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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Paul Blowers

-determination while tailoring advicedirectly to changing interests.The talk will highlight advising opportunities from outreach, through retention, continuing tograduation, and post graduate interactions that fit within student progress towards theirindividual careers. Appropriate advising content for a technically rigorous chemical engineeringprogram will be used as examples of how to motivate students towards exploring options andmaking decisions that open new doors to professional development. The issue explored is thatself-determination comes from inside the student and that confidence in personal evaluation isfostered through directed activities throughout students' time with us.Objectives that readers should be able to meet will be:• to

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jesa H. Kreiner; Peter W. Othmer; Timothy W. Lancey

experience at California State University, Fullerton has as itsgoal to provide this experience2. The theme of the experience is set jointly by the studentsand faculty during the beginning of the first class. Interests of the students are explored andevaluated and ideas for projects requested. Subsequently, additional ideas are brought forconsideration by the teaching faculty. Usually, these are projects obtained from localindustry or from different parts of the University. The discussions about which projects toselect are an integral part of the course as the financing of the projects with respect to theability of the department to fund these is of course quite limited. The current financialcircumstances in the university and the inability of the

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering) and six research centers. It has more than 2,100 students and approximately 55 full-time faculty. In 2007- 2008 the College received more than $2.5 million in external grants and contracts for research and program administration and graduate student support. In addition to his duties at San Diego State University, Dr. Hayhurst serves on the Workforce/Education Committee of the San Diego Economic Development Corporation, and is a member of the Board of Directors of CONNECT and of the Engineering and General Contractor Foundation. He has been active in K-12 outreach and facilitated the designation of San Diego State