Principal Investigator
Prof. Warren Seering, Mechanical Engineering
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2016
Department/Lab/Center:
Mechanical Engineering
The objective of this study is to improve our understanding of the professional needs of our graduates so that we can evaluate our curricula against those needs. The focus will be on alumni from Courses 2 and 6, but we will gather data from alumni across a spectrum of departments. Each summer, many of our students accept internships through the UPOP Program. They write reports about the experience. The UPOP Office has agreed to let us structure the report writing so that we can gather data about the knowldege and skill needs of technical professionals. With this data we can review our curricula to see whether we are addressing the right needs.