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MVCC Technical Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Francis Rogers III, United States Military Academy; Michael A. Butkus P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Russell Barrett Thomas Sr, United States Army; Jeffrey A. Starke, U.S. Military Academy

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novel application. II. Coordinate (3 – 10 days prior to lesson) Students present a lesson outline to the faculty mentor, receive advice on leading an efficient and effective review session, refine the plan, and rehearse the classroom activities.III. Execute (during the class period of the lesson) Students lead an instructional period on the selected topics described above. Student performance is evaluated by the instructor and mentor. Performance expectations can be found in Appendix 2.IV. Reflect (within one week after the lesson) Students review their performance through a written reflection due the following week. Emphasis is placed upon determining how helpful the review period

Conference Session

MVCC Technical Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob C Bruhl, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Paul M Moody P.E., U.S. Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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solution.14 Integral to CE400 is presenting the students with real-world civil engineering problems. “Theory without practice is as lifeless as practice withouttheory is thoughtless.”15 It is well researched and documented that problem based learning (PBL)is well suited for engineering programs. PBL allows students to engage in complex, ill-formed,and open-ended problems which fosters flexible thinking and supports intrinsic motivation.16These characteristics can be further encouraged by group discussion of potential solutions,critical instructor feedback, and essential self-reflection during and following the learning event.A. Kolb and D. Kolb define Experiential Learning Theory as the “process whereby knowledge iscreated through transformation

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Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Claudia G Interiano, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Caroline Elizabeth Nowell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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variousstrategies to recruit more minority participants that included sending out multiple, individualizedemails to minority student veterans, hiring an African-American graduate student to reach out forthe small number of minority student veterans, and requesting referrals from a minority facultymember in the college. However, the final sample remained largely homogenous due to theoverall demographics of the student population in the college and lack of positive response fromminority student veterans. All student veterans who volunteered to participate were interviewed.Five of the twenty participants were interviewed twice—individually then later in a group.Individual interviews provided students with an opportunity to take time and reflect on

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Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Janet C. Ford, Western Carolina University

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credit hours, including land navigation, marksmanship, physicalfitness, self-defense, and first aid. While many colleges and universities have a physical fitnesscourse requirement, the remaining courses would be elective credit in most programs.As would be expected, the amount of credit recommended by ACE increased with rank. Many ofthe JSTs for senior NCOs reflected work in multiple occupational fields during their militaryenlistment. JSTs of senior NCOs in the sample contained substantial hours of creditrecommendations: averaging over 150 semester hours. Much of this credit was recommended inmilitary specific areas such as Military Science, Marksmanship, or Military Operations, whichare of limited relevance in most academic programs.Almost all

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Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Blake Stringer, Kent State University, Kent; Maureen McFarland, Kent State University, Kent

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. Figure 4: Capstone Final Design and PrototypeThe final individual requirement at the end of the course was a paper answering specificquestions reflecting on the students’ design experiences. Many students commented on the teamlead’s leadership abilities and credited her efforts to the success of the project. Some of thesecomments follow. Student 1: “This large team was a hard problem to overcome since I believe others felt the same as I did but I feel the project manager helped immensely at coordinating everyone. With her help I was able to know who I needed to contact should I come across another’s project. Most of my previous classes focused on presentation skills and “team work” but I feel that working with two or

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Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony W Dean, Old Dominion University; Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University; Patrick Sean Heaney, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University

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lower rate than any other discipline1, which is reflected in anaggregate participation rate of about 17.8% in science and engineering at the associate’s andbachelor’s degree-levels for military servicemembers and veterans.2 Although a large portion ofveterans perform technical roles during their military careers, those experiences do not typicallylead to technical careers after their military service. This project, Stern2STEM, investigates thetransition of servicemembers from military service to baccalaureate STEM degree programs andimplements evidence-based interventions that increase participation in STEM fields and supporta more successful transition into technical careers. By providing student veterans, who alreadypossess technical STEM

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Developing an Academic Framework Supportive of our Military Veterans

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J Novoselich P.E., Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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civilian designteams share leadership. Specifically, civilian capstone design teams investigated in this studyexhibited more shared leadership than their military counterparts with respect to the TCR form ofleadership. Reflecting on the nature of military leadership, these results are not surprising. Thelower TCR decentralization and TCR density measures for the military design teams provideindications that these teams enact somewhat more centralized or vertical leadership than theircivilian counterparts. Centralizing leadership to fewer individuals would result in lessdistribution and amount of leadership within the teams. This tendency may be a by-product ofstudents' intensive military leadership training. Military organizations are often

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Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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B. Grant Crawford, Quinnipiac University; Jason B Burke, Quinnipiac University

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education benefits in more than one state. Therefore the national totals in the Annual Benefits Report summary statistics (Appendix table) should not be used to reflect the total number of beneficiaries during the fiscal year as these counts are calculated as the sum total of the state statistics. Figure 1. Department of Veterans Affairs Education Program Beneficiaries: FY2000 to FY201510 Lastly, these GI Bill and VR&E Program benefits may be utilized by accredited entitiesthat accept the benefits for certificate granting schools all the way to doctoral degree programs.Of