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their hands dirty Trained to work as individuals. No experience working in teams Do not have the desire and/or the skills to do their own search or learn on their ownTable 2. An Industry Perception of Weaknesses in New Graduates of Gulf Region’s Eng.CollegesTo try to understand today’s state of engineering education in the Region, it is important to cometo grip with the challenge that the Region’s pre-university educational systems are facing today.Pre-University Education in the Gulf Region: The most significant change in the pre-universitysystems occurred in the decades of the 70’s and 80’s, as a direct result of the substantial wealthderived from oil revenues, which have found its way to the Region. Public schools, in
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solid model initially provided by the OEM (which wasmade purposefully deficient to illustrate the effect of poor modeling) and incorrectly predicted thefailed component(s). The next instructional phase was in experimental setup, nondestructivemeasurement techniques, data acquisition systems, and analysis of experimental data. This led tostudents running destructive experiments on real OEM assemblies in the lab, and discovering thattheir predictions did not match reality. We took advantage of the teaching opportunity to illustratethe effect of problem setup in meshing the solid models; students corrected and optimized theirmodel and were able to correctly predict the failed component. This exactly mirrors what happensin the OEM’s own labs.The
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enrolled in the class seeking their opinions, evaluations,and any comment(s) they may wish to offer. Twenty six out of a total of 30 students returned the“questionnaire” on time! The opinions expressed and comments made were, by and large,positive to say the least. After regrouping, and rephrasing to correct the English language; thecomments offered by the ex- students, could be summarized as follows: The adjunct was easy to approach every time and every where, and was always helpful, His input into the course has dramatically improved students’ understanding of the material, enlivened the experience, and made the course more meaningful, Many students felt that the adjunct faculty was eminently qualified to teach
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build a professional network with the possibility of future employment. A potential long‐term benefit of this experience could be an increased number of off‐site internships. After past interns see the benefit of the program, they may offer similar opportunities to future interns, thus continuing to influence future curriculum, mentorship and ultimately ensuring an industry‐ready student pipeline. Acknowledgement This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers DUE‐1407160. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. References
exchange of ideasbetween all participants. Annually implementation of outcomes will create a feedback loop,cultivating continuous growth of research and educational excellence.There currently exist several transdisciplinary NSF programs, such as REU and RET Sites, S-STEM, STEM+C, STELAR, INCLUDES and ITEST, which integrate STEM teaching, learning,and research for preK-post secondary students in formal and informal settings. The vision of theSTEM Culture of Excellence Center is to extend these programs by simultaneously bringingknowledge and innovation to school districts and community colleges, as well as broadeningparticipation, by supporting active research and mentorship opportunities between teachers, HS,UG, and graduate scholars, and provide