Alagaraja, M., & Yi, J., & Natarajarathinam, M., & Chamberland, J. (2025, June), Building stronger faculty-industry engagement for enriched applied engineering education  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/56043

\bibitem{asee_peer_56043}
  Alagaraja, M., \& Yi, J., \& Natarajarathinam, M., \& Chamberland, J. (2025, June), \emph{Building stronger faculty-industry engagement for enriched applied engineering education}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/56043

Meera Alagaraja, Jieun Yi, Malini Natarajarathinam, and Jean-Francois Chamberland.  "Building stronger faculty-industry engagement for enriched applied engineering education".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/56043 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_56043}
  Meera Alagaraja, Jieun Yi, Malini Natarajarathinam, and Jean-Francois Chamberland.
  "Building stronger faculty-industry engagement for enriched applied engineering education".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/56043 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The continuous and constant engagement between industry and faculty is important for faculty to understand current best practices in the industry and the need to develop new practical tools married with emerging theories and concepts. Industry engagement facilitates the design of proofing grounds for new models and solutions. This knowledge can be brought back to the classroom to enrich students with practical skills and abilities to be successful in their future careers. Traditional industry-university collaborations in Engineering have focused on collaborating on capstone projects or large research and development collaborations to design and develop new products and processes. However, there is a need in the industry community for engineering and engineering technology programs to support and assist them with applying proven modern, proven, and emerging techniques and technologies to their day-to-day practices. Some industry expectations do not always align with the preferred outcomes that facilitate faculty's professional growth and success. Information from faculty was gathered to explore factors that support or hinder faculty engagement with the industry and recommend strategies for bridging potential gaps in their collaboration.  In this paper, we share the results from the faculty's comments.  Faculty responses varied in how they understood and experienced collaborations with industry. Faculty also identified barriers to establishing healthy partnerships with industry. Findings suggest several beneficial outcomes for faculty, industry partners, students, and other university stakeholders. Our paper positions the faculty focus from a career well-being standpoint as a potential way to enhance faculty interest and motivation in developing and managing long-term sustainable partnerships with industry partners, especially small-and-medium-sized enterprises. 
AU  - Meera Alagaraja
AU  - Jieun Yi
AU  - Malini Natarajarathinam
AU  - Jean-Francois Chamberland
CY  - Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
DA  - 2025/06/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Building stronger faculty-industry engagement for enriched applied engineering education
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