Business Development Center (SBDC), EconomicDevelopment Commission of the Space Coast, NASA Office of Technology Commercializationat KSC, and other local partners, neighboring universities and colleges, plans to dramaticallyreduce this problem by methodical research and facilitation of best practices for technologytransfer and commercialization leveraging a unique educational program in experientialentrepreneurship and technology commercialization.SCION Objectives:The SCION Partnership objectives are to:1) Develop education and experiential entrepreneurship programs to promote technology Page 11.1243.11commercialization and entrepreneurship
, three doctoral programs have been launched at Boise State University. Thefirst doctoral program established was in Electrical and Computer Engineering, selected becauseof the need for a trained workforce in the region. The other two doctoral programs, MaterialsScience and Engineering, and Computing, were from the start designed as interdisciplinarydegree programs. That is, they were designed for the participation of not just program facultywithin the division, but for the participation of program faculty with related research interests inother departments at the university. This paper presents the steps taken to launch the programs,lessons learned in initiating and administering the programs, best practices undertaken, andchallenges faced by
overview of these ideas and how they shaped the course design – the learningobjectives and the learning environment. This provides a rationale for establishing thecourse as a model based on best practices.Description and explanation of learning objectivesThe central idea of the course is to help graduate students become future professionals.Professional practices are cultivated and sustained either explicitly or implicitly withincommunities of practice16. As such, the notion of legitimate peripheral participation15provides a useful framework for understanding the experiences of graduate students (asfuture professionals) as they enter, navigate, and work in a new field of research. Thecommunity of practice framework is a form of cognitive
guide students through the cognitive and metacognitive processes of choosingtopics, asking questions, identifying an appropriate problem and locating adequate data sources.The worksheets are introduced in a linear manner and completed in order. This progressive pathis intended to provide a logical and methodical approach for developing research questions.However, each worksheet can be completed independently. The worksheets can also be used as apedagogical approach to introduce research methods into the classroom. The design activityworksheets have been used in multiple venues: undergraduate and graduate data visualizationcourses, workshops and more recently, a graduate seminar designed to help students identifytheir thesis topics in partial
definition ofbroader impacts the first few weeks of class helped me set up a good foundation for the rest ofthe course.’‘I thought the class participation very beneficial and should be required. We were able to notonly practice talking about our research to others but we were able to see how we progressedthroughout the semester.’Summary and outlookThe initial offering of the course in Spring 2016 attracted 13 engineering graduate students fromfour disciplines and introduced them to the notion of broader impacts and underscored the valueof engaging in activities to achieve specific societal outcomes. Student feedback from this initialoffering was very positive. The course has already achieved impact by enabling students toimplement their project
National Champion in 2001. She is a December 2003 graduate of the MS-Marketing program at Texas A&M University. And in the Fall of 2009, Maria graduated with a PhD program in Higher Education Administration in August 2017.Dr. Vikram K. Kinra, Texas A&M University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Impact of Research Experience Programs on National and International Undergraduate Engineering StudentsAbstractThis study explored differences in the influence of summer research experiences on 33 nationaland international undergraduate students at a Southwestern public research university in theUnited States during the summers of 2017 and 2018. The students participated
. Each filter would have its own nutrient solution bath to ensurethe stability of the cultures.As shown above, when an undergraduate chemical engineering student was introduced toongoing VOC research, it motivated her to want to design a new experiment to furtherunderstand if there are more efficient ways to contain VOCs. Perhaps if a major-specificundergraduate research-exposure course is included early on in the freshman and sophomoreyears, a course where students are dedicated to exploring a research topic of interest, such asVOCs, then students may want to pursue graduate school.Student Surveys:To study the impact of research and student involvement in studies outside the regular coursework a few surveys were performed. In addition to the
engineering course innovations. She has worked extensively in the design of assessment tools for course methods and activities. She is a faculty development consultant with previ- ous experience in instructional design, and the instructor of the Graduate Assistant Seminar for training engineering teaching assistants at Penn State. Page 24.189.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Applying Research-Based Principles and Theory to Practice: The redesign of a graduate teaching assistant training seminarAbstractWhat do Graduate Student Instructors (GSI) expect from a
development was grounded in Eccles’ Expectancy Value Theory (EVT), aswell as literature on returning students and a pilot study. The survey included questions aboutstudents’ motivation for returning, their previous work and school experience, their future careerplans, the challenges of graduate school, and their strategies for adapting to these challenges.This paper presents the development of the survey, in which we highlight best practices from theliterature that informed the development and refinement process. We show iterations of thesurvey and data from the advisory board and our cognitive interviews that informed the finalversion of the instrument.I. IntroductionWe define returners as students who spend at least five years working as
AC 2010-1963: DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONALDEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AT ARESEARCH EXTENSIVE UNIVERSITYSunni Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology Sunni H. Newton is currently in her 4th year of Georgia Tech's PhD program in industrial organizational psychology, with a minor in quantitative psychology. She attended Georgia Tech as an undergraduate, double-majoring in psychology and management. She worked for several years as a graduate research assistant in a psychology lab where she helped conduct studies on adult learning. She currently works as a graduate research assistant in Georgia Tech's Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) where
, professional development, STEM edu- cation, intercultural training, e-portfolios best practices, and training evaluation and measurement. He has had the opportunity to present at regional, national, and international conferences his works and collabo- rations in these areas. In the field of e-learning and development, he has collaborated with organizations such as Johns Hopkins, Special Olympics, and the Graduate School at UMBC. Currently, he is one of the members of the Learning Transformation Research Group at Virginia Tech. In addition, Mr. Nino is a certified public translator, conference interpreter, and copywriter. In 2011, he founded Surplus Solutions, offering a wide variety of solutions to businesses, including
Paper ID #15980Design, Implementation, and Outcomes of a Comprehensive Professional De-velopment Program for Post-Graduate Studies in EngineeringProf. Laleh Behjat Dr. Laleh Behjat is an associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include designing computer chips, electronic design automation and developing software for computer hardware. She has won several awards for her work on the development of software tools for computer engineering. In addition, Dr. Behjat has a passion for increasing the statues of women in Science, technology
the norms and values of the research community. Even if the participants’ first drafts werechanged significantly after feedback from a trusted mentor or advisor, this demonstrates anaspect of discourse enculturation.Viewed through academic literacies theory, the narratives employed by these graduate studentsare meant to strongly align with disciplinary values and norms in order to argue most effectivelyfor the merit of the research proposals. The graduate students are practicing their academicliteracy through the use of both disciplinary language and jargon and the types of activities thatthey perceive best demonstrate the intellectual merits and broader impacts of their researchproposals.The distribution of themes across the broad
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A graduate study on cost effective analyses and environmental impact analyses of using waste cementitious materials in building constructionAbstractConcrete is the most dominating construction material across the globe. In the last two decadesthe concrete production has increased dramatically, which caused an increase in Portland cementproduction since it is the core of reaction that gives concrete its strength. Cement productiongenerates a significant amount of Green House Gas (GHG) contributing to global warming.The purpose of this research is to review literature that proves efficiency of the usage of wastecementitious materials and to
with f2f students as the primary audience. Online students to be observers rather thanfull participants in the course.This paper looks at reversing that model by creating courses where the online student experienceis the starting point for course design. The authors researched best practices in online educationto reinvent lectures, assessments, and interactions and used a Backwards Design approach toreinvent a graduate level materials science course. The process developed became known as theDesign for Online (DFO) model.Lectures were pre-taped in a studio and broken into smaller digestible chunks. Each of the videoswas based upon clearly identified outcomes that focused on higher order thinking as defined byBloom’s Taxonomy. In order to
Paper ID #15171The inGEAR Program: Recruiting International Graduate Students throughUndergraduate Research InternshipsDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engi- neering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing
they clearly understood the impact of theinsulation. Similar conclusions were drawn by IDEO on the topic of energy efficiency in a2009 study for the Department of Energy13.The upshot of their research efforts was that it led to a number of new ideas and directionsfor their design project. They now began asking how can practicing design engineersinnovate in this field? Their goal became innovation, in the sense of searching for new ideasthat lead to a significant impact on society. They concluded that investigating new energyefficiency technologies would be an unlikely path to innovation because of the lack ofinterest on the part of consumers.ConclusionsThe two students working on the Now House Project were able to find a new direction,entirely
Leadership and Team Performance: The Mediating Roles of Cognitive Trust and Collective Efficacy.” SAGE Open 3(3): 1–10.33. Somerville, Mark, and Jessica Townsend. 2015. “A Student-Centered Approach to Designing Teaming Experiences.” Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2015–Febru(February): 1–2.34. Bradley, Bret H, Heather J Anderson, John E Baur, and Anthony C Klotz. 2015. “When Conflict Helps: Integrating Evidence for Beneficial Conflict in Groups and Teams under Three Perspectives.” Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice 19(4): 243–72.35. Chan, Joel, Steven P. Dow, and Christian D. Schunn. 2015. “Do the Best Design Ideas (Really) Come from Conceptually Distant Sources of Inspiration?” Design Studies 36(C
students’ experience and degree completion. Such challenges havehighlighted the need for further discussion and reform in graduate education. One such examplewas a workshop with graduate students, administrators, faculty members, and postdoctoralresearchers that culminated in suggestions for engineering graduate education: (1) clarifyexpectations, (2) attend to the community, (3) organize the research group for mentoring, and (4)structure student development toward independence [8].A civil engineering research group at a public research-intensive university developed a retreat tosupport socialization, address the aforementioned challenges, and integrate best practices ingraduate education while also drawing on organizational change and workforce
Page 24.1234.4component of successful mentoring relationships, and a failure to communicate clearly aboutschedules, goals and deadlines can lead to difficult relationships between mentors and students.Thus, the pre-experience survey asked mentors whether they had discussed practical concerns(e.g., work schedules, lab safety, research procedures) and whether they had explored broaderissues like the responsible conduct of research and the societal impact of research in this area.Since the pre-experience survey was deployed about 10 days into the summer programs, theseresponses capture mentors’ conversations with students in the first week or two of theundergraduate research experience.The response options for this set of questions were Yes/No
journal entry surveys and used to develop the nationwidesurvey. Future manuscripts will detail the methods and findings in the other phases of this workand will examine additional components of the GTA experience.Situation in Current LiteratureWhile there is considerable literature on programs created for GTA development, many of thestudies are descriptive and often lack either a research component altogether or an evaluation ofthe long-term impact of the interventions.7-9 As Jamieson and Lohmann10 have stressed, practicemust inform research and research inform practice. Both components are essential to ensure thefuture establishment of research based training programs geared towards enhancing the specificpedagogical needs of GTAs. This study
modern practice of engineering for technology development & innovation‘has itself changed substantially’ from that portrayed by linear research-driven paradigm ofengineering practice of 1945 U.S. science policy (See Appendix A). 6 Yet, with notableexceptions, the mainstream of U.S. engineering graduate education has not reflected this change.As outcomes of investigating the need for reform of engineering graduate education forcompetitiveness in the UK and in the US, the UK Parnaby Committee and the US NationalCollaborative Task Force have basically reached similar conclusions from essentially twoparallel efforts and from two different national perspectives: UK Parnaby Report Although the UK government had already begun to
AC 2011-2275: CIRTL: IMPACTING STEM EDUCATION THROUGH GRAD-UATE STUDENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTJustin P. Micomonaco, Michigan State University Page 22.325.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning: Impacting STEM Education through Graduate Student Professional DevelopmentAbstract This paper summarizes findings of a national, multi-institutional effort to reform STEMundergraduate education through the implementation of graduate student professionaldevelopment programs focused on improving teaching practice
project management and leadership texts and training guidesavailable in the literature, including many valuable electronic resources.The research team took a similar approach in providing teacher training for the graduate studentmentors. The graduate students were provided with references on teaching best-practices. Thesereferences taught the graduate students how to develop learning objectives, employ differentquestioning techniques, understand different learning styles, and develop interpersonal rapport.3As with project management and leadership, there are many teaching references available in theliterature, which are not listed herein.Early in the project, the research team recognized that encouraging effective communicationbetween the
given research field. • Design of an experimental plan.The endearing premise of this proposal-based qualifying exam was that writing a researchproposal is a learning tool that teaches tangible research skills which students do not gain in theirtraditional graduate coursework. This semester-long course included incremental milestones forthe student and regular feedback from the instructors. The final product of the course was a 15page NSF style research proposal and a 20-minute oral presentation on the proposal before afaculty committee selected by the course instructors. All performance evaluations wereincorporated into a final grade for the course. Of the 6 students enrolled in the course in Summer2009, three were chemical engineering
Technology (PCAST. ) “Transformation and opportunity: The future of the U.S. research enterprise”, Report to the President, 2012.[5] C. Wendler, B. Bridgeman, R. Markle, F. Cline, N. Bell, P. McAllister and J. Kent. Pathways Through Graduate School And Into Careers. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 2012.[6] H. S. Barrows, Practice-Based Learning: Problem-Based Learning Applied To Medical Education. Springfield, IL: Southern Illinois University, 1994.[7] H. S. Barrows, How To Design A Problem-Based Curriculum For The Preclinical Years. New York, NY: Springer, 1985.[8] I. Choi, Y. C. Hong, H. Park, and Y. Lee, “Case-based learning for anesthesiology: Enhancing dynamic decision-making skills through
guideresearch groups through graduate school. The participants suggested that discussions begin inboth faculty meetings and lab group meetings. Faculty meetings and department-leveldiscussions can focus on sharing best practices and some materials such as evaluation forms.Participants in the workshop suggested that departments could set up a wiki or a discussionboard where faculty can post common issues and good practices. The wiki (or a similar forum)would provide an arena for faculty to discuss and set goals, give feedback, share forms andreflect on their experiences. Research group discussions should focus more on clarifying valuesand expectations, providing feedback and reflecting on how to improve. These discussions neednot be formal in nature
Paper ID #21171Pragmatic Framework for Graduate-level Sustainability Capstone ProjectsMr. Ben D. Radhakrishnan, National University Prof. Ben D Radhakrishnan is currently a full time Faculty in the School of Engineering, Technology and Media (SETM), National University, San Diego, California, USA. He is the Program Director/Lead Fac- ulty for MS Sustainability Management Program. He develops and teaches Engineering and Sustainabil- ity Management graduate level courses. Ben has taught Sustainability workshops in Los Angeles (Army) and San Diego (SDGE). His special interests and research include promoting Leadership in
of the economy, that doctoralprogram was designed from its inception to raise up a new generation of scholars.However, there are many professionals who find that their lives are incompatible with thetraditional PhD’s structure and philosophy. Take, for example, a working engineer in her 40swho is earning a six-figure salary, has a family (spouse, kids, dog, and mortgage) and is eager toadvance her knowledge and career. Because we offer online master’s education options, she canpop open her laptop and take graduate-level courses in the evening after the house is settled.Once that master’s degree is in hand and she finds herself hungry for the depth and research-intensive experience of doctoral education, though, what options does she have
Wighton Fellow for excellence in development and teaching of laboratory-based courses in Canadian UG engineering programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Graduate student pedagogical impact through development and delivery of a collaborative inquiry focused high school STEM programAbstractConsidering a changing academic landscape that desires skill development beyond that oftraditional research, post-secondary STEM students now require broad opportunities to improvetheir translatable skill set. Notably, we routinely observe an increasing number of doctoralstudents focused on developing their teaching skills, given opportunities to pursue