Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reem Khojah, University of California, San Diego; Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of California, San Diego; Isgard S. Hueck, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

engineeringeducation [1], [10]. Yet, students struggle to satisfactorily develop these skills during their timeas undergraduates, as stated in recent feedback from over 500 employers who hired entry-levelengineers [2].Despite the implementation of project-based educational learning models, the skill gap betweenwork expectations of employers and the performance of engineering graduates persists in subsetsof professional skills, such as contextual application of engineering design solutions,communication, motivation, and self-management [2], [3], [5]. A focus on collaboration withindustry in the education of engineers has been shown to boost, not only design thinking withreal-world complexity [1], but also to increase contextual understanding of design