Paper ID #24609The Challenge of Higher Education – Employability: Does the WorkforceHave What Employers NeedEvan Harpenau, Evan M. Harpenau, M.S. Mr. Evan M. Harpenau is currently a Radiological Engineer at Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC. for the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Harpenau holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Purdue University in Radiological Health Science/Health Physics and Leadership, Technology, and Innovation, respectively. Mr. Harpenau has 13 years of Applied Health Physics experience including radiological de- contamination and decommissioning projects across the country; domestic
science with a concentration in software engineering, and M.Sc. in computer science from Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He received the Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Guelph in 2014. He received the 2009 Graduate TA Award from Brock University. He is an ISW Trainer and has facilitated numerous training for Russian educational improvement. He previously worked for Magna International Inc. as a Manufacturing Systems Analyst and as a visiting researcher at ITU Copenhagen. He is currently an Assistant Professor and head of the Artificial Intelli- gence in Games Development Lab at Innopolis University in Innopolis, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia and an