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The Students we get from you (University of South Alabama, Mobile) are what we are looking for as far as knowledge …” stated Don Parker, Vice President in charge of Research and Development at Quality Micro Systems in Mobile, Alabama. “Engineers, as a class, are ony semi-literate,” said Richard Keck from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the Student Branch at Southeastern Massachusetts University. Those were two industry responses to the question, “Is there a gap students must bridge between theory learned in school and practical know-how required by industry on the job?” This question was posed to IEEE Student Branches last fall.