Creating a Veteran-friendly Engineering Program through Triadic Approaches

What is it about?

This paper reports a systemic program innovation that yielded successful undergraduate curriculum development and a cultural shift in an engineering program at a public university in the United States. We described the program’s key components in detail and explained the positive outcomes of each initiative based on both quantitative and qualitative evaluation data accumulated throughout the three years of the project period. We identified three major factors that were crucial to the overall success of our curriculum innovation and cultural shift in the engineering program. We offered pragmatic recommendations for other institutions aspiring to launch a similar initiative for student veterans in their engineering programs and other STEM disciplines.

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