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Graduate Program Review and Lessons Learned

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

ET Curriculum and Programs I

Tagged Division

Engineering Technology

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

17

DOI

10.18260/1-2--34713

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https://peer.asee.org/34713

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394

Paper Authors

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Mohammad Moin Uddin P.E. East Tennessee State University

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Dr. Mohammad Moin Uddin is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, and Surveying at East Tennessee State University. He holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor of Engineering and Engineering Technology and as a Graduate Faculty member of the Graduate Studies. Dr. Uddin is active in research and scholarship. He has been awarded grants from National Science Foundation, Tennessee Department of Transportation, DENSO and ASEE (ETD mini-grants) and several other organizations for a total of more than $2 million. His current research interest focuses on rural community engagement for transportation projects, road user cost, sustainable design and construction for knowledge based decision making, and engineering technology education. He also contributed to data analysis methods and cost effective practices of highway construction quality assurance program.Dr. Uddin is a proponent of project based learning and developed innovative teaching strategies to engage his students in solving a real-world problems and prepare them with skills and knowledge that industry requires. Dr. Uddin is a member of ASEE, ASCE, TRB and CRC. Dr. Uddin is active with ASEE engineering technology division and served as ETD program chair for CIEC in 2017 and 2018. Dr. Uddin received outstanding researcher award, outstanding service award and sustainability leadership award from his college.

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Keith V. Johnson East Tennessee State University

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Dr. Johnson is chair of the Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology and Surveying and Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at East Tennessee State University. He has been active with the American Society of Engineering Education for over 25 years. During that time, he have served in several capacities, including, but not limited to program chair, author, reviewer, committee member and is currently chair of the Engineering Technology Division. During his tenure at ETSU, he has authored several papers, taught numerous courses, and presented at professional meetings.

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Abstract

The Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology and Surveying at X institution offers a graduate program – MS in Engineering Technology. The program has two concentrations – Engineering Technology and Entrepreneurial Leadership. The Engineering Technology concentration is for students who plan to become, or are now, involved in supervising or coordinating workers, materials, and equipment in a production system or who are resolving technical problems in the workplace. Individuals completing the program should be qualified to deal with tooling, methods, planning, quality control and reliability, safety and management aspects of production in manufacturing and other industries. The Entrepreneurial Leadership concentration was formed to provide students with skills that will help them thrive in the global economy of the twenty first century. The purpose of the Entrepreneurial Leadership concentration is to respond to the ever-increasing need for entrepreneurial leadership skills in the commercialization of innovative technology, and to respond to the broader application of entrepreneurial thinking in existing technology-based businesses, health care and higher education. This program is designed to provide the innovative, prudent risk-taker with a practical approach for commercializing innovative technology and for creating wealth by finding implementation methods for transforming creative ideas into value producing technology-based business models. Recently the program has gone through an academic review which is mandated by state higher education commission. This academic review is conducted every six years and it is designed to improve the quality of the program and implement recommended changes in a systematic manner. The academic review consists of creating a self-study report and a site visit. The self-study focuses on learning outcomes, curriculum, student experience, faculty, learning resources and administrative support. A two day long site visit is conducted by a panel of two external and two internal peer reviewers. This paper presents planning, preparation and lessons learned from this recent academic review of the program. Some of the highlighted lessons learned are plan early, develop and implement a continuous improvement plan, secure faculty and administrative support to drive a graduate program.

Uddin, M. M., & Johnson, K. V. (2020, June), Graduate Program Review and Lessons Learned Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34713

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