Conveners
(T1-5) What we can do to help our students succeed in non-academic careers - DPE / Comment aider nos étudiants pour des carrières non académiques - DEP
- Barbara Frisken (Simon Fraser University)
Dr
Douglas Arion
(Carthage College)
17/06/2014, 08:45
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Studying physics (or any other subject...) because you love it is great. There are many career paths available to those who have studied physics, but there are skills, knowledge, and attitudes that physics education, by itself, doesn’t typically provide to prepare students for the real world that they will enter – no matter what that career path may be. Entrepreneurship education is the key to...
Dr
Ian D'Souza
(COM DEV International Systems)
17/06/2014, 09:15
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
All physicists are told that physics is the foundation of subjects such as engineering. One might be led to believe that thus, finding a job as a physicist would be as easy, if not easier, than as an engineer. Sadly, this is far from the truth in the real world. Graduating with a degree in theoretical physics makes it even more difficult to get an industrial job - though, one may question...
Steven Rehse
(University of Windsor)
17/06/2014, 09:45
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
The Department of Physics at the University of Windsor offers three streams within our B.Sc. Honours Physics degree program: General Physics, Physics and High Technology, and Medical Physics. Of these programs, the latter two are both targeted specifically toward students interested in non-academic careers (NAC). As of the Fall of 2013 these students comprised 57% of the undergraduate...
17/06/2014, 10:00
Physics Education / Enseignement de la physique (DPE-DEP)
