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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Developing Professional and Career Readiness

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abigail N. Lehto, Utah State University; Ning Fang, Utah State University

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soft-skills, such as time management andcommunicating directly with mentors. They also noticed strengths in students’ ability to askrelevant questions. Lastly, mentors were cognizant of students’ level of education whenmentoring and assigning tasks.Connecting learning topics to industry recommendations is expected in engineering education.The current study’s findings will help engineering educators understand what skills industrymentors look for in engineering interns and potential employees. Engineering educators can thenincorporate the training of these skills into their lessons.Introduction of research backgroundsIn the engineering industry, it is common for companies to hire student interns to help withvarious tasks. At the beginning of a

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hudnall McGehee, University of Arkansas; Bryce Williams, University of Arkansas; Alyssandra P Navarro, University of Arkansas; Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas

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reported feeling prepared and confident in conducting these informational interviews (M =3.82).Qualitative Analysis Both user-focused and AI-assisted thematic analysis of open-response questions providedinitial insights into the effectiveness of the interviews. The most common themes identified bythe generative AI for the open-response question are as follows: networking, interviewscheduling, career awareness, and soft skills. These results aligned well with the user-focusedanalysis of frequency. The survey respondents reported the importance of networking andbuilding professional relationships, emphasizing the significance of soft-skill development,which consists of effective communication and confidence. However, one challenge

Conference Session

Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lana El Ladki, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Saira Anwar, Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering, Texas A&M University; Bilal Mansoor, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Yasser M. Al-Hamidi, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Paper ID #37766Student Engineering Enrichment from Design to ExecutionMrs. Lana El Ladki, Texas A&M University at Qatar Lana El Ladki leads the student engineering enrichment unit in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). She provides undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities to develop technical skills, soft skills, and professional leadership and management skills that will complement their engineering degree. Lana is a Certified Professional in Training Man- agement (CPTM) with over 12 years of experience in higher education. She holds a Master of

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Developing Professional and Career Readiness

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laurie A. Sutch, University of Michigan; Caitlin Hayward

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courses the students take.In all implementations, students can earn a badge that can be shared as a LinkedIn credential thathighlights their mastery of specific competencies for public view. The visual design of thecredential is the same across the units, with custom text and graphics paired with the universitylogo.This work in progress paper will share the background and development of the tool as well asdiscuss the various implementations and future plans.IntroductionBuilding professional competencies – or “soft skills” – is a key aspect of the higher educationstudent experience, and students engage with these competencies both in and out of theclassroom. However, some students may not initially recognize the importance of thesenon-technical

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Professional Skills and Competencies: Attainment, Assessment, and Evaluation.

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Buten, University of Michigan; Jack Boomer Perry, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

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Perceptions of Engineering Service Experiences as a Source of Learning Technical and Professional Skills. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 8(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v8i1.4545Chaibate, H., Hadek, A., Ajana, S., Bakkali, S., & Faraj, K. (2019). A Comparative Study of the Engineering Soft Skills Required by Moroccan Job Market. International Journal of Higher Education, 9(1), 142. https://doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v9n1p142Fisher, D. R., Bagiati, A., & Sarma, S. (2017). Developing Professional Skills in Undergraduate Engineering Students Through Cocurricular Involvement. Journal of Student Affairs Research

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne P Cooper PhD, Vanderbilt University

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competition based on the performance of their design. • The performance at recruitment for a club or fraternity can determine the financial viability of the organization • How well they perform their work during an internship or Co-Op today impacts the customers of that work and determines what new opportunities they’ll be offered.Other than through grades and the long-term goal of learning, engineering class assignments donot routinely provide the level of realness needed to make the same type of direct, immediateimpact. Nor can that be reasonably expected relative to the technical skills being developed. It ispossible, however, to incorporate activities with a high degree of realness when it comes topromoting the soft skills

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luiz A. DaSilva, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Liza Wilson Durant, George Mason University; Jordan Mason; Sarah Hayes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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their professionalnetworks, and improve soft skills such as time management and teamwork [7]. It is clear thatemployers recognize those benefits: a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges andEmployers shows a projected 22.6% increase in interns hired in 2022, by far the highest increasein at least a decade [8].Our work focuses on experiential learning in cybersecurity, a field that is experiencing rapidexpansion in the labor market and shortages of qualified professionals. Between 2013 and 2021,the number of open cybersecurity positions worldwide increased from 1 million to 3.5 million[9]. This demand for professionals is not being met: in the U.S. it is estimated that there are onlyenough qualified applicants to fill 68% of the

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Lynn Baldwin Kan-uge; Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University ; Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University

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what needs to be done to keep thoseitems flowing through the organization. It’s technical, because I have to know what I’m dealingwith and what the part can do, but it’s also about people. I have to be able to work and interfacewith others to move the assemblies along. I have to be able to keep track of the different contactsthat I’ve made along the way. I am still polishing the soft skills from Rising Scholars.” Rising Scholar Gamma (Engineering Technologist) “The summer before I graduated, I managed to land an internship with the Vulcraft divisionof Nucor, here in Indiana. I had a good round of interviews and managed to make it to the finalpart of the process with three companies. I picked

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laurie Sutch, University of Michigan

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and Employers, 2023. [Online]. Available: naceweb.org[5] C. Stewart, A. Wall, and S. Marciniec, “Mixed Signals: Do College Graduates Have the Soft Skills That Employers Want?,” Compet. Forum, vol. 14, pp. 276–281, Jan. 2016.[6] S. Eisner, “Grave New World? Workplace Skills for Today’s College Graduates,” Am. J. Bus. Educ., vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 27–50, 2010.[7] C. S. E. Woodcock, J. Callewaert, and J. Millunchick, “Synthesizing definitions of professional competencies linked to experiential learning in engineering education: a literature review,” J. High. Educ. Theory Pract., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 123–146, 2021.[8] D. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the source of Learning and Development Second Edition. 2015.

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lufan Wang, Florida International University

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. Bothemployers and students acknowledge that communication skill is the most important quality inconstruction. However, the results demonstrated a gap in perceptions of the hard skills betweenemployers and students. Prior work experience and solid construction core skills and knowledgeare both ranked in the least 5 important qualities by employers, but they are ranked relatively highby students (ranked number 7 and 6, respectively). This discrepancy suggests a misalignmentbetween what students perceive as important for their professional development and the actualindustry expectations. In traditional engineering education, soft skills such as presentation,interpersonal skills, and time management are often overlooked. However, these abilities

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Models, Methods & Frameworks for Experiential Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin C Willis, University of Maine, Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

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: • Fixed - Common to all ASCC pathways • Shared - Created for another micro-credential pathway under development, included for credit in the Mechanical Testing pathway as well • Unique - Core to this topic Fixed requirements are those determined to be beneficial for student learning andemployability, regardless of research area or specialization students work in during their ASCCresearch. These include 21st century, safety and soft skills, in addition to work hour requirements.While the hours worked at the ASCC by the student will not all be spent working on microcredential content, they are used to demonstrated continued and cumulative research experience.If the student wishes to

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Identity, Motivation & Belonging in Experiential Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adithya Jayakumar, The Ohio State University; Yuvraj Singh, The Ohio State University

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-classroom engineering project experiences through student organizations andcompetitions have been offered at universities across the world for many decades. Whileinstructor-led “traditional” teaching approach in engineering classrooms is essential fordeveloping analytical rigor among students, it may be insufficient for preparing them to solvecomplicated socio-technical problems that engineers often face in the real world [1]. As a result,project experience in college helps to develop systems-level thinking abilities that engineers needto solve open-ended problems [1]. Overall, this type of project experience has led to a higherself-perception of development of soft skills such as problem solving, creativity, critical thinking,integrity, teamwork

Conference Session

Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Daniel Munro, University of Toronto; Virginia Hall; Tracy L. Ross, Actua

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Diversity

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broader set of careers. Many of the participants cited multiple examples ofskills developed. A summary of commonly cited skills is as follows: ● Networking: “It has made me realize about the importance of networking and soft skills apart from giving me technical skills” ● Teamwork: “I feel prepared to work in a team where I both need to manage up to my superiors and manage down to the people I am in charge of organizing” ● Creative thinking: “It has improved my communication and creative thinking which will play a vital role in my future as my future career involves research” ● Communication: “This program has allowed me to learn how to communicate effectively with co-workers as well as become confident with my

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Jackson, University of Florida; Emily Hope Ford; Allison Kathleen Porras; Andrew John MacIntosh

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are justthat, coaches, whose job is to facilitate the success of the team in a myriad of ways. Effectivecoaches may sometimes fulfill the role of an instructor to the team in those areas of expertise thatrequire each member to learn new skills. For example, coaches may be called upon to teachparticular project-specific skills such as finite-element analysis, dynamic modelling, virtualreality programming, and the like. More often, however, the faculty coach is a mentor to theteam leading them to effective project management strategies, conflict resolution, meetingmanagement, morale management, soft skills, and communication strategies with other engineerssuch as technicians, manufacturers, and sales engineers.To give teams the best chance of

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Erin A. Hostetler, Pennsylvania State University; Patrick Joseph Tunno, Pennsylvania State University; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University

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first and second year-specific Complete six-hour Serve as an EPAL for at EPALs, additionalcriteria synchronous training; least two semesters. responsibilities (planning Participate in training to events, scheduling, serving as develop, communication, points of contact for projects). active listening, leadership & soft skills; Observe EPAL sessions Serve as an EPAL by volunteering to be a peer adviser, staffing events and making classroom presentations.Additional Complete BUILD Training Prior completion of EPALs

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Models, Methods & Frameworks for Experiential Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

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Diversity

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accommodates diverse learning styles and helps develop soft skills crucialfor professional success (Haritha & Rao, 2024). Mathematical modeling of Kolb's cycle hasrevealed its robustness in accommodating students' varying learning abilities (Abdulwahed et al.,2008). Recent studies using ethnography have identified key themes in experiential learning forengineering students, including cooperative learning, consistency, relevance, simulation, andtransparency (Mehta & Mehta, 2023).Situated Learning Theory (SLT) supports experiential learning in higher education andengineering by emphasizing contextual, authentic environments for skill development (Castillo& Harris, 2024; Gómez et al., 2015). This approach enhances students' ability to

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Lyu, Beihang University; Chuantao Yin, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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andsolve complex engineering problems. Although training in these skills was part of theircurriculum, some reported they did not fully appreciate the value of these ‘soft skills’ courses,often deeming them marginal, or more often than not, lacking in the Chinese engineeringeducation curriculum(Yuan & Lei, 2023). Internship experience has helped students to makesense of the importance of generic competencies, as indicated by one student who reflectedon how he came to realize the importance of communication: Communication was one of the things I learned. My mentor said something that left me with a very deep impression. He said that no matter whether you're providing a service or a product, you're essentially communicating with people