, the University of Texas at El Paso, NewMexico State University, Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas State University-SanMarcos united efforts to create a regional network of researchers to advance knowledge inrenewable energy research and education. This paper introduces the BGREEN (BuildinG aRegional Energy and Educational Network) project and shows how industrial engineers at thedifferent participating institutions will benefit. BGREEN is a multi-disciplinary project whichpromotes collaboration among different universities, colleges, departments and a federal agency,the United States Department of Agriculture. This type of collaboration is fundamental since thescale and nature of energy challenges requires expertise from a wide
comparison withGerman universities which have been offering Mechatronics degrees much longer than theUnited States [5]. We also explore the relevance of Mechatronics degree at Michigan Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 475technological university to industry and we discuss the role of computing in Mechatronicsspecifically at Michigan tech.Industry 4.0 and MechatronicsThe fourth industrial revolution would not be possible without the progress in computing anddata science. The interdisciplinary knowledge of mechanical
successful, it must ensure that its faculty rewardsystem supports its goals. Faculty members often face the difficult task of trying to balance the several activitiesthey need for professional advancement * such as research and undergraduate teaching * with a host of newactivities their colleagues, students and the public expect them to accomplish. These can include curriculadevelopment, interdisciplinary collaboration, work with industry, development of continuing education programs,community outreach, and mentoring of other faculty members and students. As engineering colleges developinstitutional missions, they have an opportunity to recraft their faculty reward system to better synchronized facultyrewards with their new, or re-affirmed
contentseamlessly integrates with the real-world environment. This technology operates by overlayingcomputer-generated information, such as images, text, or 3D models, onto the physicalsurroundings in real-time. AR adds a layer of digital content to the existing physical world [1],[2].On the other hand, VR immerses users in a completely simulated environment. VR is defined asa computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional environment, accessible for explorationand interaction by users via application of hardware such as VR headsets or other immersive Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education
Centers and established August 2009 with US ARRA stimulus funds. The program will sponsor forty (40) one-year fellowships for engineering post-doctoral students in corporate research labs. For the first time, the engineering post-docs in the program are jointly supported by NSF and corporate hosts labs. By providing collaborative research programs to faculty and post-doctoral students, participants can experience real-life industry entrepreneurial experiences for turning inventions into products and services as well as understanding the skills needed to practice the engineering profession. I. Introduction Innovation and invention represent the livelihood of companies in a flat world. Companies must innovate or perish. Both
Engineering. His research interests consist of therapeutic and diagnostic applications of directed energy, including electric fields and ultrasound.Dr. Elham Morshedzadeh, Virginia Tech Dr. Elham Morshedzadeh is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Design. Her Ph.D. research focus was in Usability and Interaction Evaluation. She received her MA in Industrial Design from Tabriz Art University in Iran and her Ph.D. in Design Science from Chiba University in Japan. Her research focuses on exploring methods to facilitate collaborative, community-centered products and services. By creating connections between students, faculty, professionals and communities of users, she has brought a variety of projects and recognition to our
Paper ID #44060Impact of Experimental Centric Pedagogy on Learning Outcomes: A ComparativeTrend Analysis in Industrial Engineering and BiologyHannah Abedoh, Morgan State UniversityMr. Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University Pelumi Abiodun is a current doctoral student and research assistant at the department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. Pelumi got his BSc and MSc degree in Physics from Obafemi Awolowo University, where he also served as a research assistant at the Environmental Pollution Research unit, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As part of his contribution to science and engineering
risk management for complexbiopharmaceutical manufacturing system. This not only impacts public health safety, but alsoleads to high risk of failures, drug shortage and financial loss. To improve the industry practice,our interdisciplinary team composed of researchers and educators in Operations Research (OR)and biochemistry at Northeastern University, Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Lab (BATL),and public health regulators collaborates to develop an integrated research, education/trainingand industry practice framework to promote biopharmaceutical manufacturing knowledge andskills for various levels of students and trainees. Basically, the research development inbiomanufacturing is driven by challenges and critical needs in the industry
innovative program utilized project-based learning, featuring interactive labs,group projects, and virtual reality (VR) sessions to tackle real-world challenges. Central to thecamp was its strong academia-industry collaboration, highlighted by an industry panel withrepresentatives from AES Corporation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dominion Energy,Hispanic in Energy (HIE), MPR Associates, Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC),and Solar Hands-on Instructional Network of Excellence (SHINE). These interactions providedstudents with valuable insights into career pathways in the energy sector. By combining hands-on projects, collaborative problem-solving, and direct engagement with industry leaders, thecamp equipped students with technical skills
professor values with research interests. We identified uniquemotivations, such as compliance with department norms around participating in nationalcompetitions and collaborations with other professors. One underlying theme of motivation wasthe goal of personal and professional development of professors and their students. This themedirectly overlaps with the stated goal of the student competition: to attract students to thebuilding science disciplines. It also aligns directly with the efforts of the competition organizers,who directly collaborated with professors to identify pertinent challenge topics that were of valueto stakeholders across government, industry, and academia. The organizers also ensuredprofessors were recognized for their support
Aerial Vehicle Systems: Drones can be categorized into four types depending on their uses: military, recreational, public,and commercial.A typical drone consists of a quadcopter (four propellers, motor, landing gear, battery andcamera) and a remote control. See Figure 1. The camera is attached to a Gimbal (holds thecamera stable and steady). The battery contains a power management system and provides up to25 minutes of flight time (the flight time varies with the type of battery)4. The pilot of the drone Proceedings of the 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2019, American Society for Engineering Education
onboarding processes that engineering businesses use. This venue would allow academics, government, and industry to work together as part of a larger community of concern and practice. Collaboratively, they could collect and interpret data in ways that would let them identify problems, determine root causes, and
Paper ID #42296Work In Progress: Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Maker Programs onCareer Outcomes and Industry Skills DevelopmentDr. Glenn Walters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D. Environmental Sciences and Engineering 2005 University of Vermont B.S. Civil Engineering, Magna Cum Laude 1988 Champlain College A.S. Business Management, Summa Cum Laude 1982 ProfGordon Maples, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPaul Mihas, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDr. Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University Matthew Wettergreen is Director of the Global
engineering.Dr. Hani Salim P.E., University of Missouri - Columbia Dr. Salim is a professor of Civil Engineering and served at the associate dean for academic programs and student success at the college of engineering between 2015 and 2019. Through a collaboration with the provost office, the engineering summer bridge programs was developed to improve the educational experience and retention of incoming engineering students. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work In Progress: Engineering Success Bridge Program: Creating Sense of Belonging through Campus and Industry Supported Summer Bridge ProgramIntroductionThis work-in
effect. Such is the case with this new program of innovative professionally oriented graduate 8education which would support the continual growth of experienced creative engineering leaders in industry. Thenew model development would be based upon the underlying premise that the systematic creative engineeringpractice of continual technological innovation itself requires, in addition to didactic learning, not only self-directedlearning and collaborative creative learning but also an innovative culture, and the development of intrinsiccreative, innovative, and leadership potential. The new model development would be based on
to involvehigh school students was to have them participate in the project. I didn't want to do somethingartificial like a classroom demonstration. The inspiration gained by actually building a spacecraftwill surpass anything I could give them in a classroom. Calumet had a great engineering designprogram, along with state-of-the-art fabrication facilities for industrial arts. Some of the NanoSat Page 12.629.6parts were actually designed and constructed at the high school.”FIRST Robotics Enterprise - Since 1999 there has been collaboration between the FIRSTRobotics Enterprise, the Copper Country Intermediate School District, and the Houghton
intelligent system, and an instrument forencouraging collaboration among industry partners. It is flexible and adaptable to meet the needof individual partners, inspiring to grow knowledge, build skills and abilities to support thecollaboration. It is idealized to be managing operations with a holistic approach throughout thesupply chain and thus providing customers the fullest satisfaction. Business owners will be ableto establish a fast and data-driven communication with all stakeholders, such as customers,business partners, and employees to bring innovative and customized solutions. As shown inFigure 1, the structure of the Smart Management System is founded on the enhancedconnectivity among stakeholders; the two key technologies, Internet of
potential forcompetitiveness and national security purposes. Second, close collaboration between industryand universities will be critical to the success of this reform. The Task Force believes that thefurther graduate development of the U.S. engineering workforce in industry can neither be doneby universities working alone nor by industry working alone. Third, reinventing professionalengineering education for creative engineering practice requires industry’s steady and consistentinput aimed at what we want the nation’s engineers to do and to become. The next steps of theTask Force are to implement these recommendations into action in the national interest. 7 &85.2 Properly compensating the Graduate Engineering Faculty for providing this needed
support.The enrolment is always only in a programme which is aligned with the work profile of thestudent. The academic support includes the availability of a mentor from the organization,who will be responsible for monitoring the progress of the candidate, and advising asnecessary.Industry collaboration: The engagement with industry starts right at the stage of programconception. The experts from the relevant industry sectors participate in designing anddeveloping programs and curriculum. In certain cases, their expertise may be drawn ininstruction as well.Program and curriculum development: The strong industry connect of the institute enables inneed identification. The sector specific program committees drive the design anddevelopment of new
cloud computing, mobile computing,modularization, additive manufacturing, robotics, and extended reality, that have reachedmaturity or are in their formative stages [10]. Other Industry 4.0 keywords are human-machine collaboration, equipment integration, IoT, big data, cloud, simulations andprototypes, 3-D printing, extended realities, cyber security, sustainability, economicsustainability, process safety and environmental control, virtualization, service orientation,and environmental protection [6].The 21st century has developed business models that cause relevant social changes. Thecollaborative economy, on which companies such as Uber or Amazon are based, comprisescompanies that don't produce goods and services but link providers with users
advancedprofessional education of industry’s in-place graduate engineers, as primary leaders and innovators of technology, isa missing key that will impact the economic growth of our nation. While graduate education in the “context ofresearch” has served the nation well in the training of future academics for research, there is a national need toreshape the graduate professional education of engineers who are pursuing non-research oriented professionalcareers in industry. This paper presents the conceptual basis for a collaborative university-industry strategy toreshape the graduate professional education of the nation’s engineers in industry in a manner commensurate withtheir career-long growth for professional leadership of the continual technological
provided funding for developing industry needed vehicle education programs,the Department of Labor (DOL) has provided funding to sponsor training programs, and theState of Michigan Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has collaborated with industry toestablish Michigan Academy for Green Mobility Alliance (MAGMA). Through funding from theNational Science Foundation (NSF), a Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT)was established as an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) center to support the partneringwork and leading systemic curriculum reform. This paper reviews the education and trainingprograms provided by the University-Community College Partnership in meeting industry needsfor future workers in advanced automotive technology
softwaredevelopment and engineering problems, why should we not provide them an environment wherethey can be familiar with the industrial software development, engineering and projectmanagement practices? This paper explores the project based instructional benefits in an industrysetup using Industry Standard Tools and Practices (IST&Ps) and investigates the learningeffectiveness and engagement. IST&P involves software development, deployment andmanagement tools, and common Agile practices using popular web-based tools widely used inindustries. Our approach is to engage students in cross-course collaboration [1] with Agilepractices with three groups of 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students among three project-basedcourses: Software Engineering (SE
. Althoughthere remains disagreement among faculty in the department about the purpose of the courseand the balance of industry involvement, our first research objective is to build anunderstanding of why the broader academic involvement in the ICD course waned in recentyears. Considering how organizations change, we will explore stakeholder perceptions of thecourse’s purpose and how they see their role (or lack thereof). Stakeholders in a complexcollaboration such as the ICD course can be defined as those affected by or that have aneffect on the collaborative problem (i.e. delivering a high quality learning experience) [11]. Inthis investigation, these are defined as students, academics, and industry partners.To answer this initial question (i.e. why
Session 3220 Learning to program in the context of an industrial simulation: A pedagogical experiment in C++ and its implications for curriculum development Sylvie Ratté, Jocelyne Caron École de technologie supérieure / Université du Québec à Montréal1. IntroductionSince 1995, our programming courses have been supported by web sites where students can findsupplementary resources. Each site contains six main blocks: memo, theory, work, results, linksand help. The organizational structure of each block (Figure 1) includes a general home page andspecific
play a critical role in the IoT ecosystem where mechanical componentsare interconnected through sensors, software, and data networks. As Industry 4.0 continues toreshape industries, the next-generation mechanical engineers must be equipped with theknowledge and tools to lead the innovation. These skills empower engineers to design smartsystems, adapt to evolving technologies, and collaborate effectively in multidisciplinaryenvironments. However, traditional mechanical engineering curriculum often do not include thesecritical skills. To bridge the gap, we have created a new course focusing on IoT technologies,which integrates programming and software engineering skills seamlessly through project-basedlearning.In this course, students learn IoT
participants within these cohortshave already been extended with job offers from the partner companies they worked for duringthe apprenticeship. The authors plan to continue collaborating closely with the business partnersat the New York Jobs CEO Council, to gather ongoing feedback about how to better aligneducational and industry needs to continue improving employment outcomes for CUNY studentswho participate in the program. Future work will involve expanding the current apprenticeshipmodel to other Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree programs and other academicdepartments as well.Keywords: apprenticeship, soft skills, tech skills, community college, curriculum changeIntroductionAn apprenticeship provides traditional classroom learning and
the general ideathat active involvement by students and collaborative learning (e.g. team-based learning, peer-learning, and peer tutorial) would produce higher levels of professional skill development. Thebody of research investigating how best to educate 21st century engineering technology studentsto meet ABET’s 11 competencies has grown over the last two decades but opportunities to add tothe body of knowledge are still present and needed (Bjorklund, Parente, & Sathianathan, 2004,Turner, 2015).This paper describes a case study in which a small sample of senior engineering technologystudents were exposed to a design course that consisted of industry supplied curriculum (i.e.SOLIDWORKS guide) and a team project. In the context of this
issues, such as facilitators or student participants notshowing up to lessons taking longer or shorter than planned to difficult behaviors by studentparticipants to a global COVID-19 pandemic to lack of engagement or interest, can occur duringeach session. Having a plan and even a back-up plan is essential. The literature identifiedflexibility, adaptability, and creativity, as best practices for collaboration with K-12 partners.Utilizing those skills can help facilitators manage any unanticipated issues and help outreachprograms thrive.Involve IndustryInvolving industry can aid in the success of K-12 STEM outreach programs. From providingfacilitators to donating materials to support these programs financially, industry partners are atremendous
teamwork, and encouraging self-assessment of leadership abilities in groupenvironments.The mentorship program follows Kolb’s experiential learning theory, which emphasizes learningthrough concrete experiences and reflection, enabling students to apply theoretical knowledge topractical, industry-related challenges. Additionally, Vygotsky’s social constructivism informs thestructure of the program, where students actively construct knowledge through social interactionswith their mentors and peers, providing a collaborative learning environment.Since its implementation, the program has engaged sixteen industry professionals as mentors.Students are required to meet with their mentors at least three times during the semester,participating in structured