Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University; Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Miriam Kanini Peter

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

for engineering graduates: Recent trends in higher education AbstractThe research paper discusses how higher education has responded to the existing gap betweenemployers’ expectations and qualifications of recent college graduates in professional skillsreported by national surveys of employers. During the last decade, the National Association ofColleges and Employers has been reporting that less than 50% of employers evaluate collegegraduates as proficient in the competencies such as professionalism/work ethic, oral/writtencommunications, teamwork/collaboration, leadership, and other related skills.The paper presents a two-fold analysis of Engineering

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Visintainer Lerman; Italo Rodeghiero Neto, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul; Joana Siqueira de Souza, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul; Maria Auxiliadora Cannarozzo Tinoco, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

deficiency in education, where the knowledge necessary for an engineer iscompromised. Allied with this fact, the evaluations of these students are also traditional,based on tests and descriptive evaluations. In Brazil, this scenario is prevalent because theresources designated to public universities for investments and improvements in teaching andlearning are limited.From traditional teaching methodologies, the development of professional skills can also becompromised [11]. The student needs to work in a team and work with structured problems inthe literature [12]. Other consequences observed in the literature are the unpreparedness ofthe future professional, school dropout [13], and lack of student commitment and cooperation[14].There are different