academia or government research facilities, and so theimpetus of skill refinement is often geared towards that end. Programs tend to focus on research Page 23.108.2skills, better communication,4,5 mentoring,6 and sometimes, approaches to teaching.7,8,9,10 Sincelimited programs enhance management skills such as how to "resolve conflicts, initiate projects,and provide guidance,"11 graduates often seek management degrees after joining industry.12Third, skills required for placement in academia or government research fields, i.e., researchabilities, communication skills, interviewing, and even job searching, while applicable to bothacademia and
Paper ID #14737The Impact of Museum OutreachMr. Mark Roger Haase, University of Cincinnati Mark Haase is currently completing his PhD in Chemical Engineering. His research is focused on the synthesis, characterization, and application of nanocarbon materials, especially carbon nanotube arrays exhibiting the property known as spinnability. Mark has been involved with teaching since starting his graduate work, developing laboratory experiences and lesson content pertaining to nanotechnology. He is outreach work enters around introducing people, especially youth, to nanotechnology concepts. c
Paper ID #32625Integrating Public Health Topics in Drug Delivery System EducationMr. Jorge Jimenez, University of Pittsburgh Jorge Jimenez is a PhD candidate in bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. They are part of the National Science Foundation’s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP-KAT) program and has research interest in ophthalmic biomaterials, drug delivery systems, Latinx healthcare and advancing diversity and inclusion in education. They engage in teaching as research through the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching, and Learning
rates as well as supporting faculty with development of effective learning and teaching pedagogies.Mr. James Blake Gegenheimer James Gegenheimer is an MSME Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at LSU. When graduated, James will commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He will be stationed at Hill Air Force Base in Salt Lake City, Utah. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. through the Air Force and work with the Air Force Weapons Research Laboratory. James is currently a Supplemental Instructor at LSU for Thermodynamics where he has served since 2013. He has worked to improve how STEM college students learn through the use of active learning. c American Society for
. 2017) and a Masters of Science in Computer Science (Dec. 2018). He is currently an RPI Engineering Ambassador and is participating in research with Professor Agung Julius from the RPI ECSE department as well as research with the Worldwide Computing Laboratory group (https://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/) directed by Professor Carlos Varela. He has also worked as an engineering intern for Sikorsky Aircraft (Summer 2015, Summer 2016).Timothy Andrew Spafford, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Timothy Spafford is a fourth year student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, pursuing both a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.B.A. At RPI he is involved in the Engineering Ambassador program, where he is a student ambassador as well as a
Paper ID #11885Two Body Solutions: Strategies for the Dual-Career Job SearchDr. Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley Shannon Ciston is a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ciston holds degrees in chemical engineering from Northwestern University (PhD) and Illinois Institute of Technology (BS). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in technical communications and applied pedagogy, and conducts engineering education research.Dr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy
programs.Dr. Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University Warren N. Waggenspack, Jr. is currently the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director and holder of the Ned Adler Professorship in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University. He obtained both his baccalaureate and master’s degrees from LSU ME and his doctorate from Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering. He has been actively engaged in teaching, research and curricula development since joining the LSU faculty in 1988. Over the last 12 years, he acquired funding from NSF to support the development of several initiatives aimed at improving student retention and graduation rates as well as
. Use bullets to describe the technical, engineering or research skills you developed, specialized software or equipment you used, and how your work contributed to a larger effort within the organization. Research and Professional Experience: depending on your background, it may be appropriate to combine the previous two headings into one. Teaching Experience: if you have substantial experience teaching or assisting in an academic setting (as an undergraduate teaching assistant, a tutor, etc.) you should include that somewhere in your academic resume. If you do not have enough teaching experience to justify a separate section, you should include it with your professional experience
education. Specific areas of controls and signal processing research include the design and modeling of intelligent controls, Kalman filters, and automation. Engineering education research includes curriculum and laboratory development for these concepts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Welding and Machining Day: Women’s Confidence with Individual Hands-On ManufacturingIntroductionIn 2016, the collegiate section of SWE at Kettering University instituted a program to teachfemale students hands-on manufacturing skills. In this program, the students were taught skills ineither MIG welding or various machining
tenure she created Energy Clubs for students in grades 3-5. Albers is passionate about experiential learning and strongly encourages the inclusion of hands-on activities into a curriculum. Her dissertation spans the Colleges of Engineering and Education and quantifies the effects of hands-on activities in an engineering lecture.Dr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engi- neering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission
is an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at Cal State LA. Joseph is an undergraduate research assistant, the Vice President of CSULA’s Robosub team, and he recently began an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Outside of engineering education, his research interests are in the field of trajectory planning and control for potential future Mars exploration aircraft.Mr. Jorge Diego Santillan, California State University, Los Angeles AUV Mr. J.Diego Santillan is an Electrical Engineer employed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cur- rently pursuing his Master’s in Computer Engineering. Diego acted as the President for the Robosub team as well as the senior design team lead for the same project in
, thencreating a future state map to create an ideal process, and finished with the implementation of 5Sin the laboratory. Results showed an improved process and a cleaner, safer, more organizedlaboratory (Sreedharan & Liou, 2007). Using these published works as a guide, this case studyattempted to provide a solid foundation of knowledge on lean manufacturing to students and thenhave them implement those teachings in small scale prototype projects.MethodsThis case study took place during the fall and spring semesters of the 2016-2017 academic year.The subjects of this research study were students enrolled in the Mechanical Engineer SeniorDesign Practicum - MECH 486 which included senior engineering students from both theMechanical Engineering (ME
connect the control systems tophysical visualizations. Learning MATLAB while simultaneously learning the content also providesyet another challenge for students new to control systems material. Notably MATLAB has aquadcopter simulation available, but the interface presents itself less than intuitive for anundergraduate engineering student being presented control systems content for the first time.Quanser, a company known for educational lab equipment, also developed an app that presents somecontrol systems topics in an educational format. The app also has interactive components to engagethe users. It ultimately lacked the direct correlation to undergraduate control systems curriculum andfelt more tailored to topics directly covered in laboratory
engineering disciplines. EnSURE is a program for high-achievingundergraduates, with a 3.20 minimum GPA required of applicants. Every student is paired with afaculty mentor, and most work in research groups or laboratories that include a variety of faculty,postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate research assistants. EnSUREparticipants are expected to work full time (40 hours/week) on research during the 10-weekprogram, and are compensated at an hourly rate.In addition to students’ research activities, they are required to participate in weekly professionaldevelopment seminars and complete a number of writing assignments. Figure 1 summarizes thecalendar of activities and assignments for EnSURE students. Previous research and
these groups. Insome institutions, it is common for graduate students to take courses outside of their departmentor college; in other programs, graduate students are not allowed to enroll in courses outside theirmajor or college.Another important question to answer during your visit or conversations is what kind of workingenvironments (office, lab, classroom, etc.) are typical for graduate students pursuing the researchor degree that interests you at that institution. Pursuing a graduate degree in engineering isdifferent than being an undergraduate; many graduate students find that their research andcoursework is more like having a job than being a student. Thus it is critical that you like thepeople in the research group or laboratory you are
Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help
Professor NegotiationsCase 1: Starting offer at a top-ten engineering research programDr. Taylor Smith, having completed a two-year international post-doctoral experience at a majorinternational laboratory – and having proved worth by already having several externally fundedgrants in addition to numerous peer-reviewed papers, applied for two top-ten engineeringprogram assistant professor positions. The candidate was selected for campus interviews at eachplace, and the interview experiences consisted of the typical two full days of interview, includingbreakfasts, lunches and dinners, with various combinations of faculty, graduate students and staff– rigorous interviews designed to vet future colleagues for their ability to take on the research
lead for two aircraft. She earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a mathematics minor from Rose-Hulman Insti- tute of Technology in 2005. Her research interests include control systems, mechatronics, instructional laboratories, and experiential learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering Success: Delivering Your Ph.D. on Time, on Budget, and Ready for Your CareerIntroductionSuccessfully completing a doctorate degree takes a lot of hard work, perseverance, anddetermination. Throughout my time as a doctoral student, I searched for the key to success. I readbooks and blogs, sought advice from mentors, and learned through trial and
director for teaching and learning initiatives in the Broadening Opportunities through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from CU, and a D.Phil. in mechanical engineer- ing from the University of Oxford, England. Dr. Louie’s research interests are in the areas of engineering student retention and performance, teaching effectiveness and collaborative learning.Prof. Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, COMs. Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder Alyssa is a master’s student with an emphasis in energy and environment
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
, ship design for the U.S. Navy, and improving equity and inclusion in engineering learning environments. James spent three years during his undergraduate education as an instructional aide for the design-build- test-communicate course described within this paper. Since leaving the instructional staff, James contin- ues to work with the course to research educational methods. James is also an occasional guest lecturer for this course teaching about field robotics and team communication challenges.Dr. Laura K Alford, University of Michigan Laura K. Alford is a Lecturer and Research Investigator at the University of Michigan. She researches ways to use data-informed analysis of students’ performance and perceptions of
Staticsconcepts from the previous class, and the rest of the class is assigned for a highly visualized andinteractive type of lecture, and other course activities described in the course (syllabus).B. Motivations behind selecting this target domainMany teachers who teach Statics are disappointed regarding the inability of their students inapplying the learned concepts in analyzing and designing the real world problems in succeedingcourses for which Statics is considered as a cornerstone (Condoor et al., 2008). Based on theauthor's experience in teaching the subject topic, students normally struggle learning Statics, asmost of the time their main focus is on memorizing the mathematical modules and equationsused for solving the problems, while they miss
Michigan. At Michigan, he was a member of the Ultrafast Laser - Material Interaction Laboratory and the Engineering Honors Program. He also served as an instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions