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Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Hovell, University of Texas, Austin; Kimberly Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin

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Page 14.652.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Grad Students Just Wanna Have Fun: Great Sociability Makes a Great Graduate ProgramAbstractThe Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin combinesunique research and social aspects of graduate work for structural engineering students. Theresult is an education and experience that aids in the development of students who surpass theirpeers from other universities, as evidenced by consistently high rankings of the graduateprogram. In research, the students are responsible for producing top-quality results in anextensively equipped, hands-on laboratory. Socially, the lab employees, graduate researchers,and

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Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Fox, Drexel University; David Delaine, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University

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perspective of the undergraduates andteaching assistant team, the graduate student instructor is the manager and is completely incontrol of course operation, but the faculty mentor is always available to advise and guide.Graduate student responsibilities within the system include complete management of all aspectsof the course. The classes taught for this study are Electrical Engineering general educationrequired courses. These courses are generally high enrollment laboratory classes consisting ofone hour of lecture delivered by the graduate student instructor plus two hours of smaller sectionlaboratory work overseen by a teaching assistant. The graduate instructors were teachingassistants for at least two semesters prior to becoming a graduate

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jin-Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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mentored teaching activities applied the conceptslearned in the PFF courses. The individualized mentored teaching experience included teachingundergraduate and graduate courses, giving talks at research seminars, and mentoring seniorprojects and REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) students in the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering at UC. Various methods of active learning, motivatingstudents, problem-based active laboratory learning, and peer tutoring were explored and appliedto mentor students. The paper also includes feedback from the PFF program coordinator and theacademic research mentor.I. IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF) is a national initiative to better prepare Ph.D., M.S., andpostdoctoral students to

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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French Revolution.” Inother words, the input to the student is text-based and the output from the student is alsotext-based. This perceptual mode is referred to as Read mode. Page 14.253.4Kinesthetic (K)Some people learn only by doing. They need hands-on-training. Here one may want toquote the famous phrase: Practice Makes You Perfect. This last, final group prefers tolearn through experience. It could be laboratory experience, clinical experience,simulation, co-op experience, industrial internship experience, service-learningexperience, practical training experience, etc. This perceptual mode is referred to asKinesthetic mode.Hunter Boylan’s Research

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University; Susan Fisher, Purdue University

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, and what lessons have been learned.Tier 1: Graduate Student Organizations within DepartmentsThe College of Engineering at Purdue University has 12 graduate programs, and the extent towhich students have historically participated in a graduate student community has variedsignificantly among programs. Some programs have had strong and active graduate studentorganizations for many years. In other programs, some subdivisions or laboratories sponsoredstudent activities, but there was little or no coordination of those groups at the program level, andmost students were not involved in any formal graduate student community. Still other programshad virtually no graduate student organization. Furthermore, it is important to note that eachgraduate

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Educating Students for Professional Success

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hazem Tawfik, State University of New York; K. Shahrabi, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Beverly Kahn, Farmingdale State College - State University of New York

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AC 2009-2468: THE PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE MASTER’S (PSM) DEGREE INENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYHazem Tawfik, State University of New York Dr. Tawfik obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1980. Since then he has held a number of industrial & academic positions and affiliations with organizations that included Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Stony Brook University (SBU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Atomic Energy of Canada Inc., Ontario Hydro, NASA Kennedy, NASA Marshall Space Flight Centers, and the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center at Carderock, Md. Dr. Tawfik is the author of

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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these questions. Rather we seek to use ourdiscussion to stimulate further study.Diversity in Graduate ProgramsIncreasing the number of underrepresented students in graduate programs is inherentlymore difficult than at the undergraduate level. Many undergraduate programs areadministered at the college level, where resources for supporting diversity can be usedmore efficiently and assessment can be supported more easily. At the graduate level,admission decisions and support for developing study groups or other communityactivities are more likely to be focused at the department level or even at the level of anindividual professor's laboratory, so it may be more difficult for students inunderrepresented groups to meet one another and to develop

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New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Heffner, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University; Steve Martin, Iowa State University; Kathleen Richardson, Clemson University; Eric Skaar, Clemson University

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AC 2009-2429: MULTI-INSTITUTION TEAM TEACHING (MITT): A NOVELAPPROACH TO HIGHLY SPECIALIZED GRADUATE EDUCATIONWilliam Heffner, Lehigh University Bill Heffner is the associate director of the International Materials Institute for Glass at Lehigh University where he has been since 2004. In this position he facilitates research exchanges promoting new functionality for glass and is developing an e-based glass learning curriculum for the glass research community as well as developing hands on experiments for the young science enthusiasts.Prior to this current role, for 25 years he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems as a distinguished member of technical staff. Bill has taught

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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. She recently won an award for maximum number of publications in a year from chemical engineering department at MSU. She is associated with Medical Micro Device Engineering Laboratory (M.D.-ERL) at MSU working under Dr. Adrienne Minerick. Soumya is been an active member of AIChE, AES, ASEE, SWE and Sigma-Xi.Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University Anurag K. Srivastava received his Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, in 2005, M. Tech. from Institute of Technology, India in 1999 and B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, India in 1997. He is working as Assistant Research Professor at Mississippi State University since

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Methods and Techniques in Graduate Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Brooks, Temple University; Berk Ayranci, Temple University; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli, Temple University

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. Matthews, Investigation of Laboratory Fatigue testing Procedures for Asphalt Aggregate Mixtures, Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 119, No. 4, 1993.(9) Robert M. Brooks a/k/a: James M Matthews, The Effect of Aggregate Gradation on the Creep Response of Asphalt Mixture and Pavement Rutting Estimates, American Society for Testing and Materials, STP 1147, Philadelphia, 1992, pp 329-347.(10) Robert M. Brooks a/k/a: James M Matthews and B.B. Pandey, Performance of Flexible Pavements, Transportation Research Record No. 1307, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.(11) Ross, M.L. & Taher (Eds) Explorations in Creativity (New York, Harper &

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Methods and Techniques in Graduate Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Paul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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AC 2009-1468: MANAGING COURSE OFFERING RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS INNEWER GRADUATE PROGRAMS THROUGH SPECIAL TOPICS COURSESBimal Nepal, Texas A&M UniversityPaul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Page 14.858.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Managing course offering resource constraints in newer graduate programs through special topics coursesIntroductionMost new graduate programs face many challenges including lower initial enrollments, limitededucational resources such as laboratory equipment, faculty lines, and under developed or“work-in-process” curriculum. While the institution has its resource constraints, the studentsmay

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lokesh Padhye, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gretchen Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nadia Szeinbaum, Georgia Institute of Technology; Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Recep Goktas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Zohre Kurt, Georgia Institute of Technology

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and collection of surveys in person is eliminated. Since eachstudent can access the Internet at their own convenience, there are no restrictions with respect tothe time or location to reach students, in contrast to past studies in our program1 that used fixeddistribution and collection points. Additionally, online surveys allow geographically distantrespondents to be reached, increasing the population available to be surveyed. This is importantin graduate programs where it is not uncommon for students to leave for days or weeks to go toconferences or perform research in the field or distant laboratories and hence, making it difficultto reach out to these students if survey distribution were done in the traditional way. An onlinesurvey

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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years. The modal point on the distribution curve displaying length of employment against probability of making a useful contribution occurs at between seven and nine years of employment. Clearly, if the professional turn-over rate exceeds 10% to 15% per year, it will be most unlikely that the peak performance of the laboratory will ever be achieved.” 19 Thus, it is the sense of the National Collaborative Task Force that the experience and retention factors are critical in rebuilding the nation’s future strength in engineering for innovation. The experienced engineer-leaders who are about to retire in the workforce are a vital national engineering asset and corporate memory of U.S. technology. These retired