CED Newsbriefs
The Cooperative Education Division of
the Fall
2001
American Society For Engineering
Education www.coop.msstate.edu/ced/
COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
DIVISION/ASEE
EXECUTIVE BOARD ROSTER 2001 -
2002
Chair
Les
Leone, Dir Les Leone Director, Cooperative Education
Michigan State University, 1410 Engineering East Lansing,
MI 48824-1226
(517)355-5163 Fax: (517)432-1356 e-mail: leone@egr.msu.edu
Chair-Elect
Patty Bazrod, Director, Director
Cooperative Education
Erivan K.Haub School of Business
Saint Joseph’s University
5600 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131
(610)660-1103 Fax: (610)660-1649
e-mail:
pbazrod@sju.edu
Past Chair
Walter Odom, Director, Cooperative
Engineering
University of Tennessee, 118 Perkins
Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-2012
(423)974-5323 Fax: (423)974-3707
e-mail: wodom@utk.edu
Secretary/Treasurer
Maureen Barcic, Director, Cooperative
Education
University of Pittsburgh, School of
Engineering B-80 Benedum Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 624-9882
Fax: (412 624-2827
e-mail: barcic@engmg.pitt.edu
CED
Archivist
R. Neal Houze, Director, Cooperative
Education
Purdue University CIVL 1259, West
Lafayette, IN 47907
(765)494-7430 Fax: (765)494-7427
e-mail: houze@ecn.purdue.edu
Division
Editor
Craig Gunn, Director of the
Communication Program, ME Department
2443 Engineering, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI 48824
(517)355-5160, Fax: (517)353-1750
e-mail: gunn@egr.msu.edu
Executive
Directors
(3
Industry, 3 At-Large, 3 Academic)
Susan Matney North Carolina State University 2002
Harold
Simmons Georgia Tech 2002
Sheri
Parker Dow Chemical Company 2002
Arlene
Anderson Rose-Hulman 2003
Sandra
Graves DUPONT Company 2003
Ray
Easterlin University of Texas 2003
Steve
Bender Kimberely Clark 2004
Helen
Oloroso Illinois Institute of
Technnology 2004
Sue
Michaelson Marquette University 2004
Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of The American
Society for Engineering Education
Chair’s
Remarks
Greetings from the Chair……..
I hope all of you had a productive, yet relaxing
Summer. Each year it seems to go by at a faster pace. I know all of you are
busy finalizing career fairs, interviewing days, student orientation sessions,
and the normal blitz of phone calls and e-mails. Yep…..Fall is here!
I wanted to provide an update on the many activities
that CED has been involved with over the past several months. As was discussed
in my last Newsbriefs message, the CED
Executive Committee and Board have been involved with strategic planning activities
over the past year. The focus of much of the early discussion was based on the
Strategic Planning Report developed in 1993 by various individuals in CED. The
Executive Committee determined last Fall that the February 2001 Executive Board
Meeting, held at the ASEE Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration
(CIEC), would be exclusively devoted to determining future directions of CED,
especially pertaining to the relationship with our parent group, the American
Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). At the conclusion of the meeting, the
consensus of the group was that engineering co-op was our unique, common niche
and therefore, one of the primary missions of CED was “to do engineering co-op,
and do it well”. As such, it was determined that efforts should evolve to
strengthen our relationship with ASEE, as we try to resolve some of the issues
that have been problematic for CED.
In response to this, several initiatives and activities
were implemented involving the June 2001 ASEE Annual Meeting.
· The Summer meeting of the Executive Board was held in conjunction with the ASEE Annual Meeting this past June in Albuquerque, NM. In preparation, each Committee Chair prepared a report of activities that was presented to all Board Members. In this report, each committee was to try to address one or two key issues that face their group and CED. It was specifically requested that strategic planning ideas for each committee be included for discussion, and perhaps implemented, by the entire Board. We had a strong attendance of members, the discussion was fruitful, and several new initiatives will be implemented as a result.
· Invitations were extended to ASEE President Gerald Jakubowski and President-Elect Eugene DeLoatch to visit and address the CED Board. Both individuals accepted our offer and provided interesting and intriguing comments. Both were aware of CED activities and voiced strong support for the Division. They are interested in ASEE developing more involvement with business and industry and envision CED as being a major asset with this task. They discussed several initiatives that would be developed and invited CED to provide representation on these task forces. As a result, I have been selected to serve on a task force to evaluate the organizational structure of ASEE Divisions and Professional Interest Councils. I hope this opportunity will serve to strengthen CED’s role and visibility within ASEE.
· CED developed and placed a full page advertisement in the ASEE Annual Conference Program. Special “thanks” to Craig Gunn, Gerri Sullivan and the Communications, Public Relations, and Employer Relations Committee for their work on this project.
· CED was able to have a visible presence as part of the 3 day ASEE Exposition Displays. We shared table space with CIEC and used this opportunity to promote the 2002 Conference, as well as CED. A key chain / puzzle giveaway was developed, (special thanks to Bernadette Friedrich for her help with this project) and distributed along with CED and CIEC literature. CED members played a major role in staffing the table and talking with interested visitors. According to ASEE officials, over 3,000 people visited the Expo at least once.
· Despite the fact that CED did not sponsor any conference sessions, 3 CED members, Craig Gunn, Larry Hanneman, Bob Tillman, and Bob Tener authored refereed papers as part of programming sponsored by other ASEE Divisions.
· Many CED members were able to attend the Annual Conference Award’s Banquet where we were able to celebrate the presentation of the Freund Award to Lou Takacs. Congratulations, Lou, on a well deserved honor!
Based on the success of our involvement at the
Conference, several decisions were made concerning future activities with ASEE.
· CED has made a commitment through 2006 to the CIEC Conference as the main programming activity for the Division.
· CED will be active at the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference in the
following ways:
-
Hold
the CED Executive Board Meeting in Montreal in conjunction with the
conference.
-
CED
will be a sponsor of Industry Day activities.
- CED encourages members to develop and submit co-op related
papers and
presentations through other ASEE
Divisions (for example, the chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering
divisions). Papers should emphasize co-op areas of interest to these groups,
such as assessment, academic related outcomes, integrating co-op learning into
the classroom etc. Please note the deadline for submission of abstracts is
November 1, 2001. For more information visit:
<http://www.asee.org/conferences/annual2002/calls.cfm>.
-
CED
will again have a table in the Conference Expo.
In other issues of interest, CED has made a
commitment to continue to fund 50% of the $9,000 support in collaboration with CEIA for co-op related
research proposals. CED feels that this has been an excellent investment and is
exploring ways to expand our efforts to promote co-op research.
Lastly, the CED web site has been upgraded and
enhanced (a big “thank-you” to Anita Todd and Mike Mathews for their help on
this project). New links to other co-op organizations as well as to ASEE sites
have been added. Please visit when you have a chance at <www.coop.msstate.edu/ced/>.
Best wishes for a successful Fall. I look forward to
celebrating 75 years of CED with all of you at the 2002 CIEC.
Regards,
Les L. Leone
Chair,
ASEE Cooperative Education Division
As was
announced in the Spring Edition of Newsbriefs, The Freund Award
was established in 1979 by ASEE’s Cooperative Education Division to commemorate
its 50th anniversary., This award honors an individual in business,
industry, government, or education who has made a significant positive impact
on cooperative education programs in engineering and engineering technology.
This
year’s recipient is Lou Takacs, a long standing member and a Dupont Corporation
retiree. Lou was a co-op during his undergraduate years at Northwestern
University where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Co-op’s early influence led to a resounding cheer, “Lou ran the best co-op in
Dupont!” As he retired from his years of guiding young co-ops, he took on new
responsibilities at the University of Kentucky where at the present time he
counsels senior co-ops.
Lou has been a Chair of CED, Chair of PIC V, and a member of the ASEE Board of Directors.
(As
detailed in the Awards Document)
Lou
Takacs is awarded the Clement J Freund Award for sustained contributions to
cooperative education over many years, and the enthusiasm with which he has
advocated cooperative education throughout his distinguished career.
Lou
Takacs received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern
University (1953). Following his employment at Standard Railway Equipment
Manufacturing Company, he joined the Dupont Company where he worked in a
variety of engineering, management and administrative positions. While at
Dupont, he worked for more than 10 years managing an engineering co-op and
professional recruiting program. He retired from Dupont after 31 years of
service.
Following
his retirement, he joined the staff of the college of engineering at the
University of Kentucky (1994) as a senior co-op advisor where he counsels
seniors and co-ops in all phases of their work. At the University of Kentucky,
Takacs has implemented new ideas, which help to strengthen the Engineering
Co-op Program. He has also served on the advisory board for the engineering
department at Purdue University. He was among five employers considered
national leaders in cooperative education and who were invited to participate
at the first National Leadership Forum in Cooperative Education held at Purdue
University in 1987. Following that first conference, he became a regular
participant in subsequent national forums.
Within
ASEE he has served on the Board of Directors as Chair of PIC V (formerly known
as the College Industry Government Council) (1996-1998), and as Chair of the
Cooperative Education Division (1996). He is a recipient of the Alvah K. Borman
Award that is given by the ASEE Cooperative Education Division (1991).
Nominated
by: Donald W Lyon, E. L DuPont de Nemours & Co. (retired)
The time is closing upon us.
It is truly time to get excited about the upcoming 2002 ASEE Conference for
Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC) in Sarasota, FL, February 5-8,
2002. This year’s theme is The New Economy, Meeting the Challenges.
Please go to http://www.asee.org/conferences/ciec2002/
web site for additional information.
Thank you,
Anita Todd
2002 CIEC CED Program Chair
Make your reservations early...
For
those of you planning to go to the ASEE CIEC Conference in Sarasota, FL in Feb
2002, a reminder that you may want to reserve your hotel rooms early..
Conference dates are Tuesday, Feb 5 through Friday Feb 9, 2002. You may cancel
any rooms with 48 hour notice, and your credit card will not be charged in
advance, so there should be no catches in reserving a room! Also, if you
reserve early, you can request higher floors and a marina view room with
balcony for the conference rate. The conference rate for Sarasota is $119
per room (regardless single or double), and you just need to tell them you are
with ASEE CIEC (the engineering education conference). We are the only thing
scheduled at the hotel at that time and pretty much have all the rooms
reserved!
Also,
note if you are a Hyatt Gold Passport Member, you can get rooms on the 8th
floor or higher. (You can sign up to be a gold passport member free of
charge on the Hyatt home page!). For hotel contact info and to make a
reservation, visit:
http://www.hyatt.com/usa/sarasota/hotels/hotel_srqss.html
For flights - please note that Sarasota does have an airport, but it is not readily accessible. Tampa or St. Petersburg airports are about one hour away. There are shuttles from Tampa for a fee.
Hope this helps get CED an early start!
American Society for
Engineering Education
Nomination for the Alvah
K.Borman Award
Deadline for filing
Nominations is November 15,1998
Nominees
full name and title ________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Address
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Employer________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer’s
Address _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
*******
Nominator
_____________________________________________________________
Title
___________________________________________________________________
Address
________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Telephone
______________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION OF THE
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE NOMINEE
(One additional page may be
submitted)
Nominations must be submitted no later than November, 15 2000 to:
R.Neal Houze
Director, Cooperative
Education
Purdue University
CIVIL 1259
West Lafayette, IN 47907
The Cooperative Education Division of ASEE has
compiled a directory of two-and four-year schools offering cooperative
education programs in the United States and Canada. The directory
contains accrediting information, engineering and technology majors offered,
numbers of participating students, and much, much more. The directory is
designed to provide a ready reference for employers, educations and anyone
wanting detailed informative concerning technical cooperative education
programs. Directories are quality bound publications designed for ease of
use.
They
are:
--An
excellent reference for employers seeking quality co-op programs.
--Important
resource for parents, students, and guidance counselors seeking quality co-op
experience at the 2-year or 4-year college level. Degree programs detailed
throughout the doctoral program.
--Quality
bound directory features contact person, locations, institutional
characteristics, and size of program in each engineering curricula.
Mississippi
State University has been publishing the directory biannually since 1981.
The 2001 CED Directories are now in print and available for $50 each (payable
to CED Directory). You may order online: www.coop.msstate.edu/ced/onlinedocuments.html
or you may send an email to beth@coop.msstate.edu with questions or call
662-325-3823.
Calling All CED “Experts”!
This was a note that was
accidentally lost last year.
Please read and send email to
Susan_Matney@ncsu.edu
We are updating our CED
Resources & Professional Services Directory and need your assistance. This directory lists ASEE/CED members who
have expertise in areas in which they are willing to serve as a resource for
colleagues. The 2001 edition of the
directory may be viewed through the CED web page
For information contact Susan
Matney. The survey below will provide you with the information needed for the
directory.
CED Professional Services Committee
Survey for
CED Resources & Professional Services Directory
Check the areas in which you
have experience and would agree to serve as a resource for other CED
members. Your name and contact
information will be listed in the Directory and CED web page under the topic(s)
you check .
Academic co-op program
management/administration
Advisory Boards
Comprehensive Centers:
combining
co-op and career services
Co-op agreements, forms,
models for contract hiring, etc.
Co-op student organizations
Decentralized co-op
programs
Establishing employer
co-op programs
Grant
writing/development
Internet applications
(web pages,
Internet based resume systems)
Publications/marketing
materials
Student housing
Student
outreach/marketing
Under represented groups
Workplace issues
(ethics, office
politics,
harassment, legal, etc.)
Academic department
relationships/collaboration
Assessment of Learning
Outcomes
Centralized co-op
programs
Computer based
systems/technology applications
Co-op program management
in industry (hiring, training, etc.)
Credit-bearing programs
Employer marketing/job
development
Graduate co-op programs
International co-op
programs
Program evaluation
Research
Student orientation and
training
Supervisor training
Unemployment
compensation issues
Other _______________________
Name______________________________________
Title______________________________________
Organization
___________________________________________________________________________
Address
__________________________________________City_________________________State____
Phone
____________________Fax__________________E-mail_______________________________
I am a current member of
CED Number of
years in co-op_________________
Please return this survey
to: Susan Matney, NC State University, Box 7110, Raleigh NC 27695-7110.
Telephone: 919 515-4423, Fax: 919 515-7444, e-mail: susan_matney@ncsu.edu
NAME
CHANGE: It is now official. The membership overwhelming approved the addition
of the word Internship to the CEA name. To avoid any confusion we have retained
the corporate name of Cooperative Education Association but will now be doing
business as (dba) the Cooperative Education and Internship Association. A new
logo was unveiled at the annual conference in Atlanta.
ANNUAL
CONFERENCE: Geri Moers did it again. Geri and her "gang" presented an
outstanding educational and social event And I might add profitable too!! Close
to 325 people attended and were treated to a true southern welcome and
hospitality. From the opening pre-conference workshops to the closing dinner,
everything was superb. And with Geri in charge you know it went smoothly.
Planning is well under way for next year's conference in Albuquerque the second
week in April. Watch your e-mail for the notice.
TRAINING:
the training arm of CEIA's operation, the National Academy for Work Integrated
Learning, unveiled its offerings at the annual conference in Atlanta. Offered
as pre-conference workshops, participants could choose from three categories:
Newcomers, Directors' Forum, or Employers. All the participants gave the
curriculum and the presenters high grades for their work. More recently a
Newcomers training was held in Vail, Colorado June 6-8. 42 people were in
attendance with one person coming from the Bahamas. An early glance at the
evaluations would indicate that it was very successful. This training was
co-hosted by the Western Cooperative Education Association.
CEIA
WEBSITE: CEIA will moving and re-designing its website. CEIA has been
negotiating with the Association of Western Universities to have them be the
host for our website. The new site will be much more interactive and useable by
the members. It will allow people to join, renew memberships, register for
training sessions, order publications, and register for conferences all on
line. We will also have the possibility of starting a list serve for members
use. We are excited by the prospects of having a truly member sensitive
website.
HIGHER
EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM: This is the new name for the project formerly
known as the Visa Project. Over the past four years CEA has been working with
the Canadian Association, the Canadian government and the US government to
develop a training visa for international students. While we were not able to
secure the ability to have CEA issue that type of visa we were able to partner
with CIPUSA from Cleveland to act as our broker for the project. CIPUSA was
able to receive 200 visa applications specifically earmarked for use by CEIA to
have international students train in the US. This project is up and running and
we expect that all 200 applications will be used by November I of this year.
MonsterTrak (formerly known as JobTrak) will be developing a website to help
identify employers that would be interested in having international trainees.
US schools will benefit from the program by either acting as a host school
(host schools will receive $500 per student) or by using the program to
identify international exchange opportunities. You can checkout the program at
www.cipusa.org/coop.html
PRESIDENT'S
TRAVELS: It is one of my goals to improve the visibility of CEIA. To achieve
this goal a very ambitious and some people might say daunting. To date I have
represented CEIA at the California Cooperative Education Association conference
and the NACE meeting in Las Vegas. Upcoming trips include the international
meeting in Thailand and employer training in Hawaii on the way back from
Thailand (tough job but somebody has to do it).
In
closing I would like to wish you all a successful meeting. I do look forward to
getting back with you in the future and renewing our conversation of how we can
work together for the good of the order.
Sincerely,
Marty
Ford, President
Cooperative Education and Internship Association
Vive Le
Engineer!
2002 ASEE
Annual Conference & Exposition
Montréal,
Quebec , Canada
Call for
Papers !!
CED encourages members to develop and submit co-op
related papers and presentations through other ASEE Divisions (for example, the
chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering divisions). Papers
should emphasize co-op areas of interest to these groups, such as assessment,
academic related outcomes, integrating co-op learning into the classroom etc.
Please note the deadline for submission of abstracts is November 1, 2001. For
more information visit:
http://www.asee.org/conferences/annual2002/calls.cfm
American Society of Engineering Education
Cooperative
Education Division
Board Meeting
Minutes Wednesday June 27, 2001
Hyatt Regency
Fiesta Room #1/Albuquerque, New Mexico
Chair
Leone called the meeting to order at 8:30 AM.
In attendance were:
Harold
Simmons, Craig Gunn, Mike Mathews, Dick Canale, Ray Easterlin, Neal Houze,
Robert Tillman, Sue Michaelson, Donna Hewett, Anita Todd, Maureen Barcic, Susan
Matney, Patty Bazrod, Les Leone, Walter Odom, Don Lyon, Bill McMahan, Helen
Oloroso.
Chair
Leone began the meeting by reviewing the status of the voting members of the
board: they include executive committee
members, elected board members, the
Editor of the Newsbriefs, and the Archivist.
Chair
Leone presented the agenda. Moved to
approved the agenda (Odom, Houze)
Chair
Leone has greetings and report from Marty Ford, Chair of CEIA. CEA is now officially known as Cooperative
Education and Internship Association.
Annual
Conference chaired by Geri Moers very successful…next year’s conference in
Albuquerque, NM.
Training
was offered at the conference via pre-conference workshops.
CEIA
will be re-designing website.
Working
with Canadian Association to develop a training visa for international
students.
In
order to promote visibility of CEIA, Chair Ford has been at NACE, California
Cooperative Education Conference,and will attend WACE, and employer training in
Hawaii.
CEIA
is also discussing other options in addition to the continued funding of the
research grant.
We
will expect incoming President of ASEE Gerald Jakubowski and President-Elect
Eugene DeLoatch to stop in at some point during the meeting.
Approval
of minutes from January 29, 2001 meeting in San Diego, CA. Motion passed (Houze, Matney)
Report
submitted by Barcic. A formal report
will be e-mailed to the board..
Currently, CED has two certificate of deposits, two checking accounts
(one interest bearing) and over $5,000 in the ASEE BASS account. Our Advanta account(for 2 cd’s) has been
turned over to E*Trade. We have the
same interest and conditions.
BASS
Account can be used for all ASEE meeting activities and publicity items.
The
CED division should show a $5,000 profit from CIEC 2001. The amount of
guaranteed divisional payoff from CIEC was changed from $1,000 to $500. That is not noted in the CIEC guidelines.
Motion
passed to approve financial report (Odom, Bazrod)
Chair
Leone distributed booklets to each board member and we reviewed the board
positions. One board position is
currently open.
Neal
Houze mentioned a correction to the Freund Award committee description- the
committee is appointed by the President of ASEE. Also, the Chair of CED is an automatic member of this
committee. The award is bestowed every
other year. CED pays the difference if
there is not enough money for the award forthcoming from ASEE. Neal will see if
he can find something on responsibilities of costs in past minutes. Bill McMahan will also check on this.
Odom
added that the selection process for the Freund Award went well this year, and
the recipient is Lou Takacs.
Bill
McMahan suggested we take out the CIGC under J in Chair’s description. Please rotate in PICV Chair to the Board positions. Bill will send to Barcic to include in
booklet.
Also,
Bill McMahan indicated that ASEE will handle expenses for PICV Chair if he is
retired or unable to pay expenses.
Updated
by-laws will be on the web. CIEC
guidelines will also be updated and put on web. There is a committee headed by Linda Krute who will update the
CIEC guidelines.
Chair
Leone gave us the formal vote on Ray Easterlin’s request for funding two
proposals.
1st
proposal-Braunstein vote passed 10-0
2nd
proposal-Aminta Hawkins passed 8-2
continuing
funding for the
research grants passed 10-0
ASEE
Election results: DeLoatch defeated Ted
Bickert for ASEE
President-Elect
Strategic
Planning from San Diego-develop a more direct interface with ASEE. Thus far, we have put an ad in this year’s
program book. Thanks to Gerri Sullivan
and Craig Gunn for their work on this.
Try
to get more involved in ASEE Industry Day:
activities for ASEE are done and completed by October-we need to make
decisions today if we want to be more active next year.
We
shared a booth at the Exposition with CIEC at this year’s conference. Keychains were passed out at the booth,
along with flier. Several CED people
manned the booth. Thanks to Bernadette
Friedrich for taking charge of designing and
ordering the keychain.
Some
CED members presented at this conference:
Bob Tillman under the Civil Engineering Division, Bob Tener and Craig
Gunn presented. If you want to present
next year, let Bill McMahan know by October.
Neal
Houze suggested we present through the other divisions, as we can’t have a full
program on our own. One suggestion was
ABET criteria- how co-op can help your assessment. We could present something like this through another division.
Will we meet here next year? Will we take active role in Industry Day? Will we sponsor a meal, expo, etc?
Dean
Gerry Jakubowski entered. Chair Leone
described activities and goals of CED. ASEE President Jakubowski remarked that
he has attended ASEE conferences since 1979, and has held several
positions. Although he views the
society as in excellent shape, he feels they need to address certain
issues. His priorities as President:
ASEE hit peak of 9300 members a couple of years ago-now back to 9000-we should
have 12,000 members. Wants to increase
individual, institutional, and corporate members. Wants to decrease age of typical ASEE member.
Currently: 591 members 35 years and younger
1800 members 35-44 years
2200 members 45-54 years
2400 members
55-64 years
2800 members 65 years and older
ASEE
needs to make sure they provide a service to help young professors get tenure.
Jakubowski
wants CED to help increase # of corporate members-get them actively involved,
interfacing with the membership. Wants
to help companies meet their needs with their new hires….young engineers having
the skills that companies want.
ASEE
will have Industry Day again next year.
Wants us to ask companies to become ASEE members.
ASEE’s
Task Force
President
Jakubowski invites us to work on one of
these task groups. Let him know if
there is something that he should be doing that he is not. Corporate Members can have an individual membership
at $69. They can also join as
Institutional members-there are 2 levels of membership. Jakubowski wants to re-institute a CED
person with ASEE.
IUGRE
Industry University- initiated by Boeing because they were dissatisfied with
quality of engineers. For 6 or 7 years
provided free corporate ASEE memberships to IUGRE conference to increase
corporate participation.
Bill
McMahan mentioned that CIEC has the same concern with corporate participation.
PICV Chair has 5 free passes to conference.
Perhaps the June meeting would be a better time to use those passes,
since it is an easier time of the year for company reps to travel.
President
Jakubowski asked how can he help us.
Chair Leone mentioned research and outcomes assessment of co-op. Ray Easterlin asked what kind of research do
you need to see to support co-op?
Jakubowski
is also on engineering accreditation committee. He said the administration is sold on co-op. We should focus our attention on getting a
greater number of students to participate.
Harold Simmons mentioned that co-op needs validation from ASEE-it’s an
academic program.
Jakubowski
replied that ASEE directors could be validating body. Have session next year talking about benefits of co-op,
especially from industry’s perspective.
CED could sponsor Industry Day next year.
We
thanked President Jakubowski for his time and he left the meeting.
Chair
Leone read a memo that stemmed from a question Jane Staples had about ABET
accreditation and co-op. Donna Hewett
responded, but Les also received an answer from a faculty member who indicated
that ABET doesn’t care about duration, etc.
They just want outcomes.
Bob
Tillman from Northeastern said that was his experience as well with the
reviewers. The curriculum will stand
alone because not everyone has co-op.
Neal Houze agreed.
Sue
Michaelson had positive feedback from ABET reviewers on co-op. Donna Hewett mentioned that there are no
evaluations or employer feedback for ABET from summer and part-time students
with corporations.
Chair
Elect Patty Bazrod has been working with the Executive Committee with a web
update. Thanks to Joe Thompson and Mike
Mathews from Mississippi State for their help.
Please send feedback on the web to either Patty or Mike. Anita Todd from PSU has redesigned the look
of the web.
Travel
Updates-Patty attended both the NACE conference and the CEIA .
The
by-laws are up-to-date.
Patty
has also been working on Strategic Planning for CED, which will be part of the
new business this afternoon.
Past
Chair Walter Odom addressed the board vacancies and is targeting future
openings. He is hopeful that Steve
Bender from Kimberly Clark will be the Industry Rep for 2001. Steve is trying
to get final approval from his company.
Academic reps are Susan Matney and Helen Oloroso.
Walter
will identify a new slate for 2002.
Garth
Motschenbacher has accepted the Membership Committee Chair as Kimberly Ware
resigned.
Walter
moves to identify an assistant Secretary/Treasurer position who will work for
one year with the Secretary/Treasurer and will then move into that role. We would then have an assistant every year.
Neal
mentioned that this is a voted position and action will need to be taken from
the entire membership as it will require a change to the by-laws.
According
to Walter, the challenge to the current rotation is that we have a chair elect
(Donna Hewett) who has not been afforded the opportunity to be secretary/treasurer. The “practice” for the secretary/treasurer
role has been the two year commitment;
it is actually not noted in the by-laws that it is a two year
commitment.
The
suggestion is that to keep the continuity we have a one year elected year and
then have the overlap. You will also
have two people who know what is going on.
Patty
Bazroad motioned that we table the discussion until strategic planning. Helen Oloroso seconds. Motion passed.
Neal
Houze distributed a listing of the archivist’s responsibilities, and announced
to the board that he will only be the archivist for another year. Neal asked that we think about how we want
the membership information, and who will assume the duties.
Harold
Simmons asked why the membership committee hasn’t kept the membership
records? Helen Oloroso noted that her
feeling was that the membership committee should be finding out what membership
wants, and develop new members instead
of maintaining data.
We
have 268 official members according to ASEE.
There is still an accuracy issue with them.
The
CED listserve is underutilized. Bob
Tillman felt that it is important to control your own data and offered to take
on this responsibility and add more CED members to the listserve as well as
maintain it. Neal will continue to work with ASEE to obtain membership
information.
Neal
Houze presented his report on what the committee has traditionally accomplished
as well as suggestions for the future committee members. The Executive Committee will look at
criteria for Borman Award recipients with Neal and will make suggestions at the
February meeting. Discussion also
ensued on whether or not the Student of the Year Award should become a more
formal responsibility of the Awards Committee.
Motion
for awards committee to include Student of the Year and Borman Award as
subcommittees was made and passed.
We
can and should nominate ASEE Fellows.
Neal can’t be responsible for doing all of the work by himself. Executive Committee can discuss and decide.
Craig
Gunn presented the Communications report for Gerri Sullivan. The Communications Committee designed the ad
for the ASEE program and the keychain that was distributed at the ASEE
exposition.
The
Newsbriefs will soon have a different look.
Craig has asked that we get all information to him by September 15th
for the next newsletter. It’s also
important for Craig to have the most updated membership information so that the
Newsbriefs are delivered to all CED members.
The
Newsbriefs is on the CED website.
Les
Leone presented the report for Garth Motschenbacher. Garth wants to recruit more employers to CED, and is trying to be
visible and promote the organization at conferences like NACE and SHRM.
Susan
Matney presented her report and distributed
the services advisor listings.
There were a few changes to the directory that were noted.
It was
also suggested to put the professional services advisory listing as well as key
officers of CED on the ASEE interface.
Ray
Easterlin noted that there were 2 grants approved for this year. There has also been $4500 approved for next
year’s grants.
The
Research Committee will sponsor a session at CIEC 2002: How to Measure Co-op
Experience: Assessing Learning and Transfer Between School and Work. This is research that was funded by the
CEA/CED research grant. This session will
also suggest some fundamental areas where we need research in cooperative
education. Phil Gardner will
moderate.
All
information on the CED web has been updated.
Ray
sent out an e-mail to the listserves:What kind of research do we want to see?
Two
responses:
Conduct
a need assessment
Promoted
research topics and funding to aspiring PhD candidates.
Mike
Mathews reported that so far, $2350 has been collected for the 2001
Directory. Approximately $844 of that
is profit.
Mike
suggested that we continue to report fall numbers as opposed to summer
numbers. Those numbers will be a true
reflection of co-op.
Should
ACCE status be a part of the directory information for each school?
Also,
the directories can be ordered on the web.
Mike
Mathews reported that Joe Thompson is the webmaster. Bob Tillman will assume responsibilities for the CED
listserve. Craig Gunn will get an
e-mail list of everyone for Newsbriefs.
Donna
Hewett reported that this is currently a two organization award-CED and
CEA. Approval from both organizations
is needed for any changes. Anita Todd
reported that the committee was thinking of awarding plaques to the employer
and institution, as well as the student.
Both employer and school reps present at the meeting thought that
publicity was more important than a plaque.
At
this time we are not having the students attend the conference. That was voted on last year; Mike Mathew made the point that it is
important to see the students and hear in their own words what the co-op
experience meant to them, and that we should have an awardee present every
year, no matter what CEA does or if the winner is in engineering or not.
Sue
Michaelson motioned that CED award a Student of the Year every year and that we
pay that student $500. Helen Oloroso
seconded and motion passed.
Don
Lyon presented the report, and offered support to the group. Anita Todd recommended that CRISP members be
readers for Student of the Year nominations.
Bill Weston and Dick Canale are the newest CRISP members.
Maureen
Barcic presented for Bernadette Friedrich the CED aspect of the
conference. CED should make about
$5,000 profit. Bernadette did a great
job fundraising; the sessions were excellent and many thanks to
Bernadette. There were 98 CED
attendees, which comprised 40% of the split proceeds.
Overall
the conference made about $9,700.
Anita
Todd reported that the conference will be in Sarasota from February 5th-8th,
2002. It is possible to make hotel
reservations now. The banquet will be
offsite. There will be a joint CIP/CED
session. The focused workshops will be
cafeteria style and the prices will be the same.
Ray
Easterlin suggested a peer review for accepting papers and sessions because it
takes the responsibility off of one person.
Neal Houze mentioned that there is a structure for a CIEC program
committee.
Session
Winners from 2001: Bob Tillman was the
winner for both Best Session and Best Speaker
Anita Todd was Best Moderator
John Archambault was the Moderator for the
Best Session
Susan Matney will be the Program Chair for CED
Bill
McMahan reported that during his year as PICV representative he has learned
much and gained much respect for ASEE.
Some of his activities have included organization of a strategic
planning session for CIEC long range planning.
Bill has also attended several ASEE meetings.
Attracting
corporate members to both CIEC and ASEE is critical. Bill would like to see a Chair Elect for PICV. The motion was tabled at the meeting because
of the possibility of CMC coming into the picture.
What
are the next steps for CED?
Currently:
CIEC commitment thru 2004
CIP/CMC
possible merger
What
about ASEE next year?
Walter
Odom mentioned that the reason we left the ASEE conference was because they
decreased the number of workshops we were allowed to have.
CIP
is in trouble; if they merge with CMC,
it would be an infusion. There are currently 77 CMC members.
Neal
Houze posed the question- What if we leave CIEC? Then we have nothing or we come back to ASEE with severe
limitations.
Maureen
Barcic stated that the merger of CIP and CMC might increase employer
participation.
Bill
McMahan mentioned that attending SERCEC was a good option for him because of
the time of year. It’s difficult for
employers to attend a meeting in February.
Patty
Bazrod brought to our attention that CIEC is our only fundraiser.
Anita
Todd mentioned the full benefit of presenting at CIEC; your time is not as limited to present
information.
Ray
Easterlin asked if there was flexibility in presenting at ASEE in the
summertime.
Helen
Oloroso mentioned that if you aren’t presenting, many colleges won’t pay for
you to attend.
Bob
Tillman considers CIEC “folksy” and ASEE overwhelming. He thinks you get a good return on CIEC.
If
the merger with CIP and CMC doesn’t go through, there could possibly be just
three divisions at CIEC instead of four.
This could possibly mean more revenue for the participating divisions.
Walter
Odom motioned that we commit to CIEC for 2 more years, through 2006. Patty Bazrod seconds, and the motion passes.
ASEE
How
much participation do we want?
Dick
Canale thought that little effort is really needed to have a presence.
Helen
Oloroso thought if we don’t have a presence, what is the point of our
relationship with ASEE?
Walter
Odom recapped ASEE President Jakubowski’s thoughts.
Bob
Tillman said we should take a formal stand on which task groups CED will
request to work. We should take them up
on all three groups.
Neal
Houze motioned that CED Chair Leone should contact ASEE president to request a
member be appointed to each task force.
Walter Odom seconds, motion passes.
Chair Leone asked how much involvement in ASEE conference next
year?
Harold
Simmons said we needed more interest from the faculty in co-op.
Prevailing
thought was that if we don’t come, we won’t be known.
Bill
McMahan urged us to target your area, and go through academic departments to
set up presentations.
The
departmental faculty/board members will approach division chairs to see if we
can have a slot for next year, or be part of a panel.
Get
back to Les or Bill McMahan by August with findings.
Industry
Day
We
want to participate. Also, at next year’s expo, we will share the CIEC booth
and buy a poster.
Next
year’s ASEE meeting
is June 16-19 in Montreal. The board
meeting will be scheduled for Sunday, June 16th and it will be off
site.
2003
ASEE in Nashville, Tn.
Eugene
DeLoatch entered the meeting the President elect for ASEE.
He
wants to develop continuity, mission and vision for society, relationship with
education and industry. He is strongly
in support of co-op; we will have support and a friend.
Secretary/Treasurer
elect discussion; the motion was
untabled and Walter Odom made a new motion that we establish a
Secretary/Treasurer elect position, where one year will be spent in the elect
position, and then automatically one year as the Secretary/Treasurer. Susan Matney seconds the motion, and it
carries.
Maureen
Barcic will mail the by-laws change proposal to the membership for a vote prior
to CIEC 2002.
Under
the Archivist job description distributed by Chair Leone;
Strike D & E from the job description.
Motion
was made to adjourn the meeting by Chair Leone, seconded, and carried to adjourn.
The Cooperative Education Association (CEA) and the Cooperative EducationDivision
(CED) of the American Society of Engineering Education have established grant
funds up to $9,000 to support cooperative education research. Priorities for
funding research proposals include: (1) research that
documents
the benefits and outcomes of participating in cooperative education, and/or (2)
the design of a survey instrument that will assist with documenting these
benefits and outcomes.
The
application deadline is November 15, 2001 and funds are expected to be
available Spring 2002. Applicants do not have to be members of CEA or CED
to apply. One or more than one grant may be awarded.
The
following is a Report to the CED Executive Board at the June 2001 Board
Meeting:
The
mission of the CED Research Committee is to serve as the cooperative education
resource for the Cooperative Education Division of ASEE.
The
following describes the activities of the CED Research Committee:
I.
The CED Executive Board approved the Research Committee's recommendation to
fund two research grant applications for the 2001 CEA/CED Research Grant. The
following two applications were approved:
Grant
1: Submitted by Dr. Lori Braunstein and Dr. Robert Lupton from Central
Washington University. The title of the research is "Cost Analysis of Cooperative
Education: An Organizational Self-Analysis."
Research
Abstract: A review of cooperative education literature reveals very few, if
any, generalizable studies to determine the true employer costs of cooperative
education programs. Having this knowledge would help employers determine
break-even points, set and maintain goals for cost-effective co-op programs (if
cost-effectiveness is a desired goal), and compare their organizational costs
against other organizations' costs. Knowing organizational costs of co-op
programs might help colleges and universities recruit and retain quality
employers. Additionally, the researchers can benefit in long-term, trend
analysis of the data.
Conducting
a traditional research study, limited in participants and generalizability to
the co-op community, however, might not be the best solution. The development
of an individualized, user-friendly self-assessment web tool is the key to this
research proposal. Implementing an internet-based cyber calculator to help employers
collect and analyze their costs will benefit employers, colleges and
universities and the co-op profession.
The
Braunstein/Lupton grant received an award of $5,400.
Grant
2: Submitted by Aminta Hawkins Breaux, Doctoral Candidate in Counseling Psychology
at Temple University. Former Assistant provost at Drexel University and
currently Dean of Students at University of the Science in Philadelphia.
Research
Abstract: Cooperative education has been widely touted as a means to advance
the career preparation of college students since the early 1900's. Each year
thousands of
young
college students enter co-op programs and expect that at the end of the
academic experience they will have a clearer direction and possibly a job after
graduation. However, each year there are students enrolled in co-op programs
who do not meet with the same success as their counterparts.
This
study will attempt to investigate the impact that participation in co-op has
for college students just entering college and for those who have had a longer
experience in the co-op program, including at least one work assignment.
The
focus will be on two important aspects to the career development process,
Career Indecision and Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy. The researcher will
attempt to determine if participation in co-op will show a difference in the
level of decidedness from non-co-op participants. Also the resarcher will
attempt to determine whether co-op participants show a greater level of Career
Decision Making Self-Efficacy. The latter is a construct that essentially looks
at the confidence level in making career-related decisions. The theory holds
that the greater the level of confidence one holds for making career-related
decisions, the more apt that individual will be to engage in the subsequent
behaviors and activities required in the career planning process. Both
constructs are important to practitioners and prospective students who may be
seeking the means to enhance career preparation and more systematically achieve
career success.
The
Breaux grant received an award of $3,600
II.
The CED Executive Board approved re-funding research grant funds totaling $4500
for 2001-02. CEA has also approved $4500 for the 2001-02 CEA/CED Research
Grant.
III.
The Research Committee is sponsoring a research session at 2002 CIEC. The
session will be presented by representatives from Simon Fraser University based
on their research entitled "How to Measure the Co-op Experience: Assessing
Learning and Transfer Between School and Work." The research was funded by
the CEA/CED Research Grant.
IV.
Updated the Research Committee section on the CED website for the following
categories; About the CED Research Committee, About the CED Research Grant, How
to Apply, Possible Research Topics, Current CED Research, CED Research
Archives, CED Board Reports and CED Committee Members.
V.
Sent email to the CED listserv and CED Research Committee requesting ideas
concerning 1) what "proof of value" research activity is highly
desirable and 2) how can we get research done that examines the issues we would
like to see addressed (i.e. more emphasis on directed research).
Two
suggestions were received. First, conduct a needs assessment for desired
research. Second, promote research topics and funding to aspiring PhD
candidates. I have asked committee members to spearhead these efforts and
provide a progress report.
For
further information, contact Ray Easterlin, University of Texas at Austin, CED
Research Committee Chair, phone (512) 475-6179, e-mail: easterlin@mail.utexas.edu.
Ray
Easterlin, Director
Natural
Sciences Career Services
University of Texas at Austin
Gerri
Sullivan, Chair
Committee members: Craig Gunn, Michigan State
University, Lynn Hansen, University of Tennessee, Lisa Jones, Georgia Tech
The
CED Communications, Public Relations and Employer Relations committee currently
serves the CED Board in a support capacity. The chair is the clearinghouse for
marketing brochures, which were sent to collegiate members of CED upon request.
Brochures were sent to Mississippi State University and the Erik Jonsson School
of Engineering and Computer Science out of the University of Texas at Dallas.
We also sent brochures to the University of Louisville and communicated with
those who we hope will take over the CED vacancy left by Joe's passing. In
general, we serve as a connection between the board and the membership.
We
also have a presence at the annual conferences, with members of the committee
conducting workshops on communication. We are in the process of throwing around
ideas in terms of attendee interest in 2002
Additionally,
the committee worked together to produce an advertisement promoting CED in the ASEE
program brochure. While the entire committee was involved in the process, Craig
Gunn provided some much needed technical assistance toward the end of the
process - but the end result was an excellent tool to promote CED to the ASEE
membership as a whole.
When
taking a look at how this particular committee assists to enhance the mission
and future of CED, communication is essential to facilitating the
accomplishment of CED's mission and future. It is important to review ways in
which communication links already exist. We have the CED Newsbriefs, which are
on-line and an excellent way to communicate with the CED membership,
There
also is the CED listserv, which appears to be underutilized by the membership.
In fact, one task currently underway is to compile and set up an e-mail
directory of all those who attended CIEC in January - so e-mail messages could
go directly to that group. The committee would like to have ASEE's list of all
those who list the CED division as the primary affiliation so we can add to the
list. This is a major project by the committee, as we strive to improve
communications with those who do not attend the conferences and who are not
members of the listserv, but want to be connected to CED, We want to let them
know how to be involved - refer them to the CED Newsbriefs and gather
information to bring back to CED regarding desired programming, services, etc.
We
can also serve as a resource, by having a presence at different conferences we
attend, We don't all attend the same conferences, but can distribute and
display brochures and information. Additionally, we would like to serve as part
of an information fair at the 2002 conference - to let the conference attendees
learn how to get involved so the same people aren't doing all the work.
Referring
to the first statement of the report, this committee, in many ways, serves in a
support capacity. We can provide information on other committee activities and
board action and send them to the 'e-mail list for conference attendees. We
would be willing to put together a news release on information like Lou Takacs
receiving the Freund award - and distribute that to the e-mail list. We can
publicize research efforts. However, in order for that to take place, we need
to receive this information from the other committee chairs. Hopefully the
committee chairs will use us in this capacity
The
role of the CED Communications, Public Relations and Employer Relations is
indeed to serve as a "cheerleader” in all aspects of the organization.
Please feel free to send all information to me via e-mail at
gsullivan@ursuline.edu
ASEE CIEC Conference 2002:
http://www.asee.org/conferences/ciec2002/
February 5-9, 2002
Hyatt Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
CEA Conference:
http://www.ceaconference.com
http://www.ceainc.org
April xx, 2002
Albuquerque, NM
CAFCE:
http://www.cafce.ca/
August 11-14, 2002
Ottawa,Canada
Check out the following at
<http://www.co-opeducation.org> (Accreditation
Council for Cooperative Education)
<http://www.ceainc.org/> (National Cooperative
Education Assoc.)
<http://www.co-op.edu/> (National Commission on
Cooperative Education)
<http://www.waceinc.org> (World Association of
Cooperative Education)
<http://www.coop.uvic.ca/cafce> (Canadian
Association of Cooperative Education)
<http://www.coop.msstate.edu/ced/> (Cooperative
Education Division of American Society of Engineering Education)
<http://www.cwru.edu/affil/ohioedu/> (Ohio
Cooperative Education Association)
or your national, state and regional co-op programs.
Once
again, CED and CEIA are sponsoring the Co-op of the Year annual award. Our goal
this year is to increase participation in the event. We encourage all CED
members to nominate outstanding students for this prestigious award.
In order to compete for the award, students must be nominated by a co-op professional, faculty or employer. We request that each institution or employer send only one nomination. When determining a student’s eligibility, consider their contributions to their employer, contributions to the college, and appeal for the promotion of cooperative education. We are using the multiple term definition usually associated with cooperative education. The student should have two or more work sessions completed or the second in process at time of nomination.
Nominations must be postmarked by November 2. For more information regarding the award or how to nominate a student, contact Suzanne Norris at norriss@email.uah.edu.
JELENA ANDRIC TUDMAN
University OF Pittsburgh
Minor: Bioengineering
GPA: 3.8/4.0
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An American Success Story: Jelena left war-torn Bosnia without her
parents or brother. A family in Pittsburgh took in Jelena, and she has been
trying to make her way as best she could.
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Worked three CO-OP sessions with E. I. DuPont
h Ludox Product Development:
Her first rotation was spent as a technical support engineer. Jelena displayed
confidence, creativity, and persistence in her major contributions to a large
silicon wafer polishing study and the preparation of development products for
customer testing. Presented the polishing study to the customers from Japan and
they purchase the product from DuPont.
h DuPont Environmental
Treatment Work Group: Her second rotation was spent as a chemical/environmental
engineer. Jelena designed and implemented a program to provide a better
technical understanding of nitrates across the waste treatment plant. This
project saved DuPont $10,000 a day.
h Diamines Packaging Area of
the Aramida Group: Her third rotation was spent as a chemical engineer. Two of
her major projects were particle size testing and conducting the Process hazard
Analysis for the entire Diamines Packaging area.
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Honors and Awards: Member of the Tau Beta Pi-National Engineering Honor
Society, Omega Chi Epsilon-National Chemical Engineering Honor Society, Golden
Key National Honor Society, and National Dean’s List.
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Volunteer Services: International Red Cross, United Way, Western
Psychiatric Hospital, and Humane Society.
The
second place winner - Mr. Alexandra Noel from Pennsylvania State University.
The third place winner - Ms. Janet Reynolds from the University of Alabama in
Huntsville.
The American Society for
Engineering Education Cooperative Education
Division Announces the Conference for Industry
and Education Collaboration “The New Economy,
Meeting the Challenges” February 5- 9, 2002 Hyatt Resort Sarasota, Florida Featuring workshops and
co-op sessions.
Join co-op professionals and employers from all over the United States and
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