Conference Session

ASEE TUESDAY PLENARY FEATURING BEST PAPERS & INDUSTRY DAY SPEAKER Sponsored by University of South Florida & University of Maryland

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abisola Coretta Kusimo, Stanford University ; Marissa Elena Thompson, Stanford University ; Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Member Council

engagement and learning outcomes [8]. These ten practices are: first-yearexperiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing intensive courses,collaborative assignments, experiencing different worldviews, community-based learning,capstone experiences, undergraduate research, and internships. In particular, undergraduateresearch and internships are relevant to engineering education but are not utilized by allundergraduate students (as opposed to a required capstone design experience). Thisunderstanding of high impact practices, the engineering education landscape, and the variationsin access to these experiences amongst students led to the focus on the role of undergraduateresearch and internships on engineering task self

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

engineering. Based on our earlier analysis, Alice isfrom a middle class family and Sarah is from a poor or working class family, although Sarah’sparents had higher levels of education than Alice’s. Sarah did not directly address how herfamily's socio-economic status impacted her pathway into engineering. However, Sarah gave upextra-curricular activities in high school in order to work. She is a nontraditional student whoworked two years before starting college and began her education at a community college insteadof a comprehensive university like MU. It is likely that this pathway was dictated, at least in part,by financial necessity. Alice's pathway into MU engineering was more direct. Alice went fromhigh school to a summer bridge program to being

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Il-Seop Shin, Western Illinois University, Quad Cities; Blair J. McDonald P.E., Western Illinois University; Khaled Zbeeb, Western Illinois University; William F. Pratt, Western Illinois University

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

collaboration between the School of Engineering and the local community hasbeen positive and very successful. In this paper, several Senior Design projects are discussed.The assessment and evaluation of ABET Student Outcomes using the Senior Design course ispresented and discussed as a means of directly measuring curriculum success. Engineering’sSenior Design course has had a direct impact on the local community, often with a significantreturn on investment for industrial partners. The significance of this community engagement hasresulted not only in the employment of all of our seniors at graduation, but also in the program’srapid growth.1. IntroductionWestern Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois was granted permission to create a new Schoolof

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College

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Corporate Member Council

 engineering employees.  Impacts on Teaching and Advising  The capstone design students at Smith are direct beneficiaries of the author’s sabbatical experience because the author returned to Smith with a wealth of new ideas to implement in her capstone design course.  Pedagogically, the author is now teaching a more structured version of the design process that is better aligned with industry practices and emphasizes transparency and justification.  Particular elements that have been added include stage­gate design reviews and a traceability matrix for design process documentation.  To engage students beyond their own project, the author has piloted the concept of “shadow teams”, in which students follow a second project throughout its development

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert B. Rhoads, Ohio State University; Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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Corporate Member Council

budget that supports travel and prototype development costs.Because the multidisciplinary capstone course is one of several options for senior engineeringstudents, instructors can be selective when accepting students. They screen students through anapplication process that includes submitting a resume and application letter. Often, personalinterviews are the deciding factor to ensure teams are formed with self-directed students.Students are asked to explain their interest in joining the program and to describe thecontribution they expect to make to their team. During this process, the coordinators look forstudents exhibiting professional skills including time management, leadership, teamwork,communication, and initiative.After the interview

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui (Celia) Pan, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

for exclusionary practices and cultures.5 Table 5 showsthe variety of strategies teams implement to engage new members into team activities and helpthem feel welcome. The table shows that the most common strategy is allowing new members toattend meetings, and few teams engage in meaningful mentorship of new members.Almost half of the participants (43%) believe that members leave the team because their personalgoals don't match team or competition goals. Most teams strive for competition achievement andto improve technical skills (Table 6). Students who are motivated by other reasons to join theteam, such as having fun and meeting new friends, might not feel a sense of community andmight be likely to leave the team. Table 5

Conference Session

WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chao Wang, Arizona State University

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Corporate Member Council

alsoliked the creative opportunity and inspiration to make better products. However, due to the verynature of free-choice project, different students engaged in different ways, with some creatingsophisticated prototypes and others constructing simple solutions. For the past three years, theproject definition was tweaked to varying degrees of freedom. For instance, from free-choiceproject (the only requirement is to positively impact the world) to theme-based project (such asrelating the project to assistive technology, accessible and universal design), but there was noclear indication that one approach was better than the other.Giving students the freedom to choose their own design project promotes autonomy, which isone of the three basic

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Gregory John Kostrzewsky, Cummins, Inc; Lin Xiang Sun, Danfoss Turbocor Compressors

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

partners to integrate manyof these activities in order to provide more professional practice skills beyond traditionalengineering education to our students. We believe our recent success in fostering sustainedindustrial partnership is the direct result of the following practices:  Proactive recruitment: selecting partners who have long-term interest to affiliate with the program and replacing inactive members through normal attrition.  Relevant engagement: involving partners with activities that have potential impacts on the program and providing them with a well-planned agenda so they feel full engaged and take ownership of the affiliation.  Steady leadership: selecting and retaining strong leaders who understand

Conference Session

WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Samara Rose Boyle, Rice University ; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University; Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University; Reginald DesRoches, Rice University; Stephen P. Mattingly, The University of Texas at Arlington; Anne Nordberg, University of Texas at Arlington; Wei Wayne Li, Texas Southern University; Hanadi S. Rifai P.E., University of Houston

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Corporate Member Council

of 28 engineers, architects, city planners, and social scientists to study the impact of the earthquake. He has also participated in numerous congressional briefings to underscore the critical role that university research must play in addressing the country’s infrastructure crisis and resilience to natural hazards. Dr. DesRoches has served as thesis advisor to 29 Doctoral and 17 Master’s thesis students. Dr. DesRoches has served as Chair of the ASCE Seismic Effects Committee (2006-2010), Chair of the executive committee of the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (2010), and Board of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). He is currently a member of the executive committee of the

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victor Taratukhin, Stanford University; Yury V. Kupriyanov, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Jörg Becker

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Corporate Member Council

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College Industry Partnerships

(Mora-Valentin et al. 2004; Thune 2011). Geographicalproximity might play a secondary or no role at all for the research collaboration, but beimportant for the educational one.Not only the organizational aspect of a university educational collaboration with industrypartners should be taken into account, but also the impact of collaboration on the universitystudents, who are the main stakeholders in these joint initiatives. Students and researchersalike both learn in the context of such cooperation. This holds true for a research-oriented aswell as education-oriented collaborations. It should be kept in mind that students often mayhave a “pre-employment look” (Stephan 2001) on the industry, which means that they get toknow about the working

Conference Session

WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Adel Sharif, California State University, Los Angeles; Masood Shahverdi, California State University, Los Angeles; Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles; Arturo Pacheco-Vega, California State University, Los Angeles

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Corporate Member Council

, with a service learningEngineering Ethics and Professionalism course, and allows students to work on service learningprojects for a local community organization in the summer. The design projects, with theirinevitable need to revisit design choices, teach students to build grit and learn from mistakesthrough the iterative process of design, build, and test. It also builds their engineering identity, asthey see themselves more as real-world problem solvers. The service learning aspect enablesstudents to see the impact of their engineering abilities on their local community and motivatesthem to persevere through the challenges and rigor of engineering degree programs. Theteamwork, peer mentorship, and faculty interaction required to carry out

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION TWO

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rick I Zadoks, Caterpillar Inc.; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Corporate Member Council

the IAC community idealized several beneficial outcomesassociated with developing this new course including: 1) establishing a foundation ofcollege/industry collaborative graduate level course work that supported the concerns of industryfacing stakeholders and beyond, and 2) offering engineering education students a unique area ofresearch specialization focused on life-long learning and engineering practice in Industry. Thecreation and assessment of this course however moved beyond the initial objectives idealized. Inretrospect, this course development project serves as a means for evaluating oneindustry/academic partnership through the lens of a Six Sigma orientation, by way of a sharedexperience.Review of LiteratureA scant number of

Conference Session

Corporate Member Council Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared V. Berrett, Utah State University; Cedale Sage Armstrong, Utah State University; Curtis G Frazier, Utah State University Eastern

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Corporate Member Council, Diversity

at a time to be in the laboratory tominimize the impact on the lab work itself, though students needed to have a hands-on andinterpersonal experience rather than just a “field trip.” We asked mentors to think of this as apre-internship where we are preparing students to become highly functional interns and gradstudents in the future.USUE Blanding Student Expectations: Students from Blanding lived on the Logan campus (7hours away) for the four week period of time. Each student reported in a Canvas course a recordof what they did and learned each day. A facilitator hired to assist the students met with themdaily Monday – Friday to debrief their day and mediate any circumstances and answer questionsas students become acclimated to the STEM

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuetong Lin, Indiana State University; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University; M. Affan Badar, Indiana State University; W. Tad Foster, Indiana State University; Jason C. Dean, Indiana State University

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Corporate Member Council

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College Industry Partnerships

when weparticipated in the I-Corps L program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and ASEEin 2015. During the course of the program, we engaged in an intensive exploration ofopportunities to commercialize prior NSF TUES project on improving diagnostic skills forengineering and technology students 1 . Our goal was to identify industrial partners so that thediagnostic training programs can be adopted or adapted to tackle practical problems. During themonth-long customer interactions, the team had interviewed over 100 potential clients, themajority of whom were engineers, managers, and directors of operations in heavy industry likeenergy, manufacturing, or health care sector. At the beginning of this process, we did not have aclear vision