Attributes of a Global Engineer Survey
ASEE Corporate Member Council Special Interest Group for
International Engineering Education
in partnership with IFEES
How Can Today’s Global Engineers Successfully Compete?
American Society for Engineering Education Launches Survey on the Skills Required to Succeed
What skills and experiences will today’s engineering students need to develop while in school and throughout their careers to successfully compete in today’s global workplace? This question is the focus for a group of corporations affiliated with the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Corporate Member Council, who recently released an online survey aimed at enhancing the preparation, performance and employability of engineering graduates living and working in an increasingly global context.
Educators, employers, students, and professional engineers throughout the global engineering community are encouraged to participate in the survey. To obtain feedback from the largest possible audience, ASEE has collaborated with the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), to make the survey available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
"The mission of our group is to foster, encourage and support high-quality engineering education around the world to assure a global supply of well-prepared engineering graduates," said Alan Jacobs, Director, US Academic Relations for Quanser and Co-Chair of the ASEE Corporate Members' Special Interest Group (SIG) for International Engineering Education.
"Over the past two years our SIG has developed, presented and vetted an assessment of the skills and experiences required by engineering graduates to work effectively in a global environment," noted Lynn Brown, Manager of University Relations for The Boeing Company and Co-Chair of the SIG. "This short survey will help measure how people from around the world involved with the education and employment of engineers perceive the importance of each of these attributes at different stages of an engineer’s career - as an incoming university student, a university graduate, and an experienced practicing professional."
No personally-identifiable information will be sought, participants may choose to not answer any question, and only summarized responses will be reported. Findings will be published upon completion of the survey at the end of 2010.
For more information, contact:
Alan Jacobs
alan.jacobs@quanser.com
508-540-6660
Co-Chair, ASEE Corporate Members’ SIG for International Engineering Education
Lynn Brown
lynn.g.brown@boeing.com
206-852-8024
Co-Chair, ASEE Corporate Members’ SIG for International Engineering Education
Hans J. Hoyer, Ph.D.
h.hoyer@asee.org
202-331-3511
Secretary General, IFEES,
Director of International Programs and Strategy, ASEE, Executive Secretary, GEDC
Survey
Links to the survey will be made available here shortly .
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