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A Model for Immersive Professional Development of Future Engineers Paper ID #28188 Project Connect – A Model for Immersive Professional Development of Future Engineers Prof. Rhonda R. Franklin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Rhonda R. Franklin received her B.S. Texas A&M University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Electrical Engineering. She is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Uni- versity of Minnesota. Her research investigates the design of circuits, antennas, integration and packaging techniques, and characterization of electronic materials and magnetic nanomaterials for communication, biomedical and nanomedicine applications. She has co-authored over 100 referred conferences and jour- nals, five book chapters and two patents. She received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and En- gineers and the 3M Untenured Faculty Award. She is active in the IEEE MTT-S (e.g. associate editor of MWCL, chaired IMS TPRC sub-committees, student paper competitions and scholarship committee) and is a co-founder of IMS Project Connect and Chair of MTT-S Technical Coordinating Committee for Integration and Packaging. She is the 2014 Sara Evans Faculty Scholar Leader Award, 2017 John Tate Advising Award, and 2018 Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award and the 2019 IEEE N. Walter Cox Service Award recipient from the MTT-S Society. She also creates professional develop- ment programs for women and minority faculty and has served on the inaugural Women Faculty Cabinet at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Kristen S Gorman, University of Minnesota Kris Gorman is an Education Program Specialist at the University of Minnesota Center for Educational Innovation and served as external evaluator for this project. At the U of M, she provides professional development to faculty and TAs related to teaching and learning, focusing on the implementation of evidence-based and inclusive practices in STEM disciplines. Dr. Gorman received her PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester and postdoctoral training from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan. Prof. Rashaunda M. Henderson, The University of Texas at Dallas Rashaunda Henderson received the B.S.E.E. degree from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Ar- bor, MI, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2007, she worked as a R&D device engineer at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector). Since Fall 2007, she has been researching novel passive components and integration techniques for millimeter-wave circuits and systems at UT Dallas in Richardson, TX. As an Associate Professor she advises a team of students in the design, fabrication and characterization of high performance passive components and antennas for frequencies operating up to 325 GHz. Dr. Henderson is a senior member of the IEEE and an elected member of the MTT-S Administrative Committee. Netra Pillay, Qualcomm Netra Pillay received her B.E in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Pune University, India and M.S in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University,Philadelphia,USA. She currently works as an engineer at Qualcomm. Dr. Heena Rathore, University of Texas, San Antonio Heena Rathore is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Prior to that, she was a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M University. She also worked as a Research Scientist and Program Manager at Hiller Measurements for couple of years. Prior to that, she worked as a postdoc- toral researcher for US-Qatar Joint Collaborative Project between Temple University, USA, University of Idaho, USA and Qatar University. Also, she was a visiting scholar for Wichita State University. She c American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #28188 received her Ph.D. (with distinction) in Computer Science and Engineering Department while she was a Tata Consultancy Services Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology, India. She received her bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering from College of Technology and Engineering in 2010 with Honors. She has also worked professionally as Design Executive with Phosphate India Private Limited and academically as Guest/Assistant Professor with the University of Texas, Austin and SS College of Engineering, India respectively. She has been the winner of a number of prestigious awards including IEEE Achievements Award, Young Engineer Award, Global Engineering Impact Award and Graphical System Design Achievement Award. She has published more than 30 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences in her field and is the sole author of Mapping Biological Systems to Network Systems (Springer). She was also featured on TedX, Qatar held by TedXAlDafnaEd in Qatar and her work is cov- ered in professional and major trade publications, major media, such as Microwave Journal, Everything RF, Financial Express, Science Reporter, the Times of India, and India Today. She is IEEE senior member, Vice Chair of IEEE EMBS chapter in San Antonio and IEEE Central Texas Section in Austin. Her re- search interests include cyber physical systems, deep learning, machine learning, security, cryptocurrency, distributed systems, wireless networks biologically inspired systems and software defined networks. Dr. Abhay N/A Samant, National Instruments Abhay Samant is Chief Software Engineer at National Instruments and Adjunct Faculty at the McCombs School of Business at UT-Austin Dr. Tom Weller, Oregon State University Thomas M. Weller received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1988-1990 he worked at Hughes Aircraft Company in El Segundo, CA. From 1995-2018 he was a faculty member at the University of South Florida. He joined Oregon State University in 2018, where he is currently the Michael and Ju- dith Gaulke Professor and School Head in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He co-founded Modelithics, Inc. in 2001. Dr. Weller’s research interests are in tunable and reconfigurable microwave cir- cuits, microwave applications of additive manufacturing and 3D printing, electromagnetic sensors, passive microwave circuit design, planar and 3D electrically-small antennas, and equivalent circuit modeling. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Project Connect – A Model for Immersive Professional Development of Future Engineers Introduction Project Connect (PC) is an immersive professional development program designed to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups in engineering who pursue careers in the microwave engineering and related fields. Most of the professionals in this area have been educated in the electrical engineering (EE) field with a focus on applied electromagnetics, antenna theory and communication systems. The electromagnetics class in a typical electrical engineering undergraduate program involves vector calculus and abstract concepts without, in many cases, the right facilities or equipment to aid experiential learning. This leaves most students perplexed and disinterested in the field, while they do not fully realize the wealth of opportunities that lie beyond this course. This problem is even more pronounced for students from underrepresented groups as they may have less exposure to the professional and academic opportunities in microwave engineering. Project Connect was birthed out of the need to keep these students engaged in the field by exposing them to a broader view of the field and the impact that they can have on technology. Each year, the PC program is housed within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Microwave Symposium (IMS). IMS is the flagship conference of the Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society and is based in North America. The typical attendance at the conference is over 9,000 and there is an associated industry exhibition with more than 700 companies. PC hosts approximately two dozen underrepresented students for four days of community building and professional development, most of whom are juniors or seniors in undergraduate programs, along with a smaller cohort of first year students in graduate programs. The groups, consistently mixed in gender and ethnicity, get an opportunity for direct interaction with fellow PC participants, practitioners and academics, and leaders in the field and of the MTT society. This interaction is central to the success of the program, and the integration with IMS is representative of the important role that professional societies can play in diversifying STEM participation [1]. PC has been in operation since 2014 [2-5] and is sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation and the IMS Organizing Committee. Program The agenda for the four-day event at the IMS combines professional development with fun activities intentionally programmed to incorporate the local culture of the IMS host city and the thematic focus of the conference. The goal of experiencing local culture is combined with a community building activity for the students on the first full day of the conference; typically, this includes a team-based scavenger hunt that involves identifying key landmarks of historical significance in the city. The bonding opportunity is effective at building comradery and dissipating anxiety in students, many of whom have
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