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Curtis L. Cobbins – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on the critical intersection of workforce development and innovation engineering management within the Nevada System of Higher Education. The research problem centers on the lack of expertise in innovation engineering management roles when developing workforce development programs, contributing to a widening skills gap and the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Engineering, Labor Force Development, Work Attitudes
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Anthony O. Yusuf; Abiola A. Akanmu; Homero Murzi; Andres Nieto-Leal; Andrea N. Ofori-Boadu; Sheryl Ball – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2025
A paradigm shift toward workforce development is essential to ensure that the future workforce meets the expectations of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Both industry and academic communities play different, but essential and complementary roles, which suggests a need for stronger industry-academia collaborations.…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Futures (of Society), Demand Occupations, Industry
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Gauthier, Thomas – Career and Technical Education Research, 2022
Community colleges are the leader in facilitating career and technical education (CTE) and workforce development (WD) programs. However, employers who hire recent graduates of these programs question the quality of the education provided. This qualitative study used a focus group comprised of manufacturing and engineering professionals in Florida…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Professional Personnel, Engineering, Technical Occupations
Vicki L. Maple – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study examined how a technical college can best meet the needs of engineering technology-based employers to address the current workforce gap. The study also explored what engineering technology-based employers see as the largest skills gaps in the current workforce, as well as how a technical college can address the concerns. Using a…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Education Work Relationship
Thomas, Jeena M.; Olson, Steve – National Academies Press, 2023
On September 22, 2022, the National Academy of Sciences held a symposium entitled Endless Frontier 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years. The event was a follow up to a February 2020 NAS symposium convened to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the landmark report Science, the Endless Frontier. Building on the 2020…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Science and Society
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Petrov, Georgy; Southall, Jane; Bolden, Richard – Higher Education Review, 2016
In the past decade successive UK governments have placed a strong emphasis on, and renewed interest in, the role of higher education in skills development. In the light of recent skills policy developments in England and drawing upon the findings of an empirical qualitative study of specific workforce development initiatives and previous research,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Employers, Labor Force Development
Wheelahan, Leesa; Buchanan, John; Yu, Serena – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
This is the final report in the three-year program of research "Vocations: The Link between Post-Compulsory Education and the Labour Market," which investigated the educational and occupational paths people take and how their study relates to their work. This report synthesises the findings of the three different strands: pathways from…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Labor Market
Dixson, Matthew – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2017
This paper examines evidence from the HESA DLHE six-month Censuses and 3½ year ('longitudinal') surveys relating to three aspects of the flows of those who have left university with Higher Education Engineering qualifications, to test the robustness of the conclusions of SKOPE Research Paper No. 122 (Dixon, 2015), which showed strong evidence that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Manufacturing, Longitudinal Studies, Employment Qualifications
Baird, Matthew D.; Hunter, Gerald P.; Edenfield, Nathaniel; Broten, Nicholas; Gonzalez, Gabriella C. – RAND Corporation, 2020
The authors of this report aim to understand the health of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and labor market in the Appalachia region -- defined as the intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia -- with a focus on the mining and extraction industry. This report is the third in a three-part series.…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
Yu, Serena – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
This report is part of a wider three-year program of research, "Vocations: the link between post-compulsory education and the labour market," which is investigating the educational and occupational paths that people take, and how their study relates to their work. In particular, this strand has been investigating the application of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education, Labor Market, Career Development
Kettle, Jane – Higher Education Academy, 2013
This publication focuses on national and international policy initiatives to develop a better understanding of work-based learners and the types of flexibility that may well enhance their study especially pedagogically. As part of our five-strand research project "Flexible Pedagogies: preparing for the future" it: (1) highlights the…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Teaching Methods, Employers, Futures (of Society)
Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Siler-Evans, Kyle; Hunter, Gerald Paul; Broten, Nicholas – RAND Corporation, 2017
This second of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative (API) region, comprising twenty-seven counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Together,…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Siler-Evans, Kyle; Hunter, Gerald Paul; Baird, Matthew D. – RAND Corporation, 2016
This first of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing--related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative (API) region. Together, these reports will capture trends over the next four years to (1) inform the…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
Yu, Serena; Bretherton, Tanya; Schutz, Hanna – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This is a report of the first year of a three-year project entitled "Vocations: the link between post-compulsory education and the labour market." The project's aim is to research how pathways can be improved within education, within work, and between education and work. There are three strands in the project; the first strand is…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Postsecondary Education, Financial Services, Vocational Education
Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2011
Graduate education in the natural sciences has traditionally emphasized doctoral training for academic or research careers. This training, however, is not meeting the demand for professionals in business, industry, and the public sector, where individuals with a combination of scientific, technical, and managerial skills will be required.…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Innovation, Masters Degrees, Engineering
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