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Changing the Conversation Surrounding Students’ Professional Skills: Making the Case for the Importance of Professional Skills, and More Inclusive Language

Conference Session
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 1
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Jennifer S. Linvill, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)
identify articles of interest related to how the language of students’professional skills has changed over the past 20 years across a wide range of databases andsearch terms. The bibliometric and content analysis showed that the predominant term forprofessional skills in the past 20 years has been “soft skills,” which connotes that professionalskills are somehow less important than technical skills. The key takeaway from this paper is thatthe language around students’ professional skills needs to change. Additionally, Engineeringeducators need to focus on encouraging and providing more opportunities outside of theclassroom for students to develop their professional skills in real-world contexts that are morerealistic for what students will see in
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Board 46: “Good communication skills are super, super important”: Developing students’ professional communication skills for career-ready engineers

Conference Session
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer Linvill, Purdue University; Imani N. Adams, Purdue University; Emily M. Haluschak, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Breejha Sene Quezada, Purdue Engineering Education; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)
an increasingly high-demand skill in theengineer's toolbelt. However, professionals in many industries, including engineering education,continue to refer to professional skills as "soft skills" [2]. Shuman and colleagues explain howthe term "soft skills" is used "often in a naïve or occasionally derogatory fashion" [3, pp. 41]. Inthis work, non-technical professional skills (i.e., communication, leadership, teamwork) will bereferred to as professional skills. The following paragraphs introduce professional skills inengineering education and examine the role of communication development.As background context, we first examine research regarding the larger context of professionalskills in engineering. When discussing the evolution of
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Board 48: Partnering with Industry to Establish a New University Engineering Program

Conference Session
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Charles E. Baukal Jr., Oklahoma Baptist University; Christopher T. Jones; Jeffrey Anderson; Larinee Dennis; Steve Fendley
Tagged Divisions
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)
between industry and academia becausemost engineering students go to work in industry [11]. The report calls for the reinvention ofengineering education. Russell Rhinehart (2014) writes, “After 13 years in industry and 28 inacademia, I have concluded that neither the academic perception of excellence nor the tasksstudents are required to complete align with the perceptions and tasks that lead to success inindustry” [12]. While many shortcomings have been cited, this paper will focus on the followingdeficiencies: too theoretical, weak on soft skills, and not enough focus on innovation. They areconsidered next including how they will be addressed in the new engineering program.Too TheoreticalSome refer to academia as the ivory tower because of the
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Board 49: Project-based learning course co-designed with regional enterprises

Conference Session
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lufan Wang, Florida International University; Ruoying Chu; Fangzhou Xia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zhuoxuan Li, Stanford University; Yan Wei, Southern University of Science and Technology; Yiming Rong, Southern University of Science & Tech
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)
Learning in Acquisition of Knowledge, Soft Skills During Basic and Preclinical Sciences: Medical Students’ Points of View. Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH, 26(2), 119–124. https://doi.org/10.5455/aim.2018.26.119-124.[3] Vaz, R., & Quinn, P. (2015, June). Benefits of a project-based curriculum: Engineering employers’ perspectives. In 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (pp. 26-278).[4] Vasiliene-Vasiliauskiene, V., Vasiliauskas-Vasilis, A., Meidute-Kavaliauskiene, I. & Sabaityte, J. (2020). Peculiarities of educational challenges implementing project-based learning. World Journal on
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Empowering Trailblazers toward Scalable, Systematized, Research-Based Workforce Development

Conference Session
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 1
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Martha Cervantes, Johns Hopkins University ; Sydney Danielle Floryanzia, University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University; Jackie Sharp; William Roberts Gray-Roncal; Erik C. Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)
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