Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Baukal, John Zink Institute; Joseph Colannino, John Zink Co. LLC; Wes Bussman, John Zink Institute; Geoffrey Price, University of Tulsa

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College-Industry Partnerships

benefits for both organizations. TU could offer a course to theirstudents in an area that was not a specific strength of its faculty. TU students had thebenefit of learning professional practice from experienced industry engineers. JZ hadclose access to top senior and graduate chemical engineering students that were potentialinterns and permanent hires. JZ also benefitted from high quality student final projectresearch reports and presentations in topic areas suggested by and of interest to theinstructors. The main area for improvement for future classes is better coordinationamong the instructors for the quantity and difficulty of homework and exam problems,better consistency on grading projects, and eliminating unnecessary duplication. Themain

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Sly, Iowa State University; Daniel Bumblauskas, Iowa State University; Frank Peters, Iowa State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

course involves between 6 to 10in-class presentations by professionals that are successful in Technical Sales. These professionals are synchronized with thecourse syllabus, such that they are able to reinforce the specific material being taught around the time they are speaking. Inthe Technical Sales 2 course, students are required to individually be assigned to a specific company which they present tothe class (every two weeks), and attempt to improve, that company's sales organization to the other students in the class.Therefore, the final project for students in the Technical Sales 2 course is to design an improved process for part of that salesorganization's function.Another element of the structure of both courses is the addition of inter