Conference Session

Developing Tomorrow's Leaders through Co-op Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University; Denise Stodola, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

, engineering graduates have beendocumented to have deficiencies for some outcomes, especially those pertaining to the“soft” skills, such as effective communication and multidisciplinary teamwork2 ;however, Davis et. al.3 recently developed an expert profile that is broadly applicable toall engineering disciplines, and which El-Sayed4 used to determine how co op educationcan address the deficiencies apparent in engineering education.This expert profile outlines the characteristics that, once mastered, would make anengineer deemed an “expert” in his profession. This set of behaviors is broader than theABET educational outcomes and lists the outcomes in terms of roles with correspondingobservable actions for each role. The roles of Analyst, Problem

Conference Session

Developing Tomorrow's Leaders through Co-op Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Millward-Sadler, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Annette Casey, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences; Emilia Bratschitsch, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

soft skills in the automotiveworkplace.Activity 1: The WebquestWebquests were conceived and first put into practice by Bernie Dodge and Tom March at San DiegoUniversity in the mid to late 1990s. A webquest has been defined as ‘an inquiry oriented activity inwhich some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet’.5Dodge furthermore goes on to define two separate types of webquest: short-term and long-term. Theshort term model should have the “instructional goal of […] knowledge acquisition and integration”should expose the learner to new information which must then be assimilated and finally is designed tobe completed within 1 to 3 lesson periods.6 The long-term model involves a longer period of