Conference Session

Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Grant Crawford, Quinnipiac University; Jason B Burke, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

contemporary issues (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. A quick look at many of these EAC student outcomes reveals knowledge, skills andbehaviors that are important to all post-secondary students, not just engineering majors. In manyinstances, student veterans come into programs with a significant head start on their ‘traditional’contemporaries with regard to many of the ‘soft’ skills. Table 4 presents a matching of studentveteran strengths to selected EAC student outcomes that was compiled by QU engineeringfaculty veterans. Table 4. ABET EAC Student Outcomes Matched to Veteran Student Strengths ABET EAC Student Outcome