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INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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is in it’sexclusively industry orientation. The framework is also targeted only on educational aspectsof cooperation. Among the potential future improvements the case of research cooperation canbe reviewed, as well as the possibility of initiating cooperation from the university side can beadded.REFERENCESAnderson, M. S. 2001. “The complex relations between the academy and industry: Views from the literature,” Journal of Higher Education (72:2), pp. 226–246.Bruneel, J., D’Este, P., and Salter, A. 2010. “Investigating the factors that diminish the barriers to university– industry collaboration,” Research Policy (39:7), pp. 858–868.Cerych, L., and Frost-Smith, B. 1985. “Collaboration between higher education and industry: an overview

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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. present an approach of string comparison with the meaning of the words– semanticsimilarity. The approach uses WordNet R -based Semantic Similarity Measurement (WSSM) asthe database for synonyms. WordNet R is a database of English and an open source project basedat Princeton University. The authors use five steps to compute a semantic similarity for twosentences. The steps are (a) separating sentence into a list of tokens, (b) disambiguatingparts-of-speech, (c) stemming words, (d) finding the most appropriate sense, and (e) computingthe similarity. Although there might be many limitations, the method worked fine for this researchbecause the target learners are supposed to be trained to use terms in their process maps.Our method of comparing

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel LeBlanc, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Paper ID #16925Rethinking the Corporate Partnership - a Focus on Corporate Needs vs. Tra-ditional Institutional SilosRachel LeBlanc, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Rachel LeBlanc is the Executive Director of Corporate and Professional Education at Worcester Polytech- nic Institute. She manages the portfolio of non-traditional academic programs for the University including online programs, corporate education, and professional education. Rachel has over ten years of experi- ence working with faculty and industry experts to create education solutions to meet business needs. She manages a variety of functional areas

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Corporate Member Council Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology; Marta A Panero, New York Institute of Technology; Brian Carbonette, New York Institute of Technology

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; Emerging Technologies; Sustainability; Global Engineering Education; STEM K-12 Outreach. Dr. Anid embraces NYIT’s forward-thinking and applications-oriented mission and is working on sev- eral strategic partnerships between the School of Engineering and the public and private sector, including the creation of the School’s first Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) and its three labs in the critical areas of IT & Cyber Security, Bio-engineering and Health, and Energy and Green Tech- nologies. She is a board member of several organizations including the Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition (GLICC), LISTnet, the Institute for Sustainability (IfS) of the American Institute for Chemical

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Corporate Member Council Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Americans that start a college degree, 39% first-time full-time students at 4-yearinstitutions graduated, as compared to 60% of White students. viAccording to Figueroa, in 2014, many American Indian students faced racism and classism farmore than their White peers in the forms of institutional racism, harassment, and/or in memoriesrecorded throughout history. vii It is important to educate all people to be supportive of allURM’s. But especially, it may be important to provide extended assistance and encouragementto Native Americans so that they have the confidence to overcome these challenges.MINORITY STUDENTS AND STEM:Specifically within STEM fields similar findings have been found. A study conducted byToven-Lindsey, B., Levis-Fitzgerald, M

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INDUSTRY DAY: Industry-Focused Collaboration Techniques

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USA

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Paper ID #16232Engineering Competency ModelMs. Catherine Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USA Ms. Leslie is a licensed Civil Engineer in Colorado with over 20 years of experience in the design and management of civil engineering projects. After ten years as Civil Engineering Manager at Tetra Tech, Inc., she assumed the role of Executive Director of Engineers Without Borders–USA, a position she held on a volunteer basis for six years. Ms. Leslie began her work in developing countries as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Stationed in Nepal, she developed solutions related to drinking water and sanitation projects. During the