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    Defense to Degree: Accelerating Engineering Degree Completion for Military Veterans

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    2013-04-15
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    Soldan, David L.
    Gruenbacher, Don
    Schulz, Noel
    Hageman, William B.
    Vogt, Blythe
    Natarajan, Rekha
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    This paper will focus on the accelerated track for military veterans into bachelor's degrees in engineering. It is important to have contact with the military veteran prior to their arriving on campus to begin their schooling. Current policies give little credit for military experience or training. The development of on-line pre and post assessments and subject based tutorials are being used to accelerate the veteran's entry into the electrical engineering circuit theory sequence and the traditional mathematics sequence. Veterans may have a base of technical knowledge acquired through the technical nature of their service posts. Assigning them to introductory level courses with traditional freshman and sophomore students does not respect their technical expertise nor challenge their capabilities and accustomed pace.
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