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What Employers Look for in New Engineering Graduates

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--40870

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https://peer.asee.org/40870

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Charles Baukal John Zink Hamworthy Combustion

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Chuck Baukal is the Program Chair for the College Industry Partnership Division. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an Ed.D., and a P.E. He is the Director of the Koch Engineered Solutions Institute which is part of John Zink Hamworthy Combustion located in Tulsa, OK where he has been since 1998.

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Linda Thurman University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Director of Student Professional Development & Employer Relations for the Lee College of Engineering, UNC Charlotte. CIEC- Treasurer and College Industry Partnership (CIPD) Board member.

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Carter Stokeld

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Abstract

This paper looks at what many employers look for in new engineering graduates. Some of this is contained in ABET requirements such as student outcomes for what students should know or be able to do at the time they graduate and in program outcomes for what students should know or be able to do several years after graduation. This paper looks at more specific details, many of which are not contained in ABET requirements, that should be valuable for faculty, engineering programs, and students. There is often a significant gap between academic preparation and full time employment in industry]. Properly prepared students benefit the students themselves because they are more likely to get the job they want, the engineering programs they came from because they can establish reputations for producing well-prepared students, and the employers that hire the students.

Baukal, C., & Thurman, L., & Stokeld, C. (2022, August), What Employers Look for in New Engineering Graduates Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40870

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