The Engineer's Career Guide

Information Literacy Instruction in Engineering Graduate Courses: Instructional Design and Reflection

“…According to Smerdon (1996), engineering practitioners must keep learning to stay competitive in their fields, replacing half of their professional skills every few years, based on the "half-life of an engineer's technical skills" (p. 4) estimated by experts. As the speed of technological advances in engineering fields increases, engineers will need to update their technical skills even more frequently (Hoschette, 2010;National Academy of Engineering, 2012. The Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology also states that science and engineering disciplines are "rapidly changing" and that information literacy is important, not only for "students in science and engineering/technology disciplines who must access a wide variety of information sources and formats that carry the body of knowledge in their fields," but also for "the practicing scientist and engineer that they know how to keep up with new developments and new sources of experimental/research data" (American Library Association, 2006, para.…”

Discovering Related Terms and Detecting Trends in Software Engineering Using Word Embeddings

“…While some of these questions are answered by experience on the job, the vast majority of questions are answered in labs, ultimately being published in research venues, including conferences and journals. But with an ever-increasing breadth and depth of the field, compounded with an ever-increasing number of players [6], players whose knowledge base gets cut in half in less than three years [7]; the process of maintaining one's "up-to-date" knowledge is becoming an ever increasingly tedious and arduous process of the job. Hoschette argues, due to the pace of the SE community, an individual that does not keep up with the industry will loose 50% of their knowledge due to forgetting or the knowledge becoming obsolete [7].…”

Systems Thinking Concepts and Applications for Engineering Leadership Development

“…As a discipline, engineering leadership is rapidly growing in interest as both industry and academia recognize the inherent and expanding need for the practice of leadership in the profession. The prototypical engineer spends the majority of his or her career either in a team setting or in managing and leading others [7], and companies signal to universities to produce graduates with leadership skills [8]. Responding to this demand, ABET [6] is requiring that undergraduate engineering programs demonstrate attainment of student outcomes that include leadership in a team setting.…”