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Impediments and Suggested Solutions
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... Respondents who cited difficulty in engaging industry partners to participate in projects and/or help provide project or student assessments suggested that working closely with industrial advisory boards to engage partners and fostering partners' program ownership by involving them in early planning conversations were good practices. One dean commented on the difficulty of finding industry partners for academic institutions that are neither nationally known nor located in large cities where multiple industries are represented.
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... Institution Real World Engineering Education Program Page Capstone Programs Harvey Mudd College Engineering Clinic Program 7 Integrated Product Development Program and Lehigh University 8 Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Michigan Technological 9 The Enterprise Program University The Pennsylvania State Infusing Capstone Design Projects with Real-World 10 University Experiences Using Global and Cross-College Teams University of Idaho A Self-Renewing, Industry-Driven Capstone Design Program 11 University of Utah SPIRALed Engineering Education 12 West Virginia University Projects with Industry and Building Energy Use 13 Co-Op Programs Grand Valley State The Scaffolded GVSU Co-op to Interdisciplinary 14 University Industry-based Capstone Project Program Northwestern University McCormick Office of Career Development 15 5
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... University of Texas PROCEED: Project-Centered Education in 24 at Austin Mechanical Engineering Virginia Commonwealth The VCU da Vinci Center for Product Innovation 25 University Curricular Programs Georgia Institute of Technology The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program 26 Illinois Institute of Technology Distinctive Education Program 27 Extracurricular Program University of Arkansas Engineering Career Awareness Program 28 First-Year Programs FUSE (First Undergraduate Service Learning Experience)
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