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Soft Skills for Entry-Level Engineers: What Employers Want

Description: This article is a review of literature for skills comprised within the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria determined 26 topics necessary for the entry-level and continued success of engineers. The findings suggest that although entry-level engineers have proficiency in all of these ABET required skills, the entry-level engineers were not meeting the level of importance expressed by the organization for 24 of these 26 skills.
Date: October 14, 2021
Creator: Hirudayaraj, Malar; Baker, Rose M.; Baker, Francie & Eastman, Mike
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Tools to support interpreting multiple regression in the face of multicollilnearity

Description: This article argues that rather than using one technique to investigate regression results, researchers should consider multiple indices to understand the contributions that predictors make not only to a regression model, but to each other as well.
Date: March 14, 2012
Creator: Kraha, Amanda; Turner, Heather; Nimon, Kim F.; Zientek, Linda Reichwein & Henson, Robin K.
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An exploration of text mining of narrative reports of injury incidents to assess risk

Description: In this article, a topic model was explored using unsupervised machine learning to summarized free-text narrative reports of 77,215 injuries that occurred in coal mines in the USA between 2000 and 2015. Latent Dirichlet Allocation modeling processes identified six topics from the free-text data. The modeling success enjoyed in this exploratory effort suggests that additional topic mining of these injury text narratives is justified, especially using a broad set of covariates to explain variatio… more
Date: December 14, 2018
Creator: Passmore, David L.; Chae, Chungil; Kustikova, Yulia; Baker, Rose M. & Yim, Jeong-Ha
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