstractDisciplines in isolation cannot furnish solutions to the world’s complex problems. Trends withinthe materials science and engineering fields revealed materials development was slow to offersolutions for the practical needs of advancing technology. The Materials Genome
President, Dr. Stephanie Adams,highlighted this issue, making graduate education a key initiative for ASEE in 2019 [5].Published studies of students in engineering doctoral programs in relation to professionaldevelopment tend to focus on the research experiences [6, 7] with an emphasis on theknowledge, skills, and abilities gained or on how students’ research skills change over time [8].However, the important question of how effectively the research experiences of engineeringPh.D. students prepare them for professional practice remains largely unanswered. In order tostrengthen the quality of research on engineering Ph.D. students are being prepared forprofessional practice, there is a need for high-quality assessments designed and
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generated document (eitheran I-20 or DS-2019) issued by a U.S. college or university is required7. A SEVIS (Student andExchange Visitor Information System) generated document (I-20) is issued by a U.S. college oruniversity after proof for sufficient funds is established by the student. SEVIS, administered bythe Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of HomelandSecurity (DHS), is an Internet-based system that maintains data on foreign students andexchange visitors before and during their stay in the United States8. SEVIS was implementedafter 9/11 to expedite the tracking system that was incorporated in the Illegal Immigration andImmigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) law by the President in 19969. This SEVIS