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Research, Innovation and Careers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Annie Laurie Myers, Broward College; Dana Hamadeh, Palm Beach State College; Michael Vitale, East Carolina University

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Paper ID #25940A University-State College Collaborative Project to Advance Students’ De-gree Completion and Career Attainment in Engineering and Computer Sci-enceDr. Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University Ali Zilouchian is currently a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida At- lantic University. He is also currently the Director of ”CAPTURE” program which is related to increasing pipeline, graduation rate as well as future jobs in the State of Florida related to STEM graduates espe- cially Computer Science and Engineering fields. His recent projects have been funded by DOE, Florida

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Technology and Manufacturing

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; George Chitiyo, Tennessee Tech University; Eric Newland Wooldridge, Somerset Community College; Thomas Singer, Sinclair Community College

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including Architectural, Mechanical, and Manufacturing systems, and holds multiple patents related to consumer cooler technology. A fourth generation cattle farmer, he also owns two private engineering and design firms and has designed buildings and systems all across the central and southern regions of Kentucky. Wooldridge is also licensed by the ATF for explosives, their handling, and detonation, as well as provid- ing consulting design and engineering services for weapons manufacturers. He teaches courses in additive manufacturing, pre-engineering, parametric design, and workforce leadership at Somerset Community College, where he serves as faculty and PI on various NSF, KCTCS TRAINS, and USDA grant projects

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Research, Innovation and Careers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Dee Dixon

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Engineering Education, 2019 Reflections on Eight Years of Undergraduate Research at Our Community CollegeAbstractSince 2010, San Antonio College (SAC) has been the center of a continuously increasing familyof undergraduate research projects hosted by Texas’ first Math, Engineering, and ScienceAchievement (MESA) Center. A paper presented at the 2012 ASEE Conference in San Antoniodescribed the start of this program at this community college. It has been widely reported thatundergraduate research programs at four-year institutions increase retention, improve students’success, and produce higher quality graduates. Results demonstrate that two-year institutions canalso initiate and maintain successful

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Technology and Manufacturing

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Kay Pickering, Arizona State University/ Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM; Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University

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ATE) Center of Excellence from 1994-2017, leading initiatives and grant-funded projects to develop educational leadership and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of highly skilled technicians to support the American economy. Currently serving as Principal Investigator, Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE-2 and -3; and Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research-HSI ATE Hub-Diversifying the ATE Program with His- panic Serving Institutions Using Culturally Inclusive Mentoring and ATE Resources. The SC ATE Center is widely known for innovative initiatives impacting advanced technological education as well as devel- oping and broadly sharing successful educational models and

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Transfer and Transitions

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Franz Allen Foltz, Rochester Institute of Technology; James E Moon, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Roy W Melton, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Michael Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Daniel P. Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); James Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Rob Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET)

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., M.S.E.E., and B.E.E. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga. His memberships include ASEE and IEEE (Senior Member).Dr. Michael Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Michael E. Kuhl, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD in Industrial Engineering in 1997 from North Carolina State University. His research and teaching interests are in simulation, operations research, and decision anal- ysis with a wide range of application areas including intelligent material handling systems, healthcare systems, project management, cyber security, and supply chain systems.Prof. Daniel P. Johnson, Rochester Institute

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Research, Innovation and Careers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Whitesel, South Mountain Community College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Marco Wehrfritz, Skyline Community College

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themakerspace [4] [2] [5] [6] [7]. Collaborative cultures tend to stem from encouragingcollaboration when carrying out daily operations [4], having few restrictions on usage byencouraging academic, extracurricular, and personal projects [2], and having activities thatencourage people to work together [8]. Scheduled activities such as training, workshops, andsocial events also encourages students to interact with each other outside of collaborativeprojects, which may strengthen the sense of community [2] [7]. It is these types of activities,especially workshops and social events that have been found to be effective in creating a linkwith community colleges and recruiting their students [8].If the primary intent is also to simply increase the usage of

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Research, Innovation and Careers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge E Loyo Rosales, Rice University; Armineh Noravian, Arizona State University; Alison Cook-Davis, Arizona State University; Carrie A. Obenland, Rice University; Carolyn Nichol, Rice University

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students. Jorge collaborates with NEWT’s In- dustry Liaison Officer and Innovation Ecosystem Director, and the Student Leadership Council in the planning of educational opportunities for NEWT graduate students and postdocs with the center’s indus- try partners and other professional development activities. At Rice, Jorge is an Adjunct Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering Departments, where he developed and teaches CEVE/GLHT 314: Sustainable Water Purification for the Developing World, a project-based course on sustainable strategies for safe water supply in low-income and developing regions of the world. He col- laborates in other project-based courses at Rice, such as Introduction

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Technology and Manufacturing

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David I. Spang, Rowan College at Burlington County; Edem G. Tetteh, Rowan College at Burlington County; Ratneshwar Jha, Rowan University

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NeedsAbstractAs institutions of higher education strive to maintain effective and affordable educationalpathways, innovative partnerships between associate and baccalaureate degree grantinginstitutions can facilitate a student’s progress while maintaining close alignment with industryneeds. This paper details the continuing efforts of a multi-year project between a two-yearcollege, a university and industry that has resulted in the creation of well-aligned associate andbaccalaureate degrees in mechanical engineering technology. These offerings represent newdegrees for both institutions, as well as an entirely new department of engineering technology forthe university that complements its already existing engineering programs. Both degrees arebased on a

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Technology and Manufacturing

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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from industry or well-defined arguments for change bythought leaders in the field, technical education at the two-year college level will be slow toimplement change which will become a hindrance to the timely adoption and subsequentintegration of Internet of Things enabled applications. To be fair, to a great extent this is a newproblem facing the technical education segment of the two-year college space. In the past, mostnew technologic developments have been derived from a discipline specific, legacy technologyarea and the curricula would only need to be morphed to include the new topic area at the expenseof other topics that could be diminished in coverage due to the continuing advance of technology.Today, in the instance of many projected

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Transfer and Transitions

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Said Fariabi, San Antonio College; Simona Dana Dimitriu, Northside ISD; Lisa Marie Baker, Northside ISD

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retaining students in STEM fields and to articulate aseamless transition for a continuum of education that will fortify technical education for the newdecade.Starting the Post-Secondary EducationIn 2012, Community College Week reported data released by the President’s Council ofAdvisors on Science and Technology which suggested that if the U.S. is to remain a STEMleader, the country must produce one million more STEM graduates than current projected rates.The Atlantic reports that according to a 2011 STEM report from the Center on Education and theWorkforce at Georgetown University, 92% of STEM workers will need post-secondaryeducation by 2018. Around 35% of that number will require training at the community collegelevel, while another 65% will

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Research, Innovation and Careers

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Patberg Morin, North Carolina State University; Alireza Dayerizadeh, North Carolina State University; Kristen Booth, North Carolina State University

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education, medium frequency transformer optimization, and electric vehicle fast charger design optimization. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Shift from the Two to Four-Year Institute: How Research Experiences Impact Community College StudentsIntroductionResearch is messy and ill-defined. It provides society with new ideas, innovations, andchallenges. Undergraduate research is a project-based learning experience with little structure orguidelines. It can be overwhelming and intimidating to a student. Typical classroom workconsists of textbook-based homework assignments or projects with rubrics, guidelines, andstraight forward

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Transfer and Transitions

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eliza A. Banu, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Sarah Elizabeth Franklin; Kosi Ofunne

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“involves two or more people researching a topicthrough their own experience of it, using a series of cycles in which they move between thisexperience and reflecting together on it” [18]. The cycles include observation of own experiences,reflection, sense making of those experiences, and action [19]. For this study, we included anotherlayer in this cycle, a research experience for the student participants. Through this component ofthe project, the students are not just the subjects, but they also work closely with two facultymembers to learn to conduct educational research and have a voice in the design of the study.This collaborative inquiry grew out of a College-level Research Initiation grant, which providedfunds to engage the lecturer and two

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Transfer and Transitions

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Schott, Florida SouthWestern State College; Cynthia Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University

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projection, 16% of the top 25 are engineering [2]. Of the total occupationsrequiring a bachelor's degree, 13% are in engineering [2]. Those employed with a bachelor'sdegree in engineering comprise 23% of the top one-half of the median average and 13% of thetop quarter median wage earners [2]. Thus, engineering is one of the highest paying and in-demand professions for students graduating with a bachelor's degree.There are "two viable pathways to the baccalaureate degree [which] have developed in the pastone hundred years - a direct entry route where a student begins and ends at a four-yearinstitution, and a transfer route" [1]. The transfer route is usually accomplished by the studentattending a smaller institution, whether two years or four years

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Transfer and Transitions

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park; Shannon Hayes Buenaflor, University of Maryland, College Park; Danielle Melvin Koonce, University of Maryland; Christin Jacquelyne Salley, University of Maryland, College Park; Sharon Fries-Britt, University of Maryland, College Park; Darryll J. Pines, University of Maryland, College Park

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pre-service teachers. In addition to her professional role, Ms. Hayes is also a doctoral candidate in the Higher Education Program at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on community college students and transfer student success.Ms. Danielle Melvin Koonce, University of Maryland Danielle is a 3rd year PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland studying race and social movements. Danielle is primarily a qualitative researcher and has worked extensively on survey data and conducting interviews for several projects including a campus climate survey, the Women’s Resistance marches as well as Black Lives Matter.Ms. Christin Jacquelyne Salley, University of Maryland, College