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Strategic Plan 2000

Objective One


Produce the most capable chemical engineers in the world. Graduates should be recognized for their excellent technical, leadership, and teamwork skills.

Actions

  • • Provide the flexibility for student choice of courses that supplement their core education and that provide breadth in knowledge and skills that will sustain life-long learning

  • • Modify the undergraduate curriculum so that students will have the flexibility to obtain a minor or certificate

  • • Inform students early in their studies of the full range of opportunities available to graduates of the program

  • • Prepare a higher fraction of our Ph.D. graduates for academic positions

  • • Apply appropriate resources towards in the recruitment of graduate students

  • • Continue towards full integration of courses so students obtain a more unified view of the principles of chemical engineering

  • • Continuously review the undergraduate and graduate curricula to assess their relevance in the light of economic, social and environmental developments, and make adjustments accordingly

  • • Continuously assess new methods for enhanced course presentation · Increase the participation of undergraduates in research

  • • Improve the facilities for laboratory courses and revise course contents to enhance the opportunities for development of leadership, communications, and teamwork skills

  • • Expand the external experiences available to students, including co-op assignments, internships at research institutions, and chemical engineering summer programs abroad

  • • Include issues on ethics in selected courses and spotlight ethics issues in annual seminars by CEOs of leading companies

  • • Emphasize issues of sustainable development throughout the curriculum, particularly in process design courses

    • Reduce the student-to-faculty ratio


Goals

  • • At least 15% of the graduating seniors will have participated in research programs

  • • At least 50% of the graduating seniors will have co-op or intern experience

  • • A 130-hour curriculum with 12-18 hours of electives beyond that presently • required

  • • A student-to-faculty ratio of 16

  • • At least 2 or 3 new or refurbished laboratory experiments per year

  • • A non-thesis-based M.S. degree

  • • A Ph.D. production rate of 1 per faculty member per year

  • • At least six elective chemical engineering courses per year

  • • At least 15% of the graduating seniors will continue study towards graduate degrees in Chemical Engineering