Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail Jane Kulhanek; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

sophomore level chemical engineering students. This classwas designed to include many game-based activities. Because of these factors, it is uncertainhow transferrable these results may be to other classroom environments, and these results maynot be generalizable to other student populations. This class contained more males than females;therefore, male reflections had more of an impact on the overall top three themes identifiedwhere there was a difference in perceptions between males and females.ConclusionsEffective communication is an important aspect to any field, including engineering. Withoutproficient communication skills, catastrophic events can occur and a successful industry career isunlikely. However, many engineering graduates do not have