Developing and Funding Undergraduate Engineering Internships Theodore W. Manikas, Gerald R. Kane Department of Electrical Engineering The University of Tulsa Tulsa, OklahomaAbstractCooperation between academia and industry is essential due to rapid changes in technology andincreasing global competition. An important component of this cooperation is the establishmentof undergraduate engineering intern programs.Internship opportunities with engineering companies enhance undergraduate engineeringeducation, as students learn how to transform their theoretical technology background intopractical design
challenges of the digital landscape and ensuring the security of systems and data.In the process of designing this curriculum, careful consideration has been given to creating anadaptable and evolving framework. This adaptability is crucial to ensure that the curriculumremains aligned with the available resources, faculty expertise, and the evolving needs of regionalindustries. This forward-thinking approach is anchored in several strategies, including: • Regular curriculum reviews and updates to incorporate the latest technological advancements. • Collaboration with industry partners to identify emerging trends and skills in demand. • Faculty development programs to ensure instructors stay current with the evolving
of industrial experience as an estimator and project manager and is a LEED AP BD+C. Her research interests include climate adaptation, engineering education, industry collaboration, sustainability and resiliency. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Preparing Students to Solve Challenges Related to a Changing ClimateAbstractThe National Academy of Engineering has identified restoring and improving urban infrastructureas one of the grand challenges for engineering. Urban coastal communities are particularly at riskas their infrastructure is experiencing frequent inundation related to climate change impacts. Risingsea levels in coastal communities create backflow into stormwater systems and
education in a collaborative environment that emphasizes individual attention and connections to industry, while preparing students to help create a more just and humane world.This new mission statement helped us sustain our shared vision and underlined important aspectsof our work.c. Confronted issues related to inclusion. Past reports from our external evaluators, InvernessResearch, revealed instances in which students did not feel included. The situations pointed outin these reports served as an alarm that raised faculty awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion(DEI) issues. Faculty and staff members attended training in DEI-related practices. A diversityand inclusion syllabus statement was discussed and adopted by faculty. This statement
discipline issues that are raised in the existingprojects, in the meanwhile discussed how to meet industry demand in the process ofnew engineering construction. The research findings are as following: (1) Thecommonness of programs’ schemes is emerging. In terms of mechanismconstruction, the mechanism of collaborative education receives the most attention,while the cultivation of soft ability and engineering innovation ability are focusedmost in terms of the talent ability; (2) Most of the construction plans are aimed atthe transformation of traditional disciplines, and there is little construction ofcorresponding disciplines for national key industries such as energy conservation,environmental protection and new materials; (3) The overall design of
-related practices [4], [5]. Development Engage faculty in active Faculty attended several training courses hosted by learning training various organizations on different subjects [3] – [5]. Support collaborative Collaboration among faculty and staff highlights the spirit (co-teaching, co- inclusive culture in the department. Throughout the new chair etc.) curriculum, there are many opportunities for faculty to co- teach and collaborate on a course [5].3. Relevant Curriculum and Pedagogy: Maintaining Strong Connections with Industry
resources, determining acceptable courses of actions, and applying lean manufacturing principles & practices in all elements of the business to achieve the goals of leader- ship. His in depth experience with PLM, Project Management, Continuous Improvement and Leadership filters into his instruction style where he is educating and mentoring industry professionals, undergraduate and graduate students.Dr. Jorge D. Camba, Purdue University Jorge D. Camba is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating a Product Lifecycle Management System into a Freshman Level
describes how the Johns Hopkins part-time Master of Engineering Management program builds on this approach by recruiting facultywho are senior executives from industry. These faculty apply their experience to drive nuancedcritical thinking in a team-based real-world scenario. The paper further describes the courseevolution from its first offering in 2015 by adapting specific adult-learning techniques such asretrieval practice, problem solving, critical thinking, cross-discipline collaboration, and relevanceto working professional careers.In this capstone course we take this approach to another level by inviting practicing seniorexecutives from industry and government to role play a board of directors in a strategic, globalinvestment scenario
. Establishing the Campus in Korea to Prepare Global EngineersLike the global engineers that SUNY Korea seeks to educate in an American global campus withcross-cultural exposure and innovative approaches, SUNY Korea has been established through ajourney filled with some cross-cultural conflicts, challenges, excitement, and setback. With atrail-blazing effort in an academia-government-industry collaboration—a common concept beingmanifested at a much elevated and globalized level, SUNY Korea was established to givestudents unique perspectives on globalization. This is accomplished through the delivery of anAmerican education intermingled with Korean economic vibrancy that aspires to global co-prosperity, global entrepreneurship, and imaginative business
City, Philippines) manufacturinglead, and The National Institute of Technology (Warangal, India) which is the simulationlead. The project is called the “MEMS across the Globe” project and forms part of alarger pilot in virtual student design undertaken by a consortium of schools incollaboration with PTC Inc., a producer of industry standard design and collaborationtools. The following figure summarizes the elements and participants in the project,whose goal is to design and prototype a MEMS product, in this case a rate sensinggyroscope:The following focuses on the two aspects of the project, the collaborative tools and theteam dynamics: Collaboration Tools The MEMS across the Globe project identified that the collaboration software
Science and CS2114 Software Design and Data Structures and works with undergraduate research students on the Computer Systems Genome project(https://csgenome.org/). Margaret began teaching at Virginia Tech in 2013 and enjoys integrating her various professional experiences within her courses to provide students with real world perspectives and training in contemporary topics and skills for both research and industry. She is interested in Computer Science Education and approaches to support individuals from underrepresented groups in computing.Godmar Back (Assistant Professor) (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity)Kirk Cameron © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
-intensive jobs like slicing 3D objects or generating GCode.An alternate solution is to use the internet of things (IoT) application to control and monitor 3Dprinters. IoT is the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items, allowingobjects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network. IoT and 3D printing aretwo important new technologies, which progressively impact a lot of areas of the industries andalso our everyday life. Students need to be introduced to these technologies, and get ready forfuture career opportunities.A multidisciplinary student project is developed to provide students access to both 3D printerand IoT platform, and also learn to collaborate with engineers from other disciplines to solvecomplex
content and assist with design validation and overall project evaluation. • DtM Collaborative Design Network: a network of contacts and domain experts among local community groups, NGOs, universities, innovators, entrepreneurs and industries—individuals and groups having direct experience with the design challenge in the particular region and/or a stake in the development of related products or service. These individuals will be able to answer student questions about cultural considerations, local resources, manufacturing constraints and financing and distribution models.These design challenge portfolios are designed to move a concept to commercialization withinthree years of its introduction. During
. Figure 2. Ad featuring product and system development.Future Plans Once the curriculum is in place and all of the students have been advised with appropriatedegree plans that take into account their catalog, the faculty will pursue several avenues ofopportunity. These include the creation of new industry collaborations for both academic andresearch purposes, the identification of areas appropriate for new technical electives, and theestablishment of the new Product Innovation Cellar.Industry Collaborations As mentioned previously, a hallmark of the engineering technology programs at TexasA&M University are the close industrial collaborations that provide invaluable real-worldexperiences for the undergraduate students. For
, partnerships only work ifthere is sufficient trust, which comes from knowledge of and engagement with one another.IntroductionThe Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC) is a collaboration of 21 Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) programs from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and similar programsfrom several Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), along with several industrial partners.Established in 2019, IEC aims to improve the diversity and preparedness of Electrical andComputer Engineers by fostering collaboration among its member institutions. The IEC wasborn from a successful NSF-funded project that aimed to implement Experiment CentricPedagogy (ECP) in 13 HBCU ECE programs [1]. The participants in this project realized
education, guided numerous Women in Center for Research Advancing With a sharp focus on big-picture Ershela is now channeling her Engineering (WIE) and Minority Racial Equity, Justice, and thinking and a gift for fostering expertise to researching the Engineering Programs (MEP) to Sociotechnical Innovation Centered collaborative connections, she has everyday experiences of those within thrive in today’s competitive in Engineering (RARE JUSTICE) and redefined how clients approach the equity spectrum. As an industry landscape. With a deep an Assistant Professor of creativity in their daily lives, leader, she is
energy and sustainability fields. All these efforts and successes paved theway for implementation of a minor in Green Energy and Sustainability, with more courses beingdeveloped based on the collaboration between Drexel University and University of Texas at ElPaso (UTEP) and DOED awarded fundingIntroductionThe world demand for energy is increasing while conventional energy resources are both fastdepleting and contributing to increasing the carbon footprint and to manmade induced globalclimate changes, making the renewable energy resources the likely alternative, with emphasis onrenewable green energy manufacturing. As a consequence, the renewable energy industry isexperiencing a large expansion. Nonetheless, carbon tax and emissions trading
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the lecture rather than trying topush through as much material as possible in a given session. In cooperative learningspecifically, structured group activities where students pursue a common goal and requirecollaboration to reach the goal are used. In particular, there is a focus on cooperative incentivesinstead of competition so as to promote learning. Available evidence suggests that faculty shouldstructure their courses to promote collaborative and cooperative environments. The entire course Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education
INTERACTIONSresearch methods, artificial intelligence, expert systems, andsoftware engineering. In addition to federal and state funding sources, research in the CAPD has been supported by more than 20 industrial With the award of Presidential Young Investigator grants member companies; the current list of members is presentedto Grossmann and Biegler in the mid-’80s, there was a strong in Table 2. Member companies participate in the CAPDmotivation to attract industrial collaboration and support through a broad array of activities. They initiate PSE proj-through matching research funds. Together with the active ects in their
thestudent pipeline, strategies to recruit students at the K-12 level,strengthening the involvement of industry, integration of new technologies,increased collaboration with professional societies that are interested inmanufacturing education, and increased attention to accreditation ofmanufacturing education. At this point the work of the group continues inthe areas identified and is expected to become part of the Curriculum 2015document 7.Bibliography1. Arther, A. A., Wells, D., Demers, P.J. (editors), "Ideal Models in Manufacturing Education; Curricula 2000 Workshop Proceedings", Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1990. (http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/get-event.pl?--001779-000007-home--SME-)2. Wells, D. (editor), "Manufacturing Education for the
systems, electric machines, and power electronics). While the first level courses dealprimarily with elements, devices, and circuits, the second level courses deal with their advancedapplications, as well as with systems.This paper discusses curriculum structure, topical outlines, methods of delivery, pedagogicalstrategies (collaborative learning, individual and team projects, off-site industrial laboratoriesamong others), industry collaboration, including industrial advisory committee, and evaluationand assessment techniques, among others. Samples of student work and their involvement inresearch and creative activities are presented.2. Curriculum Objectives and StructurePower/machines option curriculum is structured based on the objectives of
, this process would provide a valuableeconomic stimulus for the entire North Plains region, while also adding significantly to theuniversity’s abilities to attract and retain top faculty. Thus, Bison Ventures is purposed to provide a framework for encouraging engineering andbusiness students to think in terms of product and enterprise innovation and invention, toposition their fundamental discipline learning in terms of its application in an economic society. Page 13.1329.4It is also a vehicle for fomenting industrial collaboration in undergraduate education, byproviding a vehicle and incentive for private companies to invest in the
international evaluators across time zones) that mirrorreal-world multinational industry practices and complexities. In fact, several studentscomplained about not hearing back from their international collaborators. A few otherstudents received a delayed response, which affected progress towards completing theassignment given the course policy of adhering to strict deadlines. As a result of eitherreceiving no response (or a delayed response at best), students were further constrained toonly receive feedback from peers and the instructional team. In these cases, the workloadof the instructional team was slightly increased due to the additional communicationeffort introduced via reminder emails to international collaborators on behalf of thestudents
engineeringstudents graduating from universities of science and technology. Over a long period of time,there is a common complain from the Taiwanese industries that the basic chemistrycompetence of many graduates from universities of science and technology could not satisfythe industry demand. In order to fill the learning gap, a closer relationship between academyand industries should be promulgated (Cervantes, 1998; Danielmeyer, 1997; Jacob et al. 2000).Ruth (1996) indicated that schools and enterprises are closely connected individuals, whoseresources have to be combined for the students to meet the challenges in their careerdevelopment. Weng et al. (2005) pointed out some advantages of the collaboration betweenenterprises and universities, which might
SPSU, he was the Director of the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) for ten years, in addition to leading the multidisciplinary industry-sponsored capstone design courses. Before joining GVSU he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Youngstown State University. His degrees include both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #17555Technological University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. Whileat Vanderbilt, he
. Collaborative research projects in the Americas i. Thesis and dissertations ii. Industry and government driven research projects3. Multinational Projects a. Capstone and design projects (course and student competition related) b. Service learning projects i. Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)7 ii. Engineering Without Borders (EWB)8 iii. Engineering for a Sustainable World (ESW)9Any initiative independent of its size and nature should be evaluated to obtain information,assess its impact and identify opportunities for improvement. In analyzing the global educationinitiatives described in the above, it is found an ample variety of programs and tasks that havebeen
3.26 i Technology in the classroom 3.24 j Engaging in service & outreach activities 3.13 k Reviewing scientific publications 3.11 l Developing teaching portfolios 3.11 m Developing collaborations & managing teams 3.07 n Finding non-research related opportunities (industry, policy, etc.) 3.07 o Managing diversity in the classroom 3.02 p Starting a research lab/lab management 2.80 q Work-life
with it. This research projectaims at understanding engineering doctoral students’ perceptions on their readiness to teachcourses once they begin their academic careers. To understand engineering doctoral students’perceptions on their preparedness to teach courses, a survey instrument was designed anddeployed.The survey instrument included three parts: Likert scale questions, free response questions, anddemographic information. The Likert scale questions evaluate the participants’confidence/preparedness in areas of teaching such as the teaching and learning process (9 items);course design and delivery (8 items); creating a dynamic classroom (9 items); harnessing the powerof technology (6 items); collaborative learning (6 items); and effective
course included (a) discussions about the characteristics of a Global Engineer with guided(self-)reflections of own strengths, weaknesses, and needs, (b) review of engineering techniquesand challenges in a pluralistic and globalized world, and (c) presentations by a specialist with aglobal background (faculty, researchers, industry professionals) the approach is based inparticular on the active collaboration of mixed student groups with presentation of their workprojects with peer review of other mixed teams. In the fall 2022, a study found, when examiningthe students’ development throughout the course, measured by Global Perspective Inventory(GPI) [2], that participating students showed in three of the six the GPI dimensions comparableor