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Dr. Mesbah Uddin is the Director of North Carolina Motorsports and Automotive Research Center and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is currently serving as the Chair of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Road Vehicle Aerodynamics Forum Committee, a committee responsible for developing and maintaining SAE standards, technical papers, and special publications related to road vehicle aerodynamics and wind noise performance and test techniques. He is a member of UNC Charlotte Military Affairs Committee. In the past, he served as a member of North Carolina Governor’s Motorsports Advisory Council during 2012-2017. He is also a member of the AIAA Turbulence Model Benchmarking Working Group. In the past, he served as senior CFD analyst at the then Chrysler’s in its NASCAR, NHRA, street and passenger car computational aerothermal development programs. At present, Dr.Uddin’s group focuses on the improvement of the aerothermal predictive capabilities of virtual and physical systems using machine learning and reduced order methods. As of today, he has graduated 6 PhD and 24 masters students, and published over 90 peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers.
PAtENT (Pathways to Entrepreneurship) is a pilot program for an alternate pathway allowing doctoral candidates in STEM programs to satisfy capstone degree requirements by applying for patents. This model and the PAtENT program aim to bring greater alignment between doctoral degrees and the rapidly changing employment landscape, and have the potential to modernize the STEM Ph.D. In order to create flexible pathways to doctoral degrees that catalyze innovations, institutional support is needed to sustain exploratory and interdisciplinary research. A total of seven faculty and four graduate students participated in a qualitative study of PAtENT to address the overall research questions of a) what appeals to you about this alternative pathway, and b) what is needed to support alternative pathways in STEM doctoral degrees? This short paper describes the pilot program, its context, and presents findings from the qualitative study that inform next steps for all institutions interested in advancing research innovations in STEM educational practice.
Rorrer, A., & Pugalee, D., & Ramaprabhu, P., & Xu, T., & Uddin, M., & Cherukuri, H. P., & Srinivasan, K. (2022, August), Supporting an Alternate PhD Pathway in STEM: Findings from a Qualitative Study of Students and Faculty Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41980
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