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Career Counseling Practices In Abet-Accredited Engineering Cooperative Education Programs, Gary Richard Martin
Career Counseling Practices In Abet-Accredited Engineering Cooperative Education Programs, Gary Richard Martin
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to describe and evaluate the career counseling practices in all schools of engineering in the United States with ABET-accredited engineering Cooperative Education programs. Procedure. A thirty-two item questionnaire was developed and sent out to all ABET-accredited Cooperative Education offices. All the engineering coordinators in each office filled out the questionnaire. Eighty-six percent of the schools responded to the surveys. Findings. (1) Most engineering Co-op coordinators have educational backgrounds in engineering and have taken at least one class in career counseling. (2) Co-op coordinators tend to have caseloads and other responsibilities which restrict the …