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Direct linkRaska, David; Weisenbach Keller, Eileen – Marketing Education Review, 2021
To assist marketing students during their college experience we developed, over the course of 10 years, an innovative approach to teaching that connects classroom education, career finding, and job-skill development. We linked two required courses, one student organization, and many companies together to create the Underground Agency. The Agency…
Descriptors: Marketing, Teaching Methods, Career Choice, Job Skills
Cloutier, Aimee; Yew, Guo Zheng; Gupta, Siddhartha; Dissanayake, Kalpani; Monaco, Paula – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2018
The importance of reducing the gender gap in engineering programs by recruiting and retaining female students is well recognized. Although women hold roughly half of all jobs in the United States, only 24% of STEM jobs are occupied by women. The problem is even more pronounced for engineering, where women held about 12% of jobs as of 2013 (Corbett…
Descriptors: Females, High School Students, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Bunting, C. F.; Cheville, R. A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
A two-course sequence in electromagnetics (EM) was developed in order to address a perceived lack of student learning and engagement observed in a traditional, lecture-based EM course. The two-course sequence is named VECTOR: Vitalizing Electromagnetic Concepts To Obtain Relevance. This paper reports on the first course of the sequence. VECTOR…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Lecture Method, Engineering Education
Huler, Scott – Scientist, 1991
The advantages and disadvantages of entering the Westinghouse Talent Search are discussed. The caliber of the contest is indicated by the accomplishments of its alumni. The careers and characteristics of past winners are described. (KR)
Descriptors: Awards, Career Choice, Curiosity, Financial Support
Peer reviewedMiller, Darcy E. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1994
The functional skills activity, "On Your Own," provides an opportunity for adolescents with mild disabilities to apply cognitive and academic skills in the program's four phases (choosing a career, finding an apartment, furnishing the apartment, and learning to budget) involve direct instruction, hands-on activities, small-group discussions, and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Career Choice, Independent Living, Learning Activities
Download full textScarbrough, Mary An; Sullivan, Margaret, Ed. – 1995
The New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District in Wilmington, Delaware, has made great strides in integrating academic and vocational studies by adopting a "project" approach to integrated learning. Students at the district's high schools are involved in a variety of real-life projects aimed at advancing technical knowledge…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Choice, Career Education, Case Studies
North Carolina Community Coll. System, Raleigh. – 2001
This report contains descriptions of 34 best practices of North Carolina high school/community college Tech Prep (TP) consortia from a 2000 review. All consortia were allowed to choose their best effort or accomplishment completed or in operation at the end of 1999-2000. Among the practices described were: a comprehensive career development…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Apprenticeships, Basic Skills, Career Academies
