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Panel on Innovative Graduate Education Concepts: Organized by the National Institute of Aerospace

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; F. Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University

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AC 2011-517: PROJECT-BASED RESIDENCY COURSE FOR ONLINEGRADUATE PROGRAMBimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M UniversityDr. F. Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University Dr. Barry Lawrence holds the Leonard and Valerie Bruce Leadership Chair, the Program Director of the Industrial Distribution Program, Director of the Thomas and Joan Read Center, and Director of the Global Supply Chain Laboratory at Texas A&M University. As a faculty member of the Industrial Distribution Program he is involved in graduate, undergraduate, and professional continuing education teaching activities, funded research projects, publications and in- dustry presentations. His teaching activities surround classes in manufacturer/distributor

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Online Programs and Program Assessment

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University; Teresa A. Johnson, Ohio State University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Ohio State University; Deborah M. Grzybowski, Ohio State University; David A. Delaine, Ohio State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Ana M. Casado, Ohio State University; Alan Kalish, Ohio State University

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from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research, and innovative approaches to teaching.Dr. Ana M. Casado, Ohio State UniversityAlan Kalish, Ohio State University Alan Kalish, Ph.D., Assistant Vice Provost, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University, works to support faculty efforts on academic program assessment, implementation of a revised general education program, and institutional accreditation. He also oversees the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in University Teaching and chairs the Student Evaluation of Instruction

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidar Malki, University of Houston; Michael Gibson, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

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2006-2437: TOWARD AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE DEGREE INTECHNOLOGYHeidar Malki, University of Houston Heidar A. Malki received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a senior member of IEEE and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Dr. Malki was the general chair for the 1997 ASEE/GSW Conference and one of co-chairs of 1997 ICNN-IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks. Currently, he is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Technology and a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Houston. His research interests are applications of neural networks

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Graduate Study Programs Supporting Diversity and Underrepresented Minority Students - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Audeen W. Fentiman, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Janet M. Beagle, Purdue University College of Engineering; Phillip S. Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Susan K. Fisher, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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group of students with preparation for and an interest inengineering. Seeking more underrepresented minority faculty members helps the land-grantuniversity fulfill its mission.In view of the need for more underrepresented minority faculty members, the project teamproposed a program designed to attract more URM students to graduate school in engineeringwith an ultimate goal of pursuing a faculty career. Several studies have shown that participationin undergraduate research is often the activity that leads a student to seek a graduate degree.6Thus, an undergraduate research component was incorporated into the program. It is often thestudent’s undergraduate research mentor who persuades him or her to pursue a graduate degree.In other cases, it is

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jin-Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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realize that mentoring can be extremely rewarding. The challenge of being a teacheris to explain concepts as clearly, precisely, and simply as possible.I had a chance to give a talk entitled “Integrated Multi-Analyte Microelectrode Sensors for InSitu Biological Applications” at the ECE Department seminar and to discuss my research withgraduate students. As an international student, I found that the teaching mentor’s feedback andrepeat-practice improved my English skills and self confidence for presentation and discussion.These mentored teaching activities were completed over the course of two years. Since I joinedthe PFF program after successfully defending my Ph.D. proposal and being admitted intocandidacy in my third year of graduate studies

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Preparing Future Educators

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University; Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carolyn A. Vallas, University of Virginia; Meghan McGlinn Manfra, North Carolina State University ; Tom Snyder, North Carolina State University; Chunlei Wang, Florida International University; Veena Misra, North Carolina State University

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Paper ID #9815Translational Engineering Skills Program (TESP): Training innovative, adap-tive, and competitive graduate students for the 21st century work forceDr. Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University Elena Veety received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, in 2011. Her research focused on liquid crystal polarization gratings for tunable optical filters and telecommunications applications. Since 2011, she has been a Teaching Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Currently, she is the Assistant

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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David Ruete, Universidad Andres Bello; Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello ; Danilo Leal, Universidad Andres Bello; Pilar López Lira, Universidad Andres Bello; Lilian Pamela San Martín Medina, Universidad Andres Bello; Margarita Ercilia Aravena, Universidad Andres Bello; Giannina Costa, Universidad Andres Bello

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level. There is some informationavailable in the literature on the subject worldwide yet centered on undergraduate programs.However, there is limited research on students at the postgraduate level. Researchers from alluniversities in Chile and worldwide have discussed delayed graduation as it is a criticalconsideration for all institutional accreditation processes. For this reason, educators andresearchers in institutions are interested in offering strategies to reduce the graduation time byanalyzing risk factors students face during their training. This study presents an early detectionmodel based on machine learning to account for graduation delays seen at the master's studentgraduation process. This article presents a descriptive study that

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Professional Development for Graduate Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Michael A. Matthews P.E., University of South Carolina; Gina M. Kunz, University of South Carolina; Kevin Brock, University of South Carolina; Darin Freeburg, University of South Carolina

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course meeting one hour per week. Course 2 is typically taughtin the spring and students take this in the second year or third year of their graduate studies. Bythis time masters students are heavily occupied with writing their thesis, while doctoral studentsideally are preparing a first-author manuscript or a proposal. Students thus have a good deal ofdata addressing one or more key research questions, and they have identified a journal in whichto publish. The term project for Course 2 is a complete draft of a journal paper or, for master’sstudents, a draft of one or two thesis chapters. Intermediate assignments in Course 2 requireusing a template similar to the one above to begin outlining their paper. Several drafts aresubmitted in BlackBoard

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Aligning Graduate Programs with Industrial Needs

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chi-Ning Chang, Texas A&M University; Clinton A. Patterson, Texas A&M University; Courtney Lavadia, Texas A&M University; Debra Fowler, Texas A&M University; Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University

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have unique tools to enable smooth communication” ○ “Honesty and frankness in some topics (e.g. Conflict Resolution) are valuable” DiscussionRecent research indicates the disadvantages for college graduates using ePortfolios, such as ademanding effort required for the candidate and employer, too much information presented to theemployer, and the tool being unsuccessfully utilized during the initial screening process [5].Ourresults reveal all ten employers representing academia, national labs, and industry positivelycommented on the value of developing an ePortfolio, particularly because of elements likeinterdisciplinary thinking and critical reflection. Overall, the findings of this study

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Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Sara Branch, Purdue University; Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University; James Cawthorne, Purdue University; Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University

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AC 2010-918: PH.D.S IN ENGINEERING: GETTING THEM THROUGH THEDOOR AND SEEING THEM GRADUATE- FACULTY AND INDUSTRYPERSPECTIVESMonica Cox, Purdue University Monica F. Cox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the

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Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Phillip Dunston, Purdue University; Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University; Pamella Shaw, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

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, 183-199. Page 15.424.84.Nyquist, J. D., Abbott, R. D., & Wulff, D. H. (Eds.). (1989). Teaching assistant training in the 1990s. NewDirections for Teaching and Learning, No. 39. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.5. Nyquist, J. D., Austin, A. E., Sprague, J., & Wulff, D. H. (2001). The development of graduate students asteaching scholars: A four-year longitudinal study (Final Report, Grant #199600142). Seattle: University ofWashington, Center for Instructional Development and Research.6. Brown, S. V. (2000). The preparation of minorities for academic careers in science and engineering. In G.Campbell, R. Denes, & C. Morrison

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Exploring Graduate Student Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martina V. Svyantek, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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indicated that the training received is not what is desired,and it leaves them unprepared for future careers [1]. Engineering doctoral students play differentroles while in the process of earning their doctoral degrees, performing research and teachingwhile still students themselves, yet treating these as separate roles without any seeming overlap.Examining the current state of teaching and research at the graduate level is a fundamental stepin explaining why both should receive focus when preparing doctoral students to create aprofessional and cohesive faculty identity. Although research exists on the mixed messages sent to early career faculty membersabout the promotion and tenure process [2-4], there have not yet been similar studies on

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Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Anne Marguerite McAlister, University of Virginia; Sarah Catherine Lilly, University of Virginia; Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia

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cultureof STEM departments [21], makes it more difficult for students who do not reflect these imagesto enter the community of practice [2], [22, p. 1207]. Engineer, researcher, student, and educator roles are commonly enacted by engineeringdoctoral students during their graduate studies [23]. While these academic roles may align with adoctoral students’ interests, they may also be strictly defined by the institution that the doctoralstudent serves. For example, a doctoral student may or may not be interested in being in the roleof an educator but may have to be a TA as part of their graduate program. However, regardlessof how interested they are in that role, the expectations and structure of their behaviors whenenacting that role are

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Potpourri: Various Issues and Topics in Graduate Studies

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gurlovleen Rathore, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Texas Tech University; Matthew Pariyothorn, Texas A&M University; Nandita Kohli, Texas A&M University ; Prasad N. Enjeti, Texas A&M University

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studies could help improve recommendations for seminar topics, speakersand when students in the doctoral program should be encouraged to participate in learning aboutthese topics.ConclusionDoctoral student preparation for academic careers in graduate school is becoming increasinglynecessary as expectations for faculty members continue to rise. To address this need, the DwightLook College of Engineering at Texas A&M University implemented a one-credit professionaldevelopment seminar to help students prepare to meet future faculty expectations of research,teaching and service both during the academic job search and in their roles as the professoriate.Although the seminar was designed using research for preparing future faculty members,seminar

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Graduate Student Support

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael A. Matthews P.E., University of South Carolina; Darin Freeburg, University of South Carolina; Kevin Brock, University of South Carolina; Gina M. Kunz P.h.D., University of South Carolina

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ofgraduate-level engineering research [1, 2]. The overall hypothesis of this effort is that the two-course sequence we will describe, which utilizes the Richard Paul/Linda Elder framework of CT[3], will effectively and consistently facilitate students’ acquisition of information literacy andwriting skills, and speed the development of intellectual independence.The two courses are designed for just-in-time intervention to graduate students at key juncturesin their programs of study. The first course is for new graduate students who have selected aresearch project and who are expected to begin developing breadth and depth of understandingthereof. Course 1 focuses on information literacy: finding, assessing, and critically reading theresearch

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaustubh Nagarkar, General Electric; Krishnaswami Srihari, State University of NY-Binghamton

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healthcare industry inthe United States. Also, potential areas of concern that could be addressed through ISEconcepts were studied. The research team involved two graduate students, one projectcoordinator, and a senior professor. A compilation of some of the key findings from theliterature survey was published6.Soon a collaborative research endeavor with a leading group of hospitals was initiated.The first research effort focused on the Emergency Department (ED) to reduce the‘patient turnaround time’ (or PTAT). The PTAT was reduced through the use of processmapping, modeling, and simulation. The effect of (i) changes in the patient flow withinthe ED, (ii) scheduling of nurses to match patient arrival volumes, and (iii) the addition ofbeds during

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Professional Development and Advising for Graduate Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Cyndi D. Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Assessing Doctoral Students’ Employability SkillsAbstractA significant number of STEM doctoral recipients are employed by industry. The goal ofthis study is to investigate PhD students’ competency level at different skills andexpertise they need to be successful at their jobs after graduating from university. Thispaper examines the results of a survey, based on Vitae Researcher DevelopmentFramework, of student perceptions of their skills and competencies in preparation forcareers in industry, consulting, or government. The survey had four main domainsincluding knowledge and intellectual abilities, personal effectiveness, researchgovernance and organization, and engagement, influence and impact. In general, studentsmostly acknowledged the importance

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Educating Students for Professional Success

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego

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AC 2009-1639: HARNESSING INDUSTRY COLLABORATION IN DEVELOPINGGRADUATE-DEGREE PROGRAMSShekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego Dr. Viswanathan is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Engineering at National Universtity. Dr. Viswanathan is also the Lead Faculty for the Engineering Management and Homeland Security and Safety Engineering programs. He manages six full time and fifty two adjunct faculty members in the department which offers four undergraduate and five graduate programs with a student population of three hundred students. Dr. Viswanathan is an educator, researcher and administrator with more than twenty-five years of industrial and academic

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy Noonan, Purdue University; Jaemeen Baek, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sangil Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ulas Tezel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Grant Michalski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chia-Hung Hou, Georgia Institute of Technology

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concerns, an EnvE graduate-studentcommittee was formed in a manner similar to that of the study of Baker et al.5 to create animproved survey. Committee members were of varied countries of origin, degree programs,years of study, and research groups in order to represent the diversity of students.To guide generation of specific questions, the overall topic of “improvement of research quality”was chosen for the survey, and four subtopics -- research resources, research preparation,research views and attitudes, and research-group support -- were created. Ideas for questionsrelevant to the four subtopics were collected by committee members from the EnvE studentpopulation at-large, increasing student interest in hopes of consequently increasing

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Exploration of Trends in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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physics from East China Normal University, a M.S. in optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a second M.S. in biomedical engineering from Purdue University. Her primary research inter- ests relate to comparative study methods and frameworks in engineering education, global engineering, professional development, and mentoring of engineering graduate students. She is a student member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).Dr. Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 25.618.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Exploring the

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Pedagogy and Teaching Preparation in Graduate Programs

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Miguel Velez-Reyes P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Fenot Aklog, Columbia University; Dawn M. Horton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Yajaira Mejia, City College of New York; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Jorge E. González, City College of New York; Jeff Sivils, El Paso Community College; Harry Meeuwsen, University of Texas at El Paso; Fred Moshary, City University of New York; Joseph Barba, City University of New York

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Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University and an EdD in International and Comparative Education from Teachers College Columbia University.Dr. Dawn M Horton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dawn Horton earned her first doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University in Education. Her dissertation, The Genetic Epistemology of the Human Genome Field, expanded her mentor Dr. Howie Gruber’s cognitive case study methodology to consider how an entire field develops new knowledge. Her second doctorate, from Montclair State University, focused on the differential effectiveness of school counselors in the graduation of their assigned students. Dr. Horton’s research focuses on creativity and the development of

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Raelyn Rediske, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steve Ackerman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sharon Dunwoody, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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nonscientific audiences,” specifically policymakers and business leaders18. Warren, Weiss,Wolfe, Friedlander, and Lewenstein sum the message up by writing: “[a] cultural shift is under way,reflecting the higher stakes of research, and an increased recognition by scientists, stakeholders, andpolicymakers that (i) scientists need to get their message out, (ii) scientists need training to learn how todo so, and (iii) training should begin at the graduate level”19 . In a recent editorial in Science, AlanLeshner, the chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS), has echoed this call20. By offering training at the graduate level, one could conceivably reach allfuture scientists, and that effect would trickle up as

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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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Joanne Lax, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Audeen W. Fentiman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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crucialinterpersonal and academic skills students can develop from doing peer critiques, includingempathy, objectivity, and improved written and oral communication.4Some important work on peer review goes back to Topping’s research in the late 1990s, when heexamined 109 studies on peer assessment in higher education dating back to the 1960s.3 Muchof the literature on peer review, especially on the graduate level, focuses on peer review ofwritten work. For good reason—peer review of written work is pervasive in the professional lifeof the engineering academic. Abstracts and then papers are subjected to peer review as a way tomaintain publication and conference standards, and often only papers appearing in peer-reviewedjournals count towards publication totals

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General Topics in Graduate Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; John A. Nychka, University of Alberta; Roger Graves, University of Alberta

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Writing Instruction in Canadian Universities. My current research interests include the development of doctoral student writing, writing assignments across disciplinary fields, and rhetorical approaches to text encoding. Currently I serve as co-President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW), the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and as a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Literacy (CASLL/Inkshed). Page 22.1716.1 c American Society for Engineering

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Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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AC 2010-400: AN ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OFLEADERSHIP SKILLS IN ENGINEERING AND RELATED DOCTORALPROGRAMSJoy Watson, University of South CarolinaJed Lyons, University of South Carolina Page 15.138.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Analysis of Literature of the Development of Leadership Skills in Engineering and Related Doctoral ProgramsAbstractIt has been stated that engineering Ph.D. graduates do not have the leadership skills needed toorganize, manage and establish effective research groups or to appreciate the applied problems,knowledge and culture of other fields1. The objective of this study is to investigate

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Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mandy Wheadon, Purdue University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ladder to the top 29,37–39. Overall, a more comprehensive perspective about thecareer options open to all Ph.D. students—and STEM students in particular—combined withexposure to transferable professional and lifelong learning skills would augment workforcereadiness and employability, leaving multiple career paths open for doctoral graduates 40.Purpose and Research QuestionsQuantitative data have been gathered in previous studies that document the existing incongruitiesbetween the disciplinary skills acquired during doctoral education and the professional skillscontemporary employers are demanding9,28,41. Researchers studying the roles of postsecondaryeducation in career preparation have commonly relied on questionnaires and surveys as

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Educating Students for Professional Success

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diane L. Peters P.E., LMS International; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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research focuses on the characteristics ofolder students, with some work on their experiences. The motivations of engineering returnershave not been studied, nor are there any studies showing how large this population is. Local datafrom the University of Michigan showed that, out of approximately 1000 engineering PhDstudents, 170 had at least five years between their undergraduate and PhD programs4.Research on the engineering returner population revealed that returners face challenges in both Page 25.1477.2admission and persistence in graduate programs. Some programs are less welcoming to returnersthrough their recruitment, admissions criteria

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Crain, University of Oklahoma; James Sluss, University of Oklahoma; Monte Tull, University of Oklahoma; Samuel Lee, University of Oklahoma

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faculty collaborate to assure thatcontemporary courses are offered in a manner sufficiently timely to enable students to contributeto research in their selected area of focused study. Core graduate courses that contribute broadlyto the areas of research focus (i.e., Digital Signal Processing contributes broadly toCommunications, Radar, Bio-Engineering and other technologies) will be offered on a morefrequent basis. Faculty members are encouraged to include projects for deeper learning andopportunities for students to present their work orally to their classmates and their peers.Students are given opportunities to and are strongly encouraged to publish and present their workin Scholarly fora. Students who engage in developing peer reviewed

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Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Ken Burbank, Western Carolina University; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University; Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Yeqin Huang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University

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difficulty of developing one.Although this technology can be demonstrated through the simulation using MATLAB,SystemView, or other software, however, it will be better to provide students first-handlearning experiences through hardware experiments. This system includes the hardwareimplementation based on Altera FPGA/CPLD development board and Mini-Circuit RFmodules. Software simulation model will also be built based on MATLAB to verifyhardware performances. Through the project, the graduate student acquired an in-depthunderstanding from a systematic perspective and well-trained professional skills usefulfor further study and research. On the other hand, the outcome of this project-the DSSSsystem was directly designed to enrich the undergraduate

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Online and Professional Graduate Programs

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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James Nevin McKirahan Jr., Indiana State University; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University; M. Affan Badar, Indiana State University

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characteristics of advanced graduate study, but isunique in using resources of a consortium of five universities to present a robust platform viadistance and face-to-face venues. These consortium universities have programs staffed by facultywith expertise in many areas of technology. Each university brings to the consortium a uniquephilosophical quality and extensive library holdings, which add depth and breadth to theprogram.Goals providing the Consortium-Based Ph.D. in Technology Management Program are asfollows to [10]: 1. Enhance the level of study in selected technologies at the consortium universities by providing opportunities for research in development, application, and technological transfer; 2. Prepare students to become