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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 5: Skill Development in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Britney Russell, University of Connecticut; Antigoni Konstantinou, University of Connecticut; Ayah Abdallah, University of Connecticut; Fayekah Assanah, University of Connecticut

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Paper ID #41713Cultivating Scientific Communication Skills through Professional DevelopmentCourse Series for the Graduate CurriculumBritney Russell, University of ConnecticutAntigoni Konstantinou, University of ConnecticutAyah Abdallah, University of ConnecticutDr. Fayekah Assanah, University of Connecticut Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 260 Glenbrook Road, Unit 3247, Storrs, CT 06269-3247. Dr. Fayekah Assanah is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Biomedical Engineering Department. She leads multiple initiatives in the university’s undergraduate and graduate curriculum and directs the

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 5: Skill Development in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yiqi Liang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Qing Li, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Gül E. Kremer, University of Dayton; Nigel Forest Reuel, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Shan Jiang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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program and their current use of PM skills?Literature ReviewProject management is valued by employers [7], specifically in STEM [3]. Research focused onthe development and implementation of PM training suggests that integrating PM training intothe undergraduate curriculum can be beneficial for prepping their future career [8], [9], [10],[11], [12]. Specifically, some studies highlighted their curriculum designs in helpingundergraduate students to gain PM experiences [8], [9], [10], and assess and understand students’learning experiences with PM knowledge [9], [11]. However, there’s a lack of studies that werefocused on STEM (e.g., software engineering [9], chemical and biological engineering [10]).Castañón–Puga et al. [9] assessed students' user

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 2: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alana Teresa Smith, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Emi Aoki, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Mahsa Ghandi, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Jasmina Burek, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Charles Thompson Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell; Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Kavitha Chandra is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering in the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She directs the Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathwa ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Human Balance Models for Engineering Education: An Innovative Graduate Co-Creation Project Alana Smith∗ , Emi Aoki† , Mahsa Ghandi∗ , Jasmina Burek∗ , Charles Thompson† , Kavitha Chandra† ∗ Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering † Department of

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Liesl Klein, Villanova University; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Paper ID #38851Literature Exploration of Graduate Student Well-Being as Related toAdvisingDr. Liesl Klein, Villanova University Liesl Krause-Klein is a assistant teaching professor at Villanova University in their electrical and computer engineering department. She graduated from Purdue University’s Polytechnic institute in 2022. Her research focused on student well-being. She is currently in charge of curriculum for capstone projects within her department.Dr. Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Greg J. Strimel, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Technology Leadership and Innovation and program

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Programs in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April A. Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Valerie E. Kerr, University of Pittsburgh; Susan K. Fullerton Shirey, University of Pittsburgh; Götz Veser, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh

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Environment, we will provide a Modular Curriculum that replaces thestandard 3-credit classes with single-credit classes. This change will enable students to customize theireducation to fit program requirements and student interests, thus controlling the breadth and depth oftheir intellectual development. One-credit modules also create flexibility that will enable faculty to quicklydeploy new content in response to emerging trends, further increasing students' ability to tackle relevantchallenges immediately after graduating. Existing literature points to positive student outcomes whenpersonalizing graduate engineering coursework, as evidenced by Mistree et al., who incorporated pillarsof personalized learning (e.g., student learning goals, course

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 9: Lessons Learned from Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Joshua E Katz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Emma Kirby, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of under-represented students in STEM, K-12 outreach, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, service learning, and curriculum innovation for introductory computing courses.Prof. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, engineering education, engineering leadership, and

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Onboarding and Community Building in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Sanjivan Manoharan, Grand Valley State University; Samhita Rhodes, Grand Valley State University

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to transition into a new field [9]. Therefore,rather than switching undergraduate majors from chemistry to chemical engineering, a morenatural choice would be pursuing a graduate degree in engineering to maximize earning potentialand employment opportunities.According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers [10], a master’s degree canlead to a 20% increase in earnings compared to a bachelor’s degree. The national median salary,national projected growth rate, and state mean annual salary estimates for mechanical, electrical,biomedical, and computer engineering are given in Table 1 below. All engineering majors have aprojected growth rate higher than the national average of 3%, indicating a healthy demand fordegreed engineers

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Onboarding and Community Building in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashton Garner Ward, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Casey Kidd, Louisiana Tech University; Lindsay K. Gouedy, Louisiana Tech University; Kelly B. Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

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. Although it was too early to assess the success of theirevents, they reported the students who participated were enthusiastic and eager to continue withmore events [4].At the University of Washington, faculty created a seminar model for Ph.D. students that was notrequired in the curriculum. The students were able to choose the topics they wanted to discusswhich included “succeeding with Ph.D. program milestones, choosing good elective courses andselecting advisors, defining effective research questions, authorship, and managing citations.”Their first offering of the course was more successful than the second with almost 100%attendance every week, but analysis of the efficacy of the seminar was still underway at the timeof publication [5]. Zerbe et

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 2: Graduate Student Pipeline and Workforce Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabella Victoria, University of Florida; Laura Melissa Cruz Castro, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

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in order to assess and organize an overall approach to Smart Manufacturing training" [17]• Knowledge transfer on cybersecurity threats o "Overall, the paper and the proposed curriculum hold the promise of contributing to the ongoing effort to bridge the knowledge/skill gap by educating the future engineering and security workforce on protecting the ICS and CI from cybersecurity threats and attacks" [23]• Project management o "A key feature to the Artemis ground operations at KSC is the deployment of Artemis and the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) teams working together to ensure that assembly and integration handoffs are well defined and coordinated. This

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Mentorship and Communication in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Magdalena G. Grohman, University of North Texas; Matthew J. Brown Ph.D., Southern Illinois University; Nicholas Raphael Gans, The University of Texas at Arlington; Jeff Glenn Edwards, University of Texas at Dallas

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Interdisciplinary Cultures (CLIC) research project, Nersessianand Newsletter use a cognitive-ethnographic approach to study a biomedical engineeringresearch lab [22]–[24]. Nersessian et al. studied how the lab members—as situated learners—coevolved with the distributed cognitive system of the laboratory. As a cognitive system, the lablearns how to produce empirical knowledge on one hand, and how to improve its knowledge-producing practices on the other hand. The lab members, situated within that system, learn howto skillfully participate in the knowledge-producing distributed cognitive activities [19]–[21].Nersessian and Newsletter [23] have also demonstrated that engineering research laboratoriescreate an environment that empowers robust and fast agentive

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Advising in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zilong Pan, Lehigh University; Anand Jagota, Lehigh University; Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University

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support for establishing collaborative efforts, underscores the necessity for a multi-faceted doctoral training approach to support doctoral students more effectively.We believe that the insights reported here will help in designing support systems that willempower faculty to contribute to the training of doctoral workforce for the benefit of society atlarge. It will also inform curriculum development and help prepare students better for a widerrange of career paths.1. IntroductionPhD training holds a crucial role in higher education within STEM disciplines, traditionallyfocusing on enhancing doctoral students' academic skills, including in-depth research on ascientific question or engineering problem, communication of newly generated knowledge