Polmear, M., & Simmons, D. R. (2020, June), Defining Workforce Development: Launching a Career from CAREER  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34374

\bibitem{asee_peer_34374}
  Polmear, M., \& Simmons, D. R. (2020, June), \emph{Defining Workforce Development: Launching a Career from CAREER}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34374

Madeline Polmear and Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E..  "Defining Workforce Development: Launching a Career from CAREER".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34374 Internet.  11 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_34374}
  Madeline Polmear and Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E..
  "Defining Workforce Development: Launching a Career from CAREER".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34374 Internet.  11 Jul, 2024

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AB  - This paper synthesizes the research from a CAREER award to define and offer an initial model of workforce development in civil engineering. Technological, social, and environmental changes continue to put responsibility on this profession to be responsive to the needs of communities. As the demands on civil engineering continue to evolve, the workforce needs a broader set of skills to keep pace. Undergraduate education is an important component of this training process. Although learning can happen both inside and outside the classroom, the historically technical focus of the curriculum puts additional impetus on out-of-class activities to foster professional skill development. This project, supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, employed a mixed methods approach to explore out-of-class engagement of engineering students including their decisions to participate (or not), types of activities, barriers, and incentives. This research was designed to understand how co-curricular participation supports involvement, affective engagement, and learning outcomes with the ultimate aim of leveraging workforce preparation and entry.  

As a general term, workforce development has been applied to a range of fields and vocations. Educators, policymakers, and practitioners have used the term in different contexts with varying conceptualizations. Workforce development covers a vast space and the need to be expansive can dilute the ability of stakeholders to make sense of the concept in sectors that have unique challenges and opportunities. This research attempts to provide a definition and preliminary model of workforce development, a focus of which is education and training, specific to the discipline to guide preparation for the next generation of civil engineers. 

This paper provides an overview of the research activities and findings to demonstrate how the data have informed an understanding of workforce development that includes applications and implications for educating and training civil engineers. The paper will also detail how this understanding is guiding the career trajectory of the CAREER awardee. 

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