PI: Bev Watford, Associate Dean - Academic Affairs

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: "Students who are looking for jobs ... trying to help them develop the skills necessary to be a successful job applicant."

Project Grants and Expenditures: $4000 (year 6), $4000 (year 7), $3000 (year 8), $3000 (year 9), speaker honorariums, refreshments



 


Project staff coordinated a series of seminars with Business and Career Services and advertised these to engineering students. "…we will get industry people to come in and do mock interviews and let the students see how people interact and what they are supposed to be doing." "…there might be some people from Career Services talking about your resume, because they have skills in that, but a lot of times it's using industry people, new graduates, you know what I learned my first day on the job or what I needed to know my first day on the job." "One thing that we had was an etiquette dinner where the students [learned] how to interview over a meal."