Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session I: Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenda D Young, Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Lee Michael Warburton, AKKA Technologies; Christopher David Ciechon

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College Industry Partnerships

acquires knowledge, gains experience todevelop needed skills, and adopts professional values that lead to a successful start in their career[15]. In essence, students should be able to answer three questions as they progress through theprofessional socialization process: 1) What do I do with the skills learned? 2) What am I supposed to look like, and how should I act in my professional field? 3) What do I, as a professional, look like to other professionals as I perform my new roles? [17].Researchers have offered multiple and complex conclusions around professional socializationand its contribution to identity formation [18, 19]. Several studies have used the framework toexplore undergraduate

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas, El Paso; Ryan Wicker, University of Texas, El Paso; Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso; Ahsan Choudhuri, University of Texas, El Paso

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College Industry Partnerships

. Page 22.913.2  IntroductionThere is an increasing demand from industry, and a responsive desire by academics, to providemore professional practice skills and experiences to BS graduates of engineering programs. Thisis actually not a new phenomenon, as engineering programs have changed emphasis frompractical training to theory and research often over the past 100 or more years. We are at a timenow, however, when global competitiveness in innovation combined with an ever increasingknowledge base and complexity of the problems we as engineers face, is driving the need for aneffective balance between theory and practice in the engineering curriculum.The methods of providing practical training to