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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Carol Stokes-Cawley; Katie Cadwell

program is that young women who have participated in Project ENGAGE willbe more likely to pursue careers in engineering, science and technology fields, thus increasingthe number of women in these fields where they are presently under-represented.Engineering is a prime contributor to solving some of the most difficult challenges facing theworld today. Women’s participation in engineering is crucial to stimulate diversity of thought inscientific discovery, the development of new technologies, and to promote innovation thataddresses challenges throughout the full spectrum of society including healthcare, environmentalissues, energy, infrastructure and transportation. The National Science Foundation reports thatwomen were awarded 57% of all bachelor

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Elena V. Brewer; Anthony P. Dalessio

an AAS degree in Nanotechnology.A SUNY Form 1A New Program Announcement was jointly issued in January 2014 by the twocolleges. GCC intends to send their students to ECC for the nanotechnology laboratories, asECC is much farther along in building a laboratory. Jamestown Community College (JCC)joined the effort later in 2014.ECC’s EET faculty have been attending workshops offered by Pennsylvania State University innanotechnology. Penn State is the National Science Foundation-funded AdvancedTechnological Education national center of excellence in Nanotechnology. The Penn Stateentity, known as the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Center2,receives federal funding to train community college faculty in nanotechnology, as well

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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Xingwu Wang; Bruce B. Rosenthal; Casey J. Busch; Jeff Porter; John L. Cusack

to thirty. This response rate suggests that the survey respondents represented anaverage population of businesses attending a career fair.The survey posed four questions. First, how would employers describe the need toconsider sustainability in their long-term planning? As illustrated in Figure 9, 47% chosethe “extremely important” category, 40% “important,” 13% “neutral” and 0% “notimportant.” The majority of the employers recognized the importance of sustainability,which could be compared with those in earlier surveys in the United Kingdom,20-21 andare consistent with the trend that sustainability is gradually being integrated intocorporate strategies in order to remain competitive.22-23 Figure 9. Need to consider