Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Stone, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

. His areas of interest include fluid power, advanced machining, prototyping systems, and applied research. Page 11.540.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Engagement in Industry: Preparing Undergraduate Engineering Technology Students for Graduate StudyAbstractAs national and global economies continue to evolve, it becomes paramount that regionalindustries strive to remain competitive. The heavy loss of jobs in western North Carolina,particularly in manufacturing has led Western Carolina University to develop the Center forIntegrated Technologies, which provides the avenue for regional

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University; Traian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University

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Graduate Studies

AC 2010-1485: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MASTERSPROGRAM IN COMPUTER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYHetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University Hetal Jasani is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northern Kentucky University. His research interests include mobile and wireless networks, distributed systems and network security. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of computer networking including mobile and wireless networks and network security. He received the Ph.D. from Florida International University in 2006.Traian Marius Truta, Northern Kentucky University Traian Marius Truta is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Northern Kentucky

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allan W. Bjerkaas, Johns Hopkins University; Mary L. Fletcher, Johns Hopkins University

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Graduate Studies

studies, and even writing reflectiveessays in order to integrate all that knowledge with their personal experiences.But we have all heard the old adage that a person doesn’t really learn something until they can doit, in this case “do management”. There is another old saying that is attributed to Archimedes andgoes like this “I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.” 1That practicingaspect of learning is very important in all of the professional programs like medicine or nursing.It is also practiced in engineering when new bachelor grads go to work and find themselves inintern programs with one or more mentors to acquire important knowledge and skills in thecompanies for which they are working. In a graduate program in

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel W. Walsh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robert S. Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Graduate Studies

only be metby more advanced and specialized study in a particular field. Candidates need such programs toprepare for scholarly or professional careers or perhaps merely to slake a thirst for furtherknowledge. Society, in turn, has a need for scholars, scientists, teachers, and professionals in amultitude of fields, and for generally well-educated men and women whatever their walk of life."This definition has been embraced by faculty in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) MSprogram, it implies a matching of needs and a win-win situation for the degree candidate and thesociety that will place value on their education. As academics we must recognize these needsand strive to find suitable candidates for our graduate programs and to match them to

Conference Session

Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dennis W. Hess, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #29022Technical Leadership Skills Development Through Interactive WorkshopsProf. Dennis W. Hess, Georgia Institute of Technology Dennis W. Hess is the Thomas C. DeLoach Jr., Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include thin films, surfaces, interfaces, and plasma processing; these studies have resulted in more than 260 archival publications. In 2018, he published a book entitled, ”Leadership by Engineers and Scientists (Wiley/AIChE). Professor Hess has a B.S. in Chemistry (Albright College), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physical

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faizal Karim; Saloome Motavas, University of British Columbia; Deborah Esther Feduik, University of British Columbia

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Graduate Studies

AC 2012-3420: ENGINEERING TEACHING ASSISTANT TRAINING: IN-CREASED ENGAGEMENT USING VARIED DELIVERY METHODSMr. Faizal KarimSaloome Motavas, University of British Columbia Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDeborah Esther Feduik, University of British Columbia As manager of the professional master’s of engineering degree, graduate programs, and as the Engineering TA Training Program Coordinator, this initiative falls into the UBC Faculty of Applied Science vision to provide support for graduate students to interact across all engineering disciplines. Page 25.560.1 c American

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, The University of Texas-Tyler; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; William Jordan, CRL-Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-827: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE EARLY WORK EXPERIENCESOF RECENT GRADUATES IN ENGINEERING.Russell Korte, The University of Texas-Tyler Russell F. Korte, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of human resource development at the University of Texas at Tyler. Dr. Korte is co-researcher on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant with the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE). His research interests include higher education, workplace learning, organizational socialization, performance improvement, and engineering education.Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Consulting

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Kongar, University of Bridgeport; Tarek Sobh, University of Bridgeport

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2007-3122: EVALUATING THE EFFICIENCY OF CANDIDATES FORGRADUATE STUDY VIA DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSISElif Kongar, University of Bridgeport Elif Kongar received her BS degree from the Industrial Engineering Department of Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1995. In June 1997, she received her MS degree in Industrial Engineering from the same university where, she was awarded full scholarship for graduate studies in the USA. She started the graduate program in Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA in September 1998 and obtained her Ph.D. degree in June 2003. She has been a research associate in the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 19

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lu, Texas A&M University; Behbood Ben Zoghi P.E., Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Consortium and teaches application of emerging technologies. Over the past 35 years ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024ASEE 2024 Educational Research and Methods (ERM) Division Using Generative AI for A Graduate Level Capstone Course Design -A Case Study Abstract This WIP paper aims at exploring the pros and cons of using the newly released,advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPT, to design the curriculum for aCapstone course, which is completed towards the end of the Master of Engineering TechnicalManagement (METM), a 21-month online graduate program for working professionals in theengineering

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Frederick Carroll, University of Florida; Janice Mejía, Northwestern University; Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida; Sheila Castro, University of Florida

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #42415Latina Engineering Student Graduate Study Decision Processes—Developmentand Initial Results of a Mixed-Methods InvestigationDr. Bruce Frederick Carroll, University of Florida Dr. Carroll is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He holds an affiliate appointment in Engineering Education. His research interests include engineering identity, self-efficacy, and matriculation of Latin/a/o students to graduate school. He works with survey methods and overlaps with machine learning using quantitative methods and sequential mixed methods approaches.Dr. Janice

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

prior. One of the new emphases of the survey is to gain a better understanding ofhow the specific post-graduation activities in which our alumni are engaged relate to theirperceptions of preparedness, as well as the importance they assign to selected competencies orabilities. In previous studies, we have evaluated how graduates in successive class yearsperceive various aspects of their education. For this study, the response data have beenpartitioned in a new way, categorizing alumni based on whether they pursued full-timeemployment directly after earning their undergraduate degrees or if they went on immediately tofull-time graduate school.II. Impact of Post-Graduation Activities on Perceptions of Preparedness and Importanceof Selected

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Angelo J. Perna, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda S Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #17787The Impact of an Undergraduate Research Program on Students’ Attitudestoward and Pursuit of Graduate Studies – A Follow-up StudyDr. John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. John D. Carpinelli is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has served as coordinator of activities at NJIT for the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition and as a member of the Coalition’s Governing Board. He previously chaired NJIT’s Excellence in Teaching Awards Committee and is Past Chair of the University Master Teacher Committee.Dr. Angelo J. Perna, New Jersey

Conference Session

Student Enrollment, Attendance, Retention, and Graduation in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University; Jason K Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Doris M Munson, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University; William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

2009 term. The research study is currentlyongoing. At the end of each quarter, additional attendance information is added to the growingdatabase. Because the database is extensive and spans multiple courses taught by multipleinstructors, the researchers have the ability to track an individual student from their first courseas a freshman until that student graduates. Currently the database holds over 2,250 entries. Theonly students not included in the following data are those who dropped out of the courses andthose who arranged to receive an incomplete. At the time of this paper, there was not enoughdata to report on the performance of students who received incompletes.Following is a description of each class and the mode and method of

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

, TX, USA Author Note:This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No 1902072.Authors are listed in the order of their contribution to the manuscript.Correspondence regarding this manuscript should be sent to Magdalena G.Grohman at magdalena.grohman@unt.edu.AbstractMultiple studies report the benefits of authentic research experiences in STEMeducation. While most of them focus either on course-based research projects oron undergraduate students’ experiences, few document authentic learningexperiences unfolding in real time among and between graduate students inresearch laboratories. Therefore, we situate our study in the context of authenticresearch experiences in

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 4: Mentoring Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clay Gloster Jr., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (TGC); Matthew Bonner Aurelius McCullough, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (TCG); Grace Gowdy; Shea Bigsby; Dawayne Whittington; Juanda Johnson-Taylor

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

." Finally, BD Fellows can participate in the Annual GraduateResearch Symposium and compete in the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for a cashaward.Student support (finance)An important aspect of this program is the support students will receive financially. This is ofcritical importance because one of the key factors or influences that prevents students fromcompleting graduate degrees is the shortfall of financial packages provided. This often leavesstudents with an outstanding bill and requires them to seek additional employment, often awayfrom their laboratory or campus in general. Such jobs can in fact reduce the critical time spentworking on research or studying. To address this problem, the program will offer a stipend andfunding applied

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mirit Shamir, Kansas State University; Jonathan Aguilar, Kansas State University; Rebecca Cors, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ryan Robert Hansen, Kansas State University; Nathan P. Hendricks, Kansas State University; Gaea A. Hock; Stacy L. Hutchinson, Kansas State University; Prathap Parameswaran, Kansas State University; Matthew R. Sanderson; Melanie Derby, Kansas State University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

Paper ID #43706Insights from a Five-Year National Science Foundation Research Traineeshipat our University: Program Description, Evaluation, Outcomes, and LessonsLearnedMirit Shamir, Kansas State University Mirit Shamir is the Academic Services Coordinator for the Rural Resource Resiliency NSF Research Traineeship housed in the Alan Levin Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University.Jonathan Aguilar, Kansas State UniversityDr. Rebecca Cors, University of Wisconsin, Madison Rebecca Cors is a social scientist and evaluator at WCER who studies how people learn about, and co-exist with, science

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larisa Olesova; Duoduo Liao, George Mason University; Ioulia Rytikova, George Mason University; Mihai Boicu, George Mason University; Harry J. Foxwell, George Mason University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

University of Florida, 2George Mason UniversityAbstractA metacognitive approach to engineering education, including inquiry-based collaboration, canimpact and prepare STEM graduates for a modern workforce that requires high levels of criticalthinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. This exploratory study examinedgraduate STEM students’ perceived metacognition as they worked together to develop andimplement applied research in both online and in-person learning environments. It developed andimplemented online learning modules for four graduate engineering courses for researchquestion development, literature reviews, and conducting research. Students self-evaluated usinga survey at the end of each course. For all course sections and

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

2004-1736 Studying the Engineering Student Experience: Design of a Longitudinal Study Sheri Sheppard, Cynthia Atman, Reed Stevens, Lorraine Fleming, Ruth Streveler, Robin Adams, Theresa Barker Stanford University/University of Washington/ University of Washington/ Howard University/Colorado School of Mines/University of Washington/ University of WashingtonAbstractThere is a need to study how students become engineers, and how they learn engineering anddesign concepts. The Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) isconducting critical research in

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David F. Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

research.Conclusions Research is the dominant activity of graduate programs Consequently, formaltraining in aspects of research should be a logical part of first year graduate study. Thepresent article illustrates how to smoothly engage new graduate students with theirresearch topics and committees through construction, presentation, and defense ofseveral written propositions. The courses described here have been taught in one formor another for twenty years, and have been strongly accepted and endorsed by both newPhD graduate students and their faculty advisors as the surveys reported here indicate. These two courses could easily be taught elsewhere. Graduate studentopportunity to write creative papers about research has been repeatedly shown

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer; Nihad Dukhan

futureengineers, we must add a true research experience to the technical skills provided by ourengineering curricula1. Our students should have the skills necessary to examine the currentbody of knowledge and participate in the extension of that knowledge to new research activities. Engineering research includes the aspect of pursuing a scientific topic, a hypothesis or anidea in a systematic rigorous fashion in order to answer questions or to produce new and originalknowledge. This aspect is not usually encountered in the typical undergraduate design projects.So an engineering student may graduate without taking part in a genuine research experience.This becomes a weakness, especially if the student pursues graduate studies or if the studentworks

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

discourse has beenpunctuated by a series of reports and reviews commencing with oft overlooked Mann Report 8from 1918 which makes one wander what has really changed. These periodic evaluations ofengineering education are usually driven by external changes including the incorporation ofalternative academic emphasis as faculty were hired out of other educational traditions, theengineering science revolution in the late 1950s that had a global impact on engineeringeducation, and now the reforms focused on graduate attributes.From the 1960s, research in engineering schools was largely about the study of engineeringrelated phenomena or technology development grounded in a positivist, scientific approach basedon the reductionist physical sciences

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Academic Computing from 1996-2000. She currently acts as co-PI for the CREATE NSF ATE Renewable Energy Support Center and as PI of a NSF ATE targeted research project. Dr. Alfano served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation and co-lead of the ATE program in 2007-2008. Dr Alfano also was the only community college representative on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Workforce Trends in the U.S. Energy and Mining Industries which released their report in March 2013. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 NSF ATE CREATE Targeted Research Study NSF ATE grant #1445841Overview of the NSF ATE CREATE Targeted Research

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Ian Linville, University of Virginia; Angielyn Campo, University of Virginia; Suk Jun Kim, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

graduate school to continue his studies and aims to continue expanding his skills and knowledge in data analysis and engineering.Mrs. Angielyn Campo, University of Virginia I am a recent graduate from the University of Virginia with a major in Nanomedicine Engineering. In my last year of undergraduate I worked with Dr. Wylie in coding and transcribing interviews as a means of evaluating data on the research of learning how graduate and undergraduate students learn research skills from one another. I am currently working in California where I am working on using a small molecule approach to treat atherosclerosis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy M. Hodges P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University

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Mechanical Engineering

planning for continued longitudinal study of the program.OverviewAlexander (1) suggests that the essential features of a successful summer program include: ameaningful research experience, the opportunity to interact with role models and otherundergraduate students forming a “community”. In the Bauer(2) study researchers surveyed threegroups: those who participated in research experience as part of a “university organized”program, those who participated in research on their own with a faculty member or those whodid not do research as part of their undergraduate experience. In the first two groups thosesurveyed were more likely to go on to graduate school, reported a greater satisfaction in theirundergraduate experience, and reported increases in

Conference Session

Getting Into Graduate School

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Graduate Studies, Student

, before you have received any payments for your graduate studies.)  If health care insurance is provided, when does the coverage begin and when does it end? What services are covered, and where can I receive them?  What about summer support? (Some faculty or institutions will provide summer support for their students, while others expect students to pursue internships or other opportunities during the summer term.)  What type of technology is required for graduate students, and is it likely to be provided by my research mentor or department? If not, can I receive a discount by purchasing the required technology through the university?Making the ChoiceAs you are visiting graduate programs

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Rogers, United States Military Academy; Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Christopher Korpela, United States Military Academy; Ryan Ebel, United States Military Academy

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Headquarters Commander for the 439th Engineer Battalion (USAR) while deployed and attached to 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division in Baghdad, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. MAJ Korpela is a graduate of the Armor Officer Basic Course, Engineer Captains Career Course, Ranger School, Airborne School, Air Assault School, and the Combined Arms and Services Staff School. His awards include the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. His research interests include embedded systems and autonomous control of small, unmanned ground vehicles.Ryan Ebel, United States Military Academy Page 14.839.1

Conference Session

Life After Graduation

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Houshang Darabi, University of Illinois, Chicago; Elnaz Douzali, University of Illinois, Chicago; Fazle Shahnawaz Muhibul Karim, University of Illinois, Chicago; Samuel Thomas Harford, University of Illinois, Chicago, PROMINENT Labs; Hereford Johnson, University of Illinois, Chicago

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Educational Research and Methods

- ucational reports and papers. Some of these products/reports have already been launched/completed and are now in use. Others are in their development stages. Dr. Darabi’s research group uses Big Data, process mining, data mining, Operations Research, high performance computing, and visualization techniques to achieve its research and educational goals.Ms. Elnaz Douzali, University of Illinois, Chicago Elnaz Douzali is a graduate student and researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a part of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and will receive her Masters of Science degree in Industrial Engineering in May 2018. Her research interests include Educational Data Mining, Process Mining, and

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Miller

Problem Solving in the Research Laboratory —A Workshop for Graduate Students Michele H. Miller Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractGraduate students often struggle to overcome the obstacles inherent in experimental work.Through practice over the course of a graduate program, many students will transition fromnovice to expert problem solvers even though they receive little explicit instruction on how to dothis. This paper describes a workshop whose purpose is to give graduate students tools to usewhen encountering unexpected problems in the lab. A pilot two-hour version of the workshopwas delivered to nine graduate

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

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International

specificengineering specialty. The Sea port of town is not different and the engineers hired by them ingeneral had to go to Sao Paulo city for a program similar to this. The importance of thegraduation program proposed is that it has been planned taking into account the specific needs ofthe port.8. The Port Engineering Program InformationThe Master Degree in Port Engineering requires 30 credits in ECT’s of graduate studies. The 30credits consist of a minimum of 12 credit hours of coursework, plus 12 credit hours of anycombination of coursework, independent study, directed research or thesis that complies with thefollowing constraints: if there is a thesis, it must at least 6 and no more than 12 credits; there canbe no more than 9 credits of directed research

Conference Session

Preparing Minority Students for Undergraduate and Graduate Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Minorities in Engineering

obvious: companies mayoutsource work which requires low skills, but they will not outsource their research which isneeded to keep them competitive and at the leading edge in their products. Most engineeringgraduates are looking to start their career with a good salary upon graduation with theBaccalaureate degree, not go to graduate school.In an Academic Success and Professional Development Program at Arizona State Universitywith many transfer students, we encourage all of the students, minority and Caucasian, to goright on to graduate school. In this paper, we will particularly look at the programunderrepresented minority students to learn what their main pros and cons were for going tograduate school. We also note the influence of the program on