• Coordinate the pitch • Make appointments (try to have these after the PPC sessions are over) • Forward roster of state attendees • For Kansas: it was always Stuart Bell; For Arkansas: it has been me 3The visits •Prepare in advance • At KS and AR, we always have a white paper with examples from each college on the impact of federally sponsored research at our universities •As a group, consider meeting throughout the year so your message is unified and natural 4The visits • Take advantage of the appointments • Thank them for supporting budgets for STEM research and education. You may pick
MED TECH GROWTH Karen Zaderej AxoGen President and CEODisclosures: Graduate of Purdue University AxoGen labs located in Sid Martin BioTechnology Incubator from UF AxoGen technology licensed from University of Florida and University of Texas of Austin 11 Med Tech Makes a DifferenceOur innovations help patients worldwide live longer, healthier and moreproductive lives. • Between 1980 and 2010, medical advancements helped add five years to U.S. life expectancy and reduce fatalities from heart disease and stroke by more than half1
Feasibility Development / Implementation Continuous Validation Improvement EWI FoundingExtremely Abbreviated History 1977: American Welding Society (AWS) strategy conference identifies need for a US welding institute 1980: NSF I/UCRC Center for Welding Research established at The Ohio State University 1983: Ohio Edison Technology Center program in response to manufacturing downturn 1984: Edison Welding Institute incorporated 1985: Business begins to take off; Growth in membership, staff, and technical capability 1993: First major federal program; Navy Joining Center
Manuscript” or Version of Record (VoR) • PDF of Accepted Manuscript (or VoR, if publisher permits) OR institutional repository link to Accepted Manuscript or VoR Agency Repository – PAGES, PubMed Central, etc. Institutional Repository – OSU Knowledge Bank, Purdue e-Pubs, etc. • A CHORUS (publisher’s) link can also be provided by the PI (or in some cases publishers are working with agencies to provide CHORUS links). NOTE: A CHORUS link alone does not satisfy the requirements. CHORUS – Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (Publisher-led initiative in response to the OSTP memo)PI is responsible for ensuring that the Accepted Manuscript or VoR is, in
Legislative UpdateFocus on:National manufacturing initiatives;Reauthorization of the COMPETES act;The federal budget outlook.Presented by:Richard Benson, Virginia Tech, andJoseph Helble, Dartmouth For Discussion only not for distribution 1 The “Secret Decoder Ring” for Manufacturing Initiatives• NNMI = National Network for Manufacturing Innovation;• MII = Manufacturing Innovation Institute;• NAMII = National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute;• PCAST = President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology;• AMP = Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. 2Call to Establish a National Network ofManufacturing Innovation Institutes (MII
2012 Engineering Deans Council Public Policy Colloquium Tobin Smith Vice President for Policy Association of American Universities February 7, 2012 Overview• The current political and economic climate• A snapshot of the 112th Congress• Key messages for Capitol Hill visitsThe Typical Legislative Process The Legislative Process in a Presidential Election Year!• Election year means deep partisan divide• 41 GOP senators; loss of Democratic filibuster- proof majority; margins in both House and Senate will tighten further after election• Strong divisions on health care, climate change, and spending• R&D, STEM education, and competitiveness still draw bipartisan support
by gutting ourinvestments in innovation and education islike lightening an overloaded airplane byremoving its engine. It may make you feellike you're flying high at first, but it won'ttake long before you feel the impact. Divide on SpendingObama Administration Policy: Cut andInvest. President in State of the Unionextended a freeze on most discretionaryspending but said: “We'll invest inbiomedical research, informationtechnology, and especially clean energytechnology - an investment that willstrengthen our security, protect our planet,and create countless new jobs for ourpeople." Divide on SpendingHouse GOP leadership: Cut spending to2008 levels. Appropriations ChairmanHarold Rogers promises “the largestseries of spending cuts in
Feasibility Development / Implementation Continuous Validation Improvement EWI FoundingExtremely Abbreviated History 1977: American Welding Society (AWS) strategy conference identifies need for a US welding institute 1980: NSF I/UCRC Center for Welding Research established at The Ohio State University 1983: Ohio Edison Technology Center program in response to manufacturing downturn 1984: Edison Welding Institute incorporated 1985: Business begins to take off; Growth in membership, staff, and technical capability 1993: First major federal program; Navy Joining Center
national trends and share best practices for building U-I partnerships for the range of ERC organizational sizes and levels of maturityOur Session Panelists• Tony Boccanfuso, President, University Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP)• Dan Kramer, Associate VP of the Industrial Liaison Office, The Ohio State University• Crystal Leach, Director of Industry Collaborations, University of Georgia Plan for the Session • (30 minutes) 10 Minute Panelist Presentations, each concluding with a thought-provoking question to help frame table discussions • (25 Minutes) Table Discussion. Volunteer scribes for each of the tables in the group enters input to their Google Doc • (25 minutes) Panelists discuss what they
. University of Missouri – RollaAbstract The current ABET guidelines place an emphasis on life-long learning for ourundergraduate students. What is life-long learning? How can we encourage students toconsider global issues, current events, or even anything “that isn’t going to be on the nexttest”? In this paper we present survey results evaluating habits of undergraduate studentsentering an engineering management program and seniors related to life-long learningincluding attending professional society meetings, reading trade publications, readingbusiness related books, and other learning outside of the classroom activities. This paper also presents a two semester effort to increase life-long learningactivities among undergraduate
AC 2007-1326: ENABLING AND CHARACTERIZING ENTREPRENEURIALSUCCESSES IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMSAlice Agogino, UC Berkeley Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is affliated faculty at the Haas School of Business in their Operations and Information Technology Management Group She has served in a number of administrative positions at UC Berkeley, including Associate Dean of Engineering and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost in Educational Development and Technology. Prof. Agogino also served as Director for Synthesis, an NSF-sponsored coalition of eight universities with the goal of reforming
and infrastructural development. For sustainable WBL, it is important toensure that not only are the laboratories able to satisfy pedagogical needs; theyshould also ensure that designers and developers are well trained to adapt basicexperiment infrastructure to suit a range of other experiments. Training willinclude hardware and software development.An important aspect of WBL is how much of hardware should be replaced bysoftware. This aspect becomes especially relevant in cash strapped environmentand in many institutions where deficient funding leads to constraints in theacquisition of equipment. Of note also is how WBL can be tailored to suit caseswhere adequate bandwidth is an important issue.In this paper the experience of developing WBL
Paper ID #20115Engineering Education Research Approaches: An Analysis of the CurrentResearch Trends Around the WorldMr. Luis Felipe Zapata Rivera, Florida Atlantic University Felipe Zapata Is a Phd student of Computer Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, in the past worked as a researcher assistant in the group of educational computer in the Eafit University in Medellin, Colom- bia. His work areas include: Remote Laboratories for Education, Development of online assessment systems and Machine Learning. He conducted their studies in systems engineering and masters degree at Eafit University. During his masters he
Paper ID #29695Boat Float Engineering Design (Resource Exchange)Ms. Krista Schumacher, University of St. Thomas Krista is an undergraduate Elementary Education and STEM Education major at the University of St. Thomas.Dr. Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas Dr. Besser, PE, ENV SP, holds a PhD in education and MS and BS in civil engineering. Currently, she is civil engineering chair and Center for Engineering Education director. Previous experience includes fac- ulty positions in diverse universities where she has taught a variety of coursework including steel, timber, concrete and masonry design
students’mindfulness and academic functioning. Additionally, prior research has not specificallyconsidered and tested interventions designed to increase the trait mindfulness of engineeringstudents. In this paper, we examine these questions through two studies: the first, a survey studyexamining the association between trait mindfulness and relevant educational outcomes in 73engineering and non-engineering students; the second, a pilot four-week mindfulness-basedstress reduction intervention for 21 engineering students.Results indicated that engineering students’ grades on a targeted task relevant to ABEToutcomes were significantly, positively related to their self-reported preference for challenginginformation and experiences (r = .41, p < .01) and their
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 New Strategies in Engineering and Technology Education – Seeding for Future Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstractCOPEC – Council of Researches in Education and Sciences has been looking for new strategiesof action for the next five years. The goal of its efforts is to provide new programs and projectsin Engineering and Technology for applications that encounter the real necessities of society.Brazil Superior Education has a history of success despite some problems of social and financialorder. And it starts with the creation of Public Universities in the many
implementation becomes rapidly complex as the length ofthe code word and the uncoded message increase. As a result, most coding theory uses a (7,4)code in which the code word has seven bits of which four bits contain the information.2 The coderesults in a manageable number of 128 code words of which only 16 form valid codes. Theredundancy is used for error correction. Now suppose a (15,7) code is used allowing 32,768possible code words for which only 128 are valid information codes. This complexity can bereduced by using several functions in the Matlab Communications Toolbox, providing a uniquelearning opportunity for the engineering technology student.INTRODUCTION2Channel coding refers to the class of signal transformations designed to improve
past three years, the Freshmen Engineering Program at NC State has continued torefine the course. The approach taken involves four steps: (1) define course learning objectiveswith constituents, (2) deve lop course content based on learning objectives (again withconstituents), in the presence of constraints, (3) assess degree of achievement of learningobjectives and effectiveness of content, and (4) utilize assessment data to implement changeswhich increase effectiveness and efficiency of resources.Design of the CourseE 101: Introduction to the College of Engineering and Problem Solving is a required one-semester-hour course that is offered for all new entering engineering freshmen at NC State.There are approximately 1,150 such students each
Session 1460 Desires of industry, products from academia - Ships that pass in the night? R Eley, S Williamson, F Lamb LTSN Engineering, Loughborough University, UKIntroduction. The UK-wide Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) was launched in January2000 following a British Government review of existing learning and teaching initiatives inhigher education (HE). Recognition that academics best appreciate, assimilate and implement apedagogic approach when presented to them in the context of their own discipline, resulted in
work investigates the useof multimodal (spoken verbal, written verbal, and visual) approaches integrated through Microsoft's OneNoteprogram to change student access to problem solving frameworks in the context of a junior level thermodynamicscourse on equilibrium thermodynamics for chemical engineers. One of the challenges in engineering is getting students to move beyond plug-and-chug type solutions andframeworks to having them fully integrate new knowledge into an independently organized thought process forbringing complex information to bear in applied ways. Students have a difficult time developing these skills fromtextbooks because the texts are not interactive and because they often do not present information in more than oneway
solved by student teams. The MEAfocuses on the problem solving process and model development, but also tests discipline-specific knowledge. Although these activities do not seem difficult to develop inprinciple, considerable work and numerous revisions must be made to create a trulysuccessful MEA. To help with MEA development, researchers have established severaldesign principles. The Reality Principle stipulates that the problem offers a real worldproblem with engineering context. The problem should require students to develop sometype of mathematical model and/or decision algorithm, as stated by the ModelConstruction Principle. If this model can be shared with other student teams and is easilymodified to apply to other similar situations, then
Enhancing Undergraduate Engineering Laboratory Experience Dr. R. C. Clifft, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Dr. Shivan Haran, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Arkansas State University, P. O. Box 1740 State University, Arkansas 72467-1740 ABSTRACTThe importance of experimental activities is being increasingly recognized as integralelements of engineering curricula today. A reflection of this trend is evidenced by thereview criteria applied by educational accreditation boards such as ABET. The crucialrole that laboratory experiments play in providing a meaningful engineering experienceto the
https://www.kctechcouncil.com/ Engineering Triumphs Kansas City Bridge (1869) Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (2011)LHL https://www.azahner.com/ …and Tragedies Kemper Arena (1979) Hyatt Regency Hotel (1981)http://www.kcur.org/ https://www.kansascity.com/ Recent Achievements Google Fiber (2012) KC Streetcar (2016)https://www.nytimes.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/Linda Hall Library A Plenary in Three Parts 1) The Roots of American
paperintends to outline the advantages of having a closed book test policy over an open booktests practice in the subject of statics and vice-versa. It will outline the experience of theauthor in regard to this issue as an instructor for statics and many other courses at PennState Fayette as an assistant professor of engineering and previously as faculty assistantat Duke University. This will also include his experience as a bridge designer with theNorth Carolina Department of Transportation, and as a structural engineer with aconsulting engineering firm. It will compare the two policies and conclude withrecommendations.
What Students Say are the Top Engineering Challenges of the Future Seamus Freyne Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Manhattan CollegeWhat are the most important challenges facing our nation or world in which engineers canprovide a solution? This question was asked to hundreds of engineering students over aperiod of the last five years, usually on the first day of classes. To ensure the authenticityand creativity of the essays, students were allowed time to do the assignment in class.With a growing collection of essays, it became obvious that the topics generally fell intoone of ten main themes, though
Engineering The UN Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals William E Kelly Adjunct faculty member, Sustainability Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering George Mason UniversityThe United Nations (UN) Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals are expected to beapproved and to become effective January 1, 2016. There are 17 goals and 169 targets and theyreplace 8 Millennium Development goals with 18 targets. The new goals will guide UNsustainable development activities over the next 15 years. The UN has been a major driver ofsustainable development beginning with the 1987 Brundtland Report
AC 2010-2171: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY, AND MATHEMATICS TEACHERSKenneth Hunter, Tennessee Technological University Kenneth Hunter is an Associate Professor in the Basic Engineering Program at Tennessee Technological University, where he received his BSME and MSME. He is active in engineering education outreach and has over thirty-five years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, and his own consulting business. He is a registered engineer in Tennessee.Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University Jessica Matson is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. She
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION CONCLUSION 2 Page 17.34.3 INTRODUCTION Higher education makes a vital contribution to sustainable development through the generation and dissemination of knowledge. The effective management of this domain merits top priority at a time when Universities face critical challenges due to unprecedented expansion in demand. Education, at all levels, will continue to grow, because it cultivates the human mind and makes people important and useful in the all-round development of a country. 3
a dynamic and competitiveenvironment1. Each engineering program seeking accreditation must have in place a processbased on the needs of the program’s various constituencies in which the objectives aredetermined and evaluated1. For this purpose, a systematic approach for educational processimprovement and reengineering is needed. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a quality improvement tool for determiningcustomer requirements and translating them into product or service specifications. QFD hasbeen applied for extracting customer requirements, as well as for designing elements based onthose requirements in both university settings and other educational institutions in previousstudies 2,3,4,5. However, only the question of what is
Program (NDEP) is building a foundation for the future STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) workforce needs of the Department ofDefense (DoD) by supporting science and math programs at the pre-college,undergraduate/graduate, and faculty/postdoctoral levels. At the pre-college (K-12) level, NDEP-supported outreach activities feature in-school, summer camp, and after-school activities withparticular emphasis on math-focused, DoD scientist-and-engineer mentored, hands-on, problem-based learning experiences. This paper is devoted to describing both the composition and theassessments of two K-12 level, NDEP-supported, outreach activities of the U.S. Air Force.Background and MotivationThe DoD recognizes the downward trend shown by