Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert B. Rhoads, Ohio State University; Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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Corporate Member Council

were to identify characteristics that were important to early-careerengineering professionals and to identify the most important learning outcomes to the capstoneexperience from an industry-sponsor perspective.Multidisciplinary Capstone Program StructureThe multidisciplinary capstone experience is a two-semester course sequence with industryrelated projects defined by sponsor companies who support the projects financially and withcompany engineers working directly with the project. Projects include process and equipmentdesign, energy and environmental improvements, and new product development. Students fromall 14 undergraduate engineering programs have participated in the program. Programs include:aeronautical and astronautical, aviation

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College

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Corporate Member Council

 such short visits and recommendations for pursuing a similar sabbatical experience.  Introduction  Sabbatical experiences provide an opportunity for faculty to immerse themselves in current scholarship, to explore new areas of research, and/or to pursue professional development. For capstone design instructors, many of whom coordinate projects with industry sponsors, a logical option for sabbatical is to spend it in industry. This option is particularly attractive and useful for faculty members who have followed the standard academic pathway and have not previously worked as practicing engineers.  The engineering literature is surprisingly sparse on faculty sabbaticals, and what literature exists focuses more on the use of sabbaticals for

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Gregory John Kostrzewsky, Cummins, Inc; Lin Xiang Sun, Danfoss Turbocor Compressors

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

, and professional responsibility so they can be successful in theircareers. Few of these elements can be simulated effectively in a traditional academicenvironment and the participation of engineering practitioners becomes critical. Similar to mostengineering programs, we have achieved this through the involvement of our advisory councilmembers in this capacity and this paper presents our experience in developing an academic-industrial partnership over the years. The relationship starts with the integration of theseindustry leaders into our program’s continuous improvement process, including ABETaccreditation assessment, the sponsorship of senior capstone design projects, and othereducational activities. The development of the partnership has

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Il-Seop Shin, Western Illinois University, Quad Cities; Blair J. McDonald P.E., Western Illinois University; Khaled Zbeeb, Western Illinois University; William F. Pratt, Western Illinois University

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

to the sponsors and the engineering faculty.Almost all of the capstone design projects have been done with technical professionals and staffsin industry rather than in a classroom setting. The local companies provide real world problemsand vital issues important to them and are customers for the Senior Design students, similar tothe concept found in Lamancusa’s The Learning Factory1. The only two exceptions were madefor seniors to build testing equipment to be used for instructional purposes at the School ofEngineering and the school sponsored the projects, as discussed in the next section.Students use theoretical and practical problem solving skills to begin the process of componentsynthesis and system design in the context of real-world

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

participated on a subsystem team andshadowed the project manager to prepare herself for the role she wanted in her senior year. Atthe end of her junior year, just before the competition, Alice took over some managerialresponsibilities when the previous project manager proved inept. She began actively recruitingmajors from discipline A to assure that the team would have a sufficient number of seniors fromdiscipline A in her senior year to be able to use CTA as a capstone experience. In the end, theleadership of CTA was populated by Alice’s close friends from discipline A.CTA leadership positions in Alice’s senior year were settled in the back room. Alice successfullynegotiated for the project manager position by convincing her male competitor for the

Conference Session

ASEE TUESDAY PLENARY FEATURING BEST PAPERS & INDUSTRY DAY SPEAKER Sponsored by University of South Florida & University of Maryland

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abisola Coretta Kusimo, Stanford University ; Marissa Elena Thompson, Stanford University ; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Member Council

mastery experiences.Fourth, the mitigation of negative interpretations of somatic and emotional states during the taskcan help develop self-efficacy. Physical and psychological experiences such as increased heartrate and rapid breathing before a presentation, or tiredness of muscles after exercise, can eitherbe interpreted as a positive performance-enhancer or as something to be avoided. Reframingnegative interpretations of these states can build self-efficacy directly and encourage moremastery experiences.Contextual examples of each of Bandura’s four sources of self-efficacy in undergraduateengineering education: first, mastery experiences could consist of completing practice problemsto master theory, engaging in project work and hands-on