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Linda Laird; Ye Yang

bridge program, and interspersed with a summer internship.   The over-arching goal of the SwE-LA Program is to increase the number of highly skilledsoftware engineers in the workplace through a Master’s of Software Engineering byrecruiting talented US liberal arts graduates, especially women. As shown in Figure 1, theover-arching goal is decomposed into four underlying objectives: 1. Recruit the Best: Recruit talented liberal arts students through a broad marketing program, including press releases, relationships with liberal arts colleges, and direct marketing. 2. Ensure Academic Success: Ensure academic success through a program designed for bright, liberal arts grads with quantitative skills but little or no

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Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

math, science and engineering fundamentals. The programprovides opportunities for team-based, industry supported research and design projects,thus preparing graduates for careers in for-profit or nonprofit organizations, or to furthertheir education in graduate school.The educational objectives of the General Engineering program are to produce graduateswho, during the first few years of professional practice will:  Be employed by industry or government in the fields, such as, design, research and development, experimentation and testing, manufacturing, and technical sales.  Assume an increasing level of responsibility and leadership within their respective organizations.  Communicate effectively and work

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Matthew J. Traum; Christopher F. Anderson; Christopher M. Pastore; Michael J. Leonard

-30, 2014.5 J. W. Prados, G. D. Peterson, L. R. Lattuca, “Quality Assurance of Engineering Education through Accreditation:The Impact Of Engineering Criteria 2000 and Its Global Influence,” Journal of Engineering Education, Jan. 2005,pp. 165 - 184.6 H. I. Abu-Mulaweh, H. M. Oloomi, G. G. Voland, “Designing and teaching multidisciplinary project-basedcourses to satisfy the ABET 2000 Engineering Criteria,” World Transactions on Engineering and TechnologyEducation, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004, pp. 199-203.7 B. Nassersharif, L. A. Riley, “Some Best Practices in Industry-sponsored Capstone Design Projects,” CapstoneDesign Conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 30 – June 1, 2012.8 J. P. Terpenny, R. M. Goff, M. R. Vernon, W. R. Green, “Utilizing

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Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

-solving is defined as a decision-making process to findsolutions to problems subject to needs and constraints. This description was inspired by theABET a-k criteria18 and work conducted by Woods et.al.19 Three of the ABET criteriahighlighted and assessed for this paper are: “(c) Ability to design a system, component, orprocess to meet desired needs, (e) Ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems,and (f) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal and societal context.” Further, problem solving skills, as inspired by [19] were describedas students’ ability to (a) Spend time reading, researching, gathering information and definingthe problem, (b) Use a structured process when

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Steven Magluilo; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Ivan Esparragoza; Gul E. Okudan Kremer

., Kremer, G.E.O., Esparragoza, I., & Yoder, G. (2014, May 31- June 3). Peer Evaluation and Assessment Resource (PEAR) to Assess Students’ Professional Skills. Proceedings of the 2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Montreal, Canada. 8. Layton, R. A., Loughry, M. L., Ohland, M. W., & Ricco, G. D. (2010). Design and validation of a web-based system for assigning members to teams using instructor- specified criteria. Advances in Engineering Education, 2(1), 1-9. 9. Pfaff, E., & Huddleston, P. (2003). Does it matter if I hate teamwork? What impacts student attitudes toward teamwork. Journal of Marketing Education, 25(1), 37-45. 10. Ohland, M., Loughry, M., Woehr, D., Finelli

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Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

to address soft skills such as leadership,negotiation, and empathy. In the Construction Management program housed in the School ofEngineering at our institution, a pilot course titled Strategic Responses to Cyclical Environmentsis being offered. Students’ careers and their ability to make an impact in firms will be enhancedby leveraging their increased understanding of competitive advantage, positioning, and strategicplanning via this course.In response to the boom and bust cycle typical of the Architecture / Engineering / Construction(AEC) industry, students are learning to gather and process ambiguous information while forgingmeaningful plans for the future. Intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial initiative, tough analyticalthinking

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Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

mission topromote the economic benefits of this technology across the state, Marist has formed academicpartnerships with other public, private, and Ivy League schools, including NYCCT/CUNY, aswell as industry partners including IBM, Brocade, Ciena, Adva, and many others. Thecollaboration between multiple industry sponsors and academic partners provides a forcemultiplier which increases the impact on a student’s education, and is based on the NationalScience Foundation’s Industry and University Cooperative Research Center (IU/CRC) model22.By training students with cybersecurity principles that are of interest to the lab’s corporatesponsors, this lab provides a very high placement rate for students after graduation. CUNYstudents have the

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Joseph Tranquillo; Keith Buffinton

 need to improve to become more effective entre­/intrapreneurs upon graduation. Courses already offered include: Should We Start This Company?, Concept to Commercialization, and Creative System Design. All IDEAS courses are hands­on and result in practical prototypes. The first five courses culminate in a year­long transdisciplinary senior design sequence to be implemented in the 2015­16 academic year.  These electives serve as prototypes for more persistent courses, either as long­running electives or a coherent program within the College of Engineering.  The second curricular change was a reorganization of degrees granted by the School of Management to include a Markets, Innovation and Design (MIDE) major. MIDE includes a series of courses

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Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

student work teams: Relation to self-efficacy, cohesion, and performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior 68, 73-84.16. Staples, S. & Webster, J. (2007, February) Exploring traditional and virtual team members’ ‘best practices’: A social cognitive theory perspective. Small Group Research, 38(1), 60-97.17. Riggs, M. L., Warka, J., Babasa, B., Betancourt, R., & Hooker, S. (1994) Development and validation of self- efficacy and outcome expectancy scales for job-related applications. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 54, 793-802.18. Hardin, M., Fuller, M. A., & Valacich, J. S. (2006) Measuring group efficacy in virtual teams: New questions in an old debate. Small Group Research, 37, 65-85.19. Ulloa

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Kevin Scoles

off-grid energy micro-grid design Students can make significant contributions to a team-based design an off-grid energy system that meets specified requirements in an economical wayIII. Course structureThe contents of a weekly course module are shown in Table 3. A consistent presentation is made,allowing the student to progress through their week’s responsibilities by following the links fromtop to bottom. The module begins with a video of the instructor introducing the technical contentand presenting the major tasks and deadlines for the week. Readings and video lectures present Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitythe technical material. Practice problems reinforce the technical content