Paper ID #16232Engineering Competency ModelMs. Catherine Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USA Ms. Leslie is a licensed Civil Engineer in Colorado with over 20 years of experience in the design and management of civil engineering projects. After ten years as Civil Engineering Manager at Tetra Tech, Inc., she assumed the role of Executive Director of Engineers Without Borders–USA, a position she held on a volunteer basis for six years. Ms. Leslie began her work in developing countries as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Stationed in Nepal, she developed solutions related to drinking water and sanitation projects. During the
Paper ID #15313Innovation and Entrepreneurship through Industry-Academic Collaborations:A Collegiate Model for Economic DevelopmentDr. Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology Nada Marie Anid, Ph.D., is the first female dean of NYIT’s School of Engineering and Computing Sci- ences (SoECS). In this role, she oversees more than 80 engineering and computing sciences faculty mem- bers and approximately 3,500 graduate and undergraduate students at campuses located in Manhattan and Old Westbury, N.Y., the Middle East, and China. Her expertise is in Industry-academic partnerships; Entrepreneurship and Innovation
masculine culture may not functioneffectively in gender-diverse teams.17 These same factors are likely at play in limiting thediversity of engineering competition teams.Major technology and engineering based companies recognize diversity as beneficial and arecommitted to building a diverse workforce. To achieve those goals, many companies activelyidentify and recruit candidates with diverse backgrounds. For example, Boeing holds recruitmentactivities at minority serving institutions and advertises job opportunities through various media.ExxonMobil reaches out to potential candidates through outreach programs and companypartnerships with diversity organizations, such as the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and theNational Society of Black
engineeringthinking. The visual representation of physical ideas allows engineers to manipulate the ideasand meaningfully add increasing levels of detail. Consequently, facility in interpreting thesevisual communications is a fundamental skill for most engineers.Typical engineering documents are visual, however simply seeing the document is not enough tobe able to interpret, reason, and communicate with it. The engineer must be able to internalizethe information into a mental map of some sort and appropriately interpret the features.This case study examines how a blind mechanical engineering student was taught and learnedbasic concepts of engineering graphical representation. Assistive technologies replaced theubiquitous computer and paper visual interfaces
University - Mechanical Engineering Dept. Abisola Kusimo received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with minors in Rhetoric Com- munication, Engineering Leadership Development, and Technology Entrepreneurship from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Stanford with a focus on Addi- tive Manufacturing in highly-constrained environments and is a National GEM Ph.D. Fellow, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Selected Professions Fellow, and an Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellow. Abisola currently holds a year-long teaching assistant position for a graduate course on ”Engineering, Design, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.” She has
Paper ID #356622020 BEST ZONE IV PAPER and BEST OVERALL ZONE WINNER - BOOST-ingPreparedness Through Engineering Project-based Service LearningDr. Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles Deborah Won is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State Uni- versity, Los Angeles. Her specialization is in Biomedical Engineering and her scientific research area focuses on neuro-rehabilitative technology. Her educational research interests include use of Tablet PCs and technology to better engage students in the classroom as well as pedagogical and advisement ap- proaches to closing
Journal of Operational Research, and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing Computers. She is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She is currently the chair of ASEE Mid Atlantic Section. She has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from National Science Foundation (NSF) and Venture Well. sadan@psu.edu.Dr. Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks Abdullah Konak is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity Berks. Dr. Konak received his degrees in Industrial Engineering, B.S. from Yildiz Technical
provision of choice and control has a more prominentimpact on female students’ motivation than on male students. The perceived need satisfaction ofcompetence may play a role in shaping students’ motivational responses.IntroductionHands-on team-based open-ended design projects in freshman engineering courses have beenshown to significantly improve student retention due to the benefits of active hands-on learning,self-directed acquisition of knowledge, development of skills and confidence necessary tosucceed in engineering and a growing sense of community [1, 2]. These open-ended designprojects range from highly structured [3] to theme-based [1, 2] to free choice [4, 5]. Combiningentrepreneurial thinking and maker technology, student-driven free
. He has also functioned as an engineering technology faculty for three years at Zane State College in Zanesville, Ohio, where he developed and taught courses that included CAD, solid modeling, statics, strength of materials, machine design, and statistical process control. He is currently active in curriculum development and education research focused on design.Mr. Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University Jacob T Allenstein is a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in the process of a Ph.D. Jacob received his B. Sci in Aerospace Engineering in June of 2011 and a Master of Science (Aerospace Engineering) in December 2013. Currently, he is a graduate teaching associate (GTA) for the
Industrial Consortium to foster applied research andenhance regional economic growth. In summary, first it is a well-rounded program whereall the stakeholders win, and second it can be replicated in many regions of the world. BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION In modern times industrial companies struggle to reduce costs and remain competitive inthe market. The fast changing technologies and product innovations are also threatening themand, to survive and stay in business, they have to introduce new innovative products in themarket and stay ahead of their competition. China and India are countries with excellent offers ofcheap labor and well trained reverse design engineers, capable of reproducing most of theoccidental
Engineering in 2009 in the Quad Cities metropolitan area 80 miles from the main campus.The engineering program was initiated in the Fall semester as the sole program in the School ofEngineering, offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. The School of Engineeringis a unit of the College of Business and Technology in Moline, Illinois.To jumpstart the program with limited resources, it started as a 2+2 multidisciplinary engineeringprogram that offered only junior and senior year engineering courses. The typical freshman andsophomore classes in Math, Science, and General Education and lower division engineeringcourses were taken by students at area community colleges and the university’s main campus.Since most students were classified as
different journals and conference proceedings. He has served as an investigator for research projects sponsored by National Science Foundation, Ford Motor Company, and the US Army. Before working at Indiana State Univer- sity, he was a faculty in the University of Louisville for 10 years. He also has over four years of industrial experience. He received his D.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lamar University (USA) in 1999, M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (Iran) in 1991, and B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Tehran University (Iran) in 1988. He is a member of ASEE, ASME, SAE, and ATMAE.Dr. M. Affan Badar, Indiana State University M. Affan Badar, PhD is a Professor
Paper ID #12394Industry Immersion: The Impacts of a Sabbatical Deep-DiveProf. Susannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe, Ph.D. is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, where she coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course. Her current research focuses on innovations in engineering design education, particularly at the capstone level. She is invested in building the capstone design community; she is a leader in the biannual Capstone Design Conferences and the Capstone Design Hub initiative. She is also involved with efforts to foster design learning in middle
for the company to get involved with the engineering program. The connection wasinitiated immediately after its relocation in 2007. However, one critical factor for the sustainedpartnership is due to the commitment of the company’s technology leader, Dr. Sun, who was anengineering faculty and who believes that it is mutually beneficial to have a strong academia-industry collaborative program.Starting with Dr. Sun, several people from Turbocor’s leadership team got involved with theschool serving in advisory councils at university, college and department-levels. While servingas a MEAC member, Dr. Sun began to sponsor senior design projects immediately after therelocation. Since 2007 until this year, the company has sponsored a total of nine
Paper ID #12824Identifying Roles in University-Industry Research PartnershipsLynette F. Wilcox, Virginia Tech Lynette Wilcox is a doctoral candidate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. She has been investigating various aspects of academic and industrial partnering while completing her dissertation research on trust in university-industry research partnerships. Lynette has held administrative and research assistantships with the NSF Center for e-Design to support her research work in this area. Additionally, Lynette also holds a Master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Bachelor’s
Paper ID #11763Inclusion or Exclusion? The Impact of the Intersection of Team Culture andStudent Identity and Pathway on Team DiversityDr. Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma Dr. Deborah A. Trytten is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Womens’ and Gender Stud- ies at the University of Oklahoma. Her main research focus is diversity in engineering education and introductory software engineering education.Dr. Rui Pan, University of OklahomaMs. Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma Cindy E. Foor is the Associate Director/Research Associate for the Research Institute for STEM Ed- ucation (RISE) at the
the National Science Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.Dr. Reginald DesRoches, Rice University Reginald DesRoches is the Karen and John Huff School Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As School Chair, he provides leadership to a top- ranked program with 100 faculty and staff and 1,100 students. His primary research interests are in design of resilient infrastructure systems under extreme loads. He has published more than 250 articles in the general area of resilience and seismic risk assessment. Dr. DesRoches has served as the key technical leader in the United States’ response to the Haiti earthquake and led a team
Paper ID #17240Towards a Framework for Educational University-Industry Cooperation: In-dustry PerspectiveProf. Victor Taratukhin, Stanford University Victor Taratukhin received his Ph.D. in Engineering Design in 1998 and Ph.D. in Computing Sciences and Engineering in 2002. Victor was a Lecturer in Decision Engineering and Module Leader (IT for Product Realization) at Cranfield University, UK (2001-2004), SAP University Alliances Program Director (2004- 2012). He is Managing Director, Competence Center ERP at European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS), University of Muenster, Germany (2012-present) and Visiting
Assistant Professor Utah State University Eastern Mr. Cedale Armstrong Native American Navajo Tribe Bachelors Seeking Student Mr. Curtis Frazier Native American Navajo Tribe Grant DirectorINTRODUCTION:For decades, underrepresented minority (URM) students have struggled to keep up with theirnon-URM counterparts in many aspects of schooling but specifically in STEM subjects. Theunderrepresentation of American Indian people in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) research and education is an issue
including business development, marketing, product development, and operations. Throughout her career, Rachel and her team have provided education solutions for several industries including defense, life science, high-tech, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and construction. Rachel currently serves on the Board of Directors of INCOSE as the Director of Marketing and Commu- nications. In addition, she is on the Board of Directors for AUVSI New England. Rachel has a B.S. and M.S. in the life sciences, as well as an M.B.A. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Rethinking the Corporate Partnership – A focus on corporate needs vs. traditional institutional