The Engineering Readiness Gap

This survey should take about 7 minutes.

The goal is to provide a no-blame environment for academia, industry, students, recruiters, and hiring managers to help identify where the handoff breaks down and where supplemental mentoring, applied learning, and onboarding support could be of most help.

Your responses may be used in summarized research findings, but individual responses will not be attributed by name without permission.

Thank you for your contribution!

1. Which group do you most closely align with?

2. Which engineering field or discipline are you most connected to?

3. What type of organization are you most connected to?

4. How prepared do you think early career engineers are for industry work?

5. Which skills or expectations seem most underdeveloped at the transition from school to engineering work?

6. Which signals best demonstrate readiness for real engineering work?

7. Where does the transition from school to work feel most unsupported?

8. Of the gaps you identified, which most limit successful early career engineering outcomes?

Use the up and down arrow keys to change the rank.

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Theory transfer

1

Capability communication

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Experience access

1

Hiring signal

1

Industry visibility

1

Recruiter context

1

Structured onboarding

1

Tool access

1

Manager bandwidth

1

Career clarity

9. What do you wish other stakeholders better understood about the transition from engineering education to engineering work?

10. What is one thing you believe would most improve the transition from engineering education to engineering work?

Optional follow up