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 = <span class="mw-headline" id="Impact_Achieved_For_Students_and_Campus" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Impact Achieved For Students and Campus</span> =
-Employing the specific messages listed above, students can associate their engineering education with a higher purpose towards their community and society, and learn how to effectively communicate these contributions to those outisde of the engineering profession. Understanding the common problems regarding the misconceptions of engineering is vital to having the know-how to combat these beliefs. Actively utilizing the brief messages promoted by the CTC Tool Kit while in the midst of engineering education will benefit students by preventing the eventual lack of effective communication experienced by so many of those in the engineering profession today.
+Employing the specific messages listed above, students can associate their engineering education with a higher purpose towards their community and society, and learn how to effectively communicate these contributions to those outisde of the engineering profession. Understanding the common problems regarding the misconceptions of engineering is vital to having the know-how to combat these beliefs.
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-<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></span>While other offerings simply point to the reasons why engineers are not effective communicators, Changing the Conversation poses the question directly to engineers, asking them: "Engineers - How are you changing the conversation?" This, in turn, elicits a response that not only educates the viewer about possible solutions, but about the underlying problems. By educating both engineers and the public about engineers' common barriers to effective conversation, the solutions suggested can be found to be increasingly beneficial to overcome these prevalent issues. &nbsp;
+While other offerings simply point to the reasons why engineers are not effective communicators, Changing the Conversation (CTC) poses the question directly to engineers, asking them: "Engineers - How are you changing the conversation?" For their part, CTC seeks to educate not only about possible solutions, but about the underlying problems. By educating both engineers and the public about engineers' common barriers to effective conversation, the solutions suggested can be found to be increasingly beneficial to overcome these prevalent issues. &nbsp;
-The [http://www.engineeringmessages.org/ website] created for this purpose distinctly organizes suggestions for solutions and educational material in their "Tool Kit", described above.
+The [http://www.engineeringmessages.org/ website] created for this purpose distinctly organizes suggestions for solutions and educational material in their "Tool Kit", which provides language used to describe the field of engineerings and outlines for more specific situations.
 Additionally, engineerings students and professionals can "join in the conversation" and sign up to receive email contact. This "facilitates dialogue among organizations that have developed implementation strategies for those that have exercised engineering messages and those that have not".
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-While the CTC is not a reource that is normally initiated in the form of a club or student organization on campuses, the creation of such an entity could have more significance to students versus brief presentations on the messages outlined above. Creating an entity on campus merely requires "joining the conversation" online, and using the resources provided to create awareness on campus regarding the effective communication of the engineering profession and its societal effects. After "joining the converstion", here are some examples of how to bring CTC to campus:
+While the CTC is not a resource that is normally initiated in the form of a club or student organization on campuses, the creation of such an entity could have more significance to students versus brief presentations on the messages outlined above. Creating an entity on campus merely requires "joining the conversation" online, and using the resources provided to create awareness on campus regarding the effective communication of the engineering profession and its societal effects. After "joining the conversation", here are some examples of how to bring CTC to campus:
-. Use the CTC Tool Kit of visuals, including informational and motivaltional posters, and post them around your campus
+. Use the CTC Tool Kit of visuals, including informational and motivational posters, and post them around your campus
-. Follow the advice for social media promotion and include CTC on your unviersity's, school's, or personal social media account
+. Follow the advice for social media promotion and include CTC on your university's, school's, or personal social media account
 .&nbsp; Follow the current articles on the website and contribute to the blog (you never know what resources could become available)

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	<span style="font-size:small;">The National Academy of Engineering, an entity of The National Academies ([http://www.nas.edu/ [1]]), <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has made it a primary goal to equip engineers with the skills necessary to communicate effectively about their profession and those who practice it. The first step in accomplishing this goal was the publication of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in which research-based results focusing on the development and testing of compelling messages regarding engineering were published. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They emphasize that belief that a well-equipped team of engineers have the power to be creative problem-solver, make a world of difference, improve our health, happiness, and safety, and shape the future of our world. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> To further this initiative, a web platform was developed which encourages viewers to understand the threefold plan to increase effective communication regarding engineering:</span></span>		<span style="font-size:small;">The National Academy of Engineering, an entity of The National Academies ([http://www.nas.edu/ [1]]), <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has made it a primary goal to equip engineers with the skills necessary to communicate effectively about their profession and those who practice it. The first step in accomplishing this goal was the publication of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in which research-based results focusing on the development and testing of compelling messages regarding engineering were published. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They emphasize that belief that a well-equipped team of engineers have the power to be creative problem-solver, make a world of difference, improve our health, happiness, and safety, and shape the future of our world. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> To further this initiative, a web platform was developed which encourages viewers to understand the threefold plan to increase effective communication regarding engineering:</span></span>

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 <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Understand the Problem(s)</span></span></span>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers most commonly want to be publicly perceived as partaking in a profession that is both challenging and important to society; however, the public often has difficulty understanding what differentiates engineers from various professions broadly categorized as "science" and "technology".</span></span></span></li>
-<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers most commonly want to be publicly perceived as partaking in a profession that is both challenging and important to society; however, the public often has difficulty understanding what differentiates engineers from various professions broadly categorized as "science" and "technology".</span></span></span>
+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers unintentionally communicate off-putting messages in overly technical terminology, discouraging further conversation.</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many Americans do not fully understand the engineering profession or what it entails, and most believe engineers to be less engaged with community and societal concerns than scientists. This failure to understand the engineering profession often surfaces in the media as well.</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineering is largely under-diversified; there is a significant need to enroll more women and minorities in engineering education.</span></span></span></li>
-<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers unintentionally communicate off-putting messages in overly technical terminology, discouraging further conversation.</span></span></span>
+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The United States is fairly uncompetitive in its output of college graduates in engineering careers. Compared to Asia and Europe, America has an engineering graduation rate of 4.5%, versus 21% and 12.5%, respectively.</span></span></span></li>
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 <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Understand the Solution(s)</span></span></span>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The National Academy of Engineering has proposed four basic, yet inspirational messages that can be used in discussions regarding engineering, and has provided on-line examples of publications, brochures, news articles, etc. that utilize these messages to correctly demonstrate the value that engineers contribute to their communities and to society as a whole.</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers are creative problem solvers</span></span></span></li>
-<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers are creative problem solvers</span></span></span>
+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers make a world of difference</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineering is essential to our health, happiness, and safety</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineers help shape the future</span></span></span></li>
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 <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Understand How to Take Action</span></span></span>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website viewers are encouraged to take action in their community, to understand what engineers do, and to help engineers become increasingly effective in their communication about their profession. These "Take Action" offerings include:</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suggested examples, which are archived under the "Actions Taken" page to serve as a resource pool to those looking to promote awareness.</span></span></span></li>
-<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suggested examples, which are archived under the "Actions Taken" page to serve as a resource pool to those looking to promote awareness.</span></span></span>
+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Changing the Conversation (CTC) blog, with updated writings and examples to share advice and experiences that promote constructive engagement in discussions on engineering.</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The CTC Tool Kit, which includes a wealth of promotional and educational materials such as posters and Powerpoint slides. In addition to these materials, a section of tips for effective messaging and guide to social media platforms and blogs to use for communicating the goals of CTC.</span></span></span></li>
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+<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5bf3031-e5e1-3ba6-b786-2bc3ebea678a"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A directory of the current CTC community, which include brief profiles of current engineers, students, and university faculty who are committee members.</span></span></span></li>
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