handle contact with, for example, the Product Owner. The Product Owneris a representative of the product to be developed, which can be an external customer orsomebody with an interest of the final product [1-4].The Scrum Team works in short development cycles, called sprints. Each sprint spans aperiod of typically a couple of weeks or a month. Each sprint starts with a preparatory task todefine the tasks to be undertaken in the sprint and ends with a delivery to the customer orproduct owner followed by a session called the Sprint Reflection to discuss and proposeimprovements for next sprint. The product is defined in a Product Backlog (which replacesthe traditional documents of requirement specification). The product backlog is agreed
inadequate for the research questions 12. The focus of this manuscriptis on the qualitative interviews, as the findings are meaningful in themselves in addition toinforming the survey.To answer our first research question, we conducted a content analysis of the transcribedinterviews to determine ECPs’ initial career choices and the prevalence of each 13. This contentanalysis relied on a priori codes of “graduate school” and “workforce”. To answer the secondresearch question, we coded the data for ECPs’ reflection about remaining on their planned path(“doing what they thought they would be doing”) using emergent themes. Using tables andcounts of codes, we then quantitized the qualitative data with regard to career pathways. Contentanalysis and
; Sciences or College of Business • Average GPA: (Overall College Average of 2008 Summerbridge Participants: 3.130GPA) • 3.0 – 4.000: 80% • 2.5– 2.999: 10% • 2.0 – 2.499: 0% • 0.0 – 1.999: 10%Average GPA: TBD BACK TO THE BEGINNING WHERE IT ALL STARTED AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW!!!!The following spreadsheets reflect those students who came through the Summer BridgeProgram experience, have completed their degree requirements and have selected to go tograduate school and/or enter the engineering work force.Fig.2 reflects the 2003 URM engineering students who chose to participate in Summer Bridgewith a lower combined SAT of 1168 and the URM
. Globalengineers should possess cultural sensitivity and knowledge, as well as the interpersonal skills, toadapt within a variety of cultural contexts and with people that differ from their own experiences.A positive attribute of this intercultural literacy is that designs and solutions are no longer boundwithin the technical domain, but should be reflective of the engineer’s cultural understanding andinterpersonal competence. Working closely with the Dubai Contracting Company (DCC) and incollaboration with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Syracuse University,the authors have successfully designed and implemented an innovative program to providestudents with distinctive skill sets to enhance their capacity as global civil engineers in
the terminal degrees conferred in the nation.Upon spending seven or more years here as students, many non-citizens acclimate to theAmerican life-style, sought employment, usually taking teaching jobs along with some of theirU.S. cohorts in engineering colleges, applied for U.S. citizenship, and assimilated into the facultyranks. As time has passed, aerospace engineering faculties with rank have become dominated bynon-practitioners as the majority at many of our institutions. As could be expected, the reference-frame that these faculty use in deciding curricula content, hiring, and promotion requirements forother faculty is often a natural reflection of their own personal experiences, which has largelybeen focused on engineering academics
. Page 25.778.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Infusing the Curriculum with Cutting-Edge Technologies through Partnerships with IndustryAbstractTo ensure that curricula and course content reflect both academic and industrystandards the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS) at NYITbelieves that course content must include elements of contextual teaching andlearning (CTL) which emphasizes the relationship of course content to real-lifesituations1,2. It is expected that CTL which incorporates 1. hands-on activities 2. work-based learning experiences and 3. project-based learningwill engage today’s students more thoroughly than the traditionallecture
Characterizing the Environment for Sustainability (SLICES): Im-proving Understanding of Real World Systems via Direct Observation/Reflection. The opinionsexpressed are those of the authors and do not imply endorsement by NSF. The authors gratefullyacknowledge the contributions of the 54 undergraduate interns who collected industry data andprovided important feedback about involving undergraduates in research to improve the SLICESprogram.Bibliography1 Rothman, H. (1992). "You need not be big to benchmark." Nation's Business, December, 80(12), 64-65.2 Fisher, D., Miertschin, S., and Pollock, D.R. (1995). “Benchmarking in construction industry.” J. Management inEngineering, 11(1), 50-57.3 Mitra, C., Pearce, A.R., and Fiori, C.M. (2011). “Developing
many cases is or will be aligned with the GrandChallenges of Engineering as identified by the National Academy of Engineering 7. The partnersprovide our students both with interactions with their engineers and with educational contentaround the selected theme and their company’s related efforts. The theme, in turn, is reflected ina physical presence in the form of a theme-lobby on a floor of the residence hall. Partners onboard at the time of this writing include Consumers Energy, sponsor of the energy theme, and Page 25.645.2GE, sponsor of the transportation theme.Conversations are ongoing with additional potential partners. In addition, the
application/acceptance process.The fourth area identified by the solar energy industry is utility management. Although there isno specific degree associated with utility management, individuals are needed who possessworking knowledge of centrally generated and distributed generation of electricity as well asknowledge of utility scale generation. The successful individuals tend to have some workingexperience within an electric utility company.Wind Industry NeedsThe participation in this project by the wind industry was less robust than the solar industry.This may be a reflection of its infancy of the industry within the state. Regardless, the types ofjobs foreseen by the wind industry revolve largely around maintenance of wind turbinegenerators, which