Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering for a Flat World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado at Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado at Boulder

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International

Environmental Engineering (EVEN). These students take the course duringtheir senior year. The course is also taken by Civil Engineering (CVEN) students who select toemphasize environment and water, either as their capstone design course or as a technicalelective. The course also is co-taught with a graduate section. Graduate students taking thecourse are earning an MS or PhD in Civil Engineering with an environmental emphasis. Most ofthe students either lacked a BS degree in engineering or were enrolled in the Engineering forDeveloping Communities (EDC) emphasis. Demographics of the students enrolled in the courseare summarized in Table 3.In fall 2006, the course included 3 projects. All of the projects served real clients and wereservice-learning

Conference Session

Design Methodology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Monemi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Weicong Pan, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Edward Varnado, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

due dates. The EGR 481 syllabus is as follows:Course Syllabus: EGR 481 - Fall 08 Project Design Principles and ApplicationsProfessor’s name: Dr. S. MonemiOffice location & phone: 9-527, 909-869-2520Email: ssmonemi@csupomona.eduClass time and location: MW 1:00-1:50 PM, Room 9-329Course prerequisites: Upper division standingOffice Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8:00 - 10:00 AMTextbook: Class notes and handoutsCourse Description: Completion of a capstone senior design team project under faculty supervision. Results are presented in a formal report.Course Coverage: Learn how to design, develop, and analyze

Conference Session

Integrating Design into the BME Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge; Brad Deschenes

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Biomedical

curriculum at the University of Hartford aims to engage students ininterdisciplinary design and real-world projects in each of their four years. As enteringfreshman, all engineering students are required to take a course in which they work with robotson various small projects. The sophomore course, described in this paper, is entitled Engineeringby Design and it is the next course in the sequence. Its purpose is to involve students in a projectthat is more comprehensive and realistic than their freshman experience. The junior level coursestudies the engineering process from conceptual design to manufacturing. Finally, as seniors, thestudents take their capstone design course in which groups work on a single significantengineering problem that may be

Conference Session

Critical issues in IT and IET: Focus Group

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Michael Mauk, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2009-77: A LABORATORY- AND PROJECT-BASED COURSE IN LEAN SIXSIGMA NANOMANUFACTURINGVladimir Genis, Drexel University Dr. Vladimir Genis is an Associate Professor and Applied Engineering Technology Program Director in Goodwin College, Drexel University received Ph. D. in Physics and Mathematics. Dr. Genis taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses in physics, electronics, biomedical engineering, and acoustics. His research interests include ultrasound wave propagation and scattering, ultrasound imaging, electronic instrumentation, piezoelectric transducers, and engineering education. Results of his research work were published in scientific journals and presented at the

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Tracy Van Zandt, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jeffrey Hodgkins, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Nels Wirkkala, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

in their educational career.Real engineering problems are rarely solved by “looking up answers at the back of the book”.Yet many engineering courses are taught this way and students feel that they can push the “resetbutton” after each class since they do not see the integration of all the material until late in theirundergraduate career through the capstone experience. This is too late for them to realize theimportance of earlier course material.A Dynamic Systems laboratory-based, hands-on project has been implemented which attempts toaddress many of the issues identified above. This series of projects is described in the followingsections

Conference Session

Active and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Werner Creixell, Texas A&M University; Rachelle M. Pedersen, Texas A&M University; Susan Niki Ritchey, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, including seniordesign or capstone projects. So how do students continually practice creativity if the number ofopportunities to improve only occur during the later years of an engineering program? Theauthors of this paper explore a PBL pedagogical opportunity for first-year engineering students inan electrical and computer engineering course that they believe provides students with sufficientopportunities to expand their creative processes.The intention of this work-in-progress paper is tooutline the process of replication of this PBL approach from Universidad T´ecnica Federico SantaMar´ıa to be implemented in a research study at Texas A&M University.4 Description of class structure and teaching methodsPrior to implementing a new project, it

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Durkin, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Paul Yearling P.E., Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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College Industry Partnerships

Paper ID #21213Statistical Methods Can Confirm Industry-sponsored University Design ProjectResultsProf. Robert J. Durkin, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Mr. Durkin teaches courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology; including the capstone design and independent study projects. He serves as a Faculty Senator, and earned the 2013 Outstand- ing Teacher Award and the 2017 Trustees Teaching Award. He has over 25 years of engineering and manufacturing experience including; design, project management, and various engineering, research and manufacturing leadership roles. He has been awarded

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh, Miami University; Hamed Samandari, Miami University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

teaching engineering design through project‐oriented capstone courses. Journal ofEngineering Education, 86(1), 17-28.[6] Mikesell, D. R., & Yoder, J. D. S. (2011). Teaching Dynamics with a Design Project.In American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education.[7] Fleischfresser, L. (2014). Random Group Problem-Based Learning in EngineeringDynamics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5935.[8] Esche, S. K. (2002). Project-Based Learning (PBL) in a course on mechanisms and machinedynamics. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 1(2), 201-204.[9] Major, C. H. (2000). Assessing problem-based learning: A review and analysis of faculty-developed PBL course portfolios. Journal on Excellence in College

Conference Session

Computer Modeling/CAD in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali Reza Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

sessions, design teamsmaintained high spirits because the experience gained was directly applicable for their comingsenior capstone design, it was a real product design, and experience would be directly applicableto their future career. Design teams presented PowerPoint presentations and submitted technicalreports of the major project upon completing the project.4. Comments on students’ feedback and students survey analysisComments on students’ feedbackStudents needed to submit technical reports for the minor project and the major project. Theyneeded to present PowerPoint presentation on the major project. The followings were somecomments and discussions on the reports. • For the minor project, they mentioned in their reports that they learned

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Sozen, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

of the course.Implementation challenges and recommendations One of the significant challenges of assigning this project was with time limitation and theother was the timing of the project. The first numerical mini project/case study that forms aprelude to this project cannot be assigned very early in the semester; steady state multi-dimensional conduction has to be covered before that. It is also desired that course projects otherthan the senior capstone project be completed before the final week of classes. This leaves arelatively short period of approximately five weeks for this project. Meanwhile some of thematerial that might be needed for successful completion of the mathematical modeling andnumerical simulation will still be going

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suresh Kumar Jayaraman, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074; Jennifer Robinson Glenn, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University; Karen A High, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

: Seattle, Washington.2. Karl, O.; Todd, B.; Michael, W.; Tamara, L., Interdisciplinary Design Course Structure: Lessons forEngineering Instructors from a Capstone Design Course. ASEE Conferences: Seattle, Washington.3. Jodi, R.; Brian, A., Applying Student Engagement Techniques to Multidisciplinary Online EngineeringLaboratories. ASEE Conferences: Seattle, Washington.4. Elizabeth, W.; Jeffrey Dale, W., Engineering in the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Projects in the Arts andEngineering. ASEE Conferences: Seattle, Washington.5. Allen. I. E, S. J. Class differences: Online education in the United States; Needham, MA, 2010.6. Jaggars, S. S. Online Learning: Does It Help Low-Income and Underprepared Students

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Program Development & Desired Outcomes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Maria Virginia Moncada

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

funding to support the development oftechnologies to enhance the quality of life for rural Nicaraguans based on sustainable businessmodels. The proposed project was to develop a two course sequence for both UNI and Villanovaengineering students. The first course in the sequence was to be focused on providing thecontextual background for students, especially at Villanova University, and orient them towardshow to identify technology-based, entrepreneurial projects suitable for rural Nicaraguans. Thesecond course was to be focused on the development of sustainable business models for the baseof the pyramid customer. In addition, students would prepare a proposal for their capstone designproject in the first semester course and then execute their

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Experiential Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liang Li Wu, University of California - Irvine; Robert M. Cassidy, University of California - Irvine; J Michael McCarthy, University of California - Irvine; John C. LaRue, University of California - Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California - Irvine

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First-Year Programs

during capstone design projects especially in device manufacturing. The courseevaluation, given at the end of each quarter, asked students to self-assess their ability bycomparing the following skills at the beginning and the end of quarter on a scale of 0 to 4 where0 is “very little”, 1 is “somewhat”, 2 is “average”, 3 is “moderate” and 4 is “high”:  Ability to design and fabricate a device (Fall quarter only)  Ability to use simple hand tools (Fall quarter only)  Ability to use CAD (Fall quarter only)  Ability to list steps in the design process (Fall quarter only)  Understanding of different engineering majors (Fall quarter only)  Ability to program microcontrollers (Winter quarter only)To further assess the

Conference Session

SED Technical Session: Applications

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Georgios Georgalis, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Karen Marais, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Learning Courses using Crowd SignalsProject-based learning (PBL) is a growing component of engineering education in the UnitedStates. Its perceived educational value is exemplified by its explicit mention in ABET’sCriterion 5, which requires engineering programs to provide a culminating design experience thatincorporates engineering standards and multiple constraints. Capstone courses and design-build-test projects allow students to synthesize and apply engineering knowledge, skills, and tools toopen-ended design problems. Students work and communicate in teams to complete tasks likegenerating requirements, and testing and integrating equipment. There appears to be widespreadconsensus that project-based learning is

Conference Session

Works in Progress I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Lei Xie, Texas A&M University; Michael Beyerlein, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University; Jill Zarestky, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to

Conference Session

FPD10 -- Pre-Engineering and Bridge Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Wigal, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Molly Littleton, Signal Centers

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

structural and mechanical projects. At the juniorand senior level the students use design concepts to solve real-life and open-endedinterdisciplinary industry-based problems. The student project teams work with the sponsors anda faculty advisors to develop, test, and prototype a solution. In addition, students apply designconcepts in a three credit hour discipline-based capstone course during their senior year. Thestructure of the design curriculum is shown in Figure 1.0. Engineering Design Texts Interdisciplinary cont’d Discipline Design (3 hrs) (3 hrs) Senior

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Malicky, University of San Diego; Ming Huang, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

learning is often not made in the literature, although it is helpful to distinguish them when trying to determine which pedagogy is most appropriate for a given instructor and course. The most common implementation of project-based learning in engineering is for capstone design courses.• Inquiry-Based Learning: The organizing principle for inquiry-based learning is the scientific method; as such inquiry learning is most commonly used in labs. Students observe a carefully selected phenomenon, develop a hypothesis about that phenomenon, develop an experimental procedure to test their hypothesis, perform their experiment, evaluate their results, and reflect on their learning. Learning is again student-centered, interactive

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

of the 2002 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, F2-A, pp.12-14, 2002.13. S. Vattam, M. Helms, and A. Goel, “Biologically-Inspired Innovation in Engineering Design: A Cognitive Study,” GVU Technical Report - http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14346, 2007.14. V. Mahnic, “A Capstone Course on Agile Software Development Using Scrum,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 55, Issue: 1, pp. 99-106, February 2012.15. D.F. Rico and H.H. Sayani, “Use of Agile Methods in Software Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the Agile Conference (AGILE '09), pp. 174-179, August 2009.16. D. Damian et al., “Teaching a globally distributed project course using Scrum practices,” Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

industrial representatives. He also preparedproposals for industrial support for Departmental Activities. Dr. Nichols also serves as adesignated contact for alumni. As part of his responsibilities, Dr. Nichols has raised more than $8million in industrial support for educational activities.Dr. Nichols previously served as the Director of the Design Projects Program. (Department ofMechanical Engineering) Dr. Nichols taught the Department's capstone design courses (ME 466Kand ME 279M) for 14 years, supervising approximately 200 students each year in approximately60 industrial sponsored projects annually. He emphasizes design methodology and has introducedmaterial on engineering ethics, and engineering professionalism. While serving as Director for

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

several different courses.Engineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is an introduction to engineeringdesign course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the Altoona Collegeof the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, engineering designprocess is taught through team oriented design projects supported by communicationskills: graphical and written. Implementation of project-based learning in ED&G 100course is achieved by assigning a comprehensive project designed to encompass all thefundamental engineering principles covered in the course and to complement the projectsconducted in the associated design laboratory. The capstone project requires students todesign a product to be mass produced

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

team-based project. In particular, team-based designprojects (cornerstone, capstone, or discipline specific) are ideal candidates as they requireeffective teamwork to facilitate the development of an optimal design solution. The toolcomprises four areas where students can engage in learning from their team experience. Theseareas allow students to: • self-reflect and provide feedback on their teammates • review the feedback they have received • access tools and techniques to improve their understanding of team-effectiveness • engage in exercises to practice their team-effectiveness competenciesThis section outlines our proposed method of integrating this learning tool into a course and itsteam-based project. Figure 1 demonstrates

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ty Newell; Timothy Shedd

“toolbox” for easier numericalproblem formulations.Our curriculum is one in which few opportunities exist for team-based project work before the Page 6.119.9senior year when capstone design courses implement this format. A favorable by-product ofProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Educationjunior year (or earlier) teaming is that students can have a positive response during jobinterviews when they are asked the inevitable question: “Have you ever worked in teamsituation?” As related to us by several students interviewing during

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Doepker

Session 2323 The Design and Manufacturing Clinic: Bringing Industrial Projects into the Classroom Philip E. Doepker University of DaytonAbstractFor over a decade capstone design courses and other project related courses haveimplemented projects that have roots in industry. This was done on an informal basisbetween professors and contacts in industry. This process lacked consistency in thatsome projects would be repeated from previous terms or projects would be completelydefined by faculty with no input from industry. With recent findings (1,3,8) from varioustechnical

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joydeep Mitra, Northeastern University; Amir Kirsh

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division (SWED)

/10.1145/3545945.3569739 [6] E. Aivaloglou and A. v. d. Meulen, “An empirical study of students’ perceptions on the setup and grading of group programming assignments,” ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., vol. 21, no. 3, mar 2021. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3440994 [7] V. Farrell, G. Ravalli, G. Farrell, P. Kindler, and D. Hall, “Capstone project: Fair, just and accountable assessment,” in Proceedings of the 17th ACM Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ser. ITiCSE ’12. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012, p. 168–173. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325339 [8] J. Porquet-Lupine and M. Brigham, “Evaluating group work in (too

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Teamwork

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Li, New York University; Jack Bringardner, Colorado School of Mines; Victoria Bill, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

. Palincsar, "Motivating Project-Based Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning," Educational Psychologist, vol. 26, no. 3-4, pp. 369-398, 1991/06/01 1991, doi: 10.1080/00461520.1991.9653139.[19] B. M. Aller, D. M. Lyth, and L. A. Mallak, "Capstone project team formation: Mingling increases performance and motivation," Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 503-507, 2008.[20] M. W. Ohland et al., "The comprehensive assessment of team member effectiveness: Development of a behaviorally anchored rating scale for self-and peer evaluation," Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 609-630, 2012.

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

Articulation Agreements With High Schools Implementing Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Kenneth Reid and Charles Feldhaus, Ed.D Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisBackground:Recently, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has embarked on anambitious effort to promote and improve K-12 engineering and engineering technologyeducation. Since 2003, the ASEE has created a new K-12 division dedicated to K-12engineering education, created a guidebook for high school students called Engineering,Go for It! that was distributed to almost 350,000 secondary students, created an e-newsletter that

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson

Session ___ Improving Design of Experiment Skills through a Project Based Fluids Laboratory Risa J. Robinson Rochester Institute of Technology1.0 IntroductionThe educational community recognizes that the typical engineering curriculum has steadilydecreased the emphasis on the study of experimental techniques for problem solving. 1 Industrypartners suggest there is a need to place a greater emphasis on the study and practice ofexperimentation in the engineering curriculum.2 These recent trends are supported by results fromexit interviews

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Lande, Arizona State University; James Nelson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

be achieved. Project-based learning is a growing pedagogy to teach capstone engineeringdesign projects, and spreading to cornerstone and engineering foundation classes. All the moreneeded then, are means and tools to help instructors, students and project coaches manageexpectations. Being able to characterize engineering design projects based on cursory linguisticanalysis can help instructors and students alike to direct activities to improve learning and bemore flexible in considering evaluation of such activities.Further Research: Automated ToolsThis work presents an initial attempt at developing procedures and means to do linguisticanalysis of engineering documentation. Steps should be taken to take the convoluted processesdescribed above

Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Danielle Trenchard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Christopher Lombardo, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

havethe opportunity to earn academic credit for their engineering design work. A key difference in thisframework as compared to other typical capstone designs, independent studies, or research creditcourses is that undergraduate TAs and project managers within the project teams are responsiblefor developing many of the assignments distributed to those students enrolled the course as theproject progresses. The methods of student assessment within this framework include: individualor small-group weekly assignments, design notebook checks, peer and self-evaluations,participation, summative technical reports, and the Humanitarian Library. Additionally, unlikemany traditional problem set or laboratory courses, student skills are developed through

Conference Session

Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Dukart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #18684Creating Meaningful Experiences Through Extracurricular Project-BasedExperiential LearningDr. Kyle Dukart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Dr. Dukart graduated with his B.A. in English and Honors from the University of North Dakota in 1997, followed by an M.A. in English in 1999 and a B.A. in Computer Science in 2002. He recently received (2016) his Ed.D. emphasizing Higher Education from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Pol- icy, and Development from the University of Minnesota. He has worked as an instructor and academic advisor at the University of North Dakota, the University of