Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Jerry Carl Hamann, University of Wyoming; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; David L. Whitman P.E., University of Wyoming; Leslie K. Pendleton, Virginia Tech

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, SCCT emphasizes the roleof other personal, contextual, and learning variables (e.g., gender, race or ethnicity, ability, socialsupport, external barriers) that can help shape career trajectories, including the means to remediateany disadvantages from being under-represented in particular occupations.24 More recently, Lentand his colleagues have added the construct of educational and vocational satisfaction as acontributor to structural models examining the pathways between self-efficacy and interests andpersistence intentions.25 Page 24.1202.5SCCT theory has made an impact on models attempting to explain the withdrawal of students

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen D Alfrey, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; David J. Russomanno, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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”program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This program providesfinancial support, mentoring, and leadership and career development to undergraduate studentswith demonstrated potential to succeed in engineering, but who face significant financialchallenges, possibly in combination with other barriers to meeting their full academic potential,such as being a first-generation college student or a member of an underrepresented group. Inaddition to scholarship support, CLEAR Scholars are provided with an intentional set ofactivities that promotes student retention, achievement, and persistence to graduation through:(a) Community-building through a cohort model; (b) Leadership and career development; (c)Engagement with

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deeksha Seth, Drexel University; John Joseph Carr Jr., New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences; Angela D. Wenger, New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences ; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; James Louis Tangorra, Drexel University

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educators outside of the engineering realm and younger students encourages theundergraduate engineering students to synthesize their knowledge more broadly than theytypically do during regular classroom examinations.The intent of this project is to form a rewarding partnership between academia and nonprofitindustry, while simultaneously benefiting the educational objectives of both parties. Severalpartnerships have been described between academia and industry such as software3, defense,automation, and aerospace industry4. In order to graduate well-versed engineers, academicinstitutions have partnered up with industries to form advisory boards that provide feedbacktowards an academic program’s direction3. Such partnerships have an instant advantage