severalreasons, including the database access to several indexed journal databases, its analysis tools, andits search capabilities.Two main searches were targeted for comparison across all disciplines: the first was on the term“soft skills” for the years 1980–2022, which returned 1042 documents. The second was on theterm “professional skills” for the same years 1980–2022, which returned 692 documents. 1980was chosen as the initial year so as to predate the timeframe before the term “soft skills” becamepopular.Four main analyses were completed based on the results that were returned from Scopus: (1)publication trends by year; (2) publication trend by year by discipline, with a particular focus onengineering; (3) publications by subject areas; (4
designing AI-proof assignments. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Reem has also engaged in post-doctoral research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, Irvine.Dr. Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of California, San Diego Alyssa C. Taylor is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego. She was a faculty member at the University of Washington from 2010 – 2022 before joining University of California San Diego. Dr. Taylor has over thirteen years of experience teaching across bioengineering laboratory, introductory, and
process: a systematicreview of literature”, IJIS, Vol.15 No.3, pp.479-506[5] Flavia M.F. Ferreira, et la., (2019) “University-industry partnership as a teaching-learning strategy”,IEEE Potentials, v38, n6, p.32-7, Nov-Dec.[6] Yinglun Xi, Hao Shen, and Xiang Chen, (2022), “Bridging the Gap between University EngineeringEducation and Enterprise Requirements”, Mobile Networks and Applications, p 1209-1217.[7] Ye Zhang and Xinrong Chen, (2023), “Empirical Analysis of University-Industry Collaboration inPostgraduate Education: A Case Study of Chinese Universities of Applied Sciences”, Sustainability, p6252 (12 pp).[8] Panagiotis Pantzos, Lena Gumaelius, et la., (2023), “Engineering students’ perceptions of the role ofwork industry-related activities
technical communication and networking skills.The outcome of this event was to prepare students for a competitive workforce interview processand provide them with direct access to hiring managers to support more intentional hiring practicesat JHU/APL.Event Overview and MethodologyThe main theme of Net-Hack 2022 was “Networking,” which was infused into every aspect of theevent. Net-Hack was composed of five team challenges centered on cutting-edge research areas,such as neuro-imaging, machine learning, and others [Appendix A]. Interns were instructed todeclare their top challenge preferences prior to the event. Students were then assigned to cross-sector teams of approximately five interns based on indicated challenge interests to collectivelyform
600 undergraduate students classified as either Electrical Engineering orComputer Engineering majors. Table I lists the ethnicity for the Fall 2022 semester in ECE.Female students are ~ 15% of the ECE undergraduate enrollment. Funding from the NationalScience Foundation Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) program and financial gifts from asemiconductor company funded the student scholarships and other project costs.TABLE I. Ethnicity of ECE Students (Fall 2022) Ethnicity Count % White 253 43.2 Hispanic 124 21.2 Black or African American 39 6.7 Non-Resident International 105 17.9 Two or more races 26 4.4 Asian
2 exceeded 5 2 exceeded 0 0 exceeded 0 8 met 3 met 0 met 2021-22 11 3 exceeded 7 2 exceeded 4 0 exceeded 3 met 8 met 5 met 4 met 2022-23 18 6 exceeded 3 3 exceeded 8 3 exceeded 1 exceeded 12 met 0 met 5 met 2023-24 17 9 exceeded 6 5 exceeded 4 1 exceeded 0 8 met 1 met 3 met Totals 73 22 exceeded 24 (33
satisfied (Holt, Mackay, & Smith, 2004). Additionally, the knowledgeuniversities provide is insufficient to help them tackle real-world problems and provide potentialsolutions to societal issues with innovative yet feasible products (Venkatesh et al., 2022).Moreover, given the multitude of changes in an increasingly globalized world, traditional formsof education based on purely theoretical learning are no longer sufficient to equip students withthe ability to work effectively in industry (Powell, 2005).To address evolving learning needs, educators seek industrial partnerships to expose students toreal-world issues (Ford & Lasher, 2004), allowing students to conceptualize, construct, andevaluate solutions to industrial problems (Fong et al
skills but rather that engineers shouldalso understand the broader context of their decisions and they should recognize the potentialimpacts.This approach of generating collaborative partnership projects between IAB members andacademic institutions using SD was first done with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’sMEIE Department in Spring 2022. The participants participated in the SD process of 10 rulesover 3 hours, to generate Pathfinder projects that have a high impact and are easy to accomplishin a short time frame. Nineteen industry partners, five faculty members, and 4 staff frominstitutional advancement participated in the workshop to explore the Framing Question“Imagine that University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s MEIE graduates
survey were operationalized so that respondents had a shared understanding of what wasbeing asked. The online survey and Institutional Review Board-approved protocols for issuingthe survey were designed to preserve anonymity so that respondents could answer morecandidly. While termed a “Lightning Poll” to reflect a practicable survey design for busy deansand department chairs, the survey was more robust than that title indicates. The survey,conducted in Qualtrics XM (Qualtrics, Seattle, Washington), was issued in September 2022 andconcluded in October 2022. The survey and a de-identified data sample are available uponrequest to the corresponding author.Survey ResultsResponse DemographicsOf the deans and chairs that responded to the survey, 73 of
and students for each year of data for this study. Thenumber of students in the table refers to those who completed the PR Survey and were placed ina project. Use of this data for the study was approved by the UF Institutional Review Board. Table 1. Data for this Study: Number of Projects and Students for 2019 – 2023 Academic Year Students Total projects Number of Unique and New Sponsors 2019 – 2020 47 13 13 (all assumed new for year 0 of study) 2020 – 2021 55 14 13 unique, 6 new 2021 – 2022 59 11 10 unique, 3 new 2022 – 2023 79 18 17
communication skills that allow them to quickly and succinctly articulate the "sowhat" to non-technical stakeholders. This paper includes detailed examples of howmicroelectronics professionals describe and value communication skills and identifies ways thatfocusing on communication as a professional skill improves student development, the associatedstudent outcomes, and career readiness.Tags: communication, engineering, microelectronics, workforce development1 IntroductionWith a national shortage of skilled technicians and engineers in the microelectronics industry,developing talent to fill roles in the workforce is critical for the U.S. economy and to securenational defense. The CHIPS Act of 2022, a 54-billion-dollar appropriation for
, retirees,and alumni. Several weeks before each design review, an email invitation is sent to the databasewith a registration survey for the reviewers to indicate which teams’ presentations they wouldlike to attend, and then this is repeated in the week leading up to the review. The registrationsurvey includes a non-disclosure agreement to protect students’ ability to maintain control oftheir intellectual property. Additional design reviewers are sought through social media, word-of-mouth, and by the student teams, and all newly registered reviewers are added to the existingreviewer database.Participation numbersReviewer participation for the six design reviews held during Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and Fall2022, was an average of 120 unique
among various stakeholders. The center then providescomprehensive support to the participating industry professionals, academics, and students,such as workspaces, equipment, technical support, and preparation programs.The Inno Wing is a 2,000-square-meter interdisciplinary workspace for undergraduates toexplore and build technologies. It provides state-of-the-art prototyping equipment and hands-on training support. The educational aim of the Inno Wing is to entrust and empowerundergraduate students - to unleash their creative potential by entrusting them to spearheadambitious innovation and technology projects that will shape the future. Since its opening inDecember 2020, the user population has grown from 931 in 2020/21 to 2,800 in 2022/23
activities can be ensuring that students are exposed toand are familiar with the skills and software tools they are likely to encounter post-graduation.With the growing intricacies of engineering challenges, incorporating simulation techniqueshas become increasingly vital. With companies looking to reduce costs, time and materials toinnovate and solve problems simulation is essential.The Academic team at Ansys works collaboratively with academics across the world to helpthem update their curriculum to include the industry standard simulation tools that studentsare likely to encounter after graduating. This paper presents the Ansys Funded CurriculumProgram, started in 2022, with a goal of lowering the barriers to implementation ofsimulation-based
workforce developmentAbstractThe CIRCUIT Program provides undergraduate students with intensive mentoring and the opportu-nity to participate in cutting-edge research while building skills to make significant contributions asfuture leaders in science and engineering. This program targets trailblazing undergraduate studentswhich include individuals from first-generation or low-income backgrounds, those with limited re-search experience, and those facing systemic barriers. Through the adoption of a cohort-basedmodel, students gain scientific knowledge and critical professional skills in a hands-on, collabo-rative, and fun environment. In 2022, we hosted over 100 undergraduate, graduate, and ReserveOfficers’ Training Corps (ROTC) students.CIRCUIT
). Core entrepreneurial competencies for civil engineers to be successful professionals. Conference Proceeding ASOCSA; 10th Built Environment Conference, Port-Elizabeth, South Africa21. Dimitrios Terzis, Monitoring innovation metrics in construction and civil engineering: Trends, drivers and laggards,Developments in the Built Environment, Volume 9, 2022, 100064,ISSN 2666-1659, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2021.100064.22. Abd El Halim, Abd El Halim Omar, and Haas, Ralph, Process and case illustration of construction innovation, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Volume 130, Issue 4, Pages 570 - 575.23. Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, Jyeshtharaj B. Joshi, Kalliat T. Valsaraj, and Krishna D. P. Nigam, Perspectives
different courses to solve realistic scenarios, or the lack of time students have to masterthese concepts” [36]. This leads to what Rhinehart identifies as a two-year gap for the engineerto be fully onboarded, once again highlighting the difficulty in helping recent graduatestransition from novice to expert [37]. The aerospace industry especially has unique challengesdue to the critical standards for assembly and safety that hardware must abide by. In 2022,researchers at Iowa State University conducted interviews with 26 entry level aerospaceengineers, with each university lasting approximately an hour. The team developed a codebookto perform deductive and inductive coding on each interview transcript. The results indicated that15 main challenges
’ success and academic persistence. She is a 2022 recipient of the NSF Early CAREER award and has received several awards at the institutional and national levels. Prior to academia, Dr. Fletcher served as the Director of Pre-college for the National Society of Black Engineers and worked for two Fortune 500 companies. You can follow Dr. Fletcher on Twitter @trinalfletcher and LinkedIn.Edward Collins, National Society of Black Engineers Edward Collins serves as Director, Programs and Research for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). He has experience and research interests in student learning and assessment, and college student choice. Edward obtained his doctoral from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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. A 3-weekPBL program for undergraduate students was initiated during the summers of 2021 and 2022.The summer programs involved a total of 129 students, 5 course instructors, 20 industry mentors,and 20 academic mentors. The involved projects are proposed by industry sponsors, spanningcutting-edge technology and important social topics such as smart health, senior care, androbotics. The 3-week term of the projects is significantly shorter than a typical project life thatranges from seven weeks to an academic year. Each project was appointed with three designatedmentors, including an international academic mentor who connects with the teams remotely, anindustry mentor from the industrial project sponsor, and an onsite mentor who offers
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universities and a first batch of School of Modern Industry (SMI) within 50 universitiesin 2021, as well as and a first batch of National School of Outstanding Engineers at 10universities and 8 enterprises in 2022. From a policy debrief view, such up-to-bottom initiativesshare a common and significant consensus of facilitating UIC to jointly cultivate futureengineers, in order to actively respond to burgeoning technologies and increasingly complexsocietal problems in modern society.Whilst a surge in UIC has been recognized by not only policy-makers but also educators andpractitioners, it still remains largely unexplored about why universities and industry would liketo involve in UIC, especially the educational activities in UIC; therefore, clear
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Paper ID #45350A Portable Educational Model for an Energy Management System of DukeEnergyDr. Tarek Kandil, Western Carolina University Tarek Kandil has been an assistant professor at Western Carolina University since August 2022. He got his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1993 and 1999, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 2004. He has over 19 years of experience teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as ongoing research and collaboration in the fields of renewable energy; AI and machine learning applications; energy
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assistant teaching professor. She was a faculty member at the University of Washington from 2010 - 2022, after which she joined the University of California San Diego. Areas of interest include industry engagement, communication, reflection, universal design, and fostering a sense of community, connection, and inclusion in engineering education. Dr. Taylor aims to foster the development of inclusive, thoughtful engineering graduates who will integrate their technical and professional skills to positively impact society and she is excited to contribute to the educational journey of engineering students. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Work in
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thisapproach worked in that geographically dispersed members could all participate, some level ofdirect engagement was lost. Additionally, due to limits on public gatherings, senior designshowscases were not able to be held in the spring of 2020 or 2021. This meant that IACmembers were even more disengaged from the student body.In 2022, advisory board meetings returned to being in person. However, in person attendancehas been greatly diminished, reducing engagement with the advisory board. Select members ofthe board have routinely asked how they can be of assistance to the program. While for somemembers there have been opportunities for extra engagement, they often have involvedspecialized engagement – either technical support related to a given