Bailey, R., & Dugan, J. B., & Strong, A. C., & McFarland, M. E. (2012, June), ECE/SYS Integration: A Strategy for Evaluating Graduates from a Multi-year Curriculum focused on Technology Systems Integration  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21245

\bibitem{asee_peer_21245}
  Bailey, R., \& Dugan, J. B., \& Strong, A. C., \& McFarland, M. E. (2012, June), \emph{ECE/SYS Integration: A Strategy for Evaluating Graduates from a Multi-year Curriculum focused on Technology Systems Integration}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21245

Reid Bailey, Joanne Bechta Dugan, Alexandra Coso Strong, and Matthew E. McFarland.  "ECE/SYS Integration: A Strategy for Evaluating Graduates from a Multi-year Curriculum focused on Technology Systems Integration".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21245 Internet.  11 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_21245}
  Reid Bailey, Joanne Bechta Dugan, Alexandra Coso Strong, and Matthew E. McFarland.
  "ECE/SYS Integration: A Strategy for Evaluating Graduates from a Multi-year Curriculum focused on Technology Systems Integration".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21245 Internet.  11 Feb, 2025

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AB  -             ECE/SYS Integration: Early Findings on Graduates from a             Multi-year Curriculum focused on Technology Systems                                  IntegrationIn 2009, a group of seventeen students majoring in electrical, computer, or systems engineeringbecame the first class of Technology Leaders Program (TLP) students at the University of theBlue Ridge. The TLP is an undergraduate curriculum focused on developing knowledge andskills that address both component level design (electrical or computer engineering) while alsosystem level integration.The current situation for majors in electrical and computer engineering at the University of theBlue Ridge is that the curriculum focused on developing strong technical skills to design andanalyze electrical or computer engineering components. For systems majors, the curriculum isfocused on developing rigorous skills for approaching a problem from a systems perspective andfor modeling the performance of systems under conditions of uncertainty. The objective of theTLP is to develop systems engineering graduates with the ability to work on technology-orientedprojects and electrical/computer engineering graduates with the ability to integrate their domain-specific designs into larger systems.The purpose of this paper is to describe the research plan for determining how well the TLP isable to accomplish its objectives for graduates and to report early findings from this plan. Theinitial group of seventeen students are in their senior year during the 2011-12 academic year andall are completing capstone design projects. Five of the seventeen students decided to drop outof the TLP at various times during the last two years. Interviews with the seventeen students andwith their faculty advisors on their capstone projects will provide a baseline of data. In addition,measures such as the types of jobs each student pursues after graduation, the type and number ofinternships each student completed during their summers, and their academic success will beevaluated.
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