Conference Session

Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidaard Gunasekaran, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

].Based on the skillset shown in Figure 1, in academia, engineering graduates are trained only to“Use math to solve problems and communicate” while very little effort is made to increase allother skillset shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 Literacy standards set by National Institute of Literacy [3]Carnevale and Porro [4] elegantly stated that “School-based abilities are not necessarily the sameas work-based abilities. Employers want employees with solid academic basics, but they want theapplied versions of the three R’s. Applied reading, writing, and math are substantially differentfrom the versions taught in schools. In addition, employers want a set of behavior skills that arenot taught at all in traditional academic curricula, such