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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Andrew Thomas Conley, Michigan Technological University; Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University

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International Forum

Paper ID #14290Differences in Leadership and Project Based Learning Outcomes in Devel-oped and Developing CountriesMr. Andrew Thomas Conley, Michigan Technological University Andrew is studying mechanical engineering, is minoring in aerospace engineering, and is completing the Global Technological Leadership certificate at Michigan Technological University. Andrew has signif- icant project experience as the project manager of the Aerospace Enterprise—one of Michigan Tech’s largest enterprises—and the Oculus-ASR project—a satellite project sponsored by the US Air Force Re- search Lab for university students to design, build

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University; Jon Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Natalie Plata, Colorado School of Mines

“sociotechnical” and “real world” descriptors [17], assessed the impacts of teachingsociotechnical concepts on faculty [18], and developed a number of course interventions aimedat promoting sociotechnical thinking [19].Due to the nature of the typical U.S. engineering curriculum, integrating the social with thetechnical in their classrooms is not a common practice for most engineering faculty. Yetunderstanding the interplay between the social and the technical is essential for students tosucceed in engineering practice ([1], [3], [4]). Through this work, we illustrate how this complexand important area of understanding may be integrated into students’ engineering coursework.This paper and the associated poster summarize the overall project, highlighting

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Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Valerie Fuchs, Michigan Technological University

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International

. Hope for those overlooked by engineers, and hope for academics to rejuvenate interest in engineering education, research, and practice. At University X multiple international sustainable development programs focused on developing communities have coalesced into the D80 Center, focused on providing hope to the 80% of the world’s population poorly served by engineered goods, services, and infrastructure. Based on ten years of experience, the programs clearly resonate with a more diverse student body and produce more well-rounded, global-minded engineers, as compared to traditional programs. Future obstacles include dealing with the demand of such programs with limited faculty, staff, and financial support

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New Engineering Educators Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Tricks of the Trade: Developing Research Funding AbstractBuilding a research group is an important determinant of career success. Maintaining acadre of students and assistants depends upon many factors, but perhaps none is soimportant as funding. Raising money takes time, a fact often bemoaned by professionalsacross the spectrum, from educators to politicians to missionaries. This paper presentsadvice from faculty who have been very successful in obtaining funding, including somewho have served for a time as NSF program officers. They advise that it’s important toserve on review panels to learn how the system works. Find out what each

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K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Targeting women and minority populations to develop an awareness ofengineering is a common practice and has been shown to successfully influence decisions topursue engineering3,4,5. Longer-running camp events and/or those with more involved activitieshas also been shown to positively influence a student’s perception and desire to pursueengineering6 . The College of Engineering at the University runs two summer all-day programs. First, isthe HI-GEAR (Girls Engineering Abilities Realized) program for female high school students3. Itis a 5-day camp subsidized by private donations, camper fees, faculty grants and the College.There is an application process that requires prospective campers to write a personal statement,and provide letters of

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Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Mark Kennedy, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland

Tagged Topics

International Forum

students after the faculty, in May 2012,endorsed a goal that 50% of graduates will complete an international experience by 2017.Across the last seven years, approximately 20% of engineering graduates completed aninternational experience of varied durations, with the percentage increasing from 13% in 2008to 23% in 2014 as we added new programs that include traditional study abroad as well asinternational experiences through service, capstone projects, elective courses, and researchopportunities. Having established School targets, we recognized that not all global experiencesare created equal with respect to cross-cultural awareness, exposure to global engineeringpractice, or the development of skills for living and working in different cultural

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Multidisciplinary Capstone and Collaborative Projects

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois, Chicago; Stephanie Tharp, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #13677Interdisciplinary Medical Product Development Senior Capstone DesignDr. Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois, Chicago Miiri Kotche is a Clinical Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and currently serves as Director of the Medical Accelerator for Devices Laboratory (MAD Lab) at the UIC Innovation Center. Prior to joining the faculty at UIC, she worked in new product development for med- ical devices, telecommunications and consumer products. She co-teaches both bioengineering capstone design courses, including the longstanding core senior design sequence and

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NSF Grantees: First Year Programming (1)

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brett Tallman P.E., Montana State University; Tessa Sybesma, Montana State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University; Monika Kwapisz, Montana State University; Emma Annand, Montana State University; Shannon Ranch, Montana State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #30949Developing Students’ Engineering Leadership Identity: Development andResults of a Pilot Effort with First Year StudentsMr. Brett Tallman P.E., Montana State University Brett Tallman is currently a Doctoral student in Engineering at Montana State University (MSU), with focus on engineering leadership. His previous degrees include a Masters degree in Education from MSU (active learning in advanced quantum mechanics) and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the biotech (Lead Engineer), product design, and automotive (Toyota) sectors for 14 years, and is a

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jerry Gao; Lianbo Zhu

prepare them for the construction industry. This paper addressesseveral approaches to help students develop their professional skills.Faculty Professional DevelopmentDue to the university’s requirements, faculty members in the construction engineering andmanagement programs must hold Ph.D. degrees. However, by obtaining a Ph.D. degree, mostfaculty members have given up opportunities to gain enough industry work experience due to the 443time limitation. To solve this issue, two methods were used to provide the professional skills inthe classroom: • Team teaching approach – the department of Construction Management and Engineering (CME) at North Dakota State University (NDSU) hired several

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth; David Kunz

component of theengineering solution. Can we train students to ask the necessary questions that will lead to theframing of a problem in a format such that the student can use their technical expertise to solvethe problem? The goal of the study described in this paper is to stimulate the thinking of engineeringstudents about the circumstances and questions that surround a specific engineering situation.The hope is that this ability will benefit students by helping them develop a sense of curiosityand wonder that allows them to think beyond the bounds of a textbook. The study also gives anopportunity for a faculty member to examine student thought processes from a differentperspective. While not the initial goal of the study, the true value of the

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Graduate Studies

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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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jaime D. Alava; Keith M. Gardiner

course needs. Like the web browser Mozilla Firefox, a third party can contribute to the Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) code. It is a volunteering effort that allows schools to change a feature and submit it to Moodle, allowing other schools to use the same programming code and feature. Currently, Lehigh is not actively involved in making these code changes, although, Greg Reihman, Director of Faculty Development, decided to change Moodle’s name to Course Site Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova Universityafter students believed Moodle did not sound professional.4 The first step is to introduce thestudents and faculty to the new software

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University; Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University

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NSF Grantees

students to develop the ability in solving implementation problems. Therefore, in order tocater for the industry requirements in the job market, the need for updating the educationalinfrastructure along with technology trend is more urgent in ET program. In response to thisconcern, two ET faculties from neighboring HBCUs (historically black universities) arecollaborating in an NSF CCLI project to utilize the recent information technology to revamp aseries of ET laboratories with virtual and remote functionalities. Information technology has had an enormous impact on engineering by providing new toolsacross the range of engineering disciplines. Meanwhile, it facilitates the development ofadditional teaching strategies, including vivid and

Conference Session

Student Engagement and Motivation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; William Hughes, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

" and the development occurring within the student.The Four-Domain Development Diagram, a synthesis of known empirical relationships in thelearning literature, enables a faculty member to take a systems approach while designing learningactivities. For example, it is known that several factors increase the construct of intrinsicmotivation (a key ingredient in self-directed learning) such as students' valuation of the materialbeing learned, autonomy in the learning process, a sense of relatedness in the learningenvironment and experiencing mastery. Unlike other models of learning which focus on theindependent influence of one or two constructs, such as student interest or choice, our diagramenables one to design the learning experience to utilize

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael J. Caylor; Bruce Chesley

cadets. The contractors understand that an essential part of their job is toeducate our students as they help build and test the satellite, which has worked very successfullyin the past.A significant problem is the lack of true spacecraft engineering experience on the faculty. Mostof the faculty are Air Force officers who come from a variety of professional backgrounds. Somehave operated aerospace systems or have managed acquisition and development of such systemsin previous assignments. As such, military faculty members have a more general engineeringbackground. They can proficiently serve as mentors for much of the spacecraft developmentwork but do not have the hands-on fabrication experience that comes from working in aproduction facility

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Barke

achieve thesame objectives but at smaller social or environmental costs? The “integrated sustainabletechnology and development” option presents many imposing challenges, but it must be thepreferred option.Is “Sustainable Technology” Sufficient?In 1993 the Georgia Institute of Technology launched a project to develop new curriculuminitiatives in sustainable development and technology. A three-course sequence of courses wasdeveloped and taught by faculty from various engineering and non-engineering programs.Importantly, the sustainability initiative at Georgia Tech came from the engineering faculty.The current dean of engineering, Jean-Lou Chameau, has been an energetic advocate ofintroducing sustainability to the education of engineering students

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Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Educational Resear ch & Methods - Session 2630 Development of a Multidisciplinar y Engineer ing Foundation Spir al Michael A. Collur a, Bouzid Aliane, Samuel Daniels, J ean Nocito-Gobel School of Engineer ing & Applied Science, Univer sity of New HavenAbstr actTo operate effectively in today’s workforce engineers need to have a muti-disciplinaryperspective along with substantial disciplinary depth. This broad perspective cannot be achievedby merely taking 2 or 3 engineering courses outside of the major, but rather will require a radicalchange in the way we educate engineers. The faculty of the School of

Conference Session

Case Studies in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Francis Xavier McAfee, Florida Atlantic University; Michael S Harris, Florida Atlantic University; Ravi S Behara, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

thepast four years. The syllabi of the four concurrent courses are documented at a team site15.This is a joint teaching project that involves four faculty members from each of the BASEdisciplines. Each of the BASE professors will teach one course that is discipline specific. Each ofus will teach relevant material pertaining to our respective disciplines, then bring studentstogether (after a mid-term summative exam to ensure that the students could contributeproductively) to form cross-disciplinary teams to build mobile applications. All the courses havethree specified ‘lab’ hours, with students signing up for two. This facilitates their interaction. Thecourses are on software and system development for smart phones (for engineers), animation

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Undergraduate Research and a Force and Moment Lab

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Audrey Pang, Sandia National Laboratories; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

rates and the likelihood ofcontinued research participation and higher education. A new initiative at the University of Texasat Austin (UT Austin), the Freshman Introduction to Research in Engineering (FIRE) program,offers a select group of first-year students with an opportunity to participate in semester-long,faculty-sponsored mechanical engineering research and development projects. In addition to theirresearch, students attend bi-monthly lectures that introduce them to various topics in mechanicalengineering and current research in the field, the successes (and roadblocks) in engineeringresearch and how to overcome them, and career opportunities in engineering. An end of semesterposter session allows students to showcase their research

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idir Azouz, Midwestern State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

was also completed by our pre-engineering students. At the time, SUU had two-year pre-engineering programs in eight of thetraditional engineering disciplines.Armed with the overwhelming support received for the implementation of the program, andusing the comments received from industry, the engineering faculty (2.5 full-time equivalent) at Page 11.459.4SUU set about developing the final form of the program educational objectives and outcomes. Acurriculum was then developed from scratch to ensure achievement of the objectives andoutcomes by the graduates of the program. This curriculum was intended to satisfy the followingcriteria: 1. it

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

2221 Developing a European Master in Construction IT E. Dado1, R. Beheshti21) Assistant Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Designand Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands.E-mail address: e.dado@ct.tudelft.nl / 2) Associate Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of CivilEngineering and Geosciences, Design and Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1,2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail address: r.beheshti@ct.tudelft.nl1

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alanis Chew, Youngstown State University; Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

experiences.ConclusionNontraditional students are a growing population in the university setting. As such, we shouldexplore the various ways we can support them to achieve their goals. Specifically looking atnontraditional students in engineering, this study analyzed the interactions of these students withdifferent support systems, faculty, advisor, support centers, classmates, peers, and on-campusactivities/events. The study is built off several data sources: journal reflections, interviews, andparticipatory design. We developed three draft personas with the help of nontraditional studentsthat shed some light on the needs, wants, and behaviors of nontraditional students in engineering.We found that the most important part to better supporting these students is understanding

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patric McElwain; James Helbling; Angela Beck

COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENGINEERING STYLE MANUAL Jim Helbling, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Angela Beck, Department of Humanities/Communications, Patric McElwain, Department of Humanities/Communications Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, ArizonaAbstractThis paper recounts the development, testing, and publication of a style manual at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University/Prescott Campus. This manual was jointly developed by faculty at theCollege of Engineering and the Department of Humanities/Communications in response tofaculty concerns that, despite a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego; Ming Z. Huang, University of San Diego; Leonard A. Perry, University of San Diego; Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego; Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

design thinking workshops for higher education faculty/administrators at the Stanford d.School as a University Innovation Fellow, coaches a global community of learners through IDEO U, and fails miserably at cooking.Dr. Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego Chell A. Roberts is the founding dean of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego. He assumed his duties in July of 2013. He was also recently appointed as the Associate Provost of Professional and Continuing Education. As an engineering dean at USD, Dr. Roberts has led the development of a new school of engineering, developing innovative engineering space, growing a world class faculty, and creating a base of industry and

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Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Parsek; Chris Riesbeck; Gulnur Birol; Ann McKenna

educational principles to a complex engineering domain. In this senseengineering faculty worked closely with education faculty to create enhanced learning materialsfor biomedical engineering education. We describe the process we followed to develop thesematerials and highlight several components that led to the success of our collaborative effort. Inaddition we describe our course materials, the reformed learning environment, and presentstudent feedback from the initial implementation.IntroductionThe current work was undertaken as part of the VaNTH (Vanderbilt, Northwestern, University ofTexas, and Harvard/MIT) Engineering Research Center 1. One goal of VaNTH is to reformundergraduate engineering courses such that they embed the subject matter in a

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Nadia Albishi; Peter Cavanaugh

2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Innovation, Technology, and Teacher Leadership Development through Online Professional Development Courses in Saudi Arabia Nadia Albishi, Peter Cavanaugh School of Engineering and Technology University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT I. INTRODUCTIONAbstract - This study investigates the relationship betweenonline professional

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College; Jeremiah Pina, Smith College; Rebecca Mazur; Al Rudnitsky, Smith College; Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College; Sonia Ellis, Smith College, Springfield Technical Community College; Crystal M. Ford, Smith College; Kate Lytton, Collaborative for Educational Services; Kaia Claire Cormier, Smith College

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Amherst. McGinnis-Cavanaugh focuses on developing meaningful educational strategies to recruit and retain a diverse student body in engineering and designs innovative learning environments at all levels of the engineering pipeline. Her work in these areas is particularly focused on full inclusion and equity for community college women in engineering and related STEM fields. Professor McGinnis-Cavanaugh is the 2014 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Massachusetts Professor of the Year and recipient of the 2015 Scibelli Endowed Chair for Faculty Excellence and 2018 Outstanding Faculty Member Award.Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College

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Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 7: Library Collaboration

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Boyer, Clemson University; Leah Wiitablake, Clemson University; Yang Wu, Clemson University

in an interdisciplinary process ofeffectively creating and implementing OER. Librarians have the knowledge and skills to workwith faculty to meet the needs of individual learners by working as co-designers in the use andmodification of existing OER and the creation of new OER [1]. They are also useful guides onOER since many faculty members are unaware of these resources [2]. Previous work hadexpressed the need to explore the use of OER in engineering libraries [3]. The work we share inthis paper involves a grant supporting the creation of OER in engineering led by an academiclibrarian. The paper discusses our ongoing design-based research focused on ourinterdisciplinary, multi-institutional collaborative OER development grant, funded by the

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica N. Jones, University of Florida; Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida; Naja A. Mack, University of Florida; Imani Sherman, University of Florida; Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

to to reduce the cost is to augment the role of the graduate student instructors.Instead of teaching the course as part of funding packet, students could teach for course credit oras a means to gain experience for future academic careers. Instructor roles could also be filled bypost-docs and/or junior faculty. The partnership could also solicit support from local technologycompanies and software development schools in the form of scholarships, lab space, hardware, orspecial topic instructors who teach as part of volunteer projects. These companies and businesseswould in turn receive advertisement and face-to-face interactions with potential employees andcurrent or future customers.Despite the problems, the University believes that

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University; Michael Clare, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; John D. Graham, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

was able to thermoform parts in their plant delighting the surprisedcustomer with prototypes four days after New Years Day. The successful outcome of the projectopened the door to subsequent development work and led to orders valued at over $1M forproducts that had been previously manufactured in China. This paper discusses the challenges ofthe project and demonstrates an exciting application of graduate student and faculty talents toimpact the economic development of the regional community.IntroductionOver the past several years, Western Carolina University, under the leadership of ChancellorJohn Bardo, has championed the engagement of the WCU faculty, students, and resources withthe economic growth of Western North Carolina. Western