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Integrating a Career Conference into the First Year Curriculum
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To encourage our students to put more effort into the first year research and writing assignments and to impress on them the value of the “real world” applications of the learning and goals of the assignments, we created the SSOE First Year Career Conference. The conference is a Saturday event, modeled after career conferences at student professional conferences such as SWE, NSBE and SHPE. In the conference we bring in practicing engineers from various companies and organizations; these engineers give talks to the students, emphasizing the importance of thinking carefully and with well-informed awareness, about their career plans. This paper discusses the factors around creating such a conference and the impact it has made.
Author(s):
Dan Budny
University of Pittsburgh
United States
Beth Newborg
University of Pittsburgh
United States