CHED 1691 |
| To achieve their missions, academia and industry operate with distinctly different doing-knowledge-judgment decision making processes. Students crossing the career bridge from the world of study to the world of work rarely have an appreciation of how large these process differences are and frequently start their technical careers off balance and discouraged. This lack of understanding of the working world creates a rate limiting step in the national science effort, yet the resources in both academia and industry are rarely focused on mitigating this problem. This Discovery Corps Project has created a new gap-bridging course model designed to make the student's personal and professional transition into an industrial science career a stimulating and rewarding process. In this model, the students “join” Superstar Specialties for 15 weeks and use real life examples of industrial processes taught by an experienced industrial R&D leader. An overview of the course will be presented. |
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Bridging Research and Service: The Discovery Corps Experience
8:30 AM-11:35 AM, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N229, Level 2, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |