How does industry and academia differ in their perception of the graduate attributes required to succeed in a career in Civil & Structural Engineering? A proposal for a research stud

Beagon, Una

Bowe, Brian

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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Other resources School of Civil and Structural Engineering 2015-11-18 Enhancing Graduate Attributes in Civil & Structural Engineering Students Una Beagon Technological University Dublin, una.beagon@tudublin.ie Brian Bowe Technological University Dublin, Brian.Bowe@TUDublin.ie Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/engschcivoth  Part of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Commons Recommended Citation Beagon, U. & Bowe, B. (2015)Enhancing Graduate Attributes in Civil & Structural Engineering Students,Presentation at School of Civil & Structural Engineering Research Symposium. This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Civil and Structural Engineering at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Other resources by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact yvonne.desmond@tudublin.ie, arrow.admin@tudublin.ie, brian.widdis@tudublin.ie. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License Technological University DublinARROW@TU DublinConference papers School of Civil and Structural Engineering2015-11-18Enhancing Graduate Attributes in Civil &Structural Engineering StudentsUna BeagonBrian Bowe ProfFollow this and additional works at: https://arrow.dit.ie/engschcivconPart of the Engineering Education CommonsThis Other is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Civiland Structural Engineering at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been acceptedfor inclusion in Conference papers by an authorized administrator ofARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contactyvonne.desmond@dit.ie, arrow.admin@dit.ie, brian.widdis@dit.ie.Scoring (based on comparative adaptive pairing)Student ASimilar opinions –good performanceStudent CDivided opinion – this work is of interestStudent BSimilar opinions –poor performanceEnhancing Graduate Attributes in Civil & Structural Engineering StudentsSchool of Civil & Structural Engineering, DIT Bolton StreetContact                                 SupervisorUna Beagon     una.beagon@dit.ie Prof. Brian BoweHow does industry and academia differ in their perception of the graduate attributes required to succeed in a career in Civil & Structural Engineering?PROPOSED OUTCOMES:• Design of a rubric to enable benchmarking and inform programme design for Civil & Structural engineering  courses.• Dissemination of best practice in UK and Ireland.Other questions:How does industry and academia define an ‘outstanding graduate’?Do the priorities differ between industry needs and educational accreditation requirements?APPROACHhttps://www.rt3nc.org/objects/modules/21c/future_ready/graduate.htmlDownloaded 10th December 2014 1• Literature review on required graduate attributes for civil & structural engineering students.  2• Choose one graduate attribute for further investigation.3• Create artefacts of student’s work as examples of how the attribute is assessed.4• Invite academics and industry to score the work using comparative adaptive pairing which removes complications associated with marking schemes.  5• Identify student work which divides opinion between academics and industry.6• Interview both academics and industry to ascertain why their perceptions differ.

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