Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

address this issue. There also seem to be stark differences between industry and academia in work andlearning cultures. Teamwork and cooperation are not often highly valued and rewarded inacademia in the ways that they are in industry. "The culture of academia for students is characterized by competition. Students are placed in large classrooms with curved grading systems that discourage collaboration and information sharing…This contrast in cultures, from academia where students are viewed as receivers of information from faculty and collaboration is discouraged by the competitive culture and few opportunities for formal interaction exist, to corporations, where employees utilize each others' knowledge