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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Gad J. Selig

Technology as an inter-disciplinary program with a core set of courses and multiple concentration tracks integrated across severalgraduate schools represents an appropriate next step for the University of Bridgeport on our journey tobecome a world class education institution. This will include the Schools of Business and Engineering ata minimum, and perhaps others as well.Biographical InformationDr. Gad J. Selig is the Director, MS in Technology Management and Dual GraduateBusiness/Engineering/Technology Degree Programs at the University of Bridgeport. He teaches graduate courses inBusiness Strategy, Marketing (including Internet Marketing), Information Technology, Global Program and ProjectManagement, Entrepreneurship, New Product Development and

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Qing Li

students are more likely to be recruited intoengineering majors. Students’ entry level of mathematical and academic competency is the strongest and mostconsistent predictor of persistence in engineering program (Astin & Astin, 1992; Moller-Wong & Eide, 1997;Nicholls, et. al., 2007). In particular, French, et. al. (2005) have pointed out that SAT mathematics and verbalscores and high school ranking are good predicators for college GPA, and college GAP is a subsequent goodpredictor for persistence in engineering. Like Shuman, et. al. (1999) pointed out, about a fourth of the freshmenand a third of the upper class students have to drop out engineering due to poor GPA.However, not all researchers believe that the two traditional measures of