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

P-TECH: A New Model for an Integrated Engineering Technology EducationAuthors: Rebecca K. LaForest1, Iulian Gherasoiu2, Daniel White1, Harry Efstathaidis11 Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute2 College of Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic InstituteAbstractWithin the past decade, the United States has seen an upswing in job opportunities in theindustries supported by science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) academicprograms. Nanotechnology, or the study of material properties at the nanoscale, has led thisrevolution which has created the steady wave of new jobs and investments, especially in NewYork State. This relatively new field of study has concentrated and benefited from

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Dimitri Papazoglou; Saneela Rabbani; Shouling He

high school.However, this can be difficult in the United States since engineering courses and thecorresponding interactive design projects for practical engineering products are not alwaysincluded in middle school, even high school curriculum. In this paper, we try to explore thepossibility of developing a short-time workshop with an interesting engineering project whichcan motivate middle or high school female students to learn engineering, and eventually pursuecareers in engineering. For the workshop, we need to consider two factors to develop it: (1) thetime period allowed for the students to complete the project and (2) the expense of the projectproduct. The workshop was included in the event, Next Generation Science, Technology

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

resilience has emerged to define the ability of systems to adapt to unintended hazards andshocks. With the growing number of global weather related challenges resulting from climatechange, resilience engineering has emerged as a key term in the development agenda of worldorganizations and has even been considered to be the engineering challenge of the 21st Century.While the appearance of resilience engineering is recent and has not been widely introduced intoengineering curriculum, it appears to be on the rise as an area of definite importance for currentand future engineers. A review of current literature on the engineering design process inengineering education, sustainability engineering education and engineering resilience wasconducted. The