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- Jan Rinehart, Rice University; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University
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AC 2008-1626: DEMYSTIFYING THE FACULTY SEARCH PROCESS:INCREASING WOMEN'S PURSUIT OF ACADEMIC CAREERS THROUGHKNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKINGJan Rinehart, Rice University Jan Rinehart is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Program at Rice University. The goals of the ADVANCE program are to increase the number of women faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at all levels of leadership, and change the institutional climate. Prior to assuming this position, she served as the Deputy Director of the Space Engineering Institute for two years and the Director of Engineering Student Programs at Texas A&M University. She initiated the Women in Engineering program in 1994 and served as WEPAN (Women
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- Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Engineering Education is inviting more student involvement. One goal ofthe Student Constituent Committee will be to promote the development of ASEE studentchapters on college campuses. These ASEE student chapters have the opportunity tosignificantly influence the future of engineering education through current engineering students.Current graduate students are understood to be the future educators, so many campuses alreadyprovide at least some resources for students interested in academic careers. In light of thoseexisting resources, how can a new ASEE student chapter maximize its impact on campus?Using a strategic planning process, an ASEE student chapter can maximize its impact onengineering education and bring additional value to ASEE student
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- Reginald Rogers, University of Michigan; Anthony Lachawiec, University of Michigan; Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan
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universitycommunity a chance to learn about how they can do their part in fostering a diverse communityinside and outside of the main university campus. Various student groups provide food,education, and excitement to bring awareness to all who attend.Future Faculty Series – Held in four parts, the Future Faculty Series gives graduate students an Page 13.1293.2opportunity to explore the various options awaiting them in an academic career. Graduatestudents learn about life in research-based and teaching-based universities, how to run a researchgroup, and how to successfully obtain grants and other funding. A highly regarded program, theFuture Faculty event
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- Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan
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discussed. Our data are obtained from a survey ofcurrent and former EGSMs. We conclude by describing how both the formal professionaldevelopment sessions and the on-the-job training and experiences helped to prepare alumni ofthe EGSM program for their careers in both industrial and academic settings.1. IntroductionGraduate students carry out a significant portion of the teaching activities in many engineeringcolleges within large research institutions. In order to maintain a high quality of teaching, and toprovide opportunities for graduate students to grow as teachers, the University of MichiganCollege of Engineering pays special attention to the training of GSIs. The Center for Research onLearning and Teaching (CRLT) administers a day-long
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- Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University
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A Professional Development Program for Graduate Students at North Carolina State UniversityI. Introduction The traditional engineering graduate school experience involves taking courses, selectinga dissertation or thesis advisor and project, performing the research under the advisor’ssupervision, and completing and defending the dissertation. Such an experience trains graduatestudents to carry out research on a problem someone else has defined and gotten funded. It doesnot, however, prepare them for anything else they might be called upon to do in graduate schooland in their professional careers, including: • Teaching assistant responsibilities. Grade assignments, projects, and tests; supervise laboratories
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- Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lynita Newswander, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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AC 2008-1082: THE ACADEMIC JOB MARKET AS AN ARGUMENT FOR ANDAGAINST INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING GRADUATE TRAININGMaura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MAURA BORREGO is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Dr. Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. Investigations of interdisciplinary graduate programs nationwide are funded through her NSF CAREER award.Lynita Newswander
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- Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Randall Holmes, Caterpillar Inc.
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Needs → Engineering → Technology ↑↓ Directed Scientific Research to gain a better understanding of phenomena when neededIt is important to note here that need drives the engineering activity which results in new technologies,products, and processes. The National Collaborative Task Force has chosen to craft its program ofadvanced studies for professional engineers with a focus on this understanding of engineering practice.3. How Professional Engineers GrowReceipt of the baccalaureate in engineering represents the starting point of a career in industry orgovernment practice for
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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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-setsdevelopment beyond entry level engineering. 5, 6As the National Academy’s Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) report[Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers] pointed out in 1995, science andengineering graduate education has evolved during the last four decades on university campuses in theUnited States primarily as research-oriented, largely as an outgrowth of 1945 U.S. science policy forbasic research. However, graduate engineering education must be devised also for those professionals inengineering who are pursuing non-research type careers. 7But, key to improving the graduate professional educational process in engineering for technologicalinnovation is the realization that the modern practice of
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- Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University
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the Page 13.561.3 UK would benefit greatly from the introduction of such a doctorate.” US National Collaborative Task Force During its investigations for engineering educational improvement, the US National Collaborative Task Force also concludes that a new, but distinctive American approach is needed for the post-baccalaureate professional education of engineers and engineering leaders in the United States that supports the American model that the majority of US engineers who are pursuing professional careers do not remain at the universities but enter engineering practice in industry or government service
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- Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan
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EngineeringIntroductionMost of the training future faculty receive in graduate school focuses on the research aspects ofthe enterprise. The typical new faculty member has little if any opportunity to prepare for theteaching aspects of an academic career. In this paper I share my experiences in nine offerings ofa graduate course on Teaching Engineering. The goal of the course is to prepare graduatestudents for the teaching responsibilities of a faculty position, acquaint them with learningtheories, give them a chance to discuss teaching issues and give them practice preparingmaterials for a course they might teach someday. These materials include: Educationalobjectives using higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, textbooks and other supporting material,detailed syllabus
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- Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Stacey Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University
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route to the professional masters (MS) degree. In manyevolving technical areas, four years is not enough time for the formal education of an engineerabout to enter a lifelong career of professional practice, even when the individual is committed tolife long learning. The 4 + 1 program started in the General Engineering program in 1996 andnow allows General Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science, ComputerEngineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Materials Engineering students toprogress toward the terminal applied MS in Engineering degree appropriate to their interests, orin existing specializations in Biochemical
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- 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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Science in Technology (MST) program at WesternCarolina University. This paper reports the implementation processes and results.Implementation I – Student SelectionThe MST program was originally developed to help working professionals in the regionto further their technical knowledge in technology-intensive systems and their managerialskill for career advancements. Due to rapid growth in recent years, the direction of thisprogram has changed to cover applied engineering research and applications. Both thesisand non-thesis options are available. Students came with a variety of technicalbackgrounds. Therefore, student selection is vital to the implementation of the GREATmodel. Currently, the program enrolls about 30 students. Table 1 summarizes
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- Brant Price, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University
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methodsperformed in a satisfactory manner.From educational perspective, this project has provided invaluable graduate researchexperience. Student engagement is an important concept to the learning process, even asa graduate student [8]. The skills and self-efficacy gained from this project have helpedprepare the author for his pursuit of higher education at Purdue University and hisensuing career in the engineering field.References[1] Pledgie, Stephen. Barner, Kenneth E. Agrawal, Sunil K. (2000, March). Rahman, Tariq. Tremor Suppression Through Impedance Control [Electronic Version]. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 8(1), 53-59.[2] Chwaleba, Augustyn. Jakubowski, Jacek. Kwiatos, Krzystof. The measuring set and signal
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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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career so that they willbe more likely to persevere in majors and careers in science.41 Some of these programs addadditional components such as enhanced emphasis on mentoring, development of career plansand actual graduate applications, dealing with time management and work-life balance issues,and identifying a supportive peer group. Such programs have been described by Purdy et al.42and by Crosby et al.43 While many of these programs are highly effective, they do not alwayshave stable funding. .B. MentoringAs noted by Purdy and Wasburn2, "a continuing concern for all graduate students is how to findsufficient mentoring and role models. This need is not limited to academic subjects. Much morethan undergraduate students, graduate students are
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- Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Randall Holmes, Caterpillar Inc.; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina
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person-stunting tactics to person-growing approaches. Maslow states that educators should respond tothe potential an individual has for growing into a self-actualizing person of his/her own kind.Ten points that educators should address are listed: 1. We should teach people to be authentic, to be aware of their inner selves and to hear their inner-feeling voices. 2. We should teach people to transcend their cultural conditioning and become world citizens. 3. We should help people discover their vocation in life, their calling, fate or destiny. This is especially focused on finding the right career and the right mate. 4. We should teach people that life is precious, that there is joy to be experienced in life, and if
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- Walter Schilling
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different manners than atraditional student. Most students in the engineering field rely on financial support tojustify the completion of their degree. Yet, by their very nature, many of theseopportunities exclude non-traditional students.Again, while timing and organizational issues affect traditional graduate students, thegreater age and maturity of a non-traditional student causes these issues to impact a non-traditional student in a greater fashion.And finally, there is the job placement issues. By returning to graduate school, apracticing engineer gives up the ability to continue along their existing career path,however stable or unstable it may be, to enter into a career path in which they aredistinctly disadvantaged versus more traditional
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- Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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AC 2008-1966: ASSESSMENT OF A PRESTIGIOUS ENGINEERING GRADUATETEACHING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMMaura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MAURA BORREGO is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Dr. Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering and engineering education, including studies of the collaborative relationships between engineers and education researchers. Investigations of interdisciplinary graduate programs nationwide are funded through her NSF CAREER award
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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
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- Lyubov Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University; Keith Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Johnston, North Carolina A&T State University
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to numerous reports ofthe need for engineering graduates with strong technical skills as well as a broader education,and (3) to emphasize to students that energy and environmental technology decisions are drivenby economic considerations.The two course sequence EES 810 (Theory and Practice of Energy and EnvironmentalEconomic Policy Analysis) and EES 811 (Application of Energy and Environmental EconomicPolicy Analysis) are the starting point for the thread of economic analysis that runs throughoutthe EES course of study. This part of the EES curriculum is designed to provide students withsome basic economic analysis tools that can be used throughout their career to analyze energyand environmental technologies not just in terms of technology
Experiences In Teaching And Mentoring Interdisciplinary Graduate Students Of Diversified Backgrounds
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- Ram Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinaya Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Ajit Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University
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directly from their undergraduate semesters, armed with Bachelorsdegrees, but unhappy with the job market and their career prospects.Just as their motives for being in this class are diverse so are their academic backgrounds for theCSE graduate students. Many students have undergraduate degrees in mathematics orengineering, whereas some have majored in Biology, Business, Physics, agricultural sciences.Their level of knowledge of statistics is also varied, although, most have had at least someelementary statistical theory. Teaching statistics to students from different backgrounds is notdifficult, statistics is, in essence, an applied science and lends itself well to most disciplines thancan be quantified. However, all the different backgrounds and
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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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include design of cell-interactive biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and cell and tissue engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), member of the Editorial Board of the journal Acta Biomaterialia, and a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and Johnson & Johnson Discovery Award. He is the coauthor on a recent book on Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering published by Academic Press. He received a B.S. (Distinction) in Chemical Engineering from University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), University of Bombay, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Bioengineering) at the University of Minnesota, and postdoctoral
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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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. Programs: A Method to Increase Graduate Enrollments and Attract Top Students to Graduate Study,” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Congress and Exposition, AC 2007-903.7. R. Kane, C. Gonzalez-Lenahan, and S. Eck, “Accelerated Graduate Degree Programs,” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Congress and Exposition, AC 2007-63.8. A. Donnelly, “The Southeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program: Graduate Minority Retention and Preparedness for Academic Careers,” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Congress and Exposition, AC 2007-1784.9. S. Duggins, “Recruitment and Retention of Women in the Computing Sciences: Tackling
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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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with set dates for deliverables. The student is hired to complete the research to meetthese deliverables and interruptions for internships or co-ops which do not directly contribute tothese goals can be grounds for removal of the research assistantship altogether. Any studentinterested in pursuing these opportunities should discuss them with their advisor; in some cases,it may be possible to work out a mutually beneficial research assistantship and internshipappointment, while still meeting the deadlines for research deliverables. Hiring summer researchinterns in place of regular research assistants could be one solution. Every school has a career
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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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the country. Enrollment hastripled over the last few years (currently, a total of 470 students). UB hosts the largest Page 13.176.5Technology Management Program in the nation (over 300 students).The University of Bridgeport has partnered with CPEP (Connecticut Pre-EngineeringProgram) for many years. Most recently, UB has offered 50 scholarships, at a total of$2.4 million, to qualified CPEP students. CPEP is a non-profit organization that helpsminority middle and high school students pursue careers in the science, technology,engineering and math.Most of our new students do not expect to have financial aid and campus jobs for theirfirst semester
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diversity inperspective and experience they provide. The faculty member has more experience teaching andknows what is required to run a course and what is expected of a teaching assistant throughoutthe semester. In addition, most faculty members served as a TA in their graduate careers andrecall their own experience. This outlook is particularly beneficial in dealing with concepts suchas teaching, working with your professor and writing lesson plans. The experienced TA, whojust recently finished their first semester as a TA, can provide the new TAs with life lessonslearned the hard way. This outlook is especially beneficial in dealing with concepts such asgrading, holding office hours and working in a team of TAs. Ultimately, all of the