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and students for each year of data for this study. Thenumber of students in the table refers to those who completed the PR Survey and were placed ina project. Use of this data for the study was approved by the UF Institutional Review Board. Table 1. Data for this Study: Number of Projects and Students for 2019 – 2023 Academic Year Students Total projects Number of Unique and New Sponsors 2019 – 2020 47 13 13 (all assumed new for year 0 of study) 2020 – 2021 55 14 13 unique, 6 new 2021 – 2022 59 11 10 unique, 3 new 2022 – 2023 79 18 17
their work life. Industry practitioners can help immenselyby adopting more inclusive language toward professional skills and providing internshipopportunities to incorporate these skills for students to gain real-world experience.Tags: curriculum, professional skills, real-world experiences, “soft skills,” workforcedevelopment1. IntroductionIn 2011, at the ASEE annual conference, the Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)Division ran a conference session titled “They're Not "Soft" Skills!” [1] with the tagline,“There’s nothing "soft" about these difficult skills.” This session was hardly the first time thiscase had been made. Since that session in 2011, over ten years ago now, a casual search on theterm “soft skills” on the ASEE PEER
(under 1%),only changing from 117 doctorate degree recipients in 2010 to 120 in 2019 [3].NASA Historical Efforts with Tribal Colleges and UniversitiesAccording to Maynard [3], NASA has supported an effort called “Tribal Colleges andUniversities Project (TCUP)” since 2010, as one of various STEM education and outreach grantprograms specifically targeted to support Tribal Colleges and Universities-related initiatives.“The overall goal of the project is to expand opportunities for the nation’s STEM workforcethrough capacity building, infrastructure development, research and engineering experience,outreach, and information exchange” [4]. In 2008, Congress directed NASA to establish a projectthat was focused on climate change education. The Global
to the breakthroughcontributions physicists made to engineering [14]. Seely (1999) notes the gulf that developedbetween engineering schools and industrial practice [15]. Shepperd et al. (2009) learned from anextensive study of engineering education the “imperative of teaching for professional practice”because of the generally weak link between industry and academia [16]. Akili (2019) notes thattoo often brand-new engineering faculty ironically go straight from graduate school, with noindustrial experience (practice), to teach practice-related courses [17].Engineering students clearly must learn the fundamentals of engineering to become successfulpracticing engineers. However, they must also see the connection between theory and
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