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Exploration of Trends in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Erin E. Bowen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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he has served on the Board of the ETD and as Program Chair for the CIEC in New Orleans (2008). Previously, he completed a four year term as Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies in Purdue University’s College of Technology. He is Co-PI of two international EU-FIPSE funded grants. His scholarship agenda focuses on technological innovation, technological literacy, workforce development, and international dimensions of these fields. Increasingly, he has turned his attention to the assessment of technological capability and understanding. He received his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Immediately before coming

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General Topics in Graduate Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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, Page 22.248.3significantly, applied by teachers and policymakers to the problems of schooling.Marchese’s Research Theodore Marchese, Senior Consultant at Academic Search, served 18 years asvice president of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) and was aSenior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Marchese indicates thatAssessment is a process in which rich, usable, credible feedback from an act of teachingor curriculum comes to be reflected upon by an academic community, and then is actedon by that community, a department or college, within its commitment to get smarter andbetter at what it does (Marchese, 1997, page 93). Innovative instructors, like reflectivepractitioners in other professions

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Non-Traditional Doctoral Programs

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmen Torres-Sánchez, Loughborough University; Paul P. Conway, Loughborough University

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. Atotal of 60 students have completed year 1 and have progressed to year 2, 33 to year 3, and 18students to year 4. The first cohort enrolled is currently completing their studies and defenceof their PhD theses and we are expecting to graduate the first students in the summer of 2019.Our demographics for the overall cohort are distributed as 86% <30yo, 6% in the range 30-40yo and 6% >40yo, at the time of registration. We report 11% of female students. In termsof ethnicity, 66% are white, 8% are Asian, 8% Chinese, 5% Black, 3% mixed, and 10%II Vitae Researcher Development Framework https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/rdf-related/researcher-development-framework-rdf-vitae.pdfreported themselves as from another ethnic origin. 6

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kate Caroline Batson, University of Georgia

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‘Engineering students.’ “graduate students,” and ‘students’, as it used here and thereafter, refers specifically tostudents at the doctoral level, if not specifically noted.Available scholarship on academic and professional writing within engineering thus provideslimited insight to truly understand and address the present nature of doctoral writing support. Thefew studies that have examined writing at the doctoral level suggest that engineering studentsenter doctoral programs with varying degrees of ability to express themselves through writtencommunication (e.g., Collwell et al., 2013). Research also shows that both doctoral students andgraduate faculty in engineering alike do recognize the importance of written skills as essential tostudent success

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

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more experienced engineers. ≠ Engineers must receive effective feedback along the way to know how they are progressing to realize their true strengths, and to recognize areas where further development is needed. Annual performance ratings for each engineer must be conducted in a constructive manner, and reviewed one-on-one between the manager and the engineer. ≠ The field of engineering is changing so rapidly, that an engineer must keep up with advances in their field to avoid obsolescence. Engineers are also driving the changes in their fields. ≠ Most graduate study programs are aimed at engineers who intend to pursue research, and are traveling down the academic route ≠ There is a

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Innovative Graduate Programs and Methods, Developing Master's & Ph.D. Programs and Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

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traditional view of providing superior products or services. Companiescannot attain competitive advantage unless their logistics and transportation professionals,irrespective of their functional orientation and current job responsibilities, fundamentallyunderstand the dynamics of how products move from one place to another. A well designedgraduate program in this area can produce graduates who can handle the job. The issue is that thenumber of graduates in this field is not meeting the current industry demand. Many U.S.Universities have recently developed and are planning to develop graduate degree programs inthis area. This research (funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation) analyzed the need andidentified best practices in logistics and

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Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Thompson, University of South Carolina; Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

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. Page 15.862.2IntroductionIn the 1990s the National Science Foundation (NSF) introduced the Graduate Teaching Fellowsin K-12 Education (GK-12) initiative [1]. The GK-12 program supports the participation ofgraduate students from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines,called GK-12 Fellows (Fellows), in K-12 science and mathematics education. One of the primarygoals of the GK-12 initiative is to improve Fellows’ communication and teaching skills [1] in thehope that these improvements will lead to more effective teaching when the Fellows matriculateinto the professorate. This study examined how participation in one GK-12 program influencedthe teaching beliefs and self-confidence (known as teaching efficacy) [2] of the

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Exploration of Trends in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manoj K. Jha, Morgan State University; Reginald Amory, Morgan State University

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AC 2012-5293: EXAMINING THE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES THATIMPACT GRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENT ENROLLMENTDr. Manoj K. Jha, Morgan State University Manoj K. Jha is professor and Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infras- tructure Engineering Research (CATIER) in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md., USA. He obtained a Ph.D. in civil engineering with transportation special- ization from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2000; a M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Old Dominion University in 1993; and a B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the Na- tional Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 1991. He also attended the

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Improved Pathways to Graduate Studies

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Colleen Elizabeth Bronner, University of California, Davis; Alin Wakefield, University of California, Davis; Jean S. VanderGheynst, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Kara Moloney Ph.D., University of California, Davis

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underrepresented groups in engineering, effectiveness of active learning strategies, and engineering in PK-12 education.Alin Wakefield, University of California, Davis Alin Wakefield serves as the Research and Graduate Studies Development Coordinator in the College of Engineering at UC Davis.Dr. Jean S. VanderGheynst, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Jean VanderGheynst is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering at the Uni- versity of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and Adjunct Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining UMass Dartmouth, she was Executive Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and

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General Topics in Graduate Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Basha, University of the Pacific; Luke S. Lee, University of the Pacific

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student numbers present challenges inoffering graduate courses that provide hands-on learning experiences in multidisciplinaryenvironments - the same experiences often gained in graduate level research at larger researchintensive universities. Therefore, during the Spring semester of 2011, we offered amultidisciplinary course combining civil structural health monitoring (SHM) and sensornetworks.Recent research trends have tied these two topics together with an increase in the use of sensornetworks for SHM and an increase in monitoring structures in sensor networks. Combining thesetwo classes offered a unique opportunity for senior undergraduate students and graduate studentsto engage in multidisciplinary learning, to design and implement

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Mohammad Noori, North Carolina State University; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Duane Dunlap, Purdue University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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AC 2009-465: STRENGTHENING THE U.S. ENGINEERING WORKFORCE FORINNOVATION: A PROGRESS REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COLLABORATIVEINITIATIVEDonald Keating, University of South Carolina DONALD A. KEATING is professor emeritus, mechanical engineering, College of Engineering, University of South Carolina, past chair of the Graduate Studies Division, and chair of the National Collaborative Task Force.Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina THOMAS G. STANFORD is assistant professor of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina.Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation NORMAN F. EGBERT is vice president, Engineering and Technology, Rolls-Royce Corporation.Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Case Studies and Programs to Improve Graduate Students' Skills

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Srinath Sibi, Stanford University; Matthew T. Ikeler; Leigh Hagestad, Stanford University; Wendy G. Ju, Stanford University

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thework presented is an attempt to take a closer look at the driver’s experience through thecollaborative approach of two disciplines - engineering design and psychology - and toutilize the intersections of these fields to understand the driver of the future.The current research is an observational study and focuses on classifying and decodingthe emotional continuum of users incorporating existing automation features both theirpersonal vehicles, as well as cars chosen for driver experience observation. The presentwork tells the “drive-along story” through students’ perspectives after examining videosof test drives of both personally owned cars, and of new cars during dealershipvisits. The observational study research 21, conducted in a graduate

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Online and Professional Graduate Programs

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mitchell L. Springer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carmen Torres-Sánchez , Loughborough University; Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University; Charles M. Wolf, Texas A&M University

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Dean for Graduate Studies in Purdue University’s College of Technology. He was co-PI of two international EU-FIPSE funded grants. His scholarship agenda focuses on techno- logical innovation, technological literacy, workforce development, and international dimensions of these fields. Increasingly, he has turned his attention to the field of technological innovation and the assessment of technological capability, understanding and innovation. Internationally he has worked in Germany, South Africa, Poland, the USSR, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Ire- land, Scotland, England, France, Czech and Slovak Republics, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Taiwan His early experience involved teaching in Alberta and at

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Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter Schilling

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job availability and reduced income, especially if one enters academia asopposed to working in industry1,2,3. This is a major issue, but generally is beyond thescope of this paper. However, there are other funding issues which affect industriallyexperienced students differently from traditional students.While it can generally be argued that the number of fellowship opportunities and fundingsources for graduate students is less than optimum, nowhere is this truer than thefellowship opportunities available to non-traditional graduate students. Fellowshipopportunities, such as the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship,are limited to “students who are in the early stages of their graduate study.”4 Since these

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reginald Rogers, University of Michigan; Anthony Lachawiec, University of Michigan; Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan

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University. In addition to educational endeavors as a classroom instructor, he has served as a research mentor and tutor to Master’s students. His dissertation research is focused on the spillover mechanism for hydrogen storage by adsorption on microporous and nanoporous carbon materials. Upon graduation, he hopes to obtain a faculty position at a teaching-intensive institution in chemical engineering or chemistry.Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan Jeff Ringenberg is a lecturer at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering. His research interests include methods for bringing technology into the classroom and studying the effects of social networking on learning

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Developing and Establishing Graduate Study Programs - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexa Kottmeyer, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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-Riddle Aeronautical University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Lessons Learned: Student Perceptions of Successes and Struggles in One-year Master’s Programs in EngineeringIntroduction:In recent years, more condensed graduate programs (such as one-year Master’s programs) haveemerged to better enable students to expand their understanding beyond the undergraduate levelto aid in potential career advancement. However, limited research has been conducted tounderstand how the student experience in these programs compares to more traditional graduateprograms and the motivators that influence students to enroll in these new programs.One of the few studies exploring one-year Master’s

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Graduate Student Support

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ellen Zerbe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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a Ph.D. Previous work has shown that writing attitudes andconfidence in writing skills correlate with likelihood of pursuing certain careers and persistenceand attrition in the program. However, all work to date has considered graduate students alltogether: In this study we seek to understand potential differences in the ways that U.S. domesticstudents and international student (both those studying in the U.S. and those studying in othercountries) so that researchers and faculty who teach engineering communication can better tailortheir activities and approaches to teaching writing. A survey accessing the students writingapproaches, concepts, and self-regulatory efficacy was distributed to engineering graduate studentsat universities in

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Innovative Graduate Programs and Methods, Developing Master's & Ph.D. Programs and Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Karly Anne Danhausen, Middle Tennessee State University; Chelsea Rae Nihill, Middle Tennessee State University

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Science from Grand Valley State University. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Professional Science from Middle Tennessee State University. Danhausen is one of the graduate assistants for the Director of the Master of Science in Professional Science program and Associate Dean of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dr. Saeed Foroudastan. Danhausen is responsible for reviewing and critiquing research literature, and also assists in composing grants and technical papers for publication. Danhausen is Vice President of the Mas- ter of Science in Professional Science club, and collaborates with other officers to organize professional networking opportunities for MS-PS students.Ms. Chelsea Rae Nihill

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Daniel Bumblauskas, Iowa State University; Matthew Verleger, Purdue University

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AC 2010-540: ASEE STUDENT MEMBERS’ NEEDS ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONSFOR THE ASEE STUDENT CONSTITUENT COMMITTEEAna Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida Ana T. Torres-Ayala is a doctoral candidate in Higher Education at the University of South Florida. She holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and a MEng degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. She has experience in the telecommunications industry where she worked for Lucent Technologies. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Ana was also an Information Technology instructor. Her research interests include: preparing future engineering faculty

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Preparing Future Educators

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Marie Kusano, Virginia Tech; Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Prateek Shekhar, Virginia Tech; Timothy Kinoshita, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christina Seimetz Wade, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech

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currently a PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is also an assistant professor in the Industrial Engineering department at the National University of Tachira in Venezuela. He holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Tachira in Venezuela and a Master in Business Administration from Temple University. Homero was member of the Fulbright program from 2011 to 2013. Homero’s current research interests are in active learning pedagogies, cultural differences, teamwork, and entrepreneurship education.Mr. Prateek Shekhar, Virginia Tech PhD Student Department of

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Aligning Graduate Programs with Industrial Needs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa J. Didiano, University of Toronto; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Jonathan Turner, University of Toronto; Mark Franklin, University of Toronto & OneLifeTools; Jason H. Anderson, University of Toronto; Markus Bussmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Julie Audet P.Eng., University of Toronto

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- ties. Dr. Audet has contributed to the development of Graduate Supervision Guidelines in the School of Graduate Studies. Professor Audet has been an instructor and coordinator of several undergraduate and graduate courses covering Statistical Design of Experiments for Bioprocess Optimization, Biostatistics and Statistical discovery techniques for biomedical researchers, all of which are closely related to her research interests, in particular the development of biological search algorithms and their applications in stem and progenitor cell manufacturing processes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 I Have a PhD! Now What? A Program to Prepare Engineering PhDs

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General Topics in Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech

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Department. Her current re- search interests focus on technology in engineering education, human computer interaction, educational data mining, and scientific visualization.Dr. Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa DuPree McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Education and co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Engineers (NSPE), theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and that used in industry and government service.II. National Collaborative: Purposeful Advancement of ProfessionalGraduate Education for Creative Engineering Practice and Technology InnovationInitiated in 2000 by leaders of the ASEE-Graduate Studies Division, College Industry PartnershipDivision, and Corporate Members Council, the National Collaborative Task Force on EngineeringGraduate Education Reform is a coalition of innovative faculty, academic leaders from research andcomprehensive universities, and engineering leaders from industry who are working together to respondto the urgency for reshaping engineering graduate education to better serve the needs of the modernpractice of

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Thomas L. Acker, Northern Arizona University; Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University

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opportunities for current students, and toopen up the pool of possible students interested in this field. Expanding educational opportunitiesby developing online delivery of wind energy graduate courses is one strategy to address muchneeded diversity in the field. Building upon the literature of previous successful consortiumdevelopment, a new replicable model for setting up a consortium was created, called the Rapidmodel, with the name reflecting the goal to implement a new consortium within one year.Researchers conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of the model, through observingprogram meetings, interviewing faculty, staff and administrators engaged in the consortiumdevelopment work, and examining course sharing outcomes. Researchers

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Professional Skills for Graduate Students

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prasun Lala, École de Technologie Supérieure; Félix Langevin Harnois, École de Technologie Supérieure; Ghizlane El Boussaidi, École de Technologie Supérieure; Christian Desrosiers, École de Technologie Supérieure; Catherine Laporte, École de Technologie Supérieure

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scientific writing support, and then describe our activity including asummary of possible benefits and challenges. We conclude in section 5 with some thoughts onhow we see our program developing in the future, and also with a summary of our impressionson the usefulness of this learning community initiative to provide scientific writing support toengineering graduate students.2 Engineering graduate students and scientific writing2.1 The importance of scientific writing for engineering graduate studentsGraduate students must share the results of their research, mainly by writing and publishingscientific papers, in order to disseminate their ideas and begin the path to a successful career, beit in academia or industry. Studies have shown that

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New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Heffner, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University; Steve Martin, Iowa State University; Kathleen Richardson, Clemson University; Eric Skaar, Clemson University

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AC 2009-2429: MULTI-INSTITUTION TEAM TEACHING (MITT): A NOVELAPPROACH TO HIGHLY SPECIALIZED GRADUATE EDUCATIONWilliam Heffner, Lehigh University Bill Heffner is the associate director of the International Materials Institute for Glass at Lehigh University where he has been since 2004. In this position he facilitates research exchanges promoting new functionality for glass and is developing an e-based glass learning curriculum for the glass research community as well as developing hands on experiments for the young science enthusiasts.Prior to this current role, for 25 years he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems as a distinguished member of technical staff. Bill has taught

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ella L. Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Cory Hixson, Colorado Christian University; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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ourfailures in the field of engineering education. In this paper, we examine our failure in thedevelopment and deployment of an immersive faculty experience for graduate students inengineering education. Professional development is a significant focus of graduate studies.Professional development broadly defined includes any activities supporting the acquisition ofskills, knowledge, and abilities relevant to one’s current or desired position. In the context ofgraduate studies, professional development often involves such activities like conference orworkshop attendance, internships or job exploration, mentoring or coaching directed at students,and certification programs. Despite the importance of professional development in graduateschool, research

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shabnam Ghotbi, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Hossein EbrahimNejad, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Seyedali Ghahari, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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racial-ethnic origin whileadjusting for acculturation, stress, social ties, and sociodemographics. In their comprehensivestudy, “psychological implications of racism, discrimination, and racial profiling” were found tobe the main problems that immigrants deal with. There are many other research studies on immigrants and their myriad difficulties, andmental and health issues (Breslau et al. 2011; Williams et al. 2007; Williams et al. 2003; Vega etal. 1998; Acevedo-Garcia 2005), however, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study on thechallenges that engineering graduate student immigrants deal with before, during, and after theirstudies. Therefore, in this paper, we aim at investigating some of the main hurdles and difficultiesthat

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Analysis of Effectiveness and Impacts of Graduate Programs: Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 8

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Wayne Coots, Purdue University; Sarah Knapp, Purdue University; Amelia Chesley, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University; Dawn Laux, Purdue University

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Engineering/Technology candidates for teacher licensure. Dr. Mentzer’s educational efforts in pedagogical content knowledge are guided by a research theme centered in student learning of engineer- ing design thinking on the secondary level. Nathan was a former middle and high school technology educator in Montana prior to pursuing a doctoral degree. He was a National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) Fellow at Utah State University while pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. After graduation he completed a one year appointment with the Center as a postdoctoral researcher.Dr. Dawn Laux, Purdue University Dawn Laux is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information

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Online Programs and Program Assessment

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Wesley Odom, Purdue University; Hillary E. Merzdorf, Purdue University; Francisco J. Montalvo, Purdue University; Jason Marion Davis

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Paper ID #26740Analysis of Student Engagement Data from U.S. News & World Report Re-garding Online Graduate Engineering ProgramsPeter Wesley Odom, Purdue University Wesley is a PhD student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His primary research interests surround assessment technologies, the psychology of student learning of STEM subjects, ethics, and international community development.Hillary Elizabeth Merzdorf, Purdue University College of EngineeringFrancisco J. Montalvo, Purdue UniversityJason Marion Davis c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Analysis of Student