Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session #5: Best Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

and employers as a key opportunity and challenge[2], while engineering faculty’s primary concern remains what they perceive to be as a gap intechnical skill acquisition [2]. This tension between communicative skill and technical skilldevelopment in engineering curricular design is no longer necessary or productive. Remotecollaborative work, structurally induced in part by pandemic accommodations has introducednew communication styles, work styles, and projects that arguably better support theengineering- and entrepreneurial-mindset, as reinforced by organizations like STEMNext.org [3]and KEEN’s Engineering Unleashed training programs [4].What is Engineering Communication?O*NET descriptions of communicative needs for careers in Civil