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B SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESS IN SCIENCE OR ENGINEERING
Pages 131-134

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From page 131...
... Because the career path of every student is unique, the counsel that any particular student receives from faculty advisers should be tailored to fit each individual student's unique set of developing skills, abilities, personality characteristics, and career aspirations. This counsel should also be distinctive and appropriate to the degree for which the student is a candidate.
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From page 132...
... The objective of all interactions between the student, the major professor, and other members of the advisory committee should be to maintain abilities in which the student already has developed strength while helping him or her to increase abilities that are not yet developed fully. The following lists of abilities have been prepared as a guide to the interactive processes through which individual graduate students and advisory committees can work together to meet the goal of creating a new scientist, engineer, or professional of high quality.
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From page 133...
... Capacity to draw logical inferences from observational and experimental data 13. Ability to conceive an explanatory hypothesis and design critical tests to evaluate it Communication Skills 1.
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... Manual dexterity 2. Skill in the development, selection, and use of appropriate scientific, engineering, or artistic apparatus, machines, and models 134
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