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2025 FSEM 1010-09: From Curiosity to Career: Discovering Opportunities in STEM (Prof. Jacques-Fricke): HamCAT for Discovery

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Types of Content you will Find in HamCAT

Ebooks
Devenyi, P. J. (2022). Decoding Your STEM Career: How to Exceed Your Expectations (1st ed.). Business Expert Press.

Skrentny, J. D. (2023). Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (1st ed.). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226829708

Sahin, A., & Mohr-Schroeder, M. J. (Eds.). (2019). STEM education 2.0 : myths and truths--what has K-12 STEM education research taught us? Brill .

Print Books
 Alexeev, M. (2025). Wage Profiles in STEM and Non-STEM Careers. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. ORDER VIA INTERLIBRARY LOAN.

Greer, P. (2017). Stem careers : a student’s guide to opportunities in science, technology, engineering and maths. Trotman Education. ORDER VIA INTERLIBRARY LOAN

McCuen, R. H. (2025). Professional development and career planning: guidance for STEM careers (Frist edition.). CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. ORDER VIA INTERLIBRARY LOAN

 

Articles (magazine, newspaper)

Christopherson, A. (2023). STEM professionals find diverse experiences, career opportunities in Project ARC. The Airman, 1.

What’s Driving the Future of STEM Careers? (2025). Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology, 40(1), 58–59.

Yee, A. (2022). Here’s what the $52 billion CHIPS Act means for regular people. PC World, 7–9.

 

Scholarly Journal Articles
Deming, D. J., & Noray, K. (2020). Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(4), 1965–2005. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaa021

Playton, S. C., Childers, G. M., & Hite, R. L. (2024). Measuring STEM Career Awareness and Interest in Middle Childhood STEM Learners: Validation of the STEM Future-Career Interest Survey (STEM Future-CIS). Research in Science Education (Australasian Science Education Research Association), 54(2), 167–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-023-10131-8

Skrentny, J. D., & Lewis, K. (2022). Beyond the “STEM Pipeline”: Expertise, Careers, and Lifelong Learning. Minerva (London), 60(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09445-6

Video and Audio resources
Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2018) Women in STEM Careers. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-08. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690735/.

Sheila Kanani : planetary scientist (Vol. 1). (2009). [Video recording]. Teachers TV/UK Department of Education.

Dissertations

Salick, Lauren, "My Work is Wild — Promoting Career Literacy of Conservation and STEM Vocations in Secondary School Students" (2023). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 974. https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/974