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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Weihang Zhu, University of Houston; Julia Yoo, Lamar University; James C. Curry, Lamar University; Brian Craig P.E., Lamar University; Hsing-wei Chu P.E., Lamar University; Jiang Zhou, Lamar University

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Awarding S-STEM Scholarships to Current StudentsAbstractLamar University in Beaumont, Texas was awarded an NSF S-STEM grant “Industrial andMechanical Engineering Scholars with Scholarships, Career Mentoring, Outreach andAdvisement, Professional Societies and Engineering Learning Community (SCOPE) S-STEMProgram” in 2015. Unlike most scholarship programs that target incoming students, thisscholarship targets enrolled students who have demonstrated successful progress towards aMechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering degree by having minimum grades of B inCalculus I, Calculus II and Physics I and an overall GPA of at least 3.0. The SCOPE programrequires scholarship recipients to be an active member of the

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert Kelley Bradley, Lamar University; James C. Curry, Lamar University; Victor Zaloom P.E., Lamar University; Brian Craig P.E., Lamar University; Berna Eren Tokgoz, Lamar University; Alberto Marquez P.E., Lamar University; Yueqing Li, Lamar University; Maryam Hamidi, Lamar University; Weihang Zhu, University of Houston; Xinyu Liu, Lamar University; Acyut Kaneria

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majority of lab experience in LU’s IE curriculum occursduring the first two years in chemistry and physics that is not part of the 2+2 online program.After the 2nd year, a single weekend lab is used for our material process lab where studentsmake a hammer in our machine shop. The Work Design lab is mostly observational studies thatcan be conducted offsite. Computer aid manufacturing and automation labs are software based.Another challenge is students having consecutive multi-semester internship, co-ops and full-timeemployment where they take classes part time that extends the average time to graduation andcomplicates reporting program effectiveness including NSF S-STEM grant effectiveness. Highperforming students tend to take longer than 4 years