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Sidney Martin; Marilyn Barger; Catherine Davis

clusters, including manufacturing, aviation, aerospace, defense,and life sciences. The country and the general Tampa Bay area need a talent pipeline in STEMcareers. There is a need for training and education to close skills gaps for early career employeesand an additional need for upskilling. The differentiation of the West Coast is offered as the EastCoast of Florida focuses on space and related activities. The advisory committee members weresurveyed to obtain their views regarding the need for technologies to be included in engineeringtechnician programs. The input received from the organizations is provided and analyzed todevelop an understanding of what understanding an engineering technician should have.Literature ReviewThe need for

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Serdar Celik

instructional strategy; 85% ofthe responses were positive. Fallahi and Haney [2] studied the practicality of usingclassroom debates in discussing controversial topics. The method was compared to thetraditional form of open discussions. According to the students’ responses, they foundclassroom debates to be easier than conventional open discussions when conversingabout controversial topics. Omelicheva and Avdeyeva [3] explored the effectiveness Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 365comparison of traditional versus active learning

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

since the funding, tax breaks, emphasis are on EV–not onother alternatives to gasoline. Now the questions students need to answer or explore is could oursociety use hydrogen generated by solar or renewable energy sources to fuel cars by generatingelectricity via fuel cells. The need to have an expensive and heavy battery (with its impact onmileage per energy unit) made by polluting the land for mining heavy metals must also beconsidered and balanced. These are topics students can discuss in a seminar-type class and learnto think ethically, commercially, and environmentally. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering

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Elizabeth Gross; Diane Peters

engineeringstudents who have had more than five years in the field as professional engineers beforereturning to the classroom—is instructive to the engineering education community. For thisresearch, it was instructive to study the responses and experiences of two groups of graduateengineering students, returners, those students who have elected to return to graduate school afterfive or more years in industry. Direct pathway students in this study, a separate group, areconsidered to be those who spent less than five years in industry before returning to formaleducation. This includes those students who completed bachelor’s and master’s level degreessimultaneously.Returners as a group are not a tracked demographic, although there are statistics on the

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Carmen Cioc; Noela Haughton; Sorin Cioc

ETD 515 Enhancing Essential Skills for Engineering Graduates: A Project-Based Learning with Entrepreneurial Mindset Approach in MET Courses Carmen Cioc, Noela Haughton, and Sorin Cioc The University of ToledoAbstractThis paper discusses the outcomes of implementing a project-based learning (PBL) pedagogyintegrated with entrepreneurial mindset learning (EML) in two advanced core MET courses. Thecollaborative effort between engineering and education faculty aimed to explore the impact ofsuch PBL-EML implementations on enhancing essential skills

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Behin Elahi

effects on learning outcomes. Thisresearch paper aims to address this gap by investigating the educational impact of AR and VRapplications in the context of teaching industrial and systems engineering courses. It focuses on asample data analysis for lean systems and enterprises course content taught in two groups ofstudents in AR and VR learning environment and using traditional learning environment. Thisstudy has demonstrated statistical evidence supporting the positive impact of VR and ARtechnologies on the lean systems and enterprises course topic. After conducting t-meandifference test, a P-value below the significance level of 0.05 was achieved. The result of thisstudy affirms the significant improvements in students’ post-assessment scores

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Md. Ali Haider; Hosssain Ahmed; Mahesh Pallikonda

of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 505two-year degrees or certifications. While these programs provide a valuable pathway for studentsto quickly enter the workforce, they also present limitations in terms of career prospects andoverall economic potential.This study examines the potential for increased earning potential and career advancementopportunities for individuals with a 4-year engineering technology degree. In general, suchtransformation aims to empower graduates with the necessary knowledge and expertise to thrivein a rapidly

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Teddy Ivanitzki; Ashok Agrawal

companies make upnearly 40% of the IPERF companies. These startups are also interested in employing postdocsand other individuals at the post-graduate level. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 535The IPERF program continues to contribute to the increase of postdoctoral and post-graduateentrepreneurs and graduate Fellows. The program is positioning and inspiring diverse Fellows tostart their own firms or join the modern industry, create jobs, win innovative research grants, andattract investment during their

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Otilia Popescu; Dimitrie Popescu; Murat Kuzlu

interest in getting involved inwireless related research. They were both high-achieving students who expressed interest incontinuing upon graduation with graduate degrees. They had no prior experience in the topic ofthe project, and they took courses on communication systems while working on the project. Inthe EET case, the students were recruited while taking a wireless communication course, whichcovers a very broad range of wireless related topics, and which requires the students to also workon a term project. For the term project in this course, students may select to do an in-depth studybased on literature review, or they can work on actual projects that involve either software orhardware development. The instructor makes some suggestions for

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Jay Porter; Alok Verma; Mohamed Gharib; Andrew Moore

undergraduate and graduate students by 2025. As of today, the college’s enrollment isapproximately 24,600 students. At the same time, the college also instituted a freshmanengineering program where students would spend their first year before being admitted into adepartment/discipline. This program, titled General Engineering, allowed the college tostandardize the first-year curriculum and to monitor all students in their first year for progresstoward their degree. Today, the university admits approximately 5,000 students into GeneralEngineering each year. As part of this growth, it was immediately recognized that the collegeneeded additional resources, particularly facilities, to accommodate the increasing number ofstudents. Thus, the General

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Alexander Wyglinski

when designing an Experiential PhDframework to determine which business units should be included in its development and to bringthem into the process early, Several examples of these offices include graduate admissions,registrar, bursar, corporate relations, research and innovation, technology transfer,advancement/philanthropic giving, online and continuing education, faculty governance,marketing and communications, and general counsel. By understanding the role that each officeplays in the implementation of the framework and how all the pieces fit together, this helps indevising an ecosystem that leverages current university capabilities and brings them togetherefficiently given scarce time and material resources,Step 2 - Seek Input from

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Ghazal Barari; Brian Sanders

, the positive response to the visual and hands-onapproach of the lab demonstrates that students found the VE to be an effective tool for advancingengagement and practical learning. The majority of students were successful in completing thelab showing that the VE was generally accessible and user-friendly. The feedback also indicatesthat formulating and interpreting information presented challenges to half of the studentsunderscores the need for ongoing improvements in lab design and scaffolding. Finally, 64% ofthe students felt they were able to successfully complete the lab. Overall, the survey resultsindicate that the VE was perceived as a valuable and engaging resource by most students,highlighting its potential in enhancing the educational

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Jiayue Shen; Daniel Jones; Kazi Imran; Xiang Wang; Weiru Chen; Lanju Mee

laboratory reports and submit them for assessment.2.4 Course OutlinesTable 1 provides an overview of the topics covered on a weekly basis in both the theory andlaboratory classes. With a total of four credit hours, students will spend three hours each week inlecture and one hour in laboratory activities. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 4552.5 AssessmentStudents will be evaluated based on their performance in various activities throughout the course.These activities include homework assignments

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Ahmad Fayed; Mohamed Zeidan; Ephraim Massawe; Mehmet Bahadir

Mechatronics. The average annualenrollment in the 13-years old program is about 300 and the average annual number of graduatesis about 30. The enrollment and graduation numbers are listed in Table 1 [1]. Fig. 1. Engineering Technology Program at Southeastern Louisiana University.There are only 33 credit hours dedicated for each ET concentration, 31 common ET credit hoursshared among the 5 concentrations, in additions to 10 hours of Math, 15 hours of natural science,17 hours of general education, 12 hours of English, and 6 hours of technical electives, totaling124 hours for the ET degree. Fig. 2 shows a sample ET curriculum sheet for the mechanical ETconcentration. Because of these limitations, many industrial standards are not taught or

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Gary Mullett; Lara Sharp

an overall issue that needs to be dealt with. Some of these NSF entitiesare the National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, the Micro-Nano TechnologyEducation National Center, the BEST Center, and The Future of Work and CORD [16-19].These groups are all struggling with this issue to one extent or another, most likely from a lack ofexpertise about the topic themselves.Additionally, the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) has been involved with afairly, long-term major initiate concerning Industry 4.0 (i.e, ASEE Industry 4.0) [20]. However,that effort became dominated by four-year college faculty and really had very little input fromtwo-year faculty or relevance to the two-year college technology education mission in the

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Mauricio Torres; Ying Shang; Zakariya Al Hamouz

generally mostassociated with manufacturing, representing a strong indication for the direction to be followedby engineering educational institutions [6]. With the rapid changes in technology, there is greatdemand for automotive and mechanical engineers with a strong background in STEMdisciplines, especially in 3D printing and other technologies [7].The region’s requirements for graduates from engineering programs were assessed by surveysconducted by Indiana Tech among senior students who attended internships in the area, as wellas potential employers (businesses and manufacturers) in the region.According to the surveys conducted among senior students, 25% of the students declared thattheir new jobs are manufacturing related in the Spring 2021 and

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David Satterwhite

maintaining the role of traditional hands-on learning teaching methods, may lead toembracing the technology and creating a comprehensive student learning experience.IntroductionIn education and academia there will always be perpetual incremental improvements such as theevolving sophistication of online interactive learning resources or the increasingly sophisticatedlearning management systems like Brightspace or Canvas. However, truly disruptive educationaltechnologies, technologies which revolutionize education are rare, such as the advent of theinternet or the digital calculator. These technologies emerge once in a generation. The disruptiveeducational technology of this generation is ChatGPT (A chatbot coupled with a generativepretrained

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H. Bryan Riley

subset of LLMs.Assessments from industry, commercial product producers, and university research professorsare insisting on a slowdown in the development and adoption of AI technologies, as a slowerrollout would allow for greater opportunity to identify potentially precarious threats. In contrast,areas of entertainment such as the 2009 epic science fiction film Avatar, used an AI to speed upworkflow, produce computer-generated imagery (CGI) character and 3D video animations [9].James Cameron, director of Avatar, makes the case in the context of increasing social ills, it will Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE

programmingconcepts. The rigor and depth of the prior programming exposure is not sufficient to start advancedtopics in this C programming class. Therefore, students in this course start with the fundamentals ofprogramming and progress to advanced topics. Having a solid understanding of the fundamentals isessential to progress and face the challenges of advanced topics in software programming.There have been instances of teaching both C and MATLAB in order to program particular systems ordevices in a specific course [5-7] rather than to teach general programming concepts. Students in thissophomore class are to use the textbooks [8, 9] for this course and use them as reference books infuture courses. Instructors in future courses introduce MATLAB toolboxes

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Mohamed Zeidan; Ahmad Fayed; Mehmet Bahadir

theworkplace. Research results showed that some of the top weaknesses in engineering curricula(according to industry perspective) include the lack of understanding of safety, regulatory and Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 435liability. Industries also complain that new graduates lack experience with the design process andhands-on activities because engineering schools focus too much on teaching theory [6-8].Engineering technology programs have made progress in addressing some of these issues byadding more hands-on

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Md. Ali Haider; Jody Alberd

harnessing cutting-edge technologies.This comprehensive approach ensures that graduates are not only equipped with academicknowledge but also possess the practical skills required in their future careers.One notable technological advance that has captured the attention of higher education institutionsis the IoT. Universities are increasingly focusing on both the technological facets and practicalapplications of IoT. The ubiquity of the Internet has firmly entrenched itself in the fabric ofcolleges and universities, with e-learning becoming a common pedagogical practice acrossvarious academic disciplines [15].While IoT may not be an immediately obvious application within the realm of education, it is acompelling addition to the academic toolkit

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Nathan Luetke; Orlando Ayala

ETD 365 A Project-Based Learning Activity for an Engineering Technology Heat Transfer Course to Design a Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger Nathan Luetke and Orlando Ayala Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThermofluids courses demand a strong grasp of mathematics and employ physics extensively todescribe physical systems. Heat transfer, in particular, presents challenging topics, which can beeven more daunting for engineering technology students. In this paper, we present theimplementation of a project-based learning activity in the engineering technology heat transfercourse. The

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Alok Verma; Vanicha McQueen; Paul Potier; Irfan Khan; Andrew Moore; Grace Komanduru

is an example of this trend. The U.S. Coast Guard is expected to adopthis approach soon and mandate that an ETO man all ships in U.S. waters. No higher educationinstitutions, not even the seven maritime academies in the U.S., currently provide a degree or atraining course for electro-technical officers.In the future, the Marine Engineering Technology Department at the Galveston campus of TexasA&M University plans to develop a new program in collaboration with the MultidisciplinaryEngineering Technology Program from the main campus in College Station.3. InstitutionTexas A&M University at Galveston, an ocean-focused branch campus of Texas A&MUniversity, educates early 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students in a diverse range

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Mark Pagano; Lorne Arnold; Heather Dillon

developed to help assess ABET Criterion3 is shown in Table 3. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 505 Table 3. PI’s and rubric to assess ABET Criterion 3Designing the Engineering Ethics Course to Meet the “W” (Writing) DesignationUWT requires its graduates to complete ten “W” course credits. As primarily upper divisionprograms, the ME and CE programs generally have incoming students with some creditssatisfying the “W” designation, but often, up to five “W” credits remain for the upper