Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University; Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

TheEngineer of 2020. Professionals who graduate with engineering degrees of any discipline maydirectly use their undergraduate technical knowledge as well as use, in more general terms, theirengineering problem solving approaches in many fields. Today’s engineers work in traditionalas well as non-traditional fields perceived completely different from any design theory studied inthe classroom. Many industries, from mainstream business and consulting to design andmanufacturing, desire to hire engineers for their learned way of thinking and ability to applyavailable resources to improve quality of product, service and thus human life. A well-roundedengineer, with effective technical knowledge and analytical skills as well as effective soft skills

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Bland, John Brown University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Gordon13that the effectiveness of management seminars and "soft-skill" courses is questionable. Whetheror not seminars could or should have an impact on sustained general management capability wasnot evaluated and should be further evaluated in future research.The technical participants had a different attitude toward non-formal education that was wellsummarized by this comment: (1) "Seminars always influenced us. Technical seminars came into play time and again preparing you to do jobs. ...You can force the (seminar) selection by knowing somebody in the country is an expert and asking them to conduct a seminar to meet your specific needs. ..Technical seminars permitted you to do your job better. ...Those were the easiest