Battlefield Perceptions of Engineering: An Institutional Response to Absent Pathways and Missing Engineering Students

这个工程教育研究项目将提供有关退伍军人工程信念的基本知识，以及这些信念与该领域现状之间的差异，并开发专注于领导力的干预课程，以帮助退伍军人在工程学位课程中取得成功。 为了填补有关退伍军人信仰的知识空白，该小组将采访退伍军人的焦点群体。 收集的数据将用于制定和部署三项干预措施：一个可移动的课程招聘会，选择退伍军人导师作为校园领导者在退伍军人融合活动，和一个领导研讨会。更广泛的意义和重要性，这个项目是提供数据退伍军人的信念对工程那些谁管理计划管道退伍军人工程，并开发可用于规划退伍军人进入高等教育的研究工具。 这些数据可以重振工程，并为退伍军人提供终身机会。 在纽约建立网络和伙伴关系的建议的广泛重点可以作为其他州，团体和联邦政府希望解决退伍军人到大学过渡问题的案例研究。

This engineering education research project will both provide fundamental knowledge about veterans' beliefs of engineering and the difference between those beliefs and the actuality of the field, as well as develop interventional classes focused on leadership to help veterans succeed in engineering degree programs. To fill in the knowledge gap about veterans' beliefs, the team will interview focus groups of veterans. The data collected will be used to develop and deploy three interventions: a transportable curriculum for career fairs, choosing scholar-mentors as on campus leaders in veteran integration activities, and a leadership seminar.The broader significance and importance of this project are to provide data on veterans' beliefs about engineering to those who administer programs to pipeline veterans to engineering, and develop research tools that can be used in planning for the influx of veterans into higher education. Such data can reinvigorate engineering and provide life-long opportunities for veterans. The broad focus of the proposal on creating networks and partnerships in New York may serve as a case study for other states, groups, and the Federal government wishing to address veteran to university transition issues.