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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Ryan Milcarek; Michael Garrett; Ryan Falkenstein-Smith; Jeongmin Ahn

involves many cognitiveprocesses and soft skills that characterize good designers. The following skills were listed asdescribing good designers. 1) Ability to tolerate ambiguity 2) Ability to apply systems thinking and focus on the big picture 3) Ability to handle uncertainty 4) Ability to make decisions 5) Ability to think as part of a team 6) Ability to communicate in diverse ways Currently, the design process is taught in most engineering curriculum through a first yearor cornerstone course3 and in the capstone course. The process or structure of engineering design,although lacking in a uniform application across all disciplines or even within disciplines, ofteninvolves elements such as determining the clients

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Rebecca K. LaForest; Iulian Gherasoiu; Daniel White; Harry Efstathaidis

7.96 n/a 7.43 9.87Table 2: A comparison of the Regents scores between the P-TECH cohorts and corresponding high school classes.Attendance and timeliness are soft skills that are often over looked, but are critical to employers.A review of P-TECH attendance data shows that while first marking period attendance is similarto that of the high school, the second quarter P-TECH students had 3-4% better attendance thanthe traditional high school. This not only trains for improved attendance, but we assume it alsosuggests that students are more motivated to come to school because they are enjoying theirlearning. Attendance Rates 100% 80