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Problem Solvers Package
Our Two Main Goals
Bridging the Gap
We provide content and community that helps prospective engineers bridge what they learn in school with the practices, skills and ways of being that make a successful professional engineer.
Supporting Organizations
We offer curricular and financial support to educational institutions and organizations whose primary goal is create the next generation of global problem solvers in the fields of engineering.
Student Benefits
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Access to Success Stories
The book Problem Solvers: The Paths to Becoming an Engineer details sixteen personal accounts of what it takes to become and engineer. Each of these unique journeys will provide the reader with inspiration and possibility in what it takes to become and engineering professional. These easily readable testimonies will impact many of its readers in multiple ways.
Access to Best Practices
Access to Best Practices
Derived from the experiences from the engineers, we compiled a series of themes across their stories that they reported were key to their success. The course Hidden Curriculum for Engineers highlights these topics and invites participants to go deeper in grasping them and incorporating them into their everyday practice.
Access to Community
Access to Community
No path towards a goal should be or can be done alone. The Be a Problem Solver Level-Up Community is a place where prospective engineers can communicate and collaborate with those on similar and different journeys with the chance to learn form each. Moreover, with access to provide mentors, no one who joins will feel like they are alone.
Institutional Benefits
Get Students Motivated and Inspired Early
Some of our students aren't sure why they picked engineering as first years. You have the opportunity with the Problem Solvers Package to motivate and inspire students from the very beginning. Interacting with successful engineer's stories, learning about best practices and engaging with peers and mentors through the Level-Up community, they will much more motivated to succeed.
Provide Tangible Support for your Program's Mission
ABET makes it clear in what it means to be an effective program: "an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives." These skills are one of many covered in the Hidden Curriculum, confirming your institutional commitment to quality programming.
Turbo Charge your Intro to Engineering Course
Many introduction to engineering courses are 1 credit courses that focus nominally on crucial professional skills, May of these courses don't focus on these qualities at all, but on content exclusively. Students need more to be connected with engineering. We can and must do better than this. The Hidden Curriculum course is compatible with any Learning Management System (LMS) and can be paired seamlessly with any other curriculum. Make your introduction to engineering course come alive by combining your best scientific content with curriculum that complements it, providing a fuller picture of what it means to be an engineer.
Receive Funds to Support your students and your Mission
Times are difficult. Resources are more scarce than ever. We recognize and hear you. In support of our collaborating organizations, those institutions who adopt the problems solvers package will receive a thirty percent commitment of funds from those who sign up through the organization as a result of your affiliate link. For example, an institution in the midwestern United States adopted the Problems Solvers Package for a little over 300 students at $75.00 per student for the year. The institution received unrestricted funds of over seven thousand dollars as a result, using those resources to continue to support their program. It is an honor to serve in this way.
Now is the Time
Without Adoption
Students will feel lost without direction
Students will have a parochial network at best
Students will struggle with professionals in the field early on
Students will get a surface level idea of the engineering profession
Students will be resigned to gaining professional skills on the fly, creating gaps.
With Adoption
Students will operate with purpose from the start
Students will connect with community from around the country.
Students will form authentic connections with professionals in the field early
Students will learn the stories of engineers lives in deep ways
Students will have access to and be assessed on best professional practices
Your Organization will have added funds to support its mission
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